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Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
by Updike, John
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st ed.
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- 1983
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780394531793
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 27.42
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919pp. blue cloth 8vo: near Very Good in a Good dj torn @ spine head and now protected in a Brodart poly cover. Item Price
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Fragments of My Fleece
by Acheson, Dean
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1971 book club ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780393086447
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 9.58
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New York: Norton, 1971 book club ed. 222pp. navy cloth 8vo w/gilt spine titles: near Very Good in an edge-torn but not tattered dj. A collection of shorter pieces, speeches, articles and papers by the American Secretary of State Acheson (1893-1971). This Saturday Review Book Club edition is actually a quality publisher's original printing sold to them for book club… Read more about this item Item Price
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As They Were
by Fisher, M. F. K
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- 1983 reprint.
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780394713489
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 6.84
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New York: Vintage Books, 1983 reprint. 261pp. paperback 8vo: Good+ [text is age browned; some old water mark outlines in bottom blank margins of first few pp. not affecting text; else a clean, complete & tight copy. Item Price
SGD 6.84
In the Vineyard of the Mind (inscribed)
by de Man, George E. N
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 2004 1st ed.
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9781878282309
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 20.56
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Haworth, NJ: St. Johann Press, 2004 1st ed. INSCRIBED by author on title p. & signed "George." 139pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. Item Price
SGD 20.56
Fragments of My Fleece
by Acheson, Dean
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1971 reprint.
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- Hardcover
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- 9780393086447
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 6.84
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New York: Norton, 1971 reprint. 222pp. navy cloth 8vo w/gilt spine titles: near Fine in a near Very Good dj [dj = corner-clipped; else nrVG] A collection of shorter pieces, speeches, articles and papers. Item Price
SGD 6.84
Free-Range Knitter: the yarn harlot writes again
by Pearl-McPhee, Stephanie
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 2008 1st ed.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780740769474
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 13.64
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Kansas City: Andrews-McMeel, 2008 1st ed. 228pp. hardback 12mo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. More humorous essays ("a sort of David Sedaris take on knitting," said the Library Journal) by the author of Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter. Item Price
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My Ears are Bent (uncorrected bound galleys)
by Mitchell, Joseph
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- Used - Good
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- 2001 uncorrected bound galleys.
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- Paperback
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 10.28
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New York: Pantheon Books, 2001 uncorrected bound galleys. 301pp. illus. paperback 12mo: Good+ [cover fading; a smudge on front cover; else a clean, complete & tight copy] An uncorrected proof copy of the reissue of a book originally published in 1938. Item Price
SGD 10.28
Dead Man in the Silver Market
by Menen, Aubrey
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1953 1st ed.
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 13.64
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New York: Scribner's, 1953 1st ed. 203pp. blue cloth sm 8vo: Very Good in a generally Good dj in poly cover [a top corner bump; else VG; dj = p-c; some edge tears; else G] Autobiographical essays by the Anglo-Indian writer Menen (1912-89). Item Price
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Peace at the Center (signed)
by Dick, David
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- Used - Fine
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- 1994 1st ed.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780963288622
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 13.64
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Paris, KY: Plum Lick Publishing, 1994 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 227pp. illus. blue cloth tall 8vo w/gilt titles: Fine in a Fine dj in poly cover. Personal essays by the former CBS news reporter Dick (1930-2010). Jacket praise from Wendell Berry, Charles Kuralt, et al. Item Price
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Small Talk
by Nicolson, Harold
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- Used - Good
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- 1937 2nd ptg.
