Search Results: Titles starting with O from Books of the World

New York: Random House, December 1999. Trade Paperback. First Thus / full number line. Near Fine. Text unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Not from a library. Black remainder mark to read cover. xvi + 432 pages. One of this century's most beloved and celebrated artists, Georgia O'Keeffe transmitted her most intimate feelings onto her canvases. But the details of her private life were zealously guarded, leaving the world to wonder: What was the inspiration, and the impetus, for her sexually charged flower paintings? What was the nature of her relationship with her much older husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz? Why did she lie about her past and hide herself from her public? Journalist and author Jeffrey Hogrefe discloses the answers to these questions and more in a richly detailed biography that illuminates much of the mystery and intrigue that surround Georgia O'Keeffe, and reveals the real woman behind the legend. Hogrefe's encounter with the ninety-three-year-old artist and with Juan… Read More

New York: HarperCollins, 1988. Trade Paperback. Third Edition. Very Good. Dog-ear crease to front cover. Prior owner name inked to first page. Not from a library. xii + 475 pages, 4 pages of plates, maps. The definitive introduction to Chicano history.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, March 1981. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). One-quarter bound in brown cloth with black boards and gold lettering in dust jacket. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tail bumped. Dust stains to top edge. Shelf and edge wear to jacket, including short tears and creases to top and bottom edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 645 pages.

Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, June 2004. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Very Good+ book in a Near Fine jacket. Notes from prior owner on front free endpaper, otherwise interior pristine. Spine straight and tight; ends lightly bumped. Light edgewear to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 476 pages. Paul Christopher has vanished. The months pass, Paul's ashes are delivered by a Chinese official to the American consulate in Beijing and a memorial service is held in Washington. But Horace is not convinced that Paul is dead and gets the "Old Boys" back in the game to find Paul Christopher. Harassed by American intelligence and hunted by terrorists, Horace Christopher and the Old Boys travel the globe, from Xinjiang to Brazil, from Rome to Tel Aviv, Budapest to Moscow, in search of Paul and the unspeakably dangerous truth.

New York: Europa Editions, June 2006. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Prior owner's name and phone number to first page, otherwise Fine. Text block pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 290 pages.

New York: Vintage, March 1982. Trade Paperback. First Vintage Books Edition. Tanned with dust stains to top edge, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxii+309 pages. The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee, and Charles Carroll. Of widely varying backgrounds and interests, all of them had their greatest influence in the years between 1769 and 1776, and all of them saw their power transferred after the war to the men we know as "the Founding Fathers." In telling the stories of these men, Maier shows how the American Revolution was less a collective movement than a commitment to an ideal of a republic, which different people interpreted differently. She describes not just why Americans made the Revolution, but what the Revolution did to them.

Charlotte, North Carolina: Main Street Rag, September 2004. Trade Paperback. First Printing (stated). Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light wear to upper corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 157 pages. 21 cm.

New York: Harper Perennial, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Sixth Edition. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light shelf wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xii + 308 pages.

London: Harper Collins / Flamingo, October 2000. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight with slight crease. Covers clean and bright with light reading wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xx + 292 pages

New Delhi: HarperCollins, March 2003. Trade Paperback. First Indian Edition. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 294 pages. Nalini and her children move from India to London, only to be abandoned. Survival is a struggle, but Nalini turns to what she does best - cooking. Her daughter's sense of history, lost with her father, eventually returns via a personal chaotic journey and with it, her taste for lime pickle.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, September 2003. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 288 pages. Calcutta in 1836: an uneasy mix of two worlds-the patient, implacably unchangeable India and the tableau vivant of English life created of imperialism's desperation. This is where Lady Eleanor, her sister Harriet, and her brother, Henry-the newly appointed Governor-General of the colony-arrive after a harrowing sea journey. Historically precise, gorgeously evocative, banked with the heat of unbidden desires.

Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media, March 2005. Trade Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. x + 182 pages.

London: Orchard Books, September 1990. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition. Quarter-bound in dark grey cloth with dove grey sides. Silver titles and top edge. Silver silk ribbon marker. Illustrated endpapers. Dove grey slipcase. Presentation copy of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Flat-signed by illustrator Faith Jaques, the noted children's book author, illustrator, artist, and advocate. Fine book in a Near Fine slipcase. Not from a library. 88 pages. Profusely illustrated.

New York: Ballantine Books. February 1977. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. Eighth printing, October 1980. Interior unmarked. Spine creased and curved. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 245 pages. Seventeen-year-old Conrad returns home from a mental institution, where he was sent after his brother's accidental death and his own ensuing suicide attempt. To begin a new life he must learn to accept himself and those close to him.

London: Allison & Busby, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition (no additional printings listed). Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Slight edge wear. Jacket clean with light rubbing. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 256 pages. A Guyanese graduate is torn between his own life of servitude and the independent but anachronistic life of his Amerindian friend.

New York: Harper Perennial, October 2003. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full numberline. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light wear to rear cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 147 pages. At the heart of Origami Bridges is the delicate relationship of trust between analyst and patient, a relationship that grows out of the emotional give-and-take of the psychoanalytic process. In this collection, Diane Ackerman, with astonishing candor, lays bare her desires, anger, jealousy, fears, and anxiety, as she probes not only her present emotional landscape but also her past. And what gradually rises to the surface is an understanding of how the poet uses verse to purge her demons, express her delight, or confess secret longing, and through this process come to a better understanding of the self.

Freetown, Sierra Leone: People's Educational Association of Sierra Leone, 1987. Staple-bound pamphlet. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Securely bound by two rusted staples. Original price penciled to front cover. Not from a library. 47 pages. B&W photos. Stories collected at Towaama village, Bo District, Souther Province, May 1st, 1986 and later translated by Frederick Bobor James.

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, June 1971. Trade Paperback. 1984 printing. Originally published in French in 1967 under the title Les Origines de la Revolution Chinoise, 1915-1949. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Suning and edgewear to cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 223 pages. The best introduction to Chinese Communism ever published. It focuses on the dynamic social forces underlying the Chinese Communists' rise in three short decades from obscurity to power. The author relates the events of this period to certain tentative generalizations about the nature and course of the revolution. He is concerned less with the May Fourth Movement as such, for example, than with the revolution's intellectual origins, less with the Communist party's early political history than with the place of Marxist ideology in that history, less with the military aspects of the war of 1937-45 than with the influence of nationalism in the growing success of… Read More

New York: Ortho, 1995. Large Trade Paperback. Full number line. Fine. Spine faded, otherwise As new. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 320 pages. Hundreds of illustrations. 8.2 x 10.9 inches.

New York: Jove, October 1975. Mass Market Paperback. Pyramid 03937. First Pyramid printing. "Discarded" stamp on top edge, no other markings. Interior unmarked. Binding tight. Cover and spine creased. 192 pages. What will life be like for young people of the future? What will they inherit from today, and what strange new situations will they face? Nine popular science-fiction writers confront these questions in lively stories created especially for this collection. Contents: Introduction (The Other Side of Tomorrow), essay by Roger Elwood; Come Sing the Moons of Moravenn, novelette by Leigh Brackett; Examination Day, novelette by Gordon Eklund; The Speeders, short story by Arthur Tofte; Let My People Go! short story by Joseph Green; Night of the Millennium, short story by Edward D. Hoch; A Bowl of Biskies Makes a Growing Boy, novelette by Raymond F. Jones; Final Exam, short story by Thomas N. Scortia; The Others, novelette by J. Hunter Holly; Peace, Love, and Food for the Hungry, novelette by Gail Kimberly