Search Results: Authors starting with A from The Owl at the Bridge

[Providence, 1817]. Soft Cover. 14 p.; 25 cm. Caption title; dated at end: Warwick, March 6, 1817. A poltical pamphlet in favor of Governor William Jones against Nehemiah Knight. Supports Rhode Island's state's rights over federalism. Jones had opposed the War of 1812, and opposed centralized taxes, a standing army, military academies, and all similar restrictions of freedom. Bartlett, p. 7; American Imprints 42299. NUC NT 0240590. Uncut, untrimmed, with last leaf blank; stitched. stock#OB158.

London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1830. First Edition. Hard Cover. Three octavo volumes: xxiv, 302; iv, 302; iv, 370 pages; 21 cm. Title continues: Commemorated in the Works of Poets, Painters, and Sculptors. Selected and Written by a Lady, for the Amusement and Instruction of Her Own Daughters. First edition. At a time when women were not afforded education, the author undertook this work "with a view to acquiring, in an eligible and agreeable manner, a competent knowledge of the Grecian mythology, and other subjects therewith connected." Among its goals was to provide "an interesting work for the young traveller in his tour through Italy and other countries of classic interest." A good example of feminist learning and women participants in the Grand Tour. Bound in publisher's boards, brown cloth spine & paper labels. This flimsy, temporary binding has been restored and reinforced to make it appear as new but with greater strength. A very good copy with 19th century bookplates. stock#OB340.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1922. First Edition. In verse. Takes on contemporary poets-- Frost, Eliot, Pound, even herself. Soft Cover. ix, 99 pages; 21.5 cm. Vg in illustrated wrappers. stock#NS0074.

London, Macmillan, 1932. Hard Cover. 4 p.l., 133 p., 20 cm. The Irish poet writes, "In what follows I have tried to track song back to its secret fountains. ...I have here placed some songs in their natural psychic atmosphere." Vg/dj good+, toned. stock#101486 (dr).

New York, Oxford University Press, 1951.. Hard Cover. xiv, 329 p. 22 cm. Chapters: Emerson and the progressive tradition.--Theodore Parker: "the battle of the nineteenth century."--Henry George: the great paradox.--Edward Bellamy: village utopian.--Henry Demarest Lloyd: the middle-class conscience.--William Dean Howells: the gentleman from Altruria.--Thorstein Veblen: moralist and rhetorician.--Theodore Roosevelt pseudo-progressives.--In retrospect: 1912-1950.--Notes on sources (p. 309-321). NEU081. Good+, extensive pencil markings / no dj.

Oxford [Eng.] Clarendon Press, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. viii, 247 p., index of persons, 22.5 cm. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. This was a review copy for the journal Erasmus. The paper of the envelope containing a prospectus for it has badly darkened pp 138 and 139. Stock# 43,936. Good+ / no dj.

London, New York ...: Syndicate Pub. Co., 1913.. First Edition. Hard Cover. 414 p., [16] leaves of plates, 600+ illus. (some col.), folded col. map ; 29.5 cm. Title continues: " purpose and promise of its world-famous canal--the most gigantic engineering undertaking since the dawn of time... water-colors by E.J. Real and Gordon Grant" This is an excellent copy of a book often found in worn condition. Stock# 44,917. Vg/ no dj.

Boston: Published by B. B. Russell, 1871. Hard Cover. The portrait is of Frederick the Great and the theme is the astounding victory of Prussia and the thorough collapse of France. Abbott was an American with extensive European experience. 100,871. 311 p. front. (port.). Vg/ no dj.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square [1878]. Hard Cover. 219, 203, [1], 2 p., illus.; 17 cm. Series: Franconia stories. A second text is "Wallace. A Franconia story, by the author of the Rollo books", 203 p., 2nd count, with separate title page and colored frontis. Two of ten of the original stories set in the Franconia Notch area of New Hampshire's White Mountains. First published in 1850. "Books by the Abbotts", 2 pages at end. Stock#43218. Nice bright clean copy with vivid gold tooled front cover/ no dj.

