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1961160128008New York: Modern Library 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by O'Hara on title page dated April 5 1962. Former owner's name written on title page as well. A portion of a letter with O'Hara's Princeton New Jersey address label and the former owner's name and address apparently written by O'Hara. Gray cloth with gilt and black stamping. 310 p. with six pgs of ads at rear. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Tiny stain on fore edge front hinge a little free. Jacket price-clipped with a bit of rubbing. Modern Library hardcover books
194522556New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1945. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; original cloth in black and orange decorative dust jacket; xiv205pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped orange spine lettering faded a few pieces of tape repair to jacket verso; old round dampstain to upper cover cloth else Very Good in Very Good jacket. Collection of short stories here inscribed and signed "To Pat with love John O'Hara 24 Nov. '63." Quite possibly the "Pat" in question is O'Hara's closest friend later in life J.W. "Pat" Outerbridge. Duell, Sloan and Pearce unknown books
1958163551958. 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. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1965180715010New York: Tibor De Nagy Editions 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. First edition first printing. Publisher's purple and white striped wraps with titles in red with the usual offsetting to the title page from the purple stripes. Very Good with light toning light staining to the rear cover near the spine. A scarce work by O'Hara one of 500 unnumbered copies published by the Tibor De Nagy Gallery in New York City. Tibor De Nagy Editions unknown books
1935D12931New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Glossy black cloth over boards; illustrated dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 4 310. Spine tips lightly rubbed; cloth very faintly rubbed visible only when you turn the book to catch the light. In a lovely near fine dust jacket -- spine just a bit sunned. <br/><br/>"Butterfield 8" was made into a film in 1960; directed by Daniel Mann starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey. Taylor then 28 years old won her first Academy Award for her performance in a leading role. According to MGM records the film made $6.8 million in the US and Canada and $3.2 million in other countries resulting in a profit to the studio of $1857000 -- making it MGM's biggest hit of the year. Elizabeth Taylor and her then-husband Eddie Fisher hated the film referring to it as "Butterball Four." Her famous response to the success of the film made under protest in order to fulfill a contractual obligation to MGM before being allowed to depart to 20th Century Fox to make Cleopatra: "I still say it stinks." Elizabeth reportedly hated the film because at the time of its making the studio was tying her down to the project and in response to her "stealing" Eddie Fisher away from his previous wife Debbie Reynolds U.S. fans were referring to Taylor as a "slut" and a "homewrecker" descriptions which also describe her character Gloria. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
196515394New York: Tibor De Nagy Editions 1965. Original wraps. Very Good . A crisp very sharp copy of the 1965 1st edition limited to 500 copies. Bright and VG to Near Fine in its striped wrappers with just a touch of light soiling at the panels. Internally pristine with no writing or markings of any kind. Square 12mo edited by John Bernard Myers designed by Fred R. Siegle. <br/><br/> Tibor De Nagy Editions paperback books
1934JC10729New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 301. First printing with tipped-in errata slip. Second issue dust jacket by Maurer with reviews on rear panel. Spine tips and lettering rubbed; waterspots on the cloth; ownership signature and faint erased remains of an inscription on FFEP. Dust jacket a bit chipped and torn along the edges; spine somewhat sunned; price-clipped. The author's first novel. <br/><br/> Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1945016359NY: 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
19907974San Francisco: Arion Press 1990. First edition. Unbound. Near Fine in Near Fine Slipcase. Dine Jim. Oversize folio 21-1/2" x 15". ff.44. Unbound loose sheets. Illustrated throughout by Jim Dine including a full-page color lithograph with a tissue guard. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies signed on the colophon by Jim Dine. In a recessed pocket inside the front cover of the case is a large 8vo. pamphlet "COMPANION TO BIOTHERM for Bill Berkson. The Last Long Poem of the Late Frank O'Hara. An Essay Entited 'Air and Such'. by BillBerkson. Publisher's Note by Andrew Hoyem." 24pp. Printed wrappers sewn & tied at inner margin. Both items housed in a red cloth clamshell case stamped in black some faded water spotting on front cover. Arion Press unknown books
