![Last Day in Limbo [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/226/497/1399497226.0.m.jpg)
Last Day in Limbo [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Peter O'Donnell
New York: Mysterious Press, 1976. Fine/Near Fine. New York: Mysterious Press, 1976. First Edition (stated First American Edition), Limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, of which this is no. 2. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket, housed in black cloth slipcase; [2],256pp. White portions of jacket a bit toned, ink with which the author... Read More
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![Pieces of Modesty [Limited Edition, Signed by O'Donnell]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/950/151/1488151950.0.m.jpg)
Pieces of Modesty [Limited Edition, Signed by O'Donnell]
by Peter O'Donnell
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1986. Near Fine. New York: The Mysterious Press, 1986. First Thus; Limited Edition of 250 copies signed by O'Donnell, this being #31. Octavo. 183 pp. Red cloth boards stamped in silver. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Boards lightly nudged at bottom of spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Touch of rubbing... Read More
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![The Silver Mistress [Modesty Blaise series] [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/659/768/1486768659.0.m.jpg)
The Silver Mistress [Modesty Blaise series] [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Peter O'Donnell
New York: Mysterious Press, 1984. Near Fine. New York: Mysterious Press, [1984]. First American Edition Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 86. Octavo; publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in metallic red, housed in matching cloth slipcase; 219pp. A hint of dust-soil to slipcase, else Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon.
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Dragon's Claw
by Peter O'Donnell
London: Souvenir Press, 1978. Very Good/Very Good. London: Souvenir Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. 318 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed with some light toning and creasing to edges. Boards show light edgewear with some mild general spotting and scuffing. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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William Rowan Hamilton: Portrait of a Prodigy
by Sean O'Donnell
Dublin: Boole Press, 1983. Very Good+/Very Good. Dublin: Boole Press, [1983]. First Edition. Octavo (25cm); publisher's boards in yellow pictorial dust jacket; xvi,224pp.; illus. throughout. Some bubbling to dust jacket lamination, spine panel very lightly sunned, corners bumped; Very Good overall. Biography of the 19th century Irish astronomer, mathematician, and physicist Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865). Forms... Read More
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There's a Birdie in the Cage
by Sean O'Faolain
London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Very Good/Very Good. London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Limited First Edition. Signed by the author and numbered 78 of 285 copies. Octavo; unpaginated. Illustrated dust jacket with 10/6 price and limitation statement; bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and design. Jacket lightly edgeworn with toning down spine and nudging to head and... Read More
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The Short Story
by Sean O'Faolain
New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1951. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1951. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in green decorative dust jacket; xi,[1],370pp. Small chips and short closed tears along jacket extremities, shallow loss at spine crown touching text without loss of meaning, brief soil to rear jacket panel, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound,... Read More
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Brandy for a Hero
by William O'Farrell
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo; [vi], 218pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; red cloth with black lettering to spine. Jacket shows a few closed tears and some creasing along edges with one spot of tape repair to interior,... Read More
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The Ugly Woman
by William O'Farrell
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. Very Good -/Good. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. 254 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. Light red boards stamped in black. Dust jacket chipped along edges with dampstaining along bottom third resulting in rippling and rubbing. Boards worn along extremities with brief exposure,... Read More
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![To Col. Ashby [Manuscript title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/261/669/1522669261.0.m.jpg)
To Col. Ashby [Manuscript title]
by [Civil War Manuscript Poem]; [Miss O'Ferrall]
[N.p.]: [s.i.], 1862. Very Good. [N.p.]: [s.i.], [ca. 1862]. Civil War two-page manuscript poem folded with manuscript title "To Col. Ashby." Presumably penned by a Miss O'Ferrall. Later pencil inscription reading "Mrs. Sue Lupton"; tears along folds with some general spotting, but overall intact. The poem is laudatory of Confederate Colonel Turner Ashby, leading "a gallant... Read More
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![Forty Years of Active Service: Being some History of the War Between the Confederacy and the Union and of the Events Leading up to it, with Reminiscences of the Struggle and Accounts of the Author's Experiences of Four Years from Private to Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Colonel in the Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia [cover subtitle: John Brown's Raid, Gen Lee's Army, Virginia Legislature, Lawyer and Judge, Federal Congress, Governor of Virginia]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/262/362/1579362262.0.m.jpg)
Forty Years of Active Service: Being some History of the War Between the Confederacy and the Union and of the Events Leading up to it, with Reminiscences of the Struggle and Accounts of the Author's Experiences of Four Years from Private to Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Colonel in the Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia [cover subtitle: John Brown's Raid, Gen Lee's Army, Virginia Legislature, Lawyer and Judge, Federal Congress, Governor of Virginia]
by Charles T. O'Ferrall
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1904. Very Good +. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1904. First Edition with "Third Thousand" to title page, as in all copies. Octavo. 367 pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt and cream; dark topstain. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges and joints and binding is sound. Contemporary ownership inscription and... Read More
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The Informer
by Liam O'Flaherty
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1925. Very Good. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1925. First Edition. Octavo. 272 pp. Olive cloth with gilt stamping to spine. No dust jacket. Boards lightly worn at extremities; minor scuffs and spots; toning to spine. Boards give a little but overall binding sound. Mild smudging to terminals; interior unmarked; overall a Very Good copy.... Read More
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Hard Lines
by Ogden Nash; Otto Soglow [illus.]
