Vincent O'Sullivan

The Green Window

London, Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899. First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of the scarce first edition, second issue of this collection of short stories by American short story writer Vincent O'Sullivan, including the vampire tale 'Will&apos. The first edition, second issue. In the second issue cloth binding, issued after publication had been taken over from Leonard Smithers by Grant Richards, with Richards's imprint to the back strip tail.A collection of supernatural and decadent short stories with themes of death, lust, and the macabre.'Will', one of his best known works, is a short seven page story about a vampire.O'Sullivan was a friend of Oscar Wilde, Leonard Smithers, and Audrey Beardsley, and was inspired by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and J.K. Huysmans. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, with offsetting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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Book number: 949F5

Catalogue: Ghost Stories

Keywords: The Green Window short stories horror vampire short stories None

Vincent O'Sullivan

The Green Window

London, Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition, second issue of this collection of short stories by American short story writer Vincent O'Sullivan, including the vampire tale 'Will&apos. The first edition, second issue. In the second issue cloth binding, issued after publication had been taken over from Leonard Smithers by Grant Richards, with Richards's imprint to the back strip tail.A collection of supernatural and decadent short stories with themes of death, lust, and the macabre.'Will', one of his best known works, is a short seven page story about a vampire.With the bookplate of J. W. Culme Seymour to the front pastedown.O'Sullivan was a friend of Oscar Wilde, Leonard Smithers, and Audrey Beardsley, and was inspired by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and J.K. Huysmans. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with back strip age toned. Light rubbing and handling marks to front board. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound, but with first gathering - including title page - working loose and weakly held to the head only. Pages bright. Light tide marks to head of fore edge of a number of leaves. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 949F4

Catalogue: Ghost Stories

Keywords: The Green Window short stories horror vampire short stories decadent movement j w culme seymour None

MacDonald P. Jackson and Vincent O'Sullivan

The Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Writing Since 1945

Oxford University Press 1983 Paperback, 716pp. Heavy. (ISBN: 0195580974). Good.

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Book number: 1376564

Catalogue: General

Keywords: NZ, Short Stories, Fiction0195580974 0195580974

MacDonald P. Jackson and Vincent O'Sullivan

The Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Writing Since 1945

Oxford University Press 1983 Paperback, 716pp. Heavy, spine creased - well-read. (ISBN: 0195580974). Fair.

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Book number: 1455910

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Keywords: NZ, Short Stories, Fiction0195580974 0195580974

Jonson, Ben; Vincent O'Sullivan; Robert Ross

Ben Jonson, His Volpone: Or the Foxe

New York, John Lane, 1898. A New Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Published by John Lane, New York, 1898, being the First Beardsley Edition (title page says "A New Edition"). Published a year following his death. Copy #245 of 1000 copies, printed and published for the U.S. and England. Cover design by Aubrey Beardsley, being in gilt to front cover, edges gilt-ruled, and board edges beveled. Big, tall, sturdy quarto format, moderate rubbing to extremities, scuffing to tips, rubbing to joints, edges. Very lightly soiling to endpapers, heavy toning only to first and final endpaper, else clean and unmarked but for previous owner's inscription. Augmented with a fine, involved frontispiece, five large historiated initial letters, and a vignette tot title page. Considered roundly to be one of Aubrey Beardsley's finest works, he having just completed the art-editing and illustration of The Yellow Book, which ran from 1895-1897. Vincent O'Sullivan adds a warm, comprehensive biography of one of the 17th century giants of art, culture and literature, Ben Jonson, and Robert Ross, pays due homage to Aubrey Beardsley's life and works, too. Quite scarce in the trade, there being only two additional copies available currently. xlv [2], 5-193 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 356090

Catalogue: Drama & Theater

Keywords: Aubrey Beardsley Ben Jonson Volpone The Fox

Katherine Mansfield; Vincent O'Sullivan; Margaret Scott

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume One 1903-1917

Oxford , Clarendon Press, 1984 . First edition. Cloth. A bright, first edition of this collection of correspondence from New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield, these letters covering the years she spent in England, France and Switzerland at the peak of her career. First edition. In the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. The collected letters of New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield, a key figure in the modernist movement and a close literary friend to authors including Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. This first volume covers Mansfield's early life, publication of her first work, the first five years of her relationship with Middleton Murry, and much more. Recipients include Virginia Woolf, Francis Carco, Garnet Trowell, and many others.Three further volumes were published in the years the followed. In the publisher's cloth and the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with light shelf wear. Dust wrapper is also excellent, with minor shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 950Q21

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Katherine Mansfield vincent o'sullivan letters margaret scott vincent o'sullivan None

O'SULLIVAN, VINCENT

Our Burning Time : Poems

Wellington, New Zealand, Prometheus Books. 1965, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vincent O'Sullivan first book for which he won the Jessie Mackay Award, since then he has won numerous awards. CONDITION Green Rexine bds with bright gilt title (unworn, bottom rear cnr a little bumped) 51 pages. Copy is bright and crisp with name inside front and light toned at ends, Original DJ is illus by Don Binney. It is toned and stained, wear to spine ends and tips including a small tear to spine head. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 16124

Catalogue: Poetry

Vincent O'Sullivan

All This by Chance

Victoria University Press 2017 Paperback, 336pp. If we don’t have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present. Esther’s grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practice pharmacy on the other side of the world. Eva has grown up English, with no memory of the Jewish family who sent their little girl to safety. When the couple emigrate, the peace they seek in New Zealand cannot overcome the past they have left behind. Following the lives of Eva, her daughter Lisa, and her granddaughter Esther, All This By Chance is a moving multigenerational family saga about the legacy of the Holocaust and the burden of secrets never shared, by one of New Zealand’s finest writers. Pasted inside is NZ Listener review of the book, otherwise book is in near mint condition. (ISBN: 9781776561797). Very Good.

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Book number: 1168505

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Vincent O'Sullivan

All This by Chance

Victoria University Press 2017 Paperback, 336pp. If we don’t have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present. Esther’s grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practice pharmacy on the other side of the world. Eva has grown up English, with no memory of the Jewish family who sent their little girl to safety. When the couple emigrate, the peace they seek in New Zealand cannot overcome the past they have left behind. Following the lives of Eva, her daughter Lisa, and her granddaughter Esther, All This By Chance is a moving multigenerational family saga about the legacy of the Holocaust and the burden of secrets never shared, by one of New Zealand’s finest writers. (ISBN: 9781776561797). Good.

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Book number: 1296630

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Vincent O'Sullivan

All This by Chance

Victoria University Press 2017 Paperback, 336pp. If we don’t have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present. Esther’s grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practice pharmacy on the other side of the world. Eva has grown up English, with no memory of the Jewish family who sent their little girl to safety. When the couple emigrate, the peace they seek in New Zealand cannot overcome the past they have left behind. Following the lives of Eva, her daughter Lisa, and her granddaughter Esther, All This By Chance is a moving multigenerational family saga about the legacy of the Holocaust and the burden of secrets never shared, by one of New Zealand’s finest writers. Ex-library. (ISBN: 9781776561797). Good.

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Book number: 1391185

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Keywords: Fiction, NZ9781776561797 9781776561797

Vincent O'Sullivan

An Anthology of Twentieth Century New Zealand Poetry - Second Edition

Oxford University Press 1976 Paperback, 439pp. Heavy. Cover sunned; marks from tape on inside cover; minor foxing. (ISBN: 0195580036). Fair.

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Book number: 1572381

Catalogue: General

Keywords: NZ, Poetry0195580036 0195580036

O'SULLIVAN, VINCENT

Bearings

Wellington, London, New York, Melbourne, Oxford University Press. 1973. (ISBN: 9780196400105). Paperback. Used, Paperback. Covers are slightly faded, with several light surface scratches and small indentations. Minor wear to spine ends and leading corners. Page block and pages are a little sunned. Cover spine is almost completely detached from body of book and binding is extremely loose throughout. Text is clear. AF. Good/No Dust Jacket.

PsychoBabel BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 299482

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: 9780196400105

O'SULLIVAN, VINCENT

Bearings

Wellington, Oxford University Press. 1973, First Edition. Paperback. Used, Paperback. First Edition. Very good condition. From the collection of poet Gavin Ewart, with his name penned on F.E.P. a few annotation marks and dated June 1973. Cover spine sunned and bumped to spine ends. Glue on F E P near binding. Pages and text fine. RB. Very Good.

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Book number: 506498

Catalogue: Poetry

Vincent O'Sullivan

Bearings

Oxford University Press 1973 Paperback. Sun damage on cover. (ISBN: 0196400104). Good.

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Book number: 1327287

Catalogue: General

Keywords: NZ, Poetry0196400104 0196400104

Vincent O'Sullivan

Believers To the Bright Coast

Penguin 1998 Paperback, 274pp. The infamous Dr Crippen's mistress finds a new life in Auckland in the early decades of the century. A French nun works amongst the disabled and the poor. Young Spicer, a slow-witted lad finds himself deeply involved in the lives of both. Together they form an unlikely threesome in this thriller. (ISBN: 9780140280272). Fair.

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Book number: 1412636

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Keywords: Fiction, NZ9780140280272 9780140280272