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After getting most of his secondary education in England and France, David L. O'Neal attended Princeton
University and has an MA. He then served three years as an officer in the U. S. Marine Corps acting as a
French language officer for an Interrogation and Translation School at Camp Lejune in North Carolina. After
working for several rare book dealers, as well as for the Bibliographical Society of America, O'Neal
established his own antiquarian book selling business in Boston, which became among the foremost rare
book and manuscript businesses in the United States. Beginning in 1973, the firm more issued than one
hundred and thirty catalogues and lists of interesting and precious books and manuscripts from the 14th
century to the 20th century.
O’Neal retired from the book business in 2001 and now , as a second career, devotes his time to writing non-
fiction, short fiction, and poems. He has published the humorous The Sailor’s Hornbook, or ABC; 52
poems about animals and birds entitled An Alphabeastiary; a 100-page collection of poems, Light and
Dark; a book of short stories and sketches, Georgia On My Vine, And Other Masterpieces of Modern
Literature (190 pages); and a book about his pet, Streak, the Parrot Who Loves Me (82 pages). To
order these books go to the Contact Me page on this website.
Recent creative work has appeared in Sensations Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The
Boston Globe, Writer's Forum, Creativity Connection, Vision Magazine, The New York Times, Bird
Keeper (England),Bird Keeper (Australia), Writers Digest, The Floating Homes Association
Newsletter, The Storyteller, Nut House, Mississippi Crow, The Marin Poets Anthology, Red Heart -
Black Heart (Anthology), Voices of Bi-Polar Disorder (Anthology), Street Spirit, Open Minds Quarterly,
Two Hawks Quarterly, The Neuropsychiatry of Poetry(Anthology), etc. He is also compiling an
anthology of poems about parrots.
O'Neal's other writings include professional articles on book selling, book collecting, and analytical
bibliography in such journals as The American Book collector, The Papers of the Bibliographical
Society of America , and the Newsletter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America.
David O'Neal lives in San Francisco with his fiance, Carolyn and parrot, Streak, and has two sons and two
grandchildren nearby. His chief hobbies are reading and writing, sailing, and squash and tennis.
University and has an MA. He then served three years as an officer in the U. S. Marine Corps acting as a
French language officer for an Interrogation and Translation School at Camp Lejune in North Carolina. After
working for several rare book dealers, as well as for the Bibliographical Society of America, O'Neal
established his own antiquarian book selling business in Boston, which became among the foremost rare
book and manuscript businesses in the United States. Beginning in 1973, the firm more issued than one
hundred and thirty catalogues and lists of interesting and precious books and manuscripts from the 14th
century to the 20th century.
O’Neal retired from the book business in 2001 and now , as a second career, devotes his time to writing non-
fiction, short fiction, and poems. He has published the humorous The Sailor’s Hornbook, or ABC; 52
poems about animals and birds entitled An Alphabeastiary; a 100-page collection of poems, Light and
Dark; a book of short stories and sketches, Georgia On My Vine, And Other Masterpieces of Modern
Literature (190 pages); and a book about his pet, Streak, the Parrot Who Loves Me (82 pages). To
order these books go to the Contact Me page on this website.
Recent creative work has appeared in Sensations Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The
Boston Globe, Writer's Forum, Creativity Connection, Vision Magazine, The New York Times, Bird
Keeper (England),Bird Keeper (Australia), Writers Digest, The Floating Homes Association
Newsletter, The Storyteller, Nut House, Mississippi Crow, The Marin Poets Anthology, Red Heart -
Black Heart (Anthology), Voices of Bi-Polar Disorder (Anthology), Street Spirit, Open Minds Quarterly,
Two Hawks Quarterly, The Neuropsychiatry of Poetry(Anthology), etc. He is also compiling an
anthology of poems about parrots.
O'Neal's other writings include professional articles on book selling, book collecting, and analytical
bibliography in such journals as The American Book collector, The Papers of the Bibliographical
Society of America , and the Newsletter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America.
David O'Neal lives in San Francisco with his fiance, Carolyn and parrot, Streak, and has two sons and two
grandchildren nearby. His chief hobbies are reading and writing, sailing, and squash and tennis.
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