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Aymar, Brandt; Sagarin, Edward The Personality of the Dog: A Dog Lover's Collection of Stories, Poems and Pictures
U.S.A. Wings Books 1995 0517146657 / 9780517146651 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Bright page - 355 pages - Splendid collection of tales, true stories and poems about dogs. Touches on every aspect of the dog's personality: good nature, humor, valor, devotion, wisdom, more. Includes Virginia Woolf, Jack London, Anton Chekhov, others.
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Buford, Bill (editor) Granta 29 : New World: Winter 1989
New York, NY, U.S.A. Viking Penguin 1989 0140128638 / 9780140128635 Trade Paperback Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Contents: Jonathan Raban - New World; Rian Malan - Msinga; Patrick Zachmann - Walled City of Hong King; Tim O'Brien - Speaking of Courage; Patrick McGrath - A Childhood in Broadmoor Hospital; Paul Theroux - First Train Journey; Patricia Highsmith- Scene of the Crime; Jill Hartley - Poland; Josef Skvorecky - Feminine Mystique; Robert Fisk - Beirut Diary; Notes From Abroad - Roger Garfitt - Bogota, Colombia - Notes On Contributors
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Chaudet, Annette (Editor) Hard Ground 2001: Writing the Rockies
Shell, Wyoming, U.S.A. Pronghorn Pr 2001 0971472505 / 9780971472501 Trade Paperback Very Good + 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Very-good+, clean copy. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO remainder marks or price clippings. 270 pages. A collection of selected works submitted to Pronghorn Press' Annual Hard Ground Writing Contest, this volume reflects a complex range of feelings about the West of today ... This is the West reflected by the writers of Hard Ground 2001: The legendary grandeur of the natural world set against the shock of school shootings, the many ways we choose to interact with the wildlife that abounds in this part of the country and with the other souls who find themselves ensnared by a love a love for this diverse landscape. In poetry and prose these thirty-seven writers show us what it means to live in the West today.
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Horowitz, Gene Privates
New York, NY, U.S.A. St. Martin's Press 1986 0312647166 / 9780312647162 First Edition Hard Cover As New Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
PRIVATES is the moving and deeply personal account of one man's coming to terms with his sexuality, the pain and excitement of his first great love, and, ultimately, the joys and sorrows in growing older.
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McPhee, John A.; Howarth, William L. (Editor) The John McPhee Reader
Farrar Straus & Giroux 1986 0374517193 / 9780374517199 Trade Paperback Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Very-good condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean (NO tears). NO writing or tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. 385 pages. Synopsis The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author’s first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit, who has been called a master craftsman so many times that it is pointless to number them. Biography John McPhee -- a writer with The New Yorker since 1965 -- writes about most anything that piques his interest, from California geology to the arc of a tennis ball to the construction of a birch-bark canoe. His beautifully articulated structures, clear prose, and participatory voice have become a model for other literary journalists, Norman Sims wrote in the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
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McQuade, Molly (Editor) An Unsentimental Education: Writers and Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Univ of Chicago Pr 1995 0226562107 / 9780226562100 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Price inside dustcover: $18.95 - Like-new copy - An Unsentimental Education is a collection of candid interviews with twenty-one of our leading novelists and poets. Presented as first-person essays, the interviews are with contemporary writers who have studied or taught at the University of Chicago. The book provides an occasion for the writers to reflect on their Chicago experiences and on ideas about education in general. What education does a writer need? How can formal learning impel the writing life? What school stories or tales told out of school do Philip Roth, Hayden Carruth, Marguerite Young, George Steiner, Charles Simic, Susan Sontag, and Saul Bellow have in store and want to share?
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Snodgrass, Mary Ellen Encyclopedia of Frontier Literature
Oxford Univ Pr 1999 0195133188 / 9780195133189 Trade Paperback Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Illustrated throughout. 540 pages. Tight spine - Bright pages. The Encyclopedia of Frontier Literature surveys 400 years of North American frontier literature. Within this literary context, the roles of women and minorities are given special attention, as is the expansion of the American West. The sheer scope of frontier literature is striking; this genre belongs as much to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Fenimore Cooper as it does to Willa Cather and Jessamyn West. From novels, short stories, and poetry to theater, oratory, outdoor dramas, songs, biographies, diaries, journals, and logbooks, frontier literature is characterized and unified by its rich expression of human experience. In the 94 alphabetized entries in this volume, readers will find dozens of authors and hundreds of works represented, as well as biographies, key concepts, terms, geographic locations, literary motifs, and dominant themes, including Explorers of the Frontier, Law and Order, Native Americans in Literature, Naturalists, and Poetry of the Frontier.
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Trent, William Peterfield; Erskine, John; Sherman, Stuart P.; Van Doren, Carl (Editors) The Cambridge History of American Literature: In Three Volumes
Macmillan 1969 Hardcover Very-Good Very-Good Ex-Libris 8vo
Very-good, clean copy of this huge(1,688 pages) ex-libris hardback. Three Volumes in One. Usual Library markings. Inner pages are free from writing and tears. Dustcover is clean, shows light wear (NO tears). Maroon boards with gilt lettering (clean and bright). Tight spine, clean pages. Volume I has 380 pages: Colonial and Revolutionary Literature, Early National Literature Part I; Volume II has 430 pages: Early National Literature, Part II and Later National Literature Part I; Volume III has 678 pages: Later National Literature, Parts II and III. Three centuries of America's life and culture are reflected in this splendid survey of her literature, Hailed upon its original publication as the most comprehensive record of our national literature, this work stands as the preeminent source of authoritative information on American writers, renowned and obscure, from the Colonial period to the twentieth century. Here are fascinating introductions to the writings of travellers, explorers, and historians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; to the Puritan Divines and the philosophers; to the Colonial newspapers and magazines; to the poets, essayists, dramatists, novelists; to political writers, economists, humorists, religious writers, and so on, in each period of our national development down to or own day. Sixty-four eminent American scholars have contributed to this great work. Their notable appraisals in every field prove a veritable boon to teachers, students, and everyone seeking enlightenment on our social and cultural growth,
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