Search Results: Authors starting with O from ZH BOOKS

London: Longman & Co. / Dublin: R. M. Timms, 1833. Hardcover. First English edition (translated from the original, first Latin edition of 1831); 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [5], vi-xxxii, [3], 36-361, [3]; 3/4 polished calf and marbled boards; 5 raised bands, gilt, and embossed decorations to spine; illustrated with a large, fold-out map and a plate; a bit of wear and rubbing to edges and marbled paper; foxing to map and first few leaves only, else mostly very clean; very good condition. Bookplate of scientist, author, and antiquary Thomas Glazebrook Rylands to front board verso (also a small, manuscript signature of his son (?) T. Paul Rylands).Henry O'Brien (1808–1835) was an Irish author and classicist. Fluent in Latin and Greek, O'Brien translated the current book from Spanish priest and historian Joaquin Lorenzo Villanueva's (1757–1837) original edition, in which the latter attempted to… Read More

Chicago: Star Publishing Company, 1895. Hardcover. First edition; 9 1/4 x 6 1/2; pp. [17], 8-602, [4]; rebacked, with the original dark green, gilt-stamped cloth over boards preserved; gilt illustration to front board faded; a few spots to cloth; illustrated with numerous photographic plates, steel engravings, and maps; very good condition.A massive undertaking, the book - unlike many other biographies of the two great men - rather presented a comparative study of Grant and Lee and their lives, characters, careers, and the similarities and differences between the two of them. Also included were the reminiscences of Union General Oliver O. Howard (1830 - 1909) and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church John Philip Newman (1826 - 1899).The author, Samuel Odell (1864 - 1948) was also a lawyer, who had been born in Illinois and practiced law there, but lived in Santa Cruz, CA in 1898 and moved permanently to Santa Monica and then Pasadena in 1903. He was a Mason and member of the Sierra Club.… Read More

Buenos Aires: Peremoha, 1954. Very good. First edition, 1 of 1000 copies; 7 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [2], 5-151, [7]; card stock wraps in green and black, designed by artist Viktor Kaplun; title and author's name in Ukrainian and Spanish on facing pages; leaves partially unopened; small rubbed spots to tips of spine; small chip to lower corner of back wrap; overall in very good condition.Theodore (Fedir) Odrach, born Sholomitskyi (1912 - 1964) was a Ukrainian and Polesian author and poet. Born in Belarus, he spent time as a child in a reform school for boys in Vilnius and later graduated from Vilnius University. Feeing the Soviet invasion of the city, he returned to Belarus, later to be imprisoned by the Soviets and chased, first to Ukraine (where he changed his name from Sholomitskyi to Odrach, in order to hide), then Slovakia, Germany, England, and finally - Toronto. In Canada he wrote numerous novels, short stories, and articles for various emigre journals, including "Wave of Terror,"… Read More

Augsburg: By the author, 1947. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 5 3/4 x 4; pp. 3-34 + loose errata sheet; stapled, olive-green wraps, printed and ruled in black; previous owner's personal stamp to front wrap; a bit of age-toning to margins and a few minor spots; in very good condition.Although, not much is known about the author, writing under the pseudonym Hoopoe (bird) in a DP camp in Germany, the little book offered practical and somewhat-amusing suggestions for civilized behaviour, including "Do not keep your hands in your pockets," "Never eat fish with a knife," "Do not spit and smack your mouth," and "Never shrug your shoulders at a woman."

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1942. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition; 8vo; pp. iii-vii, [1], 1-144; original red wraps; very minor wear to covers, clean and bright; small penciled-in name to front cover verso; faint crease line to title page, else fine. A record of policies and acts concerning the US foreign relations during the decade of 1931-41.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947. Softcover. Revised (30th) edition; stapled printed wraps; 6 x 9; pp. 44; few small nicks to fore-edge of front cover; few spots of foxing to wraps; minor crease line to lower corner of back cover; very good or better.A price list,descriptions, and binding (when applicable) of hundreds of documents and publications printed and sold by the Government Printing Office.The only copy in the trade.

New York: Bezsmertnist' Ukraini, 1963. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 169; gray wraps illustrated with author's portrait; minor wear to tips of spine; front hinge showing some glue residue; signed with a lengthy inscription on half-title page + a short poem written on last blank leaf by the author; illustrated; near fine.A wonderful compilation of poems, Ukrainian folk songs, and several works of Taras Shevchenko whom the author - a Ukrainian emigrant and author - has mentioned on his dedication page.

S.-Peterburg (St. Petersburg): Izdanie K. L. Rikkera, 1910. Softcover. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged; 7 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 249; plain brown cloth over card stock boards; rubbed spots to tips of spine; discoloration to front board; previous owner’s signature to title page; pages mostly clean with occasional spotting to margins; good to very good condition.An uncommon medical dictionary, it contains approximately 12 000 terms and, in the words of the editor - Dr. Aleksandr Oks - it is intended for medical students, but it would also be helpful for seasoned medical practitioners. No copies of this edition in OCLC or in the trade (as of March 2015).

