Search Results: Authors starting with O from Browsing Is Arousing

NY: St. Martin's Press, 1981. 1st. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 227 pages. This second volume of the author's autobiography covers World War II and his stay at a Children's Home. Clean copy. Record # 384652

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 346 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, unmarked and tight copy. Record # 750149

New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1962. 1st. Very Good/Good. Charles Geer. Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light chipping, 183 pages. Illustrations by Charles Geer. Bess Ridgeway spends a magical summer on her uncle's farm in West Virgina complete with exploring caves, searching for hidden treasure and riding horses. Clean copy. Record # 501592

Philadelphia: Cogslea Studio Publications, 1939. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Violet Oakley. Hardcover, 98 pages. Illustrated with 9 drawings. Limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is: # 462. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy. Record # 606737

NY: Doubleday , 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 118 pages, b&w photographs by John Ranard. A very clean, tight copy. Record # 781

NY: Doubleday , 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 118 pages, b&w photographs. A very clean, tight copy. Record # 363696

NY: Vanguard, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 189 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 2026

NY: Dutton, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A cultured, upper-class man finds himself drawn to the beautiful, helpless plaintiff in an assault case for which he is juror, only to be lured into a world in which nothing is what it seems. Clean copy. Record # 382389

Thousand Oaks CA: Dragon Books, 1993. 3rd pr.. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 145 pages, b&w illustrations. This book, as well as being a practical training manual, is an attempt to inform the reader of the history of Aikijujutsu and it's masters. Clean copy. Record # 379199

Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1891. reprint. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover. 239 pages plus advertisements in back. Black & white illustrations. No illustrator named. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Edgewear, chipping, scratchings to covers. Corners worn. Record # 503178

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. ames Oberg (Red Star in Orbit, Mission to Mars, etc.) is a spaceflight engineer at Houston Mission Control; Alcestis Oberg is the author of Spacefarers of the 80s and 90s. Here they offer an engrossing and vivid account of what life is like in an earth-orbiting spacecraft. Because relatively few American space-travelers have published tales of their experiences, the Obergs lean heavily on the diaries and memoirspublished in Russia and little known hereof pioneering Soviet astronauts, notably veterans of long-term Salyut missions like Ryumin and Berezovoy. Here is the human side of life in orbit. Few readers can fail to be grippedand occasionally amusedby revelations of the immediate problems (how astronauts contend with toilets, hygiene, sleeping), their technical perils (e.g., air contamination) and… Read More

New York: Macmillan Company, 1903. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, 372 pages, with illustrations, gilt top edge and faded gilt title on spine, gold cloth bound. Light spine edge fray and corner bumps, minor rubbing, light tape repair to front fly leaf with previous owner’s bookplate. Overall, internally clean, bright and tight copy. Record # 855353

Honesdale PA: Boyds Mills, 1993. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ted Lewin. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Luminous watercolor art by Ted Lewin. When Adam's family leaves Russia for America, Grandfather gives him an ancient prayer shawl that has been passed down from generation to generation, and in time, an older Adam passes the prayer shawl down to his own grandson. Record # 371355

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1937. 1st. Softcover. Bruce Norwood. Non-paginated. Softcover with age discoloration to pages. Light soil to paper wrappers. Tight copy. Color illustration by Bruce Norwood. Record # 368492

Sanbornton: Sant Bani Press, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/None. 333 pages. Softcover. Full page, full color illustrations and a few in bw. Interviews & reflections with Kirpal Singh, Baba Sawan & Sant Ajaib. Light wear to spine edges, light sunfading to lower spine. Discolored smudge to top edge. Previous owner's signature to preliminary pages. Otherwise, clean & unmarked copy. Record # 750480

Boulder CO: Velo Press, 2005. 1st. Softcover. None. Softcover, pictoeial wraps. Little-known Graeme Obree became international cycling's most unlikely star, capturing the public's imagination with his innovative engineering and design skills and unique training regiments. When he broke world records and won championships, the cycling authorities outlawed both his bike and his tucked riding position. He invented the ""Superman"" riding style and triumphed again. But while battling authorities and other cyclists, Obree was also battling a much more serious threat: bipolar disorder. In ""The Flying Scotsman, Obree tells his remarkable story with brutal honesty and unexpected humor. Beginning with his troubled childhood in Ayrshire, where the bike was his only escape, Obree recounts his turbulent life and career, describing what drove him to not only break records, but to attempt suicide on three separate occasions. Long known for his courage on the track, here Obree demonstrates a different kind of… Read More

San Francisco: George Fields, 1937. 1st Eng trans. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a worn dustjacket, 200 pages. Translated by Blanche Collet Wagner. Historical vignettes, legends, and folklore from Spanish Colonial times when Mexico City was the viceregal capital of New Spain. Record # 9390

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 234 pages. Hardcover. Foxing to bottom half of foredge. Unclipped dust jacket with light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Record # 613701

NY: Doubleday, 1978. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light edgewear, clean. Record # 107337

New York: Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1974. 1st U.S.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY O'BRIEN on title-page. Record # 125541