Search Results: General Interest Magazines and Periodicals from The Owl at the Bridge

London, Duckworth, 2000. Hard Cover. 478 p. iius., photos, 24.5 cm. Another history of the New Yorker magazine, with less "and me" than many other efforts. "With access to the complete editorial correspondence from 1925 onwards, internal office correspondence, edited manuscripts, articles and rejection." Stock# 31,785x. New/ dj fine.

Providence, The Journal, For Private Distribution,1904. Hard Cover. 235 p. illus.24.5 cm. "Being a record of the events and associates connected with the past fifty years." By the Secretary of the daily newspaper. Stock #29,158. Vg/ no dj.

New York: Harper & Brothers... MDCCCLI [1851]. Hard Cover. viii, 864 p., 144 illus., 25 cm. The Publishers intend this magazine "to be a strictly national work. Devoted to no local interests, pledged to no religious sect or political party, connected with no favorite movement of the day, except the diffusion of intelligence, vitrue, and patriotism, it will continue to be conducted with the impartiality and good faith, which t is equally the duty, the inclination, and the interest of the Publishers to maintain. In addition to the choicest productions of the English press, the Magazine will be enriched with such original matter as in their opinion will enhance its utility and attractiveness. The embellishments will be furnished by distinguished artists...". Contributors include James Aldrich, Lamartine, Charles Lever, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Jacob Abbott, De Quincey, James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith; subjects include Leaves from Punch, Literary Notices, Monthly Record of Current Events (U.S., Mexico &… Read More

Begins with No. LXXXV of June 1857 and ends with LXXXIX of October 1857. Hardcover. 860 pages, black & white illustrations throughout; 24 cm. Dickens's Little Dorritt continues; article on the Shakers. This copy lacks the title-page, index, and list of illustrations added to the bound issues; Very Good with black leather spine. Stock#33074/h.

New York: Harper & Brothers... MDCCCL [1850]. Hard Cover. viii, 864 p., 72 illus., 25 cm. Journal of domestic & international news, fashion, literature, science, history, art. Illustrations include portraits, the Erie Railroad, shooting stars, Revolutionary memorials, women's fashion. Articles are gathered chiefly from Household Words, The Ladies' Companion, Bentley's Miscellany, the London Examiner, the Dublin University Magazine. The August issue has much on Sir Thomas More and the November issue begins with Benson J. Lossing, "A Pilgrimage to the Cradle of American Liberty with Pen and Pencil". Bound in brown marbled paper over boards with leather spine & corners; leather backstrip perished but spine cloth & stitching sturdy; boards & edges scuffed; ink owner name; ex-library with single ink stamp & rear pocket; moderately foxed; no dj, as issued; good. 36272.

New York: Harper & Brothers... 1852. Hard Cover. viii, 864 p., 231 illus., 25 cm. Contents include American Arctic Expedition; Clara Corsini-- a Tale of Naples; Czar of Russia at a Ball; Diligence in Doing Good; Editor's Drawer; Editor's Easy Chair; Editor's Table; Esther Hammond's Wedding Day; Fashions for December [through May]; Habits and Character of the Dog-Rib Indians; How Gunpowder Is Made; Hunting the Alligator; Leaves from Punch; Literary Notices; Louis Napoleon and his Nose; Love Affair at Cranford; Mazzini, the Italian Liberal; Monthly Record of Current Events (U.S., Southern America, Gt. Britain, Europe, the East); New Discoveries in Ghosts; Orphan's Dream of Christmas; Pipe Clay and Clay Pipes; Pleasures and Perils of Ballooning; Poison Eaters; Short Chapter on Frogs; Sicilian Vespers; Taste of French Dungeons. Bound in brown marbled paper over boards, tan endpapers, leather spine & corners, spine stamped in gold. Covers & edges scuffed, bottom of spine peeled, moderate foxing, p. 111/12… Read More

N.Y., American Heritage Pub. Co., 1960. Hard Cover. 136 p., illus. incl. color; cloth boards, color pictorial front-cover paste-on label; 31cm. Articles include: Henry the Navigator, Dr. Rosenbach; The Play of Daniel; Angels; Yeats; the introduction of skyscapers to Europe; Henry Moore. Stock #40,170. Vg.

N.Y., American Heritage Pub. Co., 1961.. Hard Cover. 136 p., illus. incl. color; cloth boards, color pictorial front-cover paste-on label; 32 cm. Articles include: The Knigts of Malta; textual revisions of the Bible; Le Corbusier; two on film. Stock #40,171. Vg..

