Search Results: Literature: English from The Owl at the Bridge

N.Y., Harcourt, Brace, c. 1936. "This book reprints about eighty articles, essays, reviews, poems, etc., chosen out of a number of contributions to various periodicals." First American edition. Hard Cover. x, 363 pages. Vg/no dj. Stock#30286.

Scribner's Sons, NY, 1920. Hard Cover. 168 p.; 19.5 cm. First published 1903. 'To be an indoor servant at all is to Crichton a badge of honour; to be a butler at thirty is the realisation of his proudest ambitions.' Bound in green cloth stamped in gold; ink owner name; Stock#28445. VG.

Random House, NY, MCMXXXVII [1937]. Morier was appointed to the British Embassy in Persia in 1807-09 and again in 1810-1815. 'The flower of his unique experiences and sensitive observations', this tale of high adventure in Persia was first published in 1824. 'The text of this latest reprint... follows that of the second edition of 1824 as revised by Morier.' Hard Cover. 4 leaves, [26], 240 pages, {1 leaf, 12, [1] pages printed on lavender paper}, [241]-403, [2] pages, b/w text illus., double color map as frontispiece, color border on title-page, 10 color plates. Color pictorial covers, color pictorial dj edges worn, spine darkened, chipped; the book clean, snug, luscious; withal VG+. Stock#28590.

New York, Baroque Press, [1974].. Hard Cover. xxxiii, 222 pages, index, 22 cm.Thirty-four known authors, plus some anonymous works are represented. Dante has the large share, but others from St. Francis of Assisi, through Cavalcanti and Cino da Pistoia are here. Stock# 40,209x. Vg/ dj scuffed, worn. Italian Literature Medieval

NY, St. Martin's Press [1977]. . Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 432 p.; 22 cm. The second of four stories of the Yorkshire veterinarian. Stock #29,642. Vg/ dj good+. English veterinary literature, animal stories, Yorkshire.

Anchor Books, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1963. 'First Edition'. Middleton & Rowley, Changeling; Tourneur, Revenger's Tragedy; Ford, Broken Heart; Shirley, Lady of Pleasure. Soft Cover. xxxviii, 436 pages. Paper; VG. Copy of Albert Cook, poet/ critic/ translator, with his pencil notes. Stock#21649b.

"Illustrated with Maps, Diagrams, Coast-of-Arms, Photographs, and Drawings by Charles Doyle, Howard K. Elcock, D. H. Friston, A. Gilbert, James Grieg, George Hutchinson, William H. Hyde, Charles Raymond Macauley, Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele, Arthur Twidle, Frank Wiles, and Numerous Others." Two volumes: 688, 824 pages, illustrated throughout, endpaper maps; 28.5 cm. Dust jacket edges worn; Very Good. Stock#ofc0577.

Duquesne UP, Pittsburgh, 1962. Hard Cover. Duquesne Studies, Philological Series, 3. xxi, 255 p., index; navy cloth; spine faded, rear cover spotted; VG. Stock#20001. Leicester Bradner's copy.

Dublin, The Dolman Press / London, Oxford UP, 1962. First published 1958. Early publication by a leading Irish poet. This was a selection of the Poetry Book Society. Soft Cover. [8], 47 pages. Vg/softcover. Stock#NS0044.

Hardcover. 'As his readers know, this series is set roughly in the fifties of the [19th] century. The stories are [150] years old now, but apart from the clothes, the less swift means of transport, the pleasing number of servants (it may be remembered that the Crawleys at Hogglestock in 'The Last Chronicle of Barset', though desperately poor, had a servant girl, as also did Mr. and Mrs. Micawber in their London lodgings a little earlier), the people have much the same interests, likes, and dislikes as we have now.' xvii, 564 pages, halftone & color text illustrations, 24.5 cm.; bound in brown patterned boards, pictorial brown cloth spine stamped in gold; minor wear, top of spine split; Good+ in matching slipcase, with Sandglass. Stock#32959/h.

