Authors starting with O from Bauman Rare Books

2001. SIGNED. O'BRIEN, Tim. Friends; Enemies. Illustrations by Fritz Scholder. [Tempe], Arizona: Synaesthesia Press, 2001. Slim square octavo, original black raw silk dos-à-dos binding, printed paper labels, rice paper endpapers. Housed in original welded and stamped bronze slipcase. $1200. Limited private-press edition of two stories from The Things They Carried, letter "E" of only 26 lettered copies (of a total edition of 125), signed by both O'Brien and Scholder. O'Brien, ... more information

1978. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. O'BRIEN, Tim. Going After Cacciato. (New York): Delacorte, (1978). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $1400. First edition of this National Book Award-winner—"O'Brien brilliantly and quietly evokes the foot soldier's daily life… a beautiful, painful book" (New York Times), signed on the half title by Tim O'Brien. Going After Cacciato "is among the most outstanding fictional narratives of the Vietnam War" (Stringer,... more information

1932. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. O'FLAHERTY, Liam. The Wild Swan and Other Stories. London: William Jackson [i.e. Joiner & Steele] (Chiswick Press), 1932. Tall slim octavo, original gilt-lettered light brown cloth gilt. $250. Limited first edition of this collection of three riveting O'Flaherty short stories, number 417 of only 550 copies printed at the Chiswick Press, with a frontispiece by P.V. Moon, signed by O'Flaherty. "Mr. O'Flahery is always refreshing, and the three stories p... more information

1934. FIRST EDITION. O'HARA, John. Appointment in Samarra. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1934). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $5500. First edition of O'Hara's first novel. John O'Hara's acclaimed first novel was "an instant success when it was published in 1934… tightly constructed and fast-paced, it detailed the three-day slide to self-destruction of a young man named Julian English… A meticulous craftsman," O'Hara was hailed as "'... more information

1947. FIRST EDITION. (OORTHUYS, Cas). Amsterdam tijdens de hongerwinter [Amsterdam during the 'Hungerwinter']. Amsterdam: Contact / De Bezige BIJ, [1947]. Large quarto, original half black cloth, gilt-stamped gray boards, original dust photographic dust jacket. $5200. First edition, a landmark photobook of "extreme hardship… resilience and resistance" (Parr & Badger), with over 140 black-and-white photogravures, many secretly taken by leading members of the Dutch Underground Cam... more information

1852. FIRST EDITION. OSBORN, Sherard. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, In Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, In the Years 1850-51. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. Octavo, original brown cloth rebacked with original spine laid down. $2300. First edition of this dramatic account of the 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin expedition, a powerful record by Captain Osborn of the Pioneer that brilliantly captures the expedition's pe... more information

1809. FIRST EDITION. (OSTERMAN, Georgii) GLASVITS, Ludovicum de. Dedication Book to Georgii Osterman, Commander of the Austrian Infantry. No place, dated 1809. Folio, full rose velvet, marbled endpapers, spine stitched with heavy gold cord attached to a custom brass case holding large (5 3/4 inch diameter) red wax royal seal of the Emperor Francis; ten leaves on vellum. $1200. 1809 illuminated manuscript honors book with royal wax seal, dedicated to the Commander of the Austrian Infantry in the region of ... more information

1851. FIRST EDITION. OVIEDO Y VALDES, Gonzalo Fernandez de. Historia General y Natural de Las Indias, Islas y Tierra-Firme del Mar Oceano. Cotejada con el Codice Original, Enriquecida con las Enmiendas y Adiciones del Autor, e illustrada con la Vida y el Juicio de las Obras del Mismo por Jose Amador de los Rios. Madrid: Imprenta de la Real Academia de la Historia, 1851-55. Four volumes. Tall, thick quarto, contemporary full tree calf rebacked with original spines laid down. WITH: The Conquest and Settlemen... more information

1997. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. OZICK, Cynthia. The Puttermesser Papers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. $175. First edition, signed by Cynthia Ozick on a bookplate tipped onto the half title. "The Puttermesser Papers is a strange little book, a slender monument to a vision that is stark and unsparing but at the same time so intelligent, so finely expressed, that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the... more information

1971. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. OZICK, Cynthia. The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. $600. First edition of Ozick's second book, a presentation copy/association copy inscribed with modesty by Ozick, "July 22, 1988, Dear Mr. Comstock: As I understand it, collectors require books that are in almost perfect, if not altogether perfect, condition. This is not. But all the words are here! Will this volume do? Sincerely, Cyn... more information