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

Canada, New Brunswick, 1882. J. Goldsmith & Co.. Try your luck and win $100,000. Broadside, 32.5 x 23 cm. The description of a $266,000 lottery. 'This is the only legal Gift Drawing in the whole Dominion of Canada.' Most of the winners described are from the United States, which shows that when gaming is prohibited in one jurisdiction people will seek it out in another. Flat 0010a.

London, Thames & Hudson, c1998.. Hard Cover. xv, 240 p., 104 illus. (30 col.), index, 29 cm. Catalog.of "about 80" Daguerreotypes in the J. Paul Getty Museum Photograph collections. Stock# 40,014. Fine, new from publisher/ dj fine.

Monographic bookseller catalogue. 152 items; stapled in blue pictorial paper; Good. Stock#ofc0274.

Chicago, Lawrence, Spring, 1980. A catalog of many significant book illustrators. 558 entries, illustrated; 21.5 cm. Stock#48196.

Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1981. 'First Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. 629 p., index; 24 cm. "From folk songs to rock, jazz to symphony, gospel songs to oratorios and Tin Pan Alley to opera: over 1,200 biographical entries of American composers and musicians." Association copy: inscribed to Calderon & Sally Howe by Frances Veri and Michael Jamanis, duo-piano artists, with a program of their Gershwin concert in New Orleans, December 1981. Stock# 44,181. Vg, dj good+ worn.

Paris, To-Day, edited by Holbrook Jackson. Vol. IX No. 50, June 1922. Paris literary journal greets the publication of Ulysses. Includes 'James Joyce. A New Camera Study of the Author of 'Ulysses' taken in Paris' (frontispiece). Holbrook's essay begins, 'Mr. James Joyce's Ulysses is an affront and an achievement. It is not indecent. There is not a salacious line in it. It is simply naked: naked and unconscious of shame. ...if it will not amuse the idle novel reader, or even attract the lewd by its unsavoury frankness, it must claim the attention of those who look upon fiction as something more than confectionery. With all its faults, it is the biggest event in the history of the English novel since Jude.' The first review of the novel. Periodical; pages 47-49; 19 cm. Vg; literary journal. Stock#37970 (iab).

'Eighth printing, February 1976'. Softcover; 24 pages, color illustrations; 27 cm. "Inspired in childhood by original sketches in her Grandmother's Pittsburgh home, drawn and captioned by that genius of nonsense, Edward Lear, Mary Hilliard Jackson sought to capture the wit and fun she found throughout the fabric of botanical pedantry. ...You have in hand a pokeyphun book that the plant and flower lover especially will enjoy..." Stapled in cream pictorial paper covers; minor wear & soiling; Very Good. stock#905/h.

Providence, B. Cranston, 1840. Hard Cover. 312 pages, illus., 7 woodcut plates, 14 text illus., 23 pages; 23 cm. Imperfect: lacks the folding map, which was rudely torn from this copy. Good, leather spine. Stock#OB402.

Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. [1989].. Hard Cover. 768 p., 400 b/w illus., 15,000 marks; 10,000 corrections of the 2nd edition. A third revised & enlarged edition of English Goldsmiths and their Marks, first pub. 1905. Arntzen/ Rainwater P 507. New from the publisher. (1799 tg) Antiques, collecting.

N.Y., Columbia UP, 1962. Hard Cover. xiii, 432 p., 22 cm. Third printing; first, 1960. "He describes the medieval literary audience and surveys the principal genres of medieval literature." Stock# 34,653. Vg/ dj good, some small tears.

New York, Farrar, Straus [c1950]. Hard Cover. 668 p., 23 cm. "Undoubtedly it is one of the most complete and exhaustive, as well as interesting and entertaining works of its kind ever undertaken, covering every field of interest to anyone interested in books." IAB. Stock# 37,642. Vg/ no dj.

London, Henrie Bynneman, 1568; Oxford, The Malone Society Reprints, 1956. Hard Cover. ix, [56] p., 3 facsimiles on 2 leaves; 22 cm. Prepared by John Crow & F. P. Wilson from STC 14327, "A newe mery and wittie Comedie or Enterlude, newely imprinted, treating upon the Historie of Jacob and Esau, taken out of the xxvij. Chap. of the first booke of Moses entituled Genesis. The partes and names of the Players who are to be consydered to be Hebrews and so should be apparailed with attire..." Linen spine, no dj; VG. Stock#25055.

Boston, Little Brown, 1997.. Hard Cover. 392 p., illus. 25 cm. ”Before Marco Polo, a Jewish-Italian merchant embarked on a perilous voyage to the East” through India and Asia to China, eventually to Beijing. This was prepared from an otherwise unknown manuscript in private hands in Italy. Stock #100,405x. Fine/fine. Copy 2 vg/ dj good+ some wear. +China Medieval Italy.

Secaucus, NJ, Chartwell, 1981. Hard Cover. ”John Jacob, Curator of the Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House (London), places Rembrandt in the context of the early flowering of the Dutch Renaissance and sketches his career from the apprenticeship in Leiden to his final years in Amsterdam.” 100,637. 64 p. Fine/vg.

Chicago, Rand McNally [1965]. Hard Cover. 144 p. illus. 22 cm. Historical, royal, elaborate dollhouses and their furnishings. Stock# 40,150. Poor, ex-library, worn.

Chicago : P. F. Volland Co., 1918. Hard Cover. 38 p. : col.illus., 18.5 cm. 10 story-poems about cats and kittens. "Sixth edition." Stock# 40,448. Good+, spine worn/ illustrated boards.

Soft Cover. Bonn, Presse und Informationsamt der Bundes-regierung, 1969. 350 p. Twelve (12) articles on German opposition to the Nazis. 101,056. Vg/paperback.

Bonn, Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, 1969.. Soft Cover. 338 p. Twelve (12) articles on German resistance to Hitler. This copy belonged to a woman whose father was executed for resisting, She came to this country and taught. She has marked several passages that deal with civilians who were executed. Stock #101,055. Vg/paperback. Germany History World War II

"Meant for the individual who is interested in purchasing his first Oriental Rug, as well as the collector, museum, and rug importer. The volume is divided into three parts: General Discussion / Description of Types / Plates. Contents include Persian rugs, Caucasian rugs, Turkish rugs, Turkoman or the Bokhara family of rugs, Indian rugs, Chinese rugs, Afghanistan rugs, Japanese Oriental rugs, Pakistan, Bulgarian and Grecian rugs, Antique Oriental rugs, Designs, Materials and methods, Dyes, The Chemical Treating or Bleaching of Oriental rugs, Changes of color and irregularities in shape." 479 p., illus., 51 figures, 155 b/w & 39 color plates, 10 maps; 26 cm. Gift inscription on front fly. Stock#48053. Vg.

Princeton UP, 1993.. Hard Cover. 2 vols: 464; 464 p. Legenda Aurea in English. "Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. In his new translation, the first in modern English of the complete text from the Graesse edition, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich, image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and in popular religious culture more generally." Stock #101,001x. Medieval World Religion Christian Saints.