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Price: US$89.83 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (3 page foreword by John Randle), (6 page introduction by John O'Connor||), section of 36 wood-engravings, near fine condition in decorated paper covered boards and cloth spine, top edge of book slightly spotted, number 20 of an edition of 375 copies.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
John O'Connor. People & Places. Whittington Press, Risbury, Herefordshire, 1999.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: [85] pp., 8vo, dark blue quarter cloth, silver gilt title, decorated paper sides. Illustrated with 36 wood engravings by John O'Connor for the British magazine "Oldie," which describes its aim is to be a "free-thinking, funny magazine, a light-hearted alternative to a press obsessed with youth and celebrity . free of retirement advice, crammed with rejuvenating wit, intelligence and delight" (from their website). O'Connor was commissioned to produce a woodcut for each issue, covering a wide variety of subjects, from wild or domestic life to views and people. No. 8 of 335 copies (of a total edition of 375) printed on Zerkall Rosa paper. Fine copy.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.49 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Text set in 14-pt Van Dijk and printed on Zerkall paper. Number 31 of 335 (375) copies quarter bound in buckram with printed paper-covered boards. A fine copy. Engravings which appeared in 'The Oldie'.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
John O'Connor. People & Places. Whittington Press, Risbury, Herefordshire, 1999.
Price: US$115.49 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 22x15cm, [84pp]. With thirty-six wood engravings printed from the blocks in black. Copy 111 of 335 (375), bound in quarter-blue cloth over beige paper-covered boards printed in purple with an enlarged reproduction of an engraving, title blocked in silver to the backstrip. Wood-engravings originally commissioned by 'The Oldie' magazine to illustrate the gardening column, written firstly by Germaine Greer, then Patricia Morrison and subsequently Candida Lycett Green. A charming collection with a generous helping of O'Connor's finely-detailed yet vigorous style.
Seller: Woodbridge Rare Books, Suffolk, United Kingdom
O'Connor, John. People and Places. Whittington Press, 1999.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Wood-engravings. Pictorial boards, blue cloth spine. Fine copy. One of 375 numbered copies.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 415 copies, this being one of 375 of the ordinary edition. Quarter-buckram and decorated paper boards, 22 cm, 84 pp, 36 wood-engravings by John O'Connor. From the publisher's description: "Since 1992, John O'Connor has contributed a monthly wood-engraving to Richard Ingrams' Oldie magazine, illustrating essays on English life and the countryside by Germaine Greer and Candida Lycett Green. This selection of thirty-six of the engravings forms a portrait of English landscape, buildings and people that is engagingly observed and recorded by John O'Connor. His sympathy with the English countryside and his knowledge of its architecture are evocatively demonstrated in these engravings. John O'Connor learned to engrave under Eric Ravilious and John Nash at the Royal College of Art in 1933, and his images of the English landscape and people have appeared almost without interruption since then. The Press published The Wood Engravings of John O'Connor, with a commentary by his wife Jeannie, in 1989, and People and Places continues the story of John's wood-engraving into its sixth decade." Copy no. 292. Near Fine. No slipcase.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom