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The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis

By: Alan Jacobs

Price: $8.98

Publisher: HarperOne: April 2008

Seller ID: 71749

ISBN: 0061448729

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

No marks or writing observed in the text. Spine uncreased - appears unread. . . . . . . . . . .. I loved this book! I have read so many of CS Lewis's works & have always looked up to him, and this book made me feel almost like I know him. It really was fascinating to see how the people in his life showed up in his writing. I agree with another reviewer who said that it's clear the author admires Lewis, but he doesn't idolize him -- and that makes the book all the more believable. I'm not a big biography reader, but this one was different because it helps the reader understand how the events of...
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Starting Out in the Thirties Hardcover

By: Alfred Kazin

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press: January 1965

Seller ID: 46477

ISBN: B000MULW1E

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

First edition. Dust jacket is clean but has a tear on back, in protective archival sleeve. No writing or marks observed in the text. Binding is tight and square.
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As I Walked Down New Grub Street: Memories of a writing life

By: Allen, Walter Ernest

Price: $12.98

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: January 1981

Seller ID: 82768

ISBN: 0226014339

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

No marks or writing observed in text. Foxing on top page edges. Binding tight and square. Gently read. From private collection, dust cover is in archival mylar.
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Letters of Archibald Macleish: 1907-1982

By: Archibald Macleish; R. H. Winnick [Editor]

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T): December 1982

Seller ID: 3419

ISBN: 039532159X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Like New

1st Edition / 1st Printing - Clean!! No Marks. Light Wear On Dust Jacket. From Private Collection. In Archival Mylar Protected D 1st Edition / 1st Printing - Clean!! No Marks. Light Wear On Dust Jacket. From Private Collection. In Archival Mylar Protected Dust Jacket
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Timebends: A Life

By: Arthur Miller

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Grove Press: November 1987

Seller ID: 46410

ISBN: 0802100155

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Very Good

First Trade edition 1987. Dust jacket is clean and in protective mylar. No writing or marks observed in the text. Binding is tight and square.
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At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf

By: Bennett Cerf

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Random House: August 1977

Seller ID: 80511

ISBN: 0394478770

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Like New

Stated 1st Edition. CLEAN!! No marks. Might as well be new. Appears unread. From private collection, dust cover is in archival mylar. . . . . . . Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers who revolutionized the book business in the 1920s and â€™30s, Cerf helped usher in publishingâ€™s golden age. Cerf was a true personality, whose other pursuits (columnist, anthologist, author, lecturer, radio host, collector of jokes and anecdotes, perennial judge of the Miss America pageant, and panelist on Whatâ€™s My Line?) helped shape his reputation as a man of boundless energy a...
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GEORGE WHITEFIELD: A GREAT ORATOR

By: Bessie G. Olson

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Walfred Publishing Company: January 1955

Seller ID: 33707

ISBN: B00A8PQPK6

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Used - Good

Cover has some writing in pencil on it and the back page of the book has pen marks. Other than that no marks or writing observed in text. Cover has some smudges. Binding tight and square.
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H.L.M.: The Mencken Bibliography

By: Betty Adler, Jane Wilhelm; Foreword-Richard Hart

Price: $189.95

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: November 1961

Seller ID: 81233

ISBN: 0801800080

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. Dust cover is in archival mylar. Wear at edges and corners. This was a working book used to help its owner, George Thompson track and inventory is collection of H. L. Mencken books and ephemera. Thompson was the preeminent H. L. Menken collector who acquired the largest private collection of Mencken literary memorabilia which is now located at The George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins University.
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The Conversations of Dr. Johnson

By: Boswell, James

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Taplinger Publishing Co: January 1970

Seller ID: 82754

ISBN: 0800847350

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. Dust cover scuffed, now dust cover is in archival mylar, from private collection.
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The Four Seasons of Success

By: Budd Schulberg

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Doubleday: 1972

Seller ID: 82476

ISBN: 0385005105

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Very Good

Stated 1st Edition. VERY GOOD+ No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . . . The author's personal reminiscences of these 6 writers: 1.) Sinclair Lewis: big noise from Sauk Centre -- 2.) William Saroyan: ease and unease on the flying trapeze -- 3.) Old Scott [F. Scott Fitzgerald]: the myth, the masque, the man -- 4.) Pep (Nathanael) West: Prince Myshkin in a Brooks Brothers suit -- 5.) Thomas Heggen: taps at reveille -- 6.) John Steinbeck: a lion in winter.
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Theodore Dreiser

By: Burton Rascoe

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Robert M McBride: January 1925

Seller ID: 27378

ISBN: B0006D6QKY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square.
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Memoirs and Diaries, 1934-1973 (3 Volume Set)

By: C. L. Sulzberger

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Macmillan: 1974

Seller ID: 32940

ISBN: 281BNB1002338

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Very Good

3 Volume Set - Vol I & III are 1st Edition / 1st Printing - CLEAN! No marks. Lightly read. Vol I: A Long Row of Candles, 1934-1954 (LCCN: 69-10642); An Age of Mediocrity: Memoirs and Diaries, 1964-72 (LCCN: 73-2746); Postscript with a Chinese Accent: Memoirs and Diaries, 1972-1973 (ISBN: 0026153203)
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The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography

By: Carl E. Rollyson

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Paragon House Publishers: October 1991

Seller ID: 12445

ISBN: 1557781931

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

No apparent marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Appears unread. DoJ has minor shelf-wear.
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My Early Times

By: Charles Dickens; Editor-Peter Rowland

Price: $7.95

Publisher: The Folio Society: 1988

Seller ID: 72629

ISBN: B005ZETE76

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In slipcase - No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read.
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A Life on the Road

By: Charles Kuralt

Price: $3.89

Publisher: Putnam Adult: October 1990

Seller ID: 35313

ISBN: 0399134883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Very Good

First edition/ first printing. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is clean with minor shelf wear. Enscribed to previous owner by friend on front inside cover. No marks or writing observed in the text.
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An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles

By: Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Grove Press: May 1989

Seller ID: 46412

ISBN: 1555841163

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Very Good

First edition. Dust jacket is clean, in protective mylar. No writing or marks observed in the text. Binding is tight and square.
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Private And Fictional Words: Canadian Women Novelists Of The 1970's And 1980's

By: Coral Ann Howells

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Methuen: 1987

Seller ID: 672

ISBN: 0416376401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Very Good

Methuen Hardcover Edition - Clean!! No Marks. Light Wear On Cover. 1st Edition (Methuen Hardcover Edition (1967) - Clean!! No Marks. Light Wear On Cover. DJ is VG
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