Search Results: Authors starting with O from Boyd Used & Rare Books

Berlin: Gedruckt in der Deutschen Zentraldruckerei, 1941. Soft cover. Very Good-. Vom 1.5.1941 - Anveranderter Nachdruck. Front cover with circular rubber-stamp showing eagle and swastika and ''Kommando des Flughafenbereichs - Beauvais 19/XI''. 16 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Loading plan for a trailer (1 axle) for machine set (Gd. Ah. 23/1 with machine set 220/65 V 4.5 / 1.3 kW [D 298/17]. Stamped at the Airport Command, Beauvais, France (about 80km north of Paris).

London: Euromoney Publications PLC, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Book is bumped at head and tail of spine as well as fore edge corners. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has light wear to top and bottom edges. A little rubbing to surfaces of dj. Spine and top edge of dj are very slightly faded. Book has a sewn in braided ribbon 182 pp. 19cm x 28cm.

New York: P. Murphy & Son, 1903. Hardcover. Good. Four Volume set has half bound leather with dark green cloth boards. Marbled end papers. All four books have wear to head and tail of spine with a bit of missing material (a few mm in most cases). Volume 3 is missing approximately 1 sq. cm of material at base of spine. Volume 2 has crack to leather along entire front spine joint, as well as horizontal crack about 1/3 way up. All books have a bit of edge wear with some bumping to lower edges and wear to corners. A few scratches to surfaces. Each book has an artistic bookplate from the previous owner on the front paste down. Stamp from small non-circulating library on the second free end page of volume 2 only. No other library indicators. Name/address stamps on the title pages and bottom edge of the text blocks. Pages are free of marks. Bindings are firm. Each volume is 336 pages. 7 x 10 inches. "Selections from the Works of the Chief Poets, Orators, and Prose Writers of Ireland with… Read More

Genesee, NY: The Castlerea Press, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Book has small bumped spot on bottom edge of front board. Name on ffep. All other pages are clean and binding is very tight. Dust jacket has a little light rubbing at spine edges. Head and tail of dj spine are lightly bumped/worn. A little wear to upper edge of dj. Dj has been placed in an archival quality protective mylar cover. Flat signed by author on title page. Errata slip laid in. 186 pp. The author has lived in the bluegrass region of New York for more than 50 years. In that time, through his work as a veterinarian, he has become familiar with the history of the farms and estates of the region. He has also had experience with the horse breeding, racing, hunting and equestrian sports of the region. Foreword by Martha D. Wadsworth.

Portland, Oregon: City Council / Department of Finance, 1938. Soft cover. Good. Comb-bound in printed card covers, front showing the Skidmore Fountain. Shows general wear. Dampstains to upper edge and fore edge corners of pages. Previous owner's rubber stamp on covers and first page. Illustrated with many black & white photos. 72 pages. Descriptions on the activities of the various departments managed by the city of Portland, Oregon, in 1938, including reports from the Bureau of Parks, Nuisance Division, Bureau of Street Cleaning, Bureau of Fire, Municipal Shop, Bureau of Buildings, City Engineer, the City Planning Commission, and more. All charts, tables and statistics are based on the fiscal year ending November 30, 1938. Some of the text material is carried into 1939.

Ottawa, Ontario: Department of Transport / Queen's Printers, 1965. Soft cover. Very Good-. Staple bound book has light age toning along spine. One very faint crease to front cover. A tiny bit of curling to fore edge corners. Pages are free of marks and binding is sound. 8.3 x 11 inches. 94 Pages.

New York: Viking Press, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition, published in March 1938. Boards in publisher's brown buckram with paper title blocks on the spine and front cover; blind stamped Viking Press logo on front. Dust jacket chipped at spine ends; archival mending tissue repairs on backside; not price clipped ($2.50); in an archival mylar sleeve. 284 pages. Fourteen short stories, mostly concerned with life in Ireland in the 1930s, by Sean O Faolain (1900-1991).

