Search Results: Essays from Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library

Thirteen seasonal tales of Christmas ghosts published in 2012. Paperback, cover as shown with this listing, binding firm text appears unmarked. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR)

2013 softcover as pictured. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers show only light shelf wear. Text clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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1998 hardcover as pictured. A collection of essays and short pieces by Iris Murdoch. Binding is firm. Boards clean with minimal edge wear. Production defect in rear fixed endpaper. Text clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light wear. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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Selected essays on writers and writing, along with reviews and occasional pieces. Signed limited edition, one of 300 copies signed by Eudora Welty. Quarter bound. cover as shown with this listing, gilt stamping of the spine is somewhat faded. Binding firm, head and tail bands, what appears to a teh Ramdom House colophon stamped on the bottom edge of the book block (see photo). Slip case is intact but foxed and faded. Your purchase helps our small village library. pi (G1)

1892 hardcover as pictured. A series of still topical essays on government and society presented in a handsome volume. Topics include immigration, patronage and party loyalty. Binding is firm. Cranberry cloth boards with gold stamping are rubbed and lightly soiled with some edge wear and gently bumped corners. Deep teal endpapers. Signed by previous owner. Text is clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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1982 hardcover as pictured. This is a first edition signed by Annie Dillard. "Living by Fiction" is written for people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Dillard shows why fiction matters. Binding is firm. Brown cloth boards with black stamping are clean and show minimal edge wear. Pencil notations on front endpapers. Unfortunately, the FFEP is stamped in ink "Not For Resale" Signed by author on title page. Text appears clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is complete and protected in a mylar sleeve. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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1939 hardcover as pictured. First American Edition, translated from Norwegian by Arthur Chater. Composed of nine portraits of people and places, this collection of essays displays Undset's keen appreciation of the complexity of human nature and history. In these essays, the nobel laureate examines the spiritualist movement in Norwegian religion, the psychology of D. H. Lawrence, two treasure troves of folklore in the work of Marie Bregendahl of Denmark and Leo Weismantel of Germany, the medieval author Margery Kempe, the legacy of Catholics persecuted during the English Reformation, and the cultural history and beautiful landscapes of the island of Gotland in Sweden and Glastonbury in England. Binding is firm. Green cloth boards with blue and brown stamping are clean and show minimal wear. Pencil marking on FFEP. Text is age tanned but appears otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed and scuffed with small chips and tears, and a large peice missing at top of spine. Your purchase helps… Read More

1966 hardcover as pictured. A very nice edition of the classic "A Sand County Almanac", and 25 or so other essays from the great American naturalist, Aldo Leopold, with illustrations by Charles Schwartz. Binding is intact. Green cloth boards with black stamping are faded and lightly soiled with some fraying at head and tail of spine and at corners. Printed endpapers with bookplate on FFEP. Writing on half title and facing page. Text is generally clean but about 40 pages have light pencilled notations. Dust jacket is mottled and rubbed with many small tears and chips. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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1971 hardcover as pictured. An interesting collection of essays originally published in The Atlantic, Scribners, Harpers and other journals by the libertarian intellectual Albert Nock. Binding is firm. Blued cloth boards with gold and red stamping on spine are lightly soiled with slight edge wear. Pencil notations on rear fixed endpaper. Top edge of text block mottled. Text with underling and notations that do not affect readability. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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First edition, published 1946. Unjacketed hardcover, green cloth cover as shown with this listing is rubbed and bumped and has a stain on the front board. Binding is firm and text appears unmarked. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (O-AR)