Search Results: Authors starting with O from Old Saratoga Books

NY: Atheneum. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, top corners . bumped.. 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0689311729 . Picture book environmental fable about a knight from a bucolic world on a quest for gasoline for his king's heirloom automobiles. Oakley is best known for his acclaimed The Church Mice children's series. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall .

NY: The Ecco Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 088001556X . Color illustrations by Mark Graham. The prolific Oates first childrens book, a winsome story about a plucky little stray kitten. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall .

NY: E. P. Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner bookplate on front pastedown . endpaper, jacket lightly chipped.. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0525242481 . Red paper quarterbound in tan cloth. Short story collection signed by the author on the half title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages .

NY: The Ecco Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0880012005 . Tan paper quarterbound in brown cloth. Acknowledgment and content page. The Assignation is a racy, sexy collection of short prose takes by a master of the form. from the front flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

Garden City, NY: Dolphin / Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Lower corners bumped, jacket rubbed.. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385238908 . Signed by the author on the title page. Brown cloth. Black and white photographs. With the text complemented by John Renard's poetic and evocative boxing photographs, On Boxing makes for a unique and stunning reading experience, from rear jacket flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 118 pages .

NY: Golden Press. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, spine cracked, stray pen mark on . front free endpaper, waterstain on page tops.. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Contains: The Magic Butterfly, The Youthful Old Man, The Talisman, The Inn: A Christmas Tale, The Bride's Shoe, and Wiosna's Garden. A Giant Golden Book. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 64 pages .

London: Faber and Faber. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered and missing top right . corner from front panel.. 1961. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Translated from the Russian by J. T. MacDermott. Yellow cloth with title stamped in black on spine. 37 black and white photos. Discusses ancient art of Chinese puppetry, various types of puppet booths, types of puppets, shadow puppets, and puppet theatre in Communist China. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 55 pages .

NY: Harper and Row. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and worn, page tops . soiled.. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0060132329 . xvii, 188pp. Map endpapers. Blue blindstamped cloth. Introduction by Samuel Eliot Morison. Black and white photos by Cristina Martinez-Irujo de Obregon. The author sailed and flew a plane to retrace the voyage of Ulysses home from Troy. Index, bibliographyl; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Remainder mark on page bottoms, jacket . lightly soiled and chipped.. 1966. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0224602160 . Black cloth with black topstain and deckled fore-edge. The noted Irish authors fifth book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 175 pages .

NY: Atheneum. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. 9780689313189 . O'Brien's skillful retelling of a dozen Irish folk and fairy tales, embellished with colorful illustrations by two-time Kate Greenaway Award winner, Michael Foreman. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 127 pages .

NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780374173098 . Black paper quarterbound in white cloth. A novel of Irish interests. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 232 pages .

NY: Pantheon. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Top corners bumped, jacket grubby and has . several chips, one small water spot to jacket at center of spine.. [1951]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Yellow boards with title stamped in various fonts in black on front. Black cloth spine with title stamped in yellow. A comic classic of modern Irish literature, first published in England in 1939. Though Graham Greene championed the novel (his Pantheon front jacket blurb trumpets "A book in a thousand...in the line of Ulysses and Tristram Shandy." ) , and later book blurbs quote Dylan Thomas' mini-book review: "This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." ) , it was initially not a hot seller. All of the unsold first edition copies were destroyed during World War II bombings. At Swim-Two-Birds appears on Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels list, The Modern Library Reader's List of 100 best novels, and The Guardian's list of… Read More

NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, owner name on front free . endpaper, ink spots on front cover.. 1940. Hardcover. A Story Parade Picture Book. Blue cloth spine with color illustrated paper-covered boards. Charming and poignant illustrated story about a German shepherd and black cat who are best friends. ; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall .

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed and chipped at top edges.. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth titled in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Author photo on rear jacket panel. Many illustrations by Caldecott Honor winner Kurt Wiese. Novel about a dog and a lumberjack; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 274 pages .

NY: The American Irish Historical Society. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly rubbed.. 1928. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Index, photos, illustrations. Appears to have been specially distributed at a March 17, 1928, 144th anniversary dinner of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at the Hotel Astor in New York City based on green and gold printed page bound in between frontispiece photo and title page. A good genealogical and historical reference. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 262 pages .

Buenos Aires: Sur. Fair; Covers chipped, toned, heel crushed, hinges tender.. 1963. Softcover. Softcover with French flaps. Text in Spanish. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Sixth collection of essays by the Argentine author (1890-1979) , who founded the Sur literary magazine and publishing house and was a major figure in South American literature. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages .

NY: The Macmillan Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges rubbed, jacket chipped.. 1955. First US Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Gray cloth. Black and white frontispiece illustrations and music notations. A three-act play set in rural Ireland. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 124 pages .

NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards lightly soiled, jacket rubbed, . lightly soiled, and price-clipped.. 1961. First American Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Blue paper quarterbound in white cloth. Acknowledgements and musical score illustrations. Three plays by the Irish dramatist. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 164 pages .

London: Macmillan. Very Good with no dust jacket; Owner name on front free endpaper, boards . rubbed.. 1926. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Green boards with tan cloth backstrip. Paper labels on spine and inset on front boards. Includes cast list for stage premiers of both plays, which was March 3, 1924 at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin for "Juno" and April 12, 1923 at the same theater for "The Shadow". ; 199 pages .

London: Columbus Books Limited. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Printing. Hardcover. 0862874076 . Green cloth. xvi, 423 pages. Black and white photos and illustrations, Maps, tables, abbreviations list, appendices, and index. A study of the British Secret Service, spy rings, the development of codes and ciphers, and the men behind the ideas of deception. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .