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By: Bacon, Daisy
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Hermitage House: (c.1954)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16412
Condition: Near Fine in Good dj
[nice clean copy with minimal shelfwear; jacket a bit ragged, missing a couple of shallow pieces at top of front panel, small chips at top corners of rear panel, various other minor tears, fading to spine] "How to write and market the romantic story," by the longtime editor of Love Story Magazine (who also edited numerous other popular fiction publications during her 22-year career with Street & Smith, including Detective Story Magazine and Doc Savage Magazine). She was also quite an animal-lover, it seems: in the middle of Chapter 3, "How Can I Find Out What the Editor Wants?... View more info
By: Braine, John
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan: 1974
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 22445
ISBN: 0-698-10584-2
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[minor shelfwear, very light dust-soiling to top edge of text block; jacket lightly edgeworn, shows a bit of scuffing to front panel]. "A directly useful handbook from the bestselling author of Room at the Top," which employs "passages from key contemporary writers [and] assesses the essentials of style and skill that all good writers share and every novice writer can learn." Among the writers excerpted are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, John O'Hara, and Anthony Powell. View more info
By: Dobbs, Brian
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, Elm Tree Bks/Hamish Hamilton: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8228
ISBN: 0-241-89030-6
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[light browning/soiling to page edges; jacket very mildly wrinkling at top of edge of front panel]. "In this intriguing survey of published diaries, [the author] describes the backgrounds and careers of over fifty men and women who in their journals wrote both for and about themselves, without attempting to present themselves in a favourable light for posterity." Among his subjects are Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, Arnold Bennett, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley and Queen Victoria. View more info
By: Smith, Keith A.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Rochester NY, keith smith BOOKS: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18128
ISBN: 0-9637682-7-1
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice copy, very slight scrunching (hardly worthy of the term) at a couple of page corners, spine a teensy bit turned; jacket shows just a trace of surface wear]. (B&W photographs) A self-chronicle of his own work by Smith, who has been making books since 1967, ranging "from artists books to poetry and textbooks to dictionaries." This is "an annotated bibliography of all the books Keith Smith made from Book I, while a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, to Book 200, which you are now holding in your hand. Smith writes about how he makes images, why he makes books and places... View more info
Price: $65.00
Publisher: New York/Westport CT/London, Greenwood Press: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22449
ISBN: 0-313-25022-7
Condition: Fine
(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice as-new copy, with no discernible wear]. (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science, No. 56) Series History of the founding and early years of the ALA. Includes (as you might expect) an extensive bibliography and a full index. Appendices I and II break down the constant characteristics and the changing characteristics, respectively, of the Association's board members during the years covered by the text; Appendix III is a list of "ALA Conference Locations, Presidents, and Attendance" during the same period. View more info
By: Woodford, Jack
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: (c.1950)
Edition: Unstated ed
Seller ID: 6033
ISBN: NO
Condition: Good in Fair dj
[exterior dampstain along bottom edge (pages not affected), moderate overall wear; jacket well-wron at corners and edges, paper loss at both ends of spine, one-inch triangular chunk missing at top left front panel, a few tears, etc.]. Ever the iconoclast, the cantankerous and prolific hack novelist tells it like it is (was) with regard to the publishing Establishment. View more info
