Search Results: Authors starting with O from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Dublin: Black Cat Press Limited, 1986. Jacket spine sunned, some other light shelfwear, generally a very good copy. 10.5 x 10 inches. 402 pages. Original red boards; pictorial dust jacket. "This lavish publication will thoroughly delight newcomers and seasoned Beckett lovers alike. Excerpts from Beckett's works, set off by photographs and seven maps, show us the powerful influence Dublin and its surroundings had on his imagination. But this massive tome is more than just an adjunct to the Beckett canon. It contains little-known photographs and generous selections from unpublished manuscripts and letters as well as pictures taken specifically for the book" - (Library Journal).

New York: Frank Hallman & The Oliphant Press, 1974. A fine, virtually untouched copy. 8vo. [19] pages. Two full-page plates by Leonard Baskin. Original printed wrappers, sewn. FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies signed by Leonard Baskin. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press. Fitz-James O'Brien, born in Ireland in 1828, left his home country in 1852 and emigrated to the United States. Ten Years later he was killed in the Civil War.

New York: Abrams, 2013. As-new in shrinkwrap. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket. Thomas O'Brien is an interior and home furnishings designer based in Manhattan. He is the founder and president of Aero Studios, one of America's most respected design firms, and the proprietor of Aero, the influential home boutique located in the studio in Soho. He lives in New York City and Long Island.

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1923. A fine copy, the jacket lightly age-darkened. 8vo. 39 pages. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label, uncut and unopened; plain dust wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies. Includes "Essay on the Character in Irish Literature by A. E." Scarce with the jacket.

[Milan]: Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, 2012. 8vo. 118pp. Original printed wrappers, separate folded sheet summarizing the collection in English laid-in. A beautifully prepared and illustrated catalogue of the Lombi collection of editions printed by the Officina Bodoni, comprising 194 works in hundreds of volumes.

Northampton, MA: The Rosemary Press, 1969. Some light toning to spine, some moderate shelfwear but generally a near-fine copy. 4to. 30, [2] leaves. Printed in colors. Quarter parchment, green paper boards gilt, gilt-lettered on spine. Number 161 of 250 copies (not one of the fifty specially bound) signed by Offner. Printed by Richard Warren and Elliot Offner. Presswork by Frederick Rau. Further inscribed by Offner to a collector in 1980 on the front free endpaper.

New York: Adventures in Poetry. A fine copy with a few trifling stains on the plain rear wrapper. 11 x 8.5 inches. Ten mimeographed leaves, on rectos only. Stapled in wrappers, front cover with full-bleed photographic reproduction of an aerial view of a Belgrade street. First edition, one of 500 copies. O'Hara's letter to Joe LeSueur is printed here posthumously at the St. Mark's Poetry Project.

New York: Random House, 1960. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth; in publisher's box. Box a trifle soiled. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Olive Gowen with best wishes, John O'Hara, 28 Jan. '63." WITH: 'Here's to O'Hara'. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1946. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. Cloth with wear at heel of spine, slight natural darkening to front endpaper; jacket spine faded. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Francis Gowen with all good wishes from a Schuylkill Countian (that's what the Gowen's own). Cordially, John O'Hara, 16 Nov 57." With Gowen's name rubber stamped on front free endpaper. First editions. Presentation copies. Francis Gowen and his wife Olive were socially prominent Philadelphians. 'Here's to O'Hara' collects three novels (including 'Butterfield 8' and 'Pal Joey' and 20 short stories). (BA).

Tokyo: Tsukiji Shokan Publishing Co, 1970. First edition. Lacking the jacket; spine faded and light wear to wrapper edges. Despite these flaws a very clean and unmarked copy of this photobook classic. 10.5 x 8.75 inches. 500 full-bleed black-and-white reproductions. Original printed wrappers. "Ohara's obsessive recording of tightly framed single faces snapped on the streets of New York represents an attempt to bring mankind together, much as cavemen represented animals on their rock walls to ensure good hunting... these photods deny the individuality of their subjects to make a wider social observation" (Parr & Badger I:291). Quite the contrary, really. The 500 faces seen in sequence defy homogeneity and illuminate difference and distinction. The formal attributes of their presentation may create a bonded relationship of continuity and shared human condition, but each is unique, in the same way that no two oaks or elms are identical. If there is any comfort, it is in common situation, but the… Read More