1934JOH011New York: Harcourt Brace and Co. 1934 First edition first printing with the publisher's errata slip. Publisher's black cloth lettered in lemon yellow; in the original first issue pictorial dust jacket designed by Alfred Maurer priced at $2.50 and with "Recent Fiction" to the rear panel with the iconic deco design of a car driving through a hilled landscape in green yellow and black lettered in yellow and black. About very good with soiling to the cloth a slight lean to the spine some faint spotting to the page edges some minor soiling to the endpapers otherwise clean interior; unclipped dust jacket with loss to the spine ends closed tears to the spine and front flap fold some wear and minor chipping to the extremities light toning to the spine a few minor scuffs to the otherwise bright panels. Overall a very sturdy and presentable copy of O'Hara's first novel. Appointment in Samarra tells the tragic story of protagonist Julian English as he delves into a downward spiral of self-destruction. Like the fast-paced plot which takes place over the course of only three days O'Hara wrote this novel in an expeditious four months when he was only twenty-eight years old. Although criticized for the candor with which he presented socially taboo sexual encounters Appointment in Samarra is notable for propelling O'Hara to literary prominence. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Illus. by Maurer Alfred. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co. hardcover books
1935150423006New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition First Printing. Near Fine in a Good dust jacket with price of $2.50 intact. Light edge wear to cloth chipping to gilt lettering on spine. Tiny stamp and small sticker removal to rear paste down. The dust jacket shows edge wear with a 2.5 x 1 inch chip to the rear panel loss at the head and tail extending to front panel. Rarely seen in the dust jacket. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
197126371New York: Alfred Knopf 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Advance Uncorrected Proofs of this influential New York School poetry collection. Containing 20 numbered and gathered and unbound signatures in very good condition. With numerous inked hand corrections within the text possibly by Mr. Allen. Publisher's Review Slip taped on to the front cover of the first gathered signature. Early state of this important book in the canon of first generation New York School texts. Alfred Knopf paperback books
1940121992New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1940. First edition of this classic novel basis for the 1957 film starring Rita Hayworth Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Sally Cooke with every confidence and all good wishes for success in her new undertaking and no cracks about undertaking. Sincerely John O'Hara Quoque. August 29 1943." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip to the spine. Pal Joey was written as a series of letters--or short stories--in the magazine The New Yorker in the late 1930s.4 O'Hara's stories tell of Joey Evans a second-rate nightclub entertainer in 1930s Chicago in which he meets and falls in love with the woman "Linda." In a series of letters to "dear Pal Ted" from "Pal Joey" he reveals himself to be an amoral calculating heel whose venality is cloaked by an amiable persona. the basis of the 1940 stage musical comedy and 1957 motion picture of the same name with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart starring Rita Hayworth Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak. Duell, Sloan and Pearce hardcover books
4370New York:: Random House. First editions. Octavo 16 volumes. Elegantly bound in three quarters red morocco. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt topstain marbled endpapers. An attractive group. John O'Hara was a keen observer of social status and class differences and wrote frequently about the socially ambitious. Writer Fran Lebowitz called him "the real F. Scott Fitzgerald." John Updike one of his consistent supporters grouped him with Chekhov. Random House unknown books
193413314JNew York: Harcourt 1934. First Edition of the Author’s First Novel. Laid in is a terrific Autograph Postcard Signed from John O’Hara dated September 2 1934 sent from San Francisco and depicting the handsome St. Francis Hotel. Comically addressed to a woman “Chevalier Charlot Rosenberg†sent to her at a bar named “Tony’s 59 West 52 New York NY.†Here I come in a V-8 Phaeton. Lover to Whiskers and the rest of the Reading Club. John O’Hara. In the middle of the card O’Hara has drawn a sketch of himself speeding along in a 1930s phaeton automobile being chased by a motorcycle cop. The postcard was written at the time of Appointment In Samarra’s huge publication success. Very good copy in a later issue dust jacket with some minor dampstaining and a bit of edge wear. Harcourt unknown books
195990478New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery 1959. First edition of this exhibition flyer for the 1959 Tibor de Nagy exhibition of works by Larry Rivers and Grace Hartigan inspired by O'Hara's poetry. Octavo original wrappers as issued illustrated with twelve black and white lithographs. Association copy inscribed by Larry Rivers on the verso of the front cover to fellow member of the informal New York School of artists Willem de Kooning "For Bill de Kooning much admiration Larry Rivers." Musician artist and filmmaker Larry Rivers took up painting in 1945 and lived in the the Hotel Chelsea notable for its artistic residents such as Bob Dylan Janis Joplin Leonard Cohen Arthur C. Clarke Dylan Thomas Sid Vicious and multiple people associated with Andy Warhol's Factory. A part of the New York School of the 1950s of which Frank O'Harra was the crux due to his position at the MOMA Rivers' paintings drew inspiration from the contemporary avant-garde movement in particular abstract expressionism. De Kooning too was a part of the New York School his well-known The Woman Series notable for its powerful expression of the frustrations and desires of the post-World War II era. In near fine condition. An intimate association copy linking these great artists of the 20th century. The New York School was an informal group of American artists musicians and poets active in New York City throughout the 50s and 60s. At the heart of the group was poet Frank O'Harra due to his post as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art where he created connections between poets and painters including Larry Rivers John Ashberry and Fairfield Porter. The group participated in many joint collaborations including several publications exhibitions and works of art. While the poets of the group often wrote in an immediate and spontaneous manner reminiscent of stream of consciousness writing the painters represented the New York abstract expressionists. The Abstract Expressionism movement in American painting was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world a role formerly filled by Paris. Tibor de Nagy Gallery unknown books
1940025153Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox. 1940. The revised shooting final screenplay dated December 15 1939 although with 24 pages of colored inserts dating from January and February 1940. Machine stamped "copy #1" belonging to the producer Darryl F. Zanuck. This was one of the two screenplays that O'Hara worked on from September to December 1939 and shared screenplay credits for in this case with Karl Tunberg and Don Ettlinger. The movie was produced by Zanuck and starred Vera Zorina Erich von Stroheim and Peter Lorre. Quarto; mimeographed pages with blue revision sheets inserted. Near fine in printed studio wrappers. Rare. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 20th Century Fox paperback books
196530428New York: Lorenz Gude and Boke Press 1965. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Complete in two volumes we offer C Comics #1 and 2 together as a set. Classic New York School collaborations with Joe Brainard artist and a host of first and second generation New York School poets adding text and general tomfoolery. C Comics No. 1 was published in 1964 by Lorenz Gude. 8 1/2 x 14" tall sheets tri-stapled at left border. Brainard edited as well as drew the comics with text assists by Johnny Stanton Robert Dash Bill Berkson Gerard Malanga Ron Padgett Ted Berrigan and others. Staples a bit rusty. Front cover loose at bottom staple. Mimeograph sheets printed on rectos only. Rear blank cover loose from two staples. Otherwise a handsome very good copy. Of the two issues number one is much less common and when found is usually in substandard condition. This copy better than most we have handled over the last twenty years. Paired with C Comics #2 published one year later by Boke Press. 8 1/2 x 11" sheets stapled at left. Some cover toning else a hardy well stapled copy. Internally clean and fresh. Scarce two volume set. Lorenz Gude and Boke Press paperback books
1951140938018New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery 1951. First Edition. Unbound. Near Fine. New York School of Poets Larry Rivers. 1952 First edition. Folded and gathered sheets unbound as issued; with two reproductions of drawings by Larry Rivers. One of 130 copies in the regular issue of an edition of 150 total as per colophon at rear this copy is unnumbered. Not all copies of the regular issue were bound since there was a large over-run totaling twice the amount specified in the colophon. Perhaps the publisher's ran out of the decorative blue paper for use as covers on these extra copies which may account for these unbound sets which were distributed as unnumbered "folded paper" copies. Near Fine. Erased bookseller notation and stain to outer blank sheet which protrudes slightly onto the bottom edge of title page as well else a lovely copy. Housed in a half black morocco leather solander case stamped in gilt covered in decorative paper that appears identical to the paper utilized by Tibor de Nagy for covers. A very uncommon collection of the O'Hara's first book and the first book to be issued in this series by Tibor de Nagy. Tibor de Nagy Gallery unknown books
1988140938552New York: The Limited Editions Club 1988. First Edition. Near Fine. Limited edition of 550 copies; this copy is #136 with authorized facsimile signature of De Kooning. Elephant folio. Black Nigerian goatskin lettered in gilt housed in black cloth clamshell case with gilt lettered black leather spine label. Includes 13pp. staplebound Limited Editions Club Letter. A bit of waviness to a few pages in middle of book else Fine housed in Very Good slipcase with worn spot to back edge of spine a bit of pilling to cloth. Letter has small light crease to bottom corners else near fine. 17 original lithographs by De Kooning reproduced from charcoal drawings illustrating the New York School poet's ode to the Dutch-American abstract expressionist painter. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1934300266New York: Harcourt 1934. First. hardcover. fine. Thick 8vo handsomely rebound in full aqua morocco with black leather spine labels. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1934. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Bound in is the publisher's slip attributing the quotation on the title page.<br/><br/> Harcourt unknown books
