Literature: American from The Owl at the Bridge

"First published in Great Britain 1970 by Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd." "John Crowe Ransom has long occupied an important place in contemporary American poetry... 'ironic, wayward, gentle and infallibly human'..." Contents: The Innocent Doves (24 poems); The Manliness of Men (28); Two Gentlemen in Bonds (in twelve sonnets); Sixteen Poems in Eight Pairings (with original and final versions studied… Read more about this item

"First Edition" on verso of title-page. "The book has been composed, printed, and bound by The Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass. Typography and binding design by W. A. Dwiggins." xi, 75, [1] pages; 21.5 cm. Black cloth binding with gold spine & front-cover lettering; no dust jacket; Good+. Stock#ofc0913.

The cast of the 1966 British film based on this funny story involving a coffin and a tontine payoff includes Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Michael Caine, Peter Sellers... (see the Wikipedia entry). 244 pages; "Author's Editions", [4] pages at end. Bound in gold/tan binder's cloth, spine stamped in gold; front cover has pink rectangular title label at top… Read more about this item

"Sing a song for Percy Shelley, / Drowned in pale lemon jelly, / And for precious John Keats, / Dripping blood of pickled beets..." 185 pages; paper; minor wear; Good. "Cover design by Bradbury Thompson." Stock#ofc0425.

"In this complete revision and resetting of the 1948 'Wright I'-- as it is widely known-- 143 new titles have been added. Several hundred new editions of titles previously recorded have been located, eight of them earlier than before recorded. Authorship has been established for other entries, and a few unknown authors and their work have stepped forth… Read more about this item

Bookseller catalogue dedicated to the literature, history, and society of the 1960s. 449 items; stapled in red pictorial covers; Good+. Stock#ofc0319.

Bookseller catalog listing books on American interest, engraved illustrations, Italian literature, the Reformation, travel, and woodcut books as well as 65 Hebrew titles; 115 pages, 220 items, illus., index; paper covers; Good+. Stock#ofc0233.

98 p., illus., facsimiles; 14 x 20 cm. Edition of 100 copies; this numbered "18" and signed by the author in rear. Inspired by an elaborate tomb of John Rogers Vinton, who died in the siege of Veracruz on 22 March 1847, Smith's stories are "in fact about the words, sentences and paragraphs which linked together form stories..." Stock#48041.

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1947.. Hard Cover. xxvii, 221 p. 'Four in Aamerica was begun at Biligin in 1932 and finished in Paris in 1933. This text is based upon the typewritten copy of the manuscript, prepared by Miss Toklas...Which was given to the Yale University Library by Mr. Carl Van Vechten in November, 1940.' Stock #100,897.… Read more about this item

N.Y., John Lane, MCMXI [1911]. 79 poems. "I have been driven to making a small collection of my verses, because I found several which had been published without my name." Hard Cover. 114 pages, front., 16 cm. Vg/ no dj. Stock#NS0071.

London, John Lehmann [1951] . Hard Cover. 269p. 22 cm. A critical rather than biographical approach by an English writer. Stock #29,432. Good copy, sun faded edges / no dj.

N.Y., Gotham House, 1935. Hard Cover. 55 p. 21 cm. The author was a ten-year old boy when Twain and his daughter Jean moved to his town of Redding, CT. Half the book is Taylor's memory of the Twain's their livliness and their deaths. The second, advertised part is Twain's pencil notations in the 1868 English Humorists. BAL 3703.… Read more about this item

N.Y., Book of the Month Club, 1990. Hard Cover. unpaginated, ca. 500 p.; 23.5 cm. 315 poems. Adapted from the 1977 Franklin Mint edition. This is a remarkable production. What would e. e. have thought of the pretentiousness of a Franklin Mint pseudofication? And Book of the Month Club!? The fact that the… Read more about this item

'First printing' [thus]. "Mr. Frost, who has never been impressed by superficial orthodoxies, rolls up his poetic sleeves and discusses the possibility of reconciling justice with mercy in a sharp wit, a firm logic, and a strong faith in God and man." Hardcover.;39 pages; 22 cm. Bound in blue cloth, spine stamped in gold; blue printed dust jacket edges sunned,… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY, Doubleday Anchor, 1956. Soft Cover. xi, 346 p., illus., maps; 18 cm. "The Anchor Books edition is the first publication of The American Puritans, edited by Perry Miller." "Cover and typography by Edward Gorey." Good+, my former textbook with pencil underlinings in introduction, some use/ soft cover. Stock#NEU386. Vg / soft cover.

Modern Age Books, NY ["Reprinted in Red Seal Edition... 1937"]. Soft Cover. xvii, 167 p.; 20 cm. Reprint of his popular first book, first published 1934. Twenty-six short stories. "A writer's first book is his most important one, at least as far as he himself is concerned. Until the appearance of his first book he's… Read more about this item

Durham, NC, Duke UP, [1970] . Hard Cover. xxi, 751 pages 25 cm. Reprint of the 1954 edition. Bibliography of articles from a wide variety of general magazines, literary journals, periodicals of all sorts. The largest portion lists authors, followed by a smaller subject category. Stock #100,875. Vg/good. Reference American literature

N.Y., Harper & Row [1987]. Book club edition. Hard Cover. 'Dillard's ecstatic interest in the world begins here in... an ordinary childhood. What is extraordinary is Dillard's distinctive irony and humor coupled with the power and depth of her probing. This is a sweeping and original book, a classic story of the dawning of an American consciousness.'… Read more about this item

Copper Beech Press, Providence, R.I., 1980. Soft Cover. Thirty-two poems, many previously published. 'When darkness climbs/ a one-eyed navigator/ up from the broken coast/ we shake out our bones/ blow dust off the compass/ and drift' (Each Night). 64 p.; paper; fine. 25697x/h.

.Philadelphia, Lippincott [1952].. Hard Cover. Book club edition. 185 p.; Good+/dj ragged & tired;.. 'A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery.' American literature; mystery; fiction.