Search Results: Authors starting with O from Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC

New York, New York: Harcourt, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 276 pages, beige boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket, with the original price.

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. ery Good/Very Good minus. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 222 pages, brick red cloth. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a very good, clean dust jacket overall but with chipping at the folds, creasing at the ends of the back strip, soiling to rear panel, with original price.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 385 pages, green cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear, binding solid, paper a dark cream white. In a good, edge worn dust jacket with significant chipping at the flap fold edges and spine, with the original price present.

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 308 pages, beige quarter-cloth with silver title on spine. A near fine, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, but a few small foxing stains at the cloth edges; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good+, clean dust jacket with several very small chips, with original price.

New York, New York: Harper & Row, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover--quarter cloth. Very Good +/ Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 250 pages, green quarter-cloth; map end papers. A very good, clean hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white with light foxing at top fore=edge. In a good only, clean, moderately worn dust jacket, with chipping at the fold edges, remains of a previous price sticker on upper front panel, with original price.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007-06-04. First Edition. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 305 pages, white boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket with the original price.

New York, New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 297 pages, light green cloth with gilt title on spine. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear, but slight foxing along the spine; hinges and binding solid, paper cream white. In a good, clean dust jacket, but with chipping at the ends of the back strip, some darkening to the back strip, small edge chip at top front panel, with original price.

London, England: George Redway, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. Sporting Adventures of Charles Carrington, Esq., and Other Stories, by "Old Calabar" and other sporting writers; illustration by Randolph CaldecottOctavo, 7 3/4" tall, 344 pages, illustrated and beveled edged green cloth. A collection of English sporting stories by various authors--some unnamed--involving fox hunting, salmon fishing, and steeplechase. A very good minus, generally clean and sturdy copy hardcover first edition with light soiling to the cover cloth, minor fraying to the cloth at the ends of the back strip, hinges cracked but sturdy and internal binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. A scarce title.

London, England: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Octavo 8 3/4" tall, 352 pages, black boards with silver title on spine. A very good+, clean, hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, but paper lightly yellowed. In a near fine dust jacket, with original price.

New York, New York: Henry Holt , 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Nearr Fine. With a bookplate from the previous owner, signed by the author laid in. Octavo. 8 1/2" tall, 203 pages, orange quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, but with a remainder mark on the top fore-edge. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price.

New York, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Translated from the Serbian. Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, 156 pages, black boards with light blue title on the spine. A very good, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed with sporadic foxing to the fore-edges. In a good, moderately soiled and edge worn dust jacket, with original price.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 311 pages, brown and tan boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, gently read; binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, slightly worn dust jacket, with the original price present.

Lugd. Batavorum (Leiden): Gerhard Vvingendorp. (Gerhardi Wingendorpii), 1653. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus. dated MDCLIII. Bookplate of Latin scholar Francis Philip Nash on front pastdown. 24mo - 5 1/4" tall, 461 pages, original vellum covers. "Excudbat Severynus Matthaei." This small volume of letters of the Roman Consul and orator, collected by his son, on various subjects including religion and the ancient gods, and traditions of Rome. With an epitaph to his gods, as the barbarians and Christianity overwhelmed his world. In full vellum, the surface lightly soiled, binding sturdy, with a few small breaks.This copy is in very good condition overall, the hinges and binding both solid, and the rag paper lightly yellowed and still supple. BUT, the primary defect is the fountain pen underlining throughout, carefully marked as if by a student of Latin, with root words double underlined. This marking does not obscure the text, and actually makes the small print easier to… Read More

New York, New York: J. C. Derby, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. The first major American woman humorist. This is likely the first edition from Derby in that the author's name is given as 'Francis' with an 'i', instead of 'Frances' with an 'e' as with all later editions. Born Miriam Berry at Whitesboro, New York in 1811, Frances Whicher was also the author of stories about the Widow Spriggins, Aunt Magwire, and others, all of which appeared in newspapers papers and journals . She died in the town where she was born in 1852, and her worked collected poshumously. This title purportedly sold 100,000 copies at a time when that was an enormous number. Duodecimo, 7 1/2" tall, 403 pages, decorative blue cloth. This is a fair copy only, but rare in this printing with the author's name misspelled. There is general shelf wear, with the cloth worn through at the corners, the surface rubbed, the back strip glued to text and thus cracking as well as chipped top… Read More

New York, New York: William Morrow & Company, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover--half-cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 306 pages, white quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition, first printing with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket, with original price.

Stuttgart, Germany: Hoffmann'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 9 3/4" tall, xi + 512 pages plus 25 two-color plates, one black and white plate, and two hand-colored double-page maps, intertextual illustration throughout, three-quarter leather binding over brown cloth. In good + condition overall, and the interior is very good and clean, paper is lightly yellowed with very little only minor foxing, and on a few pages, the previous owner's name is on front free-end paper, internal binding is solid, and illustrations bright. The exterior is good only, leather scuffed and worn through to boards at all corner tips, back strip leather splitting at the rear hinge at top and bottom, with a mid-section breaking loose with leather torn across to front hinge, internal hinges cracked but not broken. This binding is in a condition worthy of restoration for this key text in the history of archeology, paleontology, and geology. Please note: overseas shipping… Read More

New York, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Good. Signed and inscribed by author on the front free end paper. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 280 pages, red cloth with gilt title on spine. A very good, sturdy hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. In a good, clean dust jacket with some darkening along the edges and at back strip, small chips at the fold edges, with original price.

Dodd, Mead & Company; NY , 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/without. Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, 346 pages, decorative endpapers, gilt titles on dark green cloth. A good plus sturdy hard cover with moderate shelf wear, corners rubbed, spine titles faded with light exterior soiling; interior very good, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, with previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Lacking dust jacket, but a very nice reading copy.

New York, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company; NY, 1929 . First Edition. Hardcover. Good /without . Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, 301 pages, decorative endpapers, gilt titles on light green cloth. A good sturdy hard cover with moderate shelf wear, corners rubbed, spine titles faded with light exterior soiling; interior very good, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Lacking dust jacket.

New York, New York: Soho Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 210 pages, blue quarter-cloth. A very good, clean, likely unread hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; binding tight, paper white--BUT dust jacket has been glued to the end papers and cannot be removed without damaging the book. In a very good, lightly edge worn but slightly color faded dust jacket with original price. As is, a very nice reading copy only.