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

Cambridge, W. Heffer & Sons, 1971. Soft Cover. 95 p., illus., 21 cm.; 1148 items. Introduction by A. N. L, Munby. Forster's estate allowed the Cambridge University Library to buy such books of his library that they wished (about 500 went to King's); friends were allowed to select mementoes, and here they sell the rest. Stock#38321x. Vg/ paper.

(1) Family & association items and books signed or annotated by Forster; (2) Copies presented to Forster signed by authors & friends; (3) Music; (4) Other books from his library; (5) Addenda. From the Introduction by A. N. L. Munby: "My friend Reuben Heffer has asked me, as custodian of the main group of the late E. M. Forster's books and manuscripts at King's College, to contribute a prefatory note to this catalogue of the residue of his library; and I welcome the opportunity to set down for the record certain facts which may elucidate the provenance of some of the books and be of assistance to those who study Forster and his works..." 96 pages, 1148 items, 2 photos; 21 cm. Stapled in red paper covers; Very Good+. Stock#ofc0779.

University of Chicago Press [1944]. Hard Cover. xii, 412 p., index; 24 cm. Based on his 1931 German publication, this English version was written while Wach was on the Brown University faculty. He used methods of the social sciences to better understand religious thought. Developing the field known as Sociology of Religion, he maintained that the founder of a new religion experienced a revelation illuminating the way the world worked. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas, Brown University Department of Philosophy. WWII government property stamp over which Brown University put its own stamp; Tomas adds his date of May 1, 1946, just after his return to Brown from military service to ensure that no more Wachs would be persecuted. Stock#44012.

Princeton University Press, ©1981. Soft Cover. xxx, 447 p.; 24 cm. Translation of Der Lebensraum des Künstlers in der florentinischen Renaissance, Leipzig, 1938. Contents: The Commissions; Great projects and work on them from 1420 to 1530; Sculptural commissions; Painting commissions; Artistic participation in the staging of public festivities and spectacles; The patrons; The city government and the guilds; Private patronage in the early and mid-quattrocento; Lorenzo Magnifico, Piero di Lorenzo, and Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici; Patrons from the Medici circle in Florence and the Netherlands: the Sassetti, Portinari, Tornabuoni, Filippo Strozzi, and others; Patrons of the High Renaissance and extra-Florentine commissioners and collectors; The general attitude toward art: the public and the artist; The artist's workshop and the art market; The artist class: its numerical strength, professional organization, and occupational divisions;… Read More

NY, Charles Scribner's, 1905. Hard Cover. iii, 324 p., illus.; 22 cm. Daughter of a New York academic and politician, Mary Alsop King married a French diplomat of English origin. Her letters are graphic descriptions of Roman social life at the end of the 19th century and became the basis of a play. Stock#47587. Vg / no dj.

Princeton UP, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. xxi, 678 p.24 cm. Surveys the thought that led to a culture in which reason was seen to guide men's actions, not providence. From the great 1348 plague in Florence through Bodin, Montaigne and Descartes, Wade's magisterial book was recognized as a classic when it appeared and its stature has only grown. Stock #29,532. Vg/ dj vg.

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1959.. Hard Cover. 362 p. 21 cm. Series: Harvard historical monographs ; 4. Pioneer life in early Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Lexington, Louisville and St. Louis. "Bibliographical note": p. [343]-345. Stock# 44,895. Vg/ dj vg.

London , Spring Books,[1965]. Hard Cover. 44 p. text, illus. incl. 53 color plates (incl. folding front.);27 cm. Stock# 41,021. Vg, tan cloth boards; no dj. Italian art.

Columbia, University South Carolina Press, 1993. Describes the life and work of Austrian poet and novelist Franz Werfel, 1890-1945, who heralded the German Expressionist movement in 1911. Hard Cover. xiii, 191 pages; 23.5 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#28496.

N.Y., Limelight, 1997. Soft Cover. xiii, 280 p. First published 1962. "The first considered study of silent films by a literary man and a movie fan." By 1913 American producers alone were turning out two hundred reels a week. Vg; softcover. 101714.

