Writing from The Owl at the Bridge

xxi, 450 pages; softcover; minor shelfwear; Good. Stock#ofc0109.

N.Y., Harper, 1881. Hard Cover. xvi, [17]- 241 p. As the Pitman system is "impaired as a mere system of stenography" Munson developed it for faster, easier use. Stock #29,194. Good+, green cloth boards.

Gregg Pub. Co. [c1929]. Hard Cover. xv, [1], 173 p., index; 17.5 cm. Maroon cloth stamped in black; front cover stained; a few light pencil notes; good. stock#44637.

N.Y., Modern Language Association, 1951.  OFFPRINT PMLA LXVI: 2, March 1951, pages 244-250; Dates the initial writing circa 1460. The poem Morgante is composed of 28 cantari (chapters) written in ottava rima. Stock# 37,841. Vg/ paper; 'With cordial regards'

Macmillan [c1979]. 'Third Edition'. Soft Cover. 92 p., index; 21 cm. Contents: Elementary Rules of Usage; Elementary Principles of Composition; A Few Matters of Form; Words and Expressions Commonly Misused; An Approach to Style (With a List of Reminders). Paper; VG+. ISBN 0024182001. stock#46680.

New York, Macmillan [1959]. Fourth printing. Hard Cover. xiv, 71 p.; 21 cm. Based on Strunk's privately-printed style guide issued to English classes at Cornell, and revised and expanded by White. Paper; ink owner name on cover & p. 26; VG. Stock#31014.

Museum of Primitive Art, NY, 1968. Soft Cover. 17 p.; 28 cm. "This bibliography is designed as a survey of the writings on Benin art." Contents include Art, History (Chronicles & Travelers' Accounts; General Historical Studies), Anthropology (Ethnography & Ethnology; District Officers' Reports), and Linguistics. Stapled in printed wraps; minor wear; VG. stock#45031.

Cincinnati, Phonographic Institute, 1885.. Hard Cover. 143,[[1] p. illus. 18.5 cm. The English-born Pitman introduced the system of shorthand his father, Isaac, developed to America in 1855. In this thirtieth year edition, he takes on a young partner, as he was 63. Stock #29,193. Good+, the boards are soiled, darkened, corners worn.