Search Results: Authors starting with O from Fine Editions Ltd

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression of this forerunner of the Jack Aubrey series. 8vo: 256pp. Fine publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in black; about Fine (lightly rubbed with no loss) first-state dust jacket, priced 15s, without a trace of fading to spine panel and very uncommon thus. Cunningham A7a. One of two historical novels O'Brian wrote for juveniles. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

London: Harper Collins, 1992. First UK Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Impression (full number line) of the fifteenth installment in the Aubrey-Maturin series, featuring naval commander Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon (and spy) Stephen Maturin. 8vo: 256pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine stamped in gold; pictorial dust jacket, illustrated by Geoff Hunt, priced £14.99. Fine, clean, crisp, unmarked copy, As New and unread. Cunningham A24a. The series is set during the Napoleonic Wars, but this episode (largely self-contained) finds Aubrey and Maturin in the Pacific. The episode centers on the stowaway Clarissa Harvill (later Oakes), a young convict from the penal settlement at New South Wales. Clarissa spreads ill-will among the crew as a result of her liaisons with several of the ship's officers. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are… Read More

London: Collins, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression (no additional printings noted), in the first issue dust jacket with "Thirteen Gun" unhyphenated. Tall 8vo: 319,[1]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt (still brilliant); pictorial jacket illustrated by Geoff Hunt and priced £11.95. Very Fine and unread. Cunningham A22a. Thirteenth installment in the Aubrey-Maturin series of historical novels—20 completed and one left unfinished—set during the Napoleonic Wars and featuring naval commander Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon (and secret agent) Stephen Maturin. This episode opens with Aubrey and Maturin preparing for a diplomatic mission to the Sultan of Pulo Prabang, a fictitious, piratical Malay state in the South China Sea, to convey the envoy who will attempt to persuade the Sultan to become an English rather than French ally. Much of the action centers on the indiscretions of two English traitors—Wray and Ledward—who are assisting the French and… Read More

London: Collins, 1979. First Impression. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine. First Impression of the sixth Jack Aubrey novel. 8vo: 280pp. Publisher's French blue cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine stamped in gilt; illustrated dust jacket, priced £5.50. Near Fine or better (slight spine tilt, indent to base, board edges barely sunned); Fine jacket, vivid and bright, with spine panel completely unfaded. A collectible copy. Cunningham A15a. The Aubrey-Maturin series of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—are set during the Napoleonic Wars and center on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, polymath and spy. This installment continues the story of Aubrey's exploits during the American War of 1812, recreating in authentic detail two significant historical frigate battles, between HMS Java and USS Constitution and between HMS Shannon and USS Chesapeake. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in… Read More

London: Collins, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression of the scarce tenth installment in the author's popular Aubrey-Maturin series. 8vo: [8],371,[1]pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; second issue illustrated dust jacket priced £9.95 with publisher's sticker (because of the printer's pricing error, most jackets were price-clipped and repriced). A Fine, apparently unread copy (dust-soiled top edge, toning endemic to text block); about Fine jacket (spine panel with just a degree of lightening to top third only of spine panel). An uncommonly collectible copy. Cunningham A19a. The Aubrey-Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon (and spy), Stephen Maturin. This tenth installment continues the story of Aubrey's exploits during the American War of 1812. The novel provided… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. First Edition thus. `. Fine/Fine. First Omnibus Edition with a "new epilogue by the author." Tall, thick 8vo (235 x 147mm): [8],532pp. Publisher's French blue quarter-cloth over lighter blue paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket priced $18.95. Inscribed by O'Brien to American poet Daniel Hoffman, poet laureate of the United States and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and dated "Dec. 2nd, 1986" (the year of publication). Fine, square, and tightly bound; lightly read (if at all). Brilliant jacket without a hint of fading. O'Brien's momentous debut, banned in Ireland because of sexual content, "charts the progress of two young Irish girls, Kate and Baba, as they escape their rural home place for the relative cosmopolitanism of Dublin. It is no accident that, in the first novel, a turning point in Kate's development is marked by her acquisition of a copy of Joyce's Dubliners [Joyce was hugely influential in O'Brien's… Read More

London: Longmans, 1960. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First British Edition (no further printings noted) of the author's third book and second novel, and her "best attempt at longer fiction." Small 8vo: [10],243,[1]pp. Publisher's tangerine cloth, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket, priced 16/-. About Fine (dust-soiled top edge) and apparently unread; about Fine jacket (spine panel ends lightly rubbed, pinhead nick to front panel), vivid and bright. A scarce collectible example, one of 3500 copies printed. Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of British editions of American authors's works. . Published eight years after Wise Blood and sharing that book's "interest in reluctant Southern prophets, violence and the grotesque. The title is taken from the Douay translation of Matthew 11:12, which provides the book's epigraph: 'From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it… Read More

London: Longmans, 1960. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First British Edition (no further printings noted) of the author's third book and second novel, and her "best attempt at longer fiction." Small 8vo: [10],243,[1]pp. Publisher's tangerine cloth, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket, priced 16/-. About Fine (dust-soiled top edge) and apparently unread; about Fine jacket (spine panel ends lightly rubbed, pinhead nick to front panel), vivid and bright. A scarce collectible example, one of 3500 copies printed. Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of British editions of American authors's works. . Published eight years after Wise Blood and sharing that book's "interest in reluctant Southern prophets, violence and the grotesque. The title is taken from the Douay translation of Matthew 11:12, which provides the book's epigraph: 'From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it… Read More

London: Neville Spearman, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression of the author's first collection of short stories, one of only 2000 copies printed. 8vo: 251,[1]pp. Publisher's crimson paper-covered boards with simulated cloth grain, spine lettered in gilt; strikingly illustrated dust jacket printed in brown and red, priced 13s/6d. About Fine (offsetting to end papers), bright and tight without foxing, stains or inscriptions; about Fine jacket, very lightly rubbed to tips of spine panel. Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors's works. Farmer A2.I.b.1. Originally published in New York, in 1955, as A Good Man is Hard to Find. O'Connor's "position with regard to race relations is a difficult and contentious one. Stories like 'The Artificial Nigger' and 'Everything that Rises Must Converge', which deal explicitly with race, can seem to moralize against racism while themselves rehearsing racist… Read More

Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of the first English language edition, originally published under the titled Díoltas. 8vo: 222pp. Publisher's mid-brown coarsely woven cloth, spine lettered in gilt, mustard-yellow end papers; dust jacket, illustrated by Jarlath Hayes, priced £3.60. Fine (apparently unread), in Fine, crisp jacket. O'Flaherty, a leading figure of the Irish Renaissance. abandoned his training for the priesthood and embarked on a varied career as soldier in World War I, lumberjack, hotel porter, miner, factory worker, dishwasher, bank clerk, and deck hand. In 1925, he scored literary success with one of his first novels, The Informer, about a confused rebel during the Irish War of Independence, which John Ford (O'Flaherty's cousin) adapted into a movie that was nominated for an Academy Award. Some of O'Flaherty's best short stories, including those in The Pedlar's Revenge, appeared first in Irish-language versions. N. B. With few exceptions (always… Read More

