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1) Open City Prose By Poets Number 23 (NO. # Twenty-Three )

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Open City Books, 2007. Slight spine lean, corner bump, front cover curls up a bit, and other light shopwear. . Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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2) Voice Crying in the Wilderness
Abbey, Edward

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Griffin, 1991. Slight spine lean, corner bumps, corner crease to rear covver, small paperlift at lower corner of front cover, a couple of sall stains to lower edge of front cover, and other light shopwear. Text is clean.. Edition Unstated. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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3) Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays
Achebe, Chinua

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Anchor Books, 1990. Slight spine lean, and some other light shopwear. Overall a nice clean copy. Essays by author of Things Fall Apart.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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4) Daily Fare: Essays from the Multicultural Experience
Aguero, Kathleen

Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.: university of Georgia Press, 1993. some light shopwear to the jacket, otherwise a nice clean copy.. Edition Unstated. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. more information

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5) My Life in Heavy Metal
Almond, Steve

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Press, 2003. Slight spine lean, minor corner bumps, small corner crease to lower corner front cover, small handling crease and some scratches to the rear cover, and other light shopwear. Short story collection.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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6) The Second Plane September 11: Terror and Boredom
Amis, Martin

Alfred a Knopf, 2008. Spine lean, corner bumps, and some other light shopwear. Text is clean.. Possible Book Club. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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7) Irish Journal
BýOll, Heinrich (Boll)

Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A.: Mcgraw-Hill, 1971. Spine lean, corner bumps, 2 deep dents to the top edge of rear cover and one to the right edge(and last half ot the books), pages age toning, book edges beginning to fox, and the book has a slight warp to it.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Good+/As issued No Jacket. more information

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8) Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks
Banks, Russell

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Perennial, 2001. Spine lean, corner bumps, corner and reading creases to rear cover, and other light shopwear.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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9) Three Books by Imanu Amiri Baraka
Baraka, Imamu Amiri; Baraka, Amiri; Harris, William J

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Press, 1976. Spine lean, corner bumps, soiling to the lower book edge, pages badly age toned, scratches to the covers, and other light to moderate shopwear. Text is clean. Contains three major works The Novel The System of Dante's Hell, Poetry collection The Dead Lecturer, and Tales.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Good+/As issued No Jacket. more information

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10) Something to Declare: Essays on France
Barnes, Julian

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 2003. Minor corner bumps, a couple of black smudges rear cover, bump to the head of the spine, and other light shopwear. An unread copy. By the author of Flaubert's Parrot.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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11) Erotism: Death and Sensuality
Bataille, Georges

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: City Lights Books, 1986. Spine lean, corner bumps, soiling to the bottom edge of the book, edgewear to the front cover, and other light shopwear.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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12) Too Far from Home: The Selected Writings of Paul Bowles
Bowles, Paul

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ecco Press, 1995. Spine lean, spine is soiled and scuffed, other moderate shopwear to the covers. Text is clean. Contains excerpts from Bowles novel Sheltering Sky, a previously unpublished novella, all of his major short stories, poems, travel essays, exerpts from his autobiography, journals, letters, and an interview with Daniel Halpern.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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13) The Physiology of Taste
Brillat-Savarin, Jean-Anthelme

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Penguin USA, 1994. Spine twist, corner bumps, reading and handling creases to both covers(rear cover is worst), a few long scratches/dents to rear cover, pages age toning a bit, and other light to moderate shopwear. Text is clean.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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14) While Reagan Slept
Buchwald, Art

Putnam, 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Jacket has some edgewear and a couple of small tears.. more information

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15) Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
Cahill, Tim

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1987. This book brings together a decades worth of Cahill's humorous and compelling adventure travel writing. Cover corner crease, bumping to one corner, and some light shopwear.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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16) Noces L'ete
Camus, Albert

Le Livre de Poche, 1967. Spine lean, corner bumps, cover creases, owner's inscription on ffep, some underlining and marginalia to the text, and other moderate to heavy shopwear. En Francais. The two early collections of lyrical essays in one volume(lyrical as opposed to his philosophical essays like The Myth of Sysipphus and The Rebel. Collected in English in the Lyrical and Critical essays of Albert Camus.. Edition Unstated. Mass Market Paperback. Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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17) The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English Summer a Gothic Romance: A Gothic Romance
Chandler, Raymond; MacShane, Frank

The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English Summer a Gothic Romance: A Gothic Romance
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ecco Pr, 1991. Slight spine lean, corner bumps, some scratches to rear cover, and other light shopwear. . Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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18) Faces and Places in the City
Clayton, John

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.A.: Peter E. Randall, 1995. Sticker residue front cover, small stain front cover, reading crease front cover, and other light to moderate shopwear. Collection of Clayton's columns from the Union Leader.. Edition Unstated(presumed first). Trade Paperback. Good+/As issued No Jacket. more information

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19) The Big House : A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
Colt, George Howe

Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2004. Slