Search Results: Authors starting with O from Joseph Valles - Books

Cumming, Ga. : Humpus Bumpus Press, 2000., 2000. Very Good. [1st edition], 1st printing ; x, 396 pp ; ISBN: 0965462455; 1965462463 ; LCCN: 2001-233779 ; OCLC: 43925386 ; LC: PS558.G4; Dewey: 810.99758 ; 22 cm. ; Consists of winning entries to the annual "O, Georgia!" statewide writing competition, instituted by Jimmy Ca rter and independent booksellers Humpus Bumpus and subsequently cancelled in 2004 due to lack of funding ; color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; works by Jim Howell, Patty Graniero, Dale Lawrence, Philip John Dorris, F. William Broome, Dagmar Mar shall, Jessica L. Nettles, James E. Mead, Jr., Bonnie McGarity Williams, Maxine Hamm, Nancy Cadle Craddock, Barbara and Diana MacKinnon, Jacquelyn L. Miles, Elizabeth Bowles, Samuel H. Harrison, Beth Mangia, April S. Fields, Judy Parker, Beth Alphin , Renee Hand Morris, Karen Ann Ebert, Terri Collins, Regina U. Galloway, Virginia M. McGuffey, Maureen P. Huntington, Mary Lou McMichen, Virginia Bishop Heaton, Teresa Bueno, Donna Caldwell,… Read More

New York : Crescent Books, Distributed by Crown Inc., 1990., 1990. Very Good. 188 pp. : illustrated, some in color ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 051700190X ; Dewey: 745.1/028 ; OCLC: 21571260 ; purple-blue cloth with gold lettering, in photographic color dustjacket ; 120 full-color illustrations ; "This book is organized by specific project, each section begins with a brief survey of the tools and materials particular to the craft and then explains the techniques of repair which are both simple and professional."--jacket ; VG/VG

Chicago : Louis Mariano, Publisher, 1952., 1952. Good. 40 pp. unpaged ; illustrated ; 29 cm. ; LCCN: 52-67795 ; OCLC: 2717805 ; brown textured boards with black lettering of front ; a facetious look at populux-style futurama images of various types of 1950s "modern" outhouses ; Jetsons meets Clampetts ; tears at top and bottom of spine, and scuffs to front cover, some foxing, name and inscription on front ep ; G

Paris : Nouvelles éditions latines, [Acheve d'imprimer sur les presses de E Ramlot et Cie, 52, Avenue du Maine, Paris], 1933, 1933. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 157 pages ; 17 cm ; LC: PQ2629.B4; Dewey: 842.912 ; OCLC: 5357651 ; "Loire a été représentée pour la première fois le jeudi 27 avril 1933 par la Compagnie des Quinze, sur la scène du Vieux-Colombier à Paris." ; "Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage 1,500 exemplaires sur Alfa numérotés de 1 a 1.500 et 100 exemplaires hors commerce numérotés de H.C. 1 a H.C. 100 ; limited edition of 1,600 on Alfa paper, of which this is No. 438 ; 1/2 leather and green, yellow and red marbled papers ; marbled endpapers ; foxing ; André Obey was general administrator of the Comédie-Française from 1945-1946. After the Armistice he went to Paris where he made a living writing articles on music and sports, short… Read More

New York ; Evanston, IL ; San Francisco ; London : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971., 1971. Very Good. 1st edition ; blue cloth with gold lettering, in full-color dustjacket with mylar protector ; owner unfortunately used celeophane tape to adhere dustjacket flap to front of dustjacket, although jacket unharmed and cloth covers have minor effect ; ot herwise very clean and sound ; VG/VG

Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1953, 1953. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st edition ; 115 p. illus. 22 cm. ; LC: DA911; Dewey: 941.5 ; OCLC: 1327890 ; green cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamp, label ; Contents : The island -- The small farm -- Islands to the west -- A Holy Island -- From shellfishers to scribes -- The Norsemen -- The Normans -- Plantations =-- Kinsale and Cromwell -- The battle of the Boyne -- Swift and Tone -- Seventeen ninety-eight -- After Napoleon -- The Nation -- A Nation once again -- Ireland today -- Dublin -- Round the south -- By the banks of the Shannon -- Up North ; small mark on page 114, else G.

