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

Collier/Macmillan, NY [1987]. Soft Cover. 830 p., index, plates. ”A monumental biography of Sir Stewart Menzies, the legendary wartime leader of British intelligence. Agile, ruthless, and cunning, Menzies dominated the world intelligence scene from 1933 to 1952.” Recent authors have suggested that Menzies was better at fighting bureaucratic wars than the Germans. Without the assistance of the Abwehr and Menzies's control of information from Bletchley Park, he was a muddle-headed aristocractic dupe. ”By 1944 SIS was almost in dissolution, its few successes overshadowed by its disasters.” stock#23027a. Vg/paper covers slightly scuffed.

New York, Macmillan [1987]. Hard Cover. 7 p.l., 830 p., index, plates. 24 cm. ”A monumental biography of Sir Stewart Menzies, the legendary wartime leader of British intelligence. Agile, ruthless, and cunning, Menzies dominated the world intelligence scene from 1933 to 1952.” Recent authors have suggested that Menzies was better at fighting bureaucratic wars than the Germans. Without the assistance of the Abwehr and Menzies's control of information from Bletchley Park, he was a muddle-headed aristocratic dupe. ”By 1944 SIS was almost in dissolution, its few successes overshadowed by its disasters.” Stock# 44,461. Vg / dj vg.

NY, Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. 5 p. l., 7-230 p.; 21 cm. First edition, first state, of Wilder's first novel. An evocative portrait of decadent Vatican aristocracy during the years just before Mussolini and Fascism. Stock#46264. Good+, owner name stamped on front fly, red cloth spine, decorative cloth boards / no dj.

NY, McClure, Phillips & Co., MCMV [1905]. 'Third Impression.'. Hard Cover. 344 p. Collection of 18 short stories; first published November 1904. Black cloth covers stamped in orange, yellow, green; spine faded,covers worn, p. 7/8 torn in gutter; good. 28534

Philadelphia, T. B. Peterson [©1852]. Hard Cover. 324 p., 12 p. of advertisements, front., plates; 20 cm. "Embellished with magnificent illustrations, from original designs by Stephens, engraved by Beeler." The Cabin and Parlor is an example of pro-slavery plantation literature that emerged from the Southern United States in response to the abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which had been published in book form in that year, (Wright, American Fiction; v. 2 (1851-1875) 1878). Good+, original stamped boards rebacked with original spine, extensive foxing. Stock#OB955.

New York, Bonanza Books [1970?, c1957]. Hard Cover. x, 246 p. illus. 32 b/w plates, 26.5 cm. First published 1967 by Doubleday. Foreword by Russell Kettell. Sketches of about 2,500 cabinet makers through the early 19th Century. Bibliography: p. 244-246. Stock# 44,065. Vg / dj vg.

Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 2003. Hard Cover. 271 p., color illus., color maps; 31 cm. Language: Portuguese. Consists of an overall section on the Cape Verde islands and special studies of ten of the islands. ISBN (10): 9722115448. Stock#L207.

Flagstaff, AZ, Northland, 1986. Soft Cover. 100 p. color illus. 23 cm. Not a novel. Nine stories. Illustrations by Bill Ahrendt. Stock#30,499. Good+/ wrappers

NY, Simon & Schuster, ©1982. Hard Cover. 395 p.; 22 cm. "A rodeo cowboy turned antique dealer centers his vaguely gypsy life on his collector's classic Cadillac, which carries him to backroad flea markets, small-time collectors… Each episode features a remarkable antique and usually an obsessive collector framed by woman who can't resist him. ISBN(10): 0671454455. Stock#NEU285. Very Good in VG dust jacket.

NY, American Heritage; Book trade and institutional distribution by Harper & Row [1964]. Hard Cover. 151 p., illus. (part color), facsim., maps (part color), ports. (part color); 27 cm. By the editors of Horizon Magazine. Author, Irwin Isenberg. Consultant: Richard M. Haywood. Stock#46313. Vg /illustrated boards.

