Writing Without Teachers

By: Elbow, Peter

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1975

Seller ID: 31666

ISBN: 0195016793

Condition: Very Good

Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 208 pages; 31666 View more info

Book Finds: How To Find, Buy, And Sell Used And Rare Books

By: Ellis, Ian C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Perigee Books: 1996

Edition: Later Printing

Seller ID: 20552

ISBN: 0399519785

Condition: Very Good

Covers first editions and reader's copies; auctions and catalogs; how to recognize valuable books and sell them for the highest possible price; what's going up in value and what's going down; avoiding costly mistakes that many beginners make; what bookstore buyers look for; the secrets of professional "book scouts". Underlining, marginalia, previous owner's name. ; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 271 pages; 20552 View more info

Legal Writing In Plain English A Text with Exercises

By: Garner, Bryan A.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 2001

Seller ID: 18607

ISBN: 0226284182

Condition: Near Fine

The author provides lawyers, judges, paralegals, law students, and legal scholars with sound advice and practical tools for improving their written work. The book encourages legal writers to challenge conventions and offers valuable insights into the writing process: how to organize ideas, create and refine prose, and sharpen editing skills. In essence, it reaches straight thinking -- a skill inseparable from good writing. Light wear, faint creases, no writing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 227 pages; 18607 View more info

The Early Novel Of The Southwest: A Critical History Of Southwestern Fiction 1819-1918 With Emphasis on Forty Major Novels from L'Heroine Du Texas to the Desire of the Moth

By: Gaston, Jr. , Edwin W.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press: 1961

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 14479

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

The hurly-burly of the early southwest captured the fancy of novelists who saw exciting ingredients for fiction in the explorations of spanish conquistadores, in the establishment of settlements, in conflicts between various ethnic groups of the region and in the daily round of frontier life. Page edges lightly foxed, as is lightly soiled and minorly chipped DJ which is in mylar book jacket cover. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 318 pages; 14479 View more info

Writing To Inspire: A Guide to Writing and Publishing for the Expanding Religious Market

By: Gentz, William, and Lee Roddy, and Other Leading Inspirational Writers

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, Writer's Digest: 1987

Edition: 1st Paperback Edition

Seller ID: 25320

ISBN: 0898793025

Condition: Very Good

Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 319 pages; 25320 View more info

Simon & Schuster Workbook For Writers

By: Gordon, Emily R. , and Lynn Quitman Troyka

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Prentice-Hall: 1987

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 23580

ISBN: 013811191x

Condition: Very Good

Some of the contents: essays, grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, more. Minor corner curling, edgewear. Interior clean, clear and bright with no writing. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 366 pages; 23580 View more info

Anglo-american Cataloguing Rules Second Edition

By: Gorman, Michael & Winkler, Paul W.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: American Library Association: 1979

Edition: 2nd Edition

Seller ID: 31295

ISBN: 0838932118

Condition: Very Good-

Indexed tabs, errata slips tipped in, marginalia and hiliting. PON, some stains; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 620 pages View more info

Living With Books, The Art Of Book Selection

By: Haines, Helen E.

Price: $26.00

Publisher: NY, Columbia University Press: 1954

Edition: 2nd Edition; 5th Printing

Seller ID: 22663

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

This volume is the outgrowth of courses in Book Selection and related subjects given during the years 1914 to 1931 at the library school of the Los Angeles Public Library. Minor edgewear, previous owner's name. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 610 pages; 22663 View more info

Bookman's Guide To Americana 9th Edition

By: Heard, J. Norman, and Charles F. Hamsa

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Scarecrow Press: 1986

Edition: 9th Edition

Seller ID: 16080

ISBN: 0810818949

Condition: Near Fine

Alphabetically arranged compilation of quotations gleaned from out-of-print booksellers' catalogs so as to provide a record of prices asked for in the Americana category. Flyleaf clipped, keeping this book from being as new. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 513 pages; 16080 View more info