Search Results: Authors starting with O from Classic Books and Ephemera

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. [2], xxi, 246, [2] p.; 22 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt spine title; green paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. The author "shows how capitalism fundamentally influenced the way slavery developed and functioned in the United States." -- dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: red remainder mark on top page edges; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; clean and bright.

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co, 1906. Hardcover. Good. xv, [1], 433 p., 52 leaves of plates with captioned tissue guards: in-text and full-page illustrations; 28 cm. Off-white cloth with printed paper spine label. One of a limited edition of 100 copies, but unnumbered (not part of the limited edition of 1,000 copies). Includes index. A heavy book; for international shipping, it will have to be sent by priority international. In Good Condition: cover is soiled; hinges are very weak; front free endpaper, blank leaf, and title page are detached as a unit but present; otherwise, clean and tight; all plates are present.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine. 189 p.; 20 cm. Pink cover with gilt spine title. Top page edges black. No dust jacket. Gift inscription on front fixed endpaper dated 1977. A collection of 8 stories by Irish author Edna O'Brien. In Near Fine Condition: gift inscription; otherwise, clean and tight.

New York: Macmillan Co, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. viii, 140 p., frontispiece portrait of the author: music; 20 cm. Green cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket. In Very Good Condition: slightly rubbed; small discoloration in center of front cover; final pages opened somewhat carelessly; former owner's name covered with black marker on front fixed endpaper; clean and tight.

Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. xix, [1], 123 p.; 20 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Top page edges red. Gift inscription by the author to Corolyn and George on the front free endpaper, dated "Lob-Lolly-by-the-Sea." Contents: Foreword by Pierre Loving -- The Song of Solomon -- Shivaree -- Miss Myrtle Says "Yes" -- Not in the Lessons. The four short plays feature the women of Red Bud, a fictional town in Iowa. Three of them were first performed at the Arts Club of Chicago and the Cameo Theatre of Chicago. Pierre Loving (1893-1950) was very active in the little theater scene in the 1910s and early 1920s. In the Foreward, Loving discusses the rural population of the United States and O'Dea's use of the small town to stand for "the stark empty lives of American farm women." In Very Good Condition: slightly cocked; edges rubbed; cover is lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight.

Dessau, Germany: Directorium gez. Oechelhauser, 1880. Paperback. Good +. [22] p., 1 leaves of folded plates; 34 cm. Contemporary dark blue card wrapper. Text is in German script reproduced via an early means of reproduction. The leaves of plates are titled: Dessauer Generatorofen, and M. Gladbacher Generatorofen. Final page of text ends: "Dessau, den 23. März 1880. Das Directorium gez. Oechelhauser." This was probably not Wilhelm Oechelhauser (1820-1902), the Shakespeare scholar, but his son by the same name. An early report on the Oechelhauser generator furnace. Very scarce. In Good+ Condition: wrapper is separated, with chipping along edges and fairly illegible writing in black ink; first page lightly soiled, with some notations in margins; minor loss at lower corner of first two leaves; minor chipping at fore-edge of one plate; otherwise, clean and solid.

New York: Stephen T. Gordon, 1858. Very Good. Op. 56. 7, [1] p.: music; 34 cm. Published jointly with: Boston: Russell & Tolman; and Philadelphia: Beek There is no date of publication given, but based on the street address used by the publisher Stephen T. Gordon (706 Broadway) and the other publishers listed it was probably 1858. A popular piece for the piano by German composer Theodor Oesten (1813-1870). In Very Good Condition: disbound; 3-cm. tear from lower edge of first leaf without loss of text; some soiling to margins of title page and first page of music; otherwise solid.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine. 95 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Blue cover with red cover title: University of Pennsylvania 25th Reunion: Class of 1961. Contains 7 pages of group photos from the reunion, without identification, and then alumni listed alphabetically with entries submitted by the individuals, some of which include photos. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: cover very slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight.

Berlin: Ullstein & Co, 1908. Paperback. Good. 137-160 p.: music, illustrations; 30 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. The music is a piano realization, with lyrics; accompanied by a few illustrations. "Gessler" in ink at upper edge of first page. Contents: from Orpheus in der Unterwelt: Menuett und Schäterlied, and Der Prinz von Arkadien -- from Blaubart: Tiefer bücken -- from Die Schöne Helena: Das Urteil des Paris -- from Verlobung bei der Laterne: Abendglockenlied -- from Die Zaubergeige: Lied des Dorfgeigers -- from Fortunios Lied: Lied Fortunios -- from Die Grossherzogin von Gerolstein: Das Lied vom Säbel -- from Blaubart: Handfuss-Intermezzo -- from Pariser Leben: Brasilianer und Handschuhmacherin -- from Das Mädchen von Elizondo: Trinklied -- from Orpheus in der Unterwelt: Der olympische Cancan. In Good Condition: front wrapper scraped along spine; lacking back wrapper; front wrapper and first leaf detached but present; lightly browning and slightly brittle; otherwise clean and… Read More

London: Harrison and Sons, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good +. 2 volumes: approx. 920 p. and 1280 p.: tables, 1 photograph, 2 folded maps; 24 cm. Half calf with black cloth over boards; six spine compartments between raised bands. Red and black morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title and dates. All page edges speckled red. Brown endpapers. Typed leaves bound into each volume with list of report subjects contained in that volume. Front free endpapers bear stamp of the Board of Customs Library. Back fixed endpapers bear small bookbinder's labels for Jas. Truscott & Son. Contains individually paginated reports issued from 1901 to 1906 as parts of the Annual Series and Miscellaneous Series of British Diplomatic and Consular Reports on the United States. Contents: reports on the trade and finance of the United States; on the purchase and holding of lands by aliens; on various aspects of trade in the United States: beet sugar, cattle and meat, cement, coal and coke, horse, iron ore, rice, and zinc;… Read More

London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 1916. Very Good. 7, [1] p.; 34 cm. Stitched. "Miscellaneous. No. 2 (1916)." A description of actions by British sea power to stop germany's imports and exports up to Jan. 1916 during World War One. In Very Good Condition: minor soiling on outside; slight creasing along upper edges; one horizontal fold, which is just starting to separate at edge; otherwise, clean and solid.

