Search Results: Authors starting with O from Matthew's Books LLC

E.P. Dutton, 1984. first trade edition. hardcover. very good: slightest signs of shelf/dust wear. stain to rear end paper, else clean, square, tight./very good: stain to flaps, else near fine, NOT clipped ($16.95). 8vo 482pp. first trade edition. from front flap: "Following the highly acclaimed Bellefleur (a gothic family saga) and A Bloodsmoor Romance (a romance), here is an extraordinary novel of mystery and murder--the third in Joyce Carol Oates's ongoing sequence of novels that deals, in genre form, with nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century America. In Mysteries of Winterthurn, the detective-hero, Xavier Kilgarvan, is confronted with three baffling cases, all in Winterthurn, the place of his birth." #00920.

E.P. Dutton, 1980. first edition. hardcover. very good+: mild discoloration along spine, otherwise clean, bright, square, tight./very good: mild shelfwear, else fine, NOT clipped ($11.95). 8vo 195pp. #00722.

Ignatius Press, 2007. softcover. very good: 838pp. minimal signs of wear, no writing, tight binding and pages. 12mo 839pp. from rear cover: "This powerful novel tells the story of a child born in 1933 into the turbulent world of the Balkans and traces his life into the third millennium.

Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1962. hardcover. Book VG: mild age wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 276pp. + xxiv. #01815.

New York: Avenel Books, 1978. first thus. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning to text block, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: age soiling/toning, edge and corner wear, not clipped. 8vo 419pp. from front flap: "Far more than a mere concordance which simply lists all of the important words in Shakespeare in alphabetical order and indicates their source, this useful handbook carries a listing by subject matter as well as by exact words, gives historical facts and dates, summarizes the plots of the plays, tells something about the principal characters and selects comments from distinguished critics. First published in 1887, it was not only the first Shakespearean dictionary of its kind, it remains today a uniquely comprehensive yet compact reference work on Shakespeare. . ." #01913.

University of Iowa Press, 1986. hardcover. very good: slightly bumped corners, text clean, binding tight./very good: rubbing, evidence of dampstain on rear flap, NOT clipped. 8vo 181pp. from front flap: "This absorbing new study discusses theories of interpretation and construction of the self in six important contemporary novels. In semiotic analyses of John Barth's LETTERS, Vladimir Nabokov's PALE FIRE, John Hawkes' TRAVESTY, Thomas Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, Stanley Elkin's THE FRANCHISER, and Flannery O'Connor's WISE BLOOD, Patrick O'Donnell argues that contemporary fiction takes interpretation as its subject and as the very impetus for its making." #01003.

Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson and Company, 1960. hardcover. very good: mild shelf and age wear to boards, mild toning, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 383pp. from The Alice and Jerry Basic Reading Program. Illustrated. With blue highlighted text for instruction and regular text for children. #01302.

Mole Publishing Co, 1981. first edition. hardcover. Book NF: clean, square, tight, unmarked, flat signed and dated by author on FFEP/DJ VG: mild age wear/toning, NOT clipped ($2.00). Cindy Davis. 12mo 112pp.  from front flap: "In 1963 a shaggy-haired young writer named Mike Oehler lived in Mexico trading the plastic-and-chrome lifestyle of teh United States for life among the rural Mexican working class. When Oehler returned north he brought wiht him the warmth, humor, and humanity of Mexico caught in the manuscript of ONE MEXICAN SUNDAY. Drawn explicitly from Oehler's own experiences, this tale of a single day south of the border is bursting with affection and insight possible only by one who accepted and was in return totally accepted by the locals." #01778.

New York: Random House, 1972. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: clean, tight, unmarked, touch of foxing to outer edge of text block./DJ VG+: touch of edge wear along top, else clean, NOT clipped ($6.95). 8vo 244pp. Stated first edition with number line to 2, as standard for Random House. from front flap: "The thirty-four stories in this volume have never before been published in book form, and fourteen of them have not previously been printed. They all appear to have been written in the 1940's and therefore to belong--in quality as well as period--with the collections Pipe Night (1945) and Hellbox (1947). #01955.

