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Love Story Writer

By: Bacon, Daisy

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Hermitage House: (c.1954)

Seller ID: 16412

Binding: Hardcover

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?...
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Writing a Novel

By: Braine, John

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan: 1974

Seller ID: 22445

ISBN: 0-698-10584-2

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Dear Diary: Some Studies in Self-Interest

By: Dobbs, Brian

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Elm Tree Bks/Hamish Hamilton: 1974

Seller ID: 8228

ISBN: 0-241-89030-6

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Passages from the Autobiography of a Bibliomaniac

By: Sadleir, Michael

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, University of California Library: 1962

Seller ID: 25580

Condition: Very Good

(blue-grey printed wrappers) [minimal handling wear, but with a bit of insect-nibbling along the spine; NOTE also that a number of the leaves remain unopened]. "Issued on the occasion of an exhibit of books from the Michael Sadleir Collection of Nineteenth-century Fiction." Introduction by Bradford A. Booth. "Five hundred copies have been printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press for presentation by the UCLA Library to members of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs on the occasion of their joint meeting in Los Angeles in September 1962, and to other friends of the UCLA Library....
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Two Hundred Books by Keith Smith: Book Number 200: An Anecdotal Bibliography

By: Smith, Keith A.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Rochester NY, keith smith BOOKS: 2000

Seller ID: 18128

ISBN: 0-9637682-7-1

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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The Politics of an Emerging Profession: The American Library Association, 1876-1917

By: Wiegand, Wayne A.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York/Westport CT/London, Greenwood Press: 1986

Seller ID: 22449

ISBN: 0-313-25022-7

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The Loud Literary Lamas of New York

By: Woodford, Jack

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: (c.1950)

Seller ID: 6033

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Category: Books and Publishing

Love Story Writer

Writing a Novel

Dear Diary: Some Studies in Self-Interest

Passages from the Autobiography of a Bibliomaniac

Two Hundred Books by Keith Smith: Book Number 200: An Anecdotal Bibliography

The Politics of an Emerging Profession: The American Library Association, 1876-1917

The Loud Literary Lamas of New York