Authors starting with O from The Curiosity Book Shop

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, Inc. , 1925 Cloth. Second printing. Twenty-three short stories; authors include Liam O'Flaherty, D.H. Lawrence, and T.F. Powys. Rear chapters comprise "The Yearbook of the British and Irish Short Story." General light wear/soil to cover, including heavy rubbing to bottom front cover corner; interior clean and tight.. Hard Cover. Good +/No Jacket. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

Chicago: Loyola University Press , 1965. Very Good-. Part of georgetown University latin Series. "The men on the Tiber. . .genration by generation built their once small colony into a massive far-flung empire of world power. . ." Six historical essays provide the backbone of this book of readings suitable for students of Latin culture and history. With few black-and-white photographs. Very small library inkstamp on title page, but no other library indications. Clean, tight, and only lightly edgew... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935 Fourth printing; copyright 1934. Music scores to the play at rear. Very faint soil to rear cover. Faint rubbing to extremities. Prior owner name inside front cover; otherwise clean and tight.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934 Very Good-/Good Red cloth, gilt spine and cover decoration. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. Light browning to lower edges of cover cloth. Bump/crease at upper center spine (manufacturing defect?) Bump to lower front cover corner and faint corresponding irregularity to lower corner of first 100 pages. Prior owner name, date and statement "Catholic Book Selection") neatly written on front endpaper. Dust jacket moderately-to-heavily edgeworn and chip... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

New York: Boy Scouts of America . Staple-bound card covers. Very Good No ddate; circa 1970; copyright 1937. The cover of this printing is white (upper half) and red (lower half). One in a series of pamphlets known as Merit Badge Library. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Faint cover wear.. Soft Cover. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

St. Petersburg, Florida: Great Outdoors Publishing Co. , 1969 Very Good+/No Jacket. With color and black-and-white drawings and photographs.. Hard Cover. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox , 1952 Green cloth; gilt spine. Good/No Jacket. Fourth edition, second printing. With many black-and-white drawings and diagrams. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities; 1/4" chip out of top spine. Binding somewhat shaken (heavy text block). Occasional faint blue pencil underlining and notes, and prior owner name upper front endpaper, but otherwise clean and tight.. Hard Cover. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. . 1975. Trade Paperback. 087973681X Very Good. A controversial figure in Irish history, Plunkett is Ireland's newest saint. Very light cover wear. Interior clean and tight. . ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

Washington, D.C.: Dance Masters of America, Inc. , 1949 Very Good/No Jacket. Red cloth; gilt title and spine. With acrobatic sketches by Ethelynd Gilooly and ballet sketches by Adele Content. With chapters also on anatomy and ballroom and tap dancing. Cover extremities moderately worn; spine slightly sunned. Clean and tight.. Hard Cover. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc.. 1964. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. Pictorial cloth; library binding reprint. Number 9 in the Twayne's English Authors Series edited by Sylvia E. Bowman. Very light rubbing to cover extremities; light spine sticker shadow. Faint, irregular 1" indentation at center of half-title and title pages. Library marks limited to endpapers: inkstamps to inside front and rear covers; pocket-removal remnants to inside rear cover. Otherwise clean and tight. . ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967 Second printing. The hilarious true misadventures of two vastly unequipped innkeepers who run a ski lodge in winter--a tourist trap in summer--in Old Quebec. With cartoon-style drawings.. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Illus. by Lou Meyers. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

Lexington, Massachusetts: The Stephen Greene Press, 1986. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Spine somewhat sunned. Clean and tight.. ISBN: 0-8289-0589-4. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

South Melbourne, Australia: The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty Ltd , 1987 Laminated color pictorial boards. Children's rhyming story, featuring native Australian animals and an unusual courtroom scene. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities, with tiny chip to lower front spine and upper front cover corner. Very faint strip of dampstain to lower page margins. Otherwise clean and tight.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1968 Very Good/No Jacket Color pictorial boards; reinforced binding. With orange and black illustrations. Remnant of bookplate(?) removal inside rear cover. Otherwise clean, tight, and only faintly edgeworn.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

McLean, Virginia: EPM Publications, Inc., 1995 Staple-bound light card covers; 96 pages. This work is a compressed exposition and summary review of the investigation into the identity of "our greatest writer" as presented by this author in his 1984 publication. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Faint soil to rear cover. Otherwise clean and intact.. Soft Cover. Very Good +. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

The University of the State of New York, Albany, 1990 Very Good+. Bulletin No. 467, New York State Museum. Illustrated with black and white drawings. Although this printing includes a random access key for plant identification using a personal computer, the rear pocket and disk--not necessary as far as the book's usefulness--were not included. . Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1970. Slight sunning along margins of cover. Dust jacket protected in mylar. Clean and tight.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good +. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1986. Romantic adventure novel set on the coast of Maine in the early 1800s. Dust jacket mylar covered.. ISBN: 0-07-047783-3. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good +. ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1968 Good-/Very Good. Ex-Library. Third edition. Novel by Maine author, set in Maine. Moderate-to-heavy wear of cover extremities, including 1" split at front head of spine strip; spine somewhat cocked; small area of light staining at top front cover. Library marks limited to endpapers: inkstamps to front endpapers; 3" x 1" scars to inside front cover under dust jacket flap (dj previously attached); pocket-removal remnants/scar to rear endpaper. Irregular... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-

Chicago: Olseon & Co., Publishers, 1891 Dark olive cloth; decorative red title; gilt spine. Decorated endpapers. Second edition; first published 1889. Compilation of "such formulae of secret remedies and methods as have been recently published in medical and pharmaceutical journals, and their preservation in a form convenient for reference. The only changes made have been the adoption of the abbreviations oz., dr., etc., in place of the usual signs." With concoctions from albadermine ( a ... more information

Offered by The Curiosity Book Shop (Massachusetts, United States) +/-