19517902N. Y.: Tibor De Nagy Gallery 1951. First edition of O'Hara's first book the birth of the New York School of Poetry. One of 130 copies printed on French Arches paper out of a total edition of 150 copies there were 20 copies on Japanese Kochi; this copy number 38. According to the colophon A City Winter was published in March-April 1952 in an edition of 150 numbered copies in two forms: a regular issue of 130 copies printed on French Arches paper copies 21-150 and a deluxe issue printed on Japanese Kochi paper with an original drawing by Larry Rivers copies 1-20. However according to Brad Gooch 280 "folded paper" copies were printed in addition to the copies on Kochi paper. The regular issue bound in blue paper wrappers sold for $1.00; the deluxe hardbound issue on Kochi paper with an original drawing by Rivers for $20.00. Brad Gooch City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara N. Y.: Alfred A. Knopf 1993 p. 213. Not all of the copies in the regular issue were bound a fact probably explained by the large over-run of 130 copies of the regular issue - twice the number specified in the colophon. These additional copies for which there may not have been enough of the decorative blue paper used for the original wrappers appear to have been distributed as unnumbered "folded paper" copies that is as "folded and gathered sheets". Of the copies that have come on the market in the past twenty-five years the majority of copies have been in the form of unbound sheets. In the present copy the cover label has come detached and is laid into this copy; there is light marginal wear to the blue wrappers; otherwise a very good copy. Although all copies of A City Winter are rare we have seen three times as many copies of the deluxe hardbound issue as we have copies of the regular issue in its original blue wrappers            . 8vo original decorated wrappers with printed paper label on front cover. In the present copy the cover label has come detached and is laid into this copy; there is light marginal wear to the blue wrappers; otherwise a very good copy. Although all copies of A City Winter are rare we have seen three times as many copies of the deluxe hardbound issue as we have copies of the regular issue in its original blue wrappers            . Tibor De Nagy Gallery unknown books
1934109228New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1934. First edition of the author's first book. Octavo original cloth. Fine with a contemporary bookplate to the inner gutter in the first issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. A very nice example. One of the great novels of small-town American life Appointment in Samarra is John O'Hara's crowning achievement. In December 1930 just before Christmas the Gibbsville Pennsylvania social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Brimming with wealth and privilege jealousy and infidelity O'Hara's iconic first novel is an unflinching look at the dark side of the American dream--and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence if a major American writer. "O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James or France to Proust" Lionel Trilling The New York Times. "If you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well read Appointment in Samarra" Ernest Hemingway. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century and was placed by Time Magazine's list of top 100 novels written in English since 1923. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1990403910San Francisco: The Arion Press 1990. Essay and glossary by Bill Berkson. Broadsheets 22 x 15 inches. 42 lithographs by Jim Dine. With 8vo 11 x 7 1/2 inches text volume in pocket of box; sewn in original printed wrappers. Contents loose as issued in red cloth portfolio box. LIMITED EDITION number 74 of 150 copies signed by Dine from a total edition of 180. Biotherm is the last long poem by O'Hara written shortly before his accidental death in 1966 at age 40. The poet and critic Bill Berkson who died in June of this year and to whom the poem is addressed provided the essay and compiled a glossary to explicate the references in the poem and to recount the circumstances of its writing. The text was printed on English mouldmade paper on a hot-press finish and the lithographic work was done by Phelps-Schaefer Brisbane California. Offered directly from the personal archives of Jim Dine. <br/><br/> The Arion Press hardcover books
19345829New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1934. First edition of the author's first book. Octavo original cloth. Fine with a contemporary bookplate to the inner gutter in the first issue dust jacket with a few small closed tears and general wear. A very nice example. One of the great novels of small-town American life Appointment in Samarra is John O'Hara's crowning achievement. In December 1930 just before Christmas the Gibbsville Pennsylvania social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Brimming with wealth and privilege jealousy and infidelity O'Hara's iconic first novel is an unflinching look at the dark side of the American dream--and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence if a major American writer. "O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James or France to Proust" Lionel Trilling The New York Times. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century and was placed by Time Magazine's list of top 100 novels written in English since 1923. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
