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

Cambridge Harvard University Library, 1975. Soft Cover. 32 p.illus., 25.5 cm. Offprinted from the Harvard Library Bulletin Volume XXIII, Number 2 april 1975. Pages 117-138 of the bulletin. Ten pages of illus., 22 paintings. From an owner of a Cummins oil painting with ms notes on a Rhode Island collection of them. Stock# ,42,673. Vg / offprint

Norfolk, Conn., New Directions [1943]. Series: The Makers of Modern Literature. Hard Cover. 2 p.l.,192 p. front. (port.) 18.5 cm. The first chapter first appeared as an essay in the Kenyon Review. E. M. Forster (1879-1970), the English novelist and essayist, had reached the peak of his literary career when Trilling wrote this. Early issue: 1) in green cloth, 2) list of "The Makers of Modern Literature" includes only three titles; 3) "Acknowledgment" p. [3]; . Stock# 31,119a. Vg/no dj. Another, later, printing: 192 p.[ no p.ls.] 1) Brown cloth; 2) "Makers" series includes 13 titles; "Acknowledgment" p. [4]. Stock# 31,119b.

New Haven, Yale UP, 1990. Soft Cover. xv, 334 p., illus., 23.5 cm. Suffragette, pacifist, communist and pan-Africanist, Pankhurst turned her back on an art career and devoted herself to the 20th century's social causes. Stock# 33,430. Vg/paperback

NY, Sloane Associates [1949]. Hard Cover. 432 p. Firmage A13b, top edges not stained red. "In the spring of 1931 E.E. Cummings went to Russia. EIMI (a-ME: Greek 'I am') is... a transcription of Mr. Cummings' highly personal response-- human, alive, and quick-- to a dead-level world of fear, anxiety, and guilt. ...The first edition of EIMI was printed from type in 1933 and has become so prized by its owners that it is unavailable on the American market. The present publishers offer this new edition with the certainty that a large perceptive audience will delight in the spiritual values it so joyously affirms." Dj has small open tear on front; spine darkened; VG. stock#OB001.

NY, Coward-McCann, MCMXXXIX [1939].. Hard Cover. 422 p.; grey cloth covers, spine stamped in silver, 22 cm.; no dj, bookplate; VG. They tell me, those who know the incredible mass/ Of mans recorded cries, that in each one/ Born to the burden of unasked existence/ There lives one story. Very well, heres mine/ Laid out in words, each verb a piece of me,/ Each noun an echo, every adjective/ Reflecting the hot circumstance of living... Stock# 101,149. 20th century American literature, epic poetry.

New York, Coward-McCann, Inc., 1939. Hard Cover. 4 p. l., 3-422 p. 22 cm. "Fifth impression." The verse form allows Lafarge to tell a grand and complex story by suggestion, allowing the reader to fill in the narrative gaps. Stock# 44,555. Good+/ no dj.

London, Methuen [1956]. The English Donald Hall explored Montecassino, Abruzzi, Molise, and the Marche. Hard Cover. 235 pages, index, plates, endpaper map; 22 cm. Good+/ dj worn. Stock#34823.

New Haven, Yale UP [1988]. Soft Cover. xiii, 520 p.; photos, index; 23.5 cm. From 1953 when the CIA engineered a coup, through years with the Shah, the Ayatollahs, the embassy taken hostage, and secret arms sales, it's a story out of fiction. Stock# 31,722. Vg/ paper.

London, Brockhampton Press, 1999.. Hard Cover. 352 p., illus., tables. First published in 1997 as a sequel to his 'Eagle Triumphant'. By July 1940 Germany was dominant in the skies over Europe, yet by 1944 the Luftwaffe was a marginal threat. The combination of the Battle of Britain and war in Russia, in Africa and the Mediterranean against planes and pilots that became better and more numerous, devastated the German air arm. New/dj fine. Stock #101,282. World War II.

Baton Rogue, LSU, 1990. Hard Cover. xvi, 312 p. illus., 24 cm. Documents his ties to organized crime which gave him substantial sums of money to keep their illegal gambling operations untouched. He abused power significantly, but did not resist civil rights as many southerners did. Stock # 29,681. Vg/ dj vg.

Emmaus, Pa., Yankee Books, New York :. Hard Cover. x, 390 p., 200 illus., index, 24 cm. More than 1500 quick, cheap and easy hints for every household. PA. Stock# 36,248. Vg/ no dj.

Oxford University Press, 1987. Soft Cover. x, 429 p. Biograhy of Earl Warren, 1891-1974, Republican Governor of California, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Stock#101203. Vg/paperback.

Title continues: "...in the Princeton University Library with an Introductory Sketch of the Development of Early American Book Illustration by Sinclair Hamilton. With a Foreword by Frank Weitenkanpf." xlviii, 265 pages, indexes, plates (Meriden Gravure); 28 cm.; bound in brown linen stamped in gold, clear plastic protective "dust jacket"; ink owner name on first flyleaf; minor shelfwear; Good+. VOLUME I ONLY. Stock#ofc0242.

Portland, Maine, 1933; reprint Martino 1995. Hard Cover. Based on Rosenbach's own collection, this work contains full descriptions of 816 books arranged chronologically. One hundred title-pages and text illustrations are reproduced; there are collations and annotations for each work. The catalog was prepared by Dr. R.'s employee, Millicent Sowerby, who was not credited. 8vo; lix, 354 p., illus.; 21.5 cm.; New in shrinkwrap; no djs as published. 28155x.

Pencil Points, April 1932, Vol. XIII no. 4, pp. 251-264. Periodical. With 16 photos & 3 drawings. Accompanying articles include Functional Aesthetics and the Social Ideal, and An Unusual Alteration Job: The Ann Dunham Cottage on Martha's Vineyard Is Enlarged. Samuel R. T. Very, Architect (pp. 219-226, with 10 drawings & 4 photos). Printed cream wraps; ink owner name, minor wear, plates & parts of pages snipped out (but not from articles listed here); fair. stock#PP03.

New York, Mayflower Books, c1979.. Hard Cover. 160 p., illus., index, 28.5 cm. Series: Antiques magazine library. A Main Street Press Book. Includes reprints of 41 articles from Antiques Magazine that were originally published between 1922 and 1978. Bibliography : p. 157. Stock# 40,193. Vg/ dj good+.

Offprint, pages 124-134, two b/w photos po one plate; 25.5 cm.; stapled in blue printed wraps; edges toned, minor shelfwear; signed to Samuel Hough by the author on the front cover; Good+. Accompanied by two manuscript notes from Beck to Sam Hough plus a photocopy of Beck's talk "The Mystery of the Missing Library" given in Providence RI.

NY, Century Company, 1915. 'Published, October, 1915'. First Edition. Hard Cover. in the Early Development of the Industrial Arts in America, together with sundry Facts and Photographs of Interest and Value to the Collector of Americana. xv, 387 p., index, 73 plates; 21 cm.; bound in green cloth stamped in white, color pictorial front-cover label; minor wear to corners, 'Co.' on bottom of spine partly rubbed away, ink owner's stamp, no dj; VG+. 29519 {Fifi}

N.Y., Dover, c.1972.. Soft Cover. xvi, 147 p. 21.5 x 28.5 cm. An original Dover featuring engravings from trade mgazines, particularly during the post-Civil War era. Stock# 30,250. Vg/ wrappers

Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1953/ 5713. Hard Cover. xxi, 594 p. 21.5 cm. The bulk of the book is on Philadelphia's large and important community. As Charleston and South Carolina generally had been studied, it is treated lightly. The index also contains that for volume one. Stock #29,983. Vg/ no dj.