Search Results: Authors starting with F from The Owl at the Bridge

Hyperion Press / Duell, Sloan & Pearce, NY [c1945]. From the original Arabian Nights' Entertainment. Story of Sindbad the Seafarer and Sindbad the Load-Carrier; Sindbad's First Voyage or The Island That Was Not an Island; Sindbad's Second Voyage or The Valley of Diamonds; Sindbad's Third Voyage or The Terrible, One-Eyed, Man-Eating Giant; Sindbad's Fourth Voyage or Buried Alive; Sindbad's Fifth Voyage or The Old Man of the Sea; Sindbad's Sixth Voyage or The Splendors of Serendib; Sindbad's Seventh Voyage or Sold into Slavery. Hard Cover. 72 pages, illus. (mostly color); 27.5 cm. Pictorial dj well worn, torn with pieces missing, poor; book clean & VG. Stock#37920.

New York, Knopf, 1965. Hard Cover. xxxii, 1088 p. illus., ports. 25 cm. " ... all drawn from volumes issued during the last half-century by Alfred and Blanche Knopf over this sign and device [The borzoi] The whole selected, assembled, and edited, with an introd. and sundry commentaries." On spine: Borzoi books, 1915-1965. Stock# 37,342. Vg/ dj vg.

Librairie Payot, 1925 [second edition]. First published 1917. "2e édition revue et complétée avec 84 illustrations." Discusses choosing skis, keeping them smooth, repair, the skier's equipment; Technique (walking, stopping, jumping, turning); Terrain (kinds of snow, avalanche, crevasse, accident); Itineraries in western Switzerland (Jura de Delémont à Genève; Jorat; Préalpes; Rive droite du Rhône; Rive gauche du Rhône); Excursions d'intérèt exceptionnel pour skieurs expérimentés; Signaux Morse; pages 129/130 contain 6 advertisements. Soft Cover. 130 pages, frontispiece, text figures incl. diagrams & photos; 22 cm. Tan wraps printed in red with photo of two men walking up a mountain with skis "en bandolière"; spine faded, covers spotted, worn; VG. stock#826.

N.Y., Oxford University Press, 1996. Soft Cover. x, 493 p., illus., 25 cm. Fifty-three accounts as I counted. Interesting tales of excavations by the archaeologists themselves. Much on Egypt, but the whole world is included.Stock# 31,794. Fine, new/ soft cover

Londra, M DCCC LXXXXIX [1899]; reprint Martino/Krown & Spellman 2000. Murray was a pre-Raphaelite painter who began his career as copyist for John Ruskin and assistant to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edwin Burne-Jones. He later worked as buying agent and consultant but is best known as a collector of art. His great achievement was his book collection. This title, the rare complement to its companion volumes on French and German books, describes 2382 early Italian printed books, was printed a century ago in 100 copies, and has never been reprinted. Not in Besterman. Hard Cover. 401 pages, 24 cm. Fine, green binder's cloth; new from the publisher. Stock#34890x/h.

A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier [1667] / facsimile Ithaca, NY, Historic Urban Plans, 1966. Printed facsimile map; 58 x 80 cm. Orientation: east at top. The Eternal City of the late Renaissance is fully portrayed on this large, highly decorative and beautifully detailed plan showing the city at the death of Pope Alexander VII.  The reproduction is reduced one-tenth from the original size. For the original see Amato Pietro Frutaz, Piante de Roma, (Roma, 1962) Text 1: 218-219; Tav. 349. stock#Flat0020. Vg.

NY, Funk & Wagnalls [1970]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. x, 329 p., 250 illus.; 27 cm. "Silver represents the first important art form in this country." Ms Fales is sensitive to the arty styles and designs of silver. She helps the novice and is also a good source for experienced curators. Very Good in good+ dust jacket with some signs of wear. Stock#47621.

Boston, Mass., The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2001. Hard Cover. xiv, 281 p., illus.; 28 cm. New England, especially Boston, was a center of the silversmith's art and craft in early America. In this volume, 11 distinguished scholars from museums and universities examine styles, forms and functions of silver from the time of John Hull and Robert Sanderson in the mid-seventeenth century through the career of Paul Revere in the Federal period. ISBN (10): 096207375X. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#L434.

