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Sylvia K. Burack, Edit
The Writer's Handbook - 1992 Edition
Boston: The Writer Inc. 1992. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Trace of wear to spine ends clean and unmarked. A collection of 100 articles on how to write most written by well known published authors. Heavy volume extra postage outside the US. 751 pgs. <br/> <br/> The Writer Inc. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 008288
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Leslie Fiedler (edit)
The Art of the Essay
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1963. Third Printing . Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Corner of flyleaf clipped minimal wear to covers clean and unmarked. Everything you ever wanted to know about writing an essay - 66 pages. <br/> <br/> Thomas Y. Crowell hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 008335
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Nancy Smith
Write Your Life Story
New York: Citadel 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Light edgewear clean and unmarked. "A Guide to Writing Your Autobiography and Tips on How to Get it Published". "The Learning Series". <br/> <br/> Citadel paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 008209
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Garland Greever & Easley S. Jones
The Century Handbook of Writing
New York: D. Appleton-Century 1932. Third Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Real nice copy showing minimal soiling to page edges. Plain orange jacket clean and unmarked. A compact little volume that ".treats essential matters of grammar diction spelling mechanics; and develops with thoroughness the principles of sentence structure". <br/> <br/> D. Appleton-Century hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 008033
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Earl Rovit
Ernest Hemingway
New Haven: College & University Press 1963. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Light shelfwear clean and unmarked. "Twayne's U.S. Authors Series". <br/> <br/> College & University Press paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 007910
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A. Grove Day
James A. Michener
New Haven: College & University Press 1964. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Minimal shelfwear clean and unmarked. "Twayne's U.S. Authors Series". <br/> <br/> College & University Press paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 007916
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Philip L. Gerber
Theodore Dreiser
New Haven: College & University Press 1964. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Spine a bit faded clean and unmarked. "Twayne's U.S. Authors Series". <br/> <br/> College & University Press paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 007912
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Richard Crowder
Carl Sandburg
New Haven: College & University Press 1964. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Light shelfwear clean and unmarked. "Twayne's U.S. Authors Series". <br/> <br/> College & University Press paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 007911
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Bruce R. McElderry
Thomas Wolfe
New Haven: College & University Press 1964. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Light shelfwear bump to top spine end unmarked. "Twayne's U.S. Authors Series". <br/> <br/> College & University Press paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 007908
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John H. Wrenn
John Dos Passos
New Haven: College & University Press 1961. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Moderate shelfwear clean and unmarked. "Twayne's U.S. Authors Series". <br/> <br/> College & University Press paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 007914
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William Lyon Phelps
The Advance of the English Novel
New York: Dodd Mead 1916. Black Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Wear to edges inscription on flyleaf a few pencil underlinings. Nice reference or study copy. Phelps was a well-known professor at Yale. <br/> <br/> Dodd Mead hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 007723
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Rose Franken
When All is Said and Done
Garden City: Doubleday 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Light wear clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear soiling not price clipped. Autobiography of the woman who wrote the "Claudia" books and numerous other novels and plays. Several B&W photos. <br/> <br/> Doubleday hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 007671
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Jean Brown Wagoner
Louisa Alcott Girl of Old Boston
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill 1943. Orange Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Sandra James. Bumps to corners minimal wear clean and unmarked. Jacket quite edgeworn chipping at top of spine affecting title. Nice biography of the popular author written for young folks. <br/> <br/> Bobbs Merrill hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 007395
