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195651657New York: Random House 1956. First edition. Hardcover. A delightful and heart-warming novelette about small-town America. Some negligible oxidation to the rear joint. Typical mild browning to the dust jacket moreso along the spine and folds. A very good or better copy. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
1956WRCLIT80979New York: Random House 1956. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition. Bookseller's tiny label on front free endsheet endsheets a bit toned else a very good copy in a typically tanned dust jacket with a slightly more darkened spine. BRUCCOLI A15.1.a. Random House hardcover books
195608186New York: Random House 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. First Printing. One of 8000 Copies. A near fine copy in a near fine slightly age toned dust jacket with $1.95 price and 8/56 on front flap. 64 pp. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
1956WN52430New York: Random House 1956. Light gray cloth spine with black and red lettering and patterned paper covered boards. Top edge stained black. Facsimile O'Hara signature on title page. Some offsetting on pre and postliminaries especially in gutters. Textblock clean and good. Priceclipped dust jacket is browned on spine and edges and is a little soiled but not chipped or torn. A novelette about small town America by a noted author most familiar with this subject. . First Printing. Cloth Backed Paper Covered Bds. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Random House Hardcover books
193629825NY: Random House 1936. First printing. 8vo pp. 64. Cover slightly faded at top of front inking of type slightly uneven in spots o/w a nice copy. Random House unknown books
1956000988New York: Random House 1956. Scarce pre-publication issue of this short novel his 1st book after winning the National Book Award in 1955. Stamped on front endpage "Franz J. Horch Author's Representative 325 East 57th St. New York 22 NY" . Binding is fragile as would be expected since this wasn't meant to last when printed. Dustjacket is sun-toned on back panel and has wear at spine tips and a 1" tear along spine. A wonderful and scarce addition to any O'Hara collection. . First Printing. Plain White Wrappers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Salesman's Dummy. Random House Paperback books
1949159199New York: Random House 1949. First Printing. Hardcover. VG/G- Book is only slightly aged; dj has moderate wear to edges and is corner clipped. Black stamped cloth color pictorial dust jacket 590 pp. A novel about the Caldwell family of Fort Penn Pennsylvania. "Idealists and libertines public-spirited and self-seeking citizens officials and tradesmen and crusaders men of violence and good-will and women of fierce possessiveness and tenderness form the pageant of memorable characters who vitalize this novel. It is a full-canvas portrait of a city and its people done with a zest for color and light and movement." dj. Random House hardcover books
001828Random House. F. Published in New York by Random House in 1949. First edition. Copyright page states "FIRST PRINTING." Inscribed by the author on the front free end-paper: "To Soxe--- / With many thanks / and --- God help us --- / still speaking! / Faithfully / John O'Hara/ 19 July 1949 / New York." Book very good with slight wear at spine ends and corners slight fading on spine slight spotting on front very slight bumping to corners slight discoloration on end-papers. No DJ. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item. Random House unknown books
306320New York Random House 1949. First edition first printing so stated. 8vo. Original gilt red and blindstamped black cloth top edge stained red. Very good. 590 pages. No dust jacket. From the library of noted "Gone With The Wind" Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre bookplate on the front pastedown. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York, Random House [1949]. hardcover books
1949707395NY: Random House. 1949. Later printing. Good/ no DJ. Front hinge starting. Boards stained. Hardcover. Good. Random House hardcover books
19771290520Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG; white spine blue/maroon text; jacket has rubbing on front and back age toning light bumping on the head and tail of spine small open tear on the tail end of front flap unclipped; boards have light bumping on the head and tail of spine spotting from water damage on front and back exterior boards; textblock and interior pages have age toning; pp 226. 1290520. Full-priced Rockville. Southern Illinois University Press hardcover books
1968134254New York: Random House 1968. Octavo 336 pp. cloth. First edition. A novel and eleven short stories. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing to edges. #134254 Random House unknown books
19682295017Random House 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A very nice copy. 1968 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix 336 pp. "This volume contains twelve brilliant new stories all written in the two years following the completion of Waiting for Winter 1966. One of them "A Few Trips and Some Poetry" is a novel of medium length. Random House hardcover 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
1988UOHAAPP00TWBOMR 1988. Fine. O'Hara John. Appointment in Samarra. Camp Hill Pennsylvania: BOMR 1988. Book club facsimile of 1st edition. 301pp. 8vo. Black cloth. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. BOMR hardcover books
1945163118New York: Penguin Books 1945. First Penguin edition. Softcover. 249 pages. One of the best novels of the 20th century. A tight very good copy in wrappers with some minor wear some toning to the pages and a tiny chip to the bottom corner of the first page and a small edge tear to that page as well. Still a solid copy of this classic. Penguin Books unknown books
1961UOHAAPP00MELBOMC 1961. Very Good. O'Hara John. Appointment in Samarra. Camp Hill PA: BOMC 1961. Book Club Edition. 301pp. 12mo. Black cloth. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with light bumping. BOMC hardcover 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
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
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
1946114081Dover Publications: New York 1946. Early printing of the author's first book. Octavo original cloth. From the library of American actor Zachary Scott the first husband of Elaine Scott who later married writer John Steinbeck. Scott is best remembered for his many roles as villains and "mystery men" in dozens of musical comedies film noirs and psychological thrillers throughout the 1940s and 50s including Hollywood Canteen The Unfaithful Shotgun Man in the Shadow and The Young One. In very good condition with Scott's bookplate to the pastedown. Gift inscription to Scott to the front free endpaper. 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. New York hardcover 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
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
1961WRCLIT41948New York: Random House 1961. Narrow quarto. Ringbound printed wrappers. Trimmed uncorrected galleys of the first edition preceding page proofs. Publication date and price inked on front wrapper wrappers lightly sunned at edges with a couple smudges on rear wrapper title lettered on fore-edge else very nice. Uncommon format. BRUCCOLI A20.1.a. Random House unknown books
003871New York; 1961: Random House. Octavo. 429pp. All the stories were written in the 1960's. The author calls this work "some of the most joyful writing I have ever done. The pleasure was n finding that after eleven years of not writing short stories I could begin again and do it better; and the joy was in discovering that at fifty-five and in spite of aches in spine and tendons I had an apparently inexhaustible urge to express an unlimited supply of short story ideas". Bound in white linen lettered n gilt spine lettering gilt over red a near fine copy in near fine unclipped dust jacket lettered in black and red with just a sprinkling o droplets to spine and some toning. Random House unknown books
