Search Results: Authors starting with O from High-Lonesome Books

Vancouver, WA: Whitecap Books, 1990. Paperback. Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 194 pgs, b&w photos and maps. A handy travel guide for hiking, touring, paddling and camping in the southern Gulf Islands.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ slipcase. 9 x 12, 1069 pgs total, color illustrations. The classic on birds of Texas.

Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2007. Paperback. Very Good+. 5 x 8, 320 pgs, red and blue illustrations. Features irreverent and uncensored profiles of men and women from the Union and the Confederacy--complete with hundreds of little-known and downright bizarre facts, for instance, Mary Todd Lincoln claimed to receive valuable military strategies from ghosts in the spirit world; Stonewall Jackson was a notorious hypochondriac, .etc.

New York: Washington Square, 1989. First, thus. Paperback. Very Good+. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 243 pgs. O'Brien's first novel of murder and revenge in South Dakota.

San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good DJ. 12 x 8 1/2, 224 pgs, index, b&w and color photos and illustrations throughout. Includes a double-sided eight-page poster. Provides the complete history of Native Americans at a glance, with a running timeline that identifies the key events on every page.

Florence, AL: Books Americana, 1993. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 11, 590 pgs, b&w and a section of color photos. Includes sections on Pez, Schoenhut, Western-style Guns and much more.

Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1999. 9th Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 11, 590 pgs, b&w and a section of color photos. Includes rare pre-World War II toys and over 16,500 other items.

Pecos, NM: Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 1951. Second edition. Paperback. Good+. 5 1/2 x 8, 44 pgs, b&w illustrationsand photos. The history of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Four Apparitions.

Columbia, SC: Sporting Classics, 2004. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 329 pgs, section of color photos. A compilation of magazine articles written by O'Connor that have never been published in book form.

New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1993. Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ. Originally published in 1953. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 400 pgs, maps by Wilson R. Springer. The classic biogrpahy of General Phillip Sheridan and the bloody conflict in which he rose to prominence.

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 8 1/2, 413 pgs, mapped endsheets. Novel set in 19th century California fort. Previous owner's name written on title page with colored pencil.

New York: Dutton, 2021. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 6 x 9, 332 pgs, b&w drawings. A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys by the author.

Boston: Beacon Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 246 pgs. Heartwarming memoirs of a young woman's years at a venerable New York City hospital, where she transformed from bewildered medical student to assured physician.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Reprint. Paperback. Good+. 8 1/2 x 11, 396 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Over 5000 individual entries with information on characters, alien races, planets and stars. weapons, scientific terms and many more.

Globe, AZ: Southwest Parks and Monuments, 1982. Revised. Paperback. Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 112 pgs, b&w illustrations. A classic identification guide to desert animals.

Globe, AZ: Southwest Parks and Monuments, 1970. Fourth edition. Paperback. Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 112 pgs, b&w illustrations. A classic identification guide to desert animals.

London: Osprey Publishing, 1988. Paperback. Good+. 8 x 9, 128 pgs, color photos throughout. A great selection of color photographs of all kinds aircraft involved in Bush flying around the world - De Havilland Otters and Beavers to Cessnas, Dakotas, Commandos and a host of amphibians.

New York: Books Americana, 1985. Paperback. Good. 8 1/2 x 11, 306 pgs, b&w photos. Any golf fan would find it interesting to peruse these pages for a visual history of the game's artifacts. Writing on title page.

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2003. Paperback. Good+. 8 x 9, 128 pgs, color photos throughout. Award-winning National Geographic photographer Richard Olsenius, and Angus Phillips, outdoor writer for the Washington Post, trace the story of companionship and codependence between man and dog that extends over the last 15,000 years of dogs living with people.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 236 pgs, index, b&w historical photos. A concise yet comprehensive survey of Native American history from the 1890s to the present. Conveys the complex web of economic, political, and cultural forces that have characterized relations between Native and non-Native Americans for the past century.