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Open Polar Sea, The - A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole in the Schooner "United States"


Hayes, Isaac I.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, Reprint, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 454 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with embossed decoration to cover & spine. Gilt and black printed decorations & titles. Toning throughout. 16 illustrations in b/w. Frontis illustration, A Bear Hunt, by Darley. Decorative chapter tail-pieces drawn on wood from photos, sketches & engraved by J. A. Bogert. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Tear to p. 327. Clean copy. Distinctive covers & spine.

Record # 750402


Price: $38.00 

 

Opposite Attraction - The Lives of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard


Gilbert, Julie

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 53121


Price: $25.00 

Oracle of Oil, The: A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable FutureInman, Mason

Oracle of Oil, The: A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future


Inman, Mason

hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469205


Price: $15.00 

 

Oral Roberts - An American Life


Harrell, Jr., David Edwin

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana Univ. Press, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 612 pages.

Record # 60730


Price: $25.00 

 

Orchestra and Orchestral Music, The (The Music Lover's Library)


Henderson, W. J.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Hardcover. Publisher's brick cloth covered boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Wonderful portraits in black & white throughout, featuring Beethoven, Nikisch, Haydn, Wagner, Lamoureux, Thomas, Richter and Berlioz. Some light toning to pages, clean pages, in very good condition for its age.

Record # 6670095


Price: $25.00 

Origins of Modern Russian Education, The : An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei Uvarov, 1786-1855Whittaker, Cynthia
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Origins of Modern Russian Education, The : An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei Uvarov, 1786-1855


Whittaker, Cynthia

Hardcover. DeKalb, Ill., Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages. Blue cloth. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453501


Price: $30.00 

 

Orion on the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston


Payne, Daniel G.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 391 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Black and white photos.

Record # 750041


Price: $19.00 

Osbert - A Portrait of Osbert LancasterBoston, Richard

Osbert - A Portrait of Osbert Lancaster


Boston, Richard

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st UK, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, with black & white illustrations throughout. Light dust jacket spine fade, otherwise, spotless and bright copy.

Record # 4784


Price: $8.00 

Osbert SitwellZiegler, Philip
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Osbert Sitwell


Ziegler, Philip

Hardcover. New York, 1st American, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 444 pages, b&w photographs, unclipped dust jacket, some rubbing to covers. Clean and tight.

Record # 451161


Price: $15.00 

 

Osborn on Osborn


Osborn, Robert Chesley

Hardcover. New Haven, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 190 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Heavy fraying on top edge dust jacket. Rips and chipping to rear dust jacket top edge with some tape repair. Sun fading to spine. Red cloth cover boards with silver gilt decoration to front. Mild musty odor, otherwise clean.

Record # 470177


Price: $25.00 

 

Oscar Micheaux, The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Great Black Filmaker


McGilligan, Patrick

Softcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, uncorrected proof, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 392 pages. Slight rubbing to covers, otherwise very clean, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; an extremely clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 606711


Price: $20.00 

 

Oscar Wilde


Ellmann, Richard

Hardcover. US, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd printing, 1988-01-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 680 pages. Small tears to upper edger of dust jacket flaps, faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463018


Price: $13.00 

 

Oscar Wilde


Hyde, H. Montgomery

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, Book Club, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 466 pages.

Record # 62371


Price: $12.00 

Oscar WildeMurray, Isobel (Ed.)
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Oscar Wilde


Murray, Isobel (Ed.)

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, September 28, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 635 pages. Small smudge to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451531


Price: $20.00 

 

Oskar Kokoschka Letters 1906-1976


Kokoschka, Oskar

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, 33 illustrations.

Record # 5209


Price: $16.00 

 

Oskar Kokoschka


Whitford, Frank

Hardcover. New York, NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine, front cover board blind stamped. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In beautiful condition. Whitford's scholarly account of Kokoschka's life is based on access to hundreds of letters, many unpublished, and extensive research, as well as interviews with his widow and many others.

Record # 32178


Price: $19.00 

 

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery


Mailer, Norman

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1995-04-25, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 791 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page.ftc

Record # 465721


Price: $38.00 

 

Other Rooms Other Houses - a Memoir of Facts and Dreams


Earle, Virginia Osborn

Hardcover. Dublin, NH, William L. Bauhan, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY EARLE on front fly leaf.

Record # 70604


Price: $19.00 

 

Otto Braun - Aus Nachgelassenen Schriften Eines Fruhvollendeten


Vogelstein, Julie

Berlin, Klemm, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, The diary of Otto Braun with selections from his letters and poems. 302 pages. German text. Cover has edgewear.

Record # 207780


Price: $12.00 

 

Otto Folin: America's First Clinical Biochemist


Meites, Samuel

Hardcover. Amer Assn for Clinical Chemistry, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages, b&w photos. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 454002


Price: $15.00 

 

Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King


Hirsch, Foster

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 573 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, clean inside and out. Beautiful copy, looks near new.

Record # 31537


Price: $23.00 

 

Ottoline - The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell


Darroch, Sandra Jobson

Paperback. London, Cassell, reprint wraps, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 317 pages. Paperback. Black & white photographs.

Record # 204188


Price: $12.00 

 

Our Famous Guest


Dolmetsch, Carl

Hardcover. Athens, University of Georgia, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Mark Twain in Vienna

Record # 827


Price: $15.00 

 

Our Famous Woman: An Authorized Record of Their Lives and Deeds.


Stewart Phelps, Elizabeth; et al.

Hardcover. Hartford, C, A.D. Worthington, 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 715 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light wear to covers, gilt lettering on front cover. Moderate soil patch on upper left corner of rear cover, otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233642


Price: $100.00 


  
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