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

N.Y., Henry Holt, 1945. First Edition. Hard Cover. [77], [1] p., 21.5 cm. First edition, third printing (1st 1944); Firmage 19a. 54 numbered poems. Dj title is One Times One. These wartime poems include ‘what if a much of a which of a wind’ (XX), war poems such as ‘plato told’ (XIII), and love lyrics-- ‘nothing false and possible is love’. Good; dj poor with tears & stains. 101738.

N.Y., Marion Press, 1962. Soft Cover. 2 p.l., [17] p., 1 leaf, 24 cm. Colophon: ‘This book has been designed by George J. Firmage. …Five hundred copies have been printed…’ ‘The poems in this volume were selected by the author from Poems 1923-1954 and 95 Poems.’ Cummings gave this book as a gift to people who had expressed pleasure in his poems. Slight browning at edges of front cover, else very good/softcover. 101740.

New Yorker, February 20 & 27, 1995. Contributors include Brendan Gill, Jamaica Kincaid, Anthony Lane, David Remnick, Susan Orlean, Ian Frazier, Charles McGrath, Art Spiegelman, Susan Sheehan, Martin Amis, Saul Steinberg, John Seabrook, Edward Sorel, Mavis Gallant, Roger Angell, John Updike, Dorothy Parker, Charles Simic, Deborah Garrison, Christopher Buckley, Charles Addams, Mary Petty, Edward Koren, William Hamilton, Lee Lorenz, Victoria Roberts, Helen Hokinson, Warren Miller, George Booth, Roz Chast, Peter Arno, Sam Gross. Periodical. 272 pages, illus. incl. color, cartoons, advertising. Color pictorial paper covers; VG+ with all inserts. stock#24706/h.

N.Y., Harcourt Brace, c1963. First Edition. Hard Cover. [92] p.; 24 cm. First edition. Poems written after 1958. Gift inscription to an earlier owner. Vg/dj good. 101744.

N.Y., Harcourt Brace, c.1963. First Edition. Hard Cover. [92] p.; 24 cm. First edition; on verso of t.-p. ‘C.10.64’ indicates third printing of October 1964. Poems written after 1958. Vg/dj good. 101745.

Penguin Books [1988]. Soft Cover. 453 p., index. "A witty, literate, and marvelously entertaining memoir of New York's literati and their scene." "A veteran writer of 40 years at The New Yorker, E. J. Kahn has seen it all, from the days of Harold Ross to the gossip about William Shawn's successor. His witty stories and anecdotes about his years there present a memorable portrait of The New Yorker itself, that arcane institution on West 43rd Street, which continues to publish some of the best writing in America." Paper; ink owner name; VG. stock#24701/h.

N.Y., Scribner, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. [8], 308 p.; 21.5 cm. First edition, marked "A" on verso of t.-p. Novel set in Venice after World War II. The protagonist is an American Army officer but his tough-guy persona doesn't convince. Hanneman 23a. Vg/no dj. Another copy, no "A" but early printing. Another copy, with the "A", no dj, spine faded, stain on front cover; good. 101473a-b-c.

Grove Press, NY [c1978]. 'First Evergreen Edition'. E-721. Soft Cover. 186, [5] p.; 23.5 cm. Contents incl. The Translator as Nobody in Particular; Imitations: Translation as Personal Mode; Neruda's Joaquín Murieta: A Note on the Poetics of Translation; Prefaces to Translation; Pablo Neruda: A Revaluation; The Moving Finger and the Unknown Neruda; Neruda's Memoirs: A Reading from Homer; Pablo Neruda: Splendor and Death; A Selective Bibliography of Translations. Pictorial paper covers; minor wear; VG. stock#45374.

'Cook writes terse, challenging, yet quiet poems. Everywhere in them is a sense of agility... of language, of imagery, of intellect. The hard facts of the poet's perceptions are there too, and the poems give a full record of a sensibility at work on and around them.' Hardcover. 4 leaves, 83 pages; 22.5 cm.; fine in fine dust jacket. stock#27469/h.

