English Language & Writing





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               Inside Publishing
               Adler, Bill

 Bobbs-Merrill First Edition 1982                                     
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.
PUBLICATIONS,BOOKS                                                                                       Book# 1279 		US$7.00


               Bone Deep in Landscape: Essays on Writing, Reading, and Place
               Blew, Mary Clearman
 University of Oklahoma Press 1999   ISBN: 0806170999
 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.                       
 ESSAYS,MEMOIRS,AMERICAN WEST,ROCKY MOUNTAINS,AMERICAN HISTORY,U.S. HISTORY,
 AMERICAN WRITERS       Book #4806		  
US$10.00
    


               Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Industructible Writers of the Western World
               Denby, David
 Simon & Schuster Sixth Printing 1996   ISBN: 0684809753
 Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ price clipped; in a clear protective cover.
 At the age of forty-eight, film critic David Denby, dissatisfied with his life within the media bubble, went back to Columbia University
 and took again the two famous courses in Western classics...required of all students - courses he first took in 1961.                      
 WESTERN LITERATURE,LITERARY CLASSICS,HUMANITIES,READING       Book #7803		  
US$8.00
    


               How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author
               Evanovich, Janet with Ina Yalof
 St. Martin’s Griffin 2006   ISBN: 0312354282
 Fine Trade Paperback. Book has an upper edge remainder dot. Spine is uncreased.
 Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked.
 How I Write is the perfect guide for anyone looking to strengthen their writing, and for those who want to find out just what
 makes Janet Evanovich tick.                     
 WRITING,WRITERS,AMERICAN AUTHORS,THRILLERS       Book #7657		  
US$8.00   
  
         

               Acronym Soup: A Stirring Guide to Our Newest Word Form
               Feldman, Gilda and Phil

 William Morrow First Edition 1994                          ISBN  0688121608
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).
COMMON USAGE                                                                                                   Book# 5111 		US$9.95

         
               The Elsewhere Community
               Kenner, Hugh

 Oxford University Press 2000                                ISBN  0195132971
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.
TRAVEL,LITERARY CRITICISM,WRITING,WRITERS                           Book# 5807 		US$7.00

         
               On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
               King, Stephen

 Scribner First Edition 2000                                 ISBN  0684853523
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.
WRITING,WRITERS,AUTHORSHIP,BIOGRAPHY,HORROR                 Book# 5570 		US$17.50

         
               Crazy English: The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language
               Lederer, Richard

 Pocket Books Second Printing 1989                        ISBN  0671689061
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".
LANGUAGE,GRAMMER,WORDS,COMMUNICATION,NON-FICTION                                                                                                                                                                   Book# 3907 		US$12.50


               Literary Occasions: Essays
               Naipaul, V.S.
 Alfred A. Knopf First Edition 2003   ISBN: 0375415173
 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.                      
 LITERATURE,AUTOBIOGRAPHY,LITERARY CRITICISM       Book #7316		  
US$18.00 
   
         

               Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English
               O'Conner, Patricia T.

 G.P. Putnam's Sons Fourteenth Printing 1996                     ISBN  0399141960
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.
ENGLISH USAGE,ENGLISH GRAMMAR                                                       Book# 6844 		US$12.00

           
               The Story Begins: Essays on Literature
               Oz, Amos
Harcourt Brace First English Language Edition 1998    ISBN: 0151002975
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.”                      
AUTHORS,WRITERS,NOVELISTS,LITERARY CRITICISM,READING       Book #7081		  US$14.00
     


               Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers
               Wilson, Frances
 Faber and Faber 1999   ISBN: 0571192882
 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.                       
 WRITERS,READING,LITERATURE,LITERARY ROMANCE       Book #7368		  
US$10.00
    


               The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
               Winchester, Simon
 Oxford University Press First Edition 2003   ISBN: 0198607024
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ 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.                      
 OED,SIR JAMES MURRAY,PHILOLOGY,SCHOLARSHIP       Book #7478		  
US$14.00