Search Results: Writing from The Owl at the Bridge

N.Y., Harper, 1881. Hard Cover. xvi, [17]- 241 p. As the Pitman system is "impaired as a mere system of stenography" Munson developed it for faster, easier use. Stock #29,194. Good+, green cloth boards.

N.Y., Harper & Bros. [1961]. . Hard Cover. 382 p., index; 24 cm Stock# 31,886. Underlining & notes; withal good/ no dj. Literature; criticism.

[London], Arrow Books, [1959]. Soft Cover. 256 p. 18.5 cm. A lively history of a lively subject: English newspapers. First pub. 1957 and recognized as a classic in its field. Stock# 30,952. Good+.stain on upper fore edge/ wrappers.

New York, Macmillan [1959]. Fourth printing. Hard Cover. xiv, 71 p.; 21 cm. Based on Strunk's privately-printed style guide issued to English classes at Cornell, and revised and expanded by White. Paper; ink owner name on cover & p. 26; VG. Stock#31014.

Macmillan [c1979]. 'Third Edition'. Soft Cover. 92 p., index; 21 cm. Contents: Elementary Rules of Usage; Elementary Principles of Composition; A Few Matters of Form; Words and Expressions Commonly Misused; An Approach to Style (With a List of Reminders). Paper; VG+. ISBN 0024182001. stock#46680.

Routledge & Kegan Paul [1970; c1966]. Soft Cover. ix, 188 p., index; 21.5 cm. Ten essays: Binns, 'Linguistic' Reading; Fowler, Linguistic Theory & the Study of Literature and 'Prose Rhythm' and Metre; Lawrence, The Formulaic Theory & its Application to English Alliterative Poetry; Lee, The New Criticism & the Language of Poetry; Leech, Linguistics & the Figures of Rhetoric; Norton-Smith, Chaucer's Epistolary Style; Rodway, By Algebra to Augustanism; Sinclair, Taking a Poem to Pieces; Wexler, Distich & Sentence in Corneille & Racine. Paper; covers faded, foxed; ink owner name, a few marginal pencil markings; good. stock#45885.

Perennial/Harper & Row [1979]. Soft Cover. xxi, 200 p., index; 20.5 cm. "As coeditors of Story magazine, Haillie and Whit Burnett published the first work of many noted authors." Stock# 31,896. Vg/ paper.

N.Y., Gannett Center for Media Studies, Fall, 1989. Periodical. 201 p.; 23 cm. Includes a special section on China: James C. Thomson Jr., 'Jilted again: the U. S. media's courtship with democracy in China'; Leonard Pratt, 'The circuitry of protest: electronic journalism in China, 1989'; Alan Pessin, 'A 'brazen' violation' [VOA's Beijing correspondent kicked out of China]; Donald R. Shanor, 'The 'Hundred Flowers' of Tiananmen.' Stock# 32,704. Fine/ paper. History; Asia.

Gregg Pub. Co. [c1929]. Hard Cover. xv, [1], 173 p., index; 17.5 cm. Maroon cloth stamped in black; front cover stained; a few light pencil notes; good. stock#44637.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1965].. Hard Cover. x, 918 p., index; 23.5 cm. "Hundreds of powerful, response-producing letters--ready to use 'as is' or adapt to your own use." Stock# 30,192. Vg/ dj vg.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall [1968]. Soft Cover. xi, 142 p., indexes; 21 cm. One of the problems with linguists is that to make language fit their theories they write using a language no one in the real world uses. Stock#31118. Vg/ paper.

Santa Barbara, Para [1987]. Soft Cover. How to successfully author a book alone or through collaboration, edited by Sandy Stryker, 2d ed. 228 p., index; 21.5 cm. Stock# 32,035. Vg/ paper.

New York, London, Charles Scribner̓s Sons, 1931. Hard Cover. ix p., 2 L., 3-343 p. 22 cm. Contents: The March of Science; Literature on the Defensive: The Swan-Song of Humane Letters; The Resurrection of the Scholar-Gentleman; Literature in Retreat: The Cult of Unintelligibility; The Tendency Toward Pure Poetry; Poets Talking to Themselves; Division of Labor in Literature; Toward a Science of Literature: What Poetry Is; Art & Biology; The Future of Literature: Are Poetry & Drama Dying? Is the Novel at a Dead End? The Realm of Literary Truth; The Problem of Criticism; The Teacher of Literature: A Note on I.A. Richards' Psychology of Poetry. In chapters "The cult of unintelligibility" "Poets talking to themselves" he criticized James Joyce, E.E. Cummings, Gertrude Stein, and other moderns." "Notes and references": p. 321-343. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy, with pencil underling. Stock#… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1971. Soft Cover. 427 p., indexes; 23 cm. 21 essays in six sections: Theory of Style, Stylistics & Related Disciplines, Style Features, Period Style, Genre Style, Styles of Individual Authors & Texts. Contributors: Roland Barthes, Lubomir Dolezel, Nils Erik Enkvist, Ivan Fónacy, Pierre Guiraud, M.A.K. Halliday, Ruquaiya Hasan, Samuel R. Levin, Josephine Miles, Louis Milic, Alexandru Niculescu, Richard Ohmann, Richard Sayce, Jean Starobinski, Tzvetan Todorov, Karl D. Uitti, Stephen Ullmann, René Wellek, Harald Weinrich, W.K. Wimsatt, Paul Zumthor. Paper; minor wear; VG. stock#45886.

N.Y., MLA, 1988.. Soft Cover. viii, 248 p., index; 21.5 cm. The Modern Langage Association standards first issued in 1977. Stock# 32,042. Vg/ paper.

Cincinnati, Phonographic Institute, 1885.. Hard Cover. 143,[[1] p. illus. 18.5 cm. The English-born Pitman introduced the system of shorthand his father, Isaac, developed to America in 1855. In this thirtieth year edition, he takes on a young partner, as he was 63. Stock #29,193. Good+, the boards are soiled, darkened, corners worn.

xxi, 450 pages; softcover; minor shelfwear; Good. Stock#ofc0109.

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Hard Cover. xxvi, 126 p.; 21 cm. Contents: Four letters: On Death comes for the Archbishop. On Shadows on the rock. Escapism. On The professor's house; The novel démeublé; Four prefaces: The best stories of Sarah Orne Jewett. Gertrude Hall's The Wagnerian romances. Stephen Crane's Wounds in the rain and other impressions of war. Defoe's The fortunate mistress; My first novels (there were two); On the art of fiction; Katherine Mansfield; Light on adobe walls (an unpublished fragment). Stock#45679. Vg, gift inscription on front fly / dj vg.

NY, Harper & Row [1985]. Hard Cover. 246 p., index; 21.5 cm. A chapter on word processers explains how to use the technology to write better. "Trust your material" argues the virtue of organizing --not overexplaining--the facts. Stock# 32,007. Fine/ dj; fine.

N.Y., Modern Language Association, 1951.  OFFPRINT PMLA LXVI: 2, March 1951, pages 244-250; Dates the initial writing circa 1460. The poem Morgante is composed of 28 cantari (chapters) written in ottava rima. Stock# 37,841. Vg/ paper; 'With cordial regards'