Search Results: Authors starting with O from Nooks Of Books

New York: Vanguard Press, 1967. [1967]. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full green cloth. The spine is stamped in green and white. Octavo. Red endpapers and topstain. 440pps. The edges of the cloth are faintly faded and the fore-edge has two small soil-marks. Also, there is a slight bump to the upper front tip. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The textblock is immaculate; no previous ownership markings. The price-clipped dustjacket, colorful, clean, intact and glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has general edgwear with rubbing wear at the extremities and a couple of closed tears. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. A very nice, collector's-quality copy of this early Oates novel.<br><br><font color=#003366><b> "In her second novel, Joyce Carol Oates created one of her most memorable heroines, Clara, the beautiful daughter of migrant farmworkers. Intent upon rising above her haphazard life of violence and… Read More

New York: Vanguard Press, 1966. [1966]. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Blue boards over black cloth. The spine is stamped in silver and blue; the front panel in black. Octavo. Green topstain and endpapers. 250pps. There is a slight bump to the bottom of the textblock and a faint pencil-erasure of price in the upper corner of a preliminary page. Otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is mildly rubbed at the extremities and has a 1 1/2" closed tear with an attendant diagonal crease at the bottom of the front panel; the original price (4.95) is intact. A very nice, collector's-quality copy of the author's third book. ".Here are stories that are intense, ironic, sinister, and violent, reflecting incisively the mores of a frightening world -- a world in which love is complex and difficult, in which evil is ordinary, in which senseless actions lead to even more senseless non sequiturs, in which… Read More

New York: Ecco, 2005. [2005]. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Pale green boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 434pps. There is a remainder mark on the bottom edge of the textblock and slight rounding to the spine-ends, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a touch of crinkling at the head of the spine; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "...<big>N</big>ikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet, following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes a remarkable transformation during a tumultuous year that brings stunning horror, sorrow, illumination, wisdom, and even -- from an unexpected source -- a nurturing love."<br><br></b></font> Purchase… Read More

Washington D. C.: The American Architectural Foundation , 1997. Fine in stapled, illustrated cardstock wrappers. Square quarto. Unpaginated, with 13 Graphite on Paper drawings. An excellent copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. Laid in is a SIGNED, full-page letter from the artist on his personal stationary; this letter is addressed to an associate, 'James' -- who, according to the text, was also to have work included in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Fleisher Challenge at Twenty group exhibition in the summer of '98. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request.. SIGNED. STEPHEN TALASNIK VISIONARY OBJECTS PANORAMAS AND MAPS 1994 1997 ARTS ART ARTISTS DRAWINGS DRAFTSMEN DESIGNERS… Read More

New York: Random House, 2011. As New in an As New dust jacket. Black boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 338pps. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "...<big>I</big>n a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with 'the deathless man.' But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her -- the legend of the tiger’s wife."</b></font><br><br> Purchase with confidence: all… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1969. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Bound in full, cherry-red cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in gilt. Pink topstain. 172pps. Stated First American Edition. There is an 'H' stamped on the ffep., otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The text is in splendid condition; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a touch of crinkling at the top of the front panel and some faint creasings in the lamination; no chips or tears. The original price is intact.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "In a London restaurant, at their first meeting, in the midst of casual conversation, a young woman dining with a famous man becomes aroused by him, obsessed by him, and totally commits herself to him. He becomes the Love Object on whom she focuses emotional hungers impossible to assuage.<br> The telling of their love affair powerfully sounds the theme of Edna… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 1993. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Blue boards quarterbound in light blue cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. 343pp. Very mild bumping to the spine-ends, otherwise flawless: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The dustjacket, glossy in mylar, is lightly rubbed; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price of $18.50 is yet intact on the front flap. Inscribed by the author on the title-page. Buy with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Money back guarantee.. ISBN: 0-385-42572-4. SIGNED By Author on the Title-page. First Edition, First Printing. JAMES JESSE FICTITIOUS CHARACTER FICTION NEW YORK STATE WOMEN JOURNALISTS MYSTERY DETECTIVE SLEUTHS SISTERS Investigators Private Eye Whodunit Crime Murder Suspense Thriller. Catalogs: Mystery/Crime/Thriller, SIGNED.

New York: Doubleday, 1992. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. This is a Review Copy, with a placard/postcard from the publisher's publicity department laid-in. Black boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in copper. Bright blue endpages. 276pps. First Printing. A beautiful, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No reading wear or previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is very lightly rubbed; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price is intact. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title-page.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "There is no reason why this phone call from her daughter should be any different, but it is. 'Mommy.' comes the eerie whisper. 'The man.say no, Mommy, say no, say NO!' Suddenly Brooke Hayes's life is turned upside down." <br><br></b></font> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 1978. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full blue cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Quarto. This is a Publisher's Review Copy, stamped thus on the ffep. 338pps. Second printing. The edges of the cloth are faintly sunned. Otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has a couple of creases in the front flap; the original price (8.95) is intact. "...When this extraordinary novel was still a work in progress, with chapters appearing in such varied magazines as Esquire, Redbook, and Shenandoah, it generated immediate pre-publication excitement. One chapter was an O. Henry Award winner in 1976; another was selected for The Best American Short Stories in 1977... As Cacciato, pursued by his own comrades-in-arms, walks out of the jungles of Vietnam -- over mountains and across continents,… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1985. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Gold boards quarterbound in green cloth. Both the spine and the front board are gilt-stamped. 312pps. First Printing. There is a remainder mark on the bottom of the textblock. The upper front tip is mildly bumped. Also, the page-edges are a bit yellowed. Otherwise clean, tight, and square. No previous ownership markings. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a faintly sunned spine and a touch of toning at the top of each flap; no chips or tears. The original price is intact.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "It's 1995 and William Cowling is digging a hole in his backyard. He is forty-nine, and after years and years of pent-up terror he has finally found the courage of a fighting man. And so a hole. A hole that he hopes will one day be large enough to swallow up his almost fifty years'… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Black boards quarterbound in black cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Octavo. Red endpapers. 273pps. First edition, first printing. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, is mildly rubbed with a couple of crinkles. As is common with the dustjacket, the light-sensitive red ink of the spine-panel is slightly faded. The original price (19.95) is intact.<b><font color=#003366><br><br> "Depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and… Read More

