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THE OLD BOY'S BOOKS: A HISTORY OF THE OLD TIME JOURNALS FOR BOYS, THEIR PUBLISHERS, AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND EDITORS/ A BRIEF HISTORY OF BOYS' JOURNALS, WITH INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE WRITERS OF BOYS' STORIES.
Leicester: H. Simpson, 1913. 8vo., pp. 111, grey pictorial wrappers, b/w illustrations, portrait frontispiece; tiny chip at foot of spine, otherwise a very good, clean copy.
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THE OLD ENGLISH ELEGIES: A Critical Edition And Genre Study.
London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. 8vo.,pp. xv,469, paperback, b/w plates; cracking to inner hinge at p.92 and p.234 but all content still firm, occasional pencilling, creasing to spine and light rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy.
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THE OLD NURSERY RHYMES; OR, THE MERRIE HEART.
London/Paris/New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, 1932. Fifth edition, 12mo., pp.225,4(adverts), pictorial green bevelled cloth, gilt, a.e.g., colour frontispiece and 6 further colour plates, wood-engraved illustrations throughout; owner’s ink inscription, dated 1932, to front free endpaper verso, occasional spotting or marking to fore-margins, contents very slightly shaken but still very good and tight, light rubbing to extremities, with a few (just lightly visible) water-marks to cloth, including ring-mark to front board, overall a very good, fairly bright copy.
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THE OLDEST ENGLISH TEXTS. [OS 83]
Early English Text Society, 1966. 8vo., pp.viii,668, brown cloth, gilt; neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, just slight tone to edges, a clean and very good+ copy.
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THE ONE STRAND RIVER AND OTHER FAIRY STORIES.
London: David Nutt, at the sign of the Phoenix, 1903. First edition, 8vo., pp.216,12 (publisher’s illustrated advertisements), uncut, pictorial ochre cloth blocked in black and red, b/w frontispiece, b/w pictorial title, lettered in red, with tissue guard between, five further b/w plates; contemporary ink gift inscription to half title, light toning to endpapers, p.25 and adjacent plate slightly cropped at lower corner, stain to lower corner of p.3, foxing to fore-edges, foxing and soiling/light marking to cloth, with rubbing to extremities, light roll to spine, a good+ copy of a scarce title.
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THE ONE WHO IS LEGION.
Orono: The National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, 1987. 8vo.,pp. 174, paperback, facsimile reprint, b/w illustrations and b/w frontispiece; front free endpaper coming loose otherwise contents firm and clean, light shelf wear to extremities, overall a very good copy.
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THE OPERA INDUSTRY IN ITALY FROM CIMAROSA TO VERDI: The Role of the Impressario.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. 8vo.,pp. viii,214, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations and tables; light sunning to spine, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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THE ORGAN AND ITS MUSIC IN GERMAN-JEWISH CULTURE.
Oxford University Press, 2009. 8vo., pp.xi,284, blue cloth, gilt; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE ORIGINS OF MILITARY THOUGHT. From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz.
Oxford University Press, 1991. 8vo., pp.xii,281, paperback; a very good copy indeed.
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THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH GENTRY.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.xii,329, black hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, very slight bruising to tail of spine, a very good copy indeed, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is slightly sunned to spine and very slightly rubbed to extremities, else very good indeed.
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THE ORIGINS OF THE MODERN ROMAN LITURGY The Liturgy of the Papal Court and the Franciscan Order in the Thirteenth Century.
London: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd, 1960. 8vo., pp.xxxi,586, navy hardcover, silver lettering, b/w plates; a couple of spots of foxing to prelims, light yellowing to pages, toning to edges, otherwise internally clean, rubbing to boards, particularly to extremities, a very good copy, lacking original dust-jacket, now in previous owner’s dust-jacket.
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THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN WARFARE. Militarism and Morality in the Ancient World.
Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.viii,203, paperback; a very good, fresh copy, with light creasing/rubbing to edges of wrappers.
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THE ORNAMENTS DISCOVERED: A STORY, IN TWO PARTS.
London: William Darton, Jun, 1815. 12mo., pp.191,(xvii)adverts, quarter red roan, gilt, plain paper-covered boards, engraved frontispiece; neat ink ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper (dated 1830), rubbing to extremities, with wear to paper covering of boards along edges and at corners, a very good copy. [OSBORNE p.267 for this edition].
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THE OTHER NATION.
The Poor in English Novels of the 1840s and 1850s.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. 8vo., pp.xvii,282, black hard covers, gilt; very good, in vg unclipped dust-jacket (with crease to price at front flap), which is lightly sunned to spine.
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THE OTTOMAN LADY.
A Social History from 1718 to 1918. Contributions to Women’s Studies, Number 70.
New York/Westport/London: Greenwood Press, 1986. 8vo., pp.xv,321, glazed hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF BRITISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,670, navy hardcover, gilt; light rubbing to extremities, edges lightly thumbed, light scratch to top edge, a very good copy indeed, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which has light shelf-wear to its extremities and slight rubbing to spine, otherwise very good.
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF METHODIST STUDIES.
Oxford University Press, 2009. Large 8vo., pp.xvii,761, navy hardcover, gilt; fine, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE IRISH BOOK, Volume III. The Irish Book in England 1550-1800.
Oxford University Press, 2006. 8vo., pp.xxi,477, navy hardcover, gilt; with presentation inscriptions from four of the contributors to the title page, pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a little light pencilling to margins, o/w very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE OXFORD MOVEMENT AND ANGLICAN RITUALISM
General Series 105
London: The Historical Association, 1983. 8vo., pp.iii,34, paperback (blue printed wrappers); lightly rubbed else, very light toning to margins, else a very good, clean copy.
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THE OXFORD MOVEMENT AND PARISH LIFE: ST. SAVIOUR’S, LEEDS, 1839-1929.
Borthwick Papers No.48.
York: University of York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 1975. 8vo., pp.iii,34, paperback (green printed wrappers), b/w frontispiece; one small red pen mark to verso of front wrapper, very slight partial sunning to wrappers and one small mark to front, else a very good, clean copy.
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