Search Results: Authors starting with O from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: Harper Perennial Library, 1988 1st ed. thus. 289pp. paperback 8vo: Good [text is age browned with browning and foxing to edges; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A pathologist examines a dozen historical cases in attempting to show "how medical information and insights can illuminate and perhaps resolve certain literary problems." Subjects range from Boswell to Keats, Chekhov, Socrates, et al.

Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1994 1st ed. SIGNED after the introduction by both authors. 99pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Fine. A "Gone With the Wind" pilgrim's cornucopia. Covers appropriate tours, Southern restaurants, souvenir shops and museums, historic homes tours, Civil War memorabilia, clear directions, 30 photographs and "piquant biographical tidbits."

New York: Harper & Row. 1979 1st Am. ed. 262pp. illus. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a near Fine dj [dj = some age darkening; else nrF] An anthology of Irish poetry, letters, drama, short stories and excerpts on the subject of love, ranging from the mythological hero Cuchulain to the selector, Edna O’Brien (b. 1932) herself.

New York: Delta/Seymour Lawrence, 1989 reprint. SIGNED on half-title p. by author. 203pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good [text is lightly age browned; light wear @ edges of spine strip; else VG] A nice signature under "Peace" in the author’s first book, a classic memoir of service in Vietnam in 1968 by a reluctant draftee. O’Brien (b. 1946) later won a National Book Award for his 1979 novel, "Going After Cacciato."

Decatur, GA: Claves & Petry, 1996 1st ed. INSCRIBED by author on title p. 121pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Fine [a couple of minor cover creases; else a nice crisp copy]

Boston: Beacon Press, 1990 2nd ptg. 405pp. hardback tall 8vo: Very Good+ in a Fine dj [edge foxing; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A literary history of Boston, Massachusetts, praised by Doris Kearns Goodwin, et al.

New York: Grosset/Putnam, 1996 reprint. 227pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. The late Molly Ivins called this surprising book "The best thing to happen to grammar since Strunk and White."

Birmingham: Oxmoor House, 1996 1st ed. 144pp. illus. hardback 4to in pictorial boards: Very Good/no dj [ink name and address on ffep; several ink names in text identifying quiltmakers that the previous owner knew; small fore edge spot; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] Colorful photographs of a variety of quilts made to celebrate the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press. 1957 1st ed. 204pp. beige & black cloth 8vo: Good in a generally Good dj [shelf rubbing along bottom edges & corners; some age browning; else a clean, complete & tight copy; dj = p-c; some edge tears; else G] Essays on the work of Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner by the prolific Irish writer O’Faolain (1900-91).

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1931. 297pp. brown cloth sm 8vo: Good/no dj [bookplate; some age browning & light shelfwear; else a clean, complete & tight copy] O'Flaherty (1896-1984), a young founder of the Irish Communist Party, was a member of the later generation of Irish renaissance writers. By his own admission he set out for Moscow on April 23, 1930, to collect material for a book on Bolshevism "to join the great horde of scoundrels, duffers and liars who have been flooding the book markets of the world for the last ten years with books about the Bolsheviks."

Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing. 1989 1st ed. unpaginated illustrated paperback sq 8vo: Fine [touch of tiny foxed spots top edge; else a nice crisp copy] A colorful guide to all the old flyable aircraft in England's amazing Shuttleworth Collection.

New York: Knopf, 2005 2nd ptg. 339pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a near Fine dj [top edge foxing; else a nice crisp copy] Front cover praise from Jon Krakauer for this modern day adventure.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1966. 144pp. illus. paperback: Very Good.

privately issued. 1985 revised ed. 16pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Fine. A brief pamphlet printed on slick paper that presents the various flags of the Confederate States of America in color.

Colorado Springs: Victor, 2001 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 256pp. hardback 8vo in pictorial boards: Fine in a Fine dj. Accounts of military heroism informed by personal spirituality.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973 1st ed. 192pp. illus. blue cloth 4to: near Very Good in a Good dj [small coffee splash on fore edge near bottom edge; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy; dj = p-c; some tears @ extremities; else G] 270 political cartoons covering the Nixon years from 1969 through election day 1972.

New York: BasicCivitas Books, 2009 1st ed. 228pp. illus. hardcover 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. An authoritative history by the distinguished English historian of the blues Oliver (1927-2017).

London/New York: Wise Publications, 1982. 192pp. illus. paperback 4to: Very Good+ [ink name; turned page corner; else a nice clean and crisp copy] Lyrics and sheet music for "85 songs made famous by the greatest blues singers and players, with rare photographs and a 50-page history of the blues."

Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1986 1st ed. 321pp. cloth sm 4to: reading copy in a Good dj [ink names on front pastedown & ffep; ink underlining & marginalia throughout text; else a complete and tight copy] A scholarly history of public speaking in Great Britain.

New York: Leo Feist. 1919. sheet music. 4pp. paper sm 4to: Very Good condition. Cover photo of singers Clark & Bergman. The Tin Pan Alley composer Baskette (1884-1949) wrote the classic period song "Good Bye Broadway, Hello France."