BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
First Paperback Edition (1943)
O'Hara, John. The
doctor's son and other stories. New York: New Avon Library; Duell, Sloan & Pearce,
[1943]. Small 8vo. [4], 217, [3] pp. 
• Original wrappers. Very light rubbing to spine and at edges. Rear cover with a single 2" crease, some wrinkles on spine. Mildly age-toned. Very good. (7181)
“CLOUD-LANDS” Oakley, Amy. Cloud-lands of France. New York: Century Co., 1927. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 497, [1] pp.; illus. 
• Publisher's cloth, covers and spine gilt-stamped; corners and extremities very slightly rubbed, dust-jacket lacking, otherwise a beautiful copy. (18414)
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BRITTANY Oakley, Amy. Enchanted Brittany. New York: Century Co., 1930. 8vo. Frontis., xix, [1], 437, [1] pp.; illus. 
• Publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, dust-jacket lacking. (18410)
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Keepsake . . . The oath of a free-man. With a historical study by Lawrence C. Wroth and a note on the Stephen Daye Press by Melbert B. Cary, Jr. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1939. 8vo. [20] pp.
This is Keepsake no. 60 of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, although this copy does not include the laid-in sheet noting that detail. Important study by the head of the John Carter Brown Library on the Oath.
• Publisher's cloth, front cover with printed paper label. Clean and fresh. (14191)
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Cresci Arrighi Erasmus Yciar *&* Others Osley, A. S. Scribes and sources: Handbook of the Chancery hand in the sixteenth century. Boston: David R. Godine, 1980. 8vo. 291 pp.
• Publisher's red cloth with gilt decoration on front board and gilt-title on spine. Publisher's dust jacket, good with only minor rubbing. Excellent copy. (23274)
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Well-Edited
& Well-Produced
Otway, Thomas. The complete works.... Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Folio. 3 vols.
• McKitterick/Rendall/Dreyfus 38. Quarter light brown publisher's buckram with cream Ingres paper sides. Cream paper label at top of spine. All edges untrimmed. Light dustsoiling. Bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. A rather nice set.
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Burman–Carey Ovid Ovidius
Naso, Publius. ... Opera, ad fidem editionis Burmannianae expressa. Londini: Rodwell & Martin et al., 1815. 12mo (13.2 cm, 5.2"). 3 vols. I: vi, 309, [1] pp. II: [4], 334 pp. III: [4], 360 pp.
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• NSTC C616; Schweiger, II, 632–33. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped titles and volume numbers; bindings showing overall rubbing and scuffing, one volume with spine head chipped. Front pastedowns each with private collector’s bookplate, institutional rubber-stamp, and pencilled notations. A few signatures at the beginning of vol. I unopened. Small areas of waterstaining to upper inner margins of first few leaves of vol. I and scattered small spots of light foxing elsewhere, pages generally clean. A nice little antiquarian set.
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