Search Results: Authors starting with O from John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB

New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1977]. First edition. Touch a fade to the cloth edges, slight bump to upper right front corner, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. (22499). Octavo, cloth. "Eighteen stories first published in mainstream literary journals, all remarkable for their psychologically acute explorations of the dark side of ordinary experience ... Oates rivals Flannery O'Connor in her ability to bring grotesque characters vividly to life, and Shirley Jackson in her skill at evoking the perversity of everyday human nature. The stories in NIGHT-SIDE are provocative and haunting for their depiction of characters for whom alienation and solipsism are an unavoidable response to life." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-291.

New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1977]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (1679). Octavo, cloth. "Eighteen stories first published in mainstream literary journals, all remarkable for their psychologically acute explorations of the dark side of ordinary experience ... Oates rivals Flannery O'Connor in her ability to bring grotesque characters vividly to life, and Shirley Jackson in her skill at evoking the perversity of everyday human nature. The stories in NIGHT-SIDE are provocative and haunting for their depiction of characters for whom alienation and solipsism are an unavoidable response to life." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-291.

New York: Bartholomew House, 1969. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket, some light rubbing, light wear to extremities. (1426). Octavo, Hardcover.

New York: Stein and Day, Publishers, [1979]. First U.S. edition. A near fine copy, some light fading along board edges in a near fine dust jacket, small closed tear to upper rear panel. (11041). Octavo, cloth backed boards. A Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novel, the fifth in the series.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881. First edition. Top of page edges dusty, lower corners bumped, spine a bit dull with mild shelf wear to spine ends, a very good copy. (19990). Octavo, pp. [1-2: blank] [i-v] vi-viii [ix] x-xi [xii-xv] xvi-xxviii [xxix-xxxi] xxxii-lxii [1-3] 4-485 [486: blank] [487-488: blank leaf excised or pasted under rear endpaper], flyleaf at front, inserted frontispiece (portrait of the author) with tissue guard, three additional inserted plates, one with tissue guard, inserted facsimile, other illustrations in the text, original decorated dark blue cloth, front and rear panels ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind, brown coated endpapers. The author's posthumously published only book, collecting material first published in periodicals in the late 1850s and early 1860s. 994 copies of the 1530 printed were bound and the remaining sheets were junked three years after publication. O'Brien (1828-1862) was an important contributor to the type… Read More

London: John Calder, 1977. First edition. Spotting to edges, fine in a near fine dust jacket with some spotting to front panel. (8693). Octavo, cloth. A selection of the author's best fiction.

New York: Atheneum, 1972. First edition. Near fine, touch of age fading to edges in a near fine dust jacket very light shelf wear, some light age darkening, small closed tear to upper left corner. (8323). Octavo, cloth backed boards. Novel of suspense/espionage/biological warfare.

[New York]: The Mysterious Press, [1993]. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. (7096). Octavo, boards.

London: Hutchinson, 1994. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a few scratches to back panel of the foil-type dust jacket. (4545). Octavo, Hardcover. Author's first novel. First book in the Mallory series. Edgar award nominee.

New York: Putnam, 1994. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (29). Octavo, boards. Author's well received first mystery novel. Signed. Edgar nominee.

New York: Putnam, 1994. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (7091). Octavo, boards. Author's well received first mystery novel. Edgar nominee.

Indianapolis, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, [1938]. First edition. Some fading to spine and edges else very good to near fine in a very good dust jacket, shelf wear to edges and corners, loss along top of spine panel affecting the author's name, wear and minor loss to base of spine panel, very uncommon in dust jacket. (9637). Octavo, original blue cloth, design stamped in blind to front cover and spine, lettering stamped in gold to front and spine. Basis for the 1939 Warner Brothers film directed by William Keighley starring James Cagney as Frank Ross, a reporter who is doing a story on political corruption but is framed and sent to prison before he can get his story out. Also stars George Raft as the gangster in prison Cagney seeks help from.

London, New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town: Rider and Company, [1952]. First edition. A fine copy, corner tips a little soft in a very good price clipped dust jacket (with new price of 10/6 stamped to lower flap edge), light edge rubbing, touch of shelf wear to head of spine panel, minor loss to base of spine panel and corners. (13816). Octavo, cloth. Weird novel of intrigue, sorcery, and black magic. "A straight-ahead, fast-paced pulpish adventure yarn with some chilling injections of supernaturalism by an author whose primary writings were a series of 'nonfiction' studies of the occult." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-246. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 140-41. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1251. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 390. Reginald 10917.

New York: Random House, [1940]. First edition. A very good plus copy, neat owners name and date to upper corner of front free end paper, tiny stain spot to lower front cover, in a very good plus dust jacket, vertical crease to along front flap edge, some mild edge rubbing. Uncommon in dust jacket. (10629). Octavo, cloth. Murder mystery set in Hollywood.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (7092). Octavo, boards. Signed by O'Kane with drawing on title page. Author's first mystery.

New York: DAW Books, Inc., [2010]. First edition. Base of spine slightly bruised, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. (27589). Octavo, boards. The author's first adult novel and winner of the World Fantasy Award for best novel 2011. Also winner of the Carl Brandon Kindred Award "for outstanding work of speculative fiction dealing with race and ethnicity." Set in a post-apocalyptic future in the Sudan. "To compare author Nnedi Okorafor to the late Octavia E. Butler would be easy to do, but this simple comparison should not detract from Okorafor's unique storytelling gift. Who Fears Death is a post-apocalyptic parable that teaches lessons on how ignorance, apathy, and prejudice can kill, but how truth and knowledge are the keys to life." - Zetta Brown, The New York Journal of Books (online).

New York: DAW Books, Inc., [2011]. First trade paperback edition. A fine, unread copy. Touch of rubbing at corner tips. (27590). Octavo, boards. The author's first adult novel and winner of the World Fantasy Award for best novel 2011. Also winner of the Carl Brandon Kindred Award "for outstanding work of speculative fiction dealing with race and ethnicity." Set in a post-apocalyptic future in the Sudan. "To compare author Nnedi Okorafor to the late Octavia E. Butler would be easy to do, but this simple comparison should not detract from Okorafor's unique storytelling gift. Who Fears Death is a post-apocalyptic parable that teaches lessons on how ignorance, apathy, and prejudice can kill, but how truth and knowledge are the keys to life." - Zetta Brown, The New York Journal of Books (online).

New York: Tor, [1995]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Unread. (13692). Octavo, boards. Science fiction novel of alternate realities.

London: Max Reinhardt, [1955]. First British edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to folds, small closed tear to lower right front corner, mild rubbing to upper and lower edges. (30503). Octavo, boards. The author's first novel. "A field anthropologist learns that the South Texas community he has been studying is a colony of a galactic civilization..." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-833. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-833. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1898-1901.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1984]. First hardcover edition (and first printing of the revised text). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (29101). Octavo, boards. An anthropologist works desperately to establish communication with the first human-like aliens encountered by Mankind.