Search Results: Titles starting with O from Yesterday's Muse Books

New York: Penguin Books, 1985. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 7x5x0. Reprint. Faint sticker remnant. 1985 Trade Paperback. xii, 402 pp. "Kennedy's O Albany! is in part the non-fictional stories he covered in his novels, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Kennedy retells the exploits of the bootlegger Jack 'Legs' Diamond, the bungled 1933 kidnapping of John O'Connell, Jr., heir to the Albany Democratic machine and explores the Albany of his past, including its demographics and vanished neighborhoods.

Greensboro, N.C: Trans Verse Press, 1989. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Wrapper edges very lightly rubbed, minor stain on top page ridge. 1989 Trade Paperback. 265 pp. CONTENTS: The People Down South; Polichinelle's Family; Safari; The Window; An Autumn Chill in a Sapphire Rain; The Good Perfect Gift; Her Mother; Star; Plenty; Lydia Christine; All Souls; Payday; In the Heart of the Cold, Cold City; Beautiful Girl; Bathing the Dog; Alamogordo; Hunger; Dance a Rhythm for the Rain; Lizard's Leap.

New York: Bantam Books, 2000. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 4x1x6. 1st printing. Faint toning, spine lightly creased. 2000 Mass Market Paperback. With her bestselling mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, Laurie R. King has created "lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company," according to The New York Times Book Review. Now the author of The Beekeeper's Apprentice and The Moor--the first writer since Patricia Cornwell to win both the American Edgar and British Creasey Awards for a debut novel (A Grave Talent)--unfolds a hitherto unknown chapter in the history of Russell's apprenticeship to the great detective.

S.N, 1852. Single Sheet. Good. A few minor tears along edges, creased and lightly foxed, ink markings on reverse side. 1852 Single Sheet. 16 x 9 3/4. O. Nichols' Patent Corn and Cob Crusher and Pulverizer, for Crushing Corn, Cobs, Bark &c., 1852. Patent, directions and certificates, with engraved illustrations.

New York: The Viking Press, 1960. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. 4th printing. Edges lightly toned and soiled. 1960 Hard Cover. 37 pp. 8vo. Fifteen poems about dragons, jellyfish, the Brooklyn Dodgers and more, with endnotes. "The endless musical and structural possibilities of Miss Moore's invention, " writes W.H. Auden, "are a treasure from which all future English poets will be able to plunder. I have already stolen a great deal myself.

New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, general wear to jacket. Sticker on cloth spine, ink mark on front free endpaper. 1969 Hard Cover. xi, 491 pp. Twenty-two stories chosen from his first nine volumes, 1935-1966.

New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x0x9. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1991 Hard Cover. 262 pp. Author's first novel. It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is despertately trying to master the object lessons her grandfather fills her head with. But there is too much going on to concentrate. Everything at home is in upheaval, her grandfather is changing, and Maggie is unsure if what she wants is worth having....

Palto Alto, California: Palo Alto Book Service, 1982. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First thus. No jacket. Top page ridge lightly soiled, minor general wear. 1982 Hard Cover. 1104 pp. Ayn Rand’s lifelong passion for philosophy was rooted in her conviction that philosophy is the basic force shaping each of our lives and human history. After Atlas Shrugged, she turned to writing nonfiction, both to elaborate on the philosophy set forth in her novels, and to use her philosophy, which she named Objectivism, to explain crucial cultural events and fight the negative trends she observed. From 1962 until 1976, she published and wrote for three successive periodicals: The Objectivist Newsletter, The Objectivist and The Ayn Rand Letter. Many of her most significant essays — later collected into books such as The Virtue of Selfishness and Philosophy: Who Needs It — were first published in her periodicals. The Objectivist Newsletter was… Read More

New York: Crown Publisher's, Inc, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x8. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Review copy with slip laid in. A very nice copy. 1995 Hard Cover. 262 pp. Author's first novel, a portion of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. Harriet Rose, twenty-six, is an American photographer just winning recognition for her work. A travel fellowship brings her to visit her best friend and former roommate, Anne Gordon, in Switzerland. In an ongoing letter to her boyfriend, Harriet reports on strange developments in Anne's life, most notably her affair with a much older married man, which seems to be leading to a disastrous conclusion. Before she can rescue Anne, events take a series of unexpected turns, and Harriet must reexamine her own life and past, and come to terms with the difficulties and possibilities of human relationships.

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1826. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First American edition. Rebacked with plain brown cloth, new headband, endpapers, and flyleaves. Boards lightly foxed with minor internal chip to paper on rear board, a few text pages lightly foxed. 1826 Hard Cover. xii, 331 pp. 8vo. A 19th century Italian travelogue "[o]n Milan, Florence, Rome and Naples, in 1817-18," by the Scottish anatomist and fellow of the Royal Academy of Surgeons who is considered an innovator in the field of vascular surgery (Pine-Coffin 8178. This work is based on a journey to Italy Bell undertook as an effort to improve his health following a fall from his horse. His published works in the field of medicine include Discourses on the Nature and Cure of Wounds, Principles of Surgery, and Anatomy of the Human Body.

