Search Results: Fiction: Old & Rare from The Owl at the Bridge

Articles on the transfer of Icelandic manuscripts from Denmark to Iceland (page 5); "Western Book Roundup" (pages 6, 34-37) by "The Old Bookaroos"; "Des Esseinte's Library", an imagined fiction of a Huysman novel (pages 7-11); "Edmund Gorey, an American Gothic," by Thomas McDade (pages 12-17). McDade on Gorey is rare and desirable; includes bibliography and illustrations.40 pages, illustrated, 28 cm. Stapled; Good+. Stock#48209.

Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1867 / New York, Brooklyn, Wm. W. Swayne. Soft Cover. Waverley Novels. Vol. 1 no. 7, pp. 962-1078; 23 cm. Copyright edition of the Waverley Novels. This copy has tipped in a sheet (18 x 9.5 cm) "Imported by Wm W. Swayne, sole agent in the United States," bookseller of New York and Brooklyn, "Cheap English Books for the Millions". Signature of original owner Albert H. Arrulin? Worn, old ink stain along edge of illustrated paper covers; good. Stock#OB833.

NY, American News, 1891. Hard Cover. 239 p.; 19.5 cm. Wright, American fiction 3 (1876-1900) #5026. Novel set in the Hudson Valley; the author lived in Troy, New York. Very Good; no dust jacket. Stock#47467.

NY: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1907. Hard Cover. 5 leaves, 342 p., front.; 19 cm. Sixth Printing. "The germ from which the yarn of ʻMr. Pratt’ developed was contained in a short story by the author, which appeared in ʻEverybody’s Magazine’." (5th p.l.) An early Lincoln novel in very good condition. Vg / no dj. Stock#47981.

Boston & NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1930. The last novel of the American-born British writer. "Her novels explored the contrast in values between Americans and Europeans." Hard Cover. [iv], 545 pages; 19 cm. VG; gold lettering on front intact though completely faded from the spine / no dj. Stock#NS0318.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. First published 1896 (cf. Wright III: 4851). Winner of the $3000 novelette prize of the New York Herald competition in 1895 (see note, page [vii]). Illustrated with 42 line cuts by Dutch-American cartoonist Gustave Verbeek. Hard Cover. 194 pages incl. frontispiece, illus.; 18 cm. Good+, covers soiled. Stock#NS0312 [ns312].