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| ADLER, BILL Inside Publishing Bobbs-Merrill First Edition . Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Slight edge wear of boards. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear with small tears and chips; in a clear protective cover. Behind-the-scenes of the publishing world by a literary agent. ISBN: 0672526808 USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 | £UK 4.25 | JP¥ 618] Book number: 1279 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| BLEW, MARY CLEARMAN Bone Deep in Landscape: Essays on Writing, Reading, and Place University of Oklahoma Press . Uncorrected Page Proofs in wraps. Small corner creasing of back wrap. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Mary Clearman Blew's reflections on a woman's life in the Rocky Mountain West interlock nature, writing, autobiography, literary criticism and history. She immerses readers in a landscape of mountains and praries, blizzards and scorching sun, and in a regional history in which Indians lose the landscape to white settlers, who find the living tough. ISBN: 0806170999 USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 4806 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| O'CONNER, PATRICIA T. Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English G.P. Putnam's Sons Fourteenth Printing . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Woe Is I is a survival guide for people who want a clear, simple, elegant introduction to good usage. ISBN: 0399141960 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 6844 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| FELDMAN, GILDA AND PHIL Acronym Soup: A Stirring Guide to Our Newest Word Form William Morrow First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Acronym Soup is a lively reference guide to today's growing word form. Acronyms pop up everywhere. They find you (RADAR) when you're away (AWOL), afflict you (AIDS) and heal you (LASER surgery), guide you (ZIP code) and thwart you (SNAFU). ISBN: 0688121608 USD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 878] Book number: 5111 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| KENNER, HUGH The Elsewhere Community Oxford University Press . Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Top edge remainder mark - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. As he chronicles this Elsewhere Community built of people exploring the unknown, Kenner illuminates how this passion has infused literature, from Homer and Dante to Dickens and Joyce. ISBN: 0195132971 USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 | £UK 4.25 | JP¥ 618] Book number: 5807 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| KING, STEPHEN On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Scribner First Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft - and his life..Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, and so revealing. ISBN: 0684853523 USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1545] Book number: 5570 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| LEDERER, RICHARD Crazy English: The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language Pocket Books Second Printing . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. In Crazy English, Dr. Lederer demonstrates that logic is "conspicuously absent" from the "standard deviations" of our language, an "open secret" that is anything but "old news". ISBN: 0671689061 USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 3907 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| NAIPAUL, V.S. Literary Occasions: Essays Alfred A. Knopf First Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. From a master of the English language - winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - a collection of essays about reading, writing, and identity. ISBN: 0375415173 USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1589] Book number: 7316 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| NEWMAN, EDWIN Strictly Speaking: Will America be the Death of English? Bobbs-Merrill First Edition . Very Good Hardcover in no Dustjacket. Top edge stained red. Gilt lettering is bright. Small area of writing on verso of half-title page. Spotting of bottom edge. Book is tight and overall bright. The veteran journalist,"...focuses on the sorry state of the English language." ISBN: 0672519909 USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 1382 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| OZ, AMOS The Story Begins: Essays on Literature Harcourt Brace First English Language Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. “In these playful and perceptive commentaries, Oz shares his rich and rewarding experience as novelist, critic, and teacher.à ¶ ISBN: 0151002975 USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 7081 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| WILSON, FRANCES Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers Faber and Faber . New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. Literary love affairs between writers and writers and between writers and readers, including Anais Nin and Henry Miller and W.B. and Georgie Yeats. ISBN: 0571192882 USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 7368 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| WINCHESTER, SIMON The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary Oxford University Press First Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ with a superficial scratch of back; in a clear protective cover. Simon Winchester delivers a lightning history of the English language, and the great dictionary makers from Samuel Johnson to Noah Webster before turning to the fascinating story of the making of the most venerable of dictionaries, the OED. Illustrated. ISBN: 0198607024 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 7478 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. |
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