Search Results: Authors starting with O from David Ford Books

Dublin: Sign of the Three Candles, 1939 Appears to be First edition (just has copyright date of 1939 by the author). Published also by Constable in London at same time. HB. Buff-grey cloth, lettered in green to spine and front,with green printed figure to spine, no dustjacket. 235pp. One hundred and two songs, each with music, and many with a b&w engraving vignette. There are also the words of some more songs in the appendix. Introduction by the author. A Good copy. Light wear to covers with bumps to edges and slight cloth tear top spine. Pages well-bound and mostly clean, a few minor marks. Pictures available.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954 First edition. Hardcover book. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, and dustjacket lettered in dark blue on pale blue paper. xiii, 898pp, quarto. With b&w photo frontispiece and 7 b&w plates. Includes a brief history of the collection. Entries in the catalogue are by the city where the printers worked. Very Good in Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Llight foxing to ends and closed edges, top edges browned. Jacket heavily foxed, with browned spine, small losses top spine and edges, small tears to edges, scuff with tear to back lower centre. Pictures available

London: Faber and Faber, 1969 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. pp171. With 9 maps. The Korean War, it's course, and political context. Very Good in Good+ protected jacket. Covers clean, light rubbing to edges, pages clean, with owner's details to flyleaf. Jacket has small tear to top edge, and light rubbing, tannning to back, some fade to spine. Pictures available.

London: Henry Colburn, Publisher 1839 Volume One only. HB, 2nd Ed., xiv, 402pp, frontis, 1 plate, 2 vignettes in text, lacks map. Dark blue half leather, gilt tooling to spine, inset tan leather title square. Marbled blue covers, endpapers and edges. Some darkeneing to covers, rubbing to edges, spine bright. Small loss to margins of first few pages, previous owners name and date to fep. Some light spotting throughout. Internal cracking to hinges. A Fair copy.

London, William Heinemann, The Book Society, 1946 Hardcoverbook, first edition thus in dustjacket. Signed by the author to title page. 378 pages. Subtitled Esa Senora. A Very Good, near Fine copy in a Very Good unclipped dustjacket. Jacket clean and bright but sunned along spine strip. Pictures available.

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, c.1955 First English edition, translated from Russian by David Skvirsky; the Afterword is dated 1955, perhaps this English edition came out soon after that. Hardcover book . Yellow cloth lettered in black to spine, with black printed image of rhinoceros-like creature to front cover, no dustjacket . 372pp. With attractive b&w pen and ink images in the text throughout. Fictionalised account, based on old scientific and exploration records, of the search for a lost island in the Arctic ocean off Siberia which was inhabited by mammoths and ancient people. Very Good copy, with light marks and bumps to covers, marks to top page edges, page faces clean apart from a few light marks. Photos available.

London, Macmillan, 1952 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 306 pages. the fifth volume in O'Casey's autobiographical work. A Very Good copy in a Very Good unclipped dustjacket, no inscriptions. Very Nice copy. Pictures available.

London, Macmillan, 1945 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 339 pages. the third volume in O'Casey's autobiographical work. A Very Good copy in a Good unclipped dustjacket, no inscriptions. Wear to top and bottom of jacket spine with some browning to rear panel. Previous owners name. . Pictures available.

London: Columbus Books, 1989 First edition. Signed by the author on flyleaf 'with all good wishes to John'. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 423pp. With b&w photos in plates, and maps and tables in text. Features the secret rescue from Russia of the Grand Duchess Tatiana. Very Good in Fine jacket. Spotted top page block edges, otherwise fine. Pictures available.

New York: Kennikat Press, 1970 Reprint, a facsimile of the 1843 edition, by Kennikat Press Scholarly Reprints. Hardcover book . Blue cloth, no dustjacket as issued. 406pp. A Fine copy. Pictures available.

