Authors starting with O from Gallagher Books, ABAA, ILAB

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, 1986.. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, about 9.5 inches tall, in quarter brown cloth on brick red paper covered boards. 798 pages. O'Brien's well regarded history of the birth of Israel and its conflict with the Arab world since then. Minor extremity wear and very slight soiling to the edtges of the text block. The jacket is bright and complete but there is light extremity wear and a couple of short closed edge tears. ... more information

No place:: Int'l Association of Fire Chiefs,, 1973.. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, about 12.25 inches tall, in faux black leather with three large raised gilt medallions. 108 pages illustrated by photographs. An nice illustrated history of the organization which, despite its name, seems to be limited to the U.S. and Canada. Just a touch of extremity wear, but otherwise clean, bright and sound. ... more information

New York:: Putnam ,, 1998.. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 340 page. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, bright and sound; a crisp unworn dustjacket. ... more information

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1952.. First edition. Hardcover. Coarse white cloth, top edge green. [371] pages illustrated by a large selection of black and white photographs. A narrowly focused work by one of the most important hunting writers of his generation. A nice sound copy with a bookstore tag on the front pastedown, and very light shelf wear. Otherwise a clean interior with sound binding. The jacket is marginally very good with modest edge and extremity wear; chipping at the head of spine and ... more information

New York:: Random House,, 1954.. First Edition. Hardback octavo. Quarter brown cloth on brown paper covered boards. 162 pages. A non-fiction collection of columns written for a newspaper's book page on books and book people. ... more information

Tacoma WA:: Link Pen Publishing,, 2006.. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto, about 10.75 inches (27.5 cm) tall, in cream wraps. 136 pages illustrated by photographs, many in color, route map, advertising copy. Excellent text but mainly a pictorial. It contains rolling stock, but the more interesting photos show the building of the road, lots of trestles, stations and depots, and wonderful vistas. It includes what is now the Carrizo Gorge Railway. A bright, clean, sound, unworn copy. ... more information

New York:: St Martins Press,, 1996.. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 232 pages. The second Molly Masters Mystery; SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, bright and sound; a crisp unworn dustjacket. ... more information

Austin TX:: Eakin Press,, 1987.. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, about 9.25 inches tall, in quarter calf on black cloth. 222 pages illustrated by photographs. LIMITED EDITION #8, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The limitation page denominates this a "Special Collector's Edition. Note that the copyright page number line starts with "3". An indication of the size of this edition is not apparent. A very nicely produced book on this short-lived law enforcement organization. The book is clean... more information

Chicago:: Field Museum of Natural History,, 1937.. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto, about 12.75 inches tall, in gray wraps. 100 pages numbered 119 to 218 illustrated by drawings, 36 plates numbered 32 to 68 (the plates outside the pagination). Two plates including frontis in color. Inside clean and sound but a little toned, and some pages with chipping at edges. The covers with some edge wear and chipping, a two inch tear at bottom front spine fold, several vertical creases to the front cover and a l... more information

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1934.. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Twelve volumes, octavos, 9.5 inches (24.5 cm) tall, in brick red cloth decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. LIMITED EDITION, #549 OF 770 SETS, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. All volumes clean, bright and sound with the most minimal extremity wear. Lacking the original slipcases and glassine jackets. ... more information

New York:: Boni & Liveright,, 1928.. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, about 8.25 inches tall, in half navy blue morocco on blue cloth, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. 352 pages. Five raised spine bands with gilt botanical devices, corners with gilt flourishes. Clean and sound inside. The covers are lightly edge and extremity worn. ... more information

Ottawa:: F.A. Acland, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty,, 1922-25.. First Edition. Hardcover. Original parts of all six volumes, bound in three books, blue buckram. All volumes complete. Pagination is by part, but about 500, 500 and 350 pages respectively, illustrated with photographs, plates, fold out maps. The anthropological part of an extensive scientific survey of Northern Canada undertaken by the Canadian Government. This includes all the covers of the various parts which were publ... more information

Akron OH:: Saalfield,, 1936.. First Edition. Softcover. Staple bound folio, about 14 inches tall, covers illustrated in color. Unpaginated, but 32 pages including covers, with full page and half page color illustrations opposite identical uncolored pictures. Publisher's No. 2127. A late, but quite scarce, Kewpie doll item. The inside is clean, with no coloring in the material meant to be colored by a child. The covers are bright, but there is a quarter sized chip at top front cover, a short edge ... more information

New York:: Frederick Stokes,, 1895.. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Hardback. Octavo, TEG, others uncut with edges turned. Covers are slightly extremity worn. Cloth covers are light brown, heavily decorated in gilt and dark brown. The covers are mottled, almost certainly intentionally given how even the mottling is. Nice tight clean copy. ... more information

New York:: Harper & Row,, 1959.. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, about 8.5 inches tall, in blue and black cloth. 98 pages. An illustrated scientific treatise (but make for knowledgeable non-scientists) on what a moon vehicle might look like and how it would operate. Oberth had been involved in speculative rocketry since the 1920's and assisted in the development of the German V2 rocket, and much later the U.S. rocket program under Werner von Braun. A clean, bright, unmarked copy. The jacket ... more information

Madrid:: Editorial Everest, S. A.,, 1992.. Third Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto, about 10 inches (25 cm) tall, in full green faux morocco, a very convincing imitation of it. 312 pages plus the index. Beautifully illustrated in color. Text in Spanish. An entomology text for fly fishermen with excellent illustrations, both photographic and reproductions of art. The book is clean, bright, sound and unworn. The slipcase with illustrated paper covers and faux leather ends, has barely a hint of wear. ... more information

Norman OK:: Santa Fe Modelers Organization, Inc.,, 1991.. First Edition. Softcover. Oblong quarto, about 11 inches wide in spiral bound white wraps. 68 numbered pages, but each page number covers a recto and the opposite verso, plus some preliminary pages and a 14 page "Listing of Cars by Number". Not pretty, just useful. Clean, bright, sound and unworn. ... more information

New York:: Frederick A. Praeger,, 1960.. 1st U.S.. Hardcover. Hardback. Octavo, Black cloth book is bright and clean and soundly bound, but is very slightly cocked. Jacket is lightly edge and extremity worn; lightly soiled; and has several edge tears each less than an eighth inch. Photos. ... more information

No place:: Ontario & Western Railway Historical Society,, 1991.. First Edition. Oblong softcover quarto, about 11 inches wide. A bound collection of the Historical Society's newsletter, Observer, this being vol. XXVI, Nos. 1 to 9. Note that there is no break showing the end of one issue or the beginning of the next. Illustrated red wraps. 100 pages plus 4 pages and the inside cover of advertising. Short illustrated articles, including maps and diagrams of railroad buildings. Light edge wear, b... more information

San Francisco:, 1933.. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 24cm x 35cm, 9 1/4 x 14. 238 numbered pages. Frontispiece and headbands by William Wilkie. Printed for William Randolph Hearst by John Henry Nash. Of this book one thousand copies have been printed for private distribution only. This copy is un-numbered. Bound in full gilt vellum with applied marbling, top edge gilt. Gilt rules and lettering are bright as is the top edge gilt. A beautiful fine press production. ... more information