N.Y., American Heritage Pub. Co., 1962. Hard Cover. 136 pages, illus. incl. color; cloth boards, color pictorial front-cover paste-on label; 32 cm. Articles include 30 pages on the Vatican and its art; Glenn Gould; Belgian Surrealism; Cave-dwelling carvers; Chess, French novelists. Stock#40172. Good.

N.Y., American Heritage Pub. Co., 1960. . Hard Cover. 136 p., illus. incl. color; cloth boards, color pictorial front-cover paste-on label; 31 cm. Articles include: Iris Origo on The Education of Renaissance Man; on Gauguin, Picasso's Lady, Shylock, Mermaids. Stock#40,168. Vg

N.Y., American Heritage Pub. Co., 1964 . Hard Cover. 104 p., illus. incl. color; cloth boards, color pictorial front-cover paste-on label; 31 cm. Articles include: The Barnes Foundation; Mantegna of Mantua; The Rhine; Polish cities reborn; Jane Austen. Stock #40,173

N.Y., American Heritage Pub. Co., 1960. . Hard Cover. 136 p., illus. incl. color; cloth boards, color pictorial front-cover paste-on label; 31 cm. Articles include: Housatonic; the Etruscans; Ivory; French New Wave film; James Michenwe on Western influences on Japanese woodcut artists. Stock #40,169. VG+.

New York, American Heritage Pub. Co., 1959. Articles include C. A. Robinson on Alexander the Great; Paul Engle on William Carlos Williams; on Miró and Pier Luigi Nervi; by Herbert Muller and Malcolm Crowley. Hard Cover. 136 pages, illus. incl. color; cloth boards, color pictorial front-cover paste-on label; 31 cm. Vg. Stock#40167.

Kennett Square, PA., Center for Religious Humanism 2000. Periodical. 124 p., color plates, 25 cm. Features David Plante "Returning to Providence" Stock# 43,779. Vg / journal.

Seattle, WA., Center for Religious Humanism 2000. Periodical. 125 p., 4 color plates, 25 cm. The Catholic artey magazine moved to Seattle. Stock# 43,780. Vg / perodical.

"The sale of the prestigious New Yorker magazine to media magnate S. I. Newhouse in 1985 sent shock waves through America. The Last Days of The New Yorker is the first behind-the-scenes account of what really happened. Gigi Mahon has gained the unprecedented and exclusive cooperation of many of the major figures involved in the events. The result is a startling look at the internal workings of one of the most secretive and fascinating of institutions." Hardcover. ix, 358 pages, index; dust jacket; Very Good+. Stock#24704/h.

Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society,1984. Periodical. 281-422 p., illus., 25.5 cm. Also includes Peoples of China's Far Provinces; Calgary: Canada's not-so-wild west and They're killing the Rhinos. Stock# 45,110. Good+, some later pages are rippled at the bottom from dampness.

Washington, National Geographic Society, 1983. Periodical. 423-562p., illus., 25.5 cm. Five articles: The fascinating world of trash; Chattooga River country; This year Jerusalem; The Uncertain State of Puerto Rico; Voyage to the Antarctic. Stock# 45,186. Vg / periodical.

Philadelphia, Curtis Publishing, 1919.. First Edition. Hard Cover. 382 p. plates, 19.5 cm. Frontis in color by Norman Rockwell. "This volume is designed to show how one issue of The Saturday Evening Post would look if published in book form." Used by sales reps. (with inlaid Sales Dept material). Includes an article on potential presidential contenders in 1920. BB. Stock #29,095. Vg/ no dj.

Société d'Études et de Publications Économiques, 1968, Paris.. Soft Cover. 86 p., illus. incl. color; 28.5 cm. Contents include Michel Tatu, The Waverings of Russia's Collective Leadership; Gordon Rattray Taylor, Man's Insatiable Desire for Discovery; Tanneguy de Quínetain & Maud Mannoni, What Goes On in the Mind of a Child; Henri Gault & Christian Millau, Some of the Best French Chefs Are Women; Françoise Sagan, The Bittersweet Tyranny of the Gaming Table; John Coleman, Masterpieces and Monasteries of Ireland's Finest Hour; Suzanne Patterson, Gustave Nebel; Alain Schifres, Ticino; Andrew Copland, Bacalhóa, Pride of Portugal's Quintas; Michael Peppiatt, Maria Casares: Happy Ending to a Spanish Tragedy; Giles Allen, The Frank Approach to Decoration; Michael Henry, Robert Carrier. Stock#28414.