Search Results: Authors starting with O from Elk Creek Heritage Books

New York: A Plume Book, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. Stated First Plume Printing, March 2000. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Appears unread. * From the book, ""A thoroughly enjoyable book. [Oates] remains a stunningly evocative writer and exhibits a patient fearlessness that allows her to pick apart her creepy subjects in a microscopically satisfying way. Perversely delightful to read.""

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition with complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No writings or other markings noted. Dust jacket in very good condition; has been price clipped. * From book: ""At the heart of this book is Senator Obama's vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational threats - from terrorism to pandemic - that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy - where it is vital and where it must never intrude.""

London, UK: Thames and Hudson, 1973. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Stated Second Edition (revised) 1973. Contains 174 illustrations. Hard cover in very good condition with green boards containing gilt fish design on front and gilt spine lettering. Test block clean & tight with no markings noted. DJ crisp with hint of age toning and some shelf wear. Edge wear including half inch closed tear on top front. Not price clipped: price in pounds.

New York: Avenel Books, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The Subtitle: ""Giving references by Topics to Notable Passages and Significant Expressions; Brief Histories of the Plus; Geographical names and Historical Incidents; Mention of all Characters and Sketches of Importones Together with Explanations of Allusions and Obscure and Obsolete Words and Phrases. Forward by Alice Sachs."" Originally published in 1887 as ""Topical Index to the Booklover's Edition of Shakespeare"" Stated ""Avenel 1978 Printing"" Hard cover in very good condition with light brown boards gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight with no writing, no markings to note. Deep age toning to the papers. Dust jacket very good; mild shelf & edge wear; minor chips to head & heel of spine and corners. Spine sun faded. No price on jacket flap.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: The New Press, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Pale gold boards with gray spine cloth and silver spine lettering. 16 pages of glossy black & white photographs. Gray end papers. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. DJ good with gentle shelf & edge wear with half inch deep x quarter inch wide piece missing along top of back fold line; not price clipped. * From the jacket, "". . . a true story that reads like gripping fiction. . . a riveting account of this remarkable episode in America's history - much of it based on documents never before available - illustrates the parallels between then and now, offering a cautionary tale of the danger of unchecked executive power in a time of crisis.""

New York: Picador USA, 2009. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition with bright & shiny wraps; has French flaps; not price clipped. Shows only a ghost of shelf & edge wear. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings to note.180 numbered pages followed by a section of Questions for Discussion.* From the front flap, ""He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. ... She is an astute young Housekeeper....""

Viking Peguin, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated: First Published in 2003 by Viking Penguin. Complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition with black boards, sky blue spine cloth, and gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Contains two sections each 8 leaves /16 pages of glossy black & white photos. 512 numbered pages. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; only ghost of shelf & edge wear; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""Everything about the conception and creation of Rockefeller Center was outsized and wildly improbable. Launched in the teeth of the Depression, the most ambitious construction project since the Pyramids was the unintended result of a philanthropic gesture gone awry. . . . Richly detailed, frequently surprising, and consistently entertaining, 'Great Fortune' brings this compelling saga to vivid life.""

Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in very good condition with gray boards and red gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Dust jacket in very good condition; has a tiny nick at top front cover. * From the book, ""... investigates Hillary's radical roots, how she switched from being a ""Goldwater Girl"" to sixties radical - and how, since then, she has maintained her ties to the radical left. The agenda? In the sixties, it was the black Panthers and overthrowing corporate America. Today, it is socialized medicine and using children as political tools for social change. .... Barbara Olson recounts Hillary's own, personal ""decade of greed"" and reveals the paranoia of a first lady whom even a Clinton confidant has accused of operating a virtual ""secret police"" unit to destroy presumed enemies - including such lowly staffers as cooks… Read More

Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition with only light shelf & edge wear. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Contains a section of both color and black & white photographs. * From the book, ""Hell to Pay"" is the biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton if you want to know the real Hillary, instead of some couch psychoanalysis book."" 'In Hell to Pay,' Olson gives us a Mrs. Clinton who is a monster of ego, a tough gutter-fighter, a certified liar--and a Marxist who wants to seize power to foist her theories on the world and the country.A terse, coherent, factual brief against Mrs. Clinton."" ""The hardest-hitting, most factual book on Hillary Clinton available.""

Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. The letters JC are written at top of the front fly leaf. No other markings noted. Dust jacket in very good condition with a ghost of shelf & edge wear and a quarter inch of plasticized coating lifting on corner of back cover. * Note from the Publisher on the back cover notes that book is published in Author Barbara Olson's memory. She was killed two days before the book was to be printed in the hijacked airplane flown into the Pentagon on 9/11.* From the book, ""Here's the whole shocking story of a manic Clinton White House consumed with self-enrichment, gifts, pardons, federal land grabs, and an orgy of spending and regulating. If the Clinton administration was the most corrupt in American history, here was its most obscenely corrupt moment. As even Paul Goldman of the Democratic National Committee said, ""Mr.… Read More

