Search Results: Authors starting with O from The Peculiar Old Cat and Fiddle Bookshop

Roaring Book Press, First Paperback Edition, First Printing, 2012, Inscribed by G-- (presumed to be the author) with intricate hand-drawn image of Cerberus - this is not a casual doodle! Graphic novel, 72 pages, 10 x 7.5 inches. including "G(r)eek Notes". Condition is Near Fine with some light corner wear. George O'Connor is a contemporary author and illustrator living in Brooklyn, creator of the New York Times Bestselling Olympians series of educational graphic novel. The personal illustration makes this a unique copy.

Melville House, Brooklyn NY, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021 SIGNED by Richard O'Rawe on a tipped-in page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 262 numbered pages, 24 by 16 cm, red boards with silver titling on spine, jacket features vault illustration over gray background with red lettering. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. A fast-paced, suspenseful thriller based on one of the biggest (and still unsolved) bank-robberies in history. O'Rawe is a former IRA operative who did time for bank robbery and later did time in Long Kesh for political activity.

Avid Reader Press, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Susan Orlean on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 241 numbered pages, 24 x 17 cm, boards covered with white paper, cream textured spine with black titling, brilliant white just jacket with over-sized lettering and a chicken. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine (no faults observed), packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. Susan Orlean is a journalist and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book, and a staff writer for The New Yorker with a dedicated following. The Orchid Thief was adapted into the film Adaptation (2002), and Meryl Streep won an Oscar nomination for her performance as Orlean. Susan Orlean brings a fresh buzzword to the cultural conversation when she describes herself as "animalish" in her new collection of essays, "On Animals". "I don't just mean as a child," she writes, "since all… Read More

Franciscan, Pulaski, WI, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1999 Trade Paperback, pp. 108, 21 x 15 cm, white wraps frame an abstract front cover illustration by Marilyn Scheyer, and a rear cover author bio and commendations, multiple illustrations. In Fine Condition. "This deeply personal spiritual work comes from a young East African poet, who has been a monk, editor of a popular newspaper and a controversial political activist." The author, Nichola Otieno, won the prestigious Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award in 1996. He is now committed to the renaissance of African wisdom as the way to a new vision of life for the world in the coming millennium.

Canongate Books, Edinburgh, UK Independent Bookshop Special 1st Edition,1st Printing, 2021, SIGNED in characteristic fun style by Ruth Ozeki on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 546 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm. Yellow boards with black lettering on spine. Jacket features shiny, colored lettering telling its own story on a purplish-blue background, most effective. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, a bright copy. Packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her novel A Tale for the Time Being was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize. The Book of Form and Emptiness is a compassionate book that is filled with ideas, and an original, inventive coming-of-age tale about grief and loss and mental health, and our modern, all-consuming obsession with acquiring materialistic possessions. It is also a story about the vital relationship between a boy and his very own book.