Search Results: Authors starting with O from Goodbar Books

Issue 3. Stapled binding remains sound. Interior is clean and unmarked. Pages and wraps are tanned and there is some very light creasing and gentle shelf-wear, but in nice shape overall. Features lots of nice concrete poetry and mimeograph revolution contributions. Art/Poetry.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior except for a former owner stamp to the half-title. Some light sunning and very gentle edge-wear to the covers. There is a two-inch by three-inch dampstain cosmetically affecting the back cover and around the last 20 pages of text. 173 pp. Crafts/Skills/Trades.

Inscribed by Oda to the half-title, along with a hanko stamp: 'To Sandy/much strength and energy for you/Jan 1982/Mayumi'. Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior except for a former owner inscription to the half-title. Only very minor wear to the book and jacket. 78 pp. Art.

Nice spine and very minimal edge-wear. Minimal underlining and notes in ink affecting around 60 pages. Designed by Steven A, Baron. Cover illustration by Mayumi Oda Nathan and cover design by Kenneth R. Deardoff. Includes an introduction by Nathan, which begins, 'I met Kenzaburo Oe in 1964, at Yukio Mishima's Christmas Eve party. I was there because I was Mishima's translator at the time. Oe was there because Mishima had invited everyone who mattered that year, from boxers to drag queens, and because Oe's vanity and maybe his country-cousin curiosity had drawn him to the lights.' 261 pp. Fiction.

Spine is tight and square, but has some creasing. Clean, unmarked interior. There are some areas of rubbing and edge-wear to the covers. Pages are toned. Translated by D. Ibberson. Beautiful surrealist cover. 380 pp. Esoterica.

In lovely shape: Tight, uncreased spine; fairly sharp corners; clean, unmarked interior. Appears unread, with only very gentle shelf-wear. Cover design by Karen Keeley. 220 pp. Fiction.

Interior is unmarked. Spine is square and uncreased. There is water damage causing cosmetic warpage to the entire book at the fore-edge. Small former owner label to the inside front cover. Includes, photos, maps, and tables, as well as a bibliography. 232 pp. Natural History.

Former library book with markings to spine, front and back matter, and a few select pages. There are a few rare spots of underlining. Includes maps by Keats Oliver and lots of B&W plates. 230 pp. History.

Tight, square spine has some cosmetic creasing. Clean, unmarked interior. Some front matter appears to have been excised (at least one page has been partially removed), although book is complete from the title page on. Covers have some areas of light soiling and creasing, as well as some gentle edge-wear and a one-inch closed tear. Beautifully designed book with lots of B&W photos. Cover design by G. Bray. 321 pp. History.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. There are areas of rubbing and soiling to the covers, as well as a crease running vertically down the length of the front. Intro by Miguel A. Bernad. Cover design by Gilbert R. Perez. 143 pp. Journalism.

Tight, square spine. Former owner name to the title page, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Some areas of very light edge-wear and creasing to the covers. Includes B&W maps, figures, and illustrations. Cover illustration by Laura Beckett. 285 pp. PNW Field Guides.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. A bumped corner, but very little wear to the book overall. Jacket has some edge-wear and areas of light rubbing. Jacket design by Kenneth R. Deardoff. Photos by George Connolly. Includes an intro by theater critic John Lahr, who was the the son of a Ziegfeld girl and Cowardly Lion actor Bert Lahr (In addition to extensive biographizing of Tennessee Williams, the critic penned a New Yorker article about his mother, Millie Schroeder, and a book about his father). Lahr co-produced Prick Up Your Ears, a movie adaptation of his 1978 book recounting Orton's antic-filled but profoundly doomed relationship with Kenneth Halliwell (Wallace Shawn plays Lahr in the film). After the couple's murder-suicide, Orton and Halliwell, whose vandalized library book covers are held at London's Islington Museum, were both cremated and their ashes mixed and scattered in an unmarked corner of the gardens at Golders Green Mausoleum. 354 pp.

Spine is tight and interior is clean and unmarked. There are creases to the front and back covers, as well as some other general shelf-wear. Pages are tanned. Cover designer Alan Fletcher was known for incorporating impromptu bits of ephemera into his designs: a beach made of sandpaper, a tree with toilet-paper buds. When Penguin art director Germano Facetti began bringing in designers like Fletcher to introduce vibrant imagery to its solemn but typographically cohesive covers, the young Brit responded to Orwell's novel of nostalgia and post-industrial dread with this composition of two simple fragments ('Fishing is the opposite of war,' quips the book's narrator). John Wain writes, 'What makes Coming Up For Air so peculiarly bitter to the taste is that, in addition to calling up the twin spectres of totalitarianism and workless poverty, it also declares the impossibility of "retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies"—because it postulates a world in which these… Read More

Tight, square, uncreased spine has some sunning and a small area of very light soiling. Former owner name to the half-title, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Light to moderate wear to the covers, including bumped corners and areas of subtle creasing and rubbing. According to Secker & Warburg, who published the first edition of this war chronicle in April 1938 and who was known at the time for its uniquely coexistent anti-fascist and anti-communist stances, 'Homage was begun in February [1937] in the trenches, written on scraps, the backs of envelopes, toilet paper.' These notes evolved into an article, 'Eyewitness in Barcelona', that was at first rejected by the New Statesman (Editor Kingsley Amis said it 'could cause trouble') and would later be expanded into this book, also initially turned down by Orwell's longtime publisher, Gollancz, due to its critique of Spanish Stalinists. It wasn't published in the US until 1952: this classic paperback edition, with intro by Lionel Trilling, features… Read More

Spine is tight, but has a lean and some subtle creasing, as well as a small former cataloger's label at the foot. Some light edge-wear. A few rare instances of underlining, but nice clean copy overall. Cover design by John Clarke. 253 pp. Eastern Spirituality.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Light shelf-wear and some subtle soiling to a small area of the edges. 319 pp. Eastern Spirituality.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Former owner name to the first leaf. There is a 2-inch x 2-inch dampstain cosmetically affecting roughly the first 60 pages of the book at the fore-edge foot. Light to moderate wear to the covers. Edited by Ma Yoga Anurag. Introduction by Swami Premgeet. Design by Ma Anand Zeno. Nicknamed Rajneesh (translating roughly to God of the Night) as a child, the notorious mystic founded a communist-literature library at an early age ('But finding it a corpse I became interested in anarchism') and experienced a spiritual epiphany at 21 while seated beneath a tree in Jabalpur's Bhawartal Garden on the vernal equinox. Long before establishing an ashram and descending on rural Oregon with his followers, he traveled India as a circuit lecturer, becoming branded by the press as the 'sex guru' because of his unorthodox views on Tantrism, here laid out in a later iteration in this appropriately formatted bedside edition. 137 pp.

Spine is tight, but has a slight lean and some heavy creasing. Former owner name to the first blank leaf, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Very minor shelf-wear. 456 pp. Esoterica.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of gentle soiling to the covers, as well as some other light shelf-wear. Contributors include Vitoba, K. G. Mashruwala, Kaka Kalelkar, and others. 68 pp. Miscellaneous.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some bumped corners and very light edge-wear, but nice solid copy overall. In 1956, funded by the CIA, Wasson traveled to Oaxaca to participate in a Mazatec mushroom ritual, deceiving the curandera, Maria Sabina, in order to bring psilocybin to the American public and help instigate the psychedelic revolution via the notorious Life magazine article, 'Seeking the Magic Mushroom'. This generously illustrated book, which was published after Wasson's death, includes his writings along with those of his Road to Eleusis collaborator Ruck, Indian art specialist Kramrisch, and entheogen proponent Ott. 257 pp. Myth.