New York, Macmillan Co., 1949, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. [1st American edition] ; 396 p. front. 21 cm. ; LCCN: 49-7561 ; LC: PR6029.C33; Dewey: 928.2 ; OCLC: 990431 ; grey cloth with green decorations ; in torn dustjacket ; The fourth volume of O'Casey's six volume autobiography. ; Contents: High road and low road -- Mrs. Casside takes a holiday -- Hail and farewell -- The raid -- Pax -- Drifting -- Into Civil War -- Comrades -- The clergy takes a hand -- Blessed Bridget O'Coole -- Where wild swans nest -- A terrible beauty is Borneo -- The temple entered -- Dublin's gods and half-gods -- Dublin's glittering guy -- The girl he left behind him -- Silence -- Inishfallen, fare thee well ; "This is not a soothing book. Mr. O'Casey is a bitter man. he has not forgiven the world for the misery and starvation of the life in the slums which destroyed most of his brothers and sisters and constantly harried his mother. It affected him, too. Lack of food undermined his… Read More

New York : The Macmillan Company, 1952, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. [1st American edition], 1st printing ; 323 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ; LCCN: 52-4597 ; OCLC: 1595964 ; blue cloth in nicked dustjacket ; Contents : London apprentice -- The silver tassie -- The friggin frogs -- Feathering his nest -- Rose and Crown -- Black oxen passing by -- A long Ashwednesday -- A gate clangs shut -- A friar by the fireside -- Star of the County Down -- Ship in full sail -- In New York now -- Within the gates -- Pennsylvanian visit -- Wild life in New Amsterdam --- Hearts and clubs -- Only five minutes more ; The fifth volume in O'Casey's six volume autobiography. ; "O'Casey [goes] to England where he 'was to be shown off, a new oddity, and odd wonder, a guttersnipe among the trimly-educated and the richly clad, the slum dramatist, who, in the midst of a great darkness, had seen a greater light.' With great candor and discernment O'Casey draws graphic portraits of famous figures,… Read More

Chicago : Hall & McCreary, 1955, 1955. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 32 copies ; SATB ; 1729 .

New York, London, Toronto, Sydeny, Tokyo, Singapore : Simon & Schuster, 1991., 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Red and black cloth with gold lettering in color illustrated dustjacket ; ISBN: 067173735X ; LCCN: 91-9987 ; 1st edition, 1st printing ; 348 pp. ; illustrated ; remains of store price on back, else FINE/FINE.

London, Oxford University Press, 1971, 1971. Book. Good. Hardcover. 216 p., 4 plates. illus. 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0196903904; 9780196903903 LCCN: 73-162492 ; LC: PR8789; Dewey: 822/.9/109 ; OCLC: 694287 ; black cloth in dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label ; Contents : Stars of the Abbey's ascendancy -- Intellectual hatred and intellectual nationalism : the paradox of passionate politics -- Two lectures on the Irish theatre by W B Yeats -- Nationalism from the Abbey stage -- The Rising -- Sean O'Casey and the higher nationalism : the desecration of Ireland's household gods -- Yeats, theatre and nationalism -- Hic and Ille : Shaw and Yeats -- The absence of nationalism in the work of Samuel Beckett ; .

Lillenas Publishing Co., Belwin Mills, 1969, 1969. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 62 copies ; SATB ; AN-1634.

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2000., 2000. Very Good. vii, 246 pp., [16] p. of plates : illustrated ; 24 cm. ; pictorial wrappers ; uncorrected page proof ; ISBN: 0815764359 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 00-8812 ; OCLC: 43751559 ; Contents: 1 Looking Backward 1 -- 2 The Power and Poverty of Ideology 12 -- 3 The Turning Point Economy 41 -- 4 The Leader, His Party, and His People 81 -- 5 The Military: Pillar of Society 105 -- 6 Social Control 127 -- 7 The Foreign Relations of a Hermit Kingdom 148 -- 8 Dealing with the DPRK 185 ; "Drawing on more than ten years of research—including interviews with two dozen North Koreans who made the painful decision to defect from their homeland—Kongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig explore what the leadership and the masses believe about their current predicament. Through dual themes of persistence and illusion, they explore North Korea's stubborn adherence to policies that have failed to serve the welfare of the people and, consequently, threaten the… Read More

Delaware Water Gap, PA: Shawnee Press, Inc., MCMLIV; MCMLIII (1953, 1954) , 1954. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 40 copies ; SATB ; A-235.

