Literature: English from The Owl at the Bridge

86 pages; 22.5 cm.; no dust jacket; front cover lightly scuffed; blue-pencil owner name on first flyleaf dated 1936; Good+. Stock#ofc0905.

"This bibliography collects together poetry and verse on the theme of the First World War, written by English poets (i.e. poets of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales), servicemen and civilians, who experienced the war. It is restricted to printed material in the form of book, pamphlet, card, or broadside..." (Abstract). "It is not often that we (of certain age especially)… Saber más sobre este artículo

"...the only one-volume edition of Shakespeare's complete works designed for the general reader that provides annotations on each page of text. ...This new edition restores each line of Shakespeare's verse to its own line of text. By virtue of its size, this spacious one-volume edition presents the reader with an accurate rendering of Shakespeare's poetic rhythms..." ix,… Saber más sobre este artículo

"Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers [vol. 4]." Contents include: Introduction by Muriel Mellown; Profiles of British Literary Magazines, 1914-1984; lists of titles included in the previous volumes; A Chronology of Social and Literary Events and British Literary Magazines, 1914-1984; Scottish Literary Periodicals: A Selected List; Magazines with Short Runs; Index; list of Contributors. xxx,… Saber más sobre este artículo

"450 copies of this book have been printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed." xxxvii, 335 pages, portrait frontispiece plus two tipped-in plates with guardsheets facing pages 103 & 173; 21.5 cm. Bound in full brown leather, all edges gilt; all four spine corners nicked; thumb-size tear in outer edge of rear flyleaf. Stock#ob101a.

"The purpose of this bibliographical catalogue is to provide book collectors, dealers, and librarians with descriptions of Dickens's novels and Sketches by Boz in their original cloth bindings. I compiled the descriptions from an examination of as many first editions as I could review, and I included in each entry pertinent information obtained from most of the major bibliographies,… Saber más sobre este artículo

"Thirteen Plates." "Dirty books are inevitably among the rarest of rare books, having been produced surreptitiously, suppressed by authority, and destroyed by owners or executors... to the bibliographer clandestine publishing is always a challenge... these books were always published anonymously or under a false name; the printer likewise concealed his identity and if possible the place of printing under… Saber más sobre este artículo

"Illustrated with Maps, Diagrams, Coast-of-Arms, Photographs, and Drawings by Charles Doyle, Howard K. Elcock, D. H. Friston, A. Gilbert, James Grieg, George Hutchinson, William H. Hyde, Charles Raymond Macauley, Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele, Arthur Twidle, Frank Wiles, and Numerous Others." Two volumes: 688, 824 pages, illustrated throughout, endpaper maps; 28.5 cm. Dust jacket edges worn; Very Good.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Includes poems by Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Grimald, Canand, Chaucer, Cheke, Churchyard, Heywood, Norton, St. Leger, Vaux, among others. [iv] pages, 107 leaves; a facsimile reprint of the original in the Bodleian Library. Grey boards stamped in gold; top edge & fore-edge very slightly foxed, small spot on front cover; bookplate; near Fine. Stock#ofc0572.

Hard Cover. viii p., 1 leaf, 422 p.; 26 cm. "Fondée sur les matériaux rassemblés au cours des dix dernièes années. On trouvera ces matériaux dans un travail qui est sous presse, et que j'espère publier prochainement pour la 'Chaucer society,' sous le titre de Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion."--Avantpropos. "Bibliographie des oeuvres de Chaucer, 1477-1910": p.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York, Knopf, 1988. Biography of the Irish-born poet, playwright, aesthete. Includes bibliographical references (pages [623]-624) and index. Hard Cover. xvii, 680 pages, [32] pages of plates, illus., ports., 25 cm. Vg/dj vg. Stock#101864x.

Barcelona, Lumen, 1999. Translation from My War Gone By, I Miss It So... Novel set in Bosnia in the war-torn days of the 1990s. Soft Cover. 352 pages; 22.5 cm. VG, a few light pencil annotations in margins/soft cover. Stock#101895.

Cambridge, Harvard UP, 1967. "Contends that when myth is taken to be not a symbolic version of some distant truth but the very model which reality symbolizes, then it takes on its original power as the poetic expression of ultimate reality." Hard Cover. 229 pages, 21.5 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#32899.

Lexington, Universityof KY Press, 1981. Signed. Study of three metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century. Inscribed to Philip Sheridan. Hard Cover. vi, 194 pages; 22.5 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#30344.

London Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's church-yard, and sold at Paris by Charles Pougens... 1797. First published 1766. Hard Cover. iv, [5]-368 (i.e. 348) pages; 16.5 cm.; bound in full contemporary leather, marbled edges, brown marbled endpapers; covers worn, front cover loosening, spine near perished, occasional smoke stains along edges; a little internal spotting; withal clean… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, Houghton-Mifflin, 1926. The Irish playwright T. C. Murray was well regarded, his plays regularly performed. This has eight characters and is set in the Irish countryside. This copy may have been owned by a performer, who has annotated some words and lines in pencil. Hard Cover. 85 pages; 19 cm. Good+, tan boards, tan cloth spine… Saber más sobre este artículo

Rinehart, NY [1950]. Rinehart Critical Studies. "Examines in detail all of the major poems and many of the minor ones and discusses Burns as a song writer. Nowhere have the technical aspects of Burns's poetry-- his stanza forms, metrical patterns, satirical devices, use of imagery-- and the magical methods he used to fit words to music, been too… Saber más sobre este artículo

London/ Cambridge, Methuen/ Harvard UP, 1965. Hard Cover. liv, 197 p. (front. map), 22 cm. The Arden Shakespeare. This "New Arden" is based on entirely new premises and little of the "Old Arden" remains. Stock# 31,623. Vg/ dj vg.

Peter Pauper Press [1965?]. With eight woodcuts in light green and violet. Hard Cover. [61] pages; 19 cm. Dj soiled; VG. Stock#29299.

Lincoln, Nebraska UP [1990]. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a landmark in psychological fiction, predating a long line of books and movies about doubles, as well as the work of Freud. ...Like that other household name, Frankenstein, Jekyll-Hyde personifies science gone amuck, but Stevenson's creation perhaps cuts deeper in showing the psychic and moral… Saber más sobre este artículo