Search Results: Authors starting with O from Austin's Antiquarian Books

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955. First separate printing. Paperback. Light wear, very good. Octavo; pp; ix, (iii), 239-310, 371-376, index; original printed blue paper wrappers;. This copy is initialed by the author on the title page, "Many Thanks, J O"; Obermann was the Sterling Professor of Semitic Languages at Yale.

New Haven: American Oriental Society / Connecticut Academy Of Arts And Sciences, 1949. First Edition. Wraps. Wrappers faded, one damp stain to the rear wrapper of the first listed piece else overall very good. Octavo; pp; 49, Seven black and white plates; Octavo; pp; 50, One black and white plates; both are in original printed paper wrappers;. We offer these together.

New York: Random House, 1942. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Spine lightly faded else very good. Octavo; pp; (x0, 242; red cloth, top edge stained blue, spine lettered in gilt. Romantic drama first produced on Broadway in 1941 starring Lee J. Cobb and Tallulah Bankhead. The play would eventually be adapted into the 1952 film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, and Marilyn Monroe.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1960. Wraps. Very good. 16mo; pp; (ii), 54; illustrated; original printed glossy brown wrappers;. From the Office Of Civil And Defense Mobilization. The October 1956 Manual Revised in April 1960. This manual is actually filled with helpful info for any first responder.

London: Edward Marsh, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. A clean bright rebound copy, lacking the second map else very good. Octavo; pp; (iv), x, (ii) 12-247; frontispiece color map of Aboriginal America East of the Mississippi; the larger folding map is lacking; rebound in library brown buckram with a gilt lettered spine; Sabin, 86572. Colonial American Indian Relations, Diplomacy, History.

(New York): Viking Press, 2003. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xiv, (ii), 512, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; blue cloth and black paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. In this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, acclaimed author and journalist Daniel Okrent weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to tell the story of the majestic suite of buildings that came to dominate the heart of midtown Manhattan and with it, for a time, the heart of the world. At the center of Okrent's riveting story are four remarkable individuals; tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood. In the tradition of David McCullough's The Great Bridge, Ron Chernow's Titan, and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, Great Fortune is a stunning tribute to an American landmark that captures the heart and… Read More

Boston: Chapple Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Octavo; pp. (x), (1), 2-175; Illustrated, Frontispiece portrait of TR plus seven photographs; original pictorial printed wrappers; Very good, previous owner's gift inscription. O'Laughlin was a TR confidant and a fellow Bull Moose Progressive, also publisher of the "Army & Navy Journal". Quite scarce!

Boston: Printed for Adams & Rhoades, 1803. First Edition. Disbound. book block is intact, cloth covering spine darkened; front free fly and following leaves present; a toned copy complete, but disbound;. Octavo; pp; 327; Disbound;. Howes A396. This copy signed by the previous owner, Eliphaz Chapman Jr. of one of the founding families of Bethel Maine. Collection of Austin's anti-Federalist newspaper contributions. The publication of this volume was followed shortly by Austin's appointment by Jefferson to the post of commissioner of loans. "Austin was essentially a conservative always opposing local improvement and changes. He liked the political vintage of 1775 too well to accept the new wine of Federalism" - DAB. Sabin 2395. Shaw & Shoemaker 3701.

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Octavo; pp. xxxii, (2), 3-240 with index; gray cloth lettered in gilt in a dust jacket;. Oliver earlier book discussed Matthews working in league with TR to help promote literary and cultural Progressivism. Here are 271 of their letters discussing the matters of their times.

Chicago: The Engberg-Holmberg Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Three volumes bound in one; Octavo; pp. I; 933 with index; II; 416 with index; III: 268 with index; iIllustrated; many portraits; decorated pebbled brown cloth lettered in gilt; patterned endpapers; Some edge wear; top right fore-edge of pages a bit eroded without any loss; front hinges started and repaired, A good or better copy, sound. What appears as the definitive work on the Swedish immigrant experience in Illinois prior to 1908. Contains a section on Civil War regiments as well. Biographical sketches with portraits. A very heavy book, it weighs in excess of ten pounds.

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1965. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/a good or better. Octavo; pp; x, (ii), 275, bibliography, index; illustrated with photographs and plans; black cloth and green boards in a dust jacket, colored map endpapers;. The story of Fort Duquesne & Fort Pitt, George Washington, and the Ohio Frontier in the late 18th century. First volume in the American Forts Series, edited by Stewart H. Holbrook.

New York: Vendome Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto; pp; 240, index; profusely illustrated with three hundred plus previously unpublished black and white photographs; brown cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. Dust jacket notes: "Over three hundred magnificent, unpublished photographs from archives in the Soviet Union recreate life as it was lived in one of Europe's most beautiful cities. Covering the years from the turn of the century to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, they capture Russia's capital on the Baltic as the nation's cultural and political center. Peter the Great and his successors intent on creating a 'Venice of the North,' engaged Europe's finest architects for its monumental buildings. These rare photographs reveal the original splendor of the city: the Orthodox churches and their elaborate ceremonies, the palaces and pageantry of the Romanovs, the elegant shops and the grand boulevards, traveled in winter by horse-drawn… Read More

(Manchester Vt: Marshall Jones Co, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Octavo; pp. (xiv), 497; two double page maps; blue b lettered in gilt; in a dust jacket; A beautiful inscribed copy;. A work of fiction based on fact. The author was a member of the storied 10th Mountain Division in WWII, ski troops that fought in the mountains of Italy. This copy is inscribed by the author to a fellow veteran of that regiment, "To Ski Trooper John Breau, Erling Omar Omland, 8/11/95"

New York: Boni And Liveright, 1921. Later (1921, 5th, November) printing. Hardcover. a good or better copy, solid and complete with a darkened spine;. Octavo; pp; (vi), 217; quarter orange cloth and reddish brown paper covered boards lettered in black on upper board and spine. The Plays, Moon of the Carribees, Bound East for Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, In the Zone, Ile, Where the Cross Is Made, and The Rope.

New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1898. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; (viii), 217; pictorial tan cloth, lettered in black;. Oliver Optic, William Taylor Adams (1822 - 1897), pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The Boat Club issued in 1854, was the first Oliver Optic Boy's Series Book, This copy is an 1890's reissue. Generations of Boy's grew up on these adventures.

London: Thriller Book Club, 1977. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; 254; red cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. Copenhagen Murder Squad Inspector Morck, the second appearance of this character.

New York: Liveright, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xv, (i), 201; illustrated with line drawings by Robert Osborn; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt and silver, illustrated endpapers in a pictorial dust jacket; jacket spine lightly toned else a very good unclipped dust jacket;. The Nixon years as they were unfolding, Vietnam etc.

(Tokyo): Insatsujiho-sha, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Square Octavo; pp; 146, (iv); illustrated profusely with color and black and white plates; black paper covered boards in a pictorial dust jacket;. Quite scarce.

New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp. (iv), 381, (iv), ads; Illustrated by J. Watson Davis, frontispiece plus five black and white plates; pictorial blue cloth lettered in white;. A scarce juvenile in today's market in great condition. War of 1812 Boy's fiction.

Clinton NJ: Amwell Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine ina very good slipcase;. Octavo; pp; xix (i), 335, (v), colphon, notes; Illustrated with the author's own specially commissioned art in color and black and white; decorated robin's egg blue bonded leather in a slipcase;. Ovington's outdoor experiences hunting for upland game birds, waterfowl, deer, and fishing for trout, bass, salmon, and bear. Includes chapters on hunting dogs, American water spaniels, curly-coated, flat-coated and labrador retrievers. Amwell Press Books make wonderful gifts for the Sportsman!