Search Results: Authors starting with O from Furrowed Brow Books

Sphere Books: London, 1974. Paperback. Not ex-library. Clean copy of the 1974 SVS printing with lavender cover and Constantine relief. No notes or highlighting. Binding worn, with crease starting, but still sound. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Ash-Tree Press, 2008. hardcover. O'Brien, Fitz-James : The Wondersmith and Others. Ashcroft (BC) : Ash-Tree Press, 2008. First edition/First impression of the Ash-Tree Press edition. ISBN 9781553101062. Edited and introduced by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.25"/23.3 cm h. Bound in publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Glossy color pictorial dj, illus by Jason Zerrillo. Mottled cream endpapers. Xxiv pp prelim material, 265 numbered pp, [266] blank, [267] colophon, [268-272] blank. Extensive intro to "America's Splendid Bohemian" by editor, Part One (12 Macabre Tales), Part Two (15 Dream Stories and Fantasies), sources and story notes. Condition notes: a lovely, unmarked copy, tight, square. Flawed slightly by a bit of soiling to tail edge. Gift-appropriate. We personally inspect every book we offer.

University of California Press, 1947. 11th. Paperback. Author unstated : The Lick Observatory of the University of California - A Brief Descriptive Account Prepared at the Observatory. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1947. Eleventh Edition. Stapled booklet, size is demy octavo (8vo), 8 1/8"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's dark green wrapper stapled to textblock. [vi] pp prelim material, 47 numbered pp, plus three blank. Glossy paper. In addition to many b&w photos, included is information for visitors, organizational info about the observatory, its Chile station, its students, features it observed, acknowledgments. Condition notes: Staples rusted, but holding, moderate wear and scuffing but no tears to wrappers. No notes or highlighting. The observatory is on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, CA. We learn that the observatory was the gift of James Lick, who also left money to support building of a monument to Francis Scott Key in San Francisco, "...a Home for Old Ladies in San Francisco..." and… Read More

Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. O'Connor, Jack : Horse and Buggy West: A Boyhood on the Last Frontier. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Second printing. Illus by Irving Boker. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.625"/22cm h. Bound in publisher's bright green cloth, gilt and red lettering to spine, red western landscape imprinted to front in red ink. Deckle-edge to fore and tail; top edge stained moss green. Matte b&w/color pictorial dj. Plain white endpapers. X pp prelim material, 302 numbered pp, plus four w/o nos. Author's note, twenty chaps; illus. Condition notes: Very good condition with merely good DJ/wrapper, unclipped and clean but with several chips and tears, esp at folds. Binding solid and just off square; pages clean. Former owner's name stamp discreetly to front flyleaf, otherwise no notes, highlighting or inscriptions. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Prentice-Hall, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. O'Connor, Richard : Hood: Cavalier General. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1949. First edition/First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.25"/23.5cm. Bound in publisher's gray cloth over boards, gilt lettering imprinted on spine, two star insignia on front board. Top edge stained purple. 169 leaves (xiv pages of intro material, plus glossy b&w photo of Hood out of uniform, plus 316 numbered pages, plus 6 pp blank endsheets). Blank flyleaves. Nine b&w maps, appendix, bibliography, index. Condition notes: DJ unclipped, heavily worn with chips missing particularly at hinges (spine, board ends), now cased in mylar. Corners bumped, spine ends rolled, spine slightly cocked. No notes or highlighting. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Ash-Tree Press, 2006. First Edition. hardcover. Oldknow, Antony : The Passion Play: And Other Ghost Stories. Ashcroft (BC, CAN) : Ash-Tree Press, 2006. First edition, limited edition, one of 400 copies. ISBN 1553100883. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.875"/22.3cm h. Bound in publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt lettering imprinted to spine. B&w/red glossy dj illus by Keith Minnion. Red endpapers with subtly patterned "Ash-Tree Press" repeated throughout. [Vi] pp prelim material, 199 numbered pp, seven wo numbers following, including colophon and a four page list of Ash-Tree Press "Titles Published" 1994-2006, including forthcoming titles. Author's preface, ten frightening tales, sources and acknowledgements. Condition notes: A lovely, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy of a handsomely bound, chilling anthology. DJ shows light wear and one dimple (to rear). Oldknow seeks to write stories in a contemporary rendition of the M.R. James style. These are certainly unsettling tales, though quite distinct from James.… Read More

