Search Results: Authors starting with O from The Owl at the Bridge

International Collectors Library, Garden City, NY [1969]. Hard Cover. 565 p. Sixty-two stories. Green covers stamped in gold, top edge gilt, marker ribbon; no dj, as issued; VG. Stock#101113.

NY, McClure, Phillips & Co., MCMV [1905]. 'Third Impression.'. Hard Cover. 344 p. Collection of 18 short stories; first published November 1904. Black cloth covers stamped in orange, yellow, green; spine faded,covers worn, p. 7/8 torn in gutter; good. 28534

Doubleday, Page for Review of Reviews, 1917. Hard Cover. 312 p., front. Green cloth, top edge gilt; faint waterstain along bottom margins of first 10 pp., ink owner stamp; good+. stock#101114.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page, 1927. Hard Cover. xi, 1396 p., index; flexible embossed red covers a bit worn; good+. The Four Million, Heart of the West, The Gentle Grafter, Roads of Destiny, Cabbages and Kings, Options, Sixes and Sevens, Rolling Stones, Poems, Whirligigs, The Voice of the City, The Trimmed Lamp, Strictly Business, Waifs and Strays (Twelve Stories; Critical and Biographical Comment). stock#101115.

NY, Doubleday, 1953. Hard Cover. Two volumes: xiii, 810, viii, 811-1692 p. Henry's many short stories gathered in an attractive edition. Stock#27051. Vg/no dj.

Three book catalogues, from the esteemed firms of Oak Knoll and Heritage Book Shop, focussing on fine printed works and private-press books. 163, 86, and 153 pages, the third with index; 22.5 cm.; printed paper wraps; Very Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0191.

542 items on 74, [2] pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Stapled in printed wraps; Very Good, with mailing label. Stock#ofc0890.

Gambier, OH, Kenyon Review, 1979. Periodical. in Kenyon Review, new series vol. I no. 4, Fall 1979, pp. 141-151

NY, Fawcett Crest [1970]. . Soft Cover. 478 p.; 17.5 cm. National Book Award winner. Based on the life story of a student Oates encountered in Detroit. Stock # 29,772. Good+/paper

NY, Dutton [1988]. First Edition. Thirty-five essays on literature (Moby Dick, Emily Dickinson, Kafka, Hemingway...) and just about everything else (Budapest and Detroit, Winslow Homer, Ferraris and boxing. Hard Cover. xiii, 402 pages; 21.5 cm. VG/ dj vg. Stock# 29771.

New York, Vintage, [197??]. Soft Cover. xxv, [1], 446 p. 18.5 cm. Contents: 1.) Prometheus bound and 2.) Agamemnon, by Aeschylus 3.) Oedipus the King, and 4.) Antigone, by Sophocles.5.)Alcestis and 6.) Medea, by Euripides. 7.)The Frogs, by Aristophanes. Stock# 40,096. Vg/ paper.

London : Ward Lock, c1973. Hard Cover. 518 p. : illus. (11 col.) ; index, 26 cm. The intertwined stories of two light cavalry regiments, the 14th and 20th Light Dragoons, which were joined after World War I into the 14th and 20th King's Hussars. Stock# 44,703. Vg / dj good+.

W. W. Norton [c1993]. 'First American Edition 1993'. Hard Cover. 261 p.; 21.5 cm. Begins with a volcanic undersea eruption. "Jack will survive a desperate open-boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes..." Color pictorial dj clipped; fine, gift quality. Another copy, color pictorial dj, white spine; VG, gift quality. stock#44654x.

Norton c1959; 1st Norton paperback 1996]. Soft Cover. 313 p.; 21 cm. O'Brian recounts the adventures and survival of two young men aboard the Wager, driven aground on the Chilean coast during violent winter storms. This is the dark side of, and companion volume to, The Golden Ocean. Color pictorial paper covers; VG. stock#44929.

NY, Harcourt, Brace [1953]. First edition of O'Brian's second novel (precedes the first English edition, entitled Frozen Flame). A dark story of love and betrayal set against the brilliant colors of the Catalan country in southern France, where O'Brian himself lived in his later years. Cunningham 3a. Hard Cover. 250 pages; 21 cm. This copy has no remainder holes but does have an owner signature. Very good in dust jacket (with photo of author) also very good except for two small chips. StockOB947.

W. W. Norton [c1998]. 'First American Edition 1998'. Hard Cover. 281 p.; 22 cm. "In the Balkans... a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering. They are inclined toward Napoleon... but they will not move without a shipment of gold ingots... that Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin must at all costs intercept." Color pictorial dj with white spine; VG, gift quality. stock#44652.

W. W. Norton [c1994]. 'First American Edition 1995'. Hard Cover. 282 p.; 21.5 cm. "Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade, but their ultimate destination is Ireland. There the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent, and the climax of the story is one of those grand and thrilling fleet actions on which the supremacy of the British Navy was founded." Color pictorial dj with white spine; VG, gift quality. stock#44653.

Norton [1996; 'First Edition' with printing numbers 1-0]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Eighteenth in the Aubrey-Maturin series; sequel to 'The Commodore'. "Much of the story takes place on land, which gives scope to the author's fascination with the landscape, physical and social, of early 19th-century [Regency] England. In vivid glimpses of various rural pursuits, and nuanced observation of politics and domestic arrangements, O'Brian proves himself ever more surely to be the true heir of Jane Austen." 262 p., diagram, 21.5 cm.; dj, dated 10-96, illustration by Geoff Hunt; circular gold 'Free Book Offer!' sticker on front; fine. Another copy, the same, printing numbers 3-0, no sticker. 34353.

Norton [c1959; First American Edition 1995]. Hard Cover. 313 p.; 22 cm. First printing. O'Brian recounts the adventures and survival of two young men aboard the Wager, driven aground on the Chilean coast during violent winter storms. This is the dark side of, and companion volume to, The Golden Ocean. Color pictorial dj clipped; fine, gift quality. Another copy, the same, second printing, also gift quality. stock#44930x.

New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.. Hard Cover. xvi, 464 p., [24] p. of plates : illus., ports. , index, 24 cm."O'Brien asks two central questions: How did Cather pass through a stage of male identification when she adopted male dress and posed as "William Cather" to become the first woman writer who created the first strong, autonomous and successful women heroes in American literature? How did she move from aliterary apprenticeship she later associated with Jamesian imitation and inauthentic speech to a literary maturity in which she took "the road home" to her Nebraska past?" Stock# 43,848. Vg gift inscription on front fly / dj good+, tear at hinge.