Portland, Maine, Falmouth Publishing, 1947. Hard Cover. [82] p.; 19 cm. Impressions of the Maine countryside. With 17 small (3 x 2.5 inches) monochromatic wood engravings. A later version may have different text; it is certainly illustrated by someone else and was issued as an inspirational book. VG; no dj. Stock#27681.

Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1968. Soft Cover. xxi, 350, [8] p. Translated from Nur al-abha. Basic doctrines of the Baha'i faith. Stock#100955.

Philadelphia, Lippincott [1966]. Hard Cover. 220 p. illus., facsim., map (on lining papers) group ports. 21.5cm. "Second printing." "The Cuban missile crisis is much more than just thirteen days in October of 1962. Its causes date back to the US’s actions during and after the Batista regime in Cuba [Sierra] and the beginnings of the US’s aggressively anti-communist policy." Abel's journalism holds up well nearly a half enturylater. NEU 1322. Vg / no dj.

N.Y., Henry Holt, 1959. Hard Cover. ix, 336 p. illus., 21.5 cm. The astounding election of 1948 where the newspapers (does anyone believe that there really is a liberal bias?) and pollsters said Dewey and the voters said Truman. The author, an economist in the Eisenhower administration, places much blame on Dewey's ignorance of farm issues. Stock #29,682. Vg/ dj good, frayed

Ann Arbor, UMI, 1980. Soft Cover. 6 p.l., 183 p., 20.5 cm. Photocopy. On lesbians coming out . 1980 CUNY dissrtation. Stock# 35,173. Vg/ soft cover.

Madrid: Gredos [1984?]. Hard Cover. Three volumes: vol. 1, A-C, [xiv], 714 pages; vol. 2, D-Í, [xvi], 696 pages; vol. 3, O-Z, [xvi], 578 pages; 1 illus.; 24.5 cm. Reprint; originally published Madrid, Impr. de F. del Hierro, 1726-1737, under title Diccionario de la lengua castellana. Stock#45561. Vg/ no dj.

Cortona, Tip. Commerciale, 1953. Periodical. 71 p., plates; 26 cm. Ninth Annual Report of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona. Includes Maetzke, La Collezione Etrusco-Romana del Museo dell’ Accademia Etrusca di Cortona; Botti, Le Antichità Egiziane Raccolte nel Museo dell’ Accademia Etrusca di Cortona; Moriondo, Le Opere d’Arte dell’ Epoca Medioevale Moderna nel Museo dell’ Accademia Etrusca di Cortona; Aletti, La Polimnia di Cortona. Copy of Prof. Walter Gross with his printed label. Stock#34320. Vg/ soft covers.

Rovigo, Italy, Accademia dei Concordi, 1977-1978. Soft Cover. 119, [2] p.ages, 29 illus.; 21 cm. Lists 130 17th-century manuscript maps showing fortifications of the Polesine region in the Po Delta of northern Italy. Stock#102778. Vg /soft cover.

Oxford UP 2000. "This book came out of three lectures that I delivered as the 1998 McMillan-Stewart Lectures at Harvard University..." An "extended exploration of the European impact on African culture", viewed through the author's own life. Hard Cover. x, 115 pages, 20.5 cm. Aqua boards, maroon cloth spine stamped in gold; blue, black & brown dj; VG+ / gift quality. stock#41791.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952, ©1951. Hard Cover. xxi, 309 p.; 21 cm. Introduction by Douglas Southall Freeman. Dean Acheson was Secretary of State from 1949-1951. His service came under critical attacks from Republicans. This book was intended to show him as a capable, honorable and courageous man. Stock#NEU366. Vg / no dj.

Firenze : Le Lettere, ©2004.. Soft Cover. 367 pages : illustrations ; 21.5 cm. Historical novel based on the war between Granddukal Florence and the Republic of Siena in 1552. ISBN (10): 8871668545 . Vg / soft cover.