New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc, 1986. First edition. Fine. Folio. 48 black-and-white illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. FIRST EDITION, with indices of manuscripts, authors and titles, places of origin and provenance, dates, and iconographic contents. The contributors comprise Cart T. Berkhout, William I. Bormann, Mildred O. Budny, John C. Contreni, Helmut Gneuss, Robert M. Harris, John Higgitt, John B. Friedman, Louis Jordan, Lister Matheson, Ann Shannon, William M. Voelkle, and Charles Wright. This was conceived as a supplement to the Harvey Miller series.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First edition. A near-fine copy. 16.25 x 13.75 inches. 158 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original grey cloth; pictorial dust jacket; acetate wraparound band. Publishers' original cardboard box. "One hundred of Georgia O'Keeffe's most spectacular flower paintings, 75 published for the first time. Brilliantly reproduced in blazing color, accurate scale and oversized format. 100 color photographs" (the publisher).

London: Fuel, 2005. A near-fine copy with a few small marks on covers. 4to. 111 pages. Cloth, color image mounted on front. FIRST EDITION, signed by the photographer on the title-page.

New York: The Pace Gallery, 1992. Softcover. A fine copy, spine a bit faded. 11.75 x 9 inches. 109 pages. Pictorial wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from September - October 1992.

New York: Wellfleet Press, 1988. Hardcover. A fine copy a very good plus jacket, small tear on back, some toning and light shelfwear. 12.5 x 9.75 inches. 274 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. "Not only has Oldenburg upset conventional expectations (including those of "advanced" taste) about the way objects and the environment are to be treated in a work of art, but he effectively alters the tone in which the artist speaks to the public. He plays the clown. At the Museum of Modern Art's large retrospective exhibition of Oldenburg's work this fall, the faces in the crowds of spectators were happy faces—smiling, relaxed, often actually laughing. At the very altar of high artistic seriousness, Oldenburg invited the crowd to abandon its pieties and have a good time, and the crowd responded with enthusiasm.

New York: Pace Gallery, 2017. A fine copy with the corners of the boards just touched. 8.5 x 11 inches. 15 color plates. Boards. Published to accompany the exhibition at Pace, 13 October to 11 November 2017.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970. A very good copy of this scarce, fragile book, with some light soiling to covers, endpapers slightly separated as often, otherwise about as fine an example as one is likely to find given the cover material, and scarcer still signed. Oblong (8 x 14 inches). 221 pages. Black-and-white and color illustrations. Original flexible plastic cover, a sculptural design flourish enhanced further by the pink decorated endpapers. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Oldenburg on the half-title. This major retrospective exhibition was held 25 September to 23 November 1969. The catalogue designed by Chermayeff & Geismar Associates is a work of art in itself, from its innovative cover proudly highlighting the work of curator Barbara Rose, to the profusion of illustrations, both documentary of Oldenburg and his artistic peers and representative of his large body of work.

London: Constable & Company, 1928. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A few small stains and some light discoloration to covers, otherwise a very good copy without the dust jacket. 8vo. Original cloth. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author beneath the printed dedication ("To Caradoc Evans"): "From Con O'Leary Aug. 4, 1928." Caradoc Evans (1878-1945) was a Welsh story writer, novelist and playwright. This is the Irish writer Con O'Leary's best known work, a science fiction novel in which "a woman is given a drug that induces a range of Identity Transfer experiences, including life as a mouse and as her own betrayed husband" (Science Fiction Encyclopaedia, online).

New York: Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, 2002. Hardcover. One small bump at top of front joint, otherwise fine. 6.25 x 6.25 inches. 43 pages. Boards. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from October - November 2002.

Marlboro, Vermont: Four Forty, 2005. Hardcover. A fine copy in a very good plus jacket, the front panel with a few indentations, the rear cover with an internal tear. 9.25 x 12.25 inches. 95 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Includes CD-ROM of interview with John Walters inside of back cover.

Washington, D. C.: Black Sun Press, 1950. A fine copy. Small square 8vo. [16] pages. Printed in blue ink. Five full-page illustrations by Cagli. Stapled as issued in original wrappers. Second edition of Olson's first book of poetry, the first trade edition after the limited edition of 1948. Issued as "Collectors Item No. 1" by Caresse Crosby. It was partly on the merits of this poetic debut that Edward Dahlberg recommended to Josef Albers that he invite Olson to lecture at Black Mountain College. Butterick & Glover A3.