Search Results: Titles starting with O from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Includes "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, "A Bottle of Milk for Mother" by Nelson Algren, "I'm Going to Asia" by John Cheever, "The Old People" by William Faulkner, "The Snow Goose" by Paul Gallico, etc. Original red cloth binding, with gilt stamping. The dust jacket is price-clipped and a bit shelfworn, with some mild sunning along the spine; otherwise a very good copy.

Berkeley, California: Gingko Press, 2009. Hardcover. Fine. 20th Anniversary Edition, with the poster laid in. Inscribed by Shepard Fairey to Eric Idle on the title page. Showcasing Fairey's entire body of work, from his early Obey Giant campaign to his prodigious print output, increasingly ambitious large scale street work and beyond, this massive retrospective covers 20 colorful years. Fairey helped catalyze a movement from his unique vantage at the intersection of art, popular culture, and design. Quarto. Original black cloth binding, with decorative silver stamping. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. From the library of revered English actor, comedian, musician, and writer Eric Idle, accompanied by a letter of provenance. Idle (b.1943) is a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, as well as the parody rock group The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical Spamalot.

Bucharest: Passport Levant, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This edition is limited to one hundred numbered copies" (this copy is unnumbered). The author's first book: "It is 1952. At the Retreat in Wilflingen, bequeathed centuries ago by the Von Staunffenberg Knights, the residents, drawn inevitably and mysteriously to its shelter, hold their secrets and shame. Amongst them is the Englishman who plundered and beggared a family during the Austrian inflation: the German, whose loss of courage caused the 1944 July plot to fail and the student who betrayed the White Rose Movement." Frontispiece photograph by Stefan George. Oblong octavo. Full purple cloth binding, with gilt stamping, red endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Edited and annotated by Msgr. Francis J. Weber. Illustrated with photographs by A.C. Vroman. First edition, limited to 400 copies. This copy is signed by Msgr. Weber on the title page. A collection of 22 articles on the California Missions by the congenial California journalist who was at various times a Civil War correspondent, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, and editor in chief of the Los Angeles Star. The ninth volume in the Los Angeles Miscellany series. Original patterned paper-covered boards over a black cloth spine, with gilt titles. A near fine copy. Signed by Editor.

New York: The Armchair Detective Library, 1991. Hardcover. Fine. This is copy 19 of 100 signed by Dick Francis. The author's fourth book. A former jockey turned investigator with the Racing Section of the Radnor Agency, Sid Halley becomes entangled in the most complex and dangerous case of his career while recuperating from a gunshot wound. This edition includes a new introduction by Robert Reeves. Octavo. Full burgundy cloth binding, with a portrait of Francis inset on the front board and decorative gilt stamping. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by Norman Mailer on a prefatory blank leaf. A classic chronicle of America's reach for greatness in the midst of the Cold War, this book compiles the reportage Mailer published between 1969 and 1970 in Life magazine: gripping first-hand dispatches from inside NASA's clandestine operations in Houston and Cape Kennedy; technical insights into the magnitude of their awe-inspiring feat; and prescient meditations that place the event in human context. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. Mild stain to the bottom edge of the front board; else very good or better in a very lightly edgeworn dust jacket.

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Ruth Comfort Mitchell on the title page: "For Margaret Morrison, hoping that the Milk of Human Kindness may rain in rivers through her life! Ruth Comfort Mitchell, April 11th 1940". California novel set on a dairy ranch in the San Joaquin Valley, written as a conservative counterpoint to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939). Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some mild sun fading along the spine.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Presentation copy, with a special bookplate inscribed by Charles Scribner III to noted collector C.D. Raymond affixed to the front pastedown. Additionally inscribed by legendary editor Maxwell Perkins and Carroll Merritt, head of the Scribner book subscription department. Centennial history of the American publisher founded in 1846 at the Brick Church Chapel on New York's Park Row. The firm enjoyed considerable success during the interwar period, thanks in no small part to Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947), who discovered and mentored authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Thomas Wolfe, among others. Octavo: xii, [4], 347 p. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. Light wear to the corners and tips; else near fine.

Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger & Co, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 218 p. First edition, limited to 100 copies printed for private distribution. This collection was described by Lawrence Clark Powell, who helped arrange for its publication, as containing "erudite discussions of Oriental and European philosophy, explicitly footnoted, and was apparently written years before when Brent was undertaking an unfinished Columbia University doctorate in philosophy. What was really unexpected is the inclusion of a short four-act play, a searching morality on adulterous love." Presentation copy, inscribed by Brent to esteemed Southern California historian Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is a trifle tanned along the spine and folds; else very good or better. Inscribed by Author.

Hornsea, England: Stanza Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed by Jo Fletcher and nine contributors: Ben Baldwin, Michael Smith, Tanith Lee, John Kaiine, Neil Gaiman, Brian Lumley, Joel Lane, Peter Crowther, Dana Gioia. Octavo. Original pictorial boards; issued without a dust jacket. Just a hint of wear to the tips; else fine.

Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 466 p. Octavo. Original light blue cloth binding, with dark blue and silver stamping. Issued without a dust jacket. A near fine copy.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Frontispiece, with 26 textual illustrations. Original patterned block cloth binding, with a printed paper spine label. The top corners are bit bumped. Some very light rubbing to the dust jacket; otherwise a crisp, very good or better copy.

Glendale, California: Roy A. Squires, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. This is copy number 303 of 485. Futuristic poem inspired by Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and told from the point of view of the whale. Original stitched brown paper wrappers. A fine copy.

London: Hutchinson, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. #89 of 250 copies signed by the author. Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Octavo. Original marbled paper-covered boards over a brown cloth spine, with gilt titles. A fine copy. Accompanied by the original glassine wrapper, which is chipped at the spine heel.

Melbourne and London: William Heinemann, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. With an Introduction and Editorial Commentary by C.E. Sayers. New edition. Original burgundy buckram binding, with gilt stamping. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Light edgewear to the boards; otherwise very good.

Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Covers mythology and family sagas, as well as less well-known areas, such as oral storytelling, Eddaic verse, and skaldic verse. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. Mild bumping to the corners and tips, with some minor edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good.

Chicago and New York: Follett Publishing Company, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund. Original tan cloth binding, with pictorial brown stamping. Small inked out price to the front flyleaf, with the remnants and shadow of a small price label to the front endpaper. The dust jacket is darkened a bit along the spine, with some occasional minor edgewear; otherwise very good.

London: Arthur Doubleday & Co, 1908. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, with the errata is tipped in on the Contents leaf. Small octavo: 158 p. with illustrations by Charles Flower and Louise Glazier. Finely bound by the French binder Cuzin in full crushed dark brown morocco, with a different large tan morocco inlay of a historic buildings in Paris on each board, gilt titles, five raised bands, decorative dentelles, and brown silk endpapers. The original illustrated paper wrappers are bound in. Fine. Housed in a morocco-tipped, marbled paper-covered slipcase.

New York: Donald I. Fine, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A novel about football by a former NFL defensive end. Unobtrusive remainder mark to the top edge; otherwise a nearly fine copy in a bright and glossy dust jacket.

Nacogdoches, Texas: Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2018. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. Presentation copy, inscribed by Long on the title page. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy.