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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

By: 0'connor, Flannery

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1970

Seller ID: 144805

ISBN: 0374508046

Condition: Near Fine

Book is in excellent condition, showing very light shelf wear only, with a little staining to upper page ends. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Sections include: Aspects of the grotesque in southern fiction, The regional writer, Nature and airm of fiction, Writing short stories, Teaching literature, The Catholic novelist in the Protestant south View more info

The Hasty Papers: Special Millennium Edition

By: Alfred Leslie, Jean-Paul Sarte, Gregory Corso, John O'Hara, Joel Oppenheimer, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, J. Robert Oppenheimer, W. c. Williams, Terry southern, Orlovsky, Jean Genet, John Ashbery, Fidel Castro,

Price: $86.95

Publisher: Texas, Host Publications: 2006

Seller ID: 143214

ISBN: 0924047127

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition, as new in black cloth with silver print on cover and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is new and wrapped in clear protective cover. With contributions from Jean-Paul Sarte, Gregory Corso, John O'Hara, Joel Oppenheimer, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, J. Robert Oppenheimer, W. c. Williams, Terry southern, Orlovsky, Jean Genet, J. Ashbery, Fidel Castro, View more info

Burqa of Skin

By: Arcan, Nelly

Price: $7.12

Publisher: Vancouver, B.C., Anvil Press: 2014

Seller ID: 138286

ISBN: 1772140015

Condition: Fine

A new, unread book in excellent condition. "Review Copy" stamp inside. View more info

Garage Criticism: Cultural Missives in an Age of Distraction

By: Babiak, Peter

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Vancouver, B.C., Anvil Press: 2016

Seller ID: 139767

ISBN: 1772140503

Condition: Fine

A new, unread book in excellent condition. Publisher's stamp inside. View more info

Toward the New Degeneracy

By: Benderson, Bruce

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Edgewise: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 135008

ISBN: 9646446633

Condition: Fine

Book shows very light shelf wear only to covers: binding is solid, spine straight, text is clean and unmarked in any way, pages age-toned. View more info

Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S.A., Counterpoint: 2000

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 110942

ISBN: 1582430586

Condition: Fine

Incscribed, "For Jeff, 6/3/00, Wendell Berry," on the title page. Edges of dust jacket slight worn. View more info

What Are People For?: Essays

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $12.95

Publisher: U.S.A., North Point Press: 1990

Seller ID: 144804

ISBN: 0865474370

Condition: Very Good

Book appears nearly new save sunned spine; creaseless covers and spine, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, solid binding. View more info

Busted! True Stories of Getting Caught in the Act (Fray #1)

By: Bishop, Chris, Chris Brandt, Claire Robertson, Ben Roberts, Annie Galvin, Goopymart, James Unwin, John Allspaw, James Unwin, Gary Taxali, Frank Klodziej

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fray: 2014

Seller ID: 146426

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition; new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Issue #1 of Fray magazine, unpaginated, about 100 pages. View more info

Bogi Bjarnason...His Words

By: Bjarnason, Brian; Jarvis, Kate

Price: $8.41

Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Creative Connections Pub: 2001

Seller ID: 125564

ISBN: 1894694066

Condition: Fine

A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 242 pages. View more info

Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing

By: Blanchot, Maurice

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A., Routledge: 1996

Seller ID: 127323

ISBN: 0415125960

Condition: Very Good

Very nice book with light shelf and edge wear, text/interior spotless. 234 pages. View more info

Kritischer Optimismus

By: Borner, Wilhelm

Price: $134.95

Publisher: ..., Sensen-Verlag: 1971

Seller ID: 075497

Condition: Near Fine

Speeches on self-knowledge, family, peace, tolerance etc. in the spirit of a world ethic. Written for popular audiences after the author returned from American exile after the war. Vienna named a street after him. Bright, very clean blue boards with gold embossed lettering on spine. Dust jacket is complete but with many small closed tears and chips. Text in German. View more info

Yestermorrow

By: Bradbury, Ray

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA, Joshua Odell Editions: 1991

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 142657

ISBN: 1877741043

Condition: Near Fine

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Scuffing to dust jacket. 240 pages. "Who are we? What are we? Where have we been? Where are we going? Journey through time to places real and imagined with Ray Bradbury, America's preeminent master of the fantastic as he ponders these questions and fashions a blueprint for tomorrow in this exceptional collection of writings." View more info

As We are

By: Brandon, Henry,

Price: $28.50

Publisher: Doubleday & Co.: 1961

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 145950

Condition: Near Fine

Book is in excellent condition in light blue cloth covers with a tiny bit of shelf wear at corners. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for previous owner's name inside cover. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears; in a clear protective cover. 281 pages with black and white photos. Interveiws with: Dr. Margaret Mead, Peter Ustinov, Leonard Bernstein, Ben Shahn, Edmund Wilson, Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, Frank LLoyd Wright, Dr. Reinhold Niebhur, ... View more info