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By: Ade, George
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1899
Edition: Early Reprint
Seller ID: A37807
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is some beginning fraying to the spine ends as well. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front pastedown page, and another on the obverse of the title page. There is also an ink stamped previous owner's name and address on the front pastedown and front endpaper. "Ade's literary reputation rests upon his achievement... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, J. C. Derby: 1855
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A35249
Condition: Good
This book is in Good to Good+ condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, solid condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some edge wear, bumping, rubbing and fraying. The bottom rear corner has been nibbled by a rodent (just the very edge of the corner). The brown cloth cvoers are noticeably rubbed and a bit faded. The text pages are generally clean, but do have some spots of foxing throughout. "After the war, Beecher supported social reform causes such as women's suffrage and temperance. He also championed C... View more info
By: Brown, Rita Mae
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Oakland, CA, Diana Press: 9761
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A37406
Condition: Very Good+
B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The spine and spine joints have toning and sunning. The text pages are clean and bright. "In the spring of 1964, during her (Brown) study at the University of Florida at Gainesville, she became active in the American Civil Rights Movement. Later in the 1960s, she participated in the anti-war movement, the feminist move... View more info
By: Ciardi, John
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1963
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 31052
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
This book is in Near Fine conddition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a laid-in handwritten note, apparently from an editor, at Angel Island Publications, Inc. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and small spots of ground-in dirt. "The present book is a record of Mr. Ciardi's performance as agent provocateur, catalyst, and preceptor. It collects the articles that Saturday Review readers have answered with blasts and bravos." View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Hurst and Company: 1870
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: A37276
Condition: Very Good
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and address and Chinese "Chop" on the front endpaper, along with an ink stamped name and address on the front pastedown page. "George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 – August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Eng... View more info
By: Dunn, Katherine
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Portland, OR, Willamette Week: 1990
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: A38493
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. "In 1989, Dunn's novel Geek Love was a finalist for the National Book Award. She described her memory of when she began writing it in the late 1970s, walking to Portland's Washington Park Rose Garden, contemplating nature versus nurture and the genesis of the book with its publication in 1989. In 1989, Dunn announced that she was working on a fourth novel, entitled The Cut Man. She was living ... View more info
Price: $65.00
Publisher: San Francisco, CA, A. M. Robertson: 1912
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: A35167
Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book cvoers have some light bumping and rubbing. The spine of the book has portions of the spine joints have fading and have turned a greenish color. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's ink stamped name and address on the front endpaper. There is a second owner's penciled name and address on the front free page. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, with some beginning edge wear and tiny chips to the spine ends. "Margaret Collier Graham ... View more info
By: Lennon, John
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1982
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A35198
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Lennon's love of wordplay and nonsense with a twist found a wider audience when he was 24. Harry writes that In His Own Write (1964) was published after "Some journalist who was hanging around the Beatles came to me and I ended up showing him the stuff. They said, 'Write a book' and that's how the first one came about". Like the Daily Howl it contained a mix of formats includ... View more info
By: Levy, Sydney & Michel Pierssens
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI, University of Wisconsin: 1980
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A32744
Condition: Very Good+
B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light creasing to the bottom front corner of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are: Catastophes: The Morphology of Metaphor, Metonymy, Synecdoche and Irony by Donald Rice, Mini-Max Discourse by Frank L. Coppay, Details and Decadence: End-Troping in Madame Bovary by Naomi Schor, The Fall of the House of Usher by Claudine Hermann and Nicholas Kostis, Textuality of the... View more info
By: Mailer, Norman
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1959
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A37370
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright, but does have several small spots of ground-in dirt . The edges of the text block have some foxing and ground-in dirt. "Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him renown.... View more info
By: Miller, Llewellyn (editor)
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1954
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A34679
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Book number H-72 in the Ballantine Books Hardback series. The book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright with the exception of the remnant of a previous owner's address label on the front endpaper. The price clipped dust jacket has some light edge wear and rubbing, along with a couple of small semi-closed edge tears. This book includes Ray Bradbury's Sun and Shadow. The stories included are: Ladies' Home Journaly Comment by Beatrice Blackmar Gould and Bruce Gould on Margaret Hi... View more info
By: Moore, Marianne
Price: $150.00
Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1955
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 29518
ISBN: 0670572764
Condition: Near Fine
SIGNED EDITION. This copy has signed, with an inscription, on the front endpaper by the author. The author has also made a correction to page 76 in her own hand. There is a book plate which is possibly that of actor Terence Vliet. The book is in Near Fine condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "Silence is more eloquent than speech - a truism; but sometimes something that someone has written excites one's admiration and one is tempted to write about it; if it is in a language other than one'... View more info
By: Morley, Christopher (with an introduction by Ben Abramson)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chicago, IL, Argus Book Shop, Inc.: 1939
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 31137
Condition: Very Good+
This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers and a beginning nick / chip to the bottom spine end of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers have some beginning toning. "This is not a writing, but conversation. It is condensed from a stenographic transcript taken down as uttered, and was the concluding talk of a series given in March and April, 1939, at Adelphi College, Garden City, Long Isl... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Santa Clara, CA, Petersen Engineering Co. , Inc.: 1960
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A38054
Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generallyc lean, bright condition. There is a light slant to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and dings along with edge chips and wear to the flap joints. Includes essays by Admiral George Vasn Deurs, Alexander Markoff, Johannes Bronsted, H. G. Wells, and more. View more info
By: Rexroth, Kenneth
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Herder and Herder / Azimuth Book: 1970
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A35897
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
This book is in Near Fine condition and has Very Good+ condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light rubbing and beginning nicking to the spine ends and corners. "Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982) was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. Although he did not consider himself to be a Beat poet, and disliked the association, he was dubbed the &#... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Boston, MA, The Gorham Press: 1929
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A37858
Condition: Very Good+
This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. This is a collection of humorous essays, including: The Better Mouse Trap, Ears to Hear, Little Preach, Hands, The Spirit of San Francisco, Many Mansions, Kinship, Concider the LIlies, Harrowing Moments, Balm of Gilead, Parents - Found and Irate, and, Coincidents. View more info
By: Scripps College (May Sarton)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Claremont, CA, Scripps College: 1957
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 30715
Condition: Near Fine
This is a trade sized pamphlet with cardstock covers and a stapled binding. This item includes an address that was given by May Sarton at Scripps College, Claremont, CA on March 12, 1957. The pamphlet is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The pamphlet and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and creasing to the corners of the covers. The text pages are clean and bright with the exception of some beginning toning to the edges. "Through the generous bequest of the late Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Perry Clark, Scripps College has be... View more info
