Search Results: Titles starting with O from Grampy's Bookcase

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Binding has slight smudging and is faded at the spine. Illustrations throughout. Some foxing. "O. Henry was once asked why he did not read more fiction. 'It is all tame...as compared with the romance of my own life.' But nothing is more subtly suggestive in the study of this remarkable man than the strange, structural resemblance between the story and life."

528 pp. Slight fading at the top cover edges. Some underlining and bracketing throughout. DJ has light scuffing and is worn around the edges with several very small chips.

Text is clean and unmarked. Lettering on binding's front and spine is bright and clear. Slight crack at the gutter on page one but pages are attached. Top of text block is gilt edge. Previous owner's name and date 1918 on the front free end paper.

95 pp. Color illustrations throughout. Pearlstein's art from 1940-2008.

323 pp. Early re-print. Text is clean and unmarked in an attractive tight, bright, and square binding. Text is age-toned. Volume is in excellent condition. Forty-six illustrations included.

Full page color plates included. In "'As New Condition". Texts by Jasmin Seck, Petra Roettie, and Richard B. Woodward."...Aller's photographs can be at once ravishingly sumptuous in the tradition of American and European romantic landscape, as well as coolly austere and in line with the reductivist laws of minimalist practice inherited from the 1960s. As a strategy for capturing nature's quirky atmospheres, it is both smart and appealing."

94 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Color illustrations throughout. DJ has slight wear on the back with a store price label. "For Sale" is stamped on the front DJ.

84 pp. Poems are written in Spanish and English. Previous owner's name is on the inside top outside corner of the front cover. Otherwise in "as new condition".

Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Binding is spotted at the spine. Previous owner's name on the top corner of the front free end paper. From the Classics Club series. A nice solid copy.

Text is clean and unmarked in glossy, bright, and tight covers. Covers are without creases, tears, or chips. Color photos included. Very small red remainder mark on the bottom of the text block. Previous owner's name on the outside top corner of the front page. From the back cover, "Erich von Daniken brings his unique insight to bear on the history and legends of Ancient Greece. Using painstaking archaeological research and evidence in the writings of Plato and Aristotle, he suggests that 'myths' were, in fact, very much a reality and that Greek 'gods' were extraterrestrial beings who arrived on Earth many thousands of years ago."

Text is clean and unmarked in tight covers. Covers have minor wear around the outer edges. Black and white photos throughout. "The ideal of socialism has been alive among Americans for almost 150 years. Socialism was discussed by Robert Owen before joint meetings of both houses of Congress on February 25 and March 7, 1825. Owen had already, a year earlier, established a cooperative community in New Harmony, Indiana. Seventeen years later, Brook Farm, a utopian community based on the ideas of Charles Fourier, was established in Massachusetts."

Fine apparently unread copy. 32 maps and 54 illustrations included. 493pp.

326 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. DJ has a chip out of the front top corner and a small chip near the back spine. DJ is covered in plastic. from the front DJ flap, "The historical text is supplemented by an unusually large number of illustrations: over 580 photographs and drawings, mostly made by the author for this work from original source material in the field."

96 pp. The Leisure Hour Library weekly subscription Vol III., No. 261. Magazine format. Stated unchanged and unabridged. Age toned and covers have several chips and partially detached.

197 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers show wear along the edges with a closed tear along the spine of the front cover and top of the spine. From the front cover flap, "Rytkheu is the first writer of fiction to rise from the midst of the Chukchi, a nationality which previous to the revolution did not even have an alphabet of their own."

text is clean and unmarked. in a square and tight binding. Volume appears unused. Black and white illustrations throughout. "An analysis of the school textbooks used in the past reveals a truer history of what was taught in the earliest schools than does a study of past educational theories alone. This is particularly true for the early American schools. The teachers in the early days of our country were so meagerly trained and educated that they depended strongly on the textbooks for what to teach and how to teach." p.1.

Bright and colorful unused volume. Illustrations by Jon J. Muth. Full page illustrations included. DJ is in "As New Condition".

327 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Covers and spine are faded and age-toned. Previous owner's name is on the front free end paper. Foxing present on the front free end papers and title page. Numerous photographs throughout. This volume is a solid copy. "The ships were small and crowded, the cabins close, and the voyage required from six to ten weeks. 'Betwixt decks,' writes a colonist, 'there can hardlie a man fetch his breath by reason there ariseth such a funke in the night that it causeth putrifacation of the blood and breedeth disease much like the plague.' ' p. 17.

165 pp. In as new condition. DJ has tiny chip at the top front edge and light smudging on the back. "The following essays deal with some of the writings and some of the activities of Franklin. Taken separately, they provide valuable insights into what Franklin was and wrote; taken together, they provide an overview of Franklin's attitudes, purposes, and significance as a writer and thinker for his own time and for ours." p. x

There are some underlined and bracketed passages throughout. Binding is tight and square. Frontispiece portrait of Cromwell is detached but included. Card holder is attached to the back inside binding. Library stamps are on the outside edges of the text block. A small label is attached to the bottom spine. Previous owner's name on the top of the front free end paper. Volume from the "Heroes of the Nations series. Illustrations throughout.