Search Results: Titles starting with O from Post Horizon Booksellers

Toronto, ON, Canada: The Champlain Society, 2013. First Canadian Edition . Cloth. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xx, 517pp w index, [10]. Red cloth w blindstamp crest of the society on front cover, fine gilt lettering and society crest on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and tight. The Publications of the Champlain Society LXXIV.

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: Ruth Elizabeth Spence, 1999. First Canadian Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ix, 85pp. Signed by the author to title page. Colour photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Small octavo. 2nd printing, stated Born in New Reserve (Little Red River), Saskatchewan in 1918, Ruth Spence's life as a Woods Cree elder and career as the wife of an Anglican minister has provided a lifetime of experiences from which to write her poetry and prayers.

Cruz Quebrada, Portugal: Casa Das Letras, 2007. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 167pp w bibliography. Blue wrapper w French flaps is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight, not creased. Octavo. Portuguese text. [What We Can Learn from Geese: 119 Lessons on Cooperation, Leadership and Motivation] 119 licoes de cooperacao, liderance e motivacao. Um Livro indispensavel sobre a qualidade de vida e a humanizacao do trabalho

Toronto, ON, Canada: House of Anansi Press, 2011. Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 548pp. Photo illustrated wrapper varies from trade edition. ISBN provided is for the hardcover trade edition. Uncorrected Proof / Advance Reading Copy - stated. Book appears unread. A brilliant follow-up to The Law Of Dreams and yet standing masterfully on its own, The O'Briens is a tragic, romantic, and ultimately hopeful epic of great heart, imagination, and narrative force.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 271pp w bibliography and index bw photos, figures in text. Light grey boards, black cloth quarterwrap spine w fine gold lettering. Bumping to corners. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ is clean showing bumping to top corners. Octavo.

Ottawa, ON, Canada: Geological Survey of Canada, 1960. Soft cover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Geological Survey of Canada Paper 60-3. 26pp w bibliography. Titled card wrapper shows light handling, company stamp. Stapled binding sound. Reduced shipping may apply

London, England: Frederick Warne (Publishers) Ltd., 1977. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 192pp w index. Photo illustration (bw) for each model featured. Textured red-brown boards w white lettering on cover and spine. Very light handling, no edgewear. Binding square and sound. Colour photo illustrated DJ is clean, showing light handling, and is price-clipped. The Observer's Pocket Series, No. 61. Reduced shipping may apply.

London, England: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 224 w index. Botanical illustrations throughout. Green cloth w black lettering on cover and spine. Moderate bumping to corners. Moderate sunning to spine. Binding square and sound. No publication date. Describes two hundred British species of wild flowers with 220 illustrations, 100 of which are in full colour.

New York, NY, USA: OR Books, 2011. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 217pp. Titled wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Small octavo: 200 x 134pp.

Ottawa, ON, Canada: Mines Branch, Department of Mines, Government of Canada, 1931. Soft cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Memorandum Series Number 51, October 1931. 6pp. Stapled binding sound. Reduced shipping may apply.

Washington, DC, USA: United States Geological Survey, 1957. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1028-G pp161-167 w bibliography. Map in rear pocket collated to Contents. Titled grey wrapper shows light handling, sunning to spine. Stapled binding sound. Reduced shipping may apply.

Burton, Michigan, U.S.A.: Subterranean, 2006. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 195pp. Dark blue cloth w cold lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Colour illustrated DJ clean and without wear in laminate cover. Library stamp on ffep and top edge of text block. Lib cat labels on spine of DJ. No other library markings, no pocket. This is copy 186 of a special signed edition limited to 750 copies. Though ex-library, condition suggests this book saw very limited circulation. The Ocean and All Its Devices collects some of Spencer's finest published work. Here, at last, are the stories and other uncollected gems, the rest of William Browning Spencer's short fiction.

MIT Press, 1992. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 112pp + 14pp unpaginated adverts. Subscription forms intact. Illustrated w drawings and bw photographs. Titled wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Contents: Postscript on the Societies of Control (Gilles Deleuze); Marcel Duchamp's Monte Carlo Bond Machine (David Joselit); Oedipus Exploded: Pasolini and the Myth of Modernization (Cesare Casarino); The Art of Hitler (Steven Kasher); The Curse of the Pharoah, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania (Antonia Lant)

Toronto, ON, Canada: Playwrights Canada / Playwrights Union of Canada, 1988. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 89pp. Signed and dated by author on title page. Standard library markings. Label remnant on rear flyleaf. Photo illustrated wrapper clean and without edgewear. Binding square and sound. Clear reinforcing on spine and corners, lib cat labels at tail. Condition indicates this book saw limited circulation. Third printing, 1988, stated. The play was commissioned by Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton (Alta.) and first produced by Theatre Network and Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton on 23 October, 1985. Anger, passion, warmth and humour all find gainful employment in Odd Jobs. This major work by Canadian playwright Frank Moher takes a compassionate look at the havoc the modern world wreaks on relationships.

Regina, SK, Canada: Thunder Creek Publishing Co-operative / Coteau Books, 1978. First Canadian Edition . Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Johnson, Bill. 74pp. Illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight, not creased. Octavo. Ted (E.F.) Dyck is a Saskatchewan essayist, poet, and writer of fiction.

Westport, CT, USA: Praeger, 1992. 1st Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 242pp. [10pp] bw photos, repros, plans. Black cloth w bright silver relief lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. DJ clean and without wear. Octavo. Originally published under the title, Fackeln u?ber dem Atlantik, and translated from the German by Eric C. Rust.

Ottawa, ON, Canada: Andrew T. Thompson, 1928. First Canadian Edition . Cloth. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 46pp. Soft diagonal crease top corner ffep. Dark blue cloth without lettering. Inscribed by the author on front pastedown: "To that other great traveller Miss Sherritt, whose recent dash into Mexico should also be embalmed in verse. - Andrew T. Thomspon, Ottawa : Jan. 17th, 1929." Privately printed. Andrew Thompson (1870-1938) was a Canadian lawyer and soldier (CO of the 114th 'Brock's Rangers' Battalion), Member of Parliament for Haldimand County and Adviser on Indian Affairs, and the author of a previous collection of poetry, The Canadian Knights Entertainment (1919).

New York, NY, USA: Hermitage Press, Inc., 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [xix], 538pp w footnotes and bibliography. Prev owner name inked on ffep. Red and black cloth w light grey lettering on cover and spine. Light wear to corners, bumping to head and tail. Binding square and sound. DJ flaps laid in. Oedipus - Myth and Complex shows the development of psychoanalytical theory from its early stages in the 1890s to its contemporary phase in the work of Horney, Fromm, and Sullivan in the three Sophoclean tragedies: Oedipus, Antigone, and Colonus

Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: MIT Press, 1995. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 380pp w endnotes, bibliography, name and subject indexes. Illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Octavo.

Boston, MA, USA: Twayne Publishers, 1990. First U.S. Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 107pp w appendices, bibliography and index. Tan cloth w fine black lettering on spine. No wear to covers ore spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ clean and without wear, preserved in new BroDart cover. Octavo. Twayne's Masterwork Studies No. 40 In this, the first study devoted exclusively to Maugham's greatest novel, Loss incorporates pertinent biographical material about Maugham and adds some penetrating new insights about both the hero's development and the novel's chronology.