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931. Very Good/Near Fine. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931. First Edition. Octavo. 99 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket with "$1.75" price present. Orange-brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. Dust jacket shows light rubbing and a few minor nicks to edges. Boards slightly cocked with soiling along... Read More
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![Just a Piece of Lettuce and Some Lemon Juice, Thank-You [Limited Edition, Signed by Ehlers]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/880/065/1717065880.0.m.jpg)
Just a Piece of Lettuce and Some Lemon Juice, Thank-You [Limited Edition, Signed by Ehlers]
by Ogden Nash; J. Howard Ehlers [illus.]
Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia College of Art, 1972. Very Good. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia College of Art, 1972. Limited edition of 100 copes, of which this is copy number 10. Signed in pencil by illustrator J. H. Ehlers. Octavo (23cm); unpaginated. Very good condition. Unusual side-sewn binding with illustrated paper over boards. Unopened pages. Black and white prints throughout by... Read More
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Tales of the Mississippi
by Ray Samuel; Leonard V. Huber; Warren C. Ogden
New York: Hastings House, 1955. Very Good/Good. New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1955. First Edition. Signed by all three authors without inscription on front free endpaper. Quarto (11.25" x 8.5"); 240 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $7.50 price intact; book in patterned boards with green cloth spine and white lettering. Jacket chipped at spine ends and... Read More
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Tomorrow's Math: Unsolved Problems for the Amateur
by Charles Stanley Ogilvy
New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. First Edition. Photographic dust jacket. Iceberg blue cloth with white spine stamping and one emblematic white square on front panel. Jacket shows slight spine darkening, with expected wear at crown and foot of spine; one minor chip at jacket crown. Cloth is very... Read More
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The Other Woman: Selected Short Stories
by Grace Ogot
Nairobi, Kenya: Transafrica Publishers, 1976. Very Good. Nairobi, Kenya: Transafrica Publishers, 1976. First Edition. Octavo; photo-illustrated wraps; 250pp. Light wear to edges and joints; bookseller sticker to rear; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good. Early collection from the Kenyan writer, "filled with deliberately macabre details, images and conversations, carefully arranged to unveil the pain, unhappiness and pervading horror... Read More
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Ogyu Sorai's Distinguishing the Way: An Annotated English Translation of the Bendo
by Ogyu Sorai; Olof G. Lidin [trans.]
Tokyo: Sophia University, 1970. Near Fine/Very Good. Tokyo: Sophia University, 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo (27 cm); 139pp. Boards in oatmeal cloth and decorative paper with green and gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in teal jacket with price intact. Jacket generally scuffed and soiled with minor wear to extremities. Board corners and spine ends gently bumped. Previous owner's... Read More
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Files on Parade
by John O'Hara
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in grey decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); Moderate chips and wear to jacket margins, upper panel unevenly sunned, faint discoloration to rear panel, old tape repair to verso, brief damp stain to... Read More
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Lunch Poems
by Frank O'Hara
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964. Very Good +. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964. First Edition, first printing with no additional printings listed and $1.25 price to rear. 12mo; 74pp. Printed wraps. Mild rubbing to edges of wraps; bottom front corner bumped; faint toning to spine; bit of curling towards fore-edge; binding sound; crease to pages 25... Read More
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The Doctor's Son and Other Stories
by John O'Hara
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1935]. First Edition Stated. Octavo (20.5cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); [8],294pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins with old tape repair to verso slightly showing through to rear panel, green portion of spine panel toned to tan,... Read More
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![Sermons and Soda-Water. The Girl on the Baggage Truck; Imagine Kissing Pete; We're Friends Again [Signed Limited Edition, Three Volumes in Slipcase]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/508/498/1722498508.0.m.jpg)
Sermons and Soda-Water. The Girl on the Baggage Truck; Imagine Kissing Pete; We're Friends Again [Signed Limited Edition, Three Volumes in Slipcase]
by John O'Hara
London: The Cresset Press, 1961. Very Good. London: The Cresset Press, 1961. Signed limited edition, number 255 of 525 copies. Three volumes; octavos (20cm); acetate dust jackets on each volume. Green topstain. Publisher's marbled paper-covered boards in original paper-covered slipcase. Slipcase sturdy but with some shelf wear, back seams starting to split but secure. Books are... Read More
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![The Stories of O. Henry [Limited Edition, Signed by Groth]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/551/814/1619814551.0.m.jpg)
The Stories of O. Henry [Limited Edition, Signed by Groth]
by O. Henry; John Groth [illus.]; Harry Hansen [intro.]
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1965. Very Good +. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1965. Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by Groth, this being #1495. Large octavo (28 cm); xiv, 366 pp. Eleven (11) color illustrations; forty-four (44) line drawings. Glassine jacket. Bound in homespun buckram printed with a stripe pattern in olive grey and... Read More
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![Lorgorligi Logarithms and Other Poems [Signed and Inscribed to Lois Mailou Jones]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/899/323/1721323899.0.m.jpg)
Lorgorligi Logarithms and Other Poems [Signed and Inscribed to Lois Mailou Jones]
by Atukwei Okai
Tema, Ghana: Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1974. Very Good -/Very Good. Tema, Ghana: Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); black faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket; xxviii,146pp. Jacket shelfworn with rubbing and shallow tears at corners and spine ends, a few scuffs to surface and toning to rear. Slight twist to boards,... Read More
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One Thousand Years of Turkish Carpets
by Oktay Aslanapa; William A. Edmonds [ed. & trans.]
Istanbul: EREN, 1988. Very Good/Very Good. [Istanbul]: EREN, [1988]. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm); publisher's cloth in yellow photo-illustrated dust jacket; 240pp.; illus. throughout, many full color. Light shelf wear to cloth and jacket margins, spine panel sunned, shallow white paint residue along bottom cloth edges, else Very Good and sound.
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