Search Results: Titles starting with O from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

(Roma): De Luca Editore / (Stuttgart): Forum-Verlag, (1981).. (1981).. Fine. - Quarto [13-1/4 inches high by 9-1/2 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The book is housed in a silver-color paper covered slipcase. The spine of the slipcase is lightly spotted with its head creased. 344 pages. Illustrated with several folding color plates and numerous illustrations in black & white and color. Near fine. <p>Catalog for an exhibition presented at the Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome from 18 June to 20 September 1981.<p>The text is in Italian and German.

[Denmark]: Forlaget Tiden, 1970., 1970.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial folding wrappers. There is some minor rubbing & soiling to the binding with a narrow line of green staining along the bottom edge of the front cover. There is a notation on the rear wrap fold. 66 & [1] pages plus colophon. 3 tipped-in color plates, including a frontispiece, & black-and-white textual illustrations. Very good. <p>A collection of articles on social conditions in Greenland written by the author in the 1950s and 1960s.<p>The text is in Danish.

Rhinebeck, NY: St. Lazaire Press, (1988)., (1988).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed light gray wraps. Title & 29 pages. There is some light foxing to the last leaf, else near fine. <p>First edition.<p>RARE. WorldCat locates 7 copies.

NY: The Macmillan Company, 1947., 1947.. Very good. - 8vo, tan cloth (lightly bumped; small dent to bottom edge of front cover) titled in gilt, in dw (lightly soiled; dw spine & extremities darkened; price-clipped). vii, 162 & [1] pp. 5 pages of music staves. Very good. <p>First American edition.<p>O'Casey's play, set during the Battle of Britain, in which the central figure is an Irish butler serving in an English manor house.

Utica, NY: State Hospitals Press, 1945.. 1945.. Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wraps. 9 pages. Near fine. <p>In discussing the relevance of the oath to modern medicine, Foxe writes: "The oath on deleterious or mischievous regimens is of obvious import todady as is that on poisons. The oath on abortions may find more lax attitudes today, but one might hope that abortions, some day, will be replaced by the adopting out of unwanted children rather than their destruction...." He goes on to suggest that "it is now possible to rewrite the oath in a form more comprehensible to the modern Mind. It becomes a noble oath, the culmination of Greek medicine, not so nearly approached before or again." His new version of the oath reads in part: "I swear to join with the forces that heal in wound and disease, for man and mankind, with an attitude of courage, kindliness, protectiveness, cheerful serenity and dignity....I will do that only which is for the benefit of my… Read More

Amherst, Massachusetts: Weighted Anchor Press, [1994].. [1994].. Very good. - Folio, 12-7/8 inches high by 9-7/8 inches wide. This issue consists of a manilla envelope containing loose pages, booklets, broadsides, etc. A total of ten items are contained within the manila envelope which is titled on one side. The contents are listed on the verso of the envelope and consist of "A Letter from the Editors", "Rabbit Bike" a book by Chris Moore, "An Envelope of Poetry, Fiction and Ephemera by Kent Clair Chamberlain", "Mrs. Heiner's Funeral" a story by William Meyer, "Bugs" the ravings of Jeff Weston, "This Dress is Dyed with Hustler Magazine" by Danica Phelps, "Love Poems for Audrey Hepburn" by Michael J. Phillips, "L(ie)fe Boat" a poetry manuscript by Edward Francisco, and "The Boxed Archives of Joseph Cornell - a Posthumous Catalog". The edges of the manila envelope are slightly creased. Near fine. A Quarterly Publication of the Weighted Anchor press, the contents of this literary magazine include a… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, (1986).. (1986).. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed yellow wrappers. The rear wrap is lightly soiled. There is a tear to the tail of the spine & the head of the spine is lightly creased. 287 pages. There is a stain to the front endpaper with offsetting to the inside front wrap. The top sections of the first 3 pages are darkened. Good. <p>Advance uncorrected proofs of the author's first novel.

Mexico, D.F.: Museo Nacional de Antropologia, (1964)., (1964).. Good. - Quarto [11-3/4 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide], gray buckram titled in black on the front cover, in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped & the tail of the spine is faded. The dust jacket is rubbed, darkened & chipped with pieces out of the head & tail of the spine & the top edges of the panels. Several tears have been repaired with scotch tape internally. Unpaginated. Prelims & introductory material plus profuse black-and-white plates from photographs by Irmgard Groth-Kimball, with captions on the facing pages. The paper on the rear pastedown is partially detached & the rear hinge is starting. There is a price-sticker partially obliterated in ink on the front endpaper. The bottom corners of the leaves are lightly creased. Good. First edition."Edicion commemorativa de la inauguracion del nuevo edificio del Museo Nacional de Antropologia".

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972.. 1972.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed yellow wrappers. The binding is very lightly bumped & slightly soiled. xii & 68 pages. Very good. <p>First edition, wraps issue. Author's first book.<p>Yale Series of Younger Poets 67, with an introduction by Stanley Kunitz.

