Search Results: Authors starting with O from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, Shoe String Press, 1974. (1st American Edition). Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 148p. Cloth is torn on top edge of front cover, top page edges have brown spots and white spots on top edge of back cover, cover corners and head and foot of spine bumped, jacket has a stain on spine with light edge wear. B&w maps. (8-7/8"x5-5/8")

Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Press, 1950. 6th Edition. Stapled wraps. Very good. 24p. Wrap corners lightly worn. Scarce pamphlet justifying belief in God by the longtime, progressive University of Notre Dame Research Professor of Theology who was the first cleric awarded "Notre Dame's Laetare Medal, a degree Notre Dame bestows on American Catholics for notable public contributions." (5-3/4"x3-1/4")

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. Hardcover. Very good/Fair +. 182p. Jacket ragged with holes on flap folds and chips and tears to edges. Originally published by John C. Winston. (8-1/2"x5-3/4")

Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 1950. Stiff stapled wraps. Very good. 64p. 16th printing (1961) Bottom corner of wraps and pages bent. Booklet by the University of Notre Dame Research Professor of Theology and author of numerous books and pamphlets explains Christ's way to salvation in the language of the average Catholic layperson. B&w charts. (6-1/2"x4-3/4")

Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor, 1944. 5th Edition. Stapled wraps. Very good. [32p.] Wraps rubbed with ink stamp on back and corners worn. Pamphlet with historical and contemporary examples of support in the home for a child's education by the longtime, progressive University of Notre Dame Research Professor of Theology who was the first cleric awarded "Notre Dame's Laetare Medal, a degree Notre Dame bestows on American Catholics for notable public contributions." (5-3/4"x3-1/8")

Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Press, [1930?]. Stapled wraps. Very good. [40p.] Wrap edges toned. Pamphlet by the longtime, progressive University of Notre Dame Research Professor of Theology who was the first cleric awarded "Notre Dame's Laetare Medal, a degree Notre Dame bestows on American Catholics for notable public contributions." (5-1/2"x3-1/8")

London: Andre Deutsch, 2013. Hardcover. Very good/very good. [xviii], 236p. 1st printing. Reissue of the 2004 biography, which includes interviews with Kirsty taken before her death as well as "interviews with Bono, Billy Bragg, Johnny Marr, and others." Includes bibliography and discography. 4 leaves of color photo plates. (8-1/8"x5-1/4")

Palermo: Comune di Palermo, Assessorato Sviluppo Economico e Attivita Produttive, 2008. Pictorial hardcover. Very good/No Jacket. [80p.] Cover corners bumped, top edge scraped and top corner of spine torn. Describes the ecologically sensitive work being done to promote the production of fish in Palermo, Italy. Text in Italian. Color photographs. (8-1/2"x11-7/8")

[s.l.]: Rock Press, 2012. Softcover. Very good. viii, 348p. Memoir of Ochs' friendship and writing partnership with David Jove, "Canadian director, producer, and writer, particularly of underground and alternative music-themed films" [Wikipedia]. Ochs and Jove were responsible for creating New Wave Theatre, a public-access and then cable TV punk and new wave performance program. (9"x6")

Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1969. (1st Edition). Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. [x], [148p.] Stain on back cover. B&w illustrations, maps, and photographs. (9-1/2"x9-1/2")

New York: Monthly Review Press, 1955. Cloth. Very Good/good. xii, 372p. Endpapers have light acid discoloration, top of spine cloth worn, top of cover sunned, jacket has chips and tears to edges. Includes bibliographical references. "A comprehensive, thoroughly documented[...]account of every aspect of the oil industry, domestic and foreign." Laid in Liberty Book Club News, September 1, 1956. (8-3/8"x5-5/8")

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. [viii], 130p. 1st printing. Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl enslaved in the Danish-owned Caribbean island of St. John as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734. [WorldCat] (8-1/2"x5-3/4")

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1947. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 413p. California Edition of Hill of the Hawk limited and signed on limitation page. Spots on cover with corners bumped. Author awarded 1961 Newbery Medal for his book, Island of the Blue Dolphins. "Covers the period of the American occupation of California, 1846-1847. The hero arrives in Los Angeles with a pack-train and joins Kearny and Kit Carson for their march on Los Angeles." [Baird & Greenwood; 1932] (8-1/2"x6")

Washington DC: National Catholic Community Service, 1952. Stiff stapled wraps. Very good. [ii], [52p.] 2nd printing. Wrap corners lightly worn. Booklet with a collection of advice assembled by O'Donnell from visiting military camps and bases and talking to chaplains, inductees, servicemen, and veterans, people who know from firsthand experience what should be said to young Catholic men about to enter military service. (8-1/2"x5-1/2")

Camden, New Jersey: Bovril of America, 1933. Stapled wraps. Very good. 24p. Check mark next to a few recipes, wrap corners scraped and pencil note on back. Scarce promotional booklet containing recipes using Bovril meat extract paste. Two-color illustrations. (4-3/8"x2-3/4")

Carmel, California: Friends of Photography, 1976. Softcover. Very good. 44p. Cover edges lightly scraped. The quarterly publication of the Friends of Photography. This issue devoted to a tribute to arts and photography writer Newhall. Includes bibliography. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

Carmel, California: Friends of Photography, 1974. Softcover. Very good. [80p.] Cover rubbed and toned, pages 13 to 16 have a flaw on the top corner, which suggests that these pages were printed on the edge of the paper roll. The quarterly publication of the Friends of Photography featuring essays on the impact of photography on the arts and society. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

San Antonio, Texas: Order of Daedalians, 1984. Softcover. Very good. 192p. Address label on back cover, cover edges lightly scraped. B&w decorations. (9-1/4"x7-1/2")

Garden City, New York: Crime Club, Doubleday & Co., 1952. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover. Good/good. 191p. Pages brown, jacket edges and folds scraped with a 1" creased tear on bottom. [Hubin; p. 302] Jacket design by Gillian Sandlands. (8"x5-1/2")

Los Angeles: City of Los Angeles, 1941. Softcover. Good +. [88p.] Tear on bottom of half title page, cover scraped with corners worn and creased. A review of pre-World War II Los Angeles. A report of city government operations during 1940. B&w photographs. (12"x9")