Search Results: Titles starting with O from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: Harper & Row, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 329pp. Near fine/very good. First edition. Nostalgic recollections of life in America between 1925 and 1930.

New York: Harper & Row, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, dust jacket. 329pp. Near fine/very good. First edition. Nice copy of this Italian immigrant's story.

[Macon, GA]: Macon Telegraph and News, 1984. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, dust jacket. x, 150pp. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. First edition of this columnist's first book collection, boldly signed on the front flyleaf with the inscription "Happy reading!"

Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company, 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Purple cloth, dust jacket. 330pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Tight, attractive first edition.

New York: Random House, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth, dust jacket. xi, 491pp. Very good/very good. Capital letter "H" in red on inner flyleaf. First edition of this collection of 22 short stories culled from various earlier volumes.

Oak Park: Library Book Club, 1984. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff tan wrappers. viii, 98pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Probable sole printing of this nifty little history of downtown Oak Park -- famed as Ernest Hemingway's hometown, which he dubbed the city of "broad lawns and narrow minds" -- inscribed and signed boldly by the author in black fineline on the title page: "For Julie / Lee Brooke." Tight and nice.

Chicago: Ozanam Press, 1992. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, dust jacket. 521pp. Fine/fine. First edition of this Chicago mystery by a "Chicago Tribune" crime reporter, bearing not one but TWO huge and handsome presentation inscriptions from the author. Front pastedown reads: "To Chuck Berman / a great shortstop, / a great photographer / and one of the / leading literary / experts at the / Chicago Tribune. / I await your / verdict. / Jerry C." And opposite this, on the front flyleaf: "And to Barbara / Brotman, / Who led me by / the hand to the / Beck Awards when / I won but didn't / know it -- & she / won, too! / Jerry Crimmins / 10/5/92." A superb and unusual copy.

Washington, DC: Robert Armstrong, 1853. Hardcover. Small 4to. Original blind-embossed brown cloth with modern black cloth tape spine. 86pp. Frontisiece. Good plus. Although internally tight and near fine, the binding corners are bumped and the spine bears modern black cloth tape; lacks rear flyleaf. A tight, decent first edition in the striking boards bearing a deeply blind-embossed "He Still Lives" and "Daniel Webster" ornament and superb steel-engraved head-and-shoulders portrait "Engraved by W.H. Dougal, from a Daguerreotype by Whipple." Interesting nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf: "Presented to E.G. Ryan Esqr / for his little son / by Jas. L. Woodside / Washington May 1854." Edward George Ryan (1810-80) was a well-known lawyer, judge and politician of Madison, Wisconsin, while Woodside was an obscure government official who served as clerk of the House Committee of Claims.

New York: Random House, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth spine and green flecked paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 262pp. Decorative endpapers. Very good/near fine. Nonauthorial gift inscription opposite title page; abrasion at upper corner of inner flyleaf. First edition, tight and nice, handsomely inscribed and signed by the author in black fineline on inner flyleaf: "For Mary Anne -- / Best -- / Anna Quindlen."

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1929. Hardcover. Small 4to. Olive green cloth, gilt spine. 73pp. Diagram. Very good. Handsome, tight first edition. Bulletin 89 in the Smithsonian Institution's noted Bureau of American Ethnology reports. Discreet ex-library, the sole marking being a college name (neatly punched in small holes) at the bottom of the title page. Spine gilt bright and lovely.

Austin: The Encino Press, 1972. Hardcover. Line drawings by James R. Snyder. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 151pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. First edition of this collection of essays.

N.p.: Henry Regnery Company, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 323pp. Near fine/very good. Handsome first edition of this essay collection, in the striking Barry Geller jacket.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1955. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth spine and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 260pp. Near fine/very good. First edition. Intriguing autobiography of this international thief who evaded capture for 26 years.

New York: Modern Age Books, 1938. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with brown and blue lettering and pictorial stamping. xxix, 244pp, (5pp ads). Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, small foldout partly-color map on rear pastedown (as issued). Near fine. Endpapers rather age toned per usual. Attractive first edition of this well-illustrated east coast travelogue volume in the "American Guide Series" compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of FDR's WPA.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. ix, 93pp. Fine. Pristine and perfect first softbound edition of this slim, award-winning verse collection by the noted New York poet/essayist/translator (born 1953). She bold inscribes and signs the title page in black fineline "For Deb, / In friendship among / the many rooms of the / palace -- / Jane Hirshfield." Recipient "Deb" is wife of Bill Pauly (1942-2021), Iowa poet and academic especially well known for his haikus.

[New York]: The Mysterious Press, 1995. Hardcover. 8vo. Red and cream paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 278pp. Fine/fine. Handsome first edition of this Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn mystery.

New York: Bell Publishing Company, n.y.. Hardcover. Introduction by LEslie Shepard. Small 4to. Red paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 228pp. Frontispiece, line drawings. Near fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear only. Reprint of the 1965 reprint of this 1928 classic.

New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth spine and orange paper over boards, price-clipped dust jacket. 150pp. Near fine/very good. Tight, handsome first edition of this Miss Seeton mystery.

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1933. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Introduction by Leonard Whibley. 4to. Quarter vellum with gilt lettering and pale green paper over boards, similarly bound chemise, slipcase with paper spine label. xx, 9pp; 4pp. Color frontispiece. Fine/fine/very good. Slipcase (only) lightly worn and a tad age toned. Superb copy of this sumptuous production of this arcane bit from the British poet, scholar and man of letters (1716-71) most famed for his 1751 "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Colophon at rear of each volume notes limitation of 200 numbered copies (this #49). Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., who writes "Some Observations" on this obscure but fascinating bit of Thomas Gray miscellanea and whose Christmas 1933 "Compliments of" printed slip (8 3/4" X 2 3/4") is tipped to front flyleaf. The first volume bears this and Whibley's capable elaboration, enjoyable explanation of Thomas Rowlandson's frontispiece drawing and the poetry text itself, while the… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Edited by Louis Untermeyer. Complete 2-volume set in slipcase. 12mo and folio. Quarter tan cloth with gilt-lettered green calf spine labels and marbled paper over boards, 2-compartment slipcase with paper spine label. xxiv, 394pp; 6pp, (ca. 50pp). Numerous illustrations (Volume II only), marbled endpapers. Fine/near fine. Both volumes are bright and tight. Handsome LEC edition, the 10th title in their 29th series, with rear colophon noting limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #241). These most famous of all odes -- short lyric poems first developed by the Greeks -- are far-ranging in topic and were first published in 23 B.C. (Books I-III), with Book IV published in 13 B.C. Smaller volume is a superb edition of side-by-side texts of the original poems in Latin alongside English translations by a "Who's Who" of translators that includes Samuel Johnson, John Dryden, William Congreve, Sir Philip Sidney, Eugene Field, Ben Jonson, Untermeyer himself… Read More