Search Results: Literature: American from The Owl at the Bridge

4 p.l., 364 p.; 24 cm. The third of seven in Vidal's Narrative of Empire series. "The third volume of Gore Vidal's series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 explores the political scandals of the Grant administration and the intrigues of that year's presidential election." Effusive gift inscription on front fly leaf. Stock#48135.

University Press of New England for Dartmouth College [1989].. Hard Cover. xiv, 242 p.; dj; fine. In Honor of Lionel Trilling; 'Out of It 'ere Night': The WASP Gentleman as Cultural Ideal; Empiricism, Metaphysics, and the Recovery of the Whole; Bloomsday; What the Hell Was Socialism?; Willmoore Kendall: American; Frost and Eliot; In Praise of Chesterton; Homage to C. S. Lewis; Wartime, I: The Nazi Hour; Johnson, Boswell, and Modernity; Herbert's 'The Collar' Re-read; Christ and Apollo: The Modern Debate; Reflections on Pornography; The Ivory Foxhole; Burke and Radical Freedom. 'These essays are tied together by Hart's central vision of a rational moral purpose in Western culture that is in the process of being forgotten.' Stock# 101,104. Literary criticism.

London, Macmillan, 1921. Hard Cover. xx, 436 p., black & white illustrations throughout; 18.5 cm. First published 1832; a chronicle of Irving's visits to Granada in 1828 and 1829. Red cloth stamped in gold, all edges gilt; ; minor wear; VG+. Stock#101147.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1957. Soft Cover. xi, 388 p.; 18 cm. "Anchor A 119." "Cover and typography by Edward Gorey." Anthology in six categories of works by New England writers of the early 1800's. Stock#NEU379. Good+ / soft cover.

"In this complete revision and resetting of the 1948 'Wright I'-- as it is widely known-- 143 new titles have been added. Several hundred new editions of titles previously recorded have been located, eight of them earlier than before recorded. Authorship has been established for other entries, and a few unknown authors and their work have stepped forth from complete obscurity." xviii, 411 pages, chronological index, title index; Very Good in Very Good dust jacket (price clipped). Stock#ofc0346.

N.Y., Harper & Row [1987]. Book club edition. Hard Cover. 'Dillard's ecstatic interest in the world begins here in... an ordinary childhood. What is extraordinary is Dillard's distinctive irony and humor coupled with the power and depth of her probing. This is a sweeping and original book, a classic story of the dawning of an American consciousness.' 214 p., endpaper map; dj, 21.5 cm.; fine. 100818.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday Anchor, 1956. Soft Cover. xi, 346 p., illus., maps; 18 cm. "The Anchor Books edition is the first publication of The American Puritans, edited by Perry Miller." "Cover and typography by Edward Gorey." Good+, my former textbook with pencil underlinings in introduction, some use/ soft cover. Stock#NEU386. Vg / soft cover.

Chicago, Regnery, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. vii, 198 p. 22 cm. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. Inscribed by Brodbeck with a one page letter from her. Her section, the first, is on Philosophy in America. Stock# 44,518. Vg /no dj.

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. Periodical. [viii], 255, [256-266] p., 26 cm. Contains a short play by Eugene O'Neill, a story by Sherwood Anderson, early biographical information on Walt Whitman, and Mencken's collection of American cultural oddities. Stock#47363. Good, covers sunned and worn.

[ix], 562 p.; 19.5 cm. First published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. Emboldened by his 1930 Nobel Prize, Lewis explored areas that tested the limits of censorship of his era. This novel concerns a woman who twice becomes pregnant outside marriage and then becomes a prison reformer --this being the message of Lewis' sermon. Stock#48101.

Providence Public Library [1952]. Hard Cover. 1 leaf, 1-6 leaves, 28.5 cm. "Multilith." With Annual Melville Bibliography 1952-1957, 28 numbered leaves. Stock#44778. Vg / bound typescript.

Durham, NC, Duke UP, [1970] . Hard Cover. xxi, 751 pages 25 cm. Reprint of the 1954 edition. Bibliography of articles from a wide variety of general magazines, literary journals, periodicals of all sorts. The largest portion lists authors, followed by a smaller subject category. Stock #100,875. Vg/good. Reference American literature

NY, Viking, 1943. Hard Cover. xiv, 655 p., illus. (facsim.); 17 cm. Title continues: "and the Merchant Marine. Edited by Alexander Woollcott." Three sections: American Fiction (19 short stories by Poe, Twain, Cather, etc.); American Verse (42 poems including Ogden Nash's scathing "The Japanese"); American Fact (27 documents). Stock#46495. Vg / no dj.

Atlantic Monthly, 2000. Periodical. Singe issue, 136 p., illus. incl. color & adverts.; 26 cm. "Vladimir Nabokov was a distinguished lepidopterist, and butterflies dance among his writings in the form of images and metaphors and as the subject of enchanted scrutiny. We offer a treasury of unpublished work by Nabokov relating to butterflies, including "the last important unpublished fiction"." Other contents include Cullen Murphy, Notes & Comments: A Hand for the Head; Leslie Leyland Fields, Personal File: Our First Telephone; Mary Graham, Government: Regulations by Shaming; poetry by Donald Hall, Robert Pinsky, Steven Cramer; Charles Trueheart, A New Kind of Justice [Louise Arbour & the war-crimes tribunal]; Chuck Sudetic, The Reluctant Gendarme [the French in Bosnia]; David Rieff, Midnight in Sarajevo. Stapled in pictorial paper covers; VG. stock#44871x.

Boston, Little, Brown, 1947. Hard Cover. xxxviii, 682 p.; 23 cm. There are about 50 articles; authors include Mark Twain (2), John Buchan, William James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Lafcadio Hearn, John Muir... Stock#44745. Vg/ dj vg.

NY, Heritage Press [1955]. Hard Cover. xvi, 281 p., halftone illustrations; grey cloth covers, 27 cm., spine stamped in maroon & gold, front- & rear-cover paste-on illustrations; spine slightly darkened; fine; with Sandglass; in black cardboard slipcase only a bit scuffed. Stock# 101,135, American literature; belles lettres.

NY, Random House [1955]. Hard Cover. NY, Random House [1955]. Book club edition. 314 p.; 21.5 cm. Novel of the Civil War period of a daughter of a Kentucy planter raised as well-born white seized into slavery for her father's debts. Stock# 30,487. Good+/dj chipped, good+. American literature.

NY, Harper & Bros. [1945]. "The moving and terrible story of how a Negro boy grew up in the South." Hard Cover. 228 pages; 21.5 cm. Good, lacks dj. Stock#29721.

Copper Beech Press [Providence RI] 1968. Twenty-nine poems, some previously published. "I am rowing with one arm, with the other blowing / kisses to the sharks who slide the toothed / curse of themselves so easy through / these rough seas. I am trying hard to love them; the rapt / thrashings of their feeding orgies..." (title poem). Soft cover; 48 pages; paper; new, gift quality. Stock#25690x/h.

Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928. 'Ninth printing, January, 1928.'. Hard Cover. 235 p., 10 plates; grey cloth covers stamped in green; corners bumped, spine faded, small tear in top of spine; pencil owner's name; withal good. Novel. 'A 235-page speculation on the meaning of a catastrophe.' stock#101315. American literature, fiction