Search Results: Titles starting with G from The Owl at the Bridge

Hard Cover. ix, 137 pages, index, plates incl. portrait frontispiece; 22 cm. Bound in red cloth, spine stamped in gold; spine faded, no dust jacket; VG. stock#33519/h.

London, Allen & Unwin; NY, Humanities Press, 1970. Hard Cover. 376 p., index; 23 cm. Series: Muirhead library of philosophy. "This collection of essays illustrates the extent to which Moore's work has influenced and directed the thinking of many important contemporary philosophers. All of the essays were written in or after 1958 by philosophers whom Moore respected." Inscribed: "To Vince with much love Alice and Morris." From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. Stock#43933. Vg / dj vg.

Harper & Row [1986]. Hard Cover. 369 p., index, plates. ‘Drawing upon recently discovered original sources-- letters, a Sherlock Holmes detective story, and several poems-- Michael Ffinch has taken the traditional view of Chesterton as the ‘jolly journalist,’ the master of pun and paradox, and turned it on its head. He shows that a man who has been generally acknowledged as a major literary figure only came to his perception of truth through a life of spiritual turmoil and intense personal suffering which culminated in his conversion to Roman Catholicism.’ Dj edges a bit worn; near fine. stock#101647.

Brochure, 25 x 21 cm., holding two folded facsimiles of letters written by George Washington in April 1789 plus 6 leaves of printed information concerning the letters: two pages by Jacob Israel & Josephine Ver Brugge Zeitlin and four pages by Page Smith "Demystifying George Washington". Stapled in red printed paper covers; edges sunned; Very Good. Stock#ofc0477.

München, Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; in Kommission bei Beck, 1955.. Soft Cover. 178 p.; 23 cm. Study of the lyrics of the Chilean poetess, winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize for literature. Inscribed to Prof. William Fichter by Rheinfelder series: Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akad. der Wissenschaften, Jahrgang 1955, Heft 8. Stock# 30,023. Fine/ wrappers. Spanish literature, drama, poetry.

Cambridge, Mass., Harvard UP, 1961. Hard Cover. x, 186 p., index, illus.; 24 cm. "This volume should be regarded only as an introductory step on one road to cosmic knowledge." Here's how it looked in 1961. Stock# 30,869. Vg/ no dj.

Ottawa Hispanic Studies 10. Dovehouse Editions, Ottawa, 1995. Nine essays (in Spanish) explore diverse aspects of Galdós's historical novels, with special emphasis on 'episodios nacionales'. Soft Cover. 106 pages; 21.5 cm. Paper; new from publisher. stock#102036x.

Ottawa Hispanic Studies 1. Dovehouse Editions, 1995. Soft Cover. 218 p.; 21.5 cm. Ten original studies (in Spanish) by eminent Galdós scholars, with introductory survey and bibliography by the editor. Rodgers, Teoría literaria y filosofía de la historia en el primer Galdós; Dendle, Historia y ficción en Trafalgar y en El equipaje del rey José; Letemendía, Galdós y los ingleses en la primera serie de los Episodios nacionales; Utt, Sic vos non vobis: herencia historiográfica y coherencia estructural de La batalla de los Arapiles; Cardona, Mendizábal: grandes esperanzas; Urey, La revisión como proceso textual en los Episodios nacionales: el caso de Bodas reales; Gulleon, "Sustituyendo el azogue del espejo": la novelización de la ideología decimonúnica en Doña Perfecta; Goldman, "Cada peldaño tenía su historia": conciencia histórica y conciencia social en Fortunata y Jacinta; Ribbans, "Historia novelada o novela histórica?"; Blanco Aguinaga, Silencios y cambio de rumbo; Bibliografía,… Read More

NY, Putnam's Sons, 1974. Hard Cover. 264 p., 150 b/w, 24 color illus., ports., 25.5 cm. A life and times popular biography of the astronomer from Florence. "I have tried... to keep his science in perspective and yet set him against the backcloth of his age and, above all, to trace the inexorable sequence of events that forced Galileo into his inevitable clash with the Inquisition."ISBN (10): 0399113649. Stock#34694x. Vg/ dj poor, torn, one large piece missing.

NY, Oxford University Press, 2003. Hard Cover. xi, 226 p., [32] p. of plates, illus., index; 24 cm. Organized around six trips to Rome by Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642. Presents the Church in a softer light than usual. They didn't kill him after all-- although some would say this reflected Galileo's position in the Medici court more than any pontifical benevolence. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#44038.

New York : Penguin Books, 2000.. Soft Cover. ix, 420 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21.5 cm. "Galileo's Daughter dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion." ISBN (10): 0140280553. Stock# 47809. Vg / soft cover.

