Search Results: Authors starting with O from Monkey House Books

New York: Walter and Company, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. The Place of Religious Orders in Society, The Dissolution, The Aftermath. B/w illustrations. 186 pages, index. Blandford History Series, Problems of History. Black cloth boards, slight darkening to endpapers.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Hardcover, light green cloth boards. Good. A young woman's life takes a tragic turn during her freshman year in college. 237 pages. A Selection of the Christian Herald Family Bookshelf, A Book Club You Can Trust. Ex-library, card pocket, wear especially to spine ends.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1923. Blue cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine (faded).. Good/No Dust Jacket. Frontispiece by Charles D. Mitchell.. First Edition, 5th printing, October. 316 pages. Slim, well-dressed 1920s ladies: ""How ever do you do it, Con? No one would guess you had three children!"" Wear, rubbing, and fraying to corners and backstrip. Spine cock. Small stained area of page edges, text clean.

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1938. Hardcover, black cloth boards, red & gilt decorated spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Originally printed serially in the Chicago Tribune. Informal sketches of the world's great books, including essays on Treasure Island, Pride & Prejudice, The Scarlet Letter, David Copperfield, Tom Jones, Don Quixote, Leaves of Grass, Les Miserables, and many more. 461 pages, bibliography, black endpapers, Black & Gold Library Edition.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1877. Brown cloth boards. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrations, charts, foldouts, map. 447 pages, index, some toning but unmarked and clear. Covers well-worn and stained, margins dampstained, some spotting. Ffep torn, hinges solid. Owner's information penciled on fep.

Albany & New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1896. Dark green cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. 598 pages, index. Volume I only. Wear, soil and bleaching to covers. Front hinge starting. Includes cheese, creameries, finances, names and address, new laws.

London; New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd./E. P. Dutton & Co., [no date] c.1915. Blue cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Or Dun-Randal on the Sea, a treatise on Scottish Loch-fishing (general fiction). Scarce title from The Wayfarers' Library. Color frontispiece by Dora Curtis. Owner's info penciled on ffep, dated 1923. Decorative endpapers and title page. Small book. Ends and corners frayed, spine darkened. Hinges good. Ribbon marker, end torn. 242 pages, clean and unmarked.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1960. Light blue cloth.. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Introduction by Harvey Fergusson. Novel of the Canadian wilderness, set in the Rockies in the 1880s, about a half-mythical figure. Sticker residue on fep, light wear & tear to jacket.

Findlay, Ohio: Marathon Oil Company, c.1981. Stapled softcover pamphlet. Very Good. Car care basics, emergencies, DIY tips, tools to carry, fuel economy guide, simple fixes. Handy little volume suitable for the glove compartment. 24 pages. Light wear.

New York: A. L. Burt Company Publishers, [no date]. Maroon cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrated. Ex-library, spine label, card pocket. Front hinge cracked. 436 pages.

Bologna: Casa Editrice Prof. Riccardo Patron., 1965. Maroon cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine, clear plastic slipcover. Text in Italian, printed in Italy. Sixth Edition. SIGNED on verso of title page ""O. M. Olivo"" in blue ink. Edges rubbed, light browning of endpaper edges, tape residue on rep. 253 pages, bibliography. Black marker on top edge.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1912. Light blue cloth, white-stamped cover & spine. Good Plus./No Dust Jacket. Humorous novel about the close-knit Eli family and a struggling doctor. Policy Ann is a matchmaker. 160 pages, text unmarked, hinges strong. Covers spotted and soiled. Spine sticker and endpaper stamps from ""Hommel's Corner Pharmacy"" in Saugerties, NY.

2011. Softcover, stapled paper wraps. Good. Giovanni Timpano, artist. Giant size 48 page conclusion. Library sticker inside front cover, else nice.

2009. Softcover, stapled paper wraps. Good. Based on the true story of Admiral Yi Soon Shin, the Korean naval commander who saved his people from invading Japanese samurai forces during the Imjin War, 1592-8. Edgewear and crease on back cover. David Anthony Kraft, Series Editor. For mature readers.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1954. Orange cloth boards. Good/No Dust Jacket. Ages 8-12. Short story award inscription inked on ffep. Backstrip split at top of rear hinge, otherwise binding strong. Frontispiece of Boy Scouts around campfire. 128 pages, a boy's adventures with his scout troop, experiences and lessons learned at summer camp.

Chicago; New York: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1928. Orange boards, black cloth spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. O'Reilly was an Irish-American social reformer, club woman, and journalist; her work blurred the line between fact and fiction. 189 pages, text unmarked, endpapers spotted, slight spine cock. Top edge tinted black. Hinges somewhat fragile. Owner's name inked neatly on fep.

New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 31 Barclay Street, 1863. Brown cloth boards with gilt-stamped spine and blind-stamped cover.. Fair./No Dust Jacket. Translated from the French by Christine Farville. 185 pages, text has some spotting and staining but readable and complete. Reading copy. Well-worn and soiled covers, especially backstrip, losses to top and bottom. Ffep missing, front hinge nearly broken, pencil scribbles.

New York & Evanston: Harper Torchbook, Harper & Row, 1961. Softcover, trade paperback. Good. Essays on humanism, the Aristotelian tradition, Renaissance Platonism, Paganism & Christianity. Revised edition, originally published as The Classics & Renaissance Thought. New essays added. 173 pages, index, some marginalia.

Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner, 1879. Marbled boards.. Fair-Good/No Dust Jacket. Erste Abtbeilung. Fur Serta. Siebzehnte verbesserte Doppel-Auflage. Bilingual text in German Frakturschrift and Latin. Backstrip missing, wear to edges & corners. Endpapers tanned. Several pages with small tears, ink blots. 112 pages.

Garden City & Toronto: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. Dark blue cloth boards, orange stamped cover and spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Long Island tale of the L'Hommedieu and Stanborough families. 317 pages. Scarce original work by Overton, 1887-1930, also known for his literary criticism and interpretation. Owner's name inked on fep, dated 1932. Rear hinge cracked, webbing showing. Covers slightly faded, ends worn, spine cock.