Literature: General from The Owl at the Bridge

NY, Knopf, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. 7 p. l., 252 p.; 24.5 cm. First Edition, so stated. 'Following his spectacular debut as a novelist with The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus offers his shorter fiction in a major new collection, nine stories and two novellas written over the last twenty years.' VG;… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, Blakiston [1944]. Hard Cover. 3 p.l., 410 p. Wartime reprint of his classic 1940 novel of the Spanish Civil War. Hanneman 18H. Bound in dark blue cloth. IAB. Stock #100,867x. Good, worn at edges as Blakiston editions tend to do/ no dj. Another copy bound in red cloth, worn. IAB. American Literature

N.Y., New Directions, 1989. First Edition. 18 contributions, mostly from younger, less-well-known writers and poets. Hard Cover. [60], 186 pages, 21 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#29427.

New York, Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. Contents: The Ipané.--Un pelado.--Un angelito.--The lazo.--The bolas.--SS. "Atlas".--Bristol fashion.--Tanger la blanca.--A survival.--Heather Jock.--Salvagia.--Snaekoll's saga.--With the north-west wind.--Niggers.--At Torfaieh. First published London, T. F. Unwin, 1899. Hard Cover. 188 pages, frontispiece, 17.5 cm. Vg, orange cloth / no dj. Stock#102505.

Heritage Press, NY [1963]. Hard Cover. A novel of the American Revolutionary War, set in Westchester County, New York, at the end of 1780. xv, 406 pages, halftone and black & white text illustrations & plates; decorated navy boards, linen spine. Includes Sandglass. Fine in slightly worn slipcase. Stock#26224/house.

André Deutsch [1994]. "In crystalline prose Harriet Doerr examines the lives of four North American expatriates in a small Mexican village... All their experiences are brought vividly to life as they interact with the Mexicans, who observe the newcomers with a curious mixture of fascination and tolerance. With an unfailingly true ear, eye and voice, Harriet Doerr unfolds her… Read more about this item

A Lausanne & Genève Chez Marc-Mich. Bosquet & Comp., MDCCLVI [1756]. Translated, from the 1720 edition of A Tale of a Tub, by Justus van Effen; this first published 1721. The third volume has title Traité des Dissentions and 1764 imprint, but half-title as Volume III of Le Conte de Tonneau. Teerink 284 & 285. Hard Cover. Three… Read more about this item

Includes Kwaidan, Some Chinese Ghosts, Chita: A Memory of Last Island, American Sketches (Cincinnati, New Orleans), Caribbean Sketches, Japan (Stories of Japanese Life, Travel, Folk Culture, Essays, Weird Tales). Hardcover. viii, 566 pages; 21 cm. Dust jacket worn, aged, edges chipped; Fair. stock#27450/h.

Eighteen poems by the Dutch-born novelist, poet, translator. Softcover. 26, [1] pages; stapled in printed paper wraps; Very Good. stock#100278/h.

Cambridge / A Boar's Head Book / Walker-deBerry, MDCCCCLX [1960]. First published 1959 by Northwestern University Press. First edition thus; "the first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and literary criticism." Contents include Foreground; Conception (The Traditional Book: Myth & its Interpreters; The World as Text: Shifting Current of the Ideal; The Ideal of… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page, 1922.. Hard Cover. Drawings by Stuart Hay. ix, [3], 138 p., 22 b/w plates incl. front. 36 sonnets and 15 Famous Love Affairs. 'My First Wife let her hair go quite too far / In culinary ways. I beaned her, Sue.../ She looked so wistful as she passed away./ That… Read more about this item

Forlaget af 1939; Köbenhavn, MCMXLII [1942, H. P. Hansen]. Oversat af Gunnar Juel Jórgensen. In Danish. In My Father's House, first published in 1941, was Mississippi-born author Street's second work in book form; The Biscuit Eater appeared in Saturday Evening Post. I can't read Danish but I bet this is autobiographical. Soft Cover. 376 pages. Color pictorial dj… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Belknap / Harvard University Press, 1971. Hard Cover. xix, 364 pages, index, 24 cm. These letters are taken from the three-volume edition of her Complete Letters, with the numbering of that set retained and its annotations included. "Often witty, sometimes sarcastic or caustic, Emily Dickinson maintained her most intimate relationships through her letters which became her means of… Read more about this item

NY, Harper & Bros. [1954].. xiv, 253 p. Many of these pieces first appeared in the New Yorker. Subjects include Time Past, Time Future; Time Present; The Wonderful World of Letters; Nine Songs; The City and the Land. Vg/ no dj. stock#101302. American literature

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);… Read more about this item

New York : Congdon & Weed, c1983.. Hard Cover. viii, 278 p. ; 22 cm. "The [36] stories in this book appeared originally in the New Yorker"--Verso of t.p. Stock# 40,861. Vg/ dj good, 3 inch tear in front.

Gambier, OH, Kenyon College, 1956. Periodical. xi, 33, [5]p., illus., ports, 28 cm. Dedicated to John Crowe Ransom who retired from teaching the next year (I took his last class--on the Romantic poets!) There are two of Mr. Ransom's poems, and contributions from Richard Blackmur, James Wright, Eric Bentley, Howard Nemerov, Arthur Mizener, and William Empson. Stock# 36,674x. Vg/… Read more about this item

London, Andrew Dakers Limited. "First published 1952". First Edition. Title continues: of the leading member of the famous literary partnership of E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross with a New Bibliography of First Editions compiled by Robert Vaughan and a Preface by Lennox Robinson Litt.D.' "We Irish" (as Bishop Berkeley would say) "are apt to swagger a bit...… Read more about this item

Clarke, Irwin, Toronto [c1967].. Hard Cover. 138 p. A priest is sent to Kingcome Village, B.C., to live with and learn from the Tsawataineuk tribe. Color pictorial dj chipped, 1-inch closed tear at spine; good+. 28599

NY, Viking [c1985]. First Edition. Pomerance C2a. Edited and with an Introduction by Madeleine Bemelmans. Foreword by Norman Cousins. "Bemelmans was the least inarticulate and most delightful personality I ever encountered. When he walked into a restaurant, his unsurpassed knowledge of menus and manners struck terror into the hearts of head waiters and chefs. ...He was elegant, ebullient,… Read more about this item