Search Results: Literature: U.S. from The Owl at the Bridge

Boston, Gambit, 1973.. Hard Cover. xv, 286 p., index. 'Advances a thesis that the myth of a new wonderland as described in ancient books now unread is an illusion that survives strongly in American thinking and writing today.' Stock #100,879, Vg/ dj vg. America History Literature

"Strains of a familiar America echo in the 6,175 titles of this bibliography encompassing a brilliant quarter century of fiction writing. The diversity... affords a panorama of the United States rising out of the shadows of the Civil War as a modern industrial power." xix, 683 pages, title index; Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#ofc0348.

Single issue. Contents: The Catacombs of Rome; Three of Us; What a Wretched Woman Said to Me; Songs of the Sea; The Kinloch Estate & How it Was Settled; A Perilous Bivouac; November-April; The Gaucho; Mademoiselle's Campaigns; The Swan-Song of Parson Avery; The Denslow Palace; Myrtle Flowers; Chesuncook; The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table; The American Tract-Society; Note to the Catacombs of Rome; Literary Notices. Covers detached, cover edges largely chipped away, ink blots; textblock stitching remains firm; most of spine label remains; Fair. Stock#ofc0423.

Gallimaufry, Arlington, Va., 1978. "First edition. First printing: April 1978". Issue Number 12 of "Gallimaufry Journal", published in a limited edition of 1500. An anthology of Virginia fiction. Contributors: Mignon Holland Anderson, Ann Beattie, Laura Chassy, Kelly Cherry, Dick Dabney, R. H. W. Dillard, Garrett Epps, Nancy Hale, Robert Hazel, Joseph Maiolo, Philip Pierson, Maura Stanton, Gary Stein, William White, Allen Wier. Soft Cover. 191 pages, illus., 23 cm. Paper; minor wear; good+. Stock#34904.

Two bookseller catalogues: 27, 731 items, a few illus.; 68, 734 items. Paper covers; Good+. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0303.

Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1966. Contents: The Amateur Emigrant: From the Clyde to Sandy Hook; Across the Plains; The Old and New Pacific Capitals; The Silverado Squatters. Stevenson's 12,000-mile trip to California in 1879-1880. Stock#44212. Hard Cover. li, 287 pages, illus., portrait; 22 cm. Vg, bookplate of previous owner / dj vg.

Contributors include Truman, Hamburger, Devoto, Auden, Lynes, Roosevelt, West, Viereck, Porter, Kouwenhoven, Davis, Langewiesche, Faulkner, Johnson, Burlingame, Mann, Grattan, Rovere. Rough condition, ex-RISD Library: front cover & 2d page detached, edges torn & chipped; rear cover half torn off, ditto next-to-last page; spine repaired with black tape; a few internal pages have closed tears; text complete, edges browned, still readable. Protected in folding case of medium-stiff board with velcro closures. Withal good. Stock#ofc0488.

Indiana UP [c1993]. series: Everywoman: Studies in History, Literature, and Culture. Hard Cover. xviii, 263 p., index, 16 b/w text figures, 16 color plates; 24 cm. "Artist Ethel Schwabacher, an abstract expressionist and member of the group exhibited at the Betty Parsons Gallery, kept journals from 1967 to 1980, the last thirteen years of her working life. Her art had spanned the great period of twentieth-century ferment, from surrealism through abstract expressionism and into the brief flowering of women's figuration that coincided with the early years of the feminism of the seventies. This journal takes the reader into the artist's mind when she was at the height of her powers." Color dj; VG+. stock#34519.

Autobiographical Accounts of the Early Italian Immigrants; The Emergence of the Italian-American Novel; Contemporary Italian-American Novelists; Bibliography, Index. 415 pages; dust jacket scuffed; Good+. Stock#ofc0358.

Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1927. Rudyard Kiplings Vörker. Kipling's Jungle Book translated into Danish. Anthropomorphic fables, some featuring Mowgli, and including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Toomai of the Elephants. 'Autoriseret oversëttelse for Danmark og Norge ved A. Halling. Versene oversat af Kai Friis-Möller. Tiende Oplag...' Hard Cover. 272 pages. Blue cloth stamped in gold, edges marbled; ink owner name; VG. stock#21251 {gb}.