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 20.56
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London: Constable, 1937 2nd ptg. 248pp. burgundy cloth sm 8vo w/gilt spine titles: near Very Good/no dj. A nice copy of these essays by the British diplomat and prolific writer Nicolson (1886-1968). Item Price
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In the Country of Hearts: Journeys in the Art of Medicine (inscribed)
by Stone, John
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- Used - Fine
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- 1990 1st ed.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780385301695
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 34.27
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New York: Delacorte, 1990 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 211pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. The thoughts of Dr. John Stone (1936-2008), poet and philosophical cardiologist at the Emory University School of Medicine. Advance jacket praise from Annie Dillard, Robert Coles, Ellen Gilchrist, President Jimmy Carter, et al. Item Price
SGD 34.27
Jazzy State of Mind
by Eginlioglu, Yasemin translated by Bora Kocar w/questions edited by Tolga Meric
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 2017 1st ed.
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9786052961339
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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Istanbul: Cinius Yayinlari, 2017 1st ed. 208pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. Author has written her name as her email address on half-title p. Her business card as an attorney is laid in. Item Price
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A House for the Truth: Critical Essays
by Wain, John
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1973 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780670380152
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 9.58
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New York: Viking, 1973 1st ed. 214pp. black cloth 8vo: Very Good+ in a near Fine dj in poly cover [fore edge shows light foxing; else VG+; dj = p-c; else nrF] English writer Wain's (1925-94) literary views on such subjects as Orwell in the Õ30s, Flann O'Brien's fiction, Dr. Johnson's poetry, the meaning of "Dr. Zhivago" and much more. Item Price
SGD 9.58
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Sleeping at the Starlite Motel and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home (inscribed)
by White, Bailey
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- Used - Fine
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- 1995 reprint.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780201626704
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 13.64
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Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995 reprint. INSCRIBED on ffep by author. 238pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. Jacket praise for these humorous essays from Isabel Allende, et al. Item Price
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Too Soon to Tell (inscribed)
by Trillin, Calvin
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
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- 1995 1st ed.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780374278465
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 34.27
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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995 1st ed. INSCRIBED on half-title p. by author. 292pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. Item Price
SGD 34.27
Eudora Welty: Thirteen Essays (selected from Eudora Welty: Critical Essays)
by Prenshaw, Peggy Whitman, ed. (on Eudora Welty)
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1983.
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780878051878
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 6.84
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Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1983. 262pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine. Item Price
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The Condemned Playground: Essays 1927-1944
by Connolly, Cyril
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1946 2nd ptg
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 20.56
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New York: Macmillan, 1946 2nd ptg. 287pp. russet cloth 8vo: Good+ in a worn but not tattered dj in poly cover [text is lightly age browned; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] The English writer Connolly (1903-74) was editor of Horizon when this book was published. Item Price
SGD 20.56
English Essayists (Britain in Pictures)
by Dobree, Bonamy
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- Used - Fair/Poor
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
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- 1946 1st ed
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- Hardcover
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 6.84
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London: Collins, 1946 1st ed. 48pp. illus. hardback 8vo in paper-covered pictorial boards: about Good in a generally Good dj that shows wear [endpp are foxed; bit of foxing in text; long gift inscription on front pastedown and ffep; else a complete & tight copy] A Britain in Pictures title featuring 8 color plates and 23 black & white illustrations. Item Price
SGD 6.84
A Sounding of Storytellers: New and Revised Essays on Contemporary Writers for Children
by Townsend, John Rowe
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1979 1st ed. thus.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780397318827
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 10.28
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New York: Lippincott, 1979 1st ed. thus. 218pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Good dj torn on front cover but now protected in a Brodart cover. An updated version of a 1971 publication that includes 14 essays by children's writers ranging from Penelope Lively to Peter Dickinson. Item Price
SGD 10.28
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Leave Yourself Alone (signed)
by Price, Eugenia
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1979.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780310314301
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- 1
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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SGD 13.64
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Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1979. SIGNED on ffep by author. 127pp. purple cloth 8vo: near Fine in a Good+ dj [inexplicable "discarded" stamp on ffep above author’s signature; else nrF; dj = p-c; few edge nicks; else G] A nice signed copy of this book by the Christian writer and novelist Eugenia Price (1916-96). Item Price
SGD 13.64