The Nobel Prize Annual 1989.

By: N/A

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York., IMG Publishing.: 1990.

Seller ID: 14121

Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Light shelf wear to jacket. A nice copy.

Chapters devoted to the six winners. Literature: Dr. Camilo Jose Cela. Peace: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. With listings of all laureates since 1901. Photo illustrations throughout. View more info

Afro-American Authors.

By: Adams, William.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Boston., Houghton Mifflin.: 1972.

Seller ID: 11295

Condition: Very good in wrappers. Book is square, tight and clean with no internal markings. Wrappers rubbed and edge worn.

Includes excerpts of the writings of Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W. E. B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, LeRoi Jones, and many others. View more info

The Art of Literary Research.

By: Altick, Richard D.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York., W. W. Norton & Co.: 1963.

Edition: Revised edition.

Seller ID: 11289

Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. Book is tight and square. Underlining in preface to chapter two (thru page 44). Jacket bright with edge wear and closed tear at head of spine.

"The standard for courses in bibliography and research methods and for programs in independent study and advanced composition." View more info

Tools of the Writer's Trade: Writers Tell All About the Equipment and Services They find the Best.

By: American Society of Journalists and Authors. Schultz, Dodi (Ed.).

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York., Harper Perennial.: 1991.

Edition: First paperback edition.

Seller ID: 11541

Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature.

By: Atwood, Margaret.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Toronto., House of Anansi Press.: 1972.

Edition: First Edition. Second issue (number line begins with 1 and ends with 73). Inscribed by the author on the title page. 'For Steve Sara - Best wishes -

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 12239

Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Book is square, tight and clean with just a small spot of soil on the top edge of otherwise very bright page edges. Jacket is lightly rubbed with small closed tear at top of rear panel.

Atwood points out the patterns in Canadian literature that reflect "a national habit of mind." View more info

Prose for Effective Composition.

By: Baker, William D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, NJ., Prentice-Hall.: 1964.

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 12496

Condition: Book is square & tight. Light rubbing to boards with wear at corners & spine ends. Former owner's name & church stamp on front free endpaper. Underlining & notes by former owner.

Examples of prose in subjects ranging from the university to the arts. Contributors from Ben Johnson to Lawrence Ferlinghetti. View more info

Writers In Love.

By: Benet, Mary Kathleen.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York., Macmillan.: 1977.

Edition: First Edition. First printing.

Seller ID: 10950

Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket. Book is as new. White jacket in mylar has light shelf rubbing and sunning to spine.

"Katherine Mansfield, George Eliot, Colette, and the men they lived with" and loved. Murry, Lewes, and Goudeket finally get their due. View more info

The Late John Marquand: A Biography.

By: Birmingham, Stephen.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Philadelphia., J. B. Lippincott.: 1972.

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 10804

Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. Book is tight & clean with slight spine slant and small bookstore stamp on front free endpaper. Price clipped jacket is edge worn.

Birmingham's biography of his friend Marquand. "A witty, dedicated, cruel, tender, ambitious, selfish, brilliant man." Black & white photos & illustrations. View more info

Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print.

By: Block, Lawrence.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cincinnati., Writer's Digest Books.: 1983.

Edition: 3rd printing.

Seller ID: 17614

Condition: Fine and unread in very good dust jacket. Black jacket is lightly rubbed with two closed tears on front panel.

Advice based on the author's 20 years of experience. View more info

Biography and the Human Heart.

By: Bradford, Gamaliel.

Price: $24.50

Publisher: Boston., Houghton Mifflin.: 1932.

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 11558

Condition: A nice tight clean copy in bright edge worn jacket. Chip at bottom of front panel.

Frontis of Horace Walpole plus 5 black & white plates. Studies of Longfellow, Whitman, Charlotte Cushman, Walpole & others plus essays on the art of biography. View more info

Letters From Greenroom Ghosts.

By: Brown, John Mason.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York., Viking.: 1935.

Edition: 3rd printing.

Seller ID: 10949

Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Book is tight with light dust soiling to top edge. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. Jacket protect by mylar is worn with chips at head & heel of spine and top rear corner plus closed tears.

"The renowned drama critic's excursion into comparative criticism in the form of five letters 'written' by great figures of the theatre's living past to their leading counterparts in the present." Christopher Marlowe to Eugene O'Neill, Sheridan to Noel Coward, etc. View more info

For Writers Only.

By: Burnham, Sophy.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York., Ballantine Books.: 1996.

Edition: First Trade Paperback Edition.

Seller ID: 11568

Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

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Palaver: Modern African Writings.

By: Cartey, Wilfred (Ed.).

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York., Thomas Nelson.: 1970.

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 11282

Condition: Very good in good+ dust jacket. Book is square & tight. Stain on corner edges. Jacket bright with edge wear and chips at corners.

"Anthology of diverse African writing. A Muslim of the Sudan, a prisoner in South Africa, an Ethiopian folklorist, a playwright of the Niger Delta, and many others." View more info

The Doctor Looks at Biography: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters.

By: Collins, Joseph.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York., George H. Doran Co.: 1925.

Edition: First Edition with GHD symbol on title page.

Seller ID: 11434

Condition: Book is square and tight with clean interior save for former owner's name and date on front free endpaper. Light dust soil to edges. Boards bright with light wear to corners and spine ends. Lacking dust jacket.

Twelve tipped in photos & portraits of subjects from Mark Twain to Mme. Recamier. View more info

Some American Story Tellers.

By: Cooper, Frederic Taber.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York., Henry Holt & Co.: 1911.

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 11562

Condition: Very good lacking dust jacket. Book is tight and bright. Crease to front free endpaper and small college bookstore stamp on bottom edge. Spine lettering bright. Light wear to spine ends and corners.

Frontis portrait plus 13 plates of portraits of the books subjects. Fourteen critical studies of contemporary writers. Bierce, Norris, Wister, Atherton, "O. Henry," Tarkington, Wharton, Glasgow, Wiggin, and others. View more info

The Dream of Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930's.

By: Cowley, Malcolm.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York., Viking Press.: 1980.

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 11578

Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. Book is tight and clean with no interior markings. Bottom corners lightly bumped and light soil to top edges. Mylar protected jacket bright but edge worn.

Cowley's memoir of the 30's and the influence of social events of the period on the literature of the time. View more info

American Literature to 1900.

By: Cunliffe, Marcus (Ed.).

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London., Sphere Books.: 1986.

Edition: First published in 1973 this is the 1986 revised edition. Number 8 in the Sphere History of Literature series.

Seller ID: 10737

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. As new.

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Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland.

By: Curtin, Jeremiah.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York., Weathervane Books.: 1975.

Edition: Reprint of the 1890 edition.

Seller ID: 12246

Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. Book is square and tight. Gift inscription covers most of front free endpaper. Light soil to edges. Price clipped dust jacket contains bright cover illustrations front & back by Carolyn Stevenson. Light edge wear and wrinkle to bottom front corner.

Twenty myth tales collected by the author in 1887 from Gaelic speakers. View more info

Onward and Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White.

By: Davis, Linda H.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York., Harper & Row.: 1987.

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 10732

Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Else as new.

Biography of the New Yorker editor and writer. Black & white photos & illustrations. View more info

Counter-Tradition: The Literature of Dissent and Alternatives.

By: Delany, Sheila (Ed.) with foreword by Louis Kampf.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York., Basic Books.: 1971.

Seller ID: 10842

Condition: Near fine in pictorial wrappers. Book is tight and clean with light rubbing to wraps.

From Amos, Thucydides and Plutarch to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Malcolm X, and Che Guevara. View more info