Search Results: Authors starting with G from The Owl at the Bridge

London, John Danter, 1595; Oxford, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908. Hard Cover. ix, 3 facsimiles on 3 plates, [44] p.; 22 cm. Reprinted from STC 19545: "The Old Wiues Tale. A pleasant conceited Comedie, played by the Queenes Maiesties players. Written by G. P." "This reprint of the Old Wives Tale has been prepared by W. W. Greg." "The play [in prose] is a satire on the romance comedies of the time, the first English work of the kind.” Linen spine; unopened, paper darkened; VG. Stock #25031.

Privately printed [Newport, R.I.] 1916 (Boston: Merrymount Press). Soft Cover. 23 p.; 22 cm. Prefatory note signed and dated: G. G. K. Newport, R.I. January 1, 1916. Smith, Merrymount Press 458. Printed wrappers; very good. Stock#OB890.

Greenwich, Conn., New York Graphic Society [1971 c1970]. First Edition. Hard Cover. 208 p., 216 illus. (21 col.) ; index, 25.5 cm. New Aspects of Arts series. "Second Printing." "Texts by Magritte": p. 194-195. Freitag 5873. Stock# 43,813. Vg / dj good+.Bibliography: p. 198-199

NY, Bell/Universe [1972].. Hard Cover. 271 p., index, illus. incl. 52 color; 31 cm. Introduction by Joan Nicholson. Nude and provocative posters-- photography and drawing. Stock #29,449. VG/ no dj.

Harrisburg, Stackpole, 1950. Hard Cover. xxix, 698 p., illus.; 28.5 cm. ‘Here it all is: everything that every fisherman ever needs to know about fishing. Here are the game-fish themselves, equipment and methods of angling…’ Vg/no dj. 101789.

Argues that "many forces-- domestic politics, bureaucratic inertia, quirks of personality, perceptions, accurate or inaccurate, of Soviet intentions" affected Washington policymakers. Won the Bancroft Prize. ix, [5], 396 pages 23 cm. Stock#Neu429.

Soft Cover. 266 pages, index, illustrations. Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), art theorist, architect, student of Latin texts, cartographer, cryptographer, mathematician, and the first to systematize the rules of painters' perspective. He wrote on the family and wrote venacular verse in Latin forms. Gadol captures the variety of this remarkable Renaissance man. This book "embodied the theme of her life's work: the interrelationship of ideology and economic and political forces." Very Good, slightly shelfworn; softcover. Stock#23281/h.

London, Aquarian Press, 1995. "A richly illustrated testament to the reemergence of the Goddess in the art and in the lives of contemporary women and men." Soft Cover. xv, 405, [2] pages, illustrations; 23.5 cm. New from publisher; fine. Stock#101423x.

Leipzig, L. Staadtmann Verlag, 1925. VOLUME ONE ONLY (of two). Novel by an author of tales set in nature. Hard Cover. 460 pages; 19 cm. Vg/dj good. Stock#28655.

Lexington, University of Kentucky UP, 1969. Hard Cover. xiii, 338 p. ”This analysis of the peasant's image provides a significant commentary on an aspect of German social history” Stock #100,745. Vg/vg. German History Agriculture

[Port-au-Prince?] Editions de l'An 2000, 1972. First Edition. "Ces textes ont paru dans le journal 'Panorama' en 1967 et 1968." Soft Cover. 320 pages; 21 cm. Author's inscription to Florence and Raphael Urciolo. Very Good. Stock#47177.