Breslau [lower Germany, now Poland]: De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume Theophile Korn, 1801., 1801.. Fair. - Octavo, 8-3/4 inches high by 5-5/8 inches wide. Three-quarter calf & marbled boards. Both volumes are lacking the spines. The corners are worn and the marbled paper covering the boards is heavily rubbed and chipped with damage to the paper at the bottom of the second volume's front cover. [iv], xxviii, xv, [i] & 235 pages; and [iv] & 271 pages, respectively. Illustrated with 28 [of 29] plates, including 17 richly-hued aquatints, 7 engraved plates and 4 folding charts. Five of the engraved plates, including 2 folding ones, portray sheep & cattle. [According to the description of plates at the end of the second volume, this set is lacking one plate]. There is scattered foxing throughout, although the aquatints and several of the plates are largely unaffected. There is some offsetting to a few of the pages opposite the aquatints. The Second French Edition, translated from the third English edition by… Read More

Giessen: [Braun], 1756., 1756.. Very good. - Duodecimo (12mo), 7-1/8 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, printed self-wraps, removed from a larger collection of bound pamphlets in the distant past. 19 pages. The cover page is lightly soiled and slightly darkened with stab marks along the spine. Very good. Second edition. The first edition was published in the same year by Joann Jacob Braun in Giessen. It consisted of 18 pages rather than the 19 pages of the second edition. The colophon gives the publication date as May 17, 1756.The author has dedicated the work to Bernard Frideric Rudolph Laun.RARE in commerce.

Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1991., 1991.. Very good. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY 32 CONTRIBUTORS - Octavo, 9-3/8 inches high by 6-1/8 inches wide. Black cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in a pictorial dust wrapper. There are a couple of tiny tears to the edges of the dust jacket. [4] leaves & 317 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 full-page plates by Roger Gerberding. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. The Publisher's Copy "PC" of the Deluxe First Edition, limited to 500 copies, signed by 32 of the contributors, including Dan Simmons, Dean Koontz, Gary Raiser, Nancy Holder, etc.An inscription penned in an unidentified hand across the bottom of the frontispiece reads: "For Holly Van Wye / I hate your boyfriend for beating me out of my book, but I hear you're swell, so... Enjoy!"Included are stories by Dean R. Koontz, Joe R. Lansdale, Thomas F. Monteleone, John Shirley, Nicholas Royle, Scott A. Cupp, F. Paul Wilson, Bill Crider, Edward Gorman, Stanley Wiater, Richard… Read More

Honolulu, H.I.: Bishop Museum Press, 1909.. 1909.. Good. - Octavo, softcovers bound in printed light green wraps. The covers are slightly soiled with some minor creases to the corners and darkened edges. There is a short tear to the bottom edge of the front cover. 47 pages, with 5 full-page and several textual photographic illustrations, and 2 charts, including one folding. There is some slight damage and staining to the bottom edge of a very few pages. A good partially unopened copy. <p>Included in this report: "Walled Fish Traps of Pearl Harbor" by John F.G. Stokes (pp.23-36) and "Some New Hawaiian Plants" by Charles N. Forbes (pp. 37-45, including illustrations).

Honolulu, H.I.: Bishop Museum Press, 1914.. 1914.. Very good. - Octavo, softcovers bound in printed light brown wraps. The covers are slightly soiled with some minor creases to the corners and a tiny paper remnant at the lower inner edge of the front cover. 39 pages, with 8 pages of photographic illustrations. A very good unopened copy.

Toronto: The Radisson Society of Canada Limited, 1925.. 1925.. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The covers are bumped, darkened & soiled. 412 pages. Very good.

Winchester, MA: The University Prints, 1983.. 1983.. Very good. - Oblong octavo, softcover. The contents are bound between dark blue cover sheets with a black plastic ring binder. There is a rectangular keyhole in the front cover sheet revealing a section of the title page. Title & 124 black-and-white plates, including a map, with an "Outline Index" of the series in an envelope bound in at the rear. The edges of the plates are darkened & the envelope has been opened. Very good. <p>The University Prints is "A scholarly visual archive of 7400 basic art history subjects available both as slides and as a prints". The prints can be ordered individually or a selection of them can be collated into sets for art history study.

(Cambridge, MA): The MIT Press, (1996).. (1996).. Very good. - Small quarto [9 inches high by 7 inches wide], softcover bound in printed white wrappers. There is some light foxing to the edges of the wraps. 119 pages plus ads. Black-and-white illustrations. Very good. <p>The contents of this issue include "Aby Warburg: his Study of Ritual and Art on Two Continents" by Kurt W. Forster, "What Do Pictures Really Want?" by W. J. T. Mitchell, "Welcome to the Cultural Revolution" by Rosalind Krauss, and "The Archive without Museums" by Hal Foster. There is also a"Questionnaire on Visual Culture" with contributions by various authors.

Boston: John H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1830.. 1830.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wrappers. The wraps are foxed & heavily chipped around the edges with some small pieces out. The spine is perished. There is a contemporary inscription along the top edge of the front wrap. 22 pages. There is offsetting to the title page . There is occasional foxing & some light creasing to the pages. There is darkening & chipping to the edges of a few pages. Good. <p>First edition.

Boston, MA: Printed for Members of the Bibliophile Society, 1913.. 1913.. Very good. - Octavo, rust brown cloth backed with cream vellum & titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is lightly bumped & the spine is a bit foxed & sunned. There is rubbing & chipping to the front board along the join between the cloth & the vellum. 77 pages, unopened. Illustrated with a 2- page folding facsimile. Very good. <p>Limited edition of 475 copies.<p>The Ode and the two prose pieces each have a preface by Edmund Gosse. Also included is Swinburne's "Memorial Verses on the Death of Richard Burton", accompanied by a facsimile of a two-page handwritten draft of the poem.

Paris: Editions A. Silvaire, (1983)., (1983).. Good. - Small quarto bound in printed tan wrappers. The spine is torn & chipped. [ii] & [42] leaves, including 32 leaves of visual texts. Fine internally. Very good. <p>Collection "Poesie Spatiale".<p>Inscribed to Dick Higgins by the author. Laid in are a handwritten card with Lengelle's name and address on it, and a carbon copy of an ANS from Dick Higgins thanking Lengelle for sending him the book.