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

N.Y. Oxford UP [1975]. Hard Cover. 6 p.l., 94 p., illus., 31.5 cm. Foreword by Sir Roy Cameron 765 chromomicrographs. Stock# 34,489.Vg/ dj worn

Cambridge University Press, 2000. On Joyce's egoism as a symbol of literary modernity and as part of Joyce's esthetic program. Hard Cover. ix, 248 pages; 23.5 cm. Vg/ no dj. Stock#30116.

Princeton UP, 1969. Hard Cover. xii, 463 p.; 24 cm. Twenty essays by the likes of J.R. Strayer, Utopia and Geneva , J.H. Hexter; Felix Gilbert, Lynn White; Florence and its university, 1348-1434, Gene R. Brucker; Erasmus and Alberto Pio, Prince of Carpi, Myron P. Gilmore... Syock#29587

NY, Knopf, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. xx, 294 p., illus.; 25 cm. The personal journals of German businessman John Rabe describe the 1937 Japanese siege of Nanking and his efforts to protect the Chinese from the massacre that followed. ISBN (10): 037540211X. Stock#NEU227. Vg / dj vg.

New York, Heritage Press [1942]. Each book paged separately. The typeface utilized is Scotch. Cf. Sandglass, no. 10M, included. Hard Cover. xxix, 146, 124, 178, 175, 141 [i.e. 797] pages incl. frontispiece, illus., 24 cm. Good+/ box good+. Stock#40643.

London: Privately Printed for Members of the Aldus Society, M. C. M. IV. [1904]. Hard Cover. Two volumes: 374; viii, 524 pages, illus.; 23 cm. The Florentine Edition. 1250 copies printed, of which this is number 262. Stock#32292. Good condition, slight soiling and wear.

Providence, Seven Fishes Productions, 2006. Soft Cover. 1 p.l., viii, 175 p., illus.; 19 cm. Meant to complement and augment some of the subjects covered in the documentary film "Italian Americans and Federal Hill" --Intro. ISBN (10): 0978751590. Stock#47367. Vg / soft cover.

Urbana, Illinois UP [1984]. "This first comprehensive study of Beckett's published and unpublished early fiction provides an effective key for understanding Beckett's aesthetics and his evolution as an artist." Hard Cover. x, 231 pages; 23.5 cm. VG/ dj vg. Stock#30331.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday [1969]. Hard Cover. [31] p., illus. & portraits (part color); 28.5 cm. Series: Art for Children. A brief biography of this French artist accompanies color reproductions and analyses of fifteen of his paintings. Stock#40654. Vg/ dj fair, tears from use.

NY, Time-Life [1963]. Hard Cover. 160 p., illus. (part color), portraits, color maps on lining-papers; 28 cm. Series: Life World Library. Stock#40262. Vg, illustrated boards.

Paris: Chez Firmin Didot Freres, M DCCC XXXVII [1837]. Hard Cover. [IV], 656 p.; portrait frontispiece; 25.5 cm. Racine's classic plays were published in handsome editions by the house of Didot for generations. This is a model of the best French book design of the 1830s. Contents: Mémoires sur sa vie (43 p.); Théàtre; Poésies diverses; Oeuvres diverses en prose; Fragments historiques dont la Relation du siège de Namur; Lettres de Racine écrites dans sa jeunesse; Correspondance, avec La Fontaine, Boileau, son fils, diverses personnes; Traductions dont le Banquet de Platon; Lettres adressées à Racine ou écrites à son sujet. Les notes sont de divers... Handsomely rebound in half leather by Dragonfly Bindery; very good. Stock#OB672.

London, Collins & Brown, 2000. Hard Cover. 160 p., color illus.; 29 cm. Translated and edited by Peggy Vance from Le Costume Historique, Paris, 1876-1888. Introduction by Mary Alexander. In five sections: antiquity; middle ages; 16th & 17th centuries; 18th & 19th centuries; patterns. Stock#31839. Fine/ dj fine.

J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia & NY [no date; after 1933]. Hard Cover. 187 p., 53 b/w & 8 color illus.; 22 cm. Twenty-three tales by Andersen, Grimm, Perrault, Irving, Southey, Villeneuve, and from the Arabian Nights and the English oral tradition. Stock# 44,556. Vg, grey cloth stamped in maroon with sprite on spine,witch & cat flanking cover title; spine (only) waterstained, fore edge foxed, no dj; internally clean.

"Some Notes on the Tasso Illustrated by Piazzetta." "In this note I should like to draw attention to the typographical aspects of the text, by pointing out features and variants which differentiate beyond any doubt the two editions." English & Italian on facing pages. 30 pages, 20 illustrations; 24 cm. Blue wraps printed in white; minor shelfwear; Very Good. Stock#ofc0814.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Published by the Class of Nineteen Thirty Five. Hard Cover. 167 p., illus., 23.5 cm. The faculty, all men, all Harvard, are pictured, as well as each of the senior class so this serves as a historical source for both schools. Photos of Alfred North Whitehead, Walter Piston, Samuel Eliot Morison, Crane Brinton, old George Lyman Kittredge, young Kenneth Murdock, Robert Hillyer and Theodore Spencer-- a regular rogues' gallery. Stock#48000. Vg / yearbook.

[Cambridge, MA.] Radcliffe College, 1938.. Hard Cover. 3 p. l., 3-47, [1] p. 18 cm. Inscribed first edition of Harvard's versatile penmaster David McCord on te origins of Radcliffe College. Maps on lining-papers. Stock# 40,216. Good+, boards soiled, rear damaged.

London, Cohen & West, 1968. Hard Cover. vii, 219 p., 21 cm. Seventh impression; 1st pub. 1953. Twelve essays by "the father of social anthropology." Includes studies of kinship, taboo, primitive law. Stock# 31,027. Vg/ dj vg.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Published by the Class of 1936. Hard Cover. 167 p., illus.; 23.5 cm. The faculty, all men, all Harvard, are pictured, as well as each of the senior class, so this serves as a historical source for both schools. There are new faculty faces not seen in 1935: William Langer (History, promoted from 1935 list), Paul Sachs (Fine Arts) has a better picture. A page with a long list of "Former Members of the Class" testifies to the difficulty of making four years. Stock#48001. Vg, yearbook.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Published by the College, 1937. Soft Cover. [viii], 450 p.; 23 cm. Includes names of alumnae who had died as well as women who did not graduate, making it a fuller historical record than one often finds. Stock#48002. Good+; traces of rubber band or narrow tape across front cover / soft cover.

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1973]. Hard Cover. viii, 568 p. : illus. ; 24 cm. First published in 1935, this fourth edition includes many newer writers. "The 46 selections in this rich sourcebook provide the student with many authoritative interpretations of the central concepts of esthetics." Bibliography: p. 535-560. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. Stock# 44,031. Vg / no dj.