Search Results: Titles starting with O from Irving Book Company

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Loss of matter from foot of spine; spine titles dull. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. Royal 8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. [x], 258, [2] pp. Dark blue cloth. Black & white photographic portrait frontis. of O. Henry. North Carolinia historian, scholar, & newspaper man Darley Hiden Ramsey's copy, with his ownership signature to front pastedown.

(New York): Penguin, 1965. Later Printing. Paperback. Good.. 16mo. 365 pp. Original black pictorial wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his ownership signature to first page.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Good only. Some splitting to joints, especially to lower joint.. 16mo. 202 pp. + 192 pp. notes. Original burgundy cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Uncommon. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his ownership signature to front flyleaf, several pencil annotations.

(Gallimard), 1968. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good. Binding sound.. 16mo. 1829 pp. Original brown leatherette, two ribbon markers. Introduction, Introduction Biographique, Poésies, Traduction en Vers de Bucoliques de Virgile, Mélange, Variété, Notes. Edited and annotated by JEAN HYTIER. Text in French. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 1972 ownership signature in black ink to front flyleaf, copious pencil annotation to endpapers.

Paris: Mercure de France, 1938. Later Printing. Paperback. Good. Covers somewhat rubbed, worn, & soiled; spine moderately toned. Contemp. ownership signature prelim. blank. Binding somewhat fragile.. 12mo. 5.25 x 7.875 in. 398 pp. Preface by PAUL CLAUDEL. A serviceable copy.

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. About fine in near fine jacket.. Octavo. 15 x 22 cm. xx; 180 pp. Original grey cloth, in turquoise dust jacket. Nicely inscribed by author LOUIS B. WRIGHT to George E. Stuart IV, son of notable Mesoamerican authority and staff archaeologist at National Geographic George E. Stuart III, 'from a friend and admirer of his father, with every good wish', on front flyleaf a year in 1977.

New York: Modern Library, 1942. Early Modern Library Printing. Hardcover. Fine in very good, lightly chipped jacket, with 95-cent price intact. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. 12mo. 5 x 7.25 in. xx, 186, [5 catalogue], [1 blank] pp. ML Binding Style 8, red cloth, top edge blue, with Kent torchbearer device with gold outline on upper, Kent endpapers; in teal typographic dust jacket. Introduction by California literary critic JOSEPH HENRY JACKSON. A fresh copy of an early 1940's reprint, originally published by Modern Library in 1938. Toledano 29.2.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1905. First Thus. Hardcover. Very near fine. A touch of edgewear. Binding square and tight, text unmarked.. 32mo. 3.75 x 5.375 in. 207 pp. Dark blue flexible leather, titles in gilt, all edges gilt. Blackletter headlines, drop capitals, occasional vignettes, tail-pieces. An exceedingly fresh copy.

London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1952. First Thus. Hardcover. Very nearly fine. A bit of rubbing to head & crown of spine. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. 32mo. 3.5 x 6 in. xvi, 262, [2 blanks] pp. Original black leather, titled in gilt on spine, all edges gilt with dentelle and white ribbon marker. Translated by Abbott JUSTIN MCCANN. A handsome production, and uncommon edition of the spiritual classic.

New York: Catholic Book Publishing Co, 1956. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very fine. Presented in near fine original box.. 32mo. 2.875 x 4.625 in. 130 pp. Reprint of the 1944 'New Edition' (T-128) of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, including Litaniae Sanctorum ('Litanies of the Saints'). Black imitation leather, titled in gilt on spine, all edges burnished red, with royal blue ribbon marker; endpapers decorated with crosses & floral decorations, and printed with prayers 'ante divinum officium' and at rear 'post divinum officium'. Text printed in red & black. Publisher's top-loading box included. With color frontispiece of Our Lady. Text in Latin only. A pristine copy of a scarce edition.

New York: Catholic Book Publishing Co, 1958. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very fine. Presented in very good original box.. 32mo. 2.875 x 4.625 in. 130 pp. Reprint of the 1949 edition (T-228) of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, including Litaniae Sanctorum ('Litanies of the Saints'). Black bold-grain seal leather, stamped in blind on upper cover with Marian monogram and titled in gilt on spine with Marian monogram, all edges burnished crimson red, with crimson ribbon marker; endpapers decorated with crosses & floral decorations, and printed with prayers 'ante divinum officium' and at rear 'post divinum officium'. Formulae Brevissimae at rear printed in red & black. Publisher's box included. With color frontispiece of Our Lady. Text in Latin only. A pristine copy of a scarce edition, in a less common binding style.

