Search Results: Authors starting with O from Type Punch Matrix

London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. Very good in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of 1937's best short stories, including Hemingway's classic "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and work by Elizabeth Bowen, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner. 7.5'' x 5''. Original orange cloth. In original price-clipped dust jacket. 441, [1] pages, followed by publisher's catalogue. Some wear and soil to boards and jacket, toning to jacket verso. Sun and light foxing to boards at edges, spine lean. Else clean and sound.

(Wichita): Watermark Press, 1990. First edition. About fine in fine jacket.. Signed first printing of O'Brien's stunning narrative of self-destruction. The author's first novel, and the only one published within his lifetime. Heavily autobiographical and drawing from O'Brien's own experience of screenwriting, alcoholism, and despair, the novel was adapted into a critically acclaimed 1995 film, released after O'Brien's death the year before. Though praised as spectacularly dark and unflinching, the adaptation substantially lightened the brutality of the novel, which was in turn a shade more romantic and less devastating than the real life behind it. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth with silver spine lettering. In original unclipped ($19.50) dust jacket. Black endpapers. [6], 189 pages. Signed by O'Brien on title page. Gift inscription to half-title verso. Minor edgewear.

New York: Atheneum, 1971. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First printing of the Newbery Award Winner that mixes science fiction with fantasy, in which lab rats gain incredible abilities. A wonderful tale featuring mom as the heroine: widowed mouse Mrs. Frisby goes to great lengths to save her children in an adventure that uncovers her resilience and grit. Made into the animated film THE SECRET OF NIMH that lives vividly in the minds of late Gen Xers and early Millennials. A lovely copy. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original tan cloth, purple-stamped vignette on front board, purple-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket. Maroon endpapers, including triple fly leaves at front. Illustrated by Zena Bernstein in black-and-white throughout. [6], 233, [1] pages. Jacket with one short closed tear to front panel, some light spotting, and typical darkening around the edges. Book sturdy and crisp.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1998. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of O'Connell's standalone missing-girl thriller, the author's first departure from her popular Kathy Mallory mystery series. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter grey cloth with gilt-stamped grey boards. In original unclipped ($24.95) dust jacket. 340 pages. Signed by O'Connell on title page. Minor edgewear.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of the fourth novel in O'Connell's mystery series starring "sociopathic" detective Kathleen Mallory, a New York police sergeant investigating murder in Louisiana. 9'' x 6''. Original grey boards. In original unclipped ($24.95) dust jacket. 341, [1] pages. Signed by O'Connell on title page.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition, review copy, of the second mystery starring Kathleen Mallory, NYPD sergeant and "sociopath," with original publisher's promotional materials laid in. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter black cloth with black boards. In original unclipped ($23.95) dust jacket. 278 pages. Signed by O'Connell on title page. Four-page glossy fold-out mockup of the forthcoming paperback edition, publisher's press release, and radio advertising schedule laid in. Minor edgewear. Faint red stamp to lower edge of text block.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. First printing. Near fine in very good jacket.. First edition of O'Connor's collected short fiction, including twelve stories never before published in book form. The collection opens with the title story of O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis collection, "The Geranium," and concludes with "Judgment Day," a revised and expanded version of the same story. Evelyn Waugh, fellow sharp-edged Catholic and sour genius, once wrote to Giroux that "If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable." Thomas Merton, untroubled by such reservations, called her an American Sophocles. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original olive cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Red topstain, red endpapers. In original unclipped ($10.00) dust jacket by Charles Skaggs. 555, [1] pages. Minor soil to edges of text block. Jacket spine and edges toned, with a few tiny chips and closed tears. Tight.

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2004. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this thrilling tale of how American Eagle (a young boy in a cape and excellent hat) shows that he is a true superhero by telling the truth - with original drawing of the hero. George O'Connor's twin loves of superhero comics and the childish wonder of CALVIN AND HOBBES is showcased in KAPOW!, his first picture book. He has since entered the world of comics and graphic novels wholeheartedly, working alongside greats like Warren Ellis. 11'' x 8.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($14.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [40] pages. Inscirbed by O'Connor to front flyleaf "I hope you / enjoy reading / KAPOW!" with original drawing of the child alter-ego of American Eagle.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. First printing. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition, review copy, of this posthumously issued collection of essays, lectures, and critical articles, many previously unpublished. 8'' x 5.5''. Original lime-green boards with gilt-lettered blue cloth spine. Yellow endpapers. Red topstain. In original unclipped ($6.95) dust jacket designed by Guy Fleming. 237, [1] pages. Publisher's review slip laid in. Jacket with light edgewear, tiny closed tear to front panel, moderate soil to spine.

London: Faber and Faber, 1966. Very good minus.. Advance proofs of the first UK edition of O'Connor's posthumously published collection, including three O. Henry Award-winning stories. The author's second short story collection was published in the UK in an edition of just 2000 copies, with a note from the publisher regarding her literary reputation in a country where "her gifts are not yet as fully recognized as in her homeland." Scarce. 8'' x 5.5''. Original blue wrappers. 269, [1] pages. Moderate creasing and toning to wrappers, slight spine lean.

