Search Results: Authors starting with O from THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

THE YELLOW WAR, McClure, 1905, first American edition, a tight vg copy. Illustrated. Most uncommon Yellow Peril novel.

THE SONNETS OF G. S. O., Veritas Foundation, 1979, first American edition, some light soiling to the front wrap, parentheses around last paragraph on page F noting that this publication could not have been made without the (financial backing) of Actor/Singer Burl Ives and his wife, else vg+ or better in wraps as issued. Mystical poetry.

THE BOOK OF THE PIKE, Stewart Kidd Company, 1922, first edition, a tight vg copy in the publishers original green cloth binding. Illustrated.

THE CHURCH MOUSE BOOKS / FULL COLOR PICTORIAL POSTER, Atheneum, first printing, ca. 1975, measuring approximately 14.25 inches by 18.25 inches and most suitable for framing. A fine copy listing the 4 books published at the time; THE CHURCH MOUSE, THE CHURCH MICE SPREAD THEIR WINGS, THE CHURCH MICE ON THE MOON & THE CHURCH CAT ABROAD.

ANGEL OF LIGHT, Dutton, 1981, first edition., fine in dw.

DO WITH ME WHAT YOU WILL, Vanguard, 1973, first edition, just about fine in like dust-wrapper with a short closed tear to the rear dust-wrapper panel.

NIGHT-SIDE EIGHTEEN TALES, Vanguard Press, 1977, first edition, fine in near fine color pictorial dw.

UPON THE SWEEPING FLOOD AND OTHER STORIES, Gollancz, 1973, first English edition, near fine in like dust-wrapper. Review copy with accompanying review slip laid in.

PLAGIARIZED MATERIAL, Black Sparrow Press, 1974, first edition, near fine in wraps. SIGNED by the author.

HEAT, Whitney Musem, 1989, first edition, 2 volumes complete, very fine in like cloth tray case. Bound in full leather and produced as clasp-locked hand-written diaries with illustrations by Robert Gober. Limited to 140 copies and SIGNED by both author and artist. A Fine Press item to be sure.

A POSTHUMOUS SKETCH ( SPARROW 10 ) & PLAGIARIZED MATERIAL BY FERNANDES ( SPARROW 19 ), Black Sparrow Press, 1973 & 1974 respectively, first edition, near fine and fine in wraps. For both items---

ARTISTS ON ART / JOCOSERIOUS JOYCE from Critical Inquiry, Volume 2, #4, Summer 1976, first edition, just about fine in stapled wraps. INSCRIBED by the author to a prolific childrens book writer who lists the National Book wartd among her achievements. A very scarce off-print from the University of Chicago Press.

THIS IS CALIFORNIA, Lane Publishing Company, 1957, first edition., small area at base of spine lightened, else fine in near fine dust-wrapper with some slight wear and tear to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. Profusely illustrated with photos.

MASTER AND COMMANDER, Lippincott, 1969, first edition (preceding the English edition by about one year), vg+/near fine in vg dust-wrapper save for thumbnail size chip missing from the base of the dust-wrapper spine. The source book for the film of the same name. Jack Aubrey #1.

THE CHIAN WINE AND OTHER STORIES, Collins, 1974, first edition., fine in vg dust-wrapper with 3 closed tears.

POST CAPTAIN, Collins, 1972, first edition, some faint foxing to the t.p.e.'s and foredge, else vg+/near fine in like dust-wrapper with 4 closed tears and some wrinkling to a section of the rear dust-wrapper flap. Jack Aubrey #2.

CASUALTIES OF PEACE, Simon and Schuster, 1966, first edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper with a closed tear to the upper front hinge.

AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS, Pantheon Books, (1951), first American edition, slight wear to the bottom fore edge corner tips, small areas of the spine extremities lightened, else vg+/near fine in near vg dust-wrapper with chipping to the extremities of the somewhat tanned dust-wrapper spine and some light dust-soil to the dust-wrapper panels. The authors first novel.

FIVE CONTRIBUTIONS being CAPTAIN ALICANT, THE COUNTERSIGN, THE HAVELOCK, OF LOSS, THE POT OF GOLD & THE TENEMENT HOUSE in Harpers Monthly for June - November, 1861, first edition, some wear to spine extremities and corner tips, else a tight, bright vg copy in the publishers original cloth. Fitz-James O'Brien, a most promising young writer who emigrated to the U.S. from England in 1852, died a decade later while taking part in the American Civil War. All the works appeared here 20 years before his first book. Two of these, THE HAVELOCK & THE POT OF GOLD were indeed included in that first volume.

The Dalkey Archive, MacGibbon & Kee, 1964, first edition, upper fore edge corner tip just slightly bumped, else fine in near fine pictorial dust-wrapper with some very slight rubbing to the rear dust-wrapper panel.