London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1925. Hardcover. Good+. First edition, second impression, 1925. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Spine cocked. Spine ends pushed and rubbed; top board's forecorners a bit exposed. Interior is unmarked. Small, plain white remnant of label on front pastedown, else interior is generally clean. pp. 272. Liam O'Flaherty's third novel, a tense drama set in Dublin in the early 1920s during the milieu of the Irish Civil War. It won the 1925 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and was adapted into film in 1935. The film, directed and produced by John Ford, earned four Academy Awards.

Los Angeles, California: The Austin Publishing Company, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good+. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by the medium William H. Cartheuser, whose seances are featured throughout the volume, to Mrs. Ethel Higley, a sitter in one of the recorded sessions. Green cloth stamped in gilt (still bright) with pictorial title on front cover. Very slight wear to covers. Light sticker-abrasion on front paste-down; minor soiling to fore-edge of one page, else interior is clean and unmarked. Frontispiece portrait of the newly deceased Robert Newton Pincock. 396 pages. A record of seances conducted by the medium William Cartheuser (1890-1966), most of which took place in St. Catharines, Ontario in 1928 and 1929. The specific date and location of each seance is provided, along with the name of the medium and of each of the sitters and the conditions of the sitting.

Union City, CA: Heian International Inc., 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Koichi Murakami. First printing stated. Book has tiny, nearly imperceptible bumps at head of spine and upper fore edge corner. No marks. Binding is tight. Dust jacket has a small tear at the upper front spine edge. A few creases along edges. DJ has been placed in an archival protective cover. Part of Heian's Japanese Fairy Tale Series. Rare jacketed copy. 8 x 10.25 inches.

privately printed [Fred Vernon Oldfield], 1982. Soft cover. Good. Saddle-stitched in card covers. Front cover shows some toning around the edges and light general soiling. Creasing on front cover and first two pages. Interior is clean and unmarked. Each pages is hand-lettered and illustrated by the author. Brief introduction by the author's brother, the Washington-state cowboy artist Fred Oldfield, who appears to have produced this booklet, in memoriam, shortly after Russ' death. [88] pages. Rare. No copies noted on OCLC. Russ Oldfield's diary, featuring more than eighty of his drawings, describing scenes from the last months of his life and the road trip he took with his brother Dick from Washington, down through Oregon and Nevada, to Quartzsite, Arizona and Southern California, and then back to the Northwest. During the trip he also meets up with his brother Fred and his wife Alice. The diary covers the final three months of his life, from November 1981 to January 1982, with his last entry being one… Read More

Paris: The Ohsawa Foundation, Inc., 1967. Soft cover. Good+. Book has a little age toning to wraps; heaviest on spine. Head and tail of spine are a little bumped & worn. One damp stain on rear spine edge that does not affect text block at all. Pages are free of marks. Binding is sound. Very slight curl, but no creases to spine. 5.25 x 8 inches. 125 Pages.

New York: Vantage Press, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Signed by author. First edition. Light wear. Pages are clean and binding is tight with no creases to spine. 257 pages. The author's account of his nearly forty-year heroic battle against cancer. Originally diagnosed with his first tumor at the young age of forty-four, in 1970, he underwent radical neck surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NYC. ''Three years later, a new, similar tumor developed on the opposite sid e of his neck requiring more radical surgery. Following the building of a new image, developing an exercise program that included running two marathons, and completing a successful career, cancer struck again. Mr. Oliver's encounter with recurring cancer, which he likens to the unpredictable attack of a hooded cobra, not only has a message for his fellow cancer survivors, but is inspiring, moving, and the pinnacle of bravery.

self published, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. Privately issued. Profiles and biographies of over 80 students in the Forestry Program at Iowa State College (Ames, Iowa) during the 1940's, and which was probably produced for a reunion. Also includes shorter biographies of the faculty members of ISC during the 1940's. Plastic comb-bound with clear covers. 51 pages. 11 x 8.5 inches. The alumni appear to have responded to a request for updated biographical information and provided contact details, family and career info, and some anecdotes and memories of their time at Iowa State. Of course, at the time this was produce, some were either deceased or were unable to be located. Some information is given for some of these as well. Please inquire with the seller if you are looking for a particular name.