Zaltsburg: Novi Dni, 1946. Softcover. First edition, 1 of 2500 copies; 5 1/2 x 4; pp. 80; illustrated beige wraps; light age-toning to margins; minor nicks to tips of spine; very good or better condition.Poet, humorist, and author Borys Oleksandriv's (pseud. for Oleksandr Grybinskyi) (1921 - 1979) first printed work and first poetry collection, it was published while he was at a DP (displaced persons) camp in Austria. He emigrated to Canada in 1949, where he married poet Svitlana Vakulovsky and continued writing and working as a librarian. He would also be remembered for his humorous stories, which he wrote under the pseudonym Svyryd Lomachka.

Praha (Prague): Proboem, 1941. Good. First edition in book form, 1 of 3000 copies; 7 x 5; pp. 3-116, [3]; light-brown, pictorial wraps, designed by Mykhailo Mykhalevich; edges of wraps and spine cover brittle, with chips and some loss of paper; front wrap with a repair along spine; partially unopened; in about good condition.Petro Oliinyk (1914 - 1942) was a Ukrainian journalist and community and political activist. He was also editor of the Ukrainske slovo journal and a member of OUN's expeditionary groups. He would be one of the intelectuals shot by the Nazis at Babyn Yar. Author of several publicistic works and historical studies, the current book would be his last work.The cover design was created by Mykhailo Mykhalevich (1906 - 1984) - renowned Ukrainian-American graphic artist, theater decorator, and icon painter.

Modesto, CA: E. & J. Gallo Winery, 1948. Four broadsides; 9 1/4 x 11 1/2; small punctures to upper margins (from thumbtacks); light age-toning to margins and minor wear to edges and corners; a few small, unobtrusive, unfortunate pen marks to two of them; cartoon illustrations; very good condition. Two of the broadsides with Bill O'Malley's signature (in facsimile), the other two presumably also by him as the art and humorous subtitles are identical. What appear to be unrecorded broadsides advertising Gallo wine and E. & J. Gallo Winery, which was established in 1933, is the largest winery in the world today, and spans three generations of the Gallo family. The cartoons, showing people running to get wine, clutching bottles, and having hilarious conversations, were created by Bill O'Malley - a renowned and prolific American cartoonist, active from the 1940s until his death in the 1970s and best known for his his cartoons starring the two nuns Sister Maureen and Sister Colleen.

Los Angeles: Title Insurance and Trust Company, 1928. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 x 5; pp. 3-23; light-brown, pictorial wraps decorated in blue; illustrated with numerous drawings and from photographs; mild wear around margins and a few very minor spots; in very good condition.An uncommon piece of California history, the booklet discussed the business of proving the legality of title to a property from the perspective of the state's unique circumstances and complexities of land claims and exchanges, dating back to the Spanish and Mexican land grants in the late-18th- and early-19th centuries (Grenier, J. (1993). In Growing Together for a Century: Southern California and the Title Insurance and Trust Company). In November of 1886, the Abstract and Title Insurance Company would be founded - the first company in Los Angeles to issue abstracts and certificates of titles. Its rival, the Los Angeles Abstract Company would be established a year later. After the land bust of the late… Read More

Buenos Aires: s. n., 1948. Good. Presumed first edition (1948 to title page, 1949 to front wrap); 7 1/2 x 5 1/4; pp. 3-131; olive wraps, printed in black and ruled with an intricate border; sun-tanning to margins and a few minor spots to wraps; a chip with small loss of paper to tail of spine; very faint stamps from a Ukrainian youth organization and an inscription to front wrap and title page; in good condition.Ievhen Onatskyi (1894 - ?) was a Ukrainian author, member of the Ukrainian Central Rada, librarian of the Kiev Municipal Museum, and member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference. He was also with the Ukrainian diplomatic service in Italy and taught at the University of Rome until 1943, when he was arrested by the Gestapo. He immigrated to Argentina in 1947, where he continued writing and researching Ukrainian cultural heritage. His current work, one of his earlier ones, was a personal narrative of WWII.