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1967. Hard Cover. 288 p,24 cm. Nineteen articles and transcripts composed between 1964 and the day of his death in an ambush in Viet nam in 1967. Stock #29,969. Vg/ dj good+.

[Port-au-Prince, Haiti] Bon nouvèl [1980]. Soft Cover. 97, [3] p., chiefly illus.; 24 cm. In Haitian creole. Cartoon version of Roumin's novel 'Gouverneurs de la rosée', first published 1944. From the library of Raphael G. Urciolo. Stock#47184. Vg / soft cover.

London, Macmillan, 2002. Hard Cover. xvi, 347 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. "Although Newton wrote far more on alchemy, theology and ancient chronology thanon either gravity or optics, he is now universally acclaimed as a scientific genius." Stock#32610x. Fine/ dj fine.

Pantheon Books, NY  series: Pantheon Modern Writers. "First American Edition". Soft Cover. 246 pages, 20.5 cm. "A Somali youth is torn between duty to family and country. On the one hand Askar, an orphan, should look after his foster mother, on the other he wants to be a man and emulate his father who died fighting the Ethiopians." The first of 3 in the Blood in the Sun trilogy.. ISBN (10): 0394755480. Pictorial paper covers; VG. Stock#38372.

[Port-au-Prince, Haiti] Regeneration du Nord-Ouest d'Haiti, 1969. Soft Cover. [5]-76 page, 27 cm. Mimeographed from typescript. "Cours d'histoire de la Litterature Haitienne Tome III." From the library of Raphael G. Urciolo, who argued that Haitian crele was an eight Romance Language.   Stock#47188. Vg / soft cover.

New York, Scribners, c1970. Texts and commentaries on 20 French authors of the 18th Century. Hard Cover. xxvi, 235 pages, illus., index, 22 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#38526.

An English woman engaged as companion/ governess to a Russian family in 1914, the author volunteered for Red Cross work. A selection from her diaries (she wrote 400,000 words), this is at once very personal and a mirror of the great events that shattered the Russian Empire. Solzenitsyn is quoted as saying, 'The photographs inspired my imagination.' Hardcover. 422 pages, 48 photographs by the author. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. Stock#25996/h.

[London] Privately Printed for Subscribers MCMIX [1909]. Hard Cover. 3 leaves, fasimile title-page, 1 blank leaf, [36] p., 1 leaf; 19.5 cm. Interleaved for annotations. Series: The Tudor Reprinted and Parallel Texts, edited by John S. Farmer. Original title, within an ornamental border: A newe interlude of Impacyente pouerte newlye Imprynted. M. D. L. X. "Until recently this play was known by mention only. A copy, however, turned up in the notable Irish "find" sold at Sotheby's in July, 1906. It was then bought for the nation for £150, and is now in the British Museum (Press-mark, C. 34, i. 26). ...This reprint has been compared with the original by Mr. J. A. Herbert, of the Manuscript Department of the British Museum." Brown cloth, faux-vellum spine, paper spine label; covers & spine worn; VG. Stock#21530.

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1950. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 289 p. 22 cm. "Within the larger world of Shakespearean tragedy, Timon of Athens, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus make up a world of their own." Stock # 29,535. Vg/ no dj.

Providence, The Author, 1923. Hard Cover. 10 leaves, 319 pages, map, folding facsimile; 24 cm. First published in a private edition in 1913. Life among the seafaring folk of Nantucket Island during the Civil War era. Stock#32124. Vg/ no dj.

Mendon, Scolar Press, 1972. Hard Cover. [10], 72 p.; 26 cm. A Scolar Press Facsimile of the first edition, London, B. Lintott, 1707. The playwright's last comedy and a classic still performed. Two impoverished young men, two young women (one married), some deceptions, some threats, a fortunate death, a deus ex machina, the foursome can marry wealthy. Vg/wrappers. 101920.

Cape Cod Historical Publications, Yarmouth Port [1993]. Soft Cover. 177 p., 161 photos, index; 25.5 cm. Contents include From the Pilgrims to 1899: False Starts and Pipe Dreams; August Perry Belmont's Private Ditch; Uncle Sam Takes Over; Cape Cod Canal Today; Bibliography, pp. 171-173. Color pictorial paper covers; minor wear; VG. Signed by the author on title-page. stock#817.