Search Results: Titles starting with O from The Sensible Magpie

New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1997. Hardcover. Fine, As New. SECOND PRINTING. SHARP VOLUME. Numerous tables. Crisp gilt debossed lettering to spine and front of pine green cloth-covered boards. 393 pp. with references and index. Clean, tight, bright. Intergrates modern science and medicine with alternative and self-help therapies. Updates current knowledge on OCD offering practical advice for specific and appropriate patient care. Among subjects addressed : Childhood OCD, Neuropsychiatry and Neurochemistry of OCD, Serotonin-Reuptake Inhibitors in the Treatment of OCD, Combination Pharmacological Treatment Strategies, Yogic Meditation Techniques.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. FIRST EDITION. First volume only. Hearn's contributions to the Cincinnati Enquirer and Cincinnati Commercial, including his "Ozias Midwinter Letters". 275 pp. Blue topstain. Deckle edge. Ex-library with stamps to FFEP and title page. Light pipe tobacco aroma. Sticker residue from mid-sized sticker to front board. Residue from mid-sized sticker and small round sticker to spine. Light rubbing and acid transfer stain from material laid-in to FFEP. Light sunning to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Light bumps to rear corners and front upper corner. Clean and tight.

Paris, France: L'Imprimerie Nationale, 1912. Leather_bound. Good Plus. Hugo's poetry IN FRENCH. Edite par La Librairie Ollendorff. Three-quarter-bound red morocco, LACKING the corner tabs. Board red with lovely ghostlike marbling upon a striated fold-like pattern Measures 10.75 x 7.25 x 2.0 inches. Darkening and rubbing to four-hubbed spine. Gilt lettering. Front hinge, which had separated at fly opposite half title, has been expertly repaired with archival hinging tape. 4 pounds, 10 ounces, before packaging.

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. INSCRIBED by author's widow, Gilda Hazard Anderson (his third and final partner, the only happy marriage, that lasted from 1954 until his death in 1959). Very light wear to book edges. Light sunning just to DJ edges, some tiny chips, tears and cracks to DJ edges and spine. A 1" closed tear to DJ front panel upper edge. Gilt lettering to dark blue spine, dark blue lettering to front board, pale blue cloth-covered boards, blue topstain. Clean, tight. 91 pp. The author of over twenty-five plays, Anderson also wrote the occasional essay about the art of the theater. "Simple, direct and eloquent, they constitute a sustained discussion of the many-faceted problem of writing for the stage, and they embody the accumulated wisdom of a man who has been driven to think certain questions through because they were relevant to his own creative labor. These essays deal with the relationship of the playwright… Read More

Japan: Honda Motor Company, 1981. Paperback. Good Plus. Very lightly rippling to cover. General shop smudges. Seven-hole punch binding, pages loose. Still usable copy. 154 pp. Back cover and possibly 2 endpapers and last page of section 14 missing. 14 Sections. Sections 1 through 3 apply to the whole motorcycle, while sections 4 through 12 describe parts of the motorcycle, grouped according to location. Section 13 is technical features, and section 14 is troubleshooting.

NEW YORK: Grosset & Dunlap, 1976. Paperback. Very Good Minus. From the rear cover, "Here's what you've been waiting for -- a behind-the-scenes look at the "Happy Days" show, created bt Gary Marshall. You'll see the super-cool hero Fonzie and the whole gang rehearsing for the smash Paramount hit series you've loved and enjoyed on TV." Includes revealing interviews, never-before-published snapshots, many photos, and a nostalgic look at the era portrayed. 88 pp numbered plus 14 pp of "Fonzie's Foto Album." Nick/bruise to spine, light edgewear, mild scuffing to rear cover, light creasing to rear top corner over original printed price. Color photo of Fonzie to front cover, clean, tight, bright, a lot of fun.

New York: Scholastic, 2000. Paperback. Near Fine. STAPLEBOUND. ALL STICKERS PRESENT. NO MARKINGS. STILL BLANK. Hardly noticeable shelfwear. Red and goldenrod lettering to front of glossy, illustrated covers. Clean, bright, solid binding. 48 pp. Pokédex Power : Fact Files for the Top 33 GS Pokémon Secrets & Stats, (front cover). Collect 33 Big stickers of brand-new GS Pokémon. Catch 80 Action stickers of your favorite original Pokémon. Check out Stats and Secrets on the top 33 GS Pokémon, (rear cover).