University of Toronto Press, 1999. First Edition. hardcover. O'Malley, John W.; Bailey, Gauvin Alexander; Harris, Steven J.; Kennedy, T. Frank [Editors] : The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1999. First edition/First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.25"/23.3 cm h. Bound in publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Glossy color pictorial dj. Plain peach endpapers. [I-v], vi-xx pp prelim material,[1-3], 4-772 numbered pp; b&w illus throughout. Contributors, intro, abbrev; 32 chaps in six parts, plus Reflections: What Have We Learned?; index. Notes to end of each entry. Condition notes: a very good, unmarked first edition: light wear and toning to dustjacket, with a touch of curling to edges; slight sun-fading to head of boards, slight outward bow to front board; very light soiling to edges; a 3mm light stain to front endpaper hinge. Else clean. We personally inspect every book we offer.

James Duffy, 1864. O'Reilly, Edward, and O'Donovan, John : An Irish-English Dictionary. Dublin : James Duffy, 1864. ("With Copious Quotations from the Most Esteemed Ancient and Modern Writers, to Elucidate the meaning of Obscure Words, and Numerous Comparisons of Irish Words with those of similar Orthography, Sense, or Sound in the Welsh and Hebrew Languages....A New Edition, Carefully Revised, and Corrected./With a Supplement [by O'Donovan], containing many thousand Irish Words, with their Interpretations in English, Collected throughout Ireland, and among Ancient Unpublished Manuscripts.") Size is octavo (8vo), 9.75"/24.8cm h. Bound in publisher's (possibly library's) olive green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with ornamental banding to head and tail of same. Plain light gray endpapers. [i-ii] title and copyright pp, 1-725, [726] blank, with numbering irregularity at 557 (transition to 'Supplement') resulting in two leaves not accounted in pagination. Author's preface, dictionary with each letter… Read More

Brazos Press, 2008. 42139th. paperback. Osborn, Ian M.D. : Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?: A Psychiatrist Explores the Role of Faith in Treatment. Grand Rapids (MI) : Brazos Press, 2008. Size is octavo (8vo), 9"/23cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color pictorial wrappers. 208 numbered pp. Author's prologue, intro plus eight additional chaps; epilogue; appendices (DSM-IV diagnostic criteria; Yale-Brown scale); notes, index. Condition notes: a very good, unmarked copy with moderate wear to wrappers and a handful of pages with turned corners. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Xerox, 1977. Mass Market Paperback. Otfinoski, Steven : Monsters to Know and Love: Stories of Chills and Fun. Middletown (CT) : Xerox Education Publications, 1977. Editor: Mary Verdick; designer: Les Cone. Duodecimo size (12mo), 7"/17.7cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color pictorial wrappers. 94 numbered pp, [95-96] blank. Outer Space; Monster Sayings; Monster Party. B&w photos. Condition notes: No notes or highlighting; price sticker to inside front cover. Pages tanned but clean. Glued binding remains sound but should be treated with care . Moderate wear to cover. Gotta love silly juvenile monster books like this. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 1990. paperback. Owen, Alex : The Darkened Room: Women, Power and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England (New Cultural Studies Series). Philadelphia : Univ of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Size is octavo (8vo), 9"/23cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color pictorial wrappers, Ernest Appleby's 'Psyche' to front. [Xxii] pp prelim material, 314 numbered pp, plus eight b&w photos to center. Acknowl, abbrev, author's intro, eight chapters, from 'Power and Gender: The Spiritualist Context' through 'At Home with the Theobald Family' and 'Louisa Lowe's Story' to 'Spiritualism and the Subversion of Femininity'; notes, bibliography, index. Condition notes: clean and unmarked; light wear to wrappers, light soiling to edges; light glue spot to inside from cover where a label was once affixed. We personally inspect every book we offer.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018. First Edition. hardcover. Owens, Delia : Where the Crawdads Sing. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018. First edition/First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.25"/23.3 cm h. Quarterbound in publisher's red paper boards, blue paper spine; bright copper lettering to spine. Glossy color photographic dj. Plain pale blue endpapers. [i-x], [1-5], 6-370, [371-374] blank. Condition notes: This is a notably worn ex-library copy with the typical array of stamps and stickers indicating such. First printing with full number line and an unclipped early issue dustjacket without NYT blurb. Spine moderately cocked, corners bumped and worn through to boards, spine ends rolled and frayed; tail edges worn from shelf contact. Dust jacket sheathed in library mylar, tape attaching jacket to boards; tape coating has stained tail edge of ffep, with slight bleed through to following (half-title) page. Hinge beginning at half-title page. Textblock edges and pages generally tanned but unmarked.… Read More