London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 1916. Very Good. 4 p.; 33 cm. "Miscellaneous. No. 23 (1916)." In continuation of "Miscellaneous, no. 20 (1916)." Includes details of specific complaints by the Mac-Niff Horticultural Co., N.Y., and the Standard Underground Cable Co., Pittsburg, about treatment of mail on neutral ships by the British. In Very Good Condition: exterior lightly soiled; "ABI" in ink at upper edge of front cover; two horizontal folds; otherwise, clean and solid.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1963. Hardcover. Good +. Eighth Edition, Revised. viii, 571 p., 4 leaves of folded maps; 22 cm. No dust jacket. Former owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper: Larry Fischer. In Good+ Condition: ends of spine faded; occasional marginal marks; a few underlinings in black ink; otherwise, clean and tight.

New York: Granta, 1986. Paperback. Very Good -. 256 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Paperback with color cover photograph by Don McCullin. Contributors are: Redmond O'Hanlon, Salman Rushdie, Timothy Garton Ash, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Norman Lewis, Hanif Kureishi, Colin Thubron, Peregrine Hodso, Martha Gelhorn, Amitav Ghosh, Leonard Frank, and Orville Schell. In Very Good- Condition: cover is lightly soiled; corners rubbed; lower page edges are stained; pages are clean and tight.

Augsburg: Johann Jakob Lotter und Sohn, 1813. Very Good +. Violone and organ (bass) part only. [2] leaves: music; 31 cm. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. Printed on one side only of each leaf; the 2nd leaf (Veni Creator Spiritus) is half a leaf (14 x 22 cm.). Neither the composer nor the printer are given. It was bound with works by Rochus Dedler and Franz Bühler, all printed in Augsburg by Johann Jakob Lotter und Sohn from 1804 to 1824. The composer Joseph Ohnewald (1781-1856) studied in Augsburg, where his 2nd work, Te Deum Laudamus et Veni Creator Spiritus, was printed by Lotter in 1813. This is probably the violone part from that scarce work. In Very Good+ Condition: slightly soiled; faint remains of red seals on the back of 2nd leaf.

London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1903. Hard Cover. Very Good. Erichsen, Nelly. Second edition, Nov. 1903. xv, [1], 332 p.: frontispiece, 81 leaves of illustrations (49 in color), 2 maps (1 folded); 24 cm. Publisher's green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles and illustrations. Top page edges gilt. Includes numerous full-text illustrations and one full-page map. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; ends of spine starting to fray; cover slightly soiled; edges of leaves of illustrations are slightly darkened, not affecting illustrations; pages and illustrations are otherwise clean and tight.

Philadelphia: Temple University, 1991. Paperback. Near Fine. xvii, [1], 330 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Part of the publisher's series Asian American History and Culture. "Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical 'racial paradise,' Gary Okihiro presents this history of a systematic anti-Japanese movement in the islands from the time migrant workers were brought to the sugar cane fields until the end of World War II. . . . Through an imagiiniative intermingling of previously classified documents, interviews, and the writings of both field laborers and their oppressors, Okihiro depicts these immigrants as historical actors who engaged in individual and organized acts of resistance." -- back cover. In Near Fine Condition: edges lightly rubbed; clean and tight.

Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2004. Paperback. Very Good +. 224 p.: color illustrations, maps; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Describes more than 130 varieties of gemstones, with: over 850 photographs of gems, crystals, and jewelry; more than 50 drawings and diagrams; and maps of important gem locations throughout the world. In Very Good+ Condition: cover is lightly rubbed; one page corner creased; writing inside front cover; otherwise, clean and tight.

London / New York: Macmillan and Co, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good -. xx, 422, [2] p., frontispiece and 9 leaves of plates; 20 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt stamped spine title and gilt stamped decoration on spine and front cover. Top page edges gilt. Dark green endpapers. Small engraved bookplate on front fixed endpaper of John Reichard. The author, Margaret Wilson Oliphant (1828-1897), was a prolific Scottish writer of works of history and biography, and of fiction. In Very Good- Condition: slightly cocked; cover is lightly rubbed; ends of spine starting to fray; pages and plates are clean and tight.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. x, 192 p.; 18 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt and black spine title; black series title on front board with black decoration on both boards. Dark brown endpapers. Part of the publisher's series Foreign Classics for English Readers edited by Mrs. Oliphant. Series list before title page indicates that this was no. 6 in the series. Gift inscription to Emily B. Dain on blank page following front endpapers dated May 1879. No date of publication; the publisher advertised this title in its April 1879 magazine. In Very Good Condition: ends of spine and corners are lightly rubbed; head of spine starting to fray; light spots along front joint; clean and tight.