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 movement... View More...
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...
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 Englander ancestr... View More...
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near 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. "D?Agata is also the author of Halls of Fame, a collection of experimental nonfiction about which David Foster Wallace wrote, "In nothing else recent is the compresence of shit and light that is America so vividly felt and evoked". He called D'Agata "one of the most significant U. S. Writers to emerge in the past few years." About a Mountain is a book-length rumination on the Yucca Mountain nuclea... View More...
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near 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. "Carl Hiaasen (born March 12, 1953) is an American writer. A long-time columnist for the Miami Herald and Tribune Content Agency, Hiaasen has also written more than 20 novels which can generally be classified as humorous crime fiction and often feature themes of environmentalism and political corruption in his native Florida. He began his career as a journalist and started working on novels in his... View More...
This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have some ground-in dirt, several spots of discoloration and rubbing. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and light fraying. The text pages are clean and bright. "Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, Last Essays of Elia, issued in 1833 by the publisher Edward Moxon. The essays in the collection first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 and continued to 1825. Lamb's essay... View More...
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. His 1... View More...
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...
SIGNED EDITION. This copy is 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 Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "Moore's first professionally published poems appeared in The Egoist and Poetry in the spring of 1915. Harriet Monroe, the editor of the latter, would describe them in her biography as possessing "an ellipti... View More...
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 Island.... View More...
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...
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 "Father ... View More...
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...
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 been a... View More...
