Search Results: Authors starting with O from Inklings & Yarnspinners

New York: Crown, 2018. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition (6th printing), unclipped d/j (v.g., v slight bumping, crease on reverse); boards, text block and unmarked pages all good.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesIn a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African American to serve in that role--she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an… Read More

London: HarperCollins, 1997. 1st. hardback. Very good 1st, clean and unclipped d/j (only slightly marred by residue of price stickers); red clothbound boards very good, gilt titling on spine bright. Pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 18th novel in a sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written Ð sets the fall and rise of Jack Aubrey in brilliant counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey. Even JackÕs exploits at sea turn sour in the storm waters off Brest. Worst of all, in the spring of 1814 peace breaks out. But Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with news that the Chileans require the service of English officers. Jack is savouring this reprieve for his career when he receives an urgent despatch ordering him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba.

London: HarperCollins, 1998. 1st. hardback. Very good 1st, clean and unclipped d/j; red clothbound boards very good, gilt titling on spine bright. Pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Following The Extraordinary Success Of The Yellow Admiral, This Latest Aubrey-Maturin Novel Brings Alive The Sights And Sounds Of North Africa As Well As The Great Naval Battles In The Days Immediately Following Napoleon's Escape From Elba. Aubrey And Maturin Are In The Thick Of The Plots And Counterplots To Prevent His Regaining Power. Coloured By Conspiracies In The Adriatic, In The Berber And Arab Lands Of The Southern Shores Of The Mediterranean, By Night Actions, Fierce Pursuits, Slave-Trading And Lion Hunts, The Hundred Days Is A Masterpiece.

London: HarperCollins, 1999. 1st. hardback. Very good 1st, clean and unclipped d/j (some indentations); red clothbound boards very good, gilt titling on spine bright. Pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 20th book in Patrick OÕBrianÕs highly acclaimed series of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part shipÕs doctor, part secret agent. The novelÕs stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. NapoleonÕs hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level admiral. He and Maturin have Ð at last Ð set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. Vivid with the salty tang of life at sea, OÕBrianÕs writing is as powerful as ever whether he writes of naval hierarchies, night-actions or the most celebrated fictional friendship since that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights and sounds of revolutionary South… Read More

London: HarperCollins, 1999. 1st. hardback. Very good 1st, clean and unclipped d/j (slightly marred by residue of price stickers); red clothbound boards very good, gilt titling on spine bright. Pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 20th book in Patrick OÕBrianÕs highly acclaimed series of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part shipÕs doctor, part secret agent. The novelÕs stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. NapoleonÕs hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level admiral. He and Maturin have Ð at last Ð set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. Vivid with the salty tang of life at sea, OÕBrianÕs writing is as powerful as ever whether he writes of naval hierarchies, night-actions or the most celebrated fictional friendship since that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights and… Read More

London: HarperCollins, 1994. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j in protective sleeve; sunning and a little foxing on top edges, otherwise unmarked and tight.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The seventeenth installment, set during the Napoleonic Wars, in the Aubrey-Maturin series, featuring naval commander Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon (and spy) Stephen Maturin, in an episode that ranges from Ireland to the West African coast, where the protagonists disrupt the slave trade, saving more than 5,000 slaves.

London: W. H. Allen, 1949. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, clipped d/j (v.g.); grey clothbound boards, gilt spine titling bright, text block firm, pages unmarked save light pencil underlinings. Scarce. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Compilation of fifteen testimonies of famous men and women who converted to Catholicism. Includes: Evelyn Waugh, Fulton Oursley, Gretta Palmer, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Ross J. S. Hoffman, Theodore Maynard, M. Raphael Simon, Rosalind Murray, Owen Francis Dudley, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Douglas Hyde, Willis D. Nutting, George B. Harrison, Sheila Kaye-Smith and Clare Boothe Luce.

London: W. H. Allen, 1949. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g. Light bumping); grey clothbound boards, gilt spine titling bright, text block firm, pages unmarked, some foxing on edges. Scarce. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Compilation of fifteen testimonies of famous men and women who converted to Catholicism. Includes: Evelyn Waugh, Fulton Oursley, Gretta Palmer, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Ross J. S. Hoffman, Theodore Maynard, M. Raphael Simon, Rosalind Murray, Owen Francis Dudley, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Douglas Hyde, Willis D. Nutting, George B. Harrison, Sheila Kaye-Smith and Clare Boothe Luce.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1949. 1st. hardback. Near fine, missing d/j, blue boards clean, gilt spine titling bright (a little rubbing towards tail); text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp; no inscriptions.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). From the perspective of the 1990s O'Casey stands out as Ireland's greatest playwright of the century. He it was who most passionately, most powerfully and most memorably dramatized the traumatic birth of the nation. He it was who gave to the twentieth-century theatre a greater range of vivid and original characters, male and female, than any other Irish playwright. O'Casey's language, controversial though it may be in some critical circles, is a third feature of his work which for its richness, colour and vitality has won for him a lasting place in the international repertory.' Christopher Murray (from 'Mirror up to a Nation', Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

London: Macmillan and Co, 1946. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, missing d/j, green boards good (spine a little grubby), yellow spine titling clear; text block firm, pages unmarked and clean.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Born John Casey (1880-1964), SŽan O'Casey was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1928. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, missing d/j, green boards good, rubbing on title plates on cover & spine (latter also slightly stained); slight forward lean; text block otherwise firm; untrimmed pages unmarked if slighly tanned. . 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare world awaits, the men, reduced to cannon fodder, speaking in mangled incantations as the casualties stack up. Months later, Harry returns, a cripple at the football club party. Everyone but the shattered war veterans dance and forget. Peppered with acrid wit and dark vaudeville humour, The Silver Tassie, Sean O'Casey's powerful anti-war play of 1928.

