Search Results: Authors starting with O from Frogtown Books, Inc.

New York: Norman and Henley publishing Co, 1912. Red Cloth. Fine condition.

Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Third printing. hard cover. fine/fine. Johnson, Milton.

Harper & Row, 1964. The Alice and Jerry Basic Reading Program. Stapled soft bound small 4to. 7-3/4' X 7-3/4".48 pp. Fine condition, close to as new.. Illustrated by Frances and Margaret Hoopes. These charming watercolor illustrations (there's one on every page), will instantly transport you back to first grade reading circle, if you were lucky enough to have been given the Alice and Jerry curriculum. I love them. They were the pages I remember.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner & Co, 1930. Large 8vo. 400 pp. including index. Blue cloth covered boards stamped in black. This book is nothing less than a survey of the history of Possession from the most ancient times to the present day in all countries of the inhabited globe, together with an analysis of its true nature and a discussion of its relationship to other phenomena, such as hysteria and the manifestations of spiritualism. The subject treated is a most fascinating one, not only to the general reader, but also to the student of psychology, ethnology and medicine. It would be difficult to see the human race in a more curious or fantastic light than that cast by these accounts of Possession. THe book abounds, moreover, in suggestions for further research.

Houghton Mifflin, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/near fine. Profusely Illustrated with Photos.

Bobbs-Merrill, 1919. First edition. hardcover. very good.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1940. Stated "First Published in October 1940" on copyright page. 8vo. 8-3/16" x 5-5/8". Brown cloth covered boards stamped in brownish-red on cover and spine. 634 pp. including index. Includes dust jacket. Map in back pocket. Ownership rubberstamp on free front and back endpapers. Small name stamped on title page. Otherwise book is in very good to fine condition./Dust jacket has two triangular chips out of the top edge at the spine folds. Also a couple of small chips and creases. Overall condition is just good.. Illustrated with many photogravure black and white pictures.. The Guide has three main divisions. In its seventeen essays is a record and an interpretation of interesting and important developments in the political, industrial, and cultural life of Ohio. Nineteen cities have been grouped in a separate section for individual treatment. These cities have been chosen because they are typical of the wide diversity of the State.Thus Oxford is the genuine Ohio… Read More

New York: Redfield, 1854. From the Third London Edition. Small 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-3/16". 266 pp. Green textured cloth. Spine stamped in gold. 10 pp. publisher's ads. Frontispiece fold out map of Russia. A touch of rubbing to extremities. Bookplate on front pastedown. Free front endpaper has a bit of abrasion where a pasted in slip may have been removed. Otherwise a tight, clean very good copy.. Embellished with lovely little wood-engraved headpieces..

M&S, 1992. first edition. hardback. small stain on the foredge otherwise fine/fine.

Philadelphia: Franklin Library, 1978. Full Leather. fine. Pamphlet included.

Whitman, 1936. first ed. hard cover. fine.

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1946. First edition. Small 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/2". Cream colored cloth covered boards stamped in gray. 243 pp. Barely visible small damp stain at corner of bottom edge of front cover and a little dampstain along bottom edge of back cover. (See photos) They are minimal./Dust jacket is sturdy, a little shallow chipping at top and bottom edges of spine. 1/2" closed tear.. This collection of essays by one of the most perceptive of contemporary English critics has the impact of a single unifying idea. Mr. Orwell's studies in popular culture deal with writers, painters, prophets, illustrators and social commentators. With the exception of W. B. Yeats and Arthur Koestler, the people of whom he writes have all reached a large section of the public. In some cases their influence on popular consciousness has been enormous. The most extended of the essays is devoted to Charles Dickens. The fact that he has been equally claimed by liberals, radicals and conservatives is the… Read More

Dial Press, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. fine/Good Plus - Chipping to the top of the spine.

New York: J. W. Bouton and London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1881. First American Edition. 2 volumes. 8vo. 6-1/8" x 9". 464 pp. & 516 pp. bound in tan cloth stamped in black and gold. Midnight blue endpapers. Both volumes clean, tight and unmarked. Back paste down endpaper is loose in Volume I. Binding shows a touch of rubbing here and there and some light cover soil. Overall very good condition.. John Owen, b. 1833 d. 1896. After serving as Curate of Alvedistone, Wiltshire from 1859-60 and at Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, 1860-69 he became Rector of East Anstey, Devon where he spent the rest of his life. In this seclusion, he read widely and collected a fine library. He was interested in free thought and published a series of books on this topic of which this work was the first, followed by The Skeptics of the Italian Renaissance in 1892, The Skeptics of the French Renaissance in 1893 and The Five Great Skeptical Dramas of History in 1896. Vol. I covers Pre-Christian Skepticism and Vol. II, Christian… Read More