Search Results: Authors starting with O from Locus Solus Rare Books

Waldport, Oregon, 1945. Slightly soiled; near fine. 8vo, unpag. chapbook in wrappers, stapled. The final in-camp issue of this magazine of poetry, prose, and artwork, produced by internees in a Civilian Public Service camp for conscientious objectors during the Second World War. Two later numbers were produced in Pasadena, California several years later. Strikingly designed by Kemper Nomand, with a screen-printed cover. Among the interned contributors are poet William Everson and artist Robert Harvey, with further contributions from Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen, Alex Comfort, and others.

New York: Walker, 1966. Second U.S. edition. Evenly toned owing to poor quality paper; very good in a slightly dusted jacket. 8vo, (3160pp; brick red cloth. The classic Irish comic novel, originally published in 1939. This edition includes quotations about the book from James Joyce and Dylan Thomas on the front cover, Graham Greene and V.S. Pritchett on the rear.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1990. First Edition. As new in dust jacket. 8vo, 273pp; cloth-backed boards. An excellent copy in the first-issue dust jacket, printed slightly off register. This copy signed "Best, Tim O'Brien" on the half title page.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First American edition. Bookplate; very slight lean; fine in a slightly dust-soiled dust jacket, spine darkened a shade and with some minor scratches.. 8vo, 334pp; cloth. A very nice copy of the priest-turned-novelist's book about the lives of young women in Catholic Ireland. The rare dust jacket reproduces a letter to the publisher from George Moore as a blurb in the front panel; the bookplate is that of newspaper publisher and collector J.L. Sturtevant.

Ann Arbor: Civil Rights Federation, 1940. First edition. Neatly folded twice horizontally; fine.. Two-sided broadsheet, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches, printed on both sides. Announcement of the "Open Hearing" held on behalf of thirteen expelled students, with a graphic image of a judge on the recto, and a length text along with lists of participants and sponsors on the rear. Following a peace rally in April 1940, University President Alexander G. Ruthven, fearing fifth-column Communist organizing on campus, expelled the students, mostly members of the left-wing American Student Union. The case drew national attention at a time when the country was deeply divided over the war in Europe. At this culminating event in November, a range of speakers including representatives of the Civil Rights Federation, labor unions, professors and activists, denounced Ruthven and defended the students' first amendment rights. In the end, however, the students remained expelled and a year later the U.S. was in the war.

New York: Random House, 1937. First American edition. A couple of tiny spots on spine, else fine in a lightly used and rubbed dust jacket with a short tear to the front panel and a bit fraying at the top of the spine.. 8vo, 466pp; cloth. Far scarcer than the Literary Guild book club edition of this title.

New York: Random House, 1946. First American edition. A trifle marked; fine in a rubbed and moderately edgeworn dust jacket with a cluster of small indentation on the front panel.. 8vo, 356pp; green cloth stamped in black and silver.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931. First American edition. Bookplate on front pastedown; slight lean; tips bumped, covers lightly rubbed; without dust jacket.. 8vo, 297pp; brown cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by O'Flaherty over most of the front flyleaf, gradually increasing the size of his words: "To Frances, with love from Liam. If she wants it larger I shall write it like this With Love from Liam." Pictorial bookplate of Frances Maxine von Hachenberg.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1950. First edition. Edges a bit dusty; fine in a slightly soiled dust jacket with a short tear at the base of the rear panel.. 8vo, 254pp; green cloth. In his final novel, O'Flaherty returned to a formative time from his early life, the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. First edition. Endsheets a trifle marked, else fine in a bright graphic dust jacket with a touch of wear to the extremities. 8vo, 286pp; cloth. Jacket design by J. L. Carstairs.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. First edition. Slight lean; gift inscription dated 1933, otherwise just about fine in lightly sunned dust jacket.. 8vo, 286pp; cloth.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First American edition. Light offsetting to endsheets from dust jacket flaps; faintly detectible spot on front board; dust jacket slightly soiled, but bright, with a touch of wear at the top of the spine, a pair of short closed tears to the rear, and a small semi-circular chip at the base of the front panel.. 8vo, 287pp; black cloth stamped in blue, pink, and yellow. Uncommon U.S. publication, from British sheets, of the author's first collection of short stories.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First edition. Upper edge a touch sunstruck, offsetting to endsheets, else close to fine in a clean dust jacket, unfaded, although with a closed tear to the front hinge and some shallow chipping to spine ends. 8vo, 288pp; green cloth stamped in gilt on spine; illustrated dust jacket (signed "MKM"), printed in three colors.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First edition. Some internal offsetting affecting the first two leaves; fine in a lightly used dust jacket, bright with a some minor marking.. 8vo, 352pp; cloth. Stamped "Overseas Edition" on the front flyleaf.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1932. First edition. Very slight lean; bookplate; old tape marks to endsheets where a protective wrapper was once affixed, a very good copy in a bright graphic dust jacket with slight wear to spine ends and some minor marking.. 8vo, 326pp + ad leaf; orange cloth.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927. Second US Printing. Fine in a lightly used dust jacket with a short tear to the front panel.. 8vo, 282pp; cloth.

London: E.Lahr, n.d.. First edition. A couple of tiny nicks to edges, just about fine.. 12mo, 11pp pamphlet in wrappers. Issued as Blue Moon Booklet No. 1, probably around 1930.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1930. First American edition. Fine in very lightly used dust jacket, spine faded a bit.. 8vo, 198pp; apricot cloth stamped in black. A nice copy of O'Flaherty's WWI novel. He served on the western front in an Irish regiment and was wounded in combat.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. First edition. Few scattered spots of foxing; endsheets offset from binder's glue; slight lean, otherwise fine in a lightly rubbed and dusted dust jacket.. 8vo, 288pp; green cloth with printed spine label. O'Flaherty's second collection of short stories.

New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927. First edition. Some inconsequential marks to endsheets; a nice, uncut, copy; dust jacket worn at joints and with fingernail-sized chips to both ends of spine.. Small 8vo, 58pp; linen-backed patterned boards with printed spine label; handmade paper dust jacket printed on spine only. One of 1190 numbered (319) copies in the edition, printed by William Edwin Rudge and signed by O'Flaherty on the half-title page.