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

New York, Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4 p.l., 279 pages; 21 cm. Updike's thirteenth novel takes the form of letters and tapes. Concerns Sarah Worth, a latterday Hester Prynne. Stock #29,245x. Another copy is Book-of-the-Month Club. VG/ dj vg.

Silkworm Books [2000; Chiang Mai, Thailand]. Soft Cover. xviii, 134 p.; 19.5 cm. Selected works of 11 contemporary Thai writers who have won prizes in various categories in the prestigious Southeast Asian Writers Award, known as the S.E.A. Write: Anchan, Angkarn Kalayanapong, Chiranan Pitpreecha, Khomthuan Khanthanu, Naowarat Pongpaiboon, Phaithun Thanya, Phaiwarin Khao-ngam, Saksiri Meesomsueb, Sila Khomchai, Ussiri Thammachot, Vanich Charungkij-anant. Green stiff-paper covers; minor wear, two price-labels on rear; VG. stock#40834.

Article in Books at Brown vol. 28, 1981, pages 1-58. "Although the handwriting was such as to discourage approach, when... effort was made the reward was a series of insights into the experience and nature of that many-sided man... Foster Damon has made available to us here a self-portrait both fascinating and engaging." Periodical; paper wraps; Fine. Stock#100260/h.

Johnson, Fry & Co. Publishers, New York, 1863. Engraved plate from book, 19.2 x 14.2 cm. on sheet 28.5 x 22 cm. Portrait of Chase (1808-1873), American politician and jurist who originated the national banking system; was put forward as a presidential candidate in place of Lincoln, and was chief justice 1864-1873. This portrait shows him seated in chair facing slightly to viewer's left, hand on slant-top desk holds pen, papers on chair seat in front of him, ornate fireplace behind. Three stab marks in left edge, light soiling; good. stock#32390 {mvo}.

Dover, NY [1988]. Soft Cover. xii, 249 p., index, illus.; 21.5 cm. The successful [trans-Atlantic] voyage of the S. S. Savannah [in 1819] marked the beginning of a new maritime epoch... in which ocean-going vessels were no longer dependent on the vagaries of wind and tide. Her maiden voyage to Europe and Russia astonished the world. …the Savannah definitively established the feasibility of oceanic steam travel.' Stock# 39,321Fine, color pictorial paper covers; new from the publisher..

Roma, Biblioteca Casanatense, 1974.. Soft Cover. 82 p., 10 plates (one color). Exhibition catalog of 258 manuscripts and printed books by and about Saint Thomas Aquinas on the 700th anniversary of his death. Stock#101234. Vg/ illustrated wrappers.

Stroud, Sutton, 2000. Hard Cover. 224 p., illus., col.maps, ports., index, 27 cm, Campaigns of the Armored troops of the SS, the Waffenschutzstaffel, on the Eastern Front in fighting the Soviets in World War II, after Stalingrad, and continual retreat. Stock# 39,983. Fine/ dj fine.

New York : Viking, 2007.. Hard Cover. [xiii], 433 p., [16] p. of plates, illus., index, 23.5 cm. "Unwinds a gripping tale that opens with anarchist bombs going off in a posh Washington, D.C., neighborhood and concludes with worldwide outrage over the execution of the “good shoemaker” and the “poor fish peddler.” Sacco and Vanzetti mines deep archives and new sources, unveiling fresh details about these naïve dreamers and militant revolutionaries. This case still haunts the American imagination." Bibliography (p. [413]-421). Stock# 43,823x. Vg/ remainder slash on bottom / dj vg.

New York : Penguin Press, 2006.. Hard Cover. xii, 384 p. , index, 24 cm. Title continues: "by a man named Silvio Berlusconi / Alexander Stille." Reports on the outrageous abuses of power by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Bbibliography (p.[367]-371).Stock# 43,792. Vg / no dj.