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Mitchell Ivers
The Random House Guide to Good Writing
New York: Random House 1991. Tan Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Clean and unmarked. Jacket shows only minimal edgewear. "The Essential Handbook for Writers". <br/> <br/> Random House hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 007286
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Clara Beetle
A.L.A. Cataloging Rules for Author and Title Entries
Chicago: American Library Assoc. 1949. Second Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Light edgewear name on flyleaf underlining to several pages. <br/> <br/> American Library Assoc. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 007331
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Cornelia Spencer
Revealing the Human Heart Pearl S. Buck
Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1964. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good. Minimal wear to corners bookplate on flyleaf; clean and unmarked. Jacket shows wear and light soiling not price clipped. Numerous B&W photos. The biography of the great author and humanitarian. This is a library edition but is NOT ex-library. <br/> <br/> Encyclopaedia Britannica hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 007087
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W. Somerset Maugham
A Writer's Notebook
Garden City: Doubleday 1949. Black Cloth. Good/Poor. Bumps to corners and edges unmarked. Jacket quite worn tears and chip to corners. "A great writer's journal of anecdotes reflections and portraits". <br/> <br/> Doubleday hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 007157
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William Webster Ellsworth
Creative Writing
New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1929. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Nice copy exceptional condition. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: ".I wish I had given you this book but you up and bought a copy. Bless you. Your Friend William W. Ellsworth". "A Guide for Those Who Aspire to Authorship". <br/> <br/> Funk & Wagnalls hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 006736
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Enid Bagnold
Enid Bagnold's Autobiography
Boston: Atlantic Little Brown 1969. First American Edition . Purple Cloth. Very Good/Good. Slight bumps to corners minor wear to edges clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear rubbing not price clipped. The author of "National Velvet" tells her story. Many B&W photos indexed. <br/> <br/> Atlantic Little Brown hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 006740
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RH. Markham R. H.
The Wave of the Past
Chapel Hill: Univ. Of North Carolina 1941. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. Minor shelfwear light soiling/yellowing to covers; unmarked. A 55 pg stapled booklet published to be "The Answer to Anne Morrow Lindbergh's 'The Wave of the Future'." "Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for darkness". <br/> <br/> Univ. Of North Carolina paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 006771
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Kellogg Smith & Leighton Steele
Proper Punctuation Tutor Text
Garden City: Doubleday 1962. First Edition . Yellow Cloth. Very Good/Good. Light wear/soiling to cover inscription on flyleaf underliningg to some pages. "An exciting and effective new approach to self-teaching". <br/> <br/> Doubleday hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 006794
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William F. Keefe
Two Years Before the Masthead
Frankfurt: Fred Ruhl 1952. Green Cloth. Very Good/Poor. Minor wear to corners clean and unmarked. Jacket quite ragged chips and tears to corners. Adventures in publishing a weekly paper for occupation troops in post-war Germany. <br/> <br/> Fred Ruhl hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 006554
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Lee Wyndham
Writing for Children and Teen-Agers
Cincinnati: Writers Digest 1968. Illustrated Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Slight bumps to corners clean and unmarked. Jacket shows wear at corners and edges. A thorough guide to the art written by a very prolific author. <br/> <br/> Writers Digest hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 006571
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Aaron Latham
Crazy Sundays
New York: Viking 1971. Book Club BCE/BOMC . Cloth. Very Good/Good. Bump to lower spine clean and unmarked. Jacket shows minor edgewear light rubbing. "F.Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood". Detailed biography; indexed. <br/> <br/> Viking hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 006396
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Philip Hamburger
J.P. Marquand Esquire
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1952. First Edition . Yellow Cloth. Good/Fair. Minor shelfwear light soing inscription inside front cover. Jacket complete quite edgeworn. "A Portrait in the Form of a Novel". <br/> <br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 006425
