O'hara, JohnABAA
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1935réf. 013683NY: Harcourt Brace 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Prolific O'Hara's second published book this a collection of stories after his first book the novel Appointment in Samarra. Uncommonly found in dustjacket whatever the condition. Book itself is quite nice - square solid binding clean polished black cloth though the spine titles stamped in whit are mostly worn. Unclipped dustjacket is toned. most noticeably at spine and rear panel with some obvious chipping along edges and at corners most noticeably with a triangular 1" piece missing lower edge front panel. No names inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. Harcourt Brace hardcover books
1941réf. Book Listing 15Hardcover minor sign of wear on spine and cover of book small figure of horse embossed on front cover written on inside front cover Mary Mone Peirce Story and #11 J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover
1967réf. SF 4/5-23The Museum of Modern Art 1967. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. A FINE FIRST EDITION IN NEAR FINE SLIPCASE. Designed by Susan Draper Tundisi. Some very minor darkening to cloth of outer slipcase edge. We would be happy to send photos upon request. O'Hara poems illustrated by various artists. Artists include: Nell Blaine Norman Bluhm Joe Brainard John Button Giorgio Cavallon Allan D'Arcangelo Elaine de Kooning Willem de Kooning Niki de Saint Phalle Helen Frankenthaler Jane Freilicher Michael Goldberg Philip Guston Grace Hartigan Al Held Jasper Johns Matsumi Kanemitsu Alex Katz Lee Krasner Alfred Leslie Roy Lichtenstein Marisol Joan Mitchell Robert Motherwell Reuben Nakian Barnett Newman Claes Oldenburg Robert Rauschenberg Larry Rivers Jane Wilson. Poems coupled with 30 different artists in loose sheets. In a cloth folio in a slipcase. The Museum of Modern Art Hardcover
1971réf. BOOKS115013INew York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1971. 1st. hardcover. Tall 8vo 586 pp. First printing of the first edition with the Larry Rivers nude drawing on the front panel of the dust jacket. Edited by Donald Allen; introduction by John Ashbery. . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1971réf. 86083NY: Knopf 1971. First edition. xxix 586 pp w/notes and index of titles & first lines. Light foxing along top edge else very near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Donald Allen with an introduction by John Ashbery. First issue binding first issue dust jacket. This dust jacket was deemed unsuitable by members of O’Hara’s family and quickly replaced with a completely different and very dull typographic design. Regarding this earlier binding Alexander Smith in his bibliography notes “In addition to having the dust jacket designed by Larry Rivers these copies are printed in gold on the front and back covers; subsequently the covers were stamped blind.” The copies described are those shipped to reviewers and the first shipments on advance orders. Smith A15. NY: Knopf, unknown
1971réf. 86083NY: Knopf 1971. First edition. xxix 586 pp w/notes and index of titles & first lines. Light foxing along top edge else very near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Donald Allen with an introduction by John Ashbery. First issue binding first issue dust jacket. This dust jacket was deemed unsuitable by members of O’Hara’s family and quickly replaced with a completely different and very dull typographic design. Regarding this earlier binding Alexander Smith in his bibliography notes “In addition to having the dust jacket designed by Larry Rivers these copies are printed in gold on the front and back covers; subsequently the covers were stamped blind.” The copies described are those shipped to reviewers and the first shipments on advance orders. Smith A15. NY: Knopf, unknown books
1944réf. 55731n.p. Honolulu: n.p. The Author 1944. First edition thus. Very good plus. Second - and heavily revised - edition of this rare and notorious memoir about the life and business of a sex worker. Composed when she was 31 years old and under indictment for attempted murder she was acquitted this fascinating self-published account helped make Jean O'Hara infamous throughout the country. Preceded by a very rare mimeographed edition under the title MY LIFE AS A HONOLULU PROSTITUTE it was penned with a clear agenda including managing her public image during her trial - the vice squad and one Chief Gabrielson come in for particular opprobrium. O'Hara's sympathies clearly lie with sex workers. However in the original mimeo edition the tone is largely unapologetic offering clear and frank explanations of the realities and economics of the profession from political pay-offs to inflated bordello rents. Her argument is primarily that illegality and corruption - not the inherent work itself - lead to greater suffering for sex workers than necessary. She bases her observations on her time in Hawaii during WWII where prostitution was semi-legal operated under the tacit authority of the police. But in this revised edition her aim has shifted more heavily to image rehabilitation. Although HONOLULU HARLOT is not entirely rewritten prostitution becomes "white slavery" and O'Hara's voice is much more that of the reformed sinner. Rare in any edition; OCLC locates only three copies of this one with only one outside of Hawaii UC Berkeley. 8'' x 5.25''. Original stapled photographic wrappers. 48 pages. Minor edge/shelfwear. Small scuff to front cover. Faint toning internally. Overall clean and sound. n.p. [The Author] unknown
1944réf. 55731n.p. Honolulu: n.p. The Author 1944. First edition thus. Very good plus. Second - and heavily revised - edition of this rare and notorious memoir about the life and business of a sex worker. Composed when she was 31 years old and under indictment for attempted murder she was acquitted this fascinating self-published account helped make Jean O'Hara infamous throughout the country. Preceded by a very rare mimeographed edition under the title MY LIFE AS A HONOLULU PROSTITUTE it was penned with a clear agenda including managing her public image during her trial - the vice squad and one Chief Gabrielson come in for particular opprobrium. O'Hara's sympathies clearly lie with sex workers. However in the original mimeo edition the tone is largely unapologetic offering clear and frank explanations of the realities and economics of the profession from political pay-offs to inflated bordello rents. Her argument is primarily that illegality and corruption - not the inherent work itself - lead to greater suffering for sex workers than necessary. She bases her observations on her time in Hawaii during WWII where prostitution was semi-legal operated under the tacit authority of the police. But in this revised edition her aim has shifted more heavily to image rehabilitation. Although HONOLULU HARLOT is not entirely rewritten prostitution becomes "white slavery" and O'Hara's voice is much more that of the reformed sinner. Rare in any edition; OCLC locates only three copies of this one with only one outside of Hawaii UC Berkeley. 8'' x 5.25''. Original stapled photographic wrappers. 48 pages. Minor edge/shelfwear. Small scuff to front cover. Faint toning internally. Overall clean and sound. n.p. [The Author] unknown books
1958réf. 16355Random House 1958. O'HARA John. FROM THE TERRACE. NY: Random House 1958. 8vo. blue cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by John O'Hara on the title page. Bruccoli A16.1.a. Basis for the 1960 movie of the same name starring Paul Newman Joanne Woodward & Myrna Loy. A very good copy; some edgewear & number of small creases short tears but no chips d/j. $1000.00. Random House unknown
1945réf. 016359NY: Duell Sloan and Pearce. 1945. An uncommon book by the author of Butterfield 8 and Appointment in Samarra among others. Inscribed by the author to WEAF radio personality Mary Margaret McBride in the year of publication: "To Mary Margaret/ and how are your/ taste-buds/ Sincerely/ John O'Hara/ WEAF/ 20 March 1945." Books inscribed by O'Hara are uncommon although later in his career he did a number of signed limited editions. A fragile book cheaply produced under wartime conditions this is a very attractive copy. Some spotting to rear board and fading to spine cloth; near fine in a very good dust jacket with a couple of small internally tape-mended edge tears. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Duell, Sloan and Pearce hardcover
1935réf. 66892New York:: Harcourt Brace and Company 1935. First edition. publisher's black cloth in dust jacket; preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding box. Ink ownership notation on front free endpaper; one light stain to rear free endpaper; else a very good copy in a jacket that appears to us to have been washed to remove tape and has been restored at edges. O'Hara's most uncommon book particularly in dust jacket. 8vo. Harcourt, Brace and Company, hardcover
1958réf. 16355Random House 1958. O'HARA John. FROM THE TERRACE. NY: Random House 1958. 8vo. blue cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by John O'Hara on the title page. Bruccoli A16.1.a. Basis for the 1960 movie of the same name starring Paul Newman Joanne Woodward & Myrna Loy. A very good copy; some edgewear & number of small creases short tears but no chips d/j. $1000.00. Random House unknown books
1945réf. 016359NY: Duell Sloan and Pearce. 1945. An uncommon book by the author of Butterfield 8 and Appointment in Samarra among others. Inscribed by the author to WEAF radio personality Mary Margaret McBride in the year of publication: "To Mary Margaret/ and how are your/ taste-buds/ Sincerely/ John O'Hara/ WEAF/ 20 March 1945." Books inscribed by O'Hara are uncommon although later in his career he did a number of signed limited editions. A fragile book cheaply produced under wartime conditions this is a very attractive copy. Some spotting to rear board and fading to spine cloth; near fine in a very good dust jacket with a couple of small internally tape-mended edge tears. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Duell, Sloan and Pearce hardcover books
1943réf. 85235Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1943. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slight sunning at the crown very near fine in an attractive very good or better dustwrapper with two modest chips at the crown. The author's second novel a sequel to My Friend Flicka. Basis for the 1945 film Thunderhead Son of Flicka directed by Louis King and featuring Roddy McDowall reprising his role from Flicka Preston Foster and Rita Johnson. The first edition is exceptionally uncommon in jacket. J.B. Lippincott hardcover
