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

Rawding Distributing Co., Winchester, Mass. Copyright 1964. Fifteenth Edition. Soft Cover. 48 pages, illus. incl. photos, maps; stapled in yellow pictorial covers; VG. Stock#101383.

Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1976. Soft Cover. Signed. OFFPRINT: pages 37-113; 22 cm. From: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, vol. 148. Inscribed to Alan [Trueblood]. Stock#46617. Vg / soft cover.

Cape Cod Prime Time, October 1995. Periodical. Pages 8-11, biographical sketch with photos & Gorey drawings; 32 cm. "The Life of Edward Gorey-- Mystery, Whimsy & Cats." "Text by Alan W. Petrucelli/ Photos by Jon Hamill/ Drawings by Edward Gorey." Stapled in pictorial paper covers; minor wear; good. stock#44872.

In Russian / Cyrillic. Hardcover. 734 pages, [17] pages of plates, illustrations; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 634-[710]) and index. On the biography and bibliography of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904). Stock#25798/h. Fine; no dust jacket.

N.Y., MLA, 1965. Soft Cover. offprint from PMLA LXXX. 5, Dec. 1965, p. 499-507; Robert de Boron, also known as Petit Saint Grail wrote on of the earliest surviving Grail romances ca. 1180-1199. Stock# 34,414. Vg/ paper

London, Automobile Association, [1974]. Scale 10 miles to the inch. Includes a 31-p. pamphlet, "Traditional Local Dishes". This edition of the map is significant historically as in 1975 a great number of the roads were renumbered. Stock#32721. Vg.

Needlecraft Magazine, Augusta, Maine [c1929]. Soft Cover. General instructions (soaking, cutting, shaping, piecing, changing weaves, singeing, finishing in different mediums, transferring designs); Weaves (7); Borders (6); Mat or Tea-Tile; [Basket] for Bonbons or Nuts; Cake- or Sandwich-Basket; Covered Sewing-Basket; Candlestick; Unique Flower-Holders; New Fern-Basket; Charming Flower-Basket; Window-Box; Waste-Baskets; Hanging-Basket; Reed Lamps; Artistic Console-Table. 23, [1] p. incl. covers, illus., 25 cm.; stapled; minor edgewear; VG. 34524.

London, Great Western Railway, 1926. The abbeys in that area of Western England and Wales served by The Great Western Railway. Hard Cover. x, 153 pages, [102] pages of plates, illus., folding map in rear pocket; 26 cm. Vg/ no dj. Stock#NS0206.

London, Great Western Railway, 1926. Hard Cover. x, 153 p., [102] p.of plates, illus., fold. map in back pocket; 26 cm. Discusses the abbeys in that area of Western England and Wales served by The Great Western Railway. Stock#46918. Good+, spine tips frayed, paper on boards mottled / no dj.

Colonial Williamsburg & Little, Brown [1957]. First Edition. Hard Cover. xvi, 402 p., 165 color plates; 27 cm. "First edition." Includes the folded leaf of errata and addendum and "Supplementary bibliography." In slipcase. Book fine, slipcase dust soiled, spine faded. A second copy, very good with gift inscription on front fly. Stock#101454x (dr).

New York, R.H. Russell, 1902.. Hard Cover. 4 p.l., 289 p. illus. 20 cm. "Carolyn Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books." A contemporary critic said that this would appeal to someone with an "abnormal sense of humor." Sounds good to me. Stock# 44,739. Vg, marbled paper boards / no dj.

Herausgegeben von der Benediktinerinnen-Abtei zur Hl. Maria, Fulda, 1984. Hard Cover. "Reflecting His Glory": religious artwork of Benedictine sister Lioba Munz, mostly enamel. At the end is a list of her works (Flügelaltäre; Senkemail-Platten, vergoldet; Tabernakel; Eucharistische Taube; Vortrage-Kreuze; Altar-Hänge-Kreuze; Monstranzen; Evangeliare) and their locations (all in Germany except three, in Tokyo and Haifa). [11] p. of text, [65] p. of color plates and b/w illus. & ms. facsimile; 34.5 cm.; pictorial covers; minor wear; VG. Copy of Kay Whitcomb with frequent blindstamping. 34541 oversize.

