Carter, Graydon (ed.)
Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers
Paperback. Marker pen dot on page block foot, otherwise very good throughout. TS Used
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Rosenthal, Alan; Corner, John (eds.)
New Challenges for Documentary
Paperback, very good condition. Second Edition. A few minor marks to the covers and light marks to the page block foot. Internally excellent. D.P. Used
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Rice, Ronald; Russo, Richard (introduction)
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
Paperback. Very good unread shop stock, with no notable faults. TS Used
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Allen Smith, H.
Let the Crabgrass Grow: H. Allen Smith's Suburban Almanac
Hardcover, stated first printing. Mylar-protected jacket a little tanned and marked, with instances of slight shelfwear. Page block is tanned. Binding a little weak at half-title. All content is clear. TS Used
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Lynd, Robert
Things One Hears
Hardcover (no jacket). First reprint of the 1945 first edition. One or two minor marks on page block, otherwise in very good condition for age. Text and illustrations are clear. TS Used
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Spelliscy, Jill; Sperling, Gerald B. (eds.)
Whose Story?: Reporting the Developing World after the Cold War
Very good paperback. TS Used
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Jackowska, Nicki (ed.)
Voices from Arts for Labour
Paperback, signed by editor Nicki Jackowksa on title page. Page block and page edges are tanned; all text is clear. TS Used
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Enright, D. J.
The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony
Hardcover and jacket in very good condition. Page block head is lightly foxed; pages are clean and sound. TS Used
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Maugham, W. Somerset
A Writer's Notebook
Hardcover without jacket; The Works of W. Somerset Maugham; red boards. 1979 printing of the 1949 edition. One or two light marks on boards; external upper corners are bumped; page block head is foxed. Minor crease on FEP. Interior is clean and sound. TS Used
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Watkins, Alan
A Short Walk Down Fleet Street
Hardcover, very good condition. Jacket is unclipped and very clean with no tears or bumps. Boards are pristine. Internally excellent throughout. DP Used
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Donovan, Paul
All Our Todays: Forty Years of Radio 4's "Today" programme
Hardcover, very good conditon. Light wear to the jacket edges otherwise very clean. Boards are pristine and internally the text remains bright and clear. DP Used
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Burgess, Anthony
Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader
Hardcover without jacket; first edition, signed and dedicated by Anthony Burgess on title page ("To John, with every good wish from Anthony Burgess, Chiswick, 1965"). Boards are slightly aged, with a little wear at extremities; a few faint marks and insignificant imperfections on page block. One small age-related spot recurring through preliminary pages (faded by contents pages). Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Ingersoll, Earl G.; Ingersoll, Mary C. (eds.)
Conversations with Anthony Burgess
Paperback with faintly marked covers; slight crease on rear. Interior is clean and sound; all text is clear. TS Used
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Hoffman, Michael J.; Murphy, Patrick D. (eds.)
Essentials of the Theory of Fiction
Paperback. Negligible shelfwear on rear cover's fore-edge. A very good copy with clean, sound interior. Second edition. TS Used
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Stone, Judy
The Mystery of B. Traven
Hardcover. Jacket is slightly scored and marked, with scuffs on spine; shelfworn, with one or two minor nicks. Boards and page block are foxed. Pages are clean and sound. TS Used
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Meyers, Jeffrey (ed.)
Wyndham Lewis: A Revaluation
Hardcover. Jacket is sunned on spine; label on clipped front inner flap; the lightest of marks and wear at a few points. Interior is clean and sound - very good in good jacket. TS Used
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Drew, Bettina
Nelson Algren: A Life on the Wild Side
Hardcover. Light wear along jacket's upper edge. Page block is foxed. Pages remain clean and sound; all text is clear. First printing. TS Used
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Winnington, G. Peter
Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake
Hardcover and jacket in very good condition. TS Used
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Frisch, Max; Skelton, Geoffrey (trans.)
Sketchbook 1966-1971
Hardcover. Price-clipped jacket is faintly shelfworn, with a lightly marked rear. Page block head is foxed. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Tate, Mary Jo
F. Scott Fitzgerald A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work
Paperback. Light wear to corners of slightly marked rear cover, affecting final few page corners. A few minor marks on page block. All content is clear. TS Used
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Raphael, Frederic
Cuts and Bruises: Personal Terms 3
Paperback. Slight wear to upper edge of p.132; page edges are very faintly tanned. A very good copy with clear text throughout. TS Used
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Boyd, William
Bamboo: Non-Fiction, 1978-2004
Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Jacket is very faintly marked, with very small, insignificant puncture on rear spine side. Spine head is very slightly bumped. A few minor marks on page block. A very good copy with clean, sound pages and clear text throughout. TS Used
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Gordon, Andrew
An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer
Hardcover. Jacket's rear is slightly marked; one small scuff on spine; two nicks at spine head. Slight mark on p.16. Text is clear throughout - a very good copy in good jacket. TS Used
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Sutherland, John
Bestsellers: Popular Fiction of the 1970s
Hardcover. Red and white jacket with cascading book design, published 1981. Slight abrasion on front of jacket; one or two instances of minor exterior wear. Pages are clean and sound, with clear content throughout. A very good copy. TS Used
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Mailer, Norman
The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing
Hardcover and jacket in very good condition. TS Used
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SAWYER-LAUCANNO, Christopher
The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960
Hardcover. The lightest of wear along jacket's upper edge; spine is a little sunned. Pages are clean and sound, with clear content throughout. TS Used
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French, Patrick
The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Jacket is lightly shelfworn, most pronounced at spine foot. A few minor marks and imperfections on page block. Text is clear throughout; a very good copy. TS Used
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Griffin, Peter
Along with Youth: Hemingway, The Early Years
Hardcover. First printing. Jacket is tanned, with one or two instances of minor shelfwear. Boards' edges are slightly marked. Pages are clean and sound - content is clear throughout. TS Used
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Lynn, Kenneth S.
