Search Results: Authors starting with O from Elk River Books

New York: Derrydale Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto (25.5 cm), pp. xx, [ii], 298. Faux green snakeskin boards, with gilt-stamped titling. #706 of 950 copies printed. Deckle edge, complete with all black and white photos, color frontispiece and plates by illustrator TJ Harter. Text block has foxing, spine is faded with edge wear, splatter marks on p. 67 and facing plate. Former owner's name on first blank leaf. Absent the box it was published with [Biscotti, p. 320].An Arizona native and long-time celebrated shooting editor at Outside Life, O'Connor "was literate, sardonic, and understated, the only 'gun writer' ever reviewed in The New Yorker," Stephen Bodio writes in A Sportsman's Library, about a later version of the book. "[T]his handsome, entertaining, still-useful volume had been perhaps the most important book for introducing the literate American hunter to the modern, post-Teddy Roosevelt West."

New York: Harper Collins, 2013. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo (21.5cm), pp. 311. First American edition. Purple boards with blue quarter cloth binding and silver text on spine.

Blantyre, Malawi: The Hetherwick Press, 1967. Pamphlet. Very good. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 71. Yellow wraps, stapled binding. Includes line drawings, black and white photography, and a fold-out map of the "Sugar Corporation of Malwai: Nchalo Estate." Wraps are a little fady and dusty. Journal has been continously published since 1948, spanning the country's colonial period through independence to the present day. The Society exists to "promote interest in literary, historical and scientific matters." In addition to the Nchalo sugar estate, this issue covers the fish of Lake Chilwa and the Museum of Malawi.

Hiroshi Yasumura, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (25.5 cm), pp. 180. Photography by Yukio Ohyama of Mt. Fuji and other Japanese scenery. Dust jacket (with light sun damage in back, rub marks on front) over blue cloth boards. Wrapper strap on top of jacket has been ripped and repaired with acid-free tape.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 294. Red cloth boards with silver spine titling. Blue-gray endpapers. Red jacket. Bumping to spine ends, with minor chipping to jacket, else. fine.

Portland, OR: Frank Amato Publications, Incorporated, 1987. Paperback. Very good. Quarto (28 cm), pp. 155. Illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Covers the history, evolution and construction of both American and British fly reels. Minor edge wear and rubbing.

Ousland, 2009. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Signed and inscribed "polar greetings" by author on title page to explorer and Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard. First English language edition. Quarto (27.5 cm), pp. 195. Pictorial boards with matching jacket, photo collage on endpapers. Jacket and boards with slight edge wear. Profusely illustrated with color photos and illustrations.Inspired by the story of the shipwrecked and icebound Jeannette, explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen set off in 1895 across Franz Joseph Land in a failed attempt to reach the North Pole. In 2007, the author and his crew became the first expedition to replicate that journey.

Boston: Ginn and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Very good. Elephant folio (61 x 43 cm), pp.30. Red cloth boards with snap-out easel panels, five-ring binder holds leaves, metal clips inside front and back boards. Illustrated by Ruth Steed. Includes the characters Tom, Betty, Susan, Mother, Father, the dog Flip and a pony named Pony. Light soiling and wear to title page. Boards with moderate bumping and wear.Used as a teaching aid, these large volumes were produced in the 1940s and 50s to be used at the front of classrooms. Teachers could use the easel panels to prop the books up, and the metal brackets to keep the pages open. This volume includes the characters of Tom & Betty, Susan & Flip, Mother, Bunny, Pony and Father. Designed so that additional story packets could be added.Includes seven tape-bound story inserts, titled Puff, Tim, Tim and Spot, Dick, Jane, Baby, Spot. Inserts each have four pages of text and graphics, and have three punched holes, for a three-ring binder. Light soiling from… Read More

New York: Scribner , 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo (23.5cm), pp. 278. Yellow boards with black quarter cloth binding and gilt text on spine. Corners show very minimal bumping.