London: Frederick Muller, 1938. 2nd. h/b. Good, 2nd edition (1st the year before 1937), no d/j, black boards (some scuffing, spine semi-detached), gilt spine-titling, text block firm, pages yellowed and some foxing.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). After meeting G. K. Chesterton in 1904, O'Connor became the model for the Father Brown character and the two men maintained a friendship for over 30 years. O'Connor was also associated with the Catholic authors Hilaire Belloc, Maurice Baring and the (convert) typographer and engraver Eric Gill. O'Connor published poems, book reviews and prose in English Catholic periodicals and news papers, and also translated the work of French poet Paul Claudel (including ""The Satin Slipper"" and ""Ways and Crossways"") and the philosopher Jacques Maritain's ""Art et Scolastique"".

London: George E. Eyre & William Spottiswoode, 1862. hardback. Good, black full-calf with blindpressed ruling on cover; gilt spine titling (scuffing and bumped); text block firm (a.e.g.), pages unmarked printed in black and red; donor's inscription on ffep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Book of Common Prayer, with Psalter and Ordinal

London: J. Sturt, 1717. hardback. The Pryce family copy of the BCP with records of family baptisms on 2nd fep, from 1770 to 1781. Very good contemporary leather binding, with gilt decoerations front and back and on with ribbed spine; marbled pastedowns, with owners emblem and label on front paste down. Pages good and print very clear. Beautiful copy.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramanets, under King George 1717, beautifully illustrated throughout.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1928. 1st thus. hardback. Very good, 1st thus, maroon full calf binding, gilt spine titling, (some rubbing and bumping);maroon endpapers, text block firm (a.e.g.), pages crisp and unmarked. Some rubbing and light tearing at base of most used pages. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Full title: The Order Of The Administration Of The Lord's Supper Or Holy Communion With The Additions And Deviations Proposed In 1928

London: Review, 2004. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, signed on title, unclipped d/j (some bumping at base). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of HAMNET. It was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller 2004 and won the Somerset Maugham Award. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but instantly recognises. Or thinks she does. At the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the middle of a crowd of Chinese New Year revellers, Jake realises that things are becoming dangerous. They know nothing of one another's existence, but both Stella and Jake flee their lives: Jake in search of a place so remote it doesn't appear on any map, and Stella for a destination in Scotland, the significance of which only her sister, Nina, will understand.

London: Clarion Newspaper, 1897. 1st. hardback. Good, no d/j, red clothbound boards show fading and bumping, ; slight foxing on ffep, uncut pages crisp and tightly bound. Very scarce.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Novel by Robert Blatchford, a prominent socialist and atheist campaigner.

London: Faber & Faber, 2010. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, 1st printing.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). An utterly unique take on the most extraordinary period of the twentieth century, from one of Britain's most exciting literary writers. In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior decoration. This is his story. Maf the dog was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life. Not only a picaresque hero himself, he was also a scholar of the adventuring rogue in literature and art, witnessing the rise of America's new liberalism, civil rights, the space race, the New York critics, and was Marilyn Monroe's constant companion. Maf was very much a real historical figure, with his license and photographs sold at auction along with Marilyn's other person affects. Through his eyes we get an insight into the life of Monroe herself, and a fascinating new angle on… Read More

London: Portobello, 2008. 1st thus. p/b. Fine, as new.. B (198 x 129). Ageing and unattractive, the widowed Pastor Gregorius seems to have been granted a second chance at happiness when Helga, the young girl he has been fascinated by since her childhood, accepts his offer of marriage. Yet before long, the relationship turns sour and brutal and Gregorius suspects that his wife's distaste for him has driven her to infidelity. To Gregorius, fretful about his failing health and brooding on mortality, the emptiness of his marriage is the final, bitter proof that he is unlovable, except in the eyes of God. And then an unexpected encounter with a woman who is able to return his affection makes it seem as though another kind of life might be possible. Gregorius is a compelling portrait of one man's loneliness and longing, and a mesmerizing study of the desires that bring people together and the fears that keep them apart.

London: Fourth Estate, 2008. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j. A little bumping on spine otherwise pristine.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off-kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11, the powercut and the Iraq war. Those years were difficult for Hans - his English wife Rachel left with their son after the attack, as if that event revealed the cracks and silences in their marriage, and he spent two strange years in the Chelsea Hotel, passing stranger evenings with the eccentric residents. Lost in a country he'd regarded as his new home, Hans sought comfort in a most alien place - the thriving but almost invisible world of New York cricket, in which immigrants from Asia and the West Indies play a beautiful, mystifying game on the city's most marginal parks. It… Read More