Search Results: Titles starting with O from Lamplighter Library

Mexico. JM. 1969. Translated as Obsessive Circular Days the book, written in Spanish, has red paper boards with gilt lettering to spine. Very good with wear to front and edges. Very good jacket shows shelf wear and has several small chips on edges and 0.5 in tear on top of front.
Written in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa under the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. 5.7x7.75. 266pg.

The saga of Odd Thomas continues in this fine 8vo sized hardcover book. Dust jacket shows slight shelfwear, otherwise fine and showing $28.00 price on front jacket. Clean inside and out this collectible edition is signed on the ffep in black. 6th book in series will be followed by Deeply Odd. 355pg.

Hutchinson & CO. 1972.First edition published in UK, this VG book has black boards with silver lettering to spine and a small bump to the bottom of the front board. The unclipped jacket shows shelf wear, a linear crease to the front of the jacket and a small chip on the back of the jacket. Following the best selling first book (The Day Of The Jackal), The Odessa File begs the question if this is truly a work of fiction? Let's hope so as it starts with the assination of JFK and the suicide of a German Jew on 11/22/1963 having unforeseeaable consequenses involving Nazi criminals, nuclear warheads and bubonic plague. Jacket protected with a removable mylar cover. 8.5x5.5. The last page (310) is unnumbered

Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 2003. Quarter-bound in gray with beige paper boards and copper lettering to spine. First Edition (stated) inscribed by author on title page. Unclipped ($22.00) jacket shows minimal shelf wear. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novella (The Barracks Thief), this is the author's first novel. Ayn Rand and Robert Frost are but a few of the visitors to a New England prep school that shape the life of the protagonist "narrator". 6x9.25 in. 195 pg.

Franklin Library. Franklin Center, PA. 1984. Red leather boards stamped in gold. GIlt lettering to spine and all edges gilt (AEG). Five raised bands with marbled endpapers and satin bookmark sewn-in. Limited First Edition privately printed for The Signed First Edition Society. Like new boards and leaves. Muriel Spark (1918-2006), was a Scottish novelist best known for her novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961). In The Only Problem the problem seems to be there is more than one problem; all of which involve Job-like suffering. The protagonist, rich middle-aged Harvey Gotham, left his wife Effie to write about the Biblical character Job. Recall, Holy Job was richly blessed but lost it all but stood the test for Job was steadfast in his misery. Leaving her, in part for stealing a bar of chocolate, led Harvey to conclude she was a bit wild. She, for some reason left all sanity and joined a terrorist organisation called FLE. To add to his suffering, Harvey loves her all the more. She, of course dies… Read More

Viking. New York. 1997. Quarter-bound in blue with gray paper boards and copper lettering to front and spine. Unclipped ($22.95) shows minor shelf wear. Card still in book... 2,131 lucky people will win a signed and numbered Cal Ripkin, Jr. baseball card. Why 2,131 people when the record was 2,632 consecutive games played by Cal Ripken, Jr.? If you know your baseball you know the previous record was held by Lou Gehrig. He played 2,130 consecutive games. Color pictures, stories and stats of the Baseball Hall of Fame "Iron Man" infielder for the Baltimore Orioles. 6.25x9.25. 326 pg.

Viking. New York. 1997. Quarter-bound in blue with white paper boards. Copper colored CR initials on front board and lettering on spine. Top edge of front and back boards bumped, else fine. First Edition (stated) First Printing with requisite number line ending in 1. Fine unclipped ($22.95) jacket protected with removable mylar cover shows minor shelf wear. Boldly signed on half title page. With the 2,131st game Cal Ripken, Jr. played he broke the record for number of games consecutively played by a Major League ballplayer. The record was previously held by Lou Gehrig. When done, the All-Star shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles set the new mark for consecutively played games at 2,632. Truly, Ripton earned the name and is Baseball's "Iron Man". 6.5x9.5 in. With photos and acknowledgements, 326 pg.

Viking. New York. 1976. First edition (stated), first printing with no subsequent printing(s) noted. Quarter-bound in brown with tan paper borads and gilt/copper lettering to spine. Two small marks on flyleaf else fine. Unclipped ($7.95) jacket shows minor shelf wear and is protected with a removable mylar cover. Author's first novel and basis for the 1980 film starring Timothy Hutton, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch and Donald Sutherland. 8.75x6 in. 263pg.

Random House. New York.1999. First American Edition in dark blue quarter-bound spine with light blue boards. Faint smudge mark on back boards, else very good+. Jacket is unclipped ($23.00) and covered with removable mylar. Inscribed by author on title page. Color photos and dialog track the 29,028 ft. ascent of the north face of mount Everest through a killer storm complete with white-out conditions.