London: Burns & Oates, 1961. First printing. Very good plus in very good jacket.. First UK edition of this memoir by the Dominican nuns of Atlanta, originally published in the US as A MEMOIR OF MARY ANN, with O'Connor's introductory essay on the difficulties of writing and reading about good and pious children. First approached by the Dominicans of the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home to write the life story of Mary Ann Long as a novel, a proposal she emphatically rejected, O'Connor encouraged the nuns to write it themselves and sent the manuscript produced by Sister Evangelist on to her publisher with such faint praise as she could muster ("She don't write like Shakespeare but she does well enough for this.") Her introduction, more tactful than her private letters, dwells on Nathaniel Hawthorne and on charity, and persuaded Robert Giroux to publish it: "I read your preface at once; it's marvelous. Then I read the story, with a few misgivings which somehow are not important." 7'' x 4.75''. Original… Read More

(New York): Signet / New American Library, 1964. First printing. Very good.. First mass-market paperback edition of this three-volume compilation, including the two novels completed and published in O'Connor's lifetime together with her classic short story collection. 7'' x 4.25''. Original pictorial wrappers. All edges tinted red. 447, [1] pages. Moderate edgewear and soil to wrappers, with light creasing and a few small closed tears. Pages moderately toned. Overall, sound.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. Very good in very good jacket.. First edition of this YA historical novel on the adventurous exploits of smugglers bringing William Tyndale's English Bible translation to England during the reign of Henry VIII. 8.25'' x 5.75''. Original glossy purple paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($7.95) black and white pictorial dust jacket designed by Arvis Stewart. Fore-edge machine deckle. xiv, 226 pages. Jacket with some edgewear, faint toning, several spots of soil. Book with light edgewear, some foxing to top edge of textblock, slight lean. Sound.

New York: Harper, 2013. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed special first US edition of this darkly humorous and sometimes harrowing novel of the lives of two girls following the deaths of their abusive parents, and their elderly neighbor who takes them in - part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna Tartt, J.M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Siri Hustvedt) and publishing (McSweeney's, Graywolf, Algonquin). Installments commonly include a signed and slipcased recent release, as well as one of more promotional titles (usually ARCs or like, but sometimes, advance excerpts). 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original blue and purple boards. Original… Read More

New York: Dutton, 1992. Fine in like dust jacket.. First American edition, first printing, the story of a little wolf coming to live with a family of pigs, who think he is a dog. 11.5'' x 8.75''. Glazed pictorial boards. In original dust jacket. Charming full page and smaller color illustrations by the author.

New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First printing of this collection with twenty-two stories by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA, chosen from his first nine volumes of work, covering the years 1935-1966. 8.5'' x 5.5''. In original full white cloth stamped in gilt. In original price-clipped dust jacket. Blue topstain, fore-edge machine deckle, blue endpapers. xii, 491, [1] pages. Trace shelf wear, bit of discolor to lower front board, otherwise clean, bright, unmarked.

New York: Random House, 1969. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Exceptionally clean first edition, first printing of O'Hara's novel about two women in love, set in the 1920s. A provocative work informed by the countercultural movements of the 1960s, about the lives of lesbian women in the early part of the 20th century. The contemporary NEW YORK TIMES review of it noted about O'Hara: "he surely has the most authentically dirty mind in American fiction. His in not the stale narcissism of a Roth or the gentle romanticism of a Hemingway, but the true dirtiness of the locker room and the barracks" (NYT, Richard Rhodes, 30 November 1969). 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original full brown cloth stamped in gilt and blue. In original unclipped ($5.95) purple jacket designed by Muriel Nasser. Orange topstain, green endpapers, fore-edge machine deckle. [6], 249, [1] pages. Trace handling wear, otherwise bright, sound, unmarked.

New York: Random House, 1967. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. Clean first edition, first printing of this tale of a playwright who leaves Broadway success by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original light green cloth stamped in gilt. Original unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket designed by Muriel Nasser. Small blacked out spot on front endpaper; ink owner name to fly leaf. Jacket mildly worn, more at spine ends. Cloth lightly faded, spine extremities a bit worn. Overall clean, sound.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. First edition. Very good plus.. First edition, scarce advance "presentation" copy, of O'Hara's acclaimed novel, in the original pictorial wrappers. "To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald," Fran Lebowitz once said; underrated "because every single person who knew him hated him." Untrue; unkind; but fair enough. This is O'Hara's best known book, a sexually frank, Hemingway-endorsed narrative of Pennsylvania miseries, enacted in the person of Julian English, who magnifies his troubles with bitterness, alcohol, and finally carbon monoxide. The title of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA, taken from a parable retold by Maugham and used as the book's epigraph, serves to signal its inevitable end: fate and death come for us all, even unto the car dealerships of Gibbsville. A great American novel. 8'' x 5.5''. Original pictorial wrappers with flaps. Front fly leaf stamped with "TO BE PUBLISHED" and "PRICE," completed in pen with "Aug. 16" and "probably 2.50". 301, [1] pages.… Read More

New York: Random House, 1960. Very good plus.. Early printing of this complete set in the publisher's original slipcase, featuring three partially autobiographical novellas by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA. 8'' x 5.5'' each. Third printing. Original boards. In publisher's slipcase. Blue topstains. 106; 112; 110 pages. Individual spines lightly faded, slipcase with bits of handling wear. Overall, three bright, sound, unmarked volumes.