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

Lello & Irmão, Porto, 1945. Prefacio, signed José Maria d'Eça de Queiróz, is dated Praia da Granja, 1928. According to Wikipedia, Carlos Fradique Mendes, an imaginary Portuguese adventurer, was an invention of Eça de Quiróz and friends who attains full elaboration in the present work. Soft Cover. xlvii, 298 pages, portrait front.; 19.5 cm.; unopened; VG. stock#45546.

Lello & Irmão, Editores, Porto. Soft Cover. 238 p., portrait front.; 19.5 cm. According to Wikipedia, Carlos Fradique Mendes is an imaginary Portuguese adventurer, an invention of Eça de Quiróz & friends. Contents incl. Ao Visconde de A.-T., A Madame de Jouarre, A Oliveira Martins, A Guerra Junqueiro, A Ramalho Ortigão, Ao Sr. E. Mollinet, A Clara, A Mr. Bertrand B., A Bento de S., A Eduardo Prado. Paper; waterstain across top of rear cover only; mostly unopened; VG. stock#46226.

Ithaca, 1950. Soft Cover. Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. Bulletin 856, August 1950. 16 p., tables, photos, 23 cm. "The present investigations are directed toward both the problem of more efficient and economical distribution of poisoned bait and the problem of more efficient tree trunk protection against above-ground damage." Discusses effectiveness of 1080 (sodium fluoroacetate) and zinc phosphide on field mice, and experiments with tree coatings made of rosin-alcohol-1080. Stapled; self-covers; minor wear; VG. No shipping charge. 37051.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1970. Hard Cover. 628 p.; 21 cm. An abridgment of Sir Paul Harvey's Oxford Companion to English Literature, first pub. 1932. Dj clipped; VG. stock#44956.

Princeton University Press [c1992]. ix, 249 p., index; 24 cm. Contents incl. The Referential Aesthetic of Autobiography; Henry James's 'Obscure Hurt': Can Autobiography Serve Biography?; Self and Culture in Autobiography: Models of Identity and the Limits of Language; Living in History; Autobiography and the Structures of Experience; Works Cited, p. 231-242 . Dj ; fine. stock#45890.

NY, Weathervane Books [1976?] ©1916. Hard Cover. xix, 203 p., illus.; 27 cm. Facsimile of the 1916 edition. Nine counties make up the Eastern Shore: Kent, Talbout, Somerset, Dorchester, Cecil, Queen Anne, Worcester, Caroline, and Wicomico. ISBN (10): 0517174790. Vg, gift inscription, top of dj spine torn.

New York, Bramhall House / C. N. Potter [c1965]. Hard Cover. 208 p. illus. (192 b/w photos, 8 p. col., 40 line drawings) maps. ports. 28 cm. "The carved bird decoy is the only truly American folk art - for the decoy as an aid to hunting was devised by the American Indians and has grown as a useful art since the days of the colonists. Decoy-carving was developed and refined to such a degree that now early and well-carved birds are prized by collectors." Bibliography: p. [199]. Stock# 43,920. Vg / dj vg.

Talkarra Press, Cremorne, N. S. W., 1957. Hard Cover. Signed. [18], [21] p.; title-page vignette stamped in blue; 21 cm. Introduced and Annotated by John Earnshaw. The manuscript letter is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. 'Unsigned and incomplete, half in verse and half in prose, covering four closely written pages…', it is a nice thumbnail sketch of early British trading presence in the South Pacific. Signed and numbered by the printer, Walter W. Stone, in the colophon; one of 250 copies. Vg, blue cloth; spine faded, ex-University of Melbourne Library with bookplate & modest stamp. Stock#39292.

N.Y., Metropolitan Museum of Art/ N.Y. Graphic Society. Soft Cover. 322 p. illus., 28 cm. 308 objects in stone, wood, clay, gold, jade, and bone from Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Arntzen/ Rainwater K256. Stock #29,049. Vg/ wrappers.

NY, Free Press, ©2009. Hard Cover. vii, 291 p., maps; 23.5 cm. "Dogtown has inspired various people, including a millionaire who carved Protestant precepts into its boulders; the Modernist painter Marsden Hartley, whom Dogtown saved from a crippling depression; the drug-addled poet Charles Olson; a coven of witches that still holds ceremonies there today; and the murderer, who spent much of his life in Dogtown's woods." ISBN (10): 1416587047. Stock#46840. Vg / dj vg.