N.Y., Doubleday/ Anchor, 1956. Hard Cover. 6 p.l., 304 p., 16 cm. "Traversi's approach is to 'proceed from the word to the image in its verse setting and thence... trace the way in which a pattern of independent themes is gradually woven..." Cover design by Antonio Frasconi. Stock#31624. Vg/ soft cover.

Harcourt, Brace, NY [c1940]. Hard Cover. xx, 495 p., index, plates (mostly portraits), endpaper map; 22 cm. Contents include His Life, His Medium, The Experimental Comedies, Early Histories, Later Histories, Trial Flights in Tragedy, His Best Comedies, Realistic Comedies, The Four Great Tragedies, Last Tragedies, His Dramatic Romances; Bibliography. Green cloth, spine stamped in gold; minor wear; VG+. stock#34439.

University Paperbacks/Barnes & Noble, NY [1962]. Soft Cover. 178 p., index. Paper; good+. Leicester Bradner's copy. stock#21428.

University of Chicago Press, 1988. Hard Cover. xix, 203 p. "Approaching sixteenth-century English almost as if it were a different language from modern English." "Sixteenth-century writers and their readers generally shared the view inherited fron antiquity that the oration was the single most authoritative model of prose composition." Dj; VG. Stock#22716x.

NY, Dutton [1939]. 'First Edition'. 'There is no vanity in supposing that even one's own early life may have this interest for others. Most of us must have wondered about the making of those we meet. ...In this book, as in everything which I have written, I have humoured the author. Whatever happens to the public, the author is not going to be bored.' Child (1882-1893); Schoolboy (1893-1900); Undergraduate (1900-1903); Freelance (1903-1906); Assistant Editor (1906-1914); Amateur Soldier (1914-1918); Author. Hard Cover. 315 pages, portrait front.; grey linen boards, yellow cloth spine stamped in navy; closed tear in bottom rear hinge; good. Stock#30580.

Boston, Houghton-Mifflin, 1926. The Irish playwright T. C. Murray was well regarded, his plays regularly performed. This has eight characters and is set in the Irish countryside. This copy may have been owned by a performer, who has annotated some words and lines in pencil. Hard Cover. 85 pages; 19 cm. Good+, tan boards, tan cloth spine with paper label; dampstains on front cover; ink inscription. Stock#30193.

NY, R. H. Russell, MDCCCCI [1901].. Hard Cover. With Illustrations by the Author. 'Arranged and Printed by the Wayside Department of The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.' 'The Walpole Series.' x, [1], 184 p., illus.; 16 cm. Gilbert's first literary work, first published in two series, 1869 & 1873. 45 silly verse ballads. 'List while the poet trolls / Of Mr. Clayton Hooper,/ Who had a cure of souls/ At Spiffon-extra-Sooper.' Bound in grey paper-covered boards stamped in white; grey spine gone but stitching & cloth intact; ink owner's name; good. 28442

Dovehouse Editions, Ottawa / Binghamton, NY, 1993. Barnabe Riche Society Publications BR2. Hard Cover. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Volume 109. 153 p.; 22.5 cm. Fifteen 'fabliaux' about the tribulations of marriage in middle-class Elizabethan life. The ruses of women to trick their husbands and to keep them in subjection. A classic in the controversy over women. Brown cloth; new from publisher. stock#102004x.

Dovehouse, Ottawa; Binghamton, NY, 1993. Barnabe Riche Society Publ. BR2. Medieval & Renaissance Texts Vol. 109. Soft Cover. 153 p.; 21.5 cm. Fifteen 'fabliaux' about the tribulations of marriage in middle-class Elizabethan life. The ruses of women to trick their husbands and to keep them in subjection. A classic in the controversy over women. Color pictorial paper; new from publisher. stock#102004x.

NY, Heritage Press [1937]. Wilde's poem on his own imprisonment. Hard Cover. 42 pages; illustrations, 29.5 cm., slipcase & Sandglass. Bound in grey Leatherlen ("a leather product made by putting off-cuts of skins through a hopper along with various plastic materials"); front cover has brick-wall-&-barred-window design; front hinge cracked (see photos) but firm; Good+; slipcase lightly scuffed & rubbed; Good+. Stock#30266/house.