NY, Benziger Bros., c1897. Hard Cover. 154 p., frontis.; 17 cm. Prolific author of Catholic children's books, poetry, and various other Catholic literature. Stock#45951. Vg / bound in white cloth with green lettering and decoration.

Zurich, R. Piper, 1977. Hard Cover. 1315 p.; 22 cm. Cosima, daughter of Franz Liszt, was wife of conductor Hans von Bulow when she met Richard Wagner, whom she married in 1870. The entries in this journal-diary cover the five-plus last years until Wagner's death in February 1883. Stock# 33,324. A very handsome copy with library stamps.

Fourth Edition. Revised, Enlarged and Edited by Robert H. Becker. xx, 745 pages; index; maroon buckram; VG. Stock#ofc0152.

N.Y., Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover. 223 p., illus.; 24 cm. Jane Wagner's wonderful vehicle for Lily Tomlin's one-actress show. In a performance in San Francisco in December 2001, Tomlin still bursts with energy conveying the many roles she brings alive. "No matter how cynical we are, it's not enough to keep up." Fine/fine. 101912x.

N.Y., Knopf, 1956. Hard Cover. xiv, 254, xi p. indes, 13 photographs, 23 text illus., 22cm."Wine-making from the wine-maker's point of view-- a practical manual for the small producer and home wine-maker" Gabler, Wine into Words, G 40420. Stock# 24,077A. Vg/ dj vg, small tear at top corner..

N.Y., Norton, 1971. Hard Cover. xiii, 491 p., illus., 24 cm. This was the first systematic attempt to address the whole spectrum of environmental issues from polution to radiation, food supplies, and population. Stock# 32,106.Good+, some underlining/ dj good+.

B. Schott's Sohne, Mainz, 1902; Copyright for United States assigned to G. Schirmer 1904. "A Sacred Festival Drama." Scored for piano, baritone, bass, tenor, soprano, alto. Words in English & German accompany the music throughout. Hard Cover. [3], 277 pages, 29 cm. Flexible red cloth stamped in gold; minor wear & spotting; good+. Stock#37225.

Boston, Oliver Ditson, 1889. series: Grand Opera Librettos. Soft Cover. 81 p., 24 cm. English & German on facing pages. German composer and tone poet Richard Wagner completed "The Mastersinger of Nuremberg" in 1867; it was first performed in 1868, two years before Wagner's marriage to Liszt's daughter Cosima. Printed paper wraps; corners bumped, spine ends chipped, closed tear to rear cover; good. 37224.

Mainz, B. Schott's Söhne, 1899. "Copyright for United States assigned to G. Schirmer 1904". Hard Cover. Erleichterte Bearbeitung von K. Klindworth. 3 leaves (decorative title-pages in German), [2], 221 p., 29 cm. Words & music to Wagner's Rhinegold, scored for piano and five voices (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass). Flexible red cloth covers stamped in gold; stains, ink owner name; good. 37220.

New York, Printed for the Editor, 1847. New York medical education in the 1840s. The first American journal devoted to medicine. Early reports of the use of ether in Boston (pp. 27, 39, 52-54, 73-74). Includes throughout, Prof. Valentine Mott's University Surgical Clinique & (#1) Van Buren on ankylosis; A Sketch of the Hospital of the Colored Home; (#2) Isaacs on the foot, Green on air passages; Collins, A Few Remarks on the Inhalation of Ethereal Vapor and An Operation for the Removal of a Mamma under its Influence; (#3) commentary on Green's treatise on air passages; articles on patents & letheon; Progress of the Cholera, Cox on hydrocele; Fitch, Statistics of the Colored Home; (#4) Garvin, Sulphuric Ether in Surgical Operations, Trousseau on meningitis in children; Homeopathic honesty; Health of the Army on the Rio Grande; (#5) Isaacs on monstrosity; (#6) Shelton on ovaritis; (#7) Isaacs on malformation of the heart; (#8) Colored Home; Child's report on vaccination. Hard Cover. 431 pages,… Read More