Dublin: Printed for Messrs. H. Chamberlaine, L. White, P. Byrne, P. Wogan, Grubier and McAllister, T. Heery, B. Dornin, J. Moore, and W. Jones, 1789. First Irish Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First Irish edition, following the London edition released the same year (Pine-Coffin 784.5). Rebound in quarter linen with new end sheets, modern owner bookplate on front endpaper, faintly foxed throughout. 1789 Hard Cover. vii, [1], 592 pp. 8vo. An 18th century travelogue based on the author's Grand Tour, which was originally published in two volumes in London in 1789. Piozzi was born Hester Lynch Salusbury and previously married to brewer Henry Thrale. She was a member of one of the wealthiest Welsh families of the time, though poor investments led to her father's bankruptcy, which compelled her to marry Thrale. Through the use of his fortune, she became a prominent patron of the arts, and known for her diaries and letters, which would later become an important scholarly source for those… Read More

Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1939. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author on title page with inscription, "To Dr. Ernest Schwarz with the author's compliments." Wrappers lightly toned, pencil note on front wrapper, ink stamp on title page. 1939 Soft Cover. 173-260 pp. No. 3073--From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 87. A history of the birds of Northern Venezuela.

Tallahassee, Florida: Bella Books, 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. First edition. Fine. 2006 Trade Paperback. 227 pp. Lindsey thought she was content and comfortable with her husband and kids. But when Sarah Gilbert comes into the family nursery in search of perennials, she loans Lindsey a copy of Desert Hearts. Lindsey is intrigued by the intimacy between the women and realises she has always felt just a little bit different.

New York: Grand Central, 2016. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. An exceptional copy. 2016 Hard Cover. After Pendergast is presumed dead from a supernatural encounter, his bodyguard Proctor is the only one who can chase a kidnapper across international waters and into the deadly unknown.

New York: Doubleday, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 9x5x1. First edition. Ink notes on endpaper, ink underling in one sentence, 1 inch tear to jacket. 1987 Hard Cover. The lives and loves of two families, the American McGlynns and the Japanese Todas, are intertwined in this historical saga exploring the rebuilding of a nation destroyed by war.

Williamsburg, Virginia / Chapel Hill, North Caroli: The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture / The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Trade Paperback. Fine. 6x1x9. A fine copy. 2018 Trade Paperback. 333 pp. In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in Cuba, along with enslaved Africans who were promised freedom, held off the enemy for six suspenseful weeks. In the end, the British prevailed, but more lives were lost in the invasion and subsequent eleven-month British occupation of Havana than during the entire Seven Years' War in North America. The Occupation of Havana offers a nuanced and poignantly human account of the British capture and Spanish recovery of this coveted Caribbean city. The book explores both the interconnected histories of the British and… Read More

New York: William Morrow / Harper Collins, 2019. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 6x1x9. Hurst, Elise. New. Third printing. An exceptional copy. 2019 Hard Cover. 327 pp. Returning to his childhood home to attend a funeral, a middle-aged man is drawn back to a place once alive with monsters and magic; to a past where the impossible is all too frighteningly real . . . A haunting meditation on memory, wonder, friendship, and sacrifice, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which was named “Book of the Year” by the UK National Book Awards, is a groundbreaking triumph of storytelling as delicate as a butterfly’s wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

New York: William Morrow, 2021. 10th Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. New. Tenth printing. An exceptional copy. 2021 Trade Paperback. 175 pp. Returning to his childhood home to attend a funeral, a middle-aged man is drawn back to a place once alive with monsters and magic; to a past where the impossible is all too frighteningly real . . . A haunting meditation on memory, wonder, friendship, and sacrifice, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which was named “Book of the Year” by the UK National Book Awards, is a groundbreaking triumph of storytelling as delicate as a butterfly’s wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

Scottsville: Carl F. Schmidt, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Signed by author. First edition, #256 of 1000 copies. Signed without inscription by author on title page. Ink gift note on front endpaper, related newspaper articles laid in. 1978 Hard Cover. [vi], 207 pp. 8vo. An architectural monograph focusing on octagon house plans, particularly examples from the latter half of the nineteenth century. Numerous examples and photographs.

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 7x5x1. Book club edition. Minor general wear. 1966 Hard Cover. 190 pp. Renowned scientist John Sinclair and his old school friend Richard, a celebrated composer, are enjoying a climbing expedition in the Scottish Highlands when Sinclair disappears without a trace for thirteen hours. When he resurfaces with no explanation for his disappearance, he has undergone an uncanny alteration: a birthmark on his back has vanished. But stranger events are yet to come: things are normal enough in Britain, but in France it's 1917 and World War I is raging, Greece is in the Golden Age of Pericles, America seems to have reverted to the 18th century, and Russia and China are thousands of years in the future. Against this macabre backdrop of coexisting time spheres, the two young men risk their lives to unravel the truth. But truth is in the mind of the beholder, and who is to say which of these timelines is the… Read More