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. Hardcover. NEW, STILL IN SHRINKWRAP. FINE IN FINE DUSTJACKET. The title, OH!, is colored in red, green and blue with the head of an alligator peeking into the "O", both on the front and rear of the white dustjacket. Black lettering on spine. 28 pp. Still in shrinkwrap. "No words are needed to start a chid's imagination -- colorful pictures speak for themselves. Everything is possible when shapes and colors are transformed into new images of pure delight. Open the book and enjoy the surprise," (rear cover).

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Caswell, Edward C.. Ex-Library, with name stamped to title pages, card pocket to endpapers of volumes 1 and 2, but torn off of volumes 3 and 4. Faint tobacco aroma. Lightly bumped corners, mild wear to edges. Some light soiling to front boards of vols. 1 and 2, one spot each inside of vols. 1, 2 and 3, and light scuffing to all surfaces in general. Pages lightly age-tanned. Red lettered and illustrated paste-ons to spines and front boards. Decorated endpapers, burgundy cloth-covered boards. Fairly tight, quite lovely books. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. FIRST EDITIONS ALL. Four romances based on the life of old Philadelphia, this group is the third in the distinguished Old City Fiction Series, following Edith Wharton's "Old New York" and Frances and Edward Tinker's "Old New Orleans." "The Loyal Rebel" 106 pp / "Super-Cargo" 127 pp / "Autumn" 172 pp /… Read More

Lake Oswego, Oregon: Blackwell North America, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. DePol, John. EX-LIBRARY. REPRINTED from the original Yellow Barn Press edition. Library pocket, stamps, barcode to front pastedown endpaper. Stamps to introduction page and rear pastedown endpaper. Call letter label to front boards. Wood engraving illustrations. Black lettering to white spine and front of orange, Art-Deco style boards. Bright and tight. Unpaginated (11 pp). Introduction by Donald W. Knoepfler. Mott was born into a Quaker family, the son of an owner and editor of small town weeklies. Although his youth was one spent among printing offices and newspapers, he went on to a career in higher education and spent twenty-one years with the faculty at The State University of Iowa. In this little volume, Mott "has frozen in time the smells and sounds and the lives of people that remain a part of the Midwest fabric," (introduction).

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1976. Hardcover. NEAR FINE in Very Good Plus Dustjacket. ASSOCIATION COPY. Inscribed to Director of Literature Programs for the National Endowment for the Arts. AUTHOR SIGNED, with is address. FIRST EDITION of last living work by this unsung giant of American literature. Light edgewear. Sunning to jacket spine. Jacket now Mylar protected. Gilt lettering on spine of vanilla-colored, cloth-covered boards. 184 pp. Clean, tight, bright. A fable of humours and humor, of amours and bedlamite characters, served in a caustic blend of picaresque satire and homily.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Marine cloth boards. Red and white lettering to spine. Bright red endpapers. 152 pp. with notes and index. Clean, tight, bright. This book focuses on the life of John W. Hinckley, Jr. and what led up to his ultimate assassination attempt of President Reagan. Beginning with Hinckley's privileged but overprotected childhood through his increasingly alienated young adulthood to the minute-by-minute events of the day of the assassination. Clark examines the events of the trial and on to Hinckley's confinement to the mental hospital. He concludes by discussing several instances in which Hinckley might have been recognized by qualified professionals as a truly dangerous person. (front flap)

Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. FIRST EDITION. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket very good plus. Mild shelfwear to extremities. Metallic red lettering debossed to spine of light grey cloth-covered boards. Black and white photographs. Clean, tight, bright. 254 pp with references and index. This study examines the factors that gave rise to a newspaper strike at Capital Cities' Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

New York: Collins, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FINE. Matching dustjacket Fine. Beautiful full-color watercolor illustrations. White pictorial boards. Unpaginated (20 pp). Appendix with full text of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Clean, tight, bright. An illustrated interpretation of the 10 principles of the United Nations Declaration of Rights of the Child.

Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press, 1973. Hardcover. VERY GOOD in Good Plus Dustjacket . Gutherie, Carol E. . FIRST STATED EDITION. Mild wear to extremities. Dustjacket Good Plus. Price-clipped. Light scuffing to cover. Several small closed tears, up to 1", to upper jacket. Black lettering on spine of orange, cloth-covered boards. Line-drawn illustrations. 93 pp. Clean, tight, bright. "In this inventive and fanciful book of children's stories, A. B. Guthrie, Jr. has written about the special dangers and adventures of the creatures who frequent Pond Placid . . . ", (rear cover).

New York: Plymouth Printing Co., 1935. Paperback. Good. SIGNED INSCRIPTION by author on first page. Moderately soiled covers. A .75" diagonal chip to front top corner. Edges and spine are creased and scuffed. Black lettering on front of aqua and white illustrated covers. Illustrations by author. Unpaginated. 8 x 10.25" Clean and solidly bound. An illustrated account of Hubbard's daring exploits in conquering inaccessible parts of Alaska for geologic research among volcanos and glaciers.

BOSTON, MASS: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1895. Hardcover. Good Plus. Some edgewear and separation to cloth covering spine, but the binding is very very tight. Book measures 10 1/4" by 8". Unpaginated. Cover shows children in brightly-colored clothing ice skating on a pond. One of the six offerings in the GOOD CHEER SERIES, containing poetry, games, stories, puzzles, history. Paper is thick and the pages are just loaded with the things our great grandmothers and grandfathers thrilled to, before Nintendo and Facebook. THE BEST THING about this book, however, is the absolutely fabulous color frontis of Santa Claus flying in on his present-laden sled, over the rooftops and landing on one ready to dispense gifts. Pretty near frameable, and a lovely, charming gift unto itself!

Harrisburg, PA: Military Service Publishing, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine . STATED FIRST EDITION. One or two tiny chips in original Glassine dustjacket. Black lettering on spine of salmon-colored boards. Frontispiece photo. Eleven maps. Photographs. 230 pp with appendices and index. Clean, bright, tight. The author's "basic plan is to indicate the strategic problem posed by an invasion of the European continent from the British Isles and the complex tactical implications bearing on its solution," (preface).

Boston: James Munroe, 1857. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. REVISED. SECOND PRINTING. In English and Greek. Very solid for a book of this age. Previous owner's name to FPDEP. Mild shelfwear to boards. Corners lightly worn. Spinecaps worn and folded under. Lightly torn, top spinecap. Age-tanning to endpapers and text-block edges. Slight ripple to rear endpapers. A little bit of foxing. Very light and hardly noticeable, occasional, notations. Gilt script to spine of dark brown, cloth-covered boards. In-blind oval design with triple-line framing to front and rear boards. Book measures 7.75 x 5". Tight. 264 pp, 246 of which are notes, with appendix and index. "On the Crown is the most famous judicial oration of the prominent Athenian statesman and orator Demosthenes, delivered in 330 BC. Despite the unsuccessful ventures against Phillip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great, the Athenian people still respected and admired Demosthenes, maybe even more than the pro-Macedonian… Read More

Portland, OR: The Oregon Democrat Publishing, 1943 -- 44. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. No dustjacket. Moderately scuffed surfaces and worn edges. Three white spots / marks to front board. All four corners rubbed to white, bottom corners lightly nudged. Spine edges, including spinecaps, worn and rubbed. Extensive repair with archival tape to one page near center. Still readable. Pages lightly age-tanned. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of maroon, cloth-covered boards. Heavily illustrated in black and white. Many advertisements. Clean and tight. Unpaginated. Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the United States. Issue No. l : The Japanese Problem, Our Domestic Problem, Time for the Horse Laugh. With Editorial entitled, Playing the Old Game ; Depends of Pressure. Issue No. 12 : Out-Smarting America - How Germany Plans to win the Peace ; Why Dewey Was Defeated. In between are articles written by Vice President Henry A. Wallace and Secretary of State, Cordell Hull. Articles on Prejndice… Read More