Chicago, Follett [1975]. . Hard Cover. 232p., index, 20 pages of color plates, 100 b/w illustrations.25.5 cm. A biography of Julius Caesar, 100-44 B.C., the talented first Emperor of Rome. Stock# 34,275. Vg/ dj good+, slightly worn. Classical world Rome

[Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil] Editora da Unicamp, 1996. Soft Cover. 373 p. illus. [16] pages of plates, maps, 21 cm. A sociolinguistic study of a rural village 150 km from Sao Paulo, showing how the African influences on the Portuguese spoken reflects their society. Stock 28,361. Vg/wrappers.

Marseille, 1941. Periodical. [16], 193-248 p.; 22.5 cm. Contents incl. Loys Masson, Le Voilier Nord; André Spire, Poésie et Musique; Arsène Yergath, Poèmes; Jean Orieux, Un Arrière-neveu de Mr de Pourceaugnac; Yanette Deletang-Tardif, Poèmes; Henri Cotard & René Cerisier, Le Drame de Paul Cézanne; Jean Ballard, Mise au Point; Emile Novia, À propos des Jocistes; Notes & comptes rendus. Paper covers soiled, chipped, pages 249 to end missing. stock#46000.

Marseille, 1941. Contains Luc Decaunes, L'ail Nu; Marcel Brion, Une Aventure de Voyage; Henri Feraud, Beauté, visage clos; Jacques Ducange, Péguy, soldat de la vérité; Jacques Benet, Péguy présent; Bertin, Actualité de Paul Valéry; Notes, comptes rendus. Periodical. [16], 379-442 pages; 22.5 cm. Advertisements, [16] p. at front. Covers darkened & foxed, rear cover detached, pages darkened; good. stock#45997.

Marseille, 1940. Includes Jean Ballard, 17 Décembre 1939; Gros, Introduction aux œuvres d'André Gaillard; Michel Simon, Sur Jérome Cardan; Jérome Cardan, Notes Autobiographiques; David Gascoyne, Strophes élégiaques à la mémoire d'Alban Berg; L'Esprit et le temps: Le Carnet des Absents; Jean Baudry, Patrice de la Tour du Pin; Notes & Comptes rendus. Advertisements, [24] pages at front & [16] at end. Periodical. [24], 72, [16] pages; 22.5 cm. Covers soiled; internally clean, unopened. stock#45998.

Marseille, 1940. Periodical. [12], 445-496 p.; 22.5 cm. Contents incl. Jean Ballard, Mission de l'Esprit (III); Gros, La poésie demeure; Gabriel Audisio, Le français désincarné; Henri Thomas, Poèmes pour la Zone occupée; René Nelli, Mémoire perce-neige ou la Fontaine de Milan; Roger Lannes, Le monde retourné; William Saroyan, Deux Contes (La Vision, Les Fourmis; translated by Thérèse Aubray); Notes & Comptes rendus. Cover edges darkened; good. stock#45999.

New York: IASTA Press, c1993. First Edition. Soft Cover. x, 452 p.; 23 cm. Contents: Secret vengeance for secret insult; Devotion to the Cross; The mayor of Zalamea; The phantom lady; Life is a dream; The crown of Absalom. Stock#45409x. fine, as new / soft cover.

Toronto] University of Toronto Press [1971]. Hard Cover. xiii, 247 pages; 26 cm. "A project of the Research Committee of Spanish Group Three of the Modern Language Association of America." stock#45412.

Cambridge University Press, 1983. First Edition. "This book recounts the afterlife of the great Golden Age dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca in Dutch and German-speaking Europe. The high quality of the German critical and philosophical tradition has led to a far greater appreciation of Calderón outside than inside his native Spain, and it is in the German territories that the playwright's influence has been most remarkable and widespread." INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to distinguished hispanist Alan S. Trueblood. Hard Cover. xvi, 510, [9] pages of plates, illus.; 24 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#45765.

Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1972. Hard Cover. ix, 271 p., front.; 22 cm. "Honig shows that the concern with honor that touches Calderón's best plays is not only at the heart of the humanist tradition in Renaissance drama but, subject to a few modifications of feeling and thought, is also basic to the strong moral imagination that is admired in Camus, Faulkner, Pirandello, and Pasternak." ISBN (10) 0674090756.Stock#45411. Vg / dj vg.