New York: George Braziller, 1956. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Bound in full black cloth. The spine is stamped in white and green; the decorative front board in green. Octavo. Light green topstain. 303pps. There is a faint soil-mark atop the textblock. Also, a pencil-erasure of price is at the top of the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The text and the boards are immaculate; no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has very light rubbing wear to the extremities; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price (3.95) is intact. A very nice, collector's-quality copy in a splendid dustjacket. ".Here is O'Casey -- self-styled 'green crow' -- writing on the theatre: its critics, playwrights, and productions; its failures and its future. Here, also, are four of O'Casey's remarkable short stories -- stories which capture the warm humanity that makes his plays what they are. 'The Star Jazzer', acclaimed as one of the… Read More

London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. This first edition limited to 250 copies numbered and SIGNED by the author, of which this is #117. Bound in full green cloth. All sides stamped in gilt, still brilliant. Decorative endpapers. Unpaginated, nicely printed on watermarked Basingwerk Parchment. There is very mild rubbing to the cloth at the spine-ends and a small label from an Oxford bookseller at the bottom of the front pastedown. Otherwise clean, tight, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a sunned spine and touches of soiling. The original price is intact. Overall, a very nice copy of the scarce SIGNED issue. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with… Read More

New York: Devin-Adair, 1953. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full red cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in blue. Red topstain. 207pps., plus 16 full-page photographs. There is mild rubbing to the spine-ends and a small scratch (1/4") in the cloth, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a spine that is slightly sunfaded, light wear at the extremites, and a 1" tear at the top of the front panel; the original price is intact.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "...O'Faolain takes you to Sicily and to the enchanting countyside that became so familiar to our armed forces during the [Second World] war. Whether at Naples, Capri, Palermo or Calabria, O'Faolain's originality of observation and powers of description are a delight as well as a constant literary treat. Through… Read More

Boston: Atlantic Little, Brown, 1957. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Bound in black and tan cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in red. 204pps. Stated first edition. There is bumping to the tips and spine-ends, with the bump at the head of the spine causing a bit of crimping to some pages. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has fading to the red stripes of the spine as well as crinkling and rubbing at the extremities. Some light spotting along the flap-folds. No chips or tears. The original price is intact. ".Originally presented by Mr. O'Faolain at Princeton in the form of the annual Christian Gauss lectures in criticism, these essays assert that to understand a work of art it is necessary to understand the author. With an intense concern for human values too often lacking in literary criticism, Mr. O'Faolain discusses the work of Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene,… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1951. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full gray cloth. The spine is stamped in red. Octavo. 248pps. Stated first edition. There is bumping to the lower tips and very faint dustspotting atop the textblock. Also, a previous owner's bookplate is affixed to the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light rubbing wear at the extremities; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price is intact. "...In his new novel the author of that memorable book, The Informer, writes again of Dublin -- this time of the Easter uprising of 1916. That romantic and violent episode makes one of the most colorful and fantastic stories in modern history. Re-created now by Liam O'Flaherty, it comes enormously alive again, packed with action, and with the folly and the power and the glory of mankind..." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine… Read More

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005. [2005]. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Gray boards. The spine is stamped in silver. Octavo. 312pps. There is a remainder mark on the bottom of the textblock. Also some light rounding to the spine-ends. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is mildly rubbed; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. "...On a clear winter night in upstate New York, two young men break into a house they believe is empty. It isn't, and within minutes an old woman is dead and the house is in flames. Soon after, the men are caught by the police. Across the county, a phone rings in a darkened bedroom, waking a pregnant woman. It's her husband. He wants her to know that he and his friend have gotten themselves into a little trouble. So Patty Dickerson's old life ends and a strange new one begins. At once a… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing, 1994. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Violet boards quarterbound in purple cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. Small octavo. Textured endpapers. 305pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is very mildly rubbed and has a couple of faint ripplings in either flap; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. O'Nan's first novel, winner of the 1993 Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize. "...Western Pennsylvania, 1974. On a snowy winter afternoon, the winter of his parents' breakup, Arthur Parkinson's high school band practice is interrupted by the sound of gunshots. Too close for deer hunting, it is the sound of the murder of Annie Marchand. Once Arthur's babysitter, and the object… Read More

Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. As New in an As New dustjacket. Black boards. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in silver. Textured endpapers. 311pps. A flawless copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. A splendid collector's copy. ".Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown… Read More

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Very Good in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt and green. Octavo. Decorative endpapers. Deep green topstain. 352pps. The spine-ends are slightly bumped and both hinges are starting, yet stable. Also, the ffep has a small chip. Otherwise clean, tight, and bright. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has modest wear at the head of the spine and at the tips. There is also a 1" closed tear at the top of the front panel. All flap-corners are clipped, including the original price. A presentable copy, colorfully jacketed. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth.