An April Shower: Bright Stories and Pictures for Little Ones

Boston, De Wolfe, Fiske & Co. Hardcover. A blue fabric spine with color-illustrated wraps over boards. Unpaginated. Contains many black-and-white illustrations. VG: An old book. Wear to the covers and spine. The spine is peeling in the middle but attached at the top and bottom. The pages are tanned but clear.

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Book number: 206220

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Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Children's Literature ; ;

Writer's Eye 2023: An Anthology of Poetry & Prose by the Winners of the 37th Annual Literary Competition

Charlottesville, VA, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, 2023. Softcover. Octavo. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 100 pages. VG .

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Book number: 206465

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The Yellow Book, an Illustrated Quarterly (Lot Vol. IV-VII 1895)

London / Boston, John Lane / Copeland & Day, 1895. Hardcover. 4 volumes, bound in yellow cloth with illustrated boards. Full run of 1895. Vol. IV, January 1895, Vol. V April 1895, Vol. VI July 1895, Vol. VII October 1895. (283 pages, 17 plates; 343 pages, 14 leaves of plates; 351 pages, 16 leaves of plates; 336 pages, 20 leaves of plates). VG-/ Some toning to the spines and bumping at the corners, light soiling.

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Book number: 206046

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The Yellow Book, an Illustrated Quarterly (Lot Vol. VIII-XI 1896)

London / Boston, John Lane / Copeland & Day, 1896. Hardcover. 4 volumes, bound in yellow cloth with illustrated boards. Full run of 1896. Vol. VIII, January 1896, Vol. IX April 1896, Vol. X July 1896, Vol. XI October 1896. (430 pages, 26 plates; 224 pages, 17 leaves of plates; 366 pages, 13 leaves of plates; 342 pages, 12 leaves of plates). VG-/ Some toning to the spines and bumping at the corners, light soiling.

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Book number: 206047

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The Yellow Book, an Illustrated Quarterly Vol. XIII, April, 1897

London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1897. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Yellow cloth with black titles and illustration. 316 Pages, 18 plates. VG-. general signs of aging for an almost 130 year old book. Some soiling to the spine and covers. Light bumping to head / tail of spine. Interior clean and unmarked.

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Book number: 206060

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The Yellow Book, an Illustrated Quarterly Vol. XII, January, 1897

London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1897. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Yellow cloth with black titles and illustration. 344 Pages, 14 plates. G. Spine has heavy toning, as do boards along with heav rubbing. Bumping at corners. Text block is clean.

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Book number: 206061

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The Yellow Book, an Illustrated Quarterly Vol. III, October, 1894

London / Boston, John Lane, The Bodley Head / Copeland & Day, 1894. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Yellow cloth with black titles and illustration. 279 Pages, 15 plates. VG-. Boards are a little bowed. Toning to spine and covers. Some bumping at head/tail and corners. text block clean.

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Book number: 206062

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The Yellow Book, an Illustrated Quarterly Vol. II, April, 1894

London / Boston, Elkin Mathews & John Lane / Copeland & Day, 1894. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Yellow cloth with black titles and illustration. 272 Pages, 23 plates. VG-. Bookseller label inside front cover. Gift inscription on front end paper. Light bowing to boards. Covers have some rubbing. Some bumping at head/tail and corners. Text block clean.

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Book number: 206063

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Aiken, Conrad

Among the Lost People

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards, gilt spine lettering; 4 preliminary leaves, 292 pages. Contents: O how she laughed!--Mr. Arcularis.--Bow down, Isaac!--The night before prohibition.--Impulse.--Silent snow, secret snow.--The fish supper.--No, no, go not to Lethe.--Pure as the driven snow.--The bachelor supper.--Gehenna.--Thistledown. Good+ (light shelfwear to boards, aging to text block and pages, binding is secure and pages are otherwise clear, inscribed and dated by author to previous owner on ffep from 1934) .

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Book number: 189727

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Fiction ; ;

Albrecht, Michael Von

Roman Epic: An Interpretive Introduction

Leiden/ Boston, Brill, 1999. Hardcover. Light blue boards with gilt lettering; dark blue dj, mylar cover; x, 371 pp. This book discusses some works of these poets: Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, Virgil, Ovid, Albinovanus Pedo, Cornelius Severus, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus, Claudian, and Corippus. Contents include: I. Introduction: Intertextuality and Rhetoric. Roman Epic Poets and Their Readers -- II. Livius Andronicus: Inuentio. The Rediscovery of the Odyssey and the Invention of a Poetic Language -- III. Naevius: Dispositio. The Clash of Myth and History -- IV. Ennius: Elocutio. A Horse Simile or A Clash of Two Cultures. A Hellenistic Poet in an Archaic Society -- V. Virgil -- 1. Prooemium. The Poet and His Reader. The Iliad and the Odyssey as Subtexts to the Proem of the Aeneid -- 2. Narratio. Aeneas' Account of his Flight -- 3. Inuentio I. Virgil's View of History in the Catalogue of Heroes (Aen. 6. 679-899) -- 4. Inuentio II. Turnus, a Tragic Hero? Virgil and Aristotle -- 5. Dispositio. Double Inversion and the Rhetoric of Silence -- 6. Elocutio I. Virgil's Similes and the Genesis of the Aeneid -- 7. Elocutio II. On the Use of Tenses in the Aeneid -- VI. Ovid -- 1. Inuentio. Ovid and His Readers -- 2. Prooemium. Ovid's Arachne and Human Creativity -- 3. Elocutio. Similes in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Their Functions -- 4. Clash of Genres. Gods and Religion in Ovid's Metamorphoses with Special Regard to Venus and Elegy -- 5. Clash of Systems of Values. The Daughters of Anius -- VII. Albinovanus Pedo: Elocutio and Defamiliarization. The Thrill of a First Experience -- VIII. Cornelius Severus: Death and Poetic Survival of Oratory -- IX. Lucan: The Revival of Epic through Science and Rhetoric -- X. Valerius Flaccus: Elocutio. The Myth of Io or the Magic of the Present Participle -- XI. Statius: The Futility of Rhetoric. Achilles under the Spell of Beauty (Achilleid 1. 242-396) -- XII. Silius Italicus -- 1. Intertextuality as Guiding Principle of Invention -- 2. From Elegy to Epic. Claudia Quinta: Beauty under False Suspicion -- XIII. Claudian: Poetic Rhetoric and Intertextuality. Proserpina's Tapestry -- XIV. Corippus: Transformation of Epic Imagery. VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.) .

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Book number: 186168

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Epic Poetry ; ;

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Death of Oenone. Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems

New York and London, Macmillan And Co, 1892. Hardcover. Forest green boards with gilt spine lettering. vi, 113 pp. Contents: June Bracken and Heather, To the Master of Balliol, The Death of Oenone, St. Telemachus, Akbar's Dream, The Bandit's Death, The Church-Warden and the Curate, Charity, Kapiolani, The Dawn, The Making of Man, The Dreamer, Mechanophilus, Riflemen Form!, The Tourney, The Bee and the Flower, The Wanderer, Poets and Critics, A Voice Spake Out of the Skies, Doubt and Prayer, Faith, The Silent Voices, God and the Universe, The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avon-Dale. VG .

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Book number: 175769

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old, Alfred Lord Tennyson ; Alfred Lord Tennyson ; ;

Alighieri, Dante; Paul Pochhammer

Dante's Divine Comedy; in German Punch Free

Leipzig, BG Teubner, 1913. Hardcover. German language text. Off white leather boards with gilt lettering and design elements. xcvi, 462 pages frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, 2 folded plates. Edit by Paul Pochhammer, with a Dante picture after Giotto, by E. Burnand, book decorations by H. Vogeler-Worpswede and ten sketches. Very Good, Cover has general wear, discoloration, some damage along cover hinge. Front end page partially loose from binding, Internal pages have minor age toning.

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Book number: 189909

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Keywords: Literature Young and Old, Dante ; Dante ; ;

Alighieri, Dante

La Divina Commedia

Milan, Italy, Carlo Sironi, 1921. unbound. pgs 9-1104 w/ bw tissue-guard plates. A rebinding and reading copy only. Opening pages missing; textblock begins at page nine, Canto I, line 85. A very rough copy of Carlo Sironi's renowned edition. Approximately 19lbs for shipping. Fair- (boards missing. sewn & paper spine binding material remains intact, though paper is peeling; numerous splits to textblock; textblock is holding. pgs 1089 through 1104 detached from textblock, yet remain intact as their own packet. pgs remain fairly bright w/ instances of smudges, marks & occasional foxing.) .

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Book number: 192083

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Keywords: Literature Young and Old, la Divina Commedia, the Divine Comedy, Carlo Sironi ; the Divine Comedy ; ;

Alighieri, Dante and Sandro Botticelli

La Divina Commedia Di Dante Alighieri Coi Disegni Di Sandro Botticelli: Cantica Terza

Berlin, Germany, Ex Officina Serpentis, 1925. Hardcover. grey boards w/ black printing. approx 76 unpaginated pgs w/ red, tissue-guard frontispiece & 30 bw woodcuts, many red typographic. Text in Italian. Many unopened pages. Parchment pages remain fairly bright with some darkening to fore-edges and instances of speckled foxing. "Dante's Divina commedia was completed in the years 1921 to 1925 as a hand press print of the Officina Serpentis in 265 copies. The text was revised according to the latest Dante research by Professor Carl Weber Halle. The hand drawings by Sandro Botticelli were photographically transferred to wood from the surviving leaves of the Codex Hamilton .. photographically transferred to wood."--WorldCat. Good- (boards scuffed, scratched, foxed & darkened; spine missing w/ tattered edges. textblock/spine split; three binding joints holding boards/textblock.) .

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Book number: 192802

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Allsburg, Chris Van

The Garden of Abdul Gasazi

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. tan cloth boards with embossed stamp in illustrated jacket. 33 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 x 32 cm. When the dog he is caring for runs away from Alan into the forbidden garden of a retired dog-hating magician, a spell seems to be cast over the contrary dog. VG/VG-. Toning and foxing to the top edge of the jacket. Bookplate from the Children's Bookshop at The Met signed by Allsburg.

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Book number: 206219

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Allsburg, Chris Van ; ;