Authors starting with O from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

London: Collins, 1973. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

London: Collins, 1978. First Edition. Owner’s name; near fine in dust jacket. ... more information

London: Collins, 1980. First Edition. Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket. ... more information

London: Collins, 1979. First Edition. Slight fading and some tiny spots, else fine in dust jacket. ... more information

London: Longmans, Green, 1939. First Edition; first binding. An exceptional copy in dust jacket; the best we’ve seen: fine in a dust jacket with minute wear and a slightly faded spine. In a custom clamshell box. The book sold an abysmal 244 copies (the figure usually cited) when first issued and unsold copies were destroyed in the Blitz. A second issue was bound in 1941 or 1942. Lending libraries and wartime paper drives finished off a lot of the copies that German bombs missed. Burgess 99. ... more information

London: Macmillan, 1937. First Edition. About fine in a very good dust jacket; in a custom cloth slipcase. A collection of O’Casey’s essays, a harsh, bitter take on London theatre critics. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “To Charles & Evelyn Cochran, With affectionate regards from Sean O’Casey, London, 1937.” The recipient produced the playwright’s “The Silver Tassie” in 1928. ... more information

London: Macmillan, 1926. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with some interior tape mends. ... more information

New York: Putnam, 1869. Issued two years earlier as The Ghost. With two illustrations by Thomas Nast. In Bleiler; Wright #1813. Top and bottom of spine chipped. else very good. ... more information

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952. First Edition of the author’s first book. A fine copy in a dust jacket with some tiny chips and light wear and tear. ... more information

Boston: Atlantic, Little-Brown, 1956. First Edition. Cloth spotted; good to very good in a worn and torn dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, “To Mr. Gray in appreciation for many little favors extended. Edwin O’Connor.” Basis for the 1958 John Ford movie of the same title, which starred Spencer Tracy as Frank Skeffington, a Boston politician loosely based on the colorful James Michael Curley. ... more information

New York: Farrar, Straus, 1960. First Edition. Covers a little bowed; very good in dust jacket. ... more information

No place of publication: privately printed, 1973. First Edition. Publisher’s wrappers; a little fading; about fine. On fishing and mushroom hunting in Quebec. ... more information

New York: The Viking Press, 1951. First Edition. Owner’s 1951 inscription; small tear at the edge of the front free endpaper, else fine in a very good dust jacket. Signed by the four most important participants in the 1954 motion picture, including director and writer George Seaton, and stars Bing Crosby, William Holden and Grace Kelly. Holden and Crosby also signed with their character’s names. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1935. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1936. First Edition. Offsetting on the front free endpapers and jacket front flap, else fine in a dust jacket with a touch of restoration at the foot of the spine. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1937. First Edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Covici, Friede, 1935. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with a half inch chip at the top of the spine. With “Awake and Sing!,” “Waiting for Lefty,” and “Till the Day I Die.” ... more information

New York: Random House, 1949. First Edition. Very good in a price-clipped dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition. Very good or better in dust jacket. ... more information