Literary History from The Owl at the Bridge

Pamphlet; 48 pages stapled in printed wraps; 20 cm. "Second printing 1967." Small blackened sticker on front; Very Good. Stock#ofc0918.

"Bibliographical Society Publication For The Year 1979." xxx, 221 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Bound in navy cloth over boards, gold spine lettering; no dust jacket; Very Good+. Stock#ofc0811.

"Thirteen Plates." "Dirty books are inevitably among the rarest of rare books, having been produced surreptitiously, suppressed by authority, and destroyed by owners or executors... to the bibliographer clandestine publishing is always a challenge... these books were always published anonymously or under a false name; the printer likewise concealed his identity and if possible the place of printing under… Ler mais sobre este item

"Visitors to second-hand bookstores and the further reaches of library stacks will have seen elaborate collections of prose and verse entitled 'The Souvenir,' 'The Forget Me Not,' and the like, survivors of the era of gift books and literary annuals. Between 1825 and 1865 more than a thousand such miscellanies appeared in the United States; the number in other… Ler mais sobre este item

Volume IX begins with No. 423, Saturday, July 5, 1712, and ends with No. 474, Wednesday, September 3 (261 pages). Bound with Vol. X, Nos. 475, Thursday, Sept. 4, 1712 through No. 504, Wednesday, October 8 (146 pages). Paper slightly darkened, all edges red; bound in grey marbled paper with red cloth spine; Very Good. Stock#ofc0687.

"The Notebooks of Henry James, which constitute the bulk of this volume, are a record of his work in progrss for a period of more than thirty years. ...subsequent to his first entry about Confidence, in the autumn of 1878, all his finished novels and all but a handful of his stories are discussed or at least mentioned in… Ler mais sobre este item

"Questa lavoro colma la lacuna più grace nelle nostre conoscenze della vita di Niccolò Machiavelli e svela il mistero della sua giovinezza." 171 pages; indexes; 25 cm. Pages 105-168 are facsimile photographs. "Edito dalla Banca Toscana per festeggiare il 500° anniversario del Monte dei Paschi di Siena." Copy #2671. Bookplate of Samuel J. Hough. … Ler mais sobre este item

"Reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library June 1962; March, April, May, June, October 1963." Rice, Introduction: Travellers and Travel Books; Jewkes, The Literature of Travel and the Mode of Romance in the Renaissance; Osborn, Travel Literature and the Rise of Neo-Hellenism in England; Fussell, Patrick Brydone: The Eighteenth-Century Traveler as Representative Man; Barrows, Convention and… Ler mais sobre este item

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… Ler mais sobre este item

Whole issue of BSA Papers 45, January-February-March 1951 (102 pages); other articles are Allan H. Stevenson, A Critical Study of Harwood's 'Watermarks Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries'; Morse Peckham, Dr. Lardner's 'Cabinet Cyclopaedia'; Donald G. Wing, The Making of the 'Short-Title Catalogue, 1641-1700'; includes bibliographical notes & book reviews. Very Good. Stock#ofc0457.

"...an indispensable aid to the study of Italian letters in English-speaking countries. The informed serenity of its assessments has made it a dependable guide for the general reader seeking... major currents and the pattern of development in what is, in many ways, the most original and influential of European literatures." xi, 570 pages, index; hardcover; Very Good in… Ler mais sobre este item

"In these pleasant essays and addresses Robert Taylor tells of his adventures in the world of books with wit, grace, and a ready smile. He is one of those rare collectors who actually reads his books and writes about them with distinction." xi, 164 pages, illus.; Very Good in dust jacket slightly wrinkled across top edge. Stock#ofc0397.

"The job of criticism would seem to be, then, to recall liberalism to its first essential imagination of variousness and possibility, which implies the awareness of complexity and difficulty. To the carrying out of the job of criticizing the liberal imagination, literature has a unique relevance, not merely because so much of modern literature has explicitly directed itself upon… Ler mais sobre este item

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.

Sections include The Character of the Classical Heritage; The Educational Inheritance; The Patristic Tradition; The Greek East; The Carolingian Age; the Pre-scholastic Age; The High Renaissance; The End of the Renaissance and the Appearance of New Patterns in Classical Education and Scholarship. vii, 592 pages, index, appendices, notes; red cloth, no dust jacket; Good. Stock#ofc0344.

"This book is an outline of the chief ways in which Greek and Latin influence has moulded the literature of western Europe and America." Contents include The Dark Ages: English Literature; The Middle Ages: French Literature; Dante and Pagan Antiquity; Towards the Renaissance: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer; The Renaissance: Translation; The Renaissance: Drama; The Renaissance: Epic; The Renaissance: Pastoral and… Ler mais sobre este item

Three bookseller catalogs listing poetry of the 1960s: Miller 2, A-E, 595 items, index; 3-4, F-V, 1956 items listed alphabetically by author with index; paper covers; Good. Chloe's, 400 items, typescript stapled in wraps; Good-. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0288.

Monographic bookseller catalogue. 152 items; stapled in blue pictorial paper; Good. Stock#ofc0274.

Bookseller catalogue listing 80 items by and about Daniel Defoe and his times. Stapled in pictorial wraps; Good with ink marks on cover. Stock#ofc0273.

Auction catalogs: [I] 285 pages; [II] 289 pages; 526 lots in all; index in Vol. II; color illus. throughout; color pictorial paper covers; VG+ (nearly new). Two heavy volumes. Stock#ofc0203.