Avon, Connecticut: The Heritage Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. Shannon Strinweis. The special contents of this edition are copyright 1972 by The George Macy Companies, Inc,; the play copyright 1933 by Eugene O'Neill, renewed 1960 by Carlotta Monterey O'Neill. Introduction by Walter Kerr. Hard cover in very good condition with light blue boards, navy spine cloth, title in white on spine in red panel; red, white, and blue decorations on front and rear boards. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings; no markings noted. No jacket as issued; has red slipcase in very good condition showing light age toning; small abrasion to center of spine. Size approx 11"" tall x 8 1/8"" wide x 7/8"" thick. 161 numbered pages. * From Wikipedia, "". . . a comedy by American playwright Eugene O'Neill that premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on October 2, 1933. It differs from a typical O'Neill play in its happy ending for the central character,… Read More

New Yoirk: Pantheon Books, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Hard cover in very good condition with dark gold boards and black spine cloth with gold gilt lettering. Contains two sections each eight leaves / 16 pages of black & whtie photographs. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Side of text block edges are deckle edged. Dust jacket very good with light shelf wear; a closed tear on the bottom of back panel was scotch taped. Not price clipped. * From the book, "" On April 27, 1913, the bludgeoned body of thirteen-year old Mary Phagan was discovered in the basement of Atlanta's National Pencil Factory. The girl's murder would be the catalyst for an epic saga that to this day holds a singular place in America's collective imagination - a saga that would climax in 1915 with the lynching of Leo Frank . . . who was convicted of the murder. The case has been the subject of novels, plays, movies and even musicals,… Read More

NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition with complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition. White boards with sky blue spine cloth and silver colored spine lettering. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Book contains 16 pages of black and white photographs. Dust jacket in very good condition; not price clipped. * From book, ""Oppenheimer, who pierces the Clintons' inner circle, offers a stark assessment of the President and the First Lady by the people who know them best, disclosing the truly remarkable and poignant story behind their successes, defeats, and scandals.""

New Yoik: Grove Press, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hard cover in very good condition with sky blue boards and white spine lettering. Deep yellow end papers. Interior text blcok clean & tight; no writings; no markings noted. Color photos and line drawings throughout. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; has no price on flap. Approx size 12"" tall x 9"" wide; 191 numbered pages. * Sub-Title: ""A Guide to Functional Storage Space for All the Rooms in Your Home""

NY: Spiegel & Grau, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. Book has a gift inscription on front fly leaf to former owner. Navy and white boards with gold lettering along spine. Dust jacket in very good condition; not price clipped. * Note: Jacket front advertises a give away of $100 if you follow Sue's plan. Further details on rear of jacket. However, offer expired 03/31/2008. * From the book, ""Suze Orman investigates the complicated, dysfunctional relationship women have with money in this groundbreaking new book. With her signature mix of insight, compassion, and soul-deep recognition, she equips women with the financial knowledge and emotional awareness to overcome the blocks that have kept them form making more out of the money they have.""

New York: Free Press, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight. no writing, no markings noted but for two light stains one dime sized on front free end paper and other on top text block. Dust jacket in as very good condition; not price clipped. * The last 130 or so pages, entitled ""The Laws of Money Guidebook,"" is a workbook with spaces for you to answer questions as you apply the laws of money to your personal situation. All the ""fill - in"" spaces are clean and blank; never filled it and ready for you! * From the book, ""Profound and practical .... will help you get out of debt, create what you want, and protect your money, your family and your future. With these laws as your guide, you can avoid ever being a financial victim again.""

Zondervan, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in fine condition with black boards & gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight with no writing, no markings, no defects to note. Dust jacket likewise very good with only ghost of shelf wear; is not price clipped & has no price on front flap. * From the book, ""You want to believe that having a ""personal relationship with God"" is more than just words. You long to really know him. But you can't have a relationship with someone who doesn't show up. . . . Where is God? . . Closer than you think. . . you've got to train yourself to recognize Him amid the clutter.. . ""

Chattanooga, Tennessee: Living Ink Books, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated: First Printing - February 2007. Hard cover in very good condition with brown boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition with only a ghost of shelf wear; one inch area to left of bar code on rear panel has a wrinkle to the plasticized coating to paper. * Summary from the Publisher, ""As our postmodern culture seeks to redefine Biblical morality, relationships have taken a serious hit, even within the church. How does this affect men? From boyhood, to the teenage years, and on through mid-life and retirement, the book describes what men in each of these stages of life are dealing with - the challenges they face.""

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition: May 2011. Complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with green boards, red spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Dust jacket very good with only ghost of shelf wear; vertical crease down edge of front flap. Not price clipped. * From the book, ""In her debut work, Alice poignantly celebrates the unbreakable parent-child bond, the books she and her father treasured, and the life lessons learned along the way.""

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First edition per complete number line including the number one. Beige boards with wedgwood blue spine cloth and gold spine lettering in very good condition. Text block clean and tight with no markings noted. Contains black & white illustrations and photographs of period paintings. Dust jacket in very good condition with light shelf & edge wear; no tears; not price clipped. * From the book, "" . . . a merchant couple . . . 16th Century Nuremberg . . . weaving together a selection of their letters, Ozment paints a vivid portrait of domestic and commercial life in early modern Europe. . . ""