New York: Catholic Book Publishing Co, 1949. First Thus. Hardcover. Very fine. Presented in near fine original box.. 32mo. 2.875 x 4.625 in. 130 pp. Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, including Litaniae Sanctorum ('Litanies of the Saints'). Black leatherette ('genuine leather morocco grain'), titled in gilt on spine, all edges gilt, with royal blue ribbon marker; endpapers decorated with crosses & floral decorations, and printed with prayers 'ante divinum officium' and at rear 'post divinum officium'. Publisher's box included. With black & white frontispiece of Our Lady. Text in Latin only. A pristine copy of a scarce edition (T-228).

New York: Catholic Book Publishing Co, 1958. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very fine. Presented in near fine original box.. 32mo. 2.875 x 4.625 in. 130 pp. Reprint of the 1949 edition (T-228) of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, including Litaniae Sanctorum ('Litanies of the Saints'). Black imitation leather, titled & ornamented in gilt on spine, all edges burnished red, with royal blue ribbon marker; endpapers decorated with crosses & floral decorations, and printed with prayers 'ante divinum officium' and at rear 'post divinum officium'. Formulae Brevissimae at rear printed in red & black. Publisher's top-loading box included. With color frontispiece of Our Lady. Text in Latin only. A pristine copy of a scarce edition.

New York: Century, 1902. Early Printing. Paperback. Good only. Spine heavily toned, covers moderately worn and soiled. Binding sound, text clean.. Imperial 8vo. 223 pp. Original yellow cloth, titled and ornamented in gilt, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 48 reproductions of engravings by TIMOTHY COLE after the English Masters, including tissue-guarded frontispiece. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked. A serviceable copy of a nice production.

Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Light soiling to covers. Very occasional foxing, especially at plates. Lacking jackets & slipcase.. Royal 8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 623, [1] pp. Publisher's navy blue ribbed cloth, titled & double-ruled in gilt on spine. Complete with six illustrations, including folding maps. This copy from North Carolinia historian, scholar, & newspaper man Darley Hiden Ramsey, and includes his contemporary review folded & laid in. 'Altogether, "The Old Free State" is a very satisfying book to all who look back to Virginia for their ancestral origins and who have the least pride in the history of that state. Mr. Bell, it might be added, formerly lived in Asheville and married an Asheville girl....'.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1953. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Very light rubbing to joints and crown & foot of spine, with a few very tiny scrapes at the lower compartments; very lightly sunned. Bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. 12mo. 5 x 7.25 in. xxvi, 415 pp. Rebound by Bayntun-Riviere in full reddish orange polished calf, exquisitely tooled in gilt, gilt titling & tooling to spine in six compartments, with black and brown morocco title labels; all edges gilt, with dentelle & cotton-candy marbled endpapers. With 24 black & white illustrations by George Cruikshank, including frontispiece ('Oliver claimed by his Affectionate Friends') with tissue guard. Introduction by Humphry House. The otherwise common New Oxford Illustrated Dickens in a decidedly uncommon, strangely attractive signed Bayntun binding.

(Port Townsend): Copper Canyon Press, 1995. Paperback. Near fine.. 8vo. 188 pp. Original glossy pictorial wrappers. Translated by OLGA BROUMAS and T. BEGLEY. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.

(Manchester): Manchester University Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in original near fine dust jacket.. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. vii, 322 pp. A collection of the 'little works' (classical, Hellenistic, and Christian) of Günther Zuntz, professor of classical philology at the University of Manchester. Includes inter alia writings, some previously unpublished, on Attic prose, Pindar, Euripides; Theocritus, Callimachus; New Testament and early Christian literature. Full bright blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in blue printed dust jacket. Text predominantly in English, with some Greek.

Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Light edgewear & some toning to endpapers. Text clean & bright.. 8vo. 5.25 x 7.625 in. xi, 518 pp. Volume 1 only (of 4). 'A Year's Course of Meditations for Religious with additional readings, instructions, explanations, and suggestions directed to extol the purpose and nature, the ideals and principals, the spirit and practice of religious community life. All as formally approved by holy Church for our age and day. Arranged and developed in close harmony with the progressive movement of the Church's annual liturgical calendar.' Published as part of the Science and Culture Series, edited by Joseph Husslein, S.J. A square, tight copy.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1958. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Demy 8vo. 139 pp. Original dark blue cloth. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 1969 ownership signature to front flyleaf; very sparse pencil annotation.