Milwaukie, Oregon: Issued by the Milwaukie Historical Society, 1965. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition (1965). Comb-bound in card covers. Discoloration on rear cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Fold-out map of Milwaukie as it looked in the 1890's at rear. A facsimile copy of the 1851 Milwaukie newspaper ''The Western Star'' is laid-in (the facsimile was issued in 1930). 100 pp. 11 x 8.5 inches. Material covered includes settlement and development, schools, library, churches, notable figures, agriculture and industry, politics and government, steamer transportation on the Willamette River, and more. Includes the Lot Whitcomb's plat map of 1865 and several historical photographs. Charles Oluf Olson's work was received as an unfinished manuscript prepared for the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, and is here presented with certain additions and corrections by members of the Milwaukie Historical Society and other Milwaukie citizens.

Mexico: Biblioteca de Literatura Mexicana; Editorial Castalia, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good-/Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s). Inscribed by O'Neill on the ffep. Numbered edition [917/1000, Editorial Cvltvra]. The title page states 1964 and the copyright page says Primero edicion 1964, but the Editorial Castalia wrapper indicates 1970. Stiff-card covers in wraps. Light wear and toning to wraps. Price written at bottom of front card-cover. Pages clean. 61, [2] pp. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Inscribed by Carlota O'Neill in 1976 (with O'Neill's business card affixed) to Ida Halperin, a translator and a foreign language instructor at the University of California who had immigrated to the United States from Argentina in 1957. Carlota O'Neill y de Lamo (1905-2000) was a Spanish-Mexican writer and journalist. She was born in Madrid to a Spanish writer and musician; her father was a Mexican diplomat. In 1936 her husband, Captain Virgilio Leret, was executed after opposing the military uprising… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Book is a little bumped at head of spine. Very light wear to extremities. Faint dust spotting to top edge of text block. Dust jacket has some fading to spine. One light scratch on rear surface. Just a tiny bit of wear to head and tail of spine. Not price clipped ($5.95). DJ has been placed in an archival protective cover. Small bookseller label on front paste-down. Translated by J.F. Bernard. Stated first (US) edition, 1970. 5.57 x 8.25 inches. 236 pages.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Stated First Edition. Aqua-blue cloth boards with black lettering. A bit of discoloration/spotting to cloth. Owner's name and a small vintage bookseller label on front pastedown; some foxing on ffep, else interior is clean. 305 pages. Dust jacket is edge-worn; light chipping at extremities; horizontal surface gouge across mid-spine; not price clipped ($2.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. From the front flap: ''From a London night club to the Canadian forests, Baroness Orczy whirls a chivalrous and headstrong Oxford lad in a series of adventures that make this romance of blue eyes and gray as swift-moving and enthralling as Skin O' My Teeth and The Scarlet Pimpernel.

[Oregon Writers' Project / Linn County Pioneer Memorial Association], 1941. Soft cover. Very Good. Black binders' cloth spine with tan card covers. Bit of wear to the fore-edge of front cover; previous owner's name on cover. A couple light pencil notations to pages, else clean. No publication date stated, circa 1941. 174 pages. Placed in an archival mylar sleeve. A scarce copy of the WPA's Oregon Writers' Project history of Linn County, Oregon. Chapters: Introduction, Settlement, Indian Wars, Towns, County Seat Question, Transportation, Development of Communications Light & Power, Agriculture, Industry & Commerce, Newspapers, Churches, Schools, Political Trends, Bibliography, List of Linn County Pioneers.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Book is a tiny bit bumped at head of spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has tiny closed tear/chip at upper front spine corner. Sticker ghost on rear surface. A little light general surface soiling to dj. Not price clipped. Shows $2.00 price on lower front flap. Dust jacket says Citadel on spine and "Citadel Cook Book Series" on front inside flap. First edition (FPu), 1956. 120 pp.