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

"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.

"This comprehensive guide to a significant quarter century of American fiction is here reissued with a 24-page section of additions and corrections appended." "American thought and feeling are reflected graphically in the fiction of this period. Authors deal with momentous issues... the formative years of realism in American fiction..." xviii, 438 pages, title indexes; Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#ofc0347.

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, Stein & Day, c1963. First Edition. Written as a screenplay. Dylan Thomas adapted one of Robert Louis Stevenson's best short stories-- Heart of Darkness, set in the South Seas-- for a film that was never produced. Stock#32428. Hard Cover. 126 pages; 22 cm. Vg/ dj vg.

London, Picador/ Chatto & Windus [1988]. Soft Cover. 275 p.; 17.5 cm. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, 1988. Stock#30194 (sag). Good+/ paper.

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

"In South Africa, where blacks and whites are caught in the winds of change, a young woman tries to uphold the radical heritage she received from her martyred parents while carving out a sense of self." 361 pages, 22 cm. Good+, text vg, binding used. Stock#48164.

NY, Random House [1967]. Hard Cover. 428, [1] p.; 21.5 cm. Written at the height of the Civil Rights movement in the U.S., this novel tells of an actual 1830's slave rebellion from the leader's point of view. Stock# 33,369. Vg, book club/ dj vg. American literature

.Philadelphia, Lippincott [1952].. Hard Cover. Book club edition. 185 p.; Good+/dj ragged & tired;.. 'A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery.' American literature; mystery; fiction.

Set in Manhattan on Christmas Eve; '...the fastest, funniest twenty-four hours ever packed into one novel.' Hardcover. 302 pages; dj has closed tear at rear of spine; Very Good. Stock#27170/h.

NY, Ballantine [1965].. Soft Cover. "First Ballantine Printing, May 1965." 254 p.; 17 short stories. Copyright 1957. SAG. Stock #29952. Good+/ wrappers. English literature.

A novel, part of the three-volume Scenes from Provincial Life series. A Swedish gymnastics teacher becomes a slumlord and is killed by a mob of his tenants. viii, 411 p. 20 cm. Stock#48121.

vii, 422 p.; 22 cm. Translation of Joseph der Ernährer. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Fictionalized life of Joseph, son of Jacob, from his imprisonment in Egypt through his rise to power, to his death. The fourth in the series. Stock#48097.

Harper's Franklin Square Library. Number 570. Thousands of young Americans first encountered Stevenson's adventure tales through this paper's series of adaptations, yet the only copy known to WorldCat/OCLC is at Yale. Hard cover; 88 pages plus four leaves of publisher's advertisements at end (the last one, pasted down, has a closed tear); 29 cm. Bookplate, "Library of Invincible Lodge, I. O. G. T. East Sumner, Me." pasted at top of title-page; heavy brown paper folded & pasted over the original paper boards. Spine chipping, fragile but holding. Stock#OB1025.

Penguin Books [1987]. Soft Cover. 153 p.; 20 cm. 'Oilei Bomboki wakes one morning with a pain in his… His wife can't help him, nor can the village policeman. Not even Bulbul Bohut knows the remedy when his best friend is stabbed from behind. Oilei Bomboki will try anything. But to try everything takes more than faith… Readers of 'Tales of the Tikongs' will recognise here the same inimitable voice. By turns savage and screamingly funny, Epeli Hau'ofa weaves an excruciating tale of improbabilities round the seat of the last great taboo.' Stock# 39,288. Fine/ color pictorial paper covers (illustration by Sue Reidy). South Pacific literature, fiction.

Pantheon Books, NY  series: Pantheon Modern Writers. "First American Edition". Soft Cover. 246 pages, 20.5 cm. "A Somali youth is torn between duty to family and country. On the one hand Askar, an orphan, should look after his foster mother, on the other he wants to be a man and emulate his father who died fighting the Ethiopians." The first of 3 in the Blood in the Sun trilogy.. ISBN (10): 0394755480. Pictorial paper covers; VG. Stock#38372.

N.Y., Doubleday, 1977. Hard Cover. . 182 p.; color pictorial dj illustration by Paul Gamarello; dj chipped, worn, bookplate; good. 'A mysterious assassin has already killed four vital international figures, and all that's known of him is his code name, Aristotle, until Carstairs of the CIA intercepts a message implying that the man has a rendezvous on a safari in Zambia. What could be more reasonable than that Carstairs send Mrs. Pollifax…' Stock#26,017. Contemporary American literature, fiction, mystery.

"This novel is a study of a timid elderly spinster exploited and eventually frightened to death by a predatory widow." 305 pages; 20 cm. Stock#48120.

N.Y., Modern Library, [195?].. Hard Cover. vii, 557 p. Novel set in Chicago. Dreiser's foreword tells of his tribulations in getting it published. Stock #100,926. Good, some ink underlining/ no dj. American literature.

Coward-McCann, NY [1946]. Hard Cover. Book club dot on rear cover. 243 p.; blue cloth covers stamped in gold; slight wear, front cover has tiny spots; good+. With BOMC flyer. Novel of a September New England hurricane from several points of view. Stock#101148. 20th century American literature, fiction.