Search Results: Authors starting with O from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

Dublin: The Abbey Theatre, (1969).. (1969).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed with some light creasing to the rear wrap. 98 & [2] pages. Illustrations in black & white and in black on a colored ground. The title page is slightly foxed & the bottom edges of the pages are a bit darkened. Very good. <p>The author was Director of the Abbey Theatre.

NY: E. P. Dutton, Inc., (1985)., (1985).. Very good. - 8vo, cream buckram backed vermilion boards titled in gilt, in dw (lightly rubbed; small label removed from front pastedown). [xii] & 243 pp. Near fine in very good dw. <p>First edition.

(NY: The Moretus Press, Inc.), 1982, 1983.. 1982, 1983.. Very good. - Octavo, pictorial wraps. Vol. 2 No. 6 lightly soiled with small stain to front wrap; Vol. 3 No. 1 lightly soiled & creased with stain to rear wrap. 64 pp.; and 72 pp. Very good.

New York: E.P. Dutton, (1980).. (1980).. Very good. SIGNED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES - Octavo, violet boards backed by a violet cloth spine, titled in silver on the spine, in a printed purple dust wrapper. There is a minor crease along the bottom edge of the dust jacket. [x] & 196 pages. Near fine. <p>First edition. Signed by Joyce Carol Oates on the title page.

(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 2005).. 2005).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed white wrappers. The binding is slightly soiled. 202 pages plus 2-page publisher's catalog. 4 pages of color illustrations and black-and-white textual illustrations. Near fine. <p>Among the contents of this issue are "Max Beerbohm in the Robert H. Taylor Collection", "The Cafavy Rare Book Collection in the Firestone Library", "James Thurber on Ernest Hemingway" and "Pursuing Eisenhower's Hidden Hand in the Princeton Archives".

Circa [1946]., [1946].. Very good. - Promotional broadside, approximately 12 inches high by 9 inches wide, softcover. The broadside, printed & illustrated in black & white on a yellow ground depicts 2 caricatured African natives,a man and woman, gossiping about the film's characters; "His wife won't take any of his lip since she saw M.O. kiss T. B. in W. W.'s N.I.P...."* with a smaller figure playing a drum in the top right corner. A caption along the bottom edge explains the line of dialogue: "*Merle Oberon and Turhan Bey in Walter Wanger's 'Night in Paradise'...in Technicolor of course!" There is light creasing to the edges of the broadside, some of it caused by heavy rubbing to the verso. Very good. "Night in Paradise" is a 1946 film produced by Walter Wanger and directed by Arthur Lubin. This expensive Technicolor film featuring plaster Grecian temples and painted skies was Wanger's second attempt to film the novel "The Peacock's Feather" by George S. Hellman. It ended up costing $1.6 million… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., (1971).. (1971).. Good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The edges of the covers are slightly faded. The dust jacket is rubbed with the head & tail of its spine chipped & with a price-sticker on the front flap. 314 & [3] pages. There is an owner's book label on the front endpaper. There is a stain to the top edge. Full-page black-and-white illustrations by Susan Obrant. Good. <p>First American edition.<p>Signed by the author on the half-title.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1987).. (1987).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly spotted & the extremities of the dust jacket are darkened. 117 pages. Very good. <p>Revised from the original 1972 edition. First American edition of this revised edition.<p>Signed by Edna O'Brien on the title page.

New York: Pantheon Books, (1962).. (1962).. Good. - Octavo, dark teal boards backed with red cloth in a dust wrapper. The rear cover is lightly spotted and the head & tail of the spine are slightly faded. There is a very small stain to the front joint. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed & chipped with its spine & extremities darkened. There is foxing to the jacket's panels with some soiling to the rear panel. [x] & 179 pages. There is light foxing to the bottom edge of the book. Good. <p>First American edition.

Chicago, IL: January 27, 1933., 1933.. Very good. - Over 55 words typed on 5-1/2 inch high by 8-1/4 inch wide Chicago Daily News letterhead. O'Brien writes to lecture circuit manager James B. Pond of the Pond Bureau and humorously announces: "...my speaking career is at an end. I feel better already." There is a corner crease and minor darkening to the edges of the paper. Very good. Howard Vincent O'Brien (1888-1947) was an American novelist and columnist for the Chicago Daily News. He is best remembered for his autobiography "Wine, Women and War" which he published anonymously. He was a World War 1 veteran, and for many years he contributed his column "All Things Considered" to the Chicago Daily News".

