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Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 576 pages. 7.25x4.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 576 pages. 7.25x4.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED; Good trade paperback with creasing, pin mark on front cover, nicked, and prompt shipping with tracking.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st printing. 302pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition w/slight crinkling to bottom front cover's edge, o/w unmarked. "Gathered posthumously from The New York Times Book Review and other publications, this compilation of essays and reviews solidifies John Gardner's legacy as a consummate teacher and controversial critic with a provocative sense of humor. Writing about his fellow craftsmen, John Gardner offers piercing insights into those whose works he admired and those whose works he didn t. In exacting unapologetic evaluations upon writers such as Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, John Cheever, Larry Woiwode, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Updike, Gardner separates genuine fiction from fakery, careful not to spare his own writings in the process, and in doing so, he displays his influences and wide-reaching observations of the literary life. [] Refreshingly unpredictable and self-aware, this collection lays bare the core qualities of lasting fiction and is essential reading for anyone interested in American literature." [publisher copy] In addition to Charles Johnson's introductory memoir/elegy & Gardner's nonfiction, included are a late unpublished short story "Julius Caesar and the Werewolf" & his notebook's "General Plan for The Sunlight Dialogues," his early masterpiece, offering great insight into his writing drafts. "For Gardner, fiction is real and earnest. The reader who takes it equally seriously will get much from this book."--New York Times. "Popular novelist, critic, teacher and classics scholar, Gardner, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1982, insisted that fiction should be moral and life-affirming. These 29 essays and reviews, gathered from the New York Times Book Review, Antaeus, Saturday Review and elsewhere, are sprinkled with sharp put-downs. For example, Gardner calls John Updike's characters 'hypersensitive whiners,' deems Walker Percy's novel Lancelot 'typical bad art . . . pompous' and labels Graham Greene's The Comedians as entertainment that 'makes a casual pass at art.' Gardner is refreshingly unpredictable, admiring such writers as William Gaddis, Italo Calvino, John Fowles, William Gass and Lewis Carroll. His high critical standards and gimlet insights shine through. Included are a prickly autobiographical sketch ("Cartoons"), the marvelous essay 'What Writers Do' and a short story 'Julius Caesar and the Werewolf.'"--Publishers Weekly. Near Fine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges (mostly), a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.

Hardcover. Zustand: G. Book in plastic protective cover enclosed in a slipcase. 798 pages. Clean, good binding, slipcase has some scuffing, nameplate on endpaper. Red cloth, title in gilt on the spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: G. Book in plastic protective cover enclosed in a slipcase. 511 pages. Clean, good binding, slipcase has some scuffing, nameplate on endpaper. Red cloth, title in gilt on the spine.

mass market paperback. Zustand: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDgood mass market paperback; tips bumped; tanned pages and inside covers; crease to cover and spint; slight nicks top edge front cover; 16mo; 456 pages; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Red boards with silver gilt to front and spine. This book would be "as new" save for an inscription inside fep. Excellent! Please contact us for pictures and/or further details - only too pleased to help!

