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Books, Periodicals, Ephemera Categories Category: All Categories: Literature: American: American Renaissance Lit Search in SubCategory:  American Renaissance Lit Title Author Keywords  For items that are: First Edition Signed 14 items found.   List items by:   Author     Title     Publisher 1. Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961   Thoreau (The biography of a man who believed in doing what he wanted)   Publisher: Boston, Beacon Press, [1958, ©1939]. xx, 508 p.; 20 cm. First published 1939, this was the standard biography of Thoreau, and still useful as well as a good read. "A selected bibliography": p. [485]-491. Stock#45230. Good+, well read but sound / soft cover. Appr.: | AUD 4.90 | CAD 5.15 | EUR 3.88 | GBP 3.31 | JPY 454.55 | MXN 55.56 | ZAR 50.00 |  Purchase direct from: The Owl at the Bridge. Item number: 45230.      US$5.00 2. Fetterley, Judith, 1938-   Provisions : A Reader from 19th-century American Women / edited with an introduction and critical commentary   Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1985.. viii, 467 p. ; 23 cm. "The work of sixteen women who wrote during the years when American writers were developing their distinctive styles and voices." Published between 1830 and 1864. Two of the stories have some ink underlining. Stock# 44,262. Good+ / soft cover. Appr.: | AUD 9.80 | CAD 10.31 | EUR 7.75 | GBP 6.62 | JPY 909.09 | MXN 111.11 | ZAR 100.00 |  Purchase direct from: The Owl at the Bridge. Item number: 44262.      US$10.00 3. Hovey, Allen Beecher, 1938- . [Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862]   The Hidden Thoreau by Allen Beecher Hovey, Department of Fine Arts, American University of Beirut   Publisher: Beirut, 1966. [xiii], [19]-152 p., illus.; 24 cm. Studies the influence of Concord and of New England nature on Thoreau's writing. Stock#46632. Vg/ no dj. Appr.: | AUD 29.41 | CAD 30.93 | EUR 23.26 | GBP 19.87 | JPY 2,727.27 | MXN 333.33 | ZAR 300.00 |  Purchase direct from: The Owl at the Bridge. Item number: 46632.      US$30.00 4. Melville, Herman, 1819-1891   Moby-Dick, or, The Whale   Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983; ©1979. 2 p.l., xv, 576, [577-579] p., illus.; 23.5 cm. Reprint; originally published: San Francisco: Arion Press, 1979. Designed by Andrew Hoyen with illustrations by Barry Moser, who challenges the tradition established by Rockwell Kent. A grand version of a great novel. Stock#46026. Vg / soft cover. Appr.: | AUD 9.80 | CAD 10.31 | EUR 7.75 | GBP 6.62 | JPY 909.09 | MXN 111.11 | ZAR 100.00 |  Purchase direct from: The Owl at the Bridge. Item number: 46026.      US$10.00 5. Sherman, Stuart C. (Capen), 1916-1983   Annual Melville Bibliography 1951   Publisher: Providence Public Library, [1952]. 1 leaf,1-6 leaves, 28.5 cm. "Multilith" With Annual Melville Bibliography 1952-1957, 28 numbered leaves. Stock# 44,778. Vg / boud typescript. Appr.: | AUD 9.80 | CAD 10.31 | EUR 7.75 | GBP 6.62 | JPY 909.09 | MXN 111.11 | ZAR 100.00 |  Purchase direct from: The Owl at the Bridge. Item number: 44778.      US$10.00 6. Smith, Jeffrey Chipps (editor).   RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY. Volume LVII [57], Number 4, Winter 2004.   Publisher: NY: The Renaissance Society of America (2004).. Studies: "The Renaissance Fascination with Error: Mannerism and Early Modern Poetry" by F. Rigolot; "David, Bathsheba, and the Penitential Psalms" by C.L. Costley; "The Mimesis of Marriage" by R. Leushuis; "Finding a Job as a Humanist" by E.M. McCahill. Vol. 57, No. 4, (p1219-1626): illustrated; 24cm. Index to Volume 57. 595g. Very Good Plus (clean, tight, uncreased and likely unread; faint stain rear cover). Printed wraps (softcover). Book condition: Very Good Plus. Appr.: | AUD 9.51 | CAD 10.00 | EUR 7.52 | GBP 6.42 | JPY 881.82 | MXN 107.78 | ZAR 97.00 |  Purchase direct from: Canterbury Books. Item number: 4806.      US$9.70 7. Smith, Jeffrey Chipps.   RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY. Volume LVIII [58], Numbers 1-4, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter 2005.   Publisher: NY: The Renaissance Society of America (2005).. Some of the studies include, "Visualizing Imperium" by C.R. Phillips; Abridging the Antiquitee of Faery lond" by C. Wheatley; "A Spectacular Celebration of the Assumption in Siena" by A. Campbell; "Spenser, Homer, and the Mythography of Strife" by J. Wolfe; "The Role of Letters in Biographies of Michelangelo" by D. Parker; 'Wherefore Art Thou Tereu? Juliet and the Legacy of Rape" by R.N. Watson and S. Dickey. Vol. 58, (1527p): illustrated; 24cm. Index to Volume 58. 2142g. Very Good Plus (clean and sound, minor wear). Printed wraps (softcover). Book condition: Very Good Plus. Appr.: | AUD 33.28 | CAD 35.00 | EUR 26.32 | GBP 22.48 | JPY 3,086.36 | MXN 377.22 | ZAR 339.50 |  Purchase direct from: Canterbury Books. Item number: 4807.      US$33.95 8. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862   The Maine Woods; arranged with notes by Dudley C. Lunt. Illustrated by Henry Bugbee Kane   Publisher: New York, Bramhall House [1950]. 