Bergisch Gladbach, Gustav Lubbe Verlag, 1987. Hard Cover. 480 p., illus., 22 cm. Primadonna assoluta of the Bolshoi Opera and the wife of Mstislav Rostropovitch, Galina fled to the West with the cellist. Written in Rusian, it first appeared in English translation, and then here, in German. Stock# 34,685. Fine/ dj fine.

Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston [c1924]. Hard Cover. 308 p., 9 portrait plates incl. front., 21 cm. The King and the Lady. The piteous tale of Henry Fitz Empress and Rosamond the Fair; Her Majesty's Godson. Elizabeth makes the best of an unwelcome situation; The Prince's Pawns. Did William of Orange use the Stuarts to his own ends?; The Pious Coquette. Mr. Thrale is caught by "Smiling Sophy"; The Two and Nelson. Lady Nelson's story as she might have told it; The Beau and the Lady. The Prince of fashion quarrels with a Prince of the blood; The Wooing of Sir Peter Teazle. Sir Peter and Lady Teazle before Sheridan knew them. Blue boards stamped in gold, top edge gilt; spine darkened, VG+. Stock#34919 {ns}.

Boston, Little, Brown, 1966. Hard Cover. xvii, 296 p., 89 illus., 9 maps; 24 cm. Focuses on eight men and one woman, Easterners and European sophisticates, who traveled to the American West for a variety of reasons. Theodore Roosevelt went to recover his health and found an inner strength which would propel his career. Vg/ dj good+. Stock#101960.

Paris, Presses Universitaites de France, 1944. Soft Cover. Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, XVe Commission. 298 p., index, maps, diagrams, illus., photos. Contains Martin-Granel, Les fouilles de l'oppidum du Cayla à Mailhac (Aude); Armand-Calliat, Les fouilles de Marloux, près Mellecey (Saöne-et-Loire) en 1943; Formigé, Le sanctuaire de Sanxay (Vienne); Toutain, Les fouilles exécutées en 1943 ét Alise-Sainte-Reine (Côte-d'Or) par la Société des Sciences historiques et naturelles de Semur; Basalo, Le temple du Moulin du Fé Barzan, près Talmont-sur-Gironde (Charente-Maritime); Rolland, Inscriptions antiques de Glanum [Saint-Remy-de-Provence] (Bouches-du-Rhône). Revision et complément du Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; Le gisement moustérien de Chez-Pourré et de Chez-Comte, près de Brive (Corrèze); L'atelier céramique de Thuisy (Marne): le four VII; Découverte de sépultures gallo-romaines à Riesse (Lozère); L'Établissement de La… Read More

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1998]. Soft Cover. xv, 296 pages ; 21 cm. Malinda Jenkins, as told in coversations to Jesse Lilienthal ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Paula Mitchell Marks. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1933. Born Malinda Plunkett in Northern Illinois (see the introduction; ignore the cover) she married 3 times and lived an adventurous, independent life in the American West. ISBN(10): 0803276079. Stock#47811. Vg / soft cover.

Princeton UP, 1997. Hard Cover. xviii,294 p. , illus., 24.5 cm. 'Examination of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth-century fresco cycles in the Pallazzo Communale of San Gimignano. Places the paintings decorating the Council Hall and the adjoining chamber within the context of contemporary lyric poetry and chivalric society.' Stock# 33,342. Fine/dj fine. Italian Art Mural painting

N.Y., Norton, 1976. Hard Cover. 384 p. 24 cm. How the Nixon White House's "obsession with secrecy and arrogance of power" led to the destruction of governmental integrity. Stock #29,241. Vg/ dj vg.

Oxford, The Malone Society Reprints, 1990. Hard Cover. xxii p., 13 plates on 5 leaves, 119 p.; 22 cm. "Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess is the most striking manifestation of popular political sentiment to survive from the early English drama. The play was written to capitalize on the strong anti-Spanish feelings stimulated by the proposed match between Prince Charles, the heir apparent, and the Infanta of Spain... Middleton also drew forcefully on the animosity of Londoners towards the Jesuits... A Game at Chess was a risky venture for the King's Men because the play dealt transparently with matters of state, and included obviously satirical representations of influential men, in particular... Spain's former ambassador to the Court of St James. The play was... performed at the Globe... from 5 to 14 August (Sunday excluded). The Spanish ambassador's complaints to King James caused the Privy Council to suppress the play, and thus end the longest known run of consecutive… Read More

N.Y., Gannett Center for Media Studies, Fall, 1989. Periodical. 201 p.; 23 cm. Includes a special section on China: James C. Thomson Jr., 'Jilted again: the U. S. media's courtship with democracy in China'; Leonard Pratt, 'The circuitry of protest: electronic journalism in China, 1989'; Alan Pessin, 'A 'brazen' violation' [VOA's Beijing correspondent kicked out of China]; Donald R. Shanor, 'The 'Hundred Flowers' of Tiananmen.' Stock# 32,704. Fine/ paper. History; Asia.