Published by Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1940. Periodical. Includes Klaus Mann, Karl May: Hitler's Literary Mentor; Charles Weir, Jr., Nothing but Maps (poem); Literature and the Professors. A Symposium (Cleanth Brooks, Jr., Literary History vs. Criticism; Arthur Mizener, Scholars as Critics; Sidney Cox, If We Care Enough; Hade Saunders, The Graduate Student in English; Lionel Trilling, Literature and Power); Marguerite Young, poems (Earth's History; Death by Rarity); Virgil C. Aldrich, The Ivory Tower on Wheels; William Empson, Basic English and Wordsworth (A Radio Talk); Theodore Spencer, poems (Two of a Kind; A Reason for Writing; The Widow); Rice, George Santayana: The Philosopher as Poet; Index to Vol. II. [384]-512 pages; paper covers printed in orange & black; VG+. Stock#100801.

278 pages, frontispiece engraving; lacks backstrip, front cover detached, 1st signature loose; a fair copy. Stock##ofc0023.

Contents: Poetry: Joshua Epstein, Please Do Not Smoke; Chester Kuhn, Moon Riffle on Flowing River; Mary Butts, Two Poems; Norman Lewis Dodge, Portrait of Eighty Years; Yvor Winters, Nocturne; Prose: g a p, Gesture; Henry de Montherlant, Peyrony; Book Reviews (5); Lorente, Curious Books; Henri Pauens, On A Funeral For A Few Sticks. 32 pages; 26.5 cm.; dark-blue printed wraps; minor edgewear; Good+. Stock#ofc0186cx.

Three volumes: I: The Colonies, The Republic, The Democracy, Literary Fulfillment, Crisis; xx, 636 pages; II: Expansion, The Sections, The Continental Nation, The United States, A World Literature, Table of Authors, Index; vi, 639-1422 pages; III: Bibliography; xxii, 817 pages, index. Boxed set; dust-jacket spines cracked & chipped; box worn, ink owner name; withal Very Good. Stock#ofc0387.

N.Y., Harcourt Brace [c1930]. Vol. I, 1620-1800, The Colonial Mind; Vol. 2, 1800-1860, Romantic Revolution; Vol. 3, 1860-1920, Beginnings of Critical Realism. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, this classic had reached 1900 when the author died. Hard Cover. Three volumes in one: xvii, 413; xxii, 493; xxxix, 429 pages. Vg/dj good+, frayed, some tears. Stock#101550.

Newport Review, Middletown, R.I., 1997. Soft Cover. Oblong 4to, 122 p., illus., adverts. at end; 21 cm. 32 poems, 6 short stories, 5 photos, 15 illustrations, one interview, 7 prose vignettes, one drama, 13 essays. Pictorial paper covers; minor wear; VG. stock#40843.

NY, New Directions [1956]. Offset from the 1926 edition with the addition of two appendices. The dust jacket has the advertisement for Section: Rock-Drill. "The second impression (3340 copies) of this offset edition." GallupA27b note. Hard Cover. 7 p. l., 273 pages, portrait front.; 22 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#42640.

Catalogue of 100 items representative of Frost's printed works, which formed a traveling exhibit, May through December of 1974, at Princeton University Library and others, commemorating the centennial of Frost's birth. Includes index. Hardcover; viii, 104 pages, facsimiles; 25 cm.; Very Good, dj corners slightly worn, VG. Stock#48185.

Avenel Books, NY [1985]. Hard Cover. 'Previously titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentleman.' 'The Preface to the Revised Edition and Publisher's Note which appeared in the original 1863 edition have not been reproduced here... Furthermore, there are racial references and language in this book which may be offensive to the modern reader.' 506 pages, illustrations throughout; maroon covers stamped in gold, 23 cm.; ink owner name, else near fine. Stock#101144.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday Anchor Books, 1954. Soft Cover. 280 p.; 18 cm. "This is the story of a girl whose parents have just been divorced. We watch, through her eyes, as her parents pursue their separate lives with different lovers-- all the while competing for her affection and approval, and attempting... to justify themselves to her, and to win her away from the opposite parent. In this chaotic world of parents and lovers, Maisie emerges as the only stable figure, growing in understanding and moral sense as the adults around her decline." Pictorial paper cover illustration by Edward Gorey. Good+. Stock#26770.