London: Printed for, & sold by Tho: Bowles print & map seller next ye. Chapter House in St. Pauls Church-Yard & Em. Bowen next ye King of Spain in S: Katherines, 1720. First Edition. Full Calf. Fine. First edition, first or second issue, of this fully and finely engraved road atlas of England and Wales, a smaller-format popular version of Ogilby's famous road atlas, originally published in two versions (both 1675), in folio editions. Small 4to (204 x 120mm): [6],273,[1]pp, comprising 54 county maps and associated suites of strip road maps in three or four columns over 273 plates engraved front and back by Emanuel Bowen. Contemporary Cambridge-style paneled calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt, recent red morocco lettering piece gilt, all edges speckled red, plain period end papers. An all-together elaborate production, in Fine, clean, bright condition, each map fully and elaborately engraved by Emanuel Bowen and enhanced with little-known historical facts… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1935. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Near Fine+. First Edition (so stated) of O'Hara's third book (second novel), and easily among his best. 8vo: [4],310pp. Publisher's black varnished V cloth, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated dust jacket priced $2.50. Hint of a lean, few faint spots of loss to varnish and minor rubbing to spine gilt, else a Near Fine or better copy in Near Fine or better jacket, vibrant and bright with several short edge tears and nicks. A very sharp, unrestored copy of a title prone to fading and heavy wear. Bruccoli A4.1.a. Hanna 2701. Coan, p. 111. Witham, p. 308. "Set in the district of New York City covered by the Butterfield 8 telephone exchange, the story recounts the final days in Gloria Wandrous's tragically short life in the late spring of 1930. . . . Flashbacks detail a history of pre-adolescent sexual abuse, liberal misuse of alcohol and far too many encounters with men. This time, Gloria desperately hopes, will be different. . . .… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing ("Published August, 1930," with no further printings noted) of one of the author's later novels. 8vo: [4],294pp. Publisher's yellow cloth stamped in black, pictorial dust jacket by the incomparable Bip Pares, priced $2.00 and with wraparound band announcing "The New Oppenheim—Presenting Tottie Green's Gang." A Fine, virtually pristine copy in like jacket. Oppenheim published some 150 novels, mainly suspense and international intrigue but also romances and comedies. He was one of the earliest writers of spy fiction and of the "Rogue Male" school of adventure thriller later popularized by John Buchan. The year he published The Lion and the Lamb, P. G. Wodehouse's dedicated his collection of short stories, Very Good, Jeeves, to Oppenheim. Ethel "Bip" Pares (1904-1977) is "a name seen so often on some of the most eye-catching designs of the nineteen-thirties and forties. . . . She has long been admired and collected—she… Read More

New York: Published by Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2005. Stiff Wrappers. Fine. First Printing of a catalogue for an exhibition, "Jinx Allen in Florence," September 16 to October 22, 2005, at Howard Greenberg Gallery, in New York, devoted entirely to images Orkin made over the course of a day, one of which was the famous "American Girl in Italy." Slim royal 8vo (255 x 204mm): 32 unnumbered pages, chiefly photographs, with essays by Mary Engel, Ninalee Allen Craig, and Shaun Considine. Original photo-ilustrated wraparound card wrappers. Ninalee Allen Craig (1927-2018). called "Jinx," was the subject of Orkin's "American Girl in Italy." This exhibition catalogue includes 17 other Orkin photographs of Jinx as well as reproductions of the original contact sheet and pages from Orkin's diary. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1957. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First hard bound edition (previously published a few weeks before in a soft bound acting edition) of Osborne's seminal autobiographical play, which spawned the phrase "angry young men" to describe the antiestablishment postwar generation of English writers. Slim crown 8vo (204 x 119mm): 96pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in gold; photographic dust jacket by Julie Hamilton, priced 10s. 6d. A superlative copy (slight toning to end sheets), tightly bound (apparently unread) and virtually pristine throughout. Northouse & Walsh A3. First performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 8 May 1956, Osborne's play centers on the love triangle of the disaffected working-class Jimmy Porter, his upper-middle-class wife, Alison, and her haughty best friend, Helena Charles. The play "restored rhetoric to the English stage for the first time since Shaw. It rescued language from its fashionably high-minded role in the verse plays of the… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. First Edition (same date on title and copyright pages) of the author's third novel, set in Minnesota. Small 8vo: [6],346pp. Publisher's coarsely woven green cloth, spine and upper cover decorated with a wheat stalk and lettered in gilt, decorated end papers, top edge stained orange, fore-edge untrimmed; green and orange dust jacket lettered in cream and priced $2.50. Former owner's inscription to front fly-leaf, dated 1927. A Fine copy, square and tight; better than Near Fine jacket with short edge tears and minor nicks. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).