Search Results: Authors starting with O from James M. Dourgarian, Bookman

Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1984, first edition.. Full leather, title, author, and decor in gilt, AEG, ribbon place marker, illustrated by Daniel Maffia, with an editor's note and a special message from Oates, Signed by her. Fine.

Chicago, Baseball, 1928, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. The Offiocial Playing Rules, and the Agreements and Rules defining the relations of Leagues, Clubs and Players, forward by George Wharton Pepper. Good.

NY, St. Vartan Press, 1977, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Satire translated from the Armenian by Jack Antreassian, illustrated by Alexander Saroukhan, preface by Antreassian, introduction by Michael Kermian. Ink gift inscription, else fine.

Washington, National Gallery of Art (in association with New York Graphic Society Books and Little, Brown), 1987, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Frontispiece photo of O'Keeffe by William Clift, includes essays by Jack Cowart and Juan Hamilton, followed by more than 120 letters from O'Keeffe selected by Sarah Greenough and a chronology which includes O'Keeffe's exhibition history, filled with beautiful color plates of O'Keeffe's best works, the book was designed as a companion to a exhibit of her work on the centennial of her birth. Fine, beautiful copy.

Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1985, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This is an extremely important study by a once-promising young native American scholar who, sadly, took his own life a few years ago, but who left the world of Steinbeck scholarship this landmark study and a number of other books, with this book Owens "examines how Steinbeck used this would-be Eden (California) to explore the moral bankruptcy of American society, to explore the corruption that lay beneath the beckoning surface of the American dream," this is a very scarce book that seldom comes on the market. Jacket spine ever so slightly faded (common with this book), else fine.

Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1985, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This is an extremely important study by a once-promising young native American scholar who, sadly, took his own life a few years ago, but who left the world of Steinbeck scholarship this landmark study and a number of other books, with this book Owens "examines how Steinbeck used this would-be Eden (California) to explore the moral bankruptcy of American society, to explore the corruption that lay beneath the beckoning surface of the American dream," this is a very scarce book that seldom comes on the market, this copy is an Association Copy of the highest order, being Inscribed to fellow Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott, DeMott has been among the best of Steinbeck scholars for decades and is easily the most accessible writer who can explain and expound on Steinbeck in something other than English professor-speak, he was acting director of the Steinbeck Research Center at San Jose State University at the time of this… Read More

Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1985, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This is an extremely important study by a once-promising young native American scholar who, sadly, took his own life a few years ago, but who left the world of Steinbeck scholarship this landmark study and a number of other books, with this book Owens "examines how Steinbeck used this would-be Eden (California) to explore the moral bankruptcy of American society, to explore the corruption that lay beneath the beckoning surface of the American dream," this is a very scarce book that seldom comes on the market. Fine, with no fading along jacket spine as is so common with this book.

Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1989, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. This is a student's companion to the John Steinbeck's masterpiece, issued as part of Twayne's Masterwork Studies series, this copy Inscribed by Owens, a Native American writer and rising star who, unfortunately, took his own life. Fine.