Search Results: Fiction: Christian from The Owl at the Bridge

Heritage Press, NY [c1960]. Hard Cover. "Many writers of historical novels have matched and bettered the romantic and sentimental features of Wallace's novels, they have drawn characters more complex and written dialogue less wooden than his; but his descriptive passages, in their totality and variety, remain unsurpassed." xxii, 486 p., illus., color plates, 26.5 cm.; red, white & black pictorial covers; spine darkened; VG+ in black cardboard slipcase (edges faded), with Sandglass. 33704.

Garden City, NY, International Collectors Library. Hard Cover. 3 p.l., 450 p.; 22 cm. A Doubleday promotional book club edition with replica binding. Stock#47673. Vg.

NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4 leaves, 458 p., 3 leaves; 22 cm. Follows the lives of a group of couples in an upper-class Boston suburb through their parties, recreations, child neglect, and wife-swapping. Stock#NEU375. Good+, spine sunned / no dj.

Princeton UP, 1993.. Hard Cover. 2 vols: 464; 464 p. Legenda Aurea in English. "Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. In his new translation, the first in modern English of the complete text from the Graesse edition, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich, image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and in popular religious culture more generally." Stock #101,001x. Medieval World Religion Christian Saints.

Philadelphia: Ed. Barrington and Geo. D. Haswell, [ca. 1848?]. Hard Cover. 420 pages (A-2M 12); 18.5 cm. Télémaque was written to educate, and well into the 19th century was used a text to teach both the French language and Christian morality. Generations of French learned manners from it (this was the one book Madame Bovary read while in the convent). The English too learned manners from it (Richardson's Pamela, bent on self-improvement, attempts it in French) and as this edition, missing from American Imprints (but see 55635) reminds us, it was the one text in French that American publishers brought out regularly. Bound in full contemporary leather, front hinge cracked. Stock#OB277.

Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987. Hard Cover. [ix], 678 p.; 26 cm. This literary guide leads the reader toward an understanding and appreciation of a book that has shaped the minds of men and women for two millennia and more. Provides an analysis of the Bible's structures, themes, narrative techniques and poetic forms. One line illustration. Rediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with and many of us live by. Stock#45586. Vg / dj vg,

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. [ix], 533 p.; 24 cm. "This novel [is] based on legends of the years following Christ's crucifixion. [It] describes the life of Basil, the artisan who fashioned the silver chalice, a frame meant to hold the... cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper". Maps on endpapers. This deluxe edition, larger than the trade edition, was limited to 750 copies (this is #351) signed by the author. Very Good, gift inscription on blank fore leaf / in VG slipcase. Stock#47714.

New York: Albert and Charles Boni. 1930.. Hard Cover. 162 pages ; 21 cm. Describes life in ancient Greece shortly before the beginning of the Christian era. "The first part of this novel is based upon the Andria, a comedy of Terence who in turn based his work upon two Greek plays, now lost to us, by Menander." "First printing, February, 1930; third printing, March, 1930."Stock# 47804. Good+ owner's1930 name on front flyleaf / no dj.