Search Results: Titles starting with V from The Owl at the Bridge

Horn / Vienna, Berger & Sohne, 1966. Soft Cover. 856 pages, 24 cm. The fifth of five volumes. Articles are in English, French, German, Spanish. Stock#33107. Vg/ Paper.

Zaragoza, iberCaja, Curso 1986-1987. Gustav Siebenmann, Introducción a la Generación del 27; Pilar Palomo, En la última poesía de Dámaso Alonso; Mario Hernández, Musica y poesía: tres poemas sobre el vals (1930-1931); Jaime Siles, Jorge Guillén: Simetria y sistema; Elementos explicitor e implicitos en Cantico-1928; Guillermo Carnero, El problema del conocimiento en la evolución poetica de Vicente Aleixandre. Soft Cover. 131 pages; 25 cm. Paper; minor wear; VG. stock#46067.

[Leningrad]: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1954. Hard Cover. 486, [2] p. ; 23 cm. A study of Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky, 1811-1848, the most significant writer in the post-Decembrist decade. In Cyrillic characters. Errata slip inserted. (Pollard) Stock# 43,312. Vg / no dj.

Moskva, Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, 1975. Two volumes. This edition of the radical journalist and satirist, also known as Saltykov-Schedrin, was published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his birth. Hard Cover. Two volumes: 408, 432 pages, 20.5 cm. Vg / no dj. Stock#43244 (Pollard).

NY, Scribner's Sons, 1972.. Hard Cover. xvi, 301 p., 23 cm. An anthology of poetry mostly in English but also Italian, French, German, Latin, Spanish. The 'vagabond path' refers to Origo's distinctively personal way of enjoying and selecting. Stock# 38,076. Vg/ dj vg. Literature; verse.

"Copyright, 1927, by the National Board of the Young Womens Christian Association..." Contents: The Vain Pomp and Glory of the World; Secular Society; Children in the Lamplight; Hills for Sale!; The Streets of Their Cities; Angels at High Noon; An Old Lady with Teakwood Stairs; 'Don't Bother To Pack, Joseph!'; Random Provocations; 'Boston'. Involved with the YWCA throughout her life, Graham's several books "covered subjects including spirituality, race relations, girls' camps, travel, and women's suffrage" (Wikipedia). 123 pages; 21.5 cm. Bound in mottled red paper over boards, black linen spine lettered in gold; corners & edges worn & rubbed; small bookplate, of Elizabeth H. Higgins, on first flyleaf; no dust jacket; Good+. Stock#ofc0846.

New York, The Womans Press, MCMXXXV. [1935]. Hard Cover. 113 p., 21.5 cm. Ten esays by a woman regarded as a pioneer in recording women's stories. NS. Stock# 35,079. Vg/ no dj.

New York: Printed For The Medical Class Of The University, By Joseph H. Jennings, 111 Fulton Street. 1845. Soft Cover. 20 p.; 21 cm. Bedford's forceps were introduced in 1846 by Gunning S. Bedford (1806-1870). He was born in Baltimore and practiced in New York. Bound in marbled paper over boards, cloth spine; title-page foxed; very good. Stock#OB613 (iab).

unknown. Soft Cover. Valentine card, one sheet folded in half, 24 x 18 cm.; addressed in ink to Miss K M Grant of Providence, R.I. and postmarked Providence, Feb. 13 1932, with cancelled two-cent stamp. Inside is a three-color picture of a "Scotsman" in tam & kilt holding a pile of plates. Sentiment reads, "If ye will be My Valentine / Ye Needn't wash a dish / I'll go and buy ye Paper plates / As Mony as ye wish". Very good condition; no handwriting inside. stock#2001.

N.Y., Seaver/Henry Holt [1988].. Hard Cover. 134 pages. Two spare novellas published in Italy in 1951 and 1957. First American edition. Valentino was first published in 1951; Sagittarius in 1957. Stock #101,081x. Fine/fine. Italian Literature

Newport, R.I. : Seaport '76 Foundation, 1978. Hard Cover. Signed. xiv, 259 p. : ill., facsims., maps ; 24 cm Maps on lining papers. Includes index Bibliography: p. [240]-244. The story of how the merchant sloop Katy became the Continental Navy Sloop Providence , the first ship of war in the new American Navy. Stock# 35,117. Vg/ dj vg.

London, Christie's, 1995. Soft Cover. 182, [10], illus., 26.5 cm. 285 lots. A sale of some fine manuscripts, printed books, and bindings. Stock#40338. Vg/ paper.

NY, American Art Association / Anderson Galleries, 1930. Periodical. [4], 107, [2] p., illus., front., 26.5 cm.; 356 lots. The frontispiece is lot 76, an inscribed copy of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, the first privately and pseudonymously published edition of 1893. One-inch band across front cover where it was shelved alongside a shorter book; Very Good. Stock#44535.

"The present collection of books relating to the circus... was formed by a man whose whole life was the circus. Jo van Doveren started his career as a 'plakker', the man who pasted up the posters... he developed into an outstandingly successful publicist... Among the circuses in the Netherlands with which he was connected for many years were Hagenbeck, Busch, Sarrasani and Strassburger, and among the little-known artists he introduced to the Netherlands... were Marcel Marceaux and Les Frères Jacques..." Book auction catalog: 36 pages, illus., approx. 11 lots per page plus several bulk lots at end; 25 cm.; stapled in Sotheby's yellow-and-black covers; Very Good. Stock#ofc0190.

London, Allen & Unwin; New York, Macmillan [1961]. Hard Cover. 442 p. 23 cm. Series: Muirhead library of philosophy. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy with his pencil notes in text and on rear fly leaf. Stock# 44,201. Good, much used book/ no dj.

New York : Macmillan, é1981.. Soft Cover. Signed. xii, 478 p. ; 24 cm. The meaning of human existence / Richard Taylor -- Roe v. Wade ; Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth / U.S. Supreme Court -- Abortion and infanticide / Michael Tooley -- Abortion and the concept of a person / Jane English -- Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz -- Some nonreligious views against proposed "mercy-killing" legislation / Yale Kamisar -- Euthanasia / Philippa Foot -- Involuntary euthanasia of defective newborns : a legal analysis / John A. Robertson -- Human rights and foreign assistance programs / Hugo Adam Bedau -- The right to food / Tom L. Beauchamp -- World hunger and foreign aid : the morality of mass starvation / William Aiken -- Do we owe the future anything? / Richard T. DeGeorge -- Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America, I -- Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America, II --Free speech and the paradox of tolerance / Frederick Schauer --… Read More

København, Berlingske, 1943 (4. oplag, 11.-14. tusinde). Hard Cover. 460 p.; 23 cm. Translation into Danish of Lust for Life, Stone's biography of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890). Decorated paper over boards; hinges rubbed, ink gift inscription on flyleaf; VG. stock#45047.

N.Y., Skira [1953]. Hard Cover. transl. S. J. C. Harrison. Skira [1953]. The Taste of Our Time. 127 p., tipped-in color plates. 19.5 cm. Freitag 3663. Stock# 34,612. Vg, ink inscription/ dj clipped. French art.

Princeton, Van Nostrand [1958]. . Hard Cover. 1,839 p., illus., color plates; 28.5 cm. 14,000 separate articles, 100,000 definitions, 1,000 illustrations. Stock #29,939. Vg/ dj; good.

American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese. Signed. OFFPRINT, pp. 770-778; 25.5 cm. Photocopy of an article regarding Federico Garcia Lorca's poem "Poema doble del Iago Eden." From Hispania 69. A photocopy made by the author and inscribed by him to Alan S. Trueblood. Stock#47371. Vg / photocopy.