Tokyo : Graphic-sha ; New York, NY : Kodansha America, Inc. through Oxford University Press, c2000, 2001., 2001. Very Good. 2nd printing ; 103 pp. ; chiefly color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm. ; ISBN: 4889960554; 9784889960556 ; LC: SB458 ; OCLC: 45399323 ; color photographic boards ; no dustjacket ; previous owner information marked out on front ep ; "This book is a collection of gardens including the ancient Iwakura Gardens, the origins of Japanese gardens, along with gardens from the end of the Edo period to the modern day." ; VG

Dallas, Tx : Crescendo Music Publications, Inc., 1972, 1974, 1974. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 49 copies ; SATB ; No.310 ; "Arranged for Billy Graham Crusade Choir".

Chicago : American Library Association, 1987., 1987. Very Good. xiv, 492 pp., 29 cm.; ISBN: 0838904610 ; LCCN: 87-1294 ; OCLC: 15521337 ; blue cloth with silver lettering ; Contents: Main entry section -- Title index -- Subject and setting index -- Character index. ;"A very useful source for twentieth-century hardcover titles. Consists of main entry section, title index, subject and setting index, and character index. "--New York Public Library ; ex-library, stamps, label ; tear on back end paper, else VG

Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan : Istdale'stvo "Zhalyn", 1991., 1991. Good. 174 pp. ; color illustrations ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 5610006562 ; 9785610006567 ; OCLC: 28732739 ; color pictorial boards ; some digs at bottom of textblock do not affect text ; illustrated endpapers ; text in Russian ; ""Три Толстяка" — сказка Юрия Олеши, написанная в 1924 году. В книге рассказывается о революции, поднятой бедняками против богачей (Толстяков) в вымышленной стране. Эта страна описана в реалистическом духе, без волшебства и сказочных существ, но некоторые фантастические элементы всё же присутствуют." -- ""Three Fat Men" is a fairy tale by Yuri Olesha, written in 1924. The book tells the story of a revolution led by the poor against the rich (the Fats) in a fictional country. This country… Read More

Croydon : The Croydon Advertiser Ltd, 36 High Street, 1956., 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 196 pp. ; illustrated ; green cloth with gold lettering and embossed designs ; no dustjacket ; "Produced by the Publications Committee of the National Rose Society of Great Britain" ; numerous articles on various subjects pertaining to the rose and its culture ; Contents: Patrons, Officers And Council -- Arrangements For 1956 -- The President's Page, By Oliver Mee -- Roses At Buckingham Palace And Harewood House -- Roses At Eayfordeury, By Gordon Rowley -- Roses And Rosarians, By Sam Mcgredy -- How Roses Live And Grow, By G. J. Von Abrams -- Multiflora Shock Absorber, By N. P. Harvey -- Two Pennsylvania Rose Gardens, By Catherine E. Meikle -- Miscellany, By A. Norman -- The Parc Dr La Grange Rose Garden At Geneva, By Brie Bois -- Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, By James Alexander Gamble -- Paris-Geneva-Baden-London, By Louise Bechtel -- "Old Garden Roses", By Sacheverell Sitwell And James… Read More

New York : Interscience Publishers, a division of John Wiley & Sons, 1962., 1962. Very Good. xvi, 278 pp. ; yellow ochre cloth ; OCLC: 2166099 ; several photographs and charts ; ex-lib ; very slight foxing ; Contents : General survey -- The structure and chemistry of wool and hair -- Physical properties -- The growth of wool and hair -- Woo l quality and fleece measurement -- Wool marketing -- Wool production and types - Fellmongered or skin wool -- Wool wastes and remanufactured wools -- Specialty hairs -- Wool processing -- Man-made fibres ; comprehensive and exhaustive ; VG