New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corps 1949 Hardcover book , oblong format, 1st Ed, 144pp, illustrations throughout. Pictorial paper covered boards now heavily rubbed to edges and folds. Large crease to front and back covers. Tanning to pastedowns, lacks fep. Other pages clean. A Fair copy. Pictures available.

Stroud, Tempus Publishing, 2006 Softcover , 125 pages with many illustrations and diagrams. A history of this lovely river and its navigation through the centuries. A Fine copy without any marks or inscriptions.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1928. First edition A collection of essays. Foreword by Walter de la Mare. HB, 1st ed, 278pp. Foxed early and late and to foredge. Gilt to spine. Boards and spine lightly rubbed. Still a VG copy.

Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong School of Architecture, 1955 First edition. HB, Red Cloth, no dustjacket. Folio. A group project by 4th year students of the University of Hong Kong School of Architecture into the history of Chinese drama, western drama traditions, theatres in Hong Kong, and proposals for the design of a new theatre. The text (in English with some Chinese translations) is xeroxed typescript; there are pasted in original photographs and reproduced pen and ink drawings throughout, with tissue guard pages. This appears to have been produced for limited circulation as a private rather than trade publication. This copy has a gift inscription inside the front cover by one of the staff of the School of Architecture. Very Good: clean covers and pages, binding sound; bumping to lower cover corners with split to cloth, light spine ends rubbing. Still a Good+ copy. Pictures available

London, Constable, 1989 Hardcover book, in dustjacket. The author's first work of fiction originally published in 1934. 398 pages. A near Fine copy with slight tanning of pages in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. No inscriptions. pictures available.,

London, Constable, 1982 Hardcover Books, First edition thus, 3 Volumes in dustjackets, Book Volume 1, 1980. All 34 stories from the author's earliest works. Book Volume 2 , 1981, 30 stories from the late 50's and early 60's. Book volume 3 , 1982 , 19 stories from The Talking Trees, and Foreign Affairs together with 6 new unpublished stories written after the author's eightieth birthday. Book condition of each volume is Fine or near Fine, Very slight tanning of pages due to type of paper used. Dustjacket condition is Fine and with no price clipping. No inscriptions , a very nice set. pictures available.,

London: Longmans, Green & Co 1949 HB, 17x22cms, 120pp with illustrations. Signed by the author to title page. Inscription to fep by the author, dated 1965. Green cloth boards, red lettering. Spine slightly tanned and rubbed, darkened strip along front edge, corners bumped. Endpapers tanned but otherwise internally clean. A VG copy.

London: Longmans, Green, 1947 Third impression. Hardcover book . Cloth and colour pictorial dustjacket (pasted- on reproduction of landscape by Henry). 308pp. With 4 colour reproductions of Paul Henry's paintings in plates, 6 b&w reproductions in plates, and a map of Ireland. Sean O'Faolain's journey around rural Ireland, and also to Northern Ireland. Very Good book in Good+ jacket. Pages largely clean, and well-bound, with light browning to endpapers, and browning to closed edges; and nice bookplate inside front cover. Covers have a little browning to cloth edges. Jacket front very good with bright illustration; some marks to back, tiny losses to spine ends, and mid spine, browning to spine and price-clipped. lost) Note: Paul Henry's autobiography illustrated with his art is also listed by David Ford Books.

London: Longmans, Green, 1949 First edition. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket . 120pp. Jacket and line drawings in text by Phoebe Llewellyn Smith. Irish fantasy/fairy story for children. Very Good in Good+ protected jacket. very light foxing to endpapers; jacket bright with light foxing, (heavier to back), minor edgewear.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1988 First edition.Hardcover with dustjacket. 661 pages with illustrations maps and diagrams. The usual highly researched and recorded volume in the Ancient and Historical Monuments series. Domestic Architecture from the Reformation to the Industrial revolution. A near Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. Minor spotting to top closed page edges. No inscriptions, Very slight sunning to spine of jacket but still a Very nice copy. Pictures available. Very heavy volume which may require extra postage.