Dell, 1992. mass market paperback. good. 245pp. A Sister Mary Helen mystery. #00560.

New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1944. first edition. hardcover. Book VG- : age wear/toning to boards and spine, spine sunned, toning and offset to endpapers, name on front paste down, some marking in introduction, else text clean, binding intact./no DJ. 8vo 680pp. guide to writing, grammar, vocabulary and expression. Divided into sections: One--Don't Overuse Words / Two--Don't Underuse Words / Three--Don't Misuse Words / Four--Don't Abuse Words / Five--Don't Confuse Words / Six--Don't Misspell / Seven--Don't Mispunctuate. #01731.

New York: Little Brown and Company, 1929. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: age wear to boards, spine mildly sunned, writing to front paste down and FFEP, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 12mo 372pp. published January 1929. novel by best selling English author of popular genre fiction. #01444.

New York: A.L. Burt, 1911. hardcover. Book VG: age/shelf wear to boards and spine, evidence of stain top right corner front board. name stamp on front and rear paste downs, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ acceptable: heavy age wear/staining, chipping and closed tears along edges of flaps, corner wear with loss to rear cover, not clipped.. Howard Chandler Christy. 12mo 323pp. + 4 color illustrations. from front cover: A Brilliant and Engrossing Story of Love, Mystery and International Intrigue. #01393.

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society. hardcover. Book VG: mild toning/offset, mild shelf wear, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG-: age toning, edge wear, NOT clipped ($3.95). Robert Osborn. oversized 8vo. unpaginated. from front flap: "THE VULGARIANS is drawn and written by an American who has teh strength and perception to cope with the appalling forces now at loose in the land. It is a book for those of us who are fed to the teeth and sick to death of the torrential rubbish to which America is being subjected, hour after hour and day after day, until we begin to fear for the safety of our great traditions and freedom . . .to say nothing of the sanity of our minds." #01681.

New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1963. hardcover. good: stain to front boards, wear to boards and spine, mild toning to endpapers, writing on front and back endpapers, some marking in TOC, text otherwise clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 399pp. later printing of first edition. Covers economists from Mercantilist, Physiocratist, Classical, Socialist, Marxist, German Historical, Marginalists, Early American economists, Keynesians, more. #01081.

Paul B Hoeber Inc, 1937. hardcover. very good: evidence of writing erased from rear paste down, slightly bumped, text clean, binding tight/fair: glassine jacket largely intact, tears/chipping especially along bottom.. Sextodecimo 41pp. #00110.

Remington Putnam Company, 1932. first thus. hardcover. good: spine and corners bumped, staining to spine, toning to pastedowns, some marking/underlining in text, inscription on FFEP/good: chipping and closed tears, age wear/toning. an address delivered by Dr. Sir William Osler to medical students at Yale detailing his philosophy of life. Known for being one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. #00109.

New York: Viking Press, 1933. hardcover. Book VG: mild age wear to boards and spine, mild toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ fair: age wear, edge and corner wear/chipping, NOT clipped ($2.50). 8vo 301pp. fourth printing, third large printing, December 1933. memoir by Irish author who grew up on Great Blasket Island and in Dingle, County Kerry, originally published in Irish. With foreword by E.M. Forster. #01411.

New York: R.F. Fenno and Company, 1897. first US edition. hardcover. Book G: age wear/stains to boards and spine, toning to endpapers, hinge cracked at FFEP, text clean, binding intact.. 12mo 583pp. #02097.

WW Norton & Company, 1956. first edition. hardcover. very good: toning and foxing to endpapers, slightest signs of shelf wear to boards, some underlining in light pencil through first chapter of text. Binding tight and square./very good: mild chipping, one missing chip from top of spine, front flap clipped on lower right corner, NOT price clipped ($4.50), pen mark through price.. 8vo 384pp. from front flap: "In their new book the Overstreets have come to grips with the central problem of our times: that of overcoming the hostilities and extremisms that separate man from man. They believe that the most important skill we now have to learn is how to make living space for one another's minds and opinions." #00759.