Authors starting with O from Joseph The Provider / Books

New York:: Crown,, [1988].. First edition of the author's second book, his first novel. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. With publisher's promotional card laid in. ... more information

New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, [1991].. First edition of the biologist/author's second novel. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket with blurbs by Jim Harrison and Rick Bass ("I loved this book. Every sentence has significance"). Small 4to. ... more information

Iowa City:: University of Iowa Press,, [1987].. First edition of the biologist / novelist's first book, a short story collection. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, [1994].. First American edition. Hardcover. A fine, unread copy in a fine, fresh dust jacket. Small 4to. ... more information

Wichita:: Watermark Press,, [1990].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. This copy is signed by the author. Because O'Brien committed suicide while the Mike Figgis film adaptation was in production, signed copies of the book are not all that easy to find. ... more information

New York:: Broadway Books,, [1998].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. ... more information

London:: Hutchinson,, [1994].. First edition of the author's of the American author's first book, preceding US. publication.. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a few light scorings and the usual light rubbing to the silver foil. 8vo. The debut of Sergeant Kathleen Mallory. Nominee for the best-firstnovel Edgar. ... more information

New York:: Albondocani Press,, 1981.. First edition. Decorated wrappers with label. Fine. 8vo. One of 200 numbered copies (of a total edition of 226). With publisher's prospectus laid in. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1993.. Advance excerpt (28 pages) of the author's first book, a novel of the U.S. Army in peacetime. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. 8vo. ... more information

London:: Picador,, [1995].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. A fascinating hybrid of a book: part memoir of growing up in Glasgow, part social history, and part investigative reporting on missing persons, especially nine young women whose bodies turned up in an excavation twenty years after they went missing. ... more information

London:: Faber & Faber,, [1999].. First edition of the Scottish author's second book, his first novel. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

Garden City:: Doubleday,, [1994].. First edition of the author's second book, his first novel. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Doubleday,, [1997].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author on a tipped-in page. ... more information

Los Angeles:: Argosy Corporation,, [circa 1940].. Screenplay. 174 mimeographed quarto pages, punchbound in printed wrappers. This copy is labelled "First Draft Continuity." Two revised pages (on different-colored paper) are included. Nichols brilliantly adapted Eugene O'Neill's The Long Voyage Home, updating the 1919 one-act play to World War II times. O'Neill and John Ford, who directed the classic film, are on record with praise for Nichols' transformative talents as a screenwr... more information

New York:: Dramatists Play Service,, 1939.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine without dust jacket as issued and obviously scarce. 8vo. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of Baker. A tribute to the eminent professor of playwrighting at Harvard and Yale. This copy is signed by Eugene O'Neill and the other seven contributors. The copyright page reads: "This is one of a few copies of this booklet printed on large paper and signed by the authors. ... more information

New York:: Vanguard Press,, [1974].. First edition of this short story collection. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

Princeton:: Ontario Review Press,, [1982].. First trade edition, hardbound issue. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

Santa Barbara:: Black Sparrow,, 1977.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in acetate dust jacket as issued. 4to. One of 170 numbered copies signed by the author (of a total edition of 230), this being copy #1. Oates has elsewhere written that: "Daisy is a fantasy inspired by the relationship between James Joyce and his daughter. ... more information

Cambridge:: Pomegranate Press,, 1979.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in acetate dust jacket as issued. 4to. Illustrated with color woodcuts by Karyl Klopp. One of 50 numbered, deluxe copies signed by author and artist, and with an extra suite of illustrations laid into a pocket on the back endpaper. Printed on Rives Heavyweight and bound with handprinted paper over boards. A splendid book, the aesthetic acme of Klopp's lamentably short career as a book designer. ... more information

New York:: Vanguard,, [1971].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information