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  • Object and Idea: Art Critic’s Journal 1961-1967.
    O’DOHERTY, Brian.
    $85.00
    NY: Simon & Schuster (1967). First edition. 250 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown and extrems. Inked ownership signature of R.B. Kitaj on the first leaf, “Kitaj.” Briefly INSCRIBED to him by O’Doherty, “For Ron / -Brian.”
  • Belgrade, November 19, 1963.
    O’HARA, Frank.
    $75.00
    NY: Adventures in Poetry [c 1972-1973]. First edition. 4to. [20 pp]. Small corner crease to front cover, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. A long letter from O'Hara to Joe LeSueur. Smith A16.
  • The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies.
    OATES, Joyce Carol.
    $150.00
    Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 200 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket with a small chip and tiny tear. Fine publisher's slipcase. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Oates. Morrow & Cooney 178d.
  • The Miraculous Birth.
    OATES, Joyce Carol.
    $350.00
    Concord: William B. Ewert, 1986. First edition, publisher’s copy. [8 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine unprinted vellum dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear to crown and tips of flap folds. A poem illustrated with woodcuts by Mary Azarian. One of 15 numbered copies SIGNED by Oates and Azarian for use of the publisher.
  • Bright Lights! Big City! (Early Poems).
    OBENZINGER, Hilton.
    $25.00
    NY: Adventures in Poetry (1974). First edition. 4to. [54 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Obenzinger’s fifth book.
  • Photographs: 1967 - 2009.
    ODETS, Walt.
    $50.00
    Berkeley: Walt Odets (2010). First edition. Three volumes, each 64 pp, each fine in illustrated wrappers in publisher’s cardstock slipcase, as issued. DIVIDING SPACES, FIFTY SEVEN AMERICAN PEOPLE, and THINGS PEOPLE HAVE. Odets introduces each of these thematic collections.
  • Weather: A Novel.
    OFFILL, Jenny.
    $45.00
    NY: Knopf, 2020. First edition. 207 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Offill on the title page. A contemporary climate change novel, narrated by a college librarian.
  • Two-Eleven All Around.
    OFFUTT, Chris.
    $45.00
    St. Paul: Danger! Books (1998). First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in wrappers and fine unprinted tissue dust jacket. Illustrated with two tipped-on images by Sandy Dyas. One of 300 (of 326) numbered copies on Sommerset Book paper SIGNED by Offutt. First book of the press, and Offutt's first signed limited edition.
  • Raw Notes: Documents and scripts of the performances: Stars, Moveyhouse, Massage, The Typewriter with annotations by the author.
    OLDENBURG, Claes.
    $75.00
    Halifax: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax. 1973. First edition. 4to. 227 pp + lxiii. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Texts followed by Oldenburg’s annotations and facsimile pages.
  • The Father.
    OLDS, Sharon.
    $50.00
    NY: Knopf, 1992. First edition. 79 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Olds’ fourth collection of poems, occasioned by her father’s illness and death.
  • Blue Pastures.
    OLIVER, Mary.
    $100.00
    NY: Harcourt Brace & Company (1995). First edition. 122 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with a small corner crease to the front flap. Fifteen prose works.
  • The Hero.
    OLSEN, Don.
    $17.50
    Menomonie: Ox Head Press, 1967. First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Single poem published in an edition of 125 numbered copies.
  • The Great Oasis: Poems from the Lyon County Survival Society.
    OLSEN, Don. ed.
    $15.00
    Marshall: Ox Head Press, 1974. First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 300 copies. A poem each by Howard Mohr, Al Zolynas, and Don Olsen. Ox Head 12.
  • Call Me Ishmael.
    OLSON, Charles.
    $750.00
    NY: Grove Press [1958]. Second edition, numbered issue. 119 pp. Very near fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. One of 100 numbered copies. Originally published as a trade edition in 1947, this issue is uncommon.
  • Human Universe and Other Essays.
    OLSON, Charles.
    $100.00
    NY: Grove Press (1967). First trade edition. 160 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a small ink price over the original price on the front flap. Published first in 1965 in a letterpress edition by Auerhahn.
  • Spearmint & Rosemary.
    OLSON, Charles.
    $15.00
    Berkeley: Turtle Island, 1975. First edition. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Printed at the Five Trees Press.
  • Stocking Cap: A Story.
    OLSON, Charles.
    $125.00
    [San Francisco]: Donald Allen, 1966. First edition. 15 pp. A few minor spots of foxing, else near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 copies on mould-made paper, printed in two colors by Grabhorn-Hoyem. A prose work by Olson, published originally in the Montevallo Review in 1951.