Privately Printed, New York, 1953. 'Copyright 1953, by Georgia Willis Read.'. Soft Cover. 'Printed in the United States by Columbia University Press.' 144 p., index, 12 plates (11 folding; 11 color); bound in brown patterned paper, brown linen spine, paper spine label; a little edge-wear, faint foxing on endpapers, else fine. 'Two hundred copies only of this book have been printed of which this is number 51. Monotype Bembo was used for the setting of the type. The book was printed on Arches No. 293. The illustrations were printed by collotype. Typography and production were supervised by Melvin Loos.' Ruth Gaines' father, the Rev. Marshall R. Gaines, was appointed missionary to Japan in 1884, when 'Japan was learning, desperately learning, the present as interpreted by the West. Her existence depended on this education, and from all the great nations she called her teachers, German, French, British and American. Of this company were our parents, teachers in… Read More

Firenze, Olschki, MCMLXI [1961]. Soft Cover. 241 p., 11 plates (one color), index; 21.5 cm. Series: Biblioteca di "Lares", Organo della Società di Etnografia Italiana e dell' Istituto di Storia delle Tradizioni Popolari dell'Università di Roma, Vol VII. Folklore, dress, children's games, a gathering of notices on popular culture and daily life in Abruzzo. In Italian. Contents: Le tradizioni popolari d'Abruzzo attraverso le opere degli scrittori stranieri; La tradizioni popolari dell' Abruzzo e del Molise nel "Regno delle Due Sicilie descritto ed illustrato" di Filippo Cirelli (1853); Antichi costumi popolari (Castel di Sangro, Scanno, Atri, Sepino); La "pupa" di Casalincontrada (Chieti); Giochi dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza a Sant'Elia a Pianisi (Campobasso). Paper; VG. Stock#32680.

Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 1989. Hard Cover. 191 p., illus. (some color); 22 cm. Translation of Before Photography. "L'edizione originale di questo libro è stato pubblicata dal Museum of Modern Art di New York in occasione di una mostra tenutasi nel 1981."--verso of t.p. ISBN (10): 8833904563. Stock#46995. Vg / dj vg.

"First Printing C" on verso of title. "A fresh and lucid view of economic society and the quality of modern life." Author's ink inscription on flyleaf. xi, 427 pages; 22 cm. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#ofc0182.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1981. Hard Cover. x, 563 p. 23.5 cm. Harvard economist, Galbraith served as Price Administrator during World War II, and was an advisor to John F. Kennedy. Stock #29,250. Good +, there is a nick on the back cover/ no dj.

Ottawa Hispanic Studies 1. Dovehouse Editions, 1995. Soft Cover. 218 p.; 21.5 cm. Ten original studies (in Spanish) by eminent Galdós scholars, with introductory survey and bibliography by the editor. Rodgers, Teoría literaria y filosofía de la historia en el primer Galdós; Dendle, Historia y ficción en Trafalgar y en El equipaje del rey José; Letemendía, Galdós y los ingleses en la primera serie de los Episodios nacionales; Utt, Sic vos non vobis: herencia historiográfica y coherencia estructural de La batalla de los Arapiles; Cardona, Mendizábal: grandes esperanzas; Urey, La revisión como proceso textual en los Episodios nacionales: el caso de Bodas reales; Gulleon, "Sustituyendo el azogue del espejo": la novelización de la ideología decimonúnica en Doña Perfecta; Goldman, "Cada peldaño tenía su historia": conciencia histórica y conciencia social en Fortunata y Jacinta; Ribbans, "Historia novelada o novela histórica?"; Blanco Aguinaga, Silencios y cambio de rumbo; Bibliografía,… Read More

[Paris], Galerie Charpentier, 1955. 144 lots. Painting, furniture, and clocks, auctioned from French private collections. Soft Cover. Unpaged, chiefly illustrations & portraits; 26.5 cm. Vg/ paper. Stock#41002.

München : Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, c1974. Soft Cover. 283 p., illus., plates, 27 cm. 1919 lots, 25 Nachtrag. Catalogue of an auction held at the Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 27-29. May, 1974. Stock# 40,497. Vg/ paper.

Paris, Galerie Canesco, 2000. Two unknown tableaux by Giuseppe Maria Crespi and some recent acquisitions. English translation at end. The two paintings by Bolognese artist Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665-1747) are 'The Good Samaritan' and 'Love Disarmed'. Other Italian and a few Dutch paintings are also offered for sale. Hard Cover. 62 pages, illus., plates, 16 color (4 folding); 27.5 cm. Fine/no dj. stock#101722.