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo "Iskusstvo", 1958. Softcover. First edition; 9 x 11 1/2; pp. 3-78, [2]; pictorial wraps; some rubbing and minor loss of paper to spine; small crease lines and a chip to corners; internally clean; illustrated with both color and b&w plates (some tipped-in); "Contents" and "Illustrations Index" pages in Russian and French; overall in about very good- condition.An uncommon survivor of one of the influential Soviet art journals published from 1937 (some sources list the first year of publication as 1933, but a subtitle in the current issue states 21 years in circulation) to 1990. Issue No. 7 for 1958 contains material on the life and works of Pavel Fedotov (1815 – 1852) - a Russian painter who gained quite a recognition but ended up persecuted by the government for his ties to the Petrashevsky Social-Democratic group and ultimately died in a psychiatric hospital, sisters Mariam and Eranuhi Aslamazian,… Read More

Lviv-Kyiv: Vidavnytstvo "Rusalka", 1922. Very good. First edition; 7 x 4 3/4; pp. [1], 4-46, [2]; green wraps, designed and illustrated by Pavlo Kovzhun; light, uniform age-toning to text; leaves a bit brittle along edges, with a few small chips; small manuscript note and bookshop stamp to title page; overall in very good condition.Halyna Mnevska, writing under the pseudonym Halyna Orlivna (1895 - 1955) was a Ukrainian author, political activist, and wife of journalist and poet Klym Polishchuk (1891 - 1937). Having Tolstoy and his works as literary inspirations, Halyna went to his funeral and was known to have kept for years a handful of soil and a dried chrysanthemum from the grave of "The Giant." After marrying Polishchuk, the couple lived and worked in Western Ukraine, still under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where Halyna wrote for several emigre journals and published two novels, the second being the current book. She was arrested for anti-Soviet activities… Read More

Moskva/Leningrad (Moscow/St. Petersburg): Zemlia i fabrika, 1926. First Edition. Good +. First edition, 1 of 4000 copies; 7 1/4 x 5 1/2; pp. 3-124, [4]; beige wraps with a beautiful, Avant-garde illustration in blue and black; spine cover perished; small nicks along edges of wraps; three unfortunate, albeit narrow incissions to back wrap and last two leaves (publisher's advertisements) with minor loss of text; several words in-text underlined; small bookshop label to front wrap verso; good to very good condition.Naum Markovich Osipovich (1870 - 1937) was a Russian-Jewish revolutionary and author. He was active in the Narodnaia volia (People's Will) organization - self-described as a Populist Movement that succeeded the Narodniks, was arrested several times, and spent a total of 18 years in prison. After living and working in Finland, France, and Switzerland from 1907 until 1912, he returned home and founded the first children's journal in Russian in Ukraine - "Kolosia."… Read More

S. l.: By the author, 1911. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 9 1/4 x 6; pp. [2], 5-63; speckled gray wraps, printed in black; illustrated with numerous photographs, tables, and a map; sun-fading to margins of wraps and a faint mark to lower right corner (removed bookshop label [?]); small closed cut to fore-edge of front wrap; in very good condition.Present day American College of Sofia, regarded as the oldest American educational institution outside of the US, began its life as a school for boys in Philippopolis (Plovdiv) in 1860, while Bulgaria was still under Turkish occupation. Funded by the American Mission Boards of the Congregational Church, it was established by missionaries led by Dr. James F. Clarke. Three years later, they also founded a school for girls in Eski Zagra (Stara Zagora). Both would be remebered as the first boarding schools in the country. The schools were moved to Samokov in 1871, where they prospered until 1926, when the Mission Boards decided to close them and… Read More

San Francisco, CA: By the author, 2006. Softcover. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. [4], 1-119; glossy white wraps, illustrated and printed in black; light wear to tips of spine and corners; numerous black and white illustrations by the author’s husband, artist Vladimir Vitkovskii; in very good or better condition. Title page features a pen caricature, an indecipherable signature (the artist’s [?]), and a date below the title.A fun collaboration between contemporary Russian artist Vladimir Vitkovskii and his wife, the book is an amusing memoir of their life - before and after their immigrating to the US in 1989.

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1956. Hardcover. First edition thus; 5 1/4 x 8 1/4; pp. [4], 5-96; cloth-backed pictorial boards; some rubbing to extreme edges of covers and corners; pages with light uniform age-toning; small signature to upper margin of first free page; few spots to back cover; illustrated in b&w;very good condition.Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886) was a Russian playwright, considered by many to be the most important representative of the Russian Realistic Period. He began writing his current play in 1846 under the title 'The Bankrupt' parts of which were published in an issue of 'Moskovsky Gorodskoi Listok.' The work was finished in 1849 but censorship pressure forced the title to be changed to the present 'It's a Family Affair - We'll Settle It Ourselves.' The play portraying the uncultured and self-important merchant class brought Ostrovsky instant fame in Moscow. It also caused his being dubbed a troublemaker,… Read More

Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1964. Very good. Printer's proof copy, for an edition of 300 copies; 12 x 8 1/4; pp. [2], iii, [1], 1-19, [1]; cream wraps, printed and decorated in black and red; light creasing to corners and dust-dulling to wraps with a bit of wear and a few scratches to back wrap mostly; overall in very good condition. Signed and inscribed by librarian, author, and founding member of the Sacramento Book Collectors Club Allan Ottley to author and historian with the National Park Service Gordon S. Chappell.An essay, red before the Sacramento Book Collectors Club, for the organization's Silver Anniversary.