340 p., illus.; 21cm. "The Maine Woods is a characteristically Thoreauvian book. A personal account of exploration, of exterior and interior discovery in a natural setting, conveyed in taut, workmanlike prose." Stock#102691. Vg / dj good+. Appr.: | AUD 7.35 | CAD 7.73 | EUR 5.81 | GBP 4.97 | JPY 681.82 | MXN 83.33 | ZAR 75.00 |  Purchase direct from: The Owl at the Bridge. Item number: 102691.      US$7.50 9. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 / Miller, Perry, 1905-1963   Consciousness in Concord; the text of Thoreau's hitherto "lost journal," 1840-1841, together with notes and a commentary Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1958. xi, 243 p. 22 cm. Notes and Commentary by Perry Miller. "First printing." "This journal covers the months of July 1840 to January 1841, when Henry Thoreau was in the twenty-third year of his life." Stock# 192,363. Vg, bookplate/ dj good +. Appr.: | AUD 19.61 | CAD 20.62 | EUR 15.50 | GBP 13.25 | JPY 1,818.18 | MXN 222.22 | ZAR 200.00 |  Purchase direct from: The Owl at the Bridge. Item number: 102363.      US$20.00 10. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 / Pearson, Norman Holmes 1909-1975, ed.   Walden or, Life in the woods; On the duty of civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau Publisher: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1960, c1948.]. xii, 304 p., 18.5 cm. 11th printing. This was the standard college text of the era. With commentary by Yale's Pearson. Stock#102692. Good+ / soft cover. Appr.: | AUD 4.90 | CAD 5.15 | EUR 3.88 | GBP 3.31 | JPY 454.55 | MXN 55.56 | ZAR 50.00 |  Purchase direct from: The Owl at the Bridge. Item number: 102692.      US$5.00 11. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 / Stern, Philip Van Doren, 1900- ed.   The Annotated Walden: Walden; or, Life in the Woods, by Henry D. Thoreau. Together with Civil Disobedience,   Publisher: New York, C. N. Potter; distributed by Crown Publishers [c1970]. [viii], 502 p. illus., facsims., maps, ports. index, 28 cm. Title continues: "a detailed chronology and various pieces about its author, the writing and publishing of the book. Edited, with an introduction, notes, and bibliography by Philip Van Doren Stern." "The text ... is a photographic copy of the first edition... in the Huntington Library." "The text for Civil disobedience ... is the 1866 one from A Yankee in Canada." Bibliography: p. 485-492. Stock# 43,781. Good+, the botton one inch is rippled--it mast have been on a radiator or some damp spot, else vg / dj vg. Appr.: | AUD 9.80 | CAD 10.31 | EUR 7.75 | GBP 6.62 | JPY 909.09 | MXN 111.11 | ZAR 100.00 |  Purchase direct from: The Owl at the Bridge. Item number: 43781.      US$10.00 12. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 /Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, editor   Letters to Various Persons by Henry D. Thoreau   Publisher: Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. [7], 229 p.; 19 cm. Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose Note reads, "...nearly all these letters have been printed directly from the original autographs furnished by the persons to whom they were addressed." BAL 20116; Boni A6. Stock#OB964. Good+, a sound copy. The fragile Ticknor & Fields cloth spine had broken and Hollis Bedell expertly rebacked it, saving some of the gold tooling. The interior is quite good but it has certainly been read over the past 150 years. Appr.: | AUD 196.08 | CAD 206.19 | EUR 155.04 | GBP 132.45 | JPY 18,181.82 | MXN 2,222.22 | ZAR 2,000.00 |  Purchase direct from: The Owl at the Bridge. Item number: OB964.      US$200.00 13. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961, editor   The Works of Thoreau. Selected & Edited by Henry S. Canby   Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1937. [xi], xxiv, 848 p., front., plates; 22 cm. This copy has an October 1937 publisher's review copy slip. Dust jacket fragile, worn, chipped, separated into 4 panels; now in mylar; internally clean, good condition. Stock#47132. Appr.: | AUD 24.51 | CAD 25.77 | EUR 19.38 | GBP 16.56 | JPY 2,272.73 | MXN 277.78 | ZAR 250.00 |  Purchase direct from: The Owl at the Bridge. Item number: 47132.      US$25.00 14. Van Nostrand, A. (Albert) D.   Everyman His Own Poet; Romantic Gospels in American Literature [by] A. D. Van Nostrand. Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill [1968]. xii, 272 p. 22 cm. "Concerns itself with how the authors of some of the greatest works of American literature--Moby Dick, Walden, Leaves of Grass, Nature, The Education of Henry Adams, The Bridge, and Paterson, among others--were forced... to create cosmologies, theories about the universe, ' in order to write meaningfully about America." Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 259-261). Stock# 42,759. Vg / dj vg. Appr.: | AUD 14.71 | CAD 15.46 | EUR 11.63 | GBP 9.93 | JPY 1,363.64 | MXN 166.67 | ZAR 150.00 |  Purchase direct from: The Owl at the Bridge. Item number: 42759.      US$15.00 14 items found

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