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

London, Printed by Thomas Cotes, 1639; Oxford, The Malone Society Reprints, 1962. Hard Cover. xi, [59] p., 3 facsimiles on 2 leaves; 22 cm. Reprint of STC 6181, "The Bloodie Banquet. A Tragedie... By T. D." "That the source of The Bloody Banquet was William Warner's Pan his Syrinx (1584, 1597) was first pointed out by Wallace Bacon in his edition of the romance in 1950. For the sensational climactic episode of the Thyestean feast, the dramatist followed the romance's Calamus secundus, 'Thetis' ('Tethis' in the play)... The story of Tymethes, Amphrodite, Mazeres, and Zenarchus is adapted, rather more freely than the other material, from Calamus sextus." Prepared by Samuel Schoenbaum. Linen spine; unopened; fine, gift quality. Stock#25040.

Busto Arsizio : Bramante Editrice, c1978.. Hard Cover. 258 pages. : illus. (some col.), plans, index, 32 cm. Series: Pietre d'Italia Bibliography: p. 258. The Municipal Palaces of Medieval and Renaissance Italy are a distictive type of architecture. Stock# 40,743x. Fine/ dj fine.

Providence, R.I., Providence Coal Co., 1898. Puzzle, 27 x 21.5 cm, The colorful sheet has slots; by turning it and using a blunt pencil a likeness of Admiral George Dewey, 1837-1917, hero of Manila, emerges. (With a recent rendition of the image.) Stock#Flat113. Vg.

Penguin [1980].. Soft Cover. 175 p., 18 cm. Translated by Harold Mattingly. Revised by S.A. Handford. Stock# 37,558. Good+, a few ink notations, paper. Classical literature, history.

Oxonii, Clarendoniano [Oxford, Clarendon] , 1946. Hard Cover. [412] p., 19 cm. Ab Excessu Divi Augusti Libri. Recognovit Brevique Adnotatione Critica Instruxit C. D. Fisher. Copy of Albert Cook with his stamp. Stock# 34,051. Good, navy cloth covers worn, spine ends. Classical Latin literature.

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2003.. Hard Cover. xi, 270 p., illus., maps, index, 22 cm. Shows how the flight of Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, and his family, on June 21, 1791, a flight stopped at Varennes-en-Argonne, was a turning point in the Revolution. Bibliography p. 247-257. Stock# 40,044. Fine/ dj fine.

Firenze, Olschki/ Università di Padova Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di Lettere & Filosofia XXXI, 1956. Soft Cover. 291 p.; 25 cm. Studies on the texts of Bach's sacred cantatas. A historical/ literary rather than musicological study. Stock# 32,819. Fine, unopened/ paper covers. Music.

NY, Pantheon [1988].. Hard Cover. 3 p.l., 314 p.; photos; 24 cm. Four decades of American policy led to the seizure of our embassy. This shows how the seeds of Islamic revolution were sewn by the Shah's policy (largely with US support). An Iranian journalist, Taheri had access to documents seized at the embassy. Stock # 29,630. 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.

London. Printed for Richard Redmer, 1614; Oxford, The Malone Society Reprints, 1972. Hard Cover. xvii, [68] p., 7 facsimiles on 4 plates; 22 cm. Reprint of STC 23658: "The Hogge Hath Lost His Pearle. A Comedy. Divers Times Publikely acted, by certaine London Prentices. By Robert Tailor." "This edition of The Hogge hath Lost his Pearl has been prepared by D. F. McKenzie and checked by Arthur Brown and G. R. Proudfoot." Linen spine; unopened; VG. Another copy, with bookplate; VG. Stock#25027x.

Taipei, Taiwan [1989?]. Soft Cover. Signed. Exhibition catalog; 34 p., 26 color illus.; 22 cm. In Chinese & English; includes a brief essay by Cheng Kwang Ho, Publisher, The Artist Magazine, and one by Edward J. Manetta, Chair, Dept. of Fine Arts, St. John's University. Color pictorial paper covers; white cover edges a bit darkened; near fine, with the artist's dated ink inscription. Stock#34830.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1946 [i.e. 1952]. Hard Cover. xii, [iii], 133, [1] p., illus.; 22 cm. The story of the life of John Linehan in Ireland as told by him to Beatrice Bill Talbot. Foreword, pp. vii-xiii, by Padraic Colum, dated 1952. This second edition with the added appreciation by Patrick Collum is rarer than the first printing of 1946. Very Good, previous owner signature dated 1955/ no dust jacket. Stock#47544.

N.Y., Knopf, 1984.. Hard Cover. xiv, 380 p.'An astonishing tale of bureaucratic infighting, ideological conflict, and personal antagonisms that makes clear not only how,but exactly why, the most vital negotiations of our times--the arms control talks between the United States and the Soviet Union--collapsed into dangerous stalemate.' Stock #101,204. Vg/vg. American history Diplomacy Politics

NY, World, 1971. Hard Cover. xv, 490 p., illus., ports.; 22 cm. "Creates a portrait of everyday life within the Mafia world by focusing on three generations of the Bonanno family." Stock#47022. Vg, gift inscription / dj good+.

NY, Knopf, 1992. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 635 p.; 24.5 cm. The Italian-American experience told through the story of three generations of his own family. Well researched-- it contains a bibliography-- this work tells of the tugs of the two homelands-- Italy and the US. Section on World War II especially interesting. Stock#29601x. Vg copy/ vg dj.

First printed 1966. "Lays bare the secret internal intrigues at the daily, revealing the stories behind the personalities, rivalries, and scoops at the most influential paper in the world. In gripping detail, Talese examines the private and public lives of the famed Ochs family, along with their direct descendants, the Sulzbergers..." [ix], 555 pages, [16] pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm. Stock#48076.

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Hard Cover. [vii], 635 p.; 24 cm. "Biographies of members of the Talese family and other Italians who have been coming to America since the turn of the century." ISBN (10): 0679410341. Vg, gift inscription / dj vg. Stock#47021.

N.Y., Basic Books, 1994. Hard Cover. xvi, 278 p.; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Also edited by Hans H. Stroupp and Stephen F. Butler. "It is ironic that a profession that prides itself on helping people communicate, the mental health field, hasn't found a satisfying way for clinicians and researchers to carry on meaningful conversations." While this Owl is always happy when gaps are bridged, he finds that statement casts doubt on the communication skills of the entire field. No wonder there are so many nuts wandering around. Fine copy/dj fine. 101497.

West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue UP [1991]. Contributors include Mangione, Ardizzone, Marotta, Papaleo, De Iuliis, Morreale, Ferlinghetti, Gilbert, Galassi, Ricci, Gioia, Birnbaum, Mulas, Casillo, Lawton. Soft Cover. xvi, 468 pages, index, bibliography, filmography; 25.5 cm. Fine/ soft cover. Stock#32487x.

Putnam's Sons, NY [c2001]. Hard Cover. 353 p., 23.5 cm. "Set in contemporary San Francisco and in the Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, 'The Bonesetter's Daughter' is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. The story conjures the pain of broken dreams, the power of myths, and the strength of love that enables us to recover in memory what we have lost in grief. Over the course of one fog-shrouded year, between one season of falling stars and the next, mother and daughter find what they share in their bones through heredity, history, and inexpressible qualities of love." Tan boards, brown cloth spine stamped in gold; color pictorial dj edges rippled, minor wear; VG. stock#40908.