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

N.Y., Moore Gallery, 1999. Soft Cover. Catalog published to accompany an exhibition, Nov. 4-Dec. 4, 1999. With a brief preface by Bridget Moore. The text is the painter/sculptor's own words. 46 p., chronology & exhibition list, 26 color illustrations; color pictorial paper covers; 28 cm.; fine. Stock#34561.

"In 1943, with the world convulsed by war and a Fascist defeat in Europe far from certain, a few visionaries-- civilians and soldiers alike-- saw past questions of life and death to realize that victory wasn't the only thing at stake. So was the priceless cultural heritage of thousands of years." 308 pages, map, photos; 23.5 cm. Very Good in VG pictorial dust jacket. Stock#ofc0666.

NY, Knopf, 1975. . Hard Cover. 210 p.,10.5 cm. Four stories that first appeared in Playboy magazine. Stock# 30,058. Good+, orange cloth boards/ no dj. . , Short stories, fiction.

Rinehart, NY [1950]. Rinehart Critical Studies. "Examines in detail all of the major poems and many of the minor ones and discusses Burns as a song writer. Nowhere have the technical aspects of Burns's poetry-- his stanza forms, metrical patterns, satirical devices, use of imagery-- and the magical methods he used to fit words to music, been too fully explored." Hard Cover. ii, 376 p. Vg, paper darkening, ink owner name/ dj good, chipped at top of spine & corners. Stock#100943.

Paddington Press [c1979]. Hard Cover. Contents include Chaucer's World; Shakespeare's London; Virginia Woolf's London; Bath; The Lake Poets; The Romantic Poets Abroad; The Brontë Country; Thomas Hardy's Wessex; The Blackening of England; Scotland in Literature; The Dublin of Yeats and Joyce; Atlas and Gazetteer Section; Index. 287 p., illus., 32 maps, 24 cm.; dj; bookplate; VG+. 34133.

Bonechi, Firenze, 1975. Soft Cover. xvi, 64 p., color photos,27.5 cm. Series: Archaeological Zones of Latium I-II. Includes sites at: Cerveteri, Civitavecchia, Tarquinia, Bolsena, Viterbo and others.Stock# 34,326. Vg/ plastic covered paper.

Firenze, Bonechi "Il Turismo", 1975. Soft Cover. 126, [2]p., illus., 27.5 cm. A guide to the ancient layer of Rome. Many color photographs of what survives, and drawings and models of how it once may have looked. Stock# 34,586. Vg/ soft cover.

Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, [1969]. Hard Cover. xxxiii, 147 p. illus., maps, ports. 24 cm. Translated and edited by Elizabeth Cometti. A remarkable account by the first Italian to visit the newly independent United States. Stock# 41,239. Fine, in publisher's shrink wrap.

[London] Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1902.. First Edition. Hard Cover. viii, 255, [1] p. col. front., plates (part col.) maps (part fold.) plans. 23 cm. Formed in 1745, this regiment served at Louisbourg,in the West Indies, Portugal and Spain with Wellington, at Buenos Aires, South Africa,Reflecting the varieties of Empire. Stock# 45,121. Good+, some wear and soilin to boardsg.

An extended vocabulary, with pronunciations, for understanding French restaurant menus. Stated first edition. 95 pages, a few illus.; Good+ in color pictorial dust jacket which is a bit darkened around the spine & edges. Stock#ofc0335.

Madison, Wisconsin UP [1987]. Hard Cover. 320 p., index; 22.5 cm. First published in 1965, this appreciative study of D.H. Lawrence contains "A Retrospective Note" for this edition. Stock #29,579. Fine/ no dj.

NY, Jay Street Publishers, ©1997. Soft Cover. Signed. 447 p., illus., facsimiles, maps; 21.5 cm. Dr. D'Alessandro writes a lively narrative and makes a case that the Morelli gang did the robbery and killings for which Sacco and Vanzetti were executed. Printed in limited edition. ISBN (10): 1889534072. Stock#30621x. Vg, new from publisher / soft cover.

N.Y., Henry Holt, 1997. Hard Cover. xv, 544 p., illus. Europe, 1814-1815. The Congress of Vienna was organized to protect the forces of conservatism and repression against Napoleon and liberalism. The book focuses on the intrigues of Vienna, particularly of Lord Castlereagh, the British Foreign Secretary, but treats the several diverse roads that culminated in one battle and many fights. Vg/dj vg. 101922.

Dallas, Tex. : Dallas Museum of Art, ©1997.. Soft Cover. 303 p. : illus. (mostly col.) ; 25 cm. Mostly paintings and sculpture, Charles Venable writes of the Museum's "exceptional collection of American-made silver in the art nouveau style. Examples executed by Gorham...form the core of this collection." (pp. 247-48). Stock# 44,970. Vg / soft cover.

NY, F. W. Dodge Corp. [c1957]. Soft Cover. viii, [1], 197 p., tables; 23.5 cm. First published Dallas, 1954 as Estimating Production and Construction Costs. Stock#46515. Vg / dj vg.

New York, McBride, Nast & Company, 1914.. Hard Cover. 123, [1] p. col. front., col. plates. 19.5 cm. A highly sentimental tale of a black freed manservant who, on being told to kill the remaining turkey (and his adored pet) on the plantation for Christmas dinner, decides to sell himself to purchase a feast for the Colonel and his lady. Told partially in Black dialect. First published in 1912 with a different illustrator. This is the third printing, September, 1914. Stock# 39,152. Vg, gift inscription, illustrated cover/ no dj.

New York: Harper & Brothers / London: Sampson, Low, Son, & Marston. 1868. Hard Cover. xvi, [17]-399, 6 p., 67 text figures; 19.5 cm. Contents include General Structure and Mechanism of the Animal Frame; The Food and its Ingredients; The Liver and its Functions; Animal Heat; General Structure and Functions of the Nervous System; System of the Great Sympathetic; The Special Senses; Development. Includes Glossary and Index. Publisher's brown embossed boards, spine stamped in gold, marbled edges; spine faded, chipped, hinges worn; lacks frontispiece; owner names; fair. 39421 NS.

"This edition published September, 1906." "Bibliography of Bridge", pages 315-319. 319 pages; red cloth stamped in black, gold & white; Very Good; no dust jacket. Stock#ofc0180.

Boston, Beacon Press, 1978. Soft Cover. xviii, 485 p., 20 cm. "Mary Daly is a Revolting Hag who holds doctorates in theology and philosophy from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. " Her challenges to Christian myths and culture about women have made many uncomfotable. Stock# 34,217. Vg, gift inscription/ paper.

NY, AMS Press, ©1988. Periodical. [viii], 1-208 p., illus.; 23 cm. 4 of the 6 articles based on "papers read at the conference on The European Emblem, held at Glasgow on August 10-14, 1987." Stock#46602. Vg / soft cover.