1943réf. 85235Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1943. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slight sunning at the crown very near fine in an attractive very good or better dustwrapper with two modest chips at the crown. The author's second novel a sequel to My Friend Flicka. Basis for the 1945 film Thunderhead Son of Flicka directed by Louis King and featuring Roddy McDowall reprising his role from Flicka Preston Foster and Rita Johnson. The first edition is exceptionally uncommon in jacket. J.B. Lippincott hardcover books
1943réf. 008724New York: Henry Holt and Company 1943. First edition. Hardcover. This is a lovely jacketed first edition first printing inscribed in the year of publication. On the half title in three lines in blue ink Frost wrote: Robert Frost 1943 For Rees J. Frescoln. A handsome Second World War production this book features an oatmeal linen cloth binding illustrated and printed in dark red with full-color illustrated endpapers illustrations throughout red topstain and a handsomely illustrated dust jacket. Selection biographical introduction and commentary are credited to Frosts great friend fellow poet and anthologist Louis Untermeyer 1885-1977. "The poems in this volume. have been chosen out of all his seven volumes from A BOY'S WILL to A WITNESS TREE; as a group the more than eighty poems include his most famous and popular work. Louis Untermeyer's commentary. is a notable addition to the poems themselves. The biographical introduction. presents the most complete and up-to-date account of the poet." Black and white wood-engraved illustrations throughout as well as the watercolor endpapers of New Hampshires Mount Kearsarge and the frontispiece watercolor of birch trees are by John OHara Cosgrave II. An enlargement of this volume with additional material by Louis Untermeyer was published by Holt with the title The Road Not Taken in 1951. Condition approaches near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The illustrated cloth binding is square tight and unfaded with minimal shelf wear including lightly bruised upper corners and a few faint instances of spotting. The contents are clean with no spotting or soiling and only mild age-toning. The red topstain retains uniform hue. The dust jacket is unclipped retaining the original $2.50 upper front flap price and entirely complete with no loss or tears. The jacket is lightly toned overall slightly more so to the spine and shows only trivial hints of wear to the extremities. The jacket is protected beneath a clear removable archival cover. This collections titular poem Come In was first printed in the Atlantic Monthly in February 1941 and collected in A Witness Tree 1942. Arguably archetypally Frostian in the poem a speaker journeys out into nature to register a typically ambiguous sign from an encounter there. In Come In the journey is significantly only to the edge of the darkening woods no further At his public readings Frost would use Come In to declare his objections to the grimness of modernist wasteland verse occasionally suggesting that this poem might express his rejection of invitations to gatherings of modern poets. This is the final poem in the collection preceding the Afterword and paired rather beautifully with Into My Own which precedes Come In and faces it on the preceding page verso to recto. This collection was published on 5 April 1943. Frost was nearly 70 years old. The next month in early May 1943 came announcement of Frosts final and still-unrivalled fourth Pulitzer Prize for poetry for A Witness Tree. Even though he had not published his first volume of poetry until he was nearly 40 years old he would spend his remaining two decades as the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century with an accumulating hoard of academic and civic honors. Two years before his death he became the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration Kennedy January 1961. References: Crane A26; Tuten & Zubizarreta; ANB Henry Holt and Company hardcover
1965réf. 494931New York: Tibor De Nagy Editions 1965. Paperback in very good condition. First edition. One of 500 copies. Thirty pages. Covers and page block are marked tanned and edge-worn. Minor bumps on a few pages. Binding is exposed at inside covers and between one or two pages but rermains intact. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW. Paperback. Very Good. Used. Tibor De Nagy Editions Paperback
1951réf. SHEL1289NY: Greenberg 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 273pp. Illus. Two pages in rear printing charts/info of Arcaro's four Kentucky Derby wins. One page of his riding record. Near fine in vg couple of short tears/snags price-clipped dj. The rare first printing. Greenberg hardcover
réf. MC01B-00012George Washington University. Collectible - Very Good. INSCRIBED! Washington D.C.: George Washington University 1996. 4to Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. 129pp. B/W illustrations and tables. Inscribed by author in blue ink on front free endpaper: "Ruby Thanks for your help. This thesis would not have been written without your care and attention. Eileen" Very Good book. Light soiling to covers and top edge. In polypropylene bag. None vialibri. 1 copy OCLC. No acution records. academic theses academic dissertation african americans children jump rope oclc Inquire if you need further information. George Washington University hardcover
