Search Results: Titles starting with O from The Peculiar Old Cat and Fiddle Bookshop

Margot L. and Thomas J. Pritzker, 2008. Softcover, pp. 40, 23 x 20 cm, pictorial cover (gold statue), multiple color photographic illustrations. Condition is Very Good - clean, crisp copy with light corner wear only. Gorgeous photographs.

Avid Reader Press, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Susan Orlean on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 241 numbered pages, 24 x 17 cm, boards covered with white paper, cream textured spine with black titling, brilliant white just jacket with over-sized lettering and a chicken. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine (no faults observed), packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. Susan Orlean is a journalist and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book, and a staff writer for The New Yorker with a dedicated following. The Orchid Thief was adapted into the film Adaptation (2002), and Meryl Streep won an Oscar nomination for her performance as Orlean. Susan Orlean brings a fresh buzzword to the cultural conversation when she describes herself as "animalish" in her new collection of essays, "On Animals". "I don't just mean as a child," she writes, "since all… Read More

Nan A Talese, Doubleday, New York, 2007. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Pp. 203, 7.5" tall, atractive tan boards with light blue spine, fine in fine just jacket. Title was on 2007 Booker Prize shortlist.

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1921 (German language), Band 19 (first edition), pictorial stiff card boards decorated with period geometric design (paper), cloth backstrip, octavo, 21 x 15 cm, colour plate frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, 10 pages text. In Good Condition, pages clean, backstrip has some loss. In 1907, the art historian Georg Biermann and the publisher Werner Klinkhardt founded the Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing bookstore in Leipzig. The series "Junge Kunst" (New Art), a modern art-historical collection of bibliophile monographs on the European avant-garde of the early 20th century, caused a sensation. There were already proven but also developing artists such as Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Heinrich Campendonk, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Vincent van Gogh or Paul Klee. Oskar Moll (1875-1947 ) was a German painter best known for his slightly abstracted landscapes, still lifes and portraits (Courtesy Wikipedia). A classic title from… Read More

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1923 (German language), Band 33 (first edition), pictorial stiff card boards decorated with period geometric design (paper), cloth backstrip, octavo, 20.5 cm tall, portrait frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, 9 pages text. Very Good Condition, shows well, pages clean, backstrip in great shape, cracking before the plates gathering, pages cockling near spine, light wear at extremities. In 1907, the art historian Georg Biermann and the publisher Werner Klinkhardt founded the Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing bookstore in Leipzig. The series "Junge Kunst" (New Art), a modern art-historical collection of bibliophile monographs on the European avant-garde of the early 20th century, caused a sensation. There were already proven but also developing artists such as Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Heinrich Campendonk, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Vincent van Gogh or Paul Klee. Othon Coubine (nee Otakar, or… Read More

Random House, New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Gary Shteyngart on the title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 317 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, sky blue boards with gilt titling on spine, jacket features "wine glass at end of road" over a blue merging to green background. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, a gorgeous copy. Packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. "At once comic, sad, and introspective, Our Country Friends is a literary feat. With his trademark wry humor, proclivity towards idiosyncratic characters and conversations, and the ability to explore the contradictions that live within each of us, Gary Shteyngart has written a brilliant pandemic novel" (Courtesy Amazon).

The Zelot: No. 5 (Zelot Press,Greensburg, PA, 1982), signed by author on cover, edition limited to 300 copies. Chapbook, 24 x 16 cm, 3 folded and stapled sheets, 8 pages of text. In fine condition (just a hint of soil on cover). Fascinating and thoughtful essays on writing, by a member of both the Beat Generation and of the Black Mountain Poets