Search Results: Authors starting with O from Neil Pearson Rare Books

Paris: Obelisk Press, 1935. Small 8vo, pp. 118. Original red stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black on front panel and spine. Light chipping to spine ends, production-fault creasing to spine paper, a little bumping to corners. A very good copy of a very fragile item. First edition. A tirade against the English public school system, published when its author was still only twenty-one years old. Anderson's targets include Marlborough College (here re-christened 'Knarlesborough') and L'Ecole de Commerce in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The Obelisk Press was an English-language, Paris-based imprint, run by a Mancunian expatriate called Jack Kahane. Kahane specialised in the publication of books which either had been banned in the USA or England, or which were unable to find a publisher in their home countries for fear of prosecution. Four Schools shares the same cover design and typeface as Henry Miller's Aller Retour New York, also published by Obelisk in late 1935. Anderson's book, dull both in… Read More

London: Harper Collins, 1999. 8vo, pp. 262. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. First edition of this, the twentieth and final book in the Aubrey/Maturin series. A fine copy.

London: Harper Collins, 1998. 8vo, pp. 281. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. First edition of the nineteenth book in the Aubrey/Maturin series. A fine copy.

London: Harper Collins, 1997. 8vo, pp. 262. Original vermillion boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. First edition of the eighteenth instalment (of twenty) of the Aubrey/Maturin megacycle, and a fine copy.

London: Harper Collins, 1999. 8vo, pp. 262. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, small promotional sticker to front panel. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. First edition of this, the twentieth book in the Aubrey/Maturin series. A fine copy.

London: Phoenix House, 1999. Small 8vo, pp. 68. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Yellow endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE: 'To Ian, Great wishes for the 21st century, Ben Okri, 5-10-99'. 'Mental Fight is based on 'A Moment in Timelessness', first delivered as the inaugural millennium lecture sponsored by the Scotsman at the 1997 Edinburgh Book Festival. In its present form, the first two sections were first published in the Times in January 1999.' A fine copy, and scarce signed.

London: Cape, 1993. 8vo, pp. 297. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine. A fine, unread copy in the original unprinted brown paper dustwrapper, limitation stamped to front panel. Advance reading copy, no. 84 of 200 copies, so stamped on both dustwrapper and title page.

Paris: Olympia Press, 1962. 12mo, pp. 185. Original green stiff paper wrappers, printed in black on front and back panels and spine. Publisher's label over price to rear panel, remainder of bookseller's label to rear endpaper, gum residue from removed label to ffep., a little edgewear and bumping to corners. About very good. First edition, second issue. No. 40 in the Traveller's Companion series. First published by Olympia in 1957 with the title The Organization, the book was suppressed two years later by the French authorities on grounds of obscenity. This impression was re-issued in 1962 with a slightly different title in an attempt to get around the ban. They should have tried harder with the new title: the book was prosecuted in 1963. 5.40.2

Paris: Olympia Press, 1957. 12mo, pp. 181. Original green stiff paper wrappers, printed in black on front and rear panel and spine. Printed price on rear panel inked out, very light edgewear, but a near fine, unread copy. First edition, suppressed by the French authorities in 1959. No. 45 in the Traveller's Companion series. Robert Desmond (Thompson) was one of the more prolific Olympia authors, with eight titles to his credit. Kearney: 5.45.1

Paris: Olympia Press, 1962. 12mo, pp.193. Original stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black. First edition. No.89 in the Traveller's Companion series. A very nice copy. Kearney 5.89.1

Paris: Olympia Press, 1959. Small octavo, pp. 301. Original green stiff paper wrappers. Slightly cocked, but a very good copy, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. First issue of the two Olympia Press versions issued by Maurice Girodias. First published by Girodias' father Jack Kahane [Paris: Obelisk Press, 1938]. Kearney: 5.77.1. Kearney: 5.77.1.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. 8vo, pp. 315. Original red boards, lettered in black and red-on-black to front panel and in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Some browning to text block, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, but a near fine copy in an all but fine dust jacket with just the very lightest of edgewear. Dust jacket design by Bip Pares. First US edition, first published in the UK earlier the same year. An excellent copy in a fine example of the Bip Pares dust jacket. HUBIN, p. 313

Boston: Little, Brown, 1939. 8vo, pp. 315, 5pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original grey boards, lettered in red to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Bookseller's label to rear pastedown. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some scuffing to front panel and a little wear to spine ends. First US edition, preceded by the UK edition of the same year. One of four novels Oppenheim dictated to his secretary in 1939 -- and one of one hundred and fifty he produced across his career. This one, set squarely in his preferred milieu of international intrigue, concerns an attempt by one man to overthrow the Russian government. HUBIN, p.313

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1926. 8vo, pp. 298. Original light brown boards, lettered in red to front panel and spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, small and almost invisible closed tear to spine at front panel fold, some discoloration to reverse at spine ends. First edition. Author's last completed novel, published posthumously. New Yorker Isabel Ostrander [1883-1924] was a prolific writer of mystery stories for the fiction magazines of the early twentieth century, and also wrote under the pseudonyms Robert Orr Chipperfield, David Fox and Douglas Grant. An extremely well preserved example. HUBIN, p. 315

Los Angeles: One Incorporated, 1959. 8vo, pp. 106. Original stiff card wrappers. A little edgeworn, and with one small scuff to front panel. A near fine copy. First edition. Young 2953 Young 2953

New York: Green Circle Books, 1937. 8vo, pp. 250. Original dark green boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Publisher's device in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Small bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, offsetting to endpapers, a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, some marking to rear (white) panel, light chipping to foot of spine, and with some fading to spine. First edition of the author's only novel, republished in 2008 with the title Fit to Kill. Scarce in the dust jacket, and a very good example. HUBIN, p. 316