N.Y., Harcourt, Brace, c. 1936. "This book reprints about eighty articles, essays, reviews, poems, etc., chosen out of a number of contributions to various periodicals." First American edition. Hard Cover. x, 363 pages. Vg/no dj. Stock#30286.

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.

London, Duckworth, 2000. Hard Cover. 478 p. iius., photos, 24.5 cm. Another history of the New Yorker magazine, with less "and me" than many other efforts. "With access to the complete editorial correspondence from 1925 onwards, internal office correspondence, edited manuscripts, articles and rejection." Stock# 31,785x. New/ dj fine.

Harvard UP, Cambridge, 1960. Hard Cover. ix, 373 p., index, 21.5 cm. 'I do not claim that he is a great poet; but I do argue that those who admire seventeenth-century writers owe Cowley a better reading than modern readers give him.' Dj worn, foxed, clipped; good+. stock#33259.

Kingsport, Tenn. : Privately printed at Kingsport Press, c1947.. Hard Cover. x, 62, [5] p., [1] leaf, [2] p. of plates : col. port., facsim. ; 26 cm. Title continues: prefaced with an introductory comment / by Paul M. Angle." "This edition of the autobiographical writings of Abraham Lincoln has been made available to friends of Kingsport Press, Inc., through the courtesy of Mr. Angle and the Rutgers University Press. Set in 12 pt. Linotype De Vinne, it was printed on all rag paper in an edition of 1250 copies, of which none is for sale."--Colophon. The wording indicates that this edition was probably issued in 1948, as was the limited edition issued by Rutgers University Press. Sources (p. [65]). Includes facsimile of Lincoln's letter to John Coulter, 4 Sept. 1860, concerning his political rivalry with Peter Cartwright. Stock# 44,689. Vg / cellophane wrapper, good, worn, tears.

NY, Harry N. Abrams, 2004. Hard Cover. 424 p., chiefly illus. (chiefly color); 23 cm. Morgan notes how confusing it is to sort out American styles of architecture; they are eclectic and have proliferated, borrowing from one another and from the past. This reference for homeowners and others contains 15 style-oriented chapters presenting a total of 23 styles (to incorporate regional variations), represented by some 400 houses from 40 states. ISBN (10): 0810949431. Stock#47058. Vg / dj vg.

En France, M.DCC.LX. [1760]. Author identified by Backer-Sommervogel (volume 11, column 157). BOUND WITH [Frey de Neuville, Pierre Claude, 1692-1773], Observations sur l'Institut de la Société des Jesuites, Avignon, Chez Alexandre Giroud, 1761, 108 pages; AND Memoire dans lequel on prouve par l'Institut & la conduite des Jesuites, qu'ils ont toujours été les ennemis des évèques et de l'Episcopat; caption title; dated 1761 at end; 144 pages. Hard Cover. xii, 129 pages, 16.5 cm. Bound in contemporary full leather. stock#NS0188.

Paris, Chez la vevfe Edm Pepingué ... M.DC. LIX [1659]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Two volumes: [20], 662; [22], 623 p.; 15 cm. The French Royal Historiographer wrote a number of works, beginning with "Abrégé". This history of Spain traces the origins of the country in Volume 1. In Volume 2 Ferdinand marries Isabella, the Jews are expelled from the country, Columbus discovers America (p. 97), Pizarro discovers Peru (p.171) and France and Spain battle in Italy, the Low Countries, wherever they could. The second half, the last 300 pages or so, deal with conflicts of the years between 1648 and 1658, This is a rare book-- I did not find it in OCLC World Catalog, the BN; one copy in COPAC; not in Brunet (but Cioranescu 17th Century, 28251); viaLibri recorded only a 1682 edition. Bound in contemporary full leather, rebacked; very good. Stock#OB780.