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My Well Balanced Life On A Wooden Leg

By: Al Capp

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Pub: 1991-09-01

Seller ID: SBDcap06

ISBN: 0936784938

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Slight fading on spine, but everything else screams "New and unread." Dust Jacket protected by mylar cover.
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Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist: The Life and Legacy of Edward Abbey

By: Bishop, James

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Atheneum - New York: 1994-06-20

Seller ID: CHAPBIS1057

ISBN: 0689121954

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Text and images are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is in a mylar cover.
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The Mystery of Georges Simenon: A Biography

By: Bresler, Fenton

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Stein & Day Pub: 1987-07-01

Seller ID: NOWbreMGS

ISBN: 0812862414

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

Softbound book in like new condition, crisp, sharp cornered and spotless. Book is unread.
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Ring Around Max - the Correspondence of Ring Lardner and Maxwell Perkins

By: Caruthers, Clifford

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press: 1973-01-01

Seller ID: NOWcarRAM

ISBN: 0875805124

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Tight binding. Spine in good condition. Minor shelf wear to corners.
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The Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth

By: Delany, Paul

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Free Pr: 1987-07-01

Seller ID: CHAPdeLTNP

ISBN: 0029082803

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Assumed first though not stated; full number line. Hardbound book in good condition. Previous owner's name inscribed on FFEP. Book is from the collection of a faculty member of a small private university. Some light foxing to edges of text block, which however remains straight and sharp cornered as do the black boards. The dust jacket shows shelfwear, light bumps at either end of spine and some rubs.
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Dr. Seuss from Then to Now: A Catalogue of the Retrospective Exhibition

By: Dr. Seuss; San Diego Museum of Art [Compiler]

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Random House: 1987-09-12

Seller ID: CHAPsdmDS

ISBN: 0394892682

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images are unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light edge wear, unclipped, in a mylar cover. 4to. 95pp.
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Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame

By: Eisler, Benita

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Knopf: 1999-04-12

Seller ID: CHAPeisB

ISBN: 0679412999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

Hardbound book in very good condition.First edition. Previous owner's name signed in ink on FFEP. Book is from the collection of a faculty member of a small private university. A quite clean and fresh copy. Ecru boards quarterbound in brown are straight and fresh appearing with only faint shelfwear to the bottom of the spine. Dust jacket shows only the lightest shelfwear at top front and rear, otherwise whole and straight.
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Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out

By: Elledge, Paul

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press: 2000-06-26

Seller ID: CHAPellLBH

ISBN: 0801863430

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Assumed first edition; full number line. Hardbound book in very good+ condition. Would be "like new" but for previous owner's name inscribed on FFEP. Book is from the collection of a faculty member of a small private university. Crisp, spotless and sharp cornered throughout, in fresh straight boards with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket is likewise crisp and fresh except for one small dogear at top of front flap.
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All the Lies That Are My Life

By: Ellison, Harlan

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Underwood/Miller: 1980-11-01

Seller ID: CHAPellATL

ISBN: 0934438315

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

Inscribed by author on title page. A well kept copy that shows little wear. Pages are clean and unmarked, binding tight, dust jacket a bit rubbed. Dust Jacket protected by mylar cover.
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Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, and the Ethics of Understanding

By: Ellison, Julie

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Cornell University Press: 1992-11-17

Seller ID: NOWellDS

ISBN: 080148071X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

Appears to be unread, no creasing or markings.
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Irving Layton and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, 1953-1978

By: Faas, Ekbert; Reed, Sabrina

Price: $15.00

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press: 1990-06-01

Seller ID: NOWfaaILR

ISBN: 0773506578

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Binding sound. No shelf wear. Dj very good in mylar.
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Hermit of the Clouds: The Autobiography of Vincent Ferrini

By: Ferrini, Vincent

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Ten Pound Island Book Co: 1988-06-01

Seller ID: CHAPferrHTC

ISBN: 0938459031

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

Signed by Ferrini on verso of front wrap. Softbound book in very good condition. Title page is loosened, and edges of text block show overall light soil. Otherwise full-color illustrated wraps are glossy, spine uncreased, pages straight, crisp, clean. 238 pp. "My toys are dogs, worms, alley cats, and the spiders among the backyard weeds."
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties

By: Fitch, Noel Riley

Price: $8.00

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: 1983-06-01

Seller ID: CHAPfitSBL

ISBN: 0393017133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Binding in good condition. Showing minor shelf wear. Dj is price clipped & showing minor shelf wear. Dj in mylar.
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On a Silver Desert: The Life of Ernest Haycox

By: Haycox Jr., Ernest; Davis, Ronald L. [Foreword]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press: 2003-11-24

Seller ID: TCOWHAY12317

ISBN: 0806135646

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Signed by Haycox Jr. on the half title page. Beige linen with cream linen boards, copper foil stamped lettering on spine. A tiny dent at the bottom edge of the front panel is the only thing keeping this copy from being in like new condition. Pictorial dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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Fragments of a Journal

By: Ionesco, Eugene

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Paragon House: 1990-06-01

Seller ID: NOWionFAJ

ISBN: 155778390X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

An excellent copy- crisp and bright. Dust jacket a bit rubbed. Dust Jacket protected by mylar cover.
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Minor Characters

By: Johnson, Joyce

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: 1983-01-01

Seller ID: CHAPjohnMC

ISBN: 0395325137

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Presumed first; full number line. Hardbound book in good condition. Pages clean, firmly bound, sharp edged; all edges of text block show light soiling. Dark yellow boards quarterbound in black cloth show light wear, and there is a light red stain at the bottom edge of the front board (approx. 1" long). A similar reddish pair of stains (1/8" diameter each) is on the RFEP. Dust jacket in mylar shows some overall age-related toning. The top edge of the jacket back has been creased, resulting in parallel tears at either side of 1" and 1/2" respectively. Some wear evident to eit...
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Minor Characters

By: Johnson, Joyce

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: 1983-01-01

Seller ID: SBDjoh18

ISBN: 0395325137

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Joyce Johnson's superb memoir of the Beat Generation. DJ is in great VG+ shape, with full covers and no fading on the spine. A couple light discolorations on front of volume bring overall grade down to VG. Dust Jacket protected by mylar cover.
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