Authors starting with O from Bartlebys Books

New Orleans, LA:: Andrew & Elliott,, (1910).. 8vo. 12 pp. Original printed stiff gray wrappers ( a little chipped), stapled; Library of Congress duplicate, with its surplus stamp. Very good. First edition. The author, citing many provisions in the Louisiana Civil Code protecting women's rights attempted to refute charges that Louisiana might be the state least advantageous for women's interests. OCLC locates four copies (LSU, New Orleans Public, Tulane, Texas-Austin). ... more information

(Cambridge, MA):: Privately printed by Charles B. Wood III expressly for the Atlantic Salmon Federation,, 2006.. First separate edition, 1/150 copies signed by the author. Small 4to. (10), 14 pp. Mounted frontispiece illustration of the author with a huge salmon. This account describes his battle with a 50-plus pound salmon on the Cascapedia in 2004. Silver-stamped blue wrappers, tied. Fine. ... more information

Dublin, Ireland:: The Cuala Press,, 1943.. First edition. 1 of 480 copies. 8vo. 72pp. Plates. Original cloth-backed illustrated tan boards, paper spine label. Very good. ... more information

Dublin, Ireland:: The Cuala Press,, 1941.. First edition. 1 of 250 copies. 8vo. 41pp. Original cloth-backed blue boards (somewhat faded), paper spine label (edges chipped without loss). Very good. ... more information

(Richmond, :, 1864).. Broadside, 9 X 6 in. Two-paragraph order establishing pay rates for department employees not subject to conscription, with a three line manuscript addition in pencil. Signed in type "A.R. Lawton, Quartermaster General." Parrish 2554, locating a single copy (DNA). Foxed. ... more information

(Richmond, :, 1863).. Broadsheet printed on both sides, 10 X 8 in., five corrections in manuscript. A.C. Myers, Quartermaster General (undersigned in type), herein set out army-supply purchasing districts and procedures throughout the Confederacy. Parrish 2526, citing only two copies (CSmH, DNA). Darkened in the left margin from former mounting, a little worn at the edges (not affecting text). ... more information

(Richmond,:, 1864).. Broadside, 11 X 8 in. Requiring submission of detailed-men lists. Signed in type "A.R. Lawton, Quartermaster General." Parrish 2556, locating a single copy (DNA). Foxed, worn along lower margin (well away from type). ... more information

New York:: Crosby Gaige,, 1927.. 12mo; 58 pp. Limited edition of 1190 copies printed, of which this is #125. SIGNED by O'Flaherty. Very good in shamrock-decorated boards, in slightly chipped dust jacket. ... more information

New York:: Crosby Gaige,, 1928.. Limited edition SIGNED by O'Flaherty. 8vo; 50 pp. Review copy, with some pencilled emendations (by the reviewer or publisher's staff) to one of the illustrations. Very good in brown cloth. ... more information

Holstein, IA:: Gilmore & Olerich,, (c1893).. 8vo. 447 pp. Illustrated, folding plate. Original gilt-stamped red cloth. Several marginal manuscript notes in pencil, but a very good copy. ... more information

Richmond, VA:: Printed by Nesbit & Walker,, 1834.. 8vo. 28 pp. Disbound pamphlet; some foxing. First edition. Inscribed at the head of the title page "Pres of Waterville College, Me / from the author." Academic address on the progress of knowledge.  Not recorded by Haynes. OCLC records only a microform edition. ... more information

Engraving printed in color and retouched by hand, 11 7/8 x 9 ½ inches [plate marks] on a larger sheet. Plate 67 in Vieillot's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amerique septentrionale (Paris, 1807). Anker Bird Books 515: "The plates (Pretre pinxt.) are engravings printed in colour (Bouquet sculpt., Langlois imp.), and retouched by hand." A little foxed (mostly in margins), but with attractive coloring. ... more information

Hand-colored copper-plate engraving of a pair of robins (with the characteristic early coloring of the upper feathers in blue), 10 x 8 3/8 inches [plate marks] on a larger sheet. Plate 396 in Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux (Paris, ca. 1775). Anker Bird Books 76: "Hand-coloured plates, drawn and engraved by F.N. Martinet." Very good, with bright coloring. ... more information

Engraving of a mockingbird printed in color and retouched by hand, 11 7/8 x 9 ½ inches [plate marks] on a larger sheet. Plate 68 in Vieillot's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amerique septentrionale (Paris, 1807). Anker Bird Books 515: "The plates (Pretre pinxt.) are engravings printed in colour (Bouquet sculpt., Langlois imp.), and retouched by hand." With substantial foxing (mostly in margins), but an attractive image. ... more information

Washington, (DC):: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office,, 1852.. First edition. 8vo. 7 pp. [printed double-column]. Orr, a native of Anderson County, served that locale in congress, 1849-1859, and was speaker of the house, 1857-1859. Disbound pamphlet. Very good. ... more information

Madrid:: Revista de Occidente,, (c1944).. 8vo. 207 pp. Black & white frontispiece portrait. As issued in printed wrappers, moderately soiled and worn at the spine; Mexico City bookseller's ticket at rear. Very good.  First edition. Titled "Un Tratadi de Montería," this long essay on hunting by the philosopher and critic made herein its second appearance in print and its first independent of the work for which it was written as prologue, i.e., Veinte Años de Caza Mayor (... more information

London:: Benjamin White,, 1771.. First edition in English. 8vo. 2 volumes: xx, 396; (2), 367, (32) pp. 13 engraved plates; lacks half-titles. Bradley Martin sale 1772. Recent contemporary-style calf, leather labels and gilt rules on spines; ex-institutional copy, with stamps on several leaves, title-page to volume one re-margined. Still a solid copy in an attractive new binding. ... more information

(Chicago, IL:: W.B. Conkey),, nd [ca. 1897].. First edition. 12mo. 138 pp. Portraits. Turn-of-the-20th-century baseball in Illinois communities between Rockford and LaSalle. Biographical sketches of players, accounts of games between the teams, box scores, etc. OCLC locates two copies (National Baseball Hall of Fame, Rockford Public). Original printed yellow wrappers. Very good. ... more information

NY:: Winchester Press (Prescott, AZ: Wolfe Publishing Co.,, c1976 and c1985.. First edition. 2 volumes: xiv, (2), 288; ix, 2-289 pp. Illustrated; volume two slightly taller than volume one. The first edition of volume two was issued by Wolfe with a reprint of volume one; sets of the first editions are scarce. Rust and blue cloth, dust jacket for volume one. Very good set. ... more information

Augusta, GA:: Geo. A. Oates, publishers & importers of music and musical instruments,, ca.1856.. 4to.; 7pp. Illustrated. Disbound; some soiling, manuscript note on title page. Composed by the late Henry T. Oates of Charleston, SC. First edition. The title-page lithograph pictures "Mill-Bank, Richmond County, Georgia," the farmhouse fenced off from a road, a pastoral stream in the foreground; the manuscript note identifies Mill-Bank as the "residence of Geo. A. Oates." Not in the De... more information