E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Penguin USA, 2001 Very Advance Praise for Casanova: "I laughed my head off." Marie Antoinette. Abraham Lincoln said "Can't wait for the play!" Everyone knows which books people buy, but who knows which books people steal? In this irreverent analysis of the book industry, John Maxwelll Hamilton - a longtime journalist and public radio commentator - answers this question and many more, proving that the best way to study books is not to take them too se... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Perennial, 1997 Vg Trade Paperback. . Trade Paper. Very Good. ... more information

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Jaffrey, New Hampshire, U.S.A.: David R Godine Pub, 1994 Universally recognized as one of today's premier writers of crime fiction, Nicolas Freeling here displays yet another side of his original mind in these "enviably perceptive and lyrical" essays (Kirkus) on other players in the same field. Freeling's definition of "crime fiction" is refreshingly broad, comprising not only the usual suspects - Sayers, Conan Doyle, Simenon, to name but a few of those he discusses, but also suc... more information

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Madison, NY: William Morrow & Company, 1978 Here is a handy guide to literary landmarks from Maine to Maryland. Included are the homes of Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Mark Twain, and New England towns with rich literry heritages like Concord and Cambridge in Massachusetts. Walking tours of Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia point out residences of writers, locales of literary works, gathering places for writers, and museums and libraries with importa... more information

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New York, NY: St Martins Press, 1983 As James Herriot said: "The publication of this book gives me the chance to pick out my favorite chapters (from past books) - the ones my family and I have laughed at over the years and the ones my readers have said they most enjoyed. . . . They say we should not live in the past and I have no reason to do so because I am still a practicing veterinary surgeon, still enjoying life. But to me, the past is a sweet, safe place to be, and through the medium of this book ... more information

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Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Duke Univ Pr, 2005 First edition? Imagine scholar Matt Cohen's surprise when, on a visit to his grandmother's Nebraska home, he discovered a collection of hundreds of letters, photographs, telegrams, postcards, and drawings saved by his great-grandfather Herbert T. Weston. They document a nearly fifty-year friendship between Weston and one of America's most popular authors, Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs. Since Weston kept carbon copies of his own letters, th... more information

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E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Penguin USA, 2001 Very Good, Paperback . Paperback. Very Good. ... more information

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San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 2005 In this engaging and insightful book, C. S. Lewis expert David C. Downing invites readers to join his vivid exploration of the Chronicles of Narnia, offering a detailed look at the enchanting stories themselves and also focusing on the extraordinary intellect and imagination of the man behind the Wardrobe. Published in the 1950s, C. S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia were proclaimed instant children's classics and have been hailed in Th... more information

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New York: Marlowe & Company, 2006 Catherine Friend was happy being an author and writing instructor. She always wore clean clothes. She never had anything disagreeable stuck to the bottom of her shoes. That all changed the day she agreed to help her partner Melissa embark on a rural odyssey filled with sheep, goats, chickens, llamas, and a host of other natural disasters. As it turns out, farming isn't all it's cracked up to be! This is a sort of coming-of-(middle)-age story of a woman trying to... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 1974 A very clever book, this novel is actually two stories set in different times. The earlier is about Allard Benson and his friend Harold Roux who, bald at age 23, has covered his head with a wig unskillfully meant to deceive. It is just after WWII and takes place in a college town, and is about Benson and his friends and others, including unforgettable girls. The story set in our time is about Aaron Benham, professor of English, middle-aged and uneasy ab... more information

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New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2003 What is the relationship between modernity and modernism? Between high modernism and what used to be called minority literature? For decades it has been a given that American modernism was the purview of a narrow group of white Euro-Americans. Writers on the margin - African Americans, Jews, and Latinos, for instance - have long been considered too political or too parochial to have a place in the modernist canon. The essays in this collection, written in tribute to the lat... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 2002 A moving, powerful and sympathetic biography of a talented, frail woman who deserves to be rescued from the obscurity to which she was condemned." - The Spectator. This book is about the long-suppressed truth about Vivienne Eliot's influence on T.S. Eliot's genius. By the time she was committed to an asylum in 1938, Vivienne Eliot was a lonely, distraught figure. Shunned by literary London, she was the "neurotic" wif... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 2000. New.. Trade Paper. New/No Dj. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Chicago Review Press, 2003 You mean those clothes of hers are intentional?" - Dorothy Parker, American Writer (1893-1967). Includes 20 peelable stickers with wonderful insults and curses printed on them! This book is a celebration of the creative language of abuse, insinuation, defamation and damnation. It includes colorful and complicated insults and curses from around the world and through many ages. Even the endpapers are covered with these great words. George Bernard Shaw... more information

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Amherst, MA: Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 1993 Best known for his experimental novel 'Cane', Jean Toomer (1894-1967) is associated with the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance in the early 1920s as well as the postwar movement known as the Lost Generation. But Toomer was an enigmatic writer with a mystical vision of life. He followed his own path, which led him on a lifelong quest for spiritual truth. This book provides the first comprehensive survey of Toome's writings, including many unpublished ... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Perennial, 2003 F, pb, new book, 636pp.. Trade Paper. Fine. ... more information

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New York: W W Norton & Co/Pushcart Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Set of three hardcover books in dust jackets in slipcase. Small 8vo. All three books and jackets are in Fine condition, crisp, clean, unmarked, and unread. Slipcase is in Near Fine condition, with faint patches of soiling. A very special tribute to literary judgment and the book reviewer's art. ... more information

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NY: Random House, 2000. First US edition, first prnt. Signed by Smith on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with a Durafold mylar cover. The image is of the actual book described and not a stock photo.... more information

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