Search Results: Titles starting with O from Beacon Books

Vintage Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good-. 63 pages. Gold lettering on the spine. Very minor wear to the edges and corners. Previous owner's name and address on the free endpaper. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart, has an inked out price on the upper front corner, small pieces missing along the edges and one 2.5' closed tear on the lower front cover. A very good copy of this rare book of Ukrainian poetry, translated by Morse Manly in co-operation with the author, signed on the title page.

Family History Publishers. Pressumed First Edition.. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. x, 335 pages. Gold lettering on the spine and on the front cover. A fine copy of this Beck family history. Illustrated with a few b/w photographs. This is a heavy book and will require additional shipping charges (at cost). Size: 8.5 x 11

William Heinemann Ltd. First Edition.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Gold lettering on the spine. Spine and cover soiled, corners bumped; light soiling to some of the pages. 51 b/w cartoons with captioned tissue guards of famous people in the theater, literature and politics; including two famous cartoons of Bernard Shaw; colored frontispiece of Lord Balfour. Size: 8.5 x 11

Island Tug & Barge Limited. Presumed First Edition.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 58 pages. Blue lettering on a pictorial front cover. Piece of the upper back cover is missing (1/4' x 1') other corners are bumped and worn. A very good copy of this scarce history of the Island Tug and Barge company, printed in about the late 1960's? illustrated throughout with colour and b/w photographs. Size: 12 x 11

Springer-Verlag. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 812 pages. White lettering on a blue background on the spine, b/w picture of a sailing ship on the front cover. Edges lightly scuffed. A very good copy of these proceedings of the Third International Congress on the History of Oceanography. It includes 69 papers recording many of the diverse events in oceanography which have led to the present status of the science.

FiL Ltd.. Not Stated Presumed First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 128 pages. Black lettering on the spine and on the pictorial front cover. A fine copy of this book on Varma, Bulgaria, dedicated to 130 years of its independence day. Illustrated throughout with full colour photographs. The book is housed in a matching slipcase. Written in Cyrillic and English. This is a heavy book and may require additional shipping charges.

De L'Imprimeri et De La Fonderie Stereotypes De Pierre Didot L'Aine, et De Firmin Didot, 1799. Edition Stereotype. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 8 Volumes. 274, 276, 288, 262, 275, 264, 303, 270 pages in each volume. 1799. Faded gold lettering on the spines. Corners are bumped with minor scuffing on some of them. Tails on the spines of three volumes are worn, to showing the headbands, most of the leather on the top of the spines is worn to showing headbands. Volume four and five have had something spill on the top fore edges leaving brown stain marks - no smell. A very good copy of this small uncommon complete set of Moliere's works. Text is in French.

Garnier Freres, 1682. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket. viii, 592, [1]; 616, [1]; 697, [2] pages + plates. Gold lettering and decoration on the spines. Marbled paper on the covers and endpapers. Top 1/4' of the spines is worn, missing on volume 1. Top fore edge is gilded. Edges and corners worn. Text is in French. A very good copy of this 3 volume set with coloured plates by Geffroy.

William Pickering, 1851. Not Stated Presumed First Thus.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. xvi, 341 pages. 1851. Gold lettering on the spine. Five raised bands on the spine. Cover leather is worn around the edges. Foredge is mottled with blue paint. Inner hinges are just beginning to crack. Previous owner's name on the first white page has been erased, leaving a shadow impression. Minor foxing to the paper. A very good copy of this book edited by B. Montagu Esq. Title on the spine reads: Bacon's Advancement of Learning by Montagu. Size: 4.25 x 6.5

L. T. Watkins Ltd, 1924. Not Stated Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. xx, 587 pages. Faded black lettering on the spine and on the decorative front cover. Corners are bumped; minor wear to the top and tail of the spine and the edges of the cover. Foredge is browned. Previous owner's name and address on the front free endpaper. Paper is foxed. A very good copy of this regimental history covering the period of service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War from 1915 to 1919. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps in the text as well as 11 fold out maps at the end. This is a heavy book and will require additional shipping charges (at cost).

University of Toronto Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Not Stated, Presumed First Edition. 336 pages. Silver lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart, has minor chips along the edges. A very good copy of this documentation of the oil and gas lease in Canada from a lawyer's point of view.

Okanagan Historical Society. Not Stated Presumed First Edition.. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 207 pages. Black lettering on the first page of the book. Covered with clear plastic and a black spine. A very good copy of this index of the Okanagan Historical Society's first 50 reports. Size: 8.5 x 10.75

The Myterious Press. First Edition.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Near Fine. 197 pages. Gold lettering on the spine. Edges of the book are lightly faded. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart, is faded on the spine. A fine copy of this mystery, inscribed and signed by the author on the title page in blue ink. Size: 5.5 x 8.5

McGill University. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 271 pages. 1938 McGill yearbook. Gold lettering on the spine, gold insignia on the cover. Top and tail of the spine are scuffed. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photographs, and a coloured full-page frontis illustrations of McGill buildings, by R. S. Terguson. Previous owner's bookplate on the inside front cover.

St Martins Press. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/Fine. 261 pages. Gold lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart. This book has a remainder mark on the lower edge, otherwise it is a fine, unread, copy of this novel. Signed on the title page by the author in blue ink.

The Institute of Applied Art, Limited, 1944. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 275 [4] pages. Black lettering on the spine and on the front cover. Cover is worn around the edges, lightly soiled. Front endpapers are soiled and has a sticker of a poinsettia in the upper corner. The stain on the endpapers bled through to the title page. This is a good copy of the Biography of J. D. Nicholson, Formerly Assistant Superintendent of the Mounted Police, A.P.P., illustrated with b/w woodblock images and a map. Signed on the title page by the author.

Raphael Tuck & Sons. Not Stated. Hardcover. Good-/No Dust Jacket. 38 pages. Gold and black lettering with an image of two soldiers on the front cover. Cover is soiled and worn around the edges. Foredges are gilded. The sewing has become loose, thus making the pages loose. There are no tissue guards. Pages are lightly soiled. A good copy of this book dedicated by special permission to Field Marshal His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge and illustrated with lovely black and white and full colour chromo-lithographs. This is a heavy book and may require additional shipping charges (at cost).

Western Producer Prairie Books. Not Stated Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 199 pages. Gold lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart. A fine copy of this collection of 100 interviews of centenarians from all walks of life, accompanied with B/W photographs of each of them. Signed on the half title page by the author and the photographer.

William Kimber. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 238 pages. Gold lettering on the spine. Previous owner's name and date on the front free endpaper as well as an annotation on the same page; one line annotation on a blank page at the end of the book. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart, had been covered in plastic using masking tape, which has left marks on the jacket. A very good copy of these memoirs of a Submarine C.O., illustrated with b/w photographs.

Murphy & Chapman Ltd, 1943. Presumed First Edition.. Trade Paperback. Very Good +/No Dust Jacket. 25 pages. Black lettering on the front cover. Grey cover is fading. Inserted in the book is a note to the previous owner from the author. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. A very good copy of this little booklet, 'Being notes on nature between the mountains and the sea in British Columbia'. Short essays on topics such as fragrant leaves, the voice of the earth, frog notes, and Easter dawn. Size: 4.75 x 7