Search Results: Literary history from The Owl at the Bridge

Bookseller catalogue listing 80 items by and about Daniel Defoe and his times. Stapled in pictorial wraps; Good with ink marks on cover. Stock#ofc0273.

México, Por la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: El Colegio de México, 1970. Hard Cover. xxxiii, 962 p.; 25 cm. Publicadas bajo la dirección de Carlos H. Magis. 100 scholarly articles including one by Alan S. Trueblood, whose copy this was. Stock#46020. Vg / no dj as issued.

"Visitors to second-hand bookstores and the further reaches of library stacks will have seen elaborate collections of prose and verse entitled 'The Souvenir,' 'The Forget Me Not,' and the like, survivors of the era of gift books and literary annuals. Between 1825 and 1865 more than a thousand such miscellanies appeared in the United States; the number in other countries was probably even greater. My aim has been to explain the origin and character of the American examples and to make available an annotated catalog." (Preface) [viii], 183 pages; 23 cm. Bound in black cloth with gold spine lettering; no dust jacket; Very Good. Stock#ofc0712.

Madrid, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 1976. OFFPRINT, 10 pages; 24 cm., from Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 304-307. Inscribed by the author to distinguished hispanist Prof. Alan S. Trueblood. Stock#47372. Vg / offprint.

Princeton University Press [c1969]. 'First Princeton Paperback Printing'. Five essays with forewords: Justus Lipsius and the Anti-Ciceronian Movement to the End of the 16th and the Beginning of the 17th Century; 'Attic Prose' in the 17th Century; Muret and the History of 'Attic Prose'; Attic Prose: Lipsius, Montaigne, Bacon; The Baroque Style in Prose. Soft Cover. xi, [1], 244 pages, index; 21.5 cm. Paper; spine sunned, minor wear; good+. stock#45432.

Brown University, Providence, RI, 1968. Contributors include Ilse & Alexander Nesbitt of Third & Elm Press, George Weller, Malcolm Cowley, John Dos Passos, John Marshall, Chauncey Stillman, Lincoln Kirstein, Marianne Moore, Winfield Townley Scott, Charles Philbrick, Laurence Goldstein, Colin Wilson, Burges Green, Willard Maas, Hyatt Waggoner, Edwin Honig, Allen Ginsberg, Morton Paley, Roger Stoddard. 200 copies were printed, of which these are nos. 116 and 117. Soft Cover. 44 pages, illustrations; stapled in olive pictorial wraps, a bit faded; fine. Stock#100258x/house.

"In these pleasant essays and addresses Robert Taylor tells of his adventures in the world of books with wit, grace, and a ready smile. He is one of those rare collectors who actually reads his books and writes about them with distinction." xi, 164 pages, illus.; Very Good in dust jacket slightly wrinkled across top edge. Stock#ofc0397.

"This book is an outline of the chief ways in which Greek and Latin influence has moulded the literature of western Europe and America." Contents include The Dark Ages: English Literature; The Middle Ages: French Literature; Dante and Pagan Antiquity; Towards the Renaissance: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer; The Renaissance: Translation; The Renaissance: Drama; The Renaissance: Epic; The Renaissance: Pastoral and Romance; Rabelais and Montaigne; Shakespeare's Classics; The Renaissance and Afterward: Lyric Poetry; Transition; The Battle of the Books; A Note on Baroque; Baroque Tragedy; Satire; Baroque Prose; The Time of Revolution; Parnassus and Antichrist; A Century of Scholarship; The Symbolist Poets and James Joyce; The Reinterpretation of the Myths. xxxviii, 763 pages, index; softcover; edges worn, some pencil notes & underlinings; Good. Stock#ofc0339.

Sections include The Character of the Classical Heritage; The Educational Inheritance; The Patristic Tradition; The Greek East; The Carolingian Age; the Pre-scholastic Age; The High Renaissance; The End of the Renaissance and the Appearance of New Patterns in Classical Education and Scholarship. vii, 592 pages, index, appendices, notes; red cloth, no dust jacket; Good. Stock#ofc0344.

"Bibliographical Society Publication For The Year 1979." xxx, 221 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Bound in navy cloth over boards, gold spine lettering; no dust jacket; Very Good+. Stock#ofc0811.

Monographic bookseller catalogue. 152 items; stapled in blue pictorial paper; Good. Stock#ofc0274.

190 pages. Part of the publisher's series "Famous Biographies for Young People"; includes brief bios and excerpts of the writings of James Thurber, Robert Benchley, Ogden Nash, Cornelia Otis Skinner, others. Ex-library with discard stamp. Stock#ofc0077.

Two auction catalogs from Bonhams; the larger includes Russian literature, children's books, illustration art; Children's books from Europe & America, Art & architecture, Early printed books & manuscripts, Travel & maps, Science & natural history, Literature, Americana, World history. Respectively 177 & 29 pages, 474 and 27 lots, lavish color illus.; 26.5 cm. Color pictorial paper covers; Very Good+. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0200.

N.Y., NYU, 1996. Suggests that feminism at mid-century posed intertwined social, economic, political, and psychological threats to patriarchy and that male novelists reacted to the threat. Soft Cover. viii, 235 pages; 21 cm. Stock#28358. Vg/ wrappers.

Contributors include Truman, Hamburger, Devoto, Auden, Lynes, Roosevelt, West, Viereck, Porter, Kouwenhoven, Davis, Langewiesche, Faulkner, Johnson, Burlingame, Mann, Grattan, Rovere. Rough condition, ex-RISD Library: front cover & 2d page detached, edges torn & chipped; rear cover half torn off, ditto next-to-last page; spine repaired with black tape; a few internal pages have closed tears; text complete, edges browned, still readable. Protected in folding case of medium-stiff board with velcro closures. Withal good. Stock#ofc0488.

"...an indispensable aid to the study of Italian letters in English-speaking countries. The informed serenity of its assessments has made it a dependable guide for the general reader seeking... major currents and the pattern of development in what is, in many ways, the most original and influential of European literatures." xi, 570 pages, index; hardcover; Very Good in worn dust jacket. Stock#ofc0406.

"Questa lavoro colma la lacuna più grace nelle nostre conoscenze della vita di Niccolò Machiavelli e svela il mistero della sua giovinezza." 171 pages; indexes; 25 cm. Pages 105-168 are facsimile photographs. "Edito dalla Banca Toscana per festeggiare il 500° anniversario del Monte dei Paschi di Siena." Copy #2671. Bookplate of Samuel J. Hough. Bound in red cloth; dust jacket slightly worn at corners; Very Good. Stock#mcr28.

Pamphlet; 48 pages stapled in printed wraps; 20 cm. "Second printing 1967." Small blackened sticker on front; Very Good. Stock#ofc0918.

Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1953. Soft Cover. 128 pages, 17.5 cm. Series: Que Sais-Je. First published 1946. An early exposition of French Existentialism. Stock#30997. Good, wormhole in margin/ wrappers soiled.

[Paris] Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1968. Offprint, pages [47]-76, illus.; 27 cm. Inscribed by John Varey to distinguished hispanist Alan S. Trueblood. Stock#47281. Vg / offprint.