Search Results: Authors starting with O from Dark and Stormy Night Books

New York: George Munro, 1885-1891 First Edition. Individual stories were first serialized in the Fireside Companion, beginning in 1872. (Pearson, p. 191-192.) Hard cover, 4to (measuring 9 x 12 ½ inches) in half black leather over black marbled paper-covered boards, with title and ruling to spine. Collation: [2], 28, 28, 28, 30, 24, 26, 26, 28, 32, 28, 28, 22, 22, 2 (publisher's adverts), [2]; 356pp. Condition: Very Good Minus. The exterior is rubbed, with wear to boards, corners and foot of spine. Within, the name of the original owner on endpaper in old ink dated 1903. Light to Moderate browning (as expected). No. 20 has one page repaired with scotch tape. Old insect damage to fore edge affects No. 31 and 32 only with two half inch trails. End matter with folded corners. Overall, there is the odd stain, and some, small closed fore edge tears.** This compendium of early Gilded Age Dime Crime is bound in sequential order. Each issue is complete as issued fortnightly. Each has the original black… Read More

London: MacMillan & Company, 1882 Hard cover, 8vo, in a contemporary rebinding of full polished calf gilt, signed "Riviere & Son," with the added Extra Illustration of 67 portraits of the Authors, First edition. Vol. I: (4) i-iv,1-395, (4). Vol II. (1) (6),1-392pp. Vol. III (4)(vi), 1-405pp., plus erratum page. Also with 67 unnumbered illustration plates. The three volumes have triple banding and filled corner roundels to top and bottom boards, the spine with five raised bands encompassing titles on red and brown onlaid morocco labels to the second and third compartments, and with a richly gilt decorative pattern showing three stages of a pomegranate blossom at the center of the other compartments, surrounded by a diamond pattern of small roundels and blossoms, all framed by additional floral sprigs, rope style banding, scalloped rolls and dotted lines upon the bands. Head and foot of spine, as well as board edges are also rolled with decoration. All edges gilt, marbled paper paste downs feature one… Read More

Ithaca, New York: Finch & Apgar, 1881 Hard cover, 8vo, in red cloth, First Edition, 102pp. Signed by author to title page. Condition: Very Good Minus. Pages age-toned. Some marks to covers. Lucien Augustus Wait (1846-1936) was a Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University. The book covers "Plane Trigonometry" and "Spherical Trigonometry". OCLC 85199547.. Signed by author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, University of Oxford, 1959 Association Copy. Hard cover in navy blue publisher's cloth with titles in gilt to spine. A Presentation inscription from the Authors to Cecily Raysor [Hancock] to front flyleaf in pen. Also included are partial remains of the original dust jacket, and two items of early correspondence between Ceciley and Ioana. Condition: Very Good, with slight edgewear, moderate age-toning to pages, with some ghosting due to correspondence included with the book. Some annotations in blue ink. For those who, like ourselves, raised babies upon a (sometimes literal) diet of Iona Opie's Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, wonderfully illustrated by Rosemary Wells, this peek into the Opie's academic work on folklore, rhymes and schoolyard games is an eye-opener. Upward of 5,000 English school children were consulted to provide the breadth of material included here. The Opies put this study of children's spoken lore on the map as an academic discipline. Cecily Raysor… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1926 Hard cover, 8 vo., in red-orange cloth with black titles, in a dust jacket with a mylar cover, 258 pp. Condition: Very Good. Would be Near Fine except for remains of a bookplate which has been removed from the front pastedown. Boards remain very bright with only slight scuffing to corners. The fore-edges are a bit dusty. One folded page corner has been reinforced with (old) tape.The dust jacket is worn through in several spots, has four chips and two closed tears, and has been reinforced with scotch tape.It has been price clipped. ** Author Henry O. Osgood writes what has been called the first book about American jazz music, which he describes as "a state of mind--the spirit of the thing-- rather than any particular expression of it." With chapters on the early pioneers: Whiteman, Berlin, Grofe, Gershwin, Lewis, Lopez and Jones. ** Osgood was an editor of New York's Musical Courier, assistant conductor of the Munich Royal Opera, as well as a composer. A scarce… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988 Hardcover, with dust jacket, in mylar, 242 pp. Federal Prosecutor Frances McAlistair has problems on all sides. A reporter investigating her past is found dead outside her apartment. There is a mole within inside the prosecutor's office leaking information to a mobster. The snow won't stop, and neither does the revelation of terrible secrets that will ultimately identify a killer. Condition: Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover . Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1985 Hardcover, with dust jacket in mylar cover, 212 pp. A gritty, urban thriller set in New York City, featuring the dynamic detective duo of NY's finest team of homicide cops, Sergeant Robert Redfield and Lt. Jacob Neuman. What appear to be random murders in different areas of the City become the clues which catch a killer. Condition: Very Good, in a Fine dust jacket. (Light foxing to two sides of text block.) . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine.