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Fables In Slang

By: Ade, George

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1899

Seller ID: A37807

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Star Papers: Or Experiences Of Art And Nature

By: Beecher, Henry Ward

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, J. C. Derby: 1855

Seller ID: A35249

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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A Plain Brown Rapper

By: Brown, Rita Mae

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Oakland, CA, Diana Press: 9761

Seller ID: A37406

Binding: Paperback

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...
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Dialogue with an Audience

By: Ciardi, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1963

Seller ID: 31052

Binding: Hardcover

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."
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The Potiphar Papers

By: Curtis, George William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Hurst and Company: 1870

Seller ID: A37276

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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The Slice Information with an Attitue

By: Dunn, Katherine

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Portland, OR, Willamette Week: 1990

Seller ID: A38493

Binding: Paperback

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 ...
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Do They Really Respect Us? And Other Essays

By: Graham, Margaret Collier

Price: $65.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, A. M. Robertson: 1912

Seller ID: A35167

Binding: Hardcover

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 ...
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Paradise Screwed Selected Columns

By: Hiaasen, Carl (edited by Diane Stevenson)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 2001

Seller ID: A39156

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

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...
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Sub-stance 26 Vol IX No. 1

By: Levy, Sydney & Michel Pierssens

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI, University of Wisconsin: 1980

Seller ID: A32744

Binding: Paperback

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...
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Advertisements For Myself

By: Mailer, Norman

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1959

Seller ID: A37370

Binding: Hardcover

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....
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Prize Articles 1954 The Benjamin Franklin Magazine Award Winners

By: Miller, Llewellyn (editor)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1954

Seller ID: A34679

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Predilections

By: Moore, Marianne

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1955

Seller ID: 29518

Binding: Hardcover

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'...
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Passivity Program

By: Morley, Christopher (with an introduction by Ben Abramson)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Argus Book Shop, Inc.: 1939

Seller ID: 31137

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Pengopian Anthology

By: Petersen, Gerald A. M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Santa Clara, CA, Petersen Engineering Co. , Inc.: 1960

Seller ID: A38054

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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With Eye And Ear

By: Rexroth, Kenneth

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Herder and Herder / Azimuth Book: 1970

Seller ID: A35897

Binding: Hardcover

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 &#...
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The Better Mouse Trap

By: Rose, Emma Loomis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, The Gorham Press: 1929

Seller ID: A37858

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Scripps College Bulletin The Writing of a Poem: An Address by May Sarton

By: Scripps College (May Sarton)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Claremont, CA, Scripps College: 1957

Seller ID: 30715

Binding: Pamphlet

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...
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Category: essays