HarperSanFrancisco [c1995]. "First Edition". First Edition. Hard Cover. 495, [1] p., 24 cm. "Boldly asserting that the war between the sexes is not inevitable, Eisler offers a passionate vision of a future when sex and spirituality are once again entwined and men and women face each other as equal partners." Contents include From Ritual to Romance: Sexuality, Spirituality, and Society; Animal Rites and Human Choices: The Roots of Dominator and Partnership Sex; Sex as Sacrament: The Divine Gifts of Life, Love, and Pleasure; From Eros to Chaos: Sex and Violence; The Reign of the Phallus: War, Economics, Morality, and Sex; The LAst Traces of the Sacred Marriage: Mysticism, Masochism, and the Human Need for Love; Waking from the Dominator Trance: The Revolution in Consciousness and the Sexual Revolution; Sex, Gender, and Transformation: From Scoring to Caring; Getting Out of Prince Charming's Slipper: Sex, Femininity, and Power; Sex, Power, and Choice: Redefining Politics and… Read More

London, 1835/ N.Y., Burt Franklin, 1969. Hard Cover. 2 vols. xxxii, 351; xxviii, 399p. 18.5 cm. "With copious selewctions from Spenser, Davis, Sandys, P. Fletcher, Wither, Bishop King, Quarles, Herbert, Milton." Stock# 32,898. Vg/ no dj as issued.

Boston: Beacon Press, c1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. xii, 233 p., maps, index; 23 cm. "Places the 1813-1814 revolt of the poeple who were called 'Creek Indians' in the context of world history while forsaking nothing of the texture of their own culture." Bibliographical references Included in Notes, pp. [187]-226. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#43533.

Paris, Editions du Seuil [1971]. Coll. Tel Quel. First Edition. Soft Cover. 187, [4] pages, First edition. French literary critic and the major theorist of semiology, Barthes applied his linguistic theories to clichés of national culture and the work of individual writers. His three subjects are brought together here because all were classifiers of language: the language of erotic pleasure, of social happiness, and of devotion to the divine. Paper; VG. Stock#22036.

N.Y., Stewart, Tabort & Chang, 1998. A beautifully photographed description of how rich white folk lived in East Africa, with lots of nostalgia for the good old colonial days. Hard Cover. 216 pages, illus., 26.5 cm. Vg/ no dj. Stock#29120.

Austin, TX, Pemberton Press, 1981. Soft Cover. [12] p., 22 cm. Boston born Samuel Bangs was the first printer in Texas where he operated numerous presses. His is a story of fighting obstacles and usually losing. "Limited to 450 copies." With the Jenkins' Christmas slip. Stock# 34,731,

Firenze, La Nuova Italia [1980]. Soft Cover. Pubblicazioni del ”Centro di Studi del Pensiero Filosofico del Cinquecento e del Seicento in Relazione ai Problemi della Scienza” del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Serie I, Studi, 17. 390 p., index; 24 cm.Stock# 34,553. paper; VG. 16th-century Italian philosophy & scientific thought.

Firenze, Ronchi, 1825. Soft Cover. xxvii, 336, [3] pages. Includes works of Dante, Antonio da Ferrara, Franco Sacchetti, Luigi Pulci, Angiolo Poliziano, Feo Belcari, Francesco Berni, Il Lasca, "Canti Carnescialeschi di diversi Autori", Bernardo Davanzati, Gio. Batt. Strozzi il vecchio, Franc. Baldovini. Deesi questa... pubblicazione al dottor Luigi Rigoli-Zambrini, Le Opere Volgari a Stampa dei Secoli XIII e XIV. 4 ed., col. 905. Original brown paper wraps, chipped; paper spine label; bottom outer corner dampstained through last few signatures. Stock#OB037.

"Prospetto dell' opera" (general headings) includes Storia ecclesiastica, Storia politica e civile, Storia genealogica e biografica, Storia letteraria, Storia di belle arti e antichità, Storia scientifica. Facsimile reprint of the Venezia, 1847 edition. Two volumes; 26 cm. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth, gold spine lettering; slight shelfwear; near fine. Stock#ofc0754 + 24511.

"La presente bibliografia è tratta dal volume del Prof. Alessandro d'Ancona L'Italia alla fine del Secolo XVI. Giornale del viaggio di Michele De Montaigne in Italia nel 1580 e 1581 (Città di Castello, S. Papi, 1889), del quale costituisce l'Appendice. Riteniamo di aver fatto cosa utile agli Studiosi, ai Librai, ai Bibliofili, ripubblicando questo lavoro di grande interesse ed importanza, rimasto senza quella notorietà che avrebbe meritato." Number 266 of 400 printed. Paper; 142 p.; roughly opened; as new. Stock#ofc0095.

Padova, CEDAM, 1953. Soft Cover. xxiv, 210 p.; 26 cm.. Università di Padova. Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia, v. 28. 904 entries, well indexed, of books and articles about dialects and slang of the Italian peninsula. Stock#47997. Vg / soft cover.