Search Results: Biography: Writers from The Owl at the Bridge

London, Phoenix, 1999. Soft Cover. xiv, 369 p., illus., 23.5 cm. Biography of the British military writer and theorist. A casulty of WWI trenches, Liddell Hart argued for armored, fast moving armies. The Germans and, eventually, Americans took him up on it. He believed in the "indirect approach" and much of this revealing book is indirect (we learn that his 1970 holiday wih Montgomery was the last, but of previous?). The most substantial revelation is LH's manipulation of the German generals he admired and whose admiration of him he, an alchemist, turned from common metal into gold. Stock #29,416. Vg/ wrappers.

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1962. Hard Cover. 414 p., illus.; 22 cm. Selected and edited by Hanna Kiel. Introduction by John Walker. Preface by Nicky Mariano. Stock#46860. Vg /dj vg.

"...expands the boundaries of what is conventionally recognized as 17th-century English literature by uncovering, reintroducing and documenting the lives and works of more than 550 English women who wrote between 1580 and 1720... contains an informative introduction and helpful theoretical apparatus in the form of seven analytical appendices." xxvi, 298 pages; 23.5 cm. Fine in Fine dust jacket; As New. Stock#ofc0895.

NY, Knopf, 1955. Hard Cover. xiii, 404, x p., port.; 25 cm. Adams believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial activities. As their desire for wealth grows, they discard spiritual and creative values. Good+, some underlining by Professor Charles Neu. Stock#NEU164.

"First edition 1964." Revised and enlarged 1966." xviii, 186 pages; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161). ex-Brown University Library (where it was copy 3), very good with bookplate and stamps. Stock#48175.

NY, Atheneum, 1972. Hard Cover. xiv, 360 p., illus.; 25 cm. A very nice effort to enlighten Thurber's writing--and drawings-- through his life, his insecurities, his difficult marriage, his blindness. ISBN (10): 0689705743. Good+, seems to be ex-library with discard stamp on front fly & signs of removed date-due sheet at end but otherwise very nice / dj vg in wrapper. Stock#47704.

Doubleday, NY, 1950. Hard Cover. 340 p., plates. Fanny Burney (Frances, Mme d'Arblay), 1752-1840, wrote novels popular in 19th-century England. Good+/ no dj. Stock#100942.

Knopf, NY, 1973.. Hard Cover. xi, 198, viii p.; 21.5 cm. Dorothy Richardson, 1873-1957, wrote books now recognized as landmarks of interior fiction. Stock #29834. dj worn

Boston & NY, Houghton Mifflin ['Published September 1918']. 'Copyright, 1918, by the Massachusetts Historical Society'. Appears to be a variant of BAL 39. Hard Cover. x, 519 pages, index; 24.5 cm. Navy cloth, top edge gilt; spine chipped, minor wear, no dj; pencil owner name; good+. stock#23195/h.

Random House, NY, 1937.. Hard Cover. 370 p., plates; 22.5 cm. Stock# 33,370. Reading copy only. Paper brittle preliminary pages detached

Harmondsworth : Penguin, [1977 c1975]. Soft Cover. 618, [1] p, 18 cm. Series: Penguin literary biographies. Biography of English Catholic novelist Evelyn Waugh, 1903-1966. PA. Stock# 37,024. Good+/ paper.

N.Y., Beaufort, 1986. Hard Cover. 266 p., plates; 23.5 cm. Biography of the writer whose newspaper column was widely read, and who became a key figure in the Algonquin Round Table. Stock#29415. Vg/ dj vg.

190 pages. Part of the publisher's series "Famous Biographies for Young People"; includes brief bios and excerpts of the writings of James Thurber, Robert Benchley, Ogden Nash, Cornelia Otis Skinner, others. Ex-library with discard stamp. Stock#ofc0077.

"This book is the story of the founding era of medieval studies from 1895 to about 1965, through the lives, works, and ideas of the great medievalists, and is an evaluation of their continuing impact, into the 1980s, on how the European Middle Ages are interpreted." 477 pages; index; 24 cm. Color pictorial dust jacket; Near Fine. Stock#ofc0598.

London, Cardinal, 1973. Soft Cover. 287 p., illus., 19.5 cm. Classic biography first published in 1938. Austen's life is reflected in her characters and stories. Stock#34,340. Good/ paper.

302 pages. As new, owner inscription on flyleaf, dj has small strip of clear tape at bottom left of rear side. Stock#ofc0069.

N.Y., Simon and Schuster, 1988. Soft Cover. 397 p. illus., 22.5 cm. Novelist, short-story writer, Many of the early letters are from his Army service in World War II. His opinion of John Updike elevates him in my view. Stock# 30,486. Vg/ wrappers.

N.Y., Ungar, 1981. Hard Cover. ix, 278 p. 20.5 cm. Shoben is a clinical and consulting psychologist and he approaches Trilling from that perspective, one the subject himself was deeply commited to. Stock# 30,856. Vg, except in production the sheets for pp. 5-8 were misaligned and text was cut from the bottom. / dj vg.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1967.. Hard Cover. xxii, 356 p., index, bibliography, partial list of plays & roles, photos; 23.5 cm. Biography of the great French actress by the American actress and humorous writer. Book club edition. Stock #29,413x. Good+/ dj chipped. Another copy vg/ no dj. Entertainment; Women; Theater.

NY, St. Martin's Press [1988]. Hard Cover. xvi, 430 p.[16] pages of plates, 24 cm. Biography of Mary McCarthy, 1912-1989, novelist, editor, essayist. Stock #29,741. VG/ dj vg.