Hemingway
Hardcover. Minor wear on jacket's spine, with small closed nick nearby. Hardcover's spine and page block are faintly marked. Pages are clean and sound. TS Used
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Thwaite, Anthony (ed.); Larkin, Philip
Letters to Monica
Hardcover in unclipped jacket, both faintly bumped at spine ends and upper corners. Page block and page edges are tanned. A very good copy with clear text throughout.TS Used
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Maverick Jr., Maury; Kownslar, Allan O. (ed.)
Texas Iconoclast
Paperback. Spine is slightly sunned, with one faint crease. Pages are clean and sound. A very good copy. TS Used
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Lodge, David
The Year of Henry James, or Timing is All: The Story of a Novel
Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A few minor general marks on jacket and page block. Small scored area on jacket's rear; light damp marks at two or three points (most evident on underside; boards very lightly affected). Text is clear throughout. Very good in good jacket. TS Used
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Higgins, Dick
Jefferson's Birthday / Postface
Hardcover - scarce publication (Something Else's first), limited to 1200 copies, by the co-founder of the Fluxus movement; two works in one, each beginning from either end of volume. Unclipped jacket nicked at spine ends and one edge; the Something Else Manifesto printed on jacket's underside remains unaffected. Spine head is slightly bumped. Page block and p.131 are a little tanned; one or two foxing spots on the former. All text is clear. 271/89pp. TS Used
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Hoffman, Frederick J.
The Twenties: American Writing in the Postwar Decade
Hardcover. Second printing, 1968 (the first in 1955). Jacket, boards, and page block are slightly marked. Jacket is a little worn, with nicked corners and spine ends; underside is foxed. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Curtis, J. A. E.
Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as Hero
Hardcover. Jacket is lightly edgeworn at points. Spine ends and external upper corners are slightly bumped. Jacket, page block and page edges are tanned; item smells like nicotine. Restrained pen marks in margins of some pages; all text is clear. TS Used
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Nabokov, Vladimir
Nikolay Gogol
Hardcover. Minor shelfwear and two nicks on price-clipped jacket. Page block head is slightly foxed. Minor chip on lower edge of an unpaginated prelim; all text is clear. Good to very good. TS Used
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Field, Andrew
Nabokov: His Life in Part
Hardcover. Very good in good jacket. Jacket is slightly shelfworn, with two or three minor nicks; rear is scored. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Field, Andrew
Nabokov: His Life in Art
Hardcover. Faintly tanned jacket is shelfworn, with a few nicks; repair to underside of spine foot; crease on front inner flap. One or two minor marks on page block. Text is clear throughout. Very good in good jacket. TS Used
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Field, Andrew
VN: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov
Hardcover and jacket. Page block and page edges are tanned. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Proffer, Carl R. (ed.)
A Book of Things About Vladimir Nabokov
Paperback. Light shelfwear, a few creases, and one or two marks on covers; spine is a little sunned. A few minor marks on page block. Pages are clean and sound throughout; Lolita crossword unfilled; all content is clear. TS Used
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Patrides, C. A.
The Grand Design of God: The Literary Form of the Christian View of History
Hardcover. Plastic-protected jacket is slightly marked on rear, with a sunned spine. Text is clear on clean, sound pages - very good in good jacket. TS Used
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Bain, Robert; Flora, Joseph M.; Rubin Jr., Louis D. (eds.)
Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary
Paperback. Covers are slightly marked and worn, with a few scuffs; one or two minor creases on spine. Page block is marked. Pages are clean; text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Moers, Ellen
Two Dreisers
Hardcover. Second printing (in same year as first). Jacket is slightly sunned and worn, with one or two minor nicks. Repairs on jacket's underside to short tears at spine foot, front upper edge, and one corner. Very few minor marks on boards and page block. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Porter, Dennis
Rousseau's Legacy: Emergence and Eclipse of the Writer in France
Hardcover. One or two instances of minor wear on jacket; page block head is very faintly marked - therefore surprising to find publisher's 'Damaged' stamps on half-title. A very good copy with clear text throughout. TS Used
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Thomson, David
Wild Excursions: The Life and Fiction of Laurence Sterne
Hardcover. Very good (spine ends slightly bumped; page block lightly marked) in good jacket. Jacket is marked and a little tanned on rear, creased on front inner flap, and shelfworn, with several nicks. Pages are clean and sound. TS Used
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Giddings, Robert
The Tradition of Smollett
Hardcover. Jacket is slightly tanned, with a little wear at spine and upper edge. Page block and endpapers are foxed. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Widmer, Kingsley
Henry Miller
Paperback. Covers are slightly marked and worn; spine is a little faded and creased. One or two marks on page block. Text is clear throughout. Twayne's United States Authors Series. TS Used
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Mitchell, Edward B. (ed.)
Henry Miller: Three Decades of Criticism
Paperback. Covers are slightly marked, tanned and worn, affecting final few upper page corners. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Ballard, J. G.
A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews
Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Jacket unclipped; one slight imperfection on rear board; page block and page edges are tanned. A very good copy. TS Used
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McGahern, John
Memoir
Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A few faint marks on unclipped jacket; one or two instances of minor exterior wear. Pages are clean and sound; a very good copy. TS Used
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