New-York: Published By James Eastburn. Clayton & Kingsland, Printers. 1820. Shoemaker 1069 & 3104; Wegelin, American Poetry 941. Written in collaboration with Robert C. Sands, who also edited the work. Frontispiece plate "Seat of King Philip" and added engraved title page "Mount Hope" by Asher B. Durand after illustrations by J. Neilson. Copyright Nov. 27, 1820, by James Eastburn. "Notes," pages [257] to end, followed by "Errata", page [340]. Twelve lines of a Wordsworth poem on printed title-page. Hard Cover. xii, 339, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates, illustrations; 21 cm. Ink manuscript note on engraved titl, too faint to read. Bound in unusually elaborate full contemporary leather stamped in gold and with [owner name] "E. G. Turner" [the classicist?] stamped in gold on front cover; marbled endpapers; 1st & 2d flyleaves stained by old newspaper clipping (now in mylar). Very Good. Stock#OB798.

[New York, Published by James Eastburn, 1812]. Caption title. Dated on page 3: New York, 23d Dec., 1812. "The Edinburgh Review" and "The Quarterly Review," both influential, were re-published in New York by Ezra Sargeant. Upon Sargeant's death (June 24, 1812) James Eastburn took over his business and ran it for the benefit of Sargeant's widow and children. On Feb. 5, 1813, Eastburn formed the firm of Eastburn, Kirk & Co. This prospectus contains testimonials from New Englanders and southerners as well as New Yorkers-- including DeWitt Clinton, Rufus King, J. H. Hobart, John Lowell, Josiah Quincy, John T. Kirland-- supporting the value of an American reprint. Shaw-Shoemaker, American Imprints 25320, lists only the MWA copy. The AAS regards this as an entity and catalogues it as such but copies were undoubtedly inserted in Eastburn publications. Soft Cover. [1], 2-7 pages; 22 cm. Disbound; very good. Stock#OB711.

Cambridge University Press [1992; c1989]. Soft Cover. x, 218 p.; 22.5 cm. First published 1985 and reprinted 1986, 1987, 1988 as chapters of The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, volume 1. Includes bibliographies and indexes. Paper; VG. Stock#40032.

Charles Scribner's Sons [1922]. Hard Cover. First published 1913. Contents include Poetic People; The Technique of Poetic Names; Imaginative Realization; Choice and COmparison in Poetry; Wine and Sleep in Poetry; Emotional Realization; To Enjoy Poetry; To Compose Poetry; The Practical Value of Poetry; Ideals of Poetry. xiii, 254 p., 19 cm.; green cloth boards, paper spine label; top of spine chipped, waterstain across bottom rear cover (only), front spotted; good. Copy of Lewis Hall Gordon with his pencil notes on flyleaves. 34351.

New York, Charles Scribner's sons, 1921. Hard Cover. xii, 257 p. 20 cm. "Notes and references" : p. [237]-257. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. With the signature of Brown Philosopher C.J. Ducasse. Stock# 44,517. Vg / no dj.

New York, London, Charles Scribner̓s Sons, 1931. Hard Cover. ix p., 2 L., 3-343 p. 22 cm. Contents: The March of Science; Literature on the Defensive: The Swan-Song of Humane Letters; The Resurrection of the Scholar-Gentleman; Literature in Retreat: The Cult of Unintelligibility; The Tendency Toward Pure Poetry; Poets Talking to Themselves; Division of Labor in Literature; Toward a Science of Literature: What Poetry Is; Art & Biology; The Future of Literature: Are Poetry & Drama Dying? Is the Novel at a Dead End? The Realm of Literary Truth; The Problem of Criticism; The Teacher of Literature: A Note on I.A. Richards' Psychology of Poetry. In chapters "The cult of unintelligibility" "Poets talking to themselves" he criticized James Joyce, E.E. Cummings, Gertrude Stein, and other moderns." "Notes and references": p. 321-343. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy, with pencil underling. Stock#… Read More

"Jacqueline du Pré... one of the world's great cellists... won the most prestigious cello award in Britain... was a fully established artist at twenty... a remarkable but often tormented human being." 224 pages, plates; dust jacket; Very Good+. Stock#ofc0189.

New York, Rinehart 1955. Hard Cover. xx, 795 p., index, illus., endpaper maps; 26 cm. Textbook for a course in early western history. Stock# 39,824. Good/ no dj..

N.Y., Harper, c1949. Hard Cover. xxi, 371 p., illus. (part color), front., ports., 25 cm., 128 b/w plates. This work is interesting typographically as well: text pages were set in Caledonia type designed by W. A. Dwiggins, who designed the colophon; chapter headings are in Rudolf Ruzicka's Fairfield; the title page is set in Centaur by Bruce Rogers; the dedication page was composed by William Dana Orcutt. This is filled with information and photographs of craftsmen (and women) and their work. Vg/no dj. 101660.

N.Y., Macmillan, 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover. ix, [4], 351 p. First edition. This is a fine economic and social history of the South during the Civil War; it treats battles and fights only as they affect the larger theme. Vg/dj good+, frayed at edges. 101500.