Oliver John Bennett (17 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Fourth printing (stated). A solid copy with tight binding and square, uncreased spine. Book is flat and with the exception of some creasing to the front cover and a little edgewear, not showing much wear. Back cover and pages lightly toned. Ink notation top first (half-title) page, else no marks.

Softcover. Small 8vo., Perma M3116. Basil Gogos cover. First collected edition. PBO. Very Good with some light handling and age toning.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Magazine. 16mo. String bound illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Light offsetting to the title page, else fine. Poetry anthology with contributions from Stephen Dunn, Mary Oliver, Sheila Nickerson, William Palmer, Victor Trelawny, Bob Govan, Bruce Bennett, Joseph Napora, Carolyn Stoloff, Lee Abbott, Mike McColl, W.R. Moses, Paul Ramsey, Frederick Eckman, Richard J. Lyons, Philip Legler, Spencer Brown, John Fandel, Leonard Nathan, Raymond Roseliep, Nancy Sherman Lewis, and Wesli Court. Although not otherwise indicated, from the library of poet Gwendolyn Brooks.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Second issue of this literary magazine, includes Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski; also William Wantling, Charles Potts, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, et al. Unmarked copy with a bit of staple rust. Not Signed.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 160 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.31 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing (No additional printings stated). Threadebound in gray card wraps. Near fine with light wear to covers and no marks to text. Printed poem by Mark Thalman laid in. Poetry-Collectible ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Staple bound edition. Condition: Near fine with light wear to covers and no marks to text. Printed note laid in indicating that this is the final issue of the magazine. ; 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. X, 120 Pp. Black Cloth Spine, Gilt, Maroon Boards. Lightly Used. Dust Jacket Priced $4.95, A Few Short Tears, Light Wear. With Two Pages Of Handwritten Notes Constituting A General Evaluation Of The Book.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book shows wear to covers. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 265 pages. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Contents by the above authors include: Souls of black folk, investigate lynchings, In love with Harlem, Revolt of the evil fairies, A choice of weapons, the white4 problem in America, Not poor, just broke, Why I eulogized Malcolm X, The potential of a minority revolution, etc. Keywords: Frederick Douglass; Walter White; Langston Hughes; Richard Wright; Ted Poston; Gordon Parks; Loften Mitchell; Lerone Bennett, Jr.; Dick Gregory; Bill Russell; John Oliver Killens, ; Ossie Davis; Robert F. Williams; LeRoi Jones, Essays, American Racism, Race Policy, Slavery, Anthology, Birmingham Jail, Negroes with Guns, Potential of a Minority Revolution.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Edited by Martha Foley. Slight bumps at edges of the boards, near fine in near very good price-clipped dust jacket with some overall rubbing and small chips and tears at the extremities. Quotes William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech at length in the Foreword, and contains stories by Roger Angell, Nathan Asch, Peggy Bennett, Mary Bolté, Hortense Calisher, Leonard Casper, R.V. Cassill, John Cheever, Harris Downey, Elizabeth Enright, J. Carol Goodman, Ethel Edison Gordon, William Goyen, Shirley Jackson, Josephine W. Johnson, Ilona Karmel, Oliver La Farge, George Lanning, Ethel G. Lewis, Dorothy Livesay, Robie Macauley, Bernard Malamud, Esther Patt, J.F. Powers, Paul Rader, Jean Stafford, Ray B. West, Jr., and Tennessee Williams.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book club edition. Edited by Martha Foley. Octavo. xv, 368pp. Pages lightly age-toned, near fine in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with chipping and tears along the extremities. Bernard Malamud's first book appearance with "The Prison". Quotes William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech at length in the Foreword, and contains stories by Roger Angell, Nathan Asch, Peggy Bennett, Mary Bolté, Hortense Calisher, Leonard Casper, R.V. Cassill, John Cheever, Harris Downey, Elizabeth Enright, J. Carol Goodman, Ethel Edison Gordon, William Goyen, Shirley Jackson, Josephine W. Johnson, Ilona Karmel, Oliver La Farge, George Lanning, Ethel G. Lewis, Dorothy Livesay, Robie Macauley, Bernard Malamud, Esther Patt, J.F. Powers, Paul Rader, Jean Stafford, Ray B. West, Jr., and Tennessee Williams.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Magazine. 16mo. String bound illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Fine. Poetry anthology with contributions from John Updike ("Worldly Monk's Song"), William Heyen, Terry Stokes, John C. Cullen, Lyn Coffin, Michael Waters, Imogene L. Bolls, X.J. Kennedy, Bruce Bennett, Carol Frost, Mary Oliver, Michael Dennis Browne, Robert Wilkinson,Miller Williams, Sheila Nickerson, Albert Goldbarth, Leonard Nathan, Jan D. Hodge, W.M. Aberg, and Charles Levendosky. Laid in is a card announcing the suspension of publication with this issue. Also laid in is a small broadside of a poem by Mark Thalman.

First edition, first printing Brand new illustrated boards with crisp bright text throughout. Immaculate presentation and beautifully presented throughout with the author's original travel journal notebook. With commentary. Thoroughly Burroughs. Gift quality.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. First edition. One folded printed page in near fine condition with post marked envelope with slight edge wear and a few stains. Invitation sent to Edwin L Tilley of Wolfeboro, MA from John H. Nealley, Recorder of the Dover, New Hampshire order of the Knights Templar. Officers to be installed listed in author field. Various prominent members of Dover, New Hampshire are listed. Three members of which would go on to become mayors of Dover, B. Frank Nealley, 1889-90, Alonzo M. Foss, 1893-95, and John H. Nealley, 1904-05. Sir Oliver Gibbs and George P. Demeritt where both Union 2nd Lieutenants during the Civil War. Most, if not all, of the other members listed served in various areas of local government. Although not confirmed, George L. Johnson is possibly the Lumberman who founded the short lived lumber town of Johnson, NH in the early 1900's.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Approximately 8.25" x 6.5". Dated April 25, 1783. Neat old folds else very near fine. Revolutionary War period payment order signed by Wolcott, paying Col. John Chandler Thirteen Pounds and change, the full amount owed to the Estate of Tobias Bennett, deceased, for his Revolutionary War service. Endorsed on the verso by John Chandler. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut. Colonel Chander commanded the 8th Connecticut beginning on January 1, 1777 but ended during the Valley Forge encampment when he resigned on March 5, 1778, and retired from the Continental Army because of kidney stones. We could find little about Tobias Bennett.