  • The Maximus Poems.
    OLSON, Charles.
    $350.00
    NY: Jargon/Corinth, 1960. First edition, numbered issue. 160 pp. Surface skinning to exposed cloth portions, else very good plus in full cloth with pasted-on cover and spine labels with a small abrasion to front panel, and some soiling to top edge. One of 75 numbered copies. Jargon 24.
  • The Maximus Poems.
    OLSON, Charles.
    $100.00
    [NY]: Jargon/Corinth [c 1970]. Later printing. 4to. [166 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Designed and printed in the UK by Cape Goliard. See Butterick A14 (note).
  • The Brand: A Five Part Poem.
    OLSON, Toby.
    $75.00
    Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1969. First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 140 copies (of which 77 were for sale). Hamady 29.
  • AARDVARK (for the memory of emma peel).
    ONDAATJE, Michael.
    $45.00
    Toronto: Ganglia [1967]. First edition. Single small sheet folded once (4 1/4 x 3 3/8 inches, closed). Fine. Ondaatje’s one line poem, issued as a Gang Bang Five Cent Quickie by Ganglia. His second separate publication.
  • Secular Love.
    ONDAATJE, Michael.
    $125.00
    Toronto: Coach House Press (1984). First edition. 126 pp. A bit of light discoloration to top edge, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Ondaatje on the title page.
  • We die containing a richness...
    ONDAATJE, Michael.
    $20.00
    [Palo Alto]: Kepler's Books and Magazines (1993). First edition. 6 x 9 inch illustrated broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Designed and printed at the Okeanos Press. An excerpt from THE ENGLISH PATIENT, issued as a gift for the New Year.
  • The Long Poem Anthology.
    ONDAATJE, Michael. ed.
    $100.00
    Toronto: Coach House Press (1979). First edition. 339 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Work by Robert Kroetsch, Stuart MacKinnon, Daphne Marlatt, Don McKay, Robin Blaser, Frank Davey, George Bowering, Roy Kiyooka, and bp Nichol. SIGNED by Ondaatje on the title page.
  • Discrete Series.
    OPPEN, George.
    $20.00
    Cleveland: Mother/Asphodel (1966). First printing of this reissue (originally published in 1934). [38 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers with integral dust jacket. Cover art by Magdalene Arndt Sinclair. Oppen's first book.
  • Notes Toward the Definition of David.
    OPPENHEIMER, Joel.
    $75.00
    Minor Confluence: Perishable Press, 1984. First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in wrappers. Illustration by Pati Scobey. One of 210 copies on Bodleian paper SIGNED by Oppenheimer. Three poems.
  • Estremamente Variabile.
    ORI, Luciano.
    $450.00
    Firenze: Téchne (1970). First edition. [128 pp]. Bumps to lower corners, else near fine in illustrated wrappers with original wrap-around band (two short tears). The self-proclaimed “first visual novel in the history of Italian and European Literature.”
  • Sleeping on Doors.
    ORLEN, Steven.
    $75.00
    Lisbon: Penumbra Press, 1975. First edition. 25 pp. Fine in full cloth-covered boards with printed paper label. One of 200 press-numbered copies on Nideggen SIGNED by Orlen. Original prospectus accompanies.
  • Like a Tree.
    ORVINO, Jennie.
    $35.00
    Milwaukee: Gunrunner Press (nd). First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in oblong stapled wrappers. Cover design by Jim Forest. One of 250 copies.
  • Damn You, England: Collected Prose.
    OSBORNE, John.
    $55.00
    London & NY: Faber & Faber (1994). First edition. 264 pp. Pages lightly toned (cheap paper) else very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dated (18.4.94) and SIGNED by Osborne. Book reviews, profiles, and letters by the playwright.
  • The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Jim and Ron.
    PADGETT, Ron and Jim Dine.
    $45.00
    NY: Cape Goliard Press/Grossman 1970. First US trade edition. 4to. [120 pp]. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a few light wrinkles to front cover. Poems by Padgett profusely illustrated by Dine, who also designed this volume.
  • White Dove Review 5 aka Vol. 2, No. 5.
    PADGETT, Ron with Joe Brainard and Berry Kennedy. eds.
    $500.00
    Tulsa: White Dove Press, 1960. Summer. [22 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Brainard, who also contributes three drawings and the design of an advertisement. Work also by Berrigan, Jack Anderson, David Omer Bearden, Richard Dokey, Richard Gallup, Carl Larsen, C. Cleburne Culin, LeRoi Jones, Dan Teis, Gilbert Sorrentino, Martin Edward Cochran, Robert Creeley, and Padgett.