Literature: U.S. from The Owl at the Bridge

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

Single issue. Contents: The Catacombs of Rome; Three of Us; What a Wretched Woman Said to Me; Songs of the Sea; The Kinloch Estate & How it Was Settled; A Perilous Bivouac; November-April; The Gaucho; Mademoiselle's Campaigns; The Swan-Song of Parson Avery; The Denslow Palace; Myrtle Flowers; Chesuncook; The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table; The American Tract-Society; Note to the… 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.

Autobiographical Accounts of the Early Italian Immigrants; The Emergence of the Italian-American Novel; Contemporary Italian-American Novelists; Bibliography, Index. 415 pages; dust jacket scuffed; Good+. Stock#ofc0358.

"Strains of a familiar America echo in the 6,175 titles of this bibliography encompassing a brilliant quarter century of fiction writing. The diversity... affords a panorama of the United States rising out of the shadows of the Civil War as a modern industrial power." xix, 683 pages, title index; Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#ofc0348.

Two bookseller catalogues: 27, 731 items, a few illus.; 68, 734 items. Paper covers; Good+. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0303.

Contents: Poetry: Joshua Epstein, Please Do Not Smoke; Chester Kuhn, Moon Riffle on Flowing River; Mary Butts, Two Poems; Norman Lewis Dodge, Portrait of Eighty Years; Yvor Winters, Nocturne; Prose: g a p, Gesture; Henry de Montherlant, Peyrony; Book Reviews (5); Lorente, Curious Books; Henri Pauens, On A Funeral For A Few Sticks. 32 pages; 26.5 cm.; dark-blue… Ler mais sobre este item

278 pages, frontispiece engraving; lacks backstrip, front cover detached, 1st signature loose; a fair copy. Stock##ofc0023.

Published by Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1940. Periodical. Includes Klaus Mann, Karl May: Hitler's Literary Mentor; Charles Weir, Jr., Nothing but Maps (poem); Literature and the Professors. A Symposium (Cleanth Brooks, Jr., Literary History vs. Criticism; Arthur Mizener, Scholars as Critics; Sidney Cox, If We Care Enough; Hade Saunders, The Graduate Student in English; Lionel Trilling, Literature and Power);… Ler mais sobre este item

Garden City, NY, Doubleday Anchor Books, 1954. Soft Cover. 280 p.; 18 cm. "This is the story of a girl whose parents have just been divorced. We watch, through her eyes, as her parents pursue their separate lives with different lovers-- all the while competing for her affection and approval, and attempting... to justify themselves to her, and… Ler mais sobre este item

Avenel Books, NY [1985]. Hard Cover. 'Previously titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentleman.' 'The Preface to the Revised Edition and Publisher's Note which appeared in the original 1863 edition have not been reproduced here... Furthermore, there are racial references and language in this book which may be offensive to the modern reader.' 506 pages,… Ler mais sobre este item

NY, New Directions [1956]. Offset from the 1926 edition with the addition of two appendices. The dust jacket has the advertisement for Section: Rock-Drill. "The second impression (3340 copies) of this offset edition." GallupA27b note. Hard Cover. 7 p. l., 273 pages, portrait front.; 22 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#42640.

Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1927. Rudyard Kiplings Vörker. Kipling's Jungle Book translated into Danish. Anthropomorphic fables, some featuring Mowgli, and including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Toomai of the Elephants. 'Autoriseret oversëttelse for Danmark og Norge ved A. Halling. Versene oversat af Kai Friis-Möller. Tiende Oplag...' Hard Cover. 272 pages. Blue cloth stamped in gold, edges marbled; ink owner name; VG.… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston, Gambit, 1973.. Hard Cover. xv, 286 p., index. 'Advances a thesis that the myth of a new wonderland as described in ancient books now unread is an illusion that survives strongly in American thinking and writing today.' Stock #100,879, Vg/ dj vg. America History Literature