Search Results: Authors starting with O from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), lightly toned and rubbed at the edges. Blue cloth, faded at the spine, with blue ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A mix of previously pubilshed and new material divided into twelve sections that "is written principally to share with readers the enjoyment of mathematics as a language for expressing problems and as a tool for solving them.

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), lightly toned, bumped at the edges. Blue cloth with lighter blue paper on the boards, a ridge in the center of the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. O'Brien's saga of Irish girls that "charts unflinchingly the patter of life, for women, from the high spirits of youth to the chill of middle age, from hope to despair.

Normal: Dalkey Archive, 2006. Paperback. Very Good. Later Printing. About Very Good. Wraps lightly rubbed at the top edge, bumped and with some creases at the bottom. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

Normal: Dalkey Archive, 2005. Paperback. Very Good. Introduction by William H. Gass. Third Printing. Very Good. Wraps rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound. A classic work of metafiction about a literature student's disagreement with the notion that stories must have a single beginning and end.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, faded at the spine, soiling and rubbing throughout, a few small closed tears at the edges. Quartred red cloth with blue paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a forward lean, dark top stain, clean internally. O'Brien's "nonstop Irish lark" about a pair of orphans brought up by a whiskey-loving Mr. Collopy.

Victoria: The Dalkey Archive, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. About Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of essays covering DeLillo, Irvine Welsh, John Banville, the Beat Generation, Philip Roth, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, and others.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), creased at the front and back flaps, a few small closed tears at the top edge. Quarter yellow cloth with green paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, some remnants of tape on the endpapers, clean otherwise. O'Brien's first novel about his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam.

Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine. Wraps clean. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. According to the flap, this is "a volume of many styles and themes, whether it is the life of a caravan park, an ode to marriage, or a schoolboy empathizing with Petrarch's love for Laura and idolizing a heavyweight boxer.

Macon: Wesleyan College, 1961. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. Near Fine in wraps, some surface rubbing on the front wrap. Square and firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. A scarce issue of the quarterly Bulletin of Wesleyan College that features a transcript of a panel discussion featuring two of the most prominent Southern authors of the time: Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Anne Porter. In her first comment on the panel, O'Connor offers this response to the question of whether she "[does her] writing along with the dishwashing:" "Oh, no. I sit there before the typewriter for three hours every day and if anything comes I am there waiting to receive it. I think there should be a complete separation between literature and dishwashing.

London: Neville Spearman, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (13s. 6d. net), faded at the spine, rubbed at the edges, a chip at the fore-edge of the front panel. Orange boards, pushed at the corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. The poorly renamed first UK printing of O'Connor's debut story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find, featuring classic stories like the title story, "Good Country People," and "A Circle in the Fire.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good first-issue jacket, unclipped ($3.50), faded at the spine, generally rubbed and soiled, chipped at the edges. Black boards, bumped at the head and foot of the spine, with yellow and purple ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a tear to the fore-edge of the contents page through page seventeen, clean otherwise. O'Connor's debut collection of short stories, which, according to the jacket, "contains ten of the most memorable stories to come from an American writer.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), lightly soiled, a few chips at the corners. Yellow buckram, a few small stains, with brown ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with toned pages and a forward lean. O'Connor's debut novel that started as her Master's thesis at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. A classic of the Southern Gothic genre and later adapted into a classic film directed by John Huston.

New York: Scribner's, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned, lightly rubbed at the edges, two sizable bits of loss on the spine. Tan buckram with green ink lettering and panel on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, sparsely foxed at the top edge, clean internally. A remarkably tight copy of this novel about a Hollywood private eye tasked with finding an archeologist in the Mexico.

New York: Bantam Books, 1979. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps creased at the front cover, lightly rubbed at the edges, toned and with a ripple down the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean.

New York: New York University Press, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Third Printing. Inscribed by Ogletree Jr. on the title page. Near Fine. Wraps rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A timely work that "tackles the looming question of how and why the connection between race and the death penalty has been so strong throughout American history.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.50), rubbed and lightly chipped at the edges. Black buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, signature of critic Richard Watts Jr. on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A novel of a young woman in 1930's Manhattan who lives "a crazily paced, un-normal existence." Adapted into the 1960 film starring Laurence Harvey and Elizabeth Taylor, who earned her first Oscar win for her performance.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First State. Very Good in a Good second state jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally rubbed with some creases, chipped at the corners and at the front gutter. Black buckram boards, some rubbing, with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean to the spine, clean internally. O'Hara's acclaimed novel of Julian English and his car dealership in a fictionalized Pennslyvania. Named to Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Derby: Monarch Books Inc, 1956. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Very Good. Wraps lightly rubbed and bumped, soiled, a light crease down the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. Olive's novel about a many of morals who sees those morals tested when he meets the temptestuous Deidre Owen.

New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1958. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned and rubbed. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, toned pages, clean otherwise. One of Oliver's anthropological science fiction novels, this about a man's discovery of a 15,000-year-dormant species of men.

London: Hutchinson & Co. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (7/6 net), generally rubbed and with multiple chips, closed tears, creases, and scuffs. Grey boards, a dent matching the one on the jacket, with black ink lettering on the spine. Bound with a slight forward lean and some reading wear, foxed at the edges. Oliver's time-travelling novel that sees a man back in 50,000 BC fighting for survival on the plains of the Ice Age.