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

Cambridge, Mass., Martino [1992]. Hard Cover. Quarto; two volumes: xxxiii, 399; viii, 195 pages, illus.; 29 cm. Reprint of the Berkeley, 1951 edition. Michael Sadleir attained distinction as director of the publishing firm of Constable, as diplomat and member of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, as novelist (best known for "Fanny by Gaslight"), and as biographer, bibliographer, and collector of Trollope. Sadleir's superb collection of Victorian fiction, still the crown jewel of the UCLA Department of Special Collections, was published as a catalogue in 1951. Breslauer & Folter 165; Besterman 2159. The fundamental bibliography for Regency and Victorian fiction. Maroon cloth; no dj, as issued; new in shrinkwrap; Fine. Stock#22472.

London : Caxton Pub. Co., 1914. Hard Cover. x, 564 p. :31 illus. (12 color) , ports., maps (1 fold.) ; index, 31 cm. Published the year The Great War broke out making cavalry such as the Hussars obsolete. Stock# 45,124. Good+, some wear to spine, some color pictures of horsemen pasted in front matter.

Westport, CT, Lawrence Hill, 1983. Novel, translated from the French by Clive Wake. Set in Senegal, "it is the story of El Hadji Abdou Kader Beye, a rich businessman struck by what he believes to be a curse of impotence ("xala" in Wolof) on the night of his wedding to his beautiful, young, third wife." Soft Cover. 103 pages; 21.5 cm. Vg/ paper. Stock#34088.