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. First printing, with fuli number line. A new copy in a new jacket. A clean, tight copy with price ($25.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 346 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 380 pages. 10.25x7.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. xxii, 441 p. 21 cm. ; original Halcyon LCCN 48000549 ; LOC No BX885 .S45 1947 ; Dewey 282.082 ; white, black and green pictorial boards ; no dustjacket ; "Biographical note": p. 409-438. ; Contents: The Nativity/St Luke - Eight beatitudes/St Matthew - I am true vine/St John - Crucifixion/St Mark - Mission of Saint Paul/Acts of Apostles - Greatest of these/St Paul - Before throne/ Apocalypse - From canon of Mass/Missale Romanum - Petition to God saints/Litany of saints - Prophecy/Justin Martyr - Fire of love/Epistle to Diognetus - To Romans/St Ignatius - presbyters/St Polycarp - martyrdom of St Polycarp/Eusebius - Testimony of Christian soul/Tertullian - In memory of Nepotian/St Jerome - St Augustine & his mother/St Augustine - Shadow of things to come/St Augustine - To Mother of God/St Cyril - Abbot/the rule of St Benedict - Cellerar/the rule of St Benedict - Prayer to Virgin Mary/St Bernard - Glory of body/St Bernard - Consolatrix afflictorum/St Bernard - Conversion of Abelard/Peter venerable - St Bernard/Alan of Auxerre - Charlemagne/Eginhard - King Otto is victorious/Luitprand of Cremona - St Louis/Joinville - Of blessed man Paul simple/Paradise of fathers - Of blessed woman Thais/Paradise of fathers - On fall of Eutropius/St John Chrysostom - A mother's demand/Liber exemplorum - Jackdaw of Rheims/Patrologia latina - A storm at Matins/Guibert, abbot of Nogent-sour-Coucy - Give that ye may receive/Caesarius of Heisterbach - Virgin of Chartres/Abbot Haimon - Wisdom & Church of God/King Alfred - Life of man/Venerable Bede - Death of Caedmon/Venerable Bede - King Canute passes/Thomas of Ely - Love without ending/Blessed Juliana of Norwich - Cross/Richard Rolle - Meditation/Cloud of Unknowing - Testimony of St Jeanne D'Arc/Trial of Jeanne D'Arc - St Francis & stigmata/The "Little Flowers of St Francis" - A parable/Thomas of Eccleston - Of nativity of our lord Jesus Christ/St Bonaventure - Hail Mary/St Bonaventure - Pope Benedict XII/Thomas de Burton - Husband & wife/St Bernardine of Siena - Saint Martin/Jacobus de Voragine - Saint Elizabeth/Jacobus de Voragine - Saint Marcellinus/Jacobus de Voragine - Just war/St Thomas Aquinas - Evil men do/Roger Bacon - Science/Roger Bacon - Sermon preached against tyrants/Girolamo Savonarola - Meeting with Beatrice/Dante Alighieri - Dante/Giovanni Boccacio - O stelliferi conditor orbis/Geoffrey Chaucer - Books/Richard de Bury - Paradise/John Mandeville - Morality/Innocent morality - From 'Morte d'Arthur'/Thomas Malory - Holy poverty/Rule of St Francis - Customs of chivalry/John Froissart - All work & no play/Fitzstephen - At table/ErasmusFaith & comfort/St Thomas More - Last letter to his daughter/St Thomas More - Farewell of Saint Thomas More/William Roper - Death of Lady Margaret/John Fisher - Lady Margaret/Robert Southwell - Mary, Queen of Scots/Pierre de Bourdeille - Letter to Pope Gregory XI/St Catherine of Siena - Letter to Sister Daniella of Orvieto/St Catherine of Siena - Dialogue of heart/John Gerson - O sweet & savory word/Thomas a Kempis - Things that bring much peace/Thomas a Kempis - Prayer against evil thoughts/Thomas a Kempis - Prayer for mental illumination/Thomas a Kempis - True comfort/Thomas a Kempis - How great is abundance/Thomas a Kempis - Judgment day/Blessed John Ruysbroeck - Address to beloved/Ramon Lull - Questions/Ramon Lull - Hope in mercy of God/St Teresa of Avila - Distribution of alms/St Ignatius Loyola - Michaelangelo & religious art/Francisco de Hollanda - Leonardo da Vinci/Giorgio Vasari - Image & reality/Baldesar Castiglione - On heights/Francesco Petrarca - Elizabethan seminarians/Anthony Munday - Popular preacher/Joseph Francis Isla - Adventure of windmills/Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Saladin & Rosader/Thomas Lodge - Divine goodness/St Francis de Sales - Courtesy/St Francis de Sales - Brother Lawrence/Practice of presence of God - Prayer/Jacques-Benigne Bossuet - At profession of Madame de la Valliere/Jacques-Benigne Bossuet - education of girls/ ; FINE. Book.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Various; Arthur G. Bell; M. V. Wheelhouse; Donald Mawell; W. J. Roberts (illustrator). A richly illustrated collection of eleven works on London"s history, culture, and character, spanning 1879-1926. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.This eleven volume collection provides a series of late 19th- and early 20th-century works on London"s history, culture, and character, many of which are richly illustrated.This collection consists of: Two copies of Romance of the London Directory by Charles W. Bardsley (1879). Illustrated with a frontispiece. The Story of The London Parks by Jacob Larwood (1881). This copy is a new edition, with illustrations. The Romance of London. Historic Sketches, Remarkable Duels, Notorious Highwaymen, Rogueries, Crimes, and Punishments and Love and Marriage by John Timbs (c1889). This copy is undated, dated here using Jisc, from copies held at the University of East Anglia Library, University of Edinburgh Libraries and Hathi Trust Digital Library. Illustrated throughout. Dibs: A Story of Young London Life by Joseph Johnson (c1887). This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc, from copies held at the British Library, Bishopsgate Institute and Manchester Metropolitan University. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and two monochrome plate illustrations. Collated. complete. The Chronicles of Newgate by Arthur Griffiths (1896). Literary London by Elsie M. Lang with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton (c1906). This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc, from a copy held at the British Library. Illustrated with 20 monochrome photographic plates, including a frontispiece, taken by W. J. Roberts. Collated, complete. The Skirts of The Great City by Mrs. Arthur G. Bell (1908). Illustrated with 16 colour plates with numerous monochrome plates, including a colour frontispiece. Collated, complete. London in The Sixties (With a Few Digressions) by "One of the Old Brigade" (1909) Illustrated with six monochrome plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. Nights in Town by Thomas Burke (1919). Illustrated with a frontispiece. Holly House and Ridges Row, a Tale of London Old and New by May Baldwin (1924). Illustrated by M. V. Wheelhouse with a colour frontispiece and eleven colour plates. Collated, complete. A Short History of the Tower of London by Major-General Sir George Younghusband (1926). Illustrated by Donald Mawell, with numerous full-page illustrations and a frontispiece. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.Externally, smart. slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight fading to spines. Previous owner"s inscription to front paste down of "Brief History of the Tower of London." Front and rear hinges of "Romance of London" cracked, with binding materials slightly exposed, holding but somewhat loose. Previous owner"s inscription to front free endpaper of "Romance of London," "The Romance of the London Directory", and "Literary London." Bookplate from Charles S. Burdon to front free endpaper to "Skirts of the great City." Previous owner"s red pencil inscription to rear paste down of "Holly House," with prie plate to front paste down from Bostall Lane school, awarded to Hellie Wallace, 1924. Prize plate to front paste down of "Dibs" from Primitive Methodist Sunday School. Internally, generally firmly bound. Higes slightly strained in places to the odd copy, but holding firm. Library stamp from Gloucestershire County Library and library annotations to printing page and front paste down of "London Parks". Paper and glue residue to front endpapers of "London Parks" with slight loss and rubbing to front paste down. Final two pages of the lighter blue cloth bound copy of "Romance of the London Directory fully disbound, with rust staining to gutters from stapled binding. Very Good. book.

Zustand: Good. First Edition. First edition of this scarce collection of ex-slave narratives, autobiographical memories and recollections of conversion experiences of elderly African Americans born under slavery. 218 pp. Stapled sheets in partial original wrap, linen cloth spine. Text printed and numbered on rectos only. Good, with large chip to front wrap and first blank; rear wrap is lacking, linen spine mostly perished. Contents toned. A rare survival of this fragile production which later appeared in a mass-produced paperback edition in 1969. A collection narratives culled from interviews conducted between 1927 and 1929 by Andrew Polk Watson, a graduate student in anthropology at Fisk University. Originally issued in limited circulation at Social Science Source Documents No. 2 by Fisk in 1945 in tandem with another volume of ex-slave narratives, The Unwritten History of Slavery (Social Science Source Documents No. 1). One hundred elderly black people were surveyed, asking them to recall life during slavery and to describe their religious conversion experiences.