Search Results: Authors starting with O from Triolet Rare Books, ABAA

New York: W.W. Norton, 1977. First edition. 149 pp. Blue cloth backstrip over blue paper boards, with the dust jacket. Slight edgewear to jacket spine head and tail, bottom corner of front flap clipped (as common with Norton books from the era). Board edges a little sunned. O'Brien's first book, a classic Los Angeles novel. Darcy O'Brien (1939-1998) was the son of the movie stars George O'Brien and Marguerite Churchill, and this book is a thinly disguised look at growing up in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Reissued by New York Review Books in 2001, the first edition is somewhat uncommon.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964. First edition. 74 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Pocket Poets Series 19. Slight edgewear, spine slightly darkened, a couple of small stray ink marks to front cover; a bright near fine or better copy. A much-loved modern classic. Smith A8. Cook, Pocket Poets, 55-56. Smith notes 3000 copies printed, Cook 1500, it is generally assumed that Cook is more likely correct.

Millerton, NY: SADEV, 1998. First edition. [23] pp. Sewn wrappers with attached dust jacket, front cover lettered in gilt. Frontispiece portrait. One of 250 copies printed for private distribution at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. O'More's elegy to his wife, Lorea Honeycutt O'More (1936-1997). O'More is the enigmatic figure best known in the rare book world for his amassing the major collection of books which was auctioned at Sotheby's Garden Ltd sale in 1989. Very slight handling wear to covers, near fine or better, with O'More's morocco gilt decorative bookplate to front pastedown.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. First edition. 311 pp. Black boards, lettered and decorated in silver, with the dust jacket. Fine copy, signed and dated (30.5.00) by Ondaatje on the title-page.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. First edition. 276 pp. Black boards, spine lettered in copper, with the dust jacket. Fine copy, signed by Ondaatje on the title-page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First American edition. 276 pp. Tan patterned boards over tan paper backstrip, spine lettered in gilt with decoration in blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. Fine copy, signed and dated by Ondaatje in the month of publication on the title-page.

North Vancouver: Capilano College, 1979. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First appearance of Ondaatje's "Running in the Family," a 40 page excerpt with some differences from the published version which came out three years later. Illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs. This issue also contains Daphne Marlatt's "In the Month of Hungry Ghosts." A near fine copy with some slight offsetting to the wraps.

Cleveland: Mother/Asphodel, 1966. First edition thus. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First printing of this reissue, originally published by the Objectivist Press in 1934. Slight edgewear, else fine in printed wrappers with attached dust jacket.

Basel: Edition Fanel, 1981. First edition. [16] leaves, folded once. Unbound leaves, laid into a chemise, housed in publisher's slipcase, as issued. Fine copy. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by Oppenheim. Sixteen poems, written between 1933 and 1957, accompanied by fifteen color serigraphs on embossed sheets, one with gold leaf. A beautiful production. OCLC locates two copies in the US (Getty and Nelson-Atkins).