NY, John B. Alden, 1886. Hard Cover. First published 1837; based on the journals of Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796-1878) ‘of the United States army; who, in a rambling kind of enterprise, had strangely ingrafted the trapper and hunter upon the soldier'; bound with Salmagundi. 300; 278 p.; brown mottled-paper covers, brown leather spine & corners, spine stamped in gold, all edges mottled; spine chipped with bits missing including about an inch from bottom, corners worn; good. Salmagundi contains entries from January 1807 to January 1808. 101146

78 poems, 28 motets. Softcover. 6 leaves, 192 pages, frontispiece; 23 cm. Blue paper covers stamped in gold; fine, as new. stock#27470/h.

Knopf, NY, 1987. 'Second Printing, October 1987'. Hard Cover. The Pleasure of Her Company; Lily; Jeffrey, Believe Me; Long Distance; Dynamite; The Age of Grief. '…a superb first collection… [Smiley] contemplates with a wry intelligence how we variously construe and misconstrue the often incompatible matters of love, friendship, and marriage.' 213 p.; dj illustration by Gay Gladwell; remainder mark; VG+. 26015.

Paris, Sociedad de Ediciones Literarias y Artísticas[194-?]. Contents include A guisa de prefacio; Al margen de la Odisea; La Iliída; Zend-Avesta; la Eneida; los Evangelios; la Leyenda dorada; el Ramayana; las canciones de gesta; Villeardouin; Joinville; el Decameron; Pantagruel; Don Quijote; las fa¡bulas de Fenelon; La Fontaine; Madama de Sévigné; Saint-Simon; las proclamas del General Bonaparte. The French edition was issued in two series, the first written in collaboration with Godefroy Cavaignac. Hard Cover. 343 pages, 19 cm. Bound in maroon cloth, spine stamped in gold; VG. Stock#39369.

N.Y., Simon & Schuster, 1997. A Commonplace Book. Hard Cover. 109, [110-112] p. Paging includes 12 photographs of Boston ca. 1900. Willa Cather's first published novel. Set in Boston and London, it tells of an American civil engineer torn by love and family. Vg/issued without dj. 101885.

Yale UP [c1979]. Soft Cover. 305 p., index; 23 cm. Contents include Semiology & Rhetoric, Tropes, Reading, Genesis & Genealogy, Rhetoric of Persuasion; Metaphor, Self, Allegory, Promises, Excuses. Paper; some light water ripples; good. stock#44962.

Duell, Sloan & Pearce, NY [c1939]. "first edition". First Edition. Hard Cover. "America was promises to whom?" 20 p., 19.5 cm.; blue cloth stamped in silver; spine a bit darkened, browning inside covers, one-inch waterstain to inner bottom gutter throughout, no dj; VG. 34902.

Harper & Bros., NY [1941]. 'First Edition'. Hard Cover. 341 p., index, plates; blue cloth; VG. The author was one of the few Italian-American (her parents immigrated from Sicily) writers who attacked Fascism. Walt Whitman's commitment to freedom (derived from his own parents) attracted her to the poet as a subject of biography. stock#101945.

NY, Scribner's, 1899. Hard Cover. xxiv, 412 p., front., illus. Mitchell was a writer, a novelist, himself. This unusual production includes "many shrewd observations concerning his contemporaries"-- for, indeed, this volume covers the period from his date of birth-- and a slide-show presentation of pictures and homes of illustrious men. BAL 13984. Good; the first reader cut the pages open pretty crudely, tearing the edges of many; binding VG/no dj. Stock#101610 (dr).

N.Y., Harper & Row [1987]. Book club edition. Hard Cover. 'Dillard's ecstatic interest in the world begins here in... an ordinary childhood. What is extraordinary is Dillard's distinctive irony and humor coupled with the power and depth of her probing. This is a sweeping and original book, a classic story of the dawning of an American consciousness.' 214 p., endpaper map; dj, 21.5 cm.; fine. 100818.

N.Y., Harmony Books, 1980. Hard Cover. 4 p.l., 296 p., 23.5 cm. Explores relationships among women. "Who, she asks, were the women in the lives of Colette, Virginia Woolf, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth Tudor, Natalie Barney, Katherine Mansfield, Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Stanton--and what did they mean to each other?" Stock# 34,216. Vg/ dj good+, rubbed at fold.