ADDAMS, CHAS; O'HARA, JOHN, (FOREWORD)

Chas Addams' Monster Rally

London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London. 1951, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Addams, Chas. Used, First edition hard cover with clipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. DJ is fully illustrated, front and rear, with colour vibrant and true. Creasing and wear to edges, corners and folds, with small nicks, chips and discolouration to edges. Board corners are bumped, and pageblock tanned and foxed, leading into endpapers and page edges. Within, content is tightly bound, and pages unmarked. CN. Very Good/Very Good.

PsychoBabel BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 548784

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: Addams, Chas

Addams, Chas; John O'Hara (foreword)

[Dust Jacket] Monster Rally. (Dust Jacket Only. Book Not Included)

New York: Simon & Schuster, [1950]. Dust Jacket. Very Good. Some wear, especially along spine, and top and bottom edges. Starting at head of spine. Half inch tear at top edge. Price unclipped. (Dust Jacket only. Book not included). .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 70-2990

Catalogue: Books

John O'Hara

The Big Laugh

London, The Cresset Press, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this sharp-edge novel from American writer John Henry O'Hara. First UK edition. A saga of ambition and fate in the Golden Age of Hollywood, with all its phony power and glory. This novel follows a man who achieved great fame as a film star, but contrives his own downfall. Written by John Henry O'Hara, one of America's most prolific writers of short stories, credited with helping to invent The New Yorker magazine short story style, and best-selling novelist. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with the odd small mark to the rear panel. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 907T49

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: Big Laugh Hollywood O'Hara Laugh None

Ashbery, John. Frank O'Hara, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and other contributors. Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Harry Mathews, and James Schuyler, editors

Locus Solus II

Lans-en-Vercors, France, 1961. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with slight wear. Near Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b25636

BAYLEY, Peter Esq., LUNN, Joseph, POOLE, John, EBSWORTH, Joseph, O'HARA, Kane, BEAUMONT & FLETCHER.

Cumberland's British Theatre, with Remarks, Biographical and Critical [...] Printed from the Acting Copies as Performed at the Theatres Royal London. Volume XII: Orestes in Argos, Hide and Seek, Tribulation, The Rival Valets, Roses and Thorns, Midas, & Rule a Wife and Have a Wife

London: John Cumberland, 2 Cumberland Terrace, Camden New Town. n.d. (c.1825). Half-bound leather. Marbled boards. Frontis. B/W illus. Boards rubbed, internal hinges cracked, front endpapers almost loose, some wear to corners, ex-libris plate to inside front cover. Apart from the odd foxing and stain, contents good.

The Book FirmProfessional seller

Book number: 58441

Keywords: britain british english drama dramatic literature theatre 19th nineteenth century

O'Hara. John (signed as 'J. O'H.'

"Up Boston Way" (on football, Harvard vs. West Point) in New Yorker (November 18, 1933)

New York, 1933. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with corner crease. Near Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b22095

O'Hara, John

49 Stories

The Modern Library 1963, Reprint, Hardcover. . Blue cloth binding tight, corners sharp and inner pages unmarked. Small frayed area to very top of spine. ; Modern Library Giants, 88. 1. Very Good with no dust jacket.

Books On The BoulevardProfessional seller

Book number: 56425

Catalogue: Artist

O'HARA, JOHN

Appointment in Samarra (Modern Library #42. 3)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1959]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition of John O'Hara's first novel, originally published in 1934. This is the story of Julian English, a well-to-do car dealer whose self-destructive behavior makes him persona non grata in his town. With a foreword for this edition by the author "Appointment in Samarra" was named to the Modern Library list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 388 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1959 (though 1953 date appears in book). ML #42.3. --- A well-preserved copy: tightly-bound and unmarked though with water spotting to front cover. Unclipped dust jacket with very slight chafing to extremities, remains bright and intact; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; (20), 301 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Bluebird BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 84472

Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions

John O'Hara

Appointment in Samarra

N.Y. Modern Library 42, 1953. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. pp.301. O'Hara's first book. clean tight unread copy d/j price clipped minuscule edgewear and bumps to corners. Very Good/Very Good.

Judith Patton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 006357

Keywords: FICTION LITERATURE

O'Hara, John,

Appointment in Samarra.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. Hardcover. Facsimile DJ with 'Recent Fiction' list to rear, but no price to front flap. Spine slightly cocked. Front hinge well started, showing webbing. Wear to extremities with bottom corners bumped. Binding could be tighter ; Includes publisher's errata slip regarding Maugham's 'Sheppey.' ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 301 pages. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket.

The Complete Traveller Antiquarian BookstoreProfessional seller

Book number: 16508

Catalogue: Literature

O'HARA, JOHN.

Appointment in Samarra.

Shelton:: First Edition Library, N. D. Hardcover. A nearly exact facsimile of the first printing of the 1934 Harcourt, Brace and Company edition. Publisher's bookmark with publication facts laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a fine slipcase. An attractive and well executed replica of this collectible modern classic. Fine in Fine dust jacket . International orders are billed at cost: . 00 for a book of average size and weight, more for oversize or heavier volumes

Grendel BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 102425

Catalogue: General Fiction II

O'HARA, JOHN.

Appointment in Samarra.

Shelton:: First Edition Library, N. D. Hardcover. ISBN: 0940717026. A nearly exact facsimile of the first printing of the 1934 Harcourt, Brace and Company edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a near fine (bumped along one of the open edges) slipcase. An attractive and well executed replica of this collectible modern classic. Fine in Fine dust jacket . International orders are billed at cost: . 00 for a book of average size and weight, more for oversize or heavier volumes

Grendel BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 41365

Catalogue: General Fiction II

O'Hara, John

Assembly: A Collection of 26 New Stories

New York, Random House. 1961, First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Book, A square solid tight clean very carefully read copy. This copy has some slight lean, a small tag identifying a previous owner else fine. The priced jacket has some rubbing wear, some soil, browning, fading to the spine area, browning to reverse side, a short tear. Collection of the author's short fiction, some old and some nes. N-Fine/Good +.

Pat Cramer, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 030866

Catalogue: Collection

O'HARA, John

Assembly

London, Cresset Press, 1962. Used - Good. Good hardback in Fair dustjacket 1st ed.. Minor foxing; front free end paper a little stained; spine a little bumped; dust jacket worn, and chipped at edges. Photo:.

Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS040275I

O'hara, John,

Assembly: A Collection of 26 New Stories.

New York, Random House, 1961. 1st Printing. Hardcover., G (See Description), Vg-/G Light Foxing to Cloth. Dj Price-Clipped, Lightly Sunned at Spine, Lightly Soiled & Edgeworn. Pages Clean, Binding Tight. Dj in Mylar Wrap. Pages: 429.

Vintage BooksProfessional seller

Book number: MASTER364170I

Catalogue: Literature