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Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
The Art of Writing
Sherman Oakes CA: Alfred Publishing 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Light soiling/rubbing to covers otherwise unmarked. A detailed and thorough textbook on the subject. Due to size extra postage required outside the US. <br/> <br/> Alfred Publishing hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 006446
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Elloitt Blackiston
How to Write Short Stories
Cleveland: World Publishing 1942. Reprint . Red Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Moderate shelfwear name on flyleaf; otherwise sound and unmarked. First Tower Books edition. <br/> <br/> World Publishing hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 006258
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Joseph C. Goulden
The Curtis Caper
New York: G.P. Putnams Sons 1965. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good. Light wear to edges clean and unmarked. Priceclipped jacket shows minor edgewear. "The Life and Headline Hard Times of the Curtis Publishing Company and the Saturday Evening Post". <br/> <br/> G.P. Putnams Sons hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 005982
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Wallace Hildick
Thirteen Types of Narrative
New York: Clarkson N. Potter Inc. 1970. First American Edition . Black Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Small surface tear to edge of flyleaf clean and unmarked. Jacket shows only the slightest trace of wear not price clipped. "A practical guide on how to tell a story". <br/> <br/> Clarkson N. Potter Inc. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 006025
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Various
Cordially Yours
Boston: Boston Herald Book Fair Comm. 1939. Brown Cloth. Very Good/Poor. Minimal shelfwear name and price on flyleaf otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket quite ragged worn with chips at spine ends and to back. This volume was published and sold at the book fair as a fundraiser for the Authors League of America. Numerous well known writers contributed short essays including Ben Ames Williams Marjorie Carlton Thornton Burgess and Stewart Holbrook. <br/> <br/> Boston Herald Book Fair Comm. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 006071
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Alex Jackson
Cocktail Party for the Author
Boston: Challenge Press 1964. First Edition . Purple Cloth. Very Good/Good. Clean and unmarked. Jacket a bit faded slight wear. The inside scoop on the publishing world written by a literary agent. <br/> <br/> Challenge Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 005888
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Daphne Du Maurier
Myself When Young
Garden City: Doubleday 1977. Book Club BCE/BOMC . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good. Light wear to corners minor shelfwear. Jacket somewhat faded light wear. "The Shaping of a Writer". The story of Daphne's first twenty-two years. Numerous B&W photos. <br/> <br/> Doubleday hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 005730
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Madeleine Stern
Plots and Counterplots More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
New York: Morrow 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light shelfwear. A companion volume to Ms Stern's "Behind a Mask". More stories written by Alcott under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard. <br/> <br/> Morrow hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 005728
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Trentwell Mason White
How to Write for a Living
Boston: Writer 1947. Second Edition . Blue Cloth. Fair/Fair. Clean unmarked copy becoming unhinged at title page fabric showing. Jacket shows wear small tears and creasing to edges. Somewhat dated but the basics are still there. Nice reference or reading copy. <br/> <br/> Writer hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 005777
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Anne CE. Allinson C. E.
The Distaff
Providence RI: Roger Williams Press 1932. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hope Smith. Spine stained and faded as if from bleach otherwise this is a sound unmarked copy. Ms. Allinson was a columnist for the Providence Evening Journal in the late 1920's - early '30's.This volume is a collection of her best articles published in her memory. <br/> <br/> Roger Williams Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 005720
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JB. Priestley J. B.
Instead of the Trees
New York: Stein & Day 1977. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Minimal wear clean and unmarked. Jacket shows a bit of edgewear not price clipped. Third volume of the author's autobiography. <br/> <br/> Stein & Day hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 005242
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Edgar Johnson
Charles Dickens - Two Vol.
New York: Simon & Schuster 1952. Book Club BCE/BOMC . Gray Cloth. Very Good/Good. Minimal shelfwear clean and unmarked. Jackets show edgewear light soiling. "Charles Dickens His Tragedy and Triumph". A thorough indexed biography of the great American writer. Two volume set. Extra postage required outside the US. <br/> <br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 005018
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Martha Foley
The Story of Story Magazine
New York: Norton 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Light foxing to fore-edge and top edge otherwise a nice clean and unmarked copy. Jacket shows minor shelfwear. A memoir by one of the founders of STORY magazine a popular periodical in the 1930s. <br/> <br/> Norton hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 005022
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Allen Churchill
The Liberty Years 1924-1950
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice Hall 1969. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good. Minor edgewear clean and unmarked. Jacket worn and rubbed. A collection of articles and essays from LIBERTY magazine written by many notables of the day - Winston Churchill Margery Sharp Kathleen Norris Mary Pickford Benny Goodman Shirley Temple many others. Large volume extra postage required outside the US. <br/> <br/> Prentice Hall hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 005066
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Mazo De La Roche
Ringing the Changes
Boston: LIttle Brown 1957. First Edition . Teal Cloth. Very Good/Good. Minor shelfwear clean and unmarked. Jacket Jacket shows wear at edges rubbing 1x1/2" hole front spine fold titles unaffected not price clipped.The autobiography of one of America's most prolific authors. Illus with B&W photos. <br/> <br/> LIttle Brown hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 004971
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Whit Burnett
The Literary Life and the Hell With It
New York: Harper & Bros 1939. First Edition . Illustrated Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Bemelmans. Very light wear/soiling to covers; a nice sound copy. From the library of science fiction writer Robert Spencer Carr. Mr. Carr's bookplate is on the half-title page his signature assuming it was written by him we have been unable to authenticate it is on the flyleaf and dated "California-1941". <br/> <br/> Harper & Bros hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 004642
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The Life of Florence Barclay
London: Putnam 1926. Fourth Printing . Brown Cloth. Poor/No Jacket. Written by One of Her Daughters". Bumps to corners moderate shelfwear inside front hinge nearly detached. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "To Miss Gertrude Wilcox with good wishes from Florence Barclay's sister M B. Booth May 1929"; we cannot make out the first name of the sister. Illus with B&W photos. <br/> <br/> Putnam hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 004673
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Sylvia K. Burack
The Writer's Handbook 1998
Boston: Writer 1997. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Clean and unmarked; never used. "110 Chapters on How to Write" written by leading writers poets playwrights etc. 900 pages extra postage outside the USA. <br/> <br/> Writer paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 004478
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Sylvia K. Burack
The Writer's Handbook 1999
Boston: Writer 1998. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Clean unmarked and unused. "110 Chapters on How to Write" written by professional authors. Also contains a list of 330 markets for manuscripts now somewhat outdated. 900 pages extra postage outside the USA. <br/> <br/> Writer paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 004479
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Florence K. Palmer
Confession Writer's Handbook
Cincinnati: Writer's Digest 1980. Revised Edition . Tan Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Slight bumps to corners clean and unmarked possibly unread. Jacket shows shelfwear creases to front flap. "How to get your share of today's most accessible and bestpaying fiction market for new writers". <br/> <br/> Writer's Digest hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 003899
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John Moore
You English Words
Philadelphia: LIPPINCOTT 1962. Tan Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Minor wear at spine ends bump to one corner clean and unmarked. Jacket shows wear at spine ends and corners surface tear top right front from sticker removal. About some of the words one "finds in his encounters with the English language". <br/> <br/> LIPPINCOTT hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 002923
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Charles Carson
Let's Write About You
Los Angeles: Writer's Publishing Co. 1944. Brown Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Shelfwear at edges light foxing to top left front corner text clean and unmarked. An uncommon and much sought after title! <br/> <br/> Writer's Publishing Co. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 002966
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Ruth Franchere
Stephen Crane The Story of an American Writer
New York: Thomas Crowell 1961. First Edition . Brown Cloth. Very Good/Good. Clean and unmarked minor wear at corners and spine ends. Jacket shows wear at spine ends and top front small tears to top front not price clipped. Not ex-library. The story of the author of many American classics including "The Red Badge of Courage". <br/> <br/> Thomas Crowell hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 002971
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H. Bedford-Jones
This Fiction Business
New York: Covici Friede 1929. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Minor wear and bumps to corners and spine ends pencil erasures to front flyleaf otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket worn at corners and spine ends age discoloration light soiling 1 x 1" chip top left front titles unaffected. Originally published in 1922 this edition was "enlarged and brought down to date" by the author. Uncommon especially in jacket. <br/> <br/> Covici Friede hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 002794
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Earl Reed Silvers
How to Write Short Stories That Editors Buy
New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1943. Tan Cloth. Good/Fine. Minor shelfwear slight age discoloration clean and unmarked. Jacket is worn with chips and small tears at edges. "A practical handbook on how to write and sell short stories deal with editors literary agents and magazines". <br/> <br/> Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 002679
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