Chicago, IL: January 23, 1933., 1933.. Very good. - Over 90 words typed on 5-1/2 inch high by 8-1/4 inch wide Chicago Daily News letterhead. O'Brien writes to lecture circuit manager James B. Pond of the Pond Bureau and complains humorously about lecturing: "I'll give the ladies of the Friends of American Writers one last treat, and then crawl into my silent hole". There is minor darkening to the edges of the paper else it is in near fine condition. Howard Vincent O'Brien (1888-1947) was an American novelist and columnist for the Chicago Daily News. He is best remembered for his autobiography "Wine, Women and War" which he published anonymously. He was a World War 1 veteran, and for many years he contributed his column "All Things Considered" to the Chicago Daily News".

NY: Broadway Books, (1998).. (1998).. Fine. - Octavo, black cloth backed black boards titled in gilt, in dw. [xiii], 347 & [2] pp. Fine. <p>First edition.<p>Signed by the author on the title page.

New York, NY: Broadway Books, [1999]., [1999].. Fine. - Octavo, 8 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial wrappers with a cover photograph by Henri Huet. 209 pages. Near fine. Fourth printing of the paperback edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE: "TO BARRY, TIM O'BRIEN".

Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, (1978).. (1978).. Very good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth, in a dust wrapper. The binding is slightly bumped & there is some light spotting to the covers. The folds of the dust jacket are spotted & there is minor spotting & soiling to the rear panel. xxiii & 411 pages with an errata slip tipped in. Illustrated with a black- and-white facsimile frontispiece. Very good. <p>First edition.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928.. 1928.. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The covers are slightly rubbed with a small stain on the spine. 140 pages illustrated with a portrait frontispiece depicting Sean O'Casey. A very good, internally bright copy. <p>First American edition. George R.M. Ewing, Jr.'s copy with his bookplate, designed for him and illustrated by Rockwell Kent, on the front pastedown.

NY: The Macmillan Company, 1947., 1947.. Very good. - 8vo, tan cloth (lightly bumped; small dent to bottom edge of front cover) titled in gilt, in dw (lightly soiled; dw spine & extremities darkened; price-clipped). vii, 162 & [1] pp. 5 pages of music staves. Very good. <p>First American edition.<p>O'Casey's play, set during the Battle of Britain, in which the central figure is an Irish butler serving in an English manor house.

(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 2006).. 2006).. Very good. - Thick octavo, softcover bound in pictorial cream wrappers. The binding is very lightly bumped with light creasing to the front wrap at the tail of the spine & some very minor soiling to the rear wrap. 731 pages plus 4- page publisher's catalog. Black-and-white illustrations, including facsimiles. Very good. <p>This double issue is devoted to Irish theatre and was inspired by the collection of plays, manuscripts and theatrical ephemera brought to the Princeton Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Leonard L. Milberg.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., (1980).. (1980).. Good. - Thick octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped & there is some light dampstaining to the tail of the spine & the adjacent corners of the covers. The dust jacket is lightly chipped with some light pink staining. xxix & 1,200 pages. Very good. <p>First edition.<p>Edited by David Krause.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934.. 1934.. Very good. - Octavo, maroon cloth titled in gilt. The binding is slightly bumped with a few tiny stains & the rear cover is lightly rubbed. The spine is faded. x & 202 pages. The inner edges of the pastedowns & endpapers are stained & there is an owner's ink name on the front endpaper. Very good. <p>First American edition.

NY: George Braziller, Inc., 1956.. 1956.. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in dw. The covers are lightly bumped with very light staining to 1 corner of the front cover. The dw is chipped with a tear to the front panel & light soiling to the rear panel. xvi & 303 pp. There is a small area of soiling to the verso of the half-title. Very good. <p>First American edition.<p>A collection of O'Casey's writings on the theater, together with four of his short stories.