Authors starting with O from John Michael Lang Fine Books

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1984. Hardcover 9" x 6". 237pp. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. This volume concerns the women in Pacific Island societies, particularly in Melanesia. With articles on 'women's work,' women in the churches of Oceania, the phenomena of revenge suicide in Lusa women, etc. ... more information

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Wichita, Kansas: Watermark Press, 1990. Hardcover First edition 8.5" x 5.25". 189pp. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, in dust wrapper. Two very fain spots on the front board, else fine condition; fine jacket. This book is the basis of the depressing film of the same name starring Nicholas Cage. ... more information

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New York: Monthly Review Press, 1964. Hardcover First edition 8.25" x 5.25". 300pp. Beige cloth hardback, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; the jacket is heavily edge worn. O'Connor recounts the rise of the radical labor movement in the Puget Sound region. With chapters on the movement's roots, the lumber camps and unions, the Seattle General Strike, the Centralia Massacre, and much more. This copy is signed and warmly inscribed by the author to a prominent author and University of W... more information

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New York: Monthly Review Press, 1964. Hardcover First edition 8.25" x 5.25". 300pp. One leaf torn and soiled along the bottom edge, else a nice VG+ condition. The jacket is edge worn and has a large tape repair on the rear panel. O'Connor recounts the rise of the radical labor movement in the Puget Sound region. With chapters on the movement's roots, the lumber camps and unions, the Seattle General Strike, the Centralia Massacre, and much more. ... more information

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New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1903. Hardback 6.75" x 4.25". 175pp. Beige cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; the scarce jacket has light edge wear. An early work on the artificial language. With a blurb on the front flap of the jacket by Count Tolstoi. ... more information

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(San Francisco): San Francisco Bay Cities Club of Printing House Craftsmen , 1928. Hardcover 11.5" x 8.5". (15pp.) Bound in paper boards, paper label. Color frontispiece after a painting of Nash. Very good with browning to boards and page margins. This copy signed and inscribed by Haywood H. Hunt, author of the epilogue. A short appreciation of the fine press printer John Henry Nash. ... more information

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(Seattle, Washington): R-'n'-R Press, 2002. Hardcover First edition 9.5" x 6.25". 368pp. Black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, in the original pictorial dust wrapper. Neat gift inscription, else fine condition; fine jacket. This copy signed by the author on a special slip mounted opposite the title page. Rock n' roll officially celebrated its 50th birthday in 2002 and Seattle dj Pat O'Day offers a fast-paced, colorful trip through the formative years of rock and To... more information

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Everett, Washington: K & H Printers, 1993. Hardcover 11" x 8". 272pp. Black cloth hardback with gilt lettering, in dust wrapper. near fine condition; the jacket has light edge wear. An excellent detailed history of the large city just north of Seattle in Washington state. With many photo illustrations. This copy signed and inscribed by the author. ... more information

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Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press, 1944. Hardcover First edition 8.5" x 5.5". [26pp.] Brown cloth, gilt lettering. Small paper (?) scrap stuck to rear board, else near fine condition. One of only 175 copies printed, each signed by the poet and by the illustrator, Allan Jordan. Jordan has contributed five woodcuts, including the color frontispiece. ... more information

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Wilmington, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1987. Hardback 9" x 6". 437 pp. Grey cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; nice VG+ jacket. A biography of the famous Confederate General Jo Shelby who led cavalry raids in Missouri in the Civil War. ... more information

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London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1924. Hardback First edition 7.5" x 4.75". 287pp. Beige paper covered boards with a green cloth spine, in dust wrapper. pencil ownership inscription, else sharp, fine condition. The jacket has some light edge wear and a fairly faint stain along the bottom of the spine. Nevertheless, a decent example of this uncommon jacket. O'Flaherty's third book, a collection of short stories. O'Flaherty was a major figure in the Irish Renaissance. ... more information

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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Hardcover First edition 7.5" x 5". 115pp. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near fine condition; the jacket has very light edge wear and a somewhat darkened spine. This book is a call to action and plan for increasing the country parish. With chapters on the church and the farmer, social problems of the farm, rural health and education, rural and financial cooperatives, etc. ... more information

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Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. Hardcover Octavo. 267pp. Small ink ownership mark on the title page, else a near fine copy in a lightly used jacket. Second printing, from 1954. An authoritative account of the Southwestern Native American tribe. With illustrations after color portrait photographs. ... more information

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Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice - Hall, Inc., 1965. Hardback 9" x 5.75". 273pp. Green and black cloth cloth with gilt lettering, in dust wrapper. Near fine condition; nice VG+ jacket which has a couple small clear tape repairs at the spine tips. With many black & white illustrations. The story of Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt during the struggle between England and France for mastery of North America during the French and Indians Wars. ... more information

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Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. , 1942. Hardcover First edition 7.5" x 5". 272pp. Light blue cloth, lettering in blue. A good+ copy with with soiling to page edges and moderate wear to boards, bookplate removed. Dust jacket is in bright, good+ or better condition with wear and chipping at edges. Set in Dakar, free-lance war correspondent, Patricia Cornell, disrupts a Nazi plot involving espionage, murder and high adventure. ... more information

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Ottawa: F. A. Acland, 1924. Paperback 9.75" x 6.5". 107, 57pp. Printed wrappers. Mild edge wear and darkening to wrappers, else near fine condition. With many black & white plates, 2 folding maps and a large colored folded map in a rear pocket. ... more information

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New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981. Hardcover 11.25" x 9.5". 112pp. Black cloth hardcover in dust wrapper. Fine condition. The dust jacket has light edge wear, else fine condition. Illustrated with lots of cats in color and black and white. ... more information

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Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. Paperback Reprint 8.75" x 6". 234 pp. Glossy illustrated wrappers. Near fine condition. A history of Confederate cavalry operations west of the Mississippi River. ... more information

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New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1936. Hardback First edition 7.5" x 5.5". 106 pp. Brown and blue cover. A very attractive design. VG+ condition, with some light soiling. A critique of modern psychology. ... more information

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Pasco, Washington: Franklin County Historical Society, 1978. Paperback 9" x 6". 224pp. Bound in illustrated paper wrappers. A near fine copy. With much on the Native American / Indian inhabitants of the Pasco region, early white pioneers and settlers, the fur trade and mining, municipal politics, schools, river transportation, race relations, Red Cross work in Franklin County, and more. With many illustrations after black & white photographs and drawings. This copy signed by the author... more information

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