Search Results: Literature, English 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.

Two bookseller catalogues: Dawsons, 513 items plus 111 broadside items. Miller, 310 items including a Mark Van Doren collection and a section of Little Magazines. Both in paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0286.

New York, Vintage Books, 1957, [c1927]. Soft Cover. xiv, 229, ix p. 18.5 cm. Series: A Vintage book, K-47. The 1925 Charles Eliot Norton lectures ( the first given). English poetry as influenced by Classical poets. Stock# 40,072. Good, some ink annotations in early portion, paper.

"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.

Harvest/Harcourt Brace & World, NY [1961?]. Soft Cover. x, 246 p.; 18.5 cm. First published 1925. The common reader... differs from the critic and the scholar. ...He reads for his own pleasure... guided by an instinct to create... some kind of whole... Sttock# 34,259. Good+, soiled, ink owners name/ paper.English literary criticism, literature.

See Wikipedia for an intelligent disquisition on the text. ASSOCIATION COPY. Ink signatures of John Foster on both upper margins of leaf A1. Ink inscription at top of title-page (leaf A2): "Nicholas Brown Presented to his Affectionate Sister Hope Mar 3. 92". xvi, 124 pages (A-I8); 17.5 cm. Leaf A1 is engraved frontispiece; round engraved profile on title-page is signed "A. Walker sculp.". Title printed in red & black. Bound in dark-green marbled paper over boards, ample leather spine & corners delineated by thin gold lines, matching marbled endpapers; stamp of Boston Bookbinding Co. on first inside flyleaf; top edge gilt. Edges & hinges worn with surface scuffing; stitching firm; withal Very Good. Stock#ofc0849.

Signet Classic [1961]. Soft Cover. "With regal melancholy and a superb sense of craft, Tennyson's poems evoke Past and Present... seeking to reconcile the Victorian zeal for public progress with private despair." xii, 319 p., 17.5 cm.; paper; fine. 34428.

A. L. Burt, NY [ca. 192-?]. Story of the conflict of two brothers and the increasing hatred between them. Soft Cover. 318 pages. Flexible purple faux-leather covers stamped in gold; good+. Stock#30363.

An ample dictionary reference to English literature. xii, 1155 pages; binding shaken, dust jacket edges chipped, owner blindstamp on first flyleaf; withal Good. Stock#ofc0362.

Penguin Books [1960]. Penguin Classics L87. Soft Cover. 'Langland was not, primarily, either a satirist, a social commentator, or a preacher. He was a poet who used all the material, homiletic, theological, or allegorical, with which he was familiar, to create a work essentially his own, different in quality and kind from any other work of the Middle Ages. "Piers Plowman," says mr Nevill Coghill, "is a Christian poem about humanity, and it deals entirely with with most important of all questions possible to the Christian, namely "How can a man win salvation?".' 366 p., 18 cm.; pictorial paper covers; ink owner's name, ink underlining & notes; good. 31987.

N.Y., Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970. "To the Victorians, Thomas Carlyle was a prophet." Soft Cover. xx, 303 pages; 21 cm. Good+/ soft cover. Stock#32166.

Volume IX begins with No. 423, Saturday, July 5, 1712, and ends with No. 474, Wednesday, September 3 (261 pages). Bound with Vol. X, Nos. 475, Thursday, Sept. 4, 1712 through No. 504, Wednesday, October 8 (146 pages). Paper slightly darkened, all edges red; bound in grey marbled paper with red cloth spine; Very Good. Stock#ofc0687.

Grove Press, NY [c1959]. "Seventh Printing". Soft Cover. "Evergreen Original E-159." 87, v p., 20.5 cm.; pictorial paper covers; VG. 34386.

Xerox College Publishing [c1966]. The Kittredge Shakespeares. Soft Cover. xvi, 141 p.; 20.5 cm. Paper; ink owner name blacked out; good. Stock#34444.

New American Library [c1963]. "Tenth Printing". "The Signet Classic Shakespeare". Soft Cover. The play with textual notes, a discussion of sources, and commentaries by Rymer, Coleridge, Mack, Heilman. 270 p., 18 cm.; VG. 34421.

Shakespeare Recording Society, NY [c1963]. Soft Cover. Edited by G. B. Harrison. "A Complete Text of the Performance for The Shakespeare Recording Society, Inc., New York." 134 p., 21.5 cm.; pictorial paper wrappers; VG. 34445.

Methuen, London [1959]. Hard Cover. x, 100 p., illus.; dj chipped, torn, grease stain on rear corner intrudes to p. 99, back of dj & rear cover waterstained; good. stock#23811b.