Search Results: Literature: World from The Owl at the Bridge

Leipzig, Hesse & Becker, [1930?] . Hard Cover. 149 p. has the stamp of the 'Jewish Review/ Judische Rundschau' on half-title. Stock #100,619. Good+/dj worn, has tears. German literature Humor

Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1976. Soft Cover. Signed. OFFPRINT: pages 37-113; 22 cm. From: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, vol. 148. Inscribed to Alan [Trueblood]. Stock#46617. Vg / soft cover.

In Russian / Cyrillic. Hardcover. 734 pages, [17] pages of plates, illustrations; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 634-[710]) and index. On the biography and bibliography of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904). Stock#25798/h. Fine; no dust jacket.

N.Y., MLA, 1965. Soft Cover. offprint from PMLA LXXX. 5, Dec. 1965, p. 499-507; Robert de Boron, also known as Petit Saint Grail wrote on of the earliest surviving Grail romances ca. 1180-1199. Stock# 34,414. Vg/ paper

Vintage International, NY. "First Vintage International Edition, November 2001". Soft Cover. Originally published in the Netherlands as "Abessijnse kronieken" by Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 1998. "Epic generational saga set in Uganda... through the hellish reign of Idi Amin... and the ravages of war, poverty, and AIDS. ...In the end his hard-won observations form a cri de coeur for a people shaped by the untold losses of the postcolonial African experience. ...a powerful, passionate, and humorous new literary voice." ix, 462 p.; paper; 20.5 cm.; front cover has minor stain; VG. 34501.

Roma: Bulzoni, c1982. Soft Cover. Two volumes, 1116 pages; 25 cm. Publicadas por Giuseppe Bellini. Among the 100 or so articles is Alan S. Trueblood, "Lo Visual y lo Pictorico en la Dorotea". This was Trueblood's copy. Stock#46023. Vg / soft cover.

Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert Verlag, 1989. Publicadas por Sebastian Neumeister. "Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Romanische Philologie." Soft Cover. Two volumes: xx, 700, 749 pages, illus.; 23 cm. VG. Stock#45987.

[Bordeaux] Inst. de Estudios ibericos e iberoamericanos, Univ. de Bordeaux III, 1977. Publicadas bajo la dirección de: Maxime Chevalier, François Lopez, Joseph Perez, Noël Salomon. Includes an article by distinguished hispanist Alan S. Trueblood, whose copy this was. Soft Cover. Two volumes: 428, [433]-897 pages; 24.5 cm. Vg. Stock#46021.

Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Univ. of Toronto, por la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, 1980. Hard Cover. xvi, 830 p.; 25 cm. Publicadas bajo la dirección de Alan M. Gordon y Evelyn Rugg. 198 articles. Includes Alan S. Trueblood, whose copy this was, on Antonio Machado. Stock#46022. Vg / no dj.

NY, Printed and Published by H. Durell. Hard Cover. Three volumes: 316, 308, 304 p. The French original (Cioranescu 39953-55) was first published 1715-1735. Smollett's translationwas first published in four volumes, London, 1749. Includes 13 of 24 plates (missing 2, 4, 5, 6, 8-14). Offset browning from engravings on facing pages. American Imprints 16884. Bound in full contemporary leather. The New York binder, showing off his craft and his familiarity with London and Paris styles, has fully ornamented the spines and used several techniques on the boards. Spines are worn at extremities; hinges cracked. Original endpapers stained, wrinkled. Stock#OB002.

NY, Scribner's Sons, 1953. Hard Cover. xiii, 381 p.; 21.5 cm. ”There is much more rugged and rough, harsh and bitter music in Virgil than you might suspect if you only read about him.” Stock#36473. Good+/ no dj.

NY, Praeger, 1986. Text developed as companion volume to the public television series "The Africans", co-produced by the BBC. ISBN (10): 0275920739. Soft Cover. xviii, 348 pages, maps; 24 cm. Vg/ soft cover. Stock#47016.

New York, Baroque Press [1974]. Hard Cover. xxxiii, 222 pages, index, 22 cm. Thirty-four known authors plus some anonymous works are represented. Dante has the large share, but others from St. Francis of Assisi through Cavalcanti and Cino da Pistoia are here. Stock#45424. Vg/ dj vg.

Neuchâtel : Éditions la Baconnière, 1943. Soft Cover. 106 pages.; 20 cm. Series: Les Cahiers du Rhône : Série blanche ; 20.  tock#46595.Collection of essays printed in the safety of Swizerland. This seems to be Marcelle Castelier's first book. Vg / soft cover.

Milano, All'insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1968. First Edition. Forced into exile in 1938, Guillén taught at Wellesley from 1941 to 1957, then retired to Italy, where this first edition of his collected poems was published. This copy contains an envelope from Guillén to Alan Trueblood. Hard Cover. 1697 pages; 21.5 cm. Vg / vg. Stock#45555.

Neuchatel,  Baconnière, 1945. Soft Cover. Cahiers du Rhöne, Série Blanche, 61. 2  reliminary leaves, [7]-218 pages, 2 leaves 19 cm. Based on his doctoral dissertation.Published at the end of World War II. Stock# 34,235. Good+, unopened, covers soiled/ paper.

N.Y., Macmillan, 1961. Hard Cover. vii, 242 pages, front. (port.) 23 cm. This biography of the French Nobel Prize winner includes the fateful car ride in which he was killed. Stock# 30,471. Vg/ no dj.

Bern und Munchen, Franke, 1960. Hard Cover. Bern und Munchen, Franke, 1960. 280 p. front. (port.). Study of Albert Steffen, 1884-1963, Swiss novelist, playwright, poet. Stock #100,654. Vg/ dj vg. German Literature

N.Y., Harcourt, Brace [c1936]. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 91 p., 1 l., 22 cm. The first collaboration of these talented translators. "Our object was to make the 'Alcestis' clear and credible in English. Since it is a poem, it had to be made clear as a poem; and since it is a play, it had to be made credible as a play. We set for ourselves no fixed rules of translation or of dramatic verse: often we found the best English equivalent in a literalness which extended to the texture and rhythm of the Greek phrasing; at other times we were forced to a more or less free paraphrase..." 'Typography by Robert Josephy.' Tan cloth, printed front-cover label; spine darkened; VG/ no dj. stock#31515.

Middletown Conn., Wesleyan UP, 1995. Published in 1913, these were radical, revolutionary poems in their day and still carry a charge. French & English on facing pages. Hard Cover. 171 pages; 23.5 cm. Vg/ no dj as published. Stock#29112.