réf. 69825Grove Press 1957. First edition first printing. Has become quite scarce especially in this very close to fine condition. Previous owner's very neat printed name to inside front cover which is subtle. Just the lightest touch of age toning to back cover and final flyleaf. Otherwise quite handsome. Third collection of the poet. One of only 900 copies. Dedicated to the poet's good friend the painter Jane Freilischer. O'Hara was born in Baltimore and won the Hopwood Award for Poetry in 1951. Back cover original price is $1. Please inquire prior to purchase - thanks. Very close to fine wraps. Softcover. Grove Press, 1957 paperback
1965réf. BOOKS067573INew York: Tibor De Nagy Editions 1965. PB. good wraps softcover. Nice clean and tight copy we underdescribe - some folks would call this copy very good. Usual offsetting on title page from the wrap around front cover. Date of Oct. 12 1973 in small rubber stamps at top right corner of title page. 30pp. Tibor De Nagy Editions unknown
2002réf. SBBIH-V3ORDSNAA4TYAnglo-Roman Books 2002. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Anglo-Roman Books paperback
2008réf. SBBI-mon0000144013Vintage Classics 2008. paperback. Acceptable. Integral damage to binding e.g. cover coming away no spine chunks of pages falling out. Please see the condition note after this for details if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining water damage writing missing dustjacket etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Vintage Classics paperback
1934réf. 3356Shipboard Publication. all 8 datelines state "On board M.S. Kungsholm": Swedish American Line 1934. First Edition First Printing. Paperback. Near Fine. No. 1 Saturday March 10th 1934 to No. 8 Tuesday March 27th 1934 O'Hara's first - and rarest - "A" item with no records found of "Reminiscences" ever having been seen at auction and OCLC locating just the single copy held in Kent State's Special Collections from the personal library of O'Hara's bibliographer Matthew J. Bruccoli. Staple-bound burgundy card wrappers title and decorations stamped in gilt onto upper and lower covers 8vo 9 inches 23cm tall pp. unpaginated 42 inc. titles illustrated throughout with line drawings and B&W photo reproductions ads. Half-title states 'Reminiscences from "Kungsholm" West Indies Cruise March 9-March 28 1934' title verso states "Editor.John O'Hara" and each single issue also states "John O'Hara Editor". An 18 day cruise aboard the Swedish American Line's M.S. Kungsholm listing the ship's staff cruise staff and a complete list of passengers as well as the social programs and itinerary. Found among O'Hara's many articles and the descriptions of Barbados Jamaica Haiti Bahamas Panama Curacao Venezuela and Trinidad is his parody description of New York's social scene "Manhattan!". Volume has modest wear and creasing to covers light soil to half-title with a few stray pencil marks two brief underlingings in pencil and a faint mustiness attest to it's shipboard origins. Includes all issues numbers 1-8 of The Kungsholm Cruise News introduced and edited by John O'Hara with the final number referring to an unfinished contracted manuscript of his. "What about us and by us we mean me Do you know what we're walking into Well this is what we're walking right into: on April 2 under the terms of a contract which was signed when the West Indies Cruise was no more than an advertisement in the Sunday papers we are required to turn in the complete final manuscript of a novel. And you guessed it. That nasty smile is the first sign of life you've shown in the last day and half. You guessed it. We've failed to complete the novel. Thursday at one we have a luncheon date with the publisher Harcourt Brace Advt. who right now goes his merry way with the curious idea in mind that we are bringing with us the final MS. Take me home for one dollah!" O'Hara goes on to finish with "So here let us say adjö - if you can say it. Well you see Mr. Harcourt when we were only two days out we had a Potts fracture of the left leg and then."this sentence is underlined in pencil with the notation "me too!". Perhaps an early admission of O'Hara choosing pleasure before work hmmm. The New Yorker published 221 of O'Hara's short stories a number unequaled by any other writer. Ref. Bruccoli A1; Firsts vol. 7 no. 2; Ahearn 001a. Swedish American Line paperback
réf. 207787New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1971. First Edition. Fine in an unclipped unworn dust jacket first issue dust jacket dated 10/71 and with the Rivers design. There is a tiny nick at the upper edge of the front panel. Large 8vo 586pp; white linen. An attractive copy in the controversial Larry Rivers dust jacket that was rather ineffectually suppressed post-publication. Ashbery's bibliographer notes that 3500 copies were printed of which nearly half were sent to the Reader's Subscription book club. "Members of the O'Hara family objected to the original Rivers dust jacket and insisted that another jacket be substituted . . . Reader's Subscription would only accept those copies with the Rivers jacket and these were released. In addition the review copies and at least fifty copies shipped to a New York bookstore had the Rivers jacket. The original jackets are dated '10/71' on the back flap . . ." Kermani B25. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
