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

Anchor/ Doubleday, NY [1993]. Soft Cover. 5 p.l., 355 p.; 20.5 cm. A novel of an African-American woman in the Gullah-speaking low country of South Carolina. Stock# 31,010. VG/ wrappers.

[Firenze], Libreria Editrice Fiorentina, 1972. Soft Cover. 155 [2], p. illus.; maps, 21cm. During the high Middle Ages the Chianti region was a league of hilltop castles united in co-operative defense. During Dante's era they were brought under the control of Florence and their populations moved to swell thr conquering city. The castles remained and lagely still remain. Bibliography: p. 153-155. Stock# 35,492. Vg/ paper.

Carrara, Nuova Europa, 1963.. Soft Cover. 175 p. , illus., 24 cm. A book on the marble quarries of Carrara, the techniques, and the men who cut and haul the marble. Includes poetry. Stock# 40,206. Stiff boards. Vg/ vg.

Clarendon Press, 1899; unabridged & unaltered re-publication by Dover, NY, 1963. Soft Cover. xxi, 448 pages, charts; 21.5 cm. Series: The Sacred Books of China, Vol. XVI. Paper; VG. stock#100834.

Hard Cover. 244 pages, illustrations; 28.5 cm. Artist/ Illustrator Ken C. Yang. Editor Robin M. Thompson. Includes Consulting the I Ching Oracle; Construction of the Hexagrams; I Ching Prophesizes; Elementary Analysis of Trigrams; Vocabulary; Index & cross reference of subjects. Color pictorial front cover, no dj, as issued; fine. Stock#100236/h.

Time, NY [1965]. Soft Cover. xx, 429 p. Novel told in the first person by the Roman Emperor Claudius (10 B.C.-AD 54). First published in 1934, this edition is notable for the five-page introduction by Graves which the editors of Time commissioned for it. In it, Graves tells, in his self-mocking way, how the novel came to be, and how royalties from it , and the abortive film efforts, supported him for some years. Stock#23202. Vg/ stiff paper covers.

A charming poetic story. The World Cat lists but one copy. 58, [6] pages, 27 color plates, 14 cm. Stock#48083.

Torino & Milano: G. B. Paravia [1912?]. Hard Cover. lvi, 285 pages, [3] leaves of plates; 19 cm. "1a Ristampa"; first pub. 1909. "The Little Flowers of St. Francis is a florilegium (excerpts of his body of work), divided into 53 short chapters, on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi which was composed at the end of the 14th century. The anonymous Italian text, almost certainly by a Tuscan author, is a version of the Latin Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius, of which the earliest extant manuscript is one of 1390 AD. Luke Wadding ascribes the text to Fra. Ugolino da Santa Maria, whose name occurs three times in the Actus"-- Wikipedia. Stock#46887. Vg in faux vellum boards.

Providence, JCB, 1996. Hard Cover. xix, 147 p., illus., 31 cm. Published on the Occasion of the Sesquicentennial of the Founding of The John Carter Brown Library. Seventy scholars who had held fellowships to study at the Library write of a book that was especially helpful in their research. Stock# 30831. Vg/ issued without dj.

Milano, Mondadori [1968]. Hard Cover. 133, [3] pages, illus. incl. color; 22 cm. Series: I Giganti, Nuova Biblioteca per Tutti. A popular illustrated life of the poet. Stock#34321. Vg, decorative boards/ no dj.

Putnam's Sons, NY [c1941]. "Fourth Impression". Hard Cover. A wartime evocation of the island's beauty and history. Ca. 200 p. of photos with text; 26 cm.; pictorial dj chipped, torn, faded across top edge; good. 35210 {ns}.

Clarke, Irwin, Toronto [c1967].. Hard Cover. 138 p. A priest is sent to Kingcome Village, B.C., to live with and learn from the Tsawataineuk tribe. Color pictorial dj chipped, 1-inch closed tear at spine; good+. 28599

New York, Macmillan, 1956. First published in 1939, this 1956 reprint was also issued as volume one of a two-part set entitled Mirror in My House, which had as title for volume two Inishfallen, fare thee well, itself the title of O'Casey's 1949 fourth volume of autobiography. This is the separately issued version. Stock#38329 (cane). Hard Cover. [vii], 294 pages, portrait frontispiece; 21.5 cm. Vg/ no dj.

NY, Macmillan, 1949. "Second Printing". Hard Cover. 294 p., front., 21.5 cm. Twenty-three autobiographical essays by the Irish playwright. Grey cloth boards, spine stamped in green; covers darkened, ink owner name, no dj; good+. 37353.

Facsimile reprint,  Martino 1999. Hard Cover. Three volumes; 8vo: lxviii, 637, 644, 659 pages.  hardcovers; The finest general bibliography of Italian travel books and local guidebooks, based on the author's private collection. First published 1957. Over 5,000 items are described, of which over 3525 are local travel and guidebooks. Arrranged by place name with an author index, full collations, complete transcriptions of title pages, full details on dimensions, pagination and plates. Sheehy (10th ed.) DC393. Stock# 28456x.

N.Y., Doubleday, 1985.. Soft Cover. xvi, 422 p. Including a revised, expanded, and updated version of Lucy & Ricky & Fred & Ethel. From 1951 to 1960 Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were about the biggest personalities in television. Reruns of the series continued their fame for decades more. Vg/softcover. Stock #101,430. Television

Edinburgh, Published by the Earl of Haddington, Printed by Gordon Wilson, 1973. Hard Cover. Signed. 3 p.l., 35 p., illus., 19 cm. With drawings by Willy McLaren. First published 1970; reprinted 1973. Stock# 35,304. Vg/ no dj.

N.Y., Knickerbocker Press, 1999. Soft Cover. 112p., illus., 36 cm. Born in Shaghai, trained at MIT and Harvard, I.M. Pei designed some of the most interesting buildings in the United States, China, Singapore, and the Louvre, Paris. Stock# 31,844. Fine/ wrappers.

[Milano], Mondadori, [1964] . Hard Cover. 249 pages, 19 cm. Biblioteca Moderna Mondadori 288. In Italian. First published in 1881, this portrays the harsh life of a family of Sicilian fishermen. Stock# 34,157. Vg/ no dj. Italian literature.

Forlaget af 1939; Köbenhavn, MCMXLII [1942, H. P. Hansen]. Oversat af Gunnar Juel Jórgensen. In Danish. In My Father's House, first published in 1941, was Mississippi-born author Street's second work in book form; The Biscuit Eater appeared in Saturday Evening Post. I can't read Danish but I bet this is autobiographical. Soft Cover. 376 pages. Color pictorial dj chipped; VG. stock#21243 {gb}.