Literature: English from The Owl at the Bridge

86 pages; 22.5 cm.; no dust jacket; front cover lightly scuffed; blue-pencil owner name on first flyleaf dated 1936; Good+. Stock#ofc0905.

"This bibliography collects together poetry and verse on the theme of the First World War, written by English poets (i.e. poets of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales), servicemen and civilians, who experienced the war. It is restricted to printed material in the form of book, pamphlet, card, or broadside..." (Abstract). "It is not often that we (of certain age especially)… Ler mais sobre este item

"...the only one-volume edition of Shakespeare's complete works designed for the general reader that provides annotations on each page of text. ...This new edition restores each line of Shakespeare's verse to its own line of text. By virtue of its size, this spacious one-volume edition presents the reader with an accurate rendering of Shakespeare's poetic rhythms..." ix,… Ler mais sobre este item

"Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers [vol. 4]." Contents include: Introduction by Muriel Mellown; Profiles of British Literary Magazines, 1914-1984; lists of titles included in the previous volumes; A Chronology of Social and Literary Events and British Literary Magazines, 1914-1984; Scottish Literary Periodicals: A Selected List; Magazines with Short Runs; Index; list of Contributors. xxx,… Ler mais sobre este item

"450 copies of this book have been printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed." xxxvii, 335 pages, portrait frontispiece plus two tipped-in plates with guardsheets facing pages 103 & 173; 21.5 cm. Bound in full brown leather, all edges gilt; all four spine corners nicked; thumb-size tear in outer edge of rear flyleaf. Stock#ob101a.

"The purpose of this bibliographical catalogue is to provide book collectors, dealers, and librarians with descriptions of Dickens's novels and Sketches by Boz in their original cloth bindings. I compiled the descriptions from an examination of as many first editions as I could review, and I included in each entry pertinent information obtained from most of the major bibliographies,… Ler mais sobre este item

"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

"Illustrated with Maps, Diagrams, Coast-of-Arms, Photographs, and Drawings by Charles Doyle, Howard K. Elcock, D. H. Friston, A. Gilbert, James Grieg, George Hutchinson, William H. Hyde, Charles Raymond Macauley, Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele, Arthur Twidle, Frank Wiles, and Numerous Others." Two volumes: 688, 824 pages, illustrated throughout, endpaper maps; 28.5 cm. Dust jacket edges worn; Very Good.… Ler mais sobre este item

Includes poems by Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Grimald, Canand, Chaucer, Cheke, Churchyard, Heywood, Norton, St. Leger, Vaux, among others. [iv] pages, 107 leaves; a facsimile reprint of the original in the Bodleian Library. Grey boards stamped in gold; top edge & fore-edge very slightly foxed, small spot on front cover; bookplate; near Fine. Stock#ofc0572.

Rinehart, NY [1950]. Rinehart Critical Studies. "Examines in detail all of the major poems and many of the minor ones and discusses Burns as a song writer. Nowhere have the technical aspects of Burns's poetry-- his stanza forms, metrical patterns, satirical devices, use of imagery-- and the magical methods he used to fit words to music, been too… Ler mais sobre este item

Lincoln, Nebraska UP [1990]. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a landmark in psychological fiction, predating a long line of books and movies about doubles, as well as the work of Freud. ...Like that other household name, Frankenstein, Jekyll-Hyde personifies science gone amuck, but Stevenson's creation perhaps cuts deeper in showing the psychic and moral… Ler mais sobre este item

'Fourth Printing, July 1941'. Hard Cover. 'They tell the story of the Snow Goose today in London, in Dover, in the Channel ports-- wherever there are men gathered who saw the mighty bird soar calm and unafraid through the leaden death and blanketing smoke of Dunkirk, and who owe their safety to the dark twisted man and the small boat… Ler mais sobre este item

Norton Library/Norton, NY [1968]. Changeling, Middleton & Rowley; Revenger's Tragedy, Tourneur; Broken Heart, Ford; Lady of Pleasure, Shirley. Soft Cover. xxxviii, 436 pages. Volume II. Paper; VG. Stock#21649c.

Imprinted at London, for William Leake, 1601; Oxford, The Malone Society Reprints, 1967. Reprint of STC 18271: "The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntington. Otherwise Called Robin Hood of merrie Sherwodde: with the lamentable Tragedie of chaste Matilda, his faire maid Marian, poysoned at Dunmowe by King Iohn. Acted by the Right Honourable, the Earle of Notingham, Lord high… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Brentano's, 1925, c1913. Contents: The two pioneers; Ideals and idealists; The womanly woman; The autobiographical anti-idealist extravaganzas; The objective anti-idealist plays; Down among the dead men: the last four plays; The lesson of the plays; What is the new element in the Norwegian school?; The technical novelty in Ibsen's plays; Needed: an Ibsen theatre. Originally written as… Ler mais sobre este item

Oxford, Malone Society, 1960. Contents: A Calendar of Dramatic Records in the Books of the London Clothworkers' Company (Addenda to Collections III), edited by Jean Robertson; Companies of Players entertained by the Earl of Cumberland and Lord Clifford, 1607-39, edited by Lawrence Stone; The Academic Drama in Oxford: extracts from the Records of four Colleges, edited by R. E.… Ler mais sobre este item

Vintage Books/ Random House, NY [1967]. The Arden Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare.. Soft Cover. xcviii, 203 p.; paper; good+. Copy of Albert Cook with his ink signature & pencil notes. stock#23496-b. Elizabethan English literature, theater, stage plays; comedy.

London, William Rastell, 1533; Oxford, The Malone Society Reprints, 1977. Reprint of STC 13305: "The Play of the Wether. A New and a Very Mery Enterlude of All Maner Wethers Made by John Heywood." "This reprint of The Play of the Weather, 1533, has been prepared by T. N. S. Lennam and checked by the General Editor." Hard… Ler mais sobre este item

N.Y., Harper & Brothers, 1941. Hard Cover. 43 pages, illus.; 24 cm. Roger Hill was Orson Welles's English teacher; the two had published three plays of Shakespeare in 1934, when Welles was but 19 years old. The format and illustrations of introductory material follow the format of the 1934 edition. Stock#OB186. Vg, ex-library on t.p./ no dj.

N.Y., Penguin, 1977. Series: Viking Critical Library. With text and apparatus, this edition is good for college study. vi, 570 pages; Vg/paperback. Stock#100908x.