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

Boston: Crosby & Nichols; NY: Oliver S. Felt, 1864. Hard Cover. iv, 474 p., plates.; 17.5 cm. "Harold Crofton [a young Englishman], his tutor, and a party of Irish immigrants sail to California to seek adventure and a new life. Harold finds more on a hunting trip to the Rocky Mountains than pelts when he rescues Ellen from a life in the wild." First published London, 1860. Good+, publisher's stamped cloth, wear to spine. Stock#46975.

NY, Fortunys [192-?]. Hard Cover. First Edition. 63 p.; yellow cloth covers with printed front-cover label; covers slightly soiled, else VG. A small, sentimental romance along Stratton-Porter lines. Stock# 101,133. Turn-of-the-century American literature, short story, fiction.

University of Toronto Press, 1972. '...Hrolf Gautreksson, like may of the legendary sagas, conflates material of three principal kinds. At one level is the ancient legendary material, in which nature and natural processes are constantly being distorted. This is a world of sorcery, giants, dwarfs, magic swords, and prophetic horns. At another level there is the viking material with certain codes of conduct..., plenty of physical action... reflects an age of energetic acquisitiveness. And at a third level we have material from the period of literary Romance, where emphasis is laid on courtly manners and self-control superimposed on the older virtues of courage and ambition. ...essentially escape literature. The interest in a leisured life reflects not a prosperous period in Iceland, but a mode of fantasy- escapism in a period of increasing economic strain and political mediocrity, with the loss of independence in 1262, and the subsequent economic burdens laid on the country.' Hard Cover. 148 pages, 22… Read More

NY, Heritage Press [1967]. . Hard Cover. 164 p., plates, 28.5 cm. A science fiction romance first published in 1897. Stock# 31,040. Vg/ slipcase spine darkened. English novel, nineteenth century literature.

New York, Brentano, 1906.. Hard Cover. 472 pages, index, 22 cm. Studies of 14 Italian novelists beginning with Manzoni, and proceeding through Verga to D'Annunzio. Stock# 40,205. Good+, front cover weakened/ no dj. .

Perennial/ Harper & Row, NY [1965]. Hard Cover. xxxv, 443 p., 19 cm. Ivanhoe mixes legend and history, and brings to life medieval England when King Richard the Lion-Hearted returned fom the Crusades. Stock# 34,266. Vg/ dj

À La Baconnière [1942, Boudry (Suisse)]. Soft Cover. 153 p.; 19.5 cm. Daphnis et Chloë, Tristan et Yseult, La Princesse de Clèves, Manon, Julie, Werther, Adolphe, Dominique, Fort comme la mort, Claire. Paper; covers foxed, pages lightly browned, small ink owner name; VG. With a one-page letter regarding the author's identity. stock#45353.

London, Macmillan, 1908. Hard Cover. 3 p.l., 223 p. 19.5 cm. First pub. 1864. "She wrote mainly for young womwn reades." This medieval romance is set in pre-Conquest Normandy. Stock #29,723. Vg/ no dj.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page, 1927. Hard Cover. [4], 54, [1] p.; 18.5 cm. A longish short story of a young couple discovering love. Stock#47252. Vg / no dj.

Publications of the Barnabe Riche Society 3. Dovehouse Editions, 1995. Soft Cover. 118 p.; 21.5 cm. This romance, first published in 1638, is a voyage imaginaire, a quasi-utopia, an early work of science fiction. The trip (made with an ingenious Amazing Device) leads to an encounter with a moon society and concludes in China! Includes many philosophical puzzles. Paper; new from publisher. stock#102037x.

New York, H. Holt and Company: 1912.. Hard Cover. 2 p. l., 3-201 p. 19.5 cm. Fifth printing. First in a series of novels about a "kindly Irish charwoman" on the streets of New York City & those she befriends.This view of a working class Irish girl went through a number of editions. NS. Stock# 41,100. Good+/ no dj.

Barnabe Riche Society Publications 16. Dovehouse Editions, Ottawa, 2003. Hard Cover. 250 p., illus., 21.5 cm. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Goran Stanivukovic. 'Wherein is contained the uniust Raigne of Théon King of Phrygia. Who with his sonne Lenon, (intending Ornatus death,) right Heire to the Crowne, was afterwards slaine by his owne Servants, and Ornatus after many extreame miseries, Crowned King.' This is one of the most charming and readable of all Elizabethan romances, and perfect for illustrating the conventions of the genre. It is a study in erotic desire and cross-genderal disguise. A rival, incarcerations in castles, and narrow escapes keep the action moving. The introduction deals with resemblances to the Romeo and Juliet story, the fictional landscapes of Natolia and Phrygia, gender and disguise, and Ford's style. Includes bibliography. Color pictorial boards; new from publisher. stock#102033.

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul [1983].. Soft Cover. xlii, 194 p.; 18.5 cm. Edited by James Redmond. First published in 1891 this is Morris's utopian romance of a socialist society set sometime in the future. Stock# 30,958. Fine/ paper. English literature.

New York, A. Wessels company, 1908.. Hard Cover. 6 p.l., 399 p. front., pl. 19 cm. Reprint of a novel first published in 1907. Became the basis for a silent film. Stock# 40,335.

NY, W. J. Watt & Co. [©1912]. Hard Cover. 4 p. ℓ., 300 p., front., plates; 19.5 cm. "The US version of The Prince and Betty combines the original story, transferred to a New York setting, with the plot of Psmith, Journalist, substantially rewritten to merge in the romance of John Maude (who becomes an American in this version) and Betty." Stock#OB929. Vg, spine faded, owner stamp on inner front cover/ bright illustrated cover.

Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press [c1984; 1991]. Soft Cover. x, 276 p., index, bibliography; 23 cm. Contents include The Institutional Matrix: Publishing Romantic Fiction; Readers & Their Romances; The Act of Reading the Romance: Escape & Instruction; The Ideal Romance: Promise of Patriarchy; Failed Romance: Too Close to the Problems of Patriarchy; Language & Narrative Discourse: Ideology of Female Identity. Paper covers; VG. 38373.

Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1991. Soft Cover. x, 276 p., 23 cm. “Originally published in 1984, ‘Reading the Romance’ challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing’s most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers.” VG; softcover. 101726.

Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta, ©1982. First Edition. "Spanish romances of chivalry, the most popular fiction of the Spanish Renaissance, and the preferred reading of Don Quijote." Inscribed to the distinguished hispanist "Alan [Trueblood] / un abrazo / Dan Eisenberg." vii, 182 pages, illus.; 22.5 cm. Vg / soft cover. Stock#45971.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. First published 1896 (cf. Wright III: 4851). Winner of the $3000 novelette prize of the New York Herald competition in 1895 (see note, page [vii]). Illustrated with 42 line cuts by Dutch-American cartoonist Gustave Verbeek. Hard Cover. 194 pages incl. frontispiece, illus.; 18 cm. Good+, covers soiled. Stock#NS0312 [ns312].

Pleasantville, NY, Reader's Digest [1987]. Hard Cover. 'Buried treasure is one of the very foundations of romance. ...This is the theory on which Mr. Stevenson has written Treasure Island.' A handsomely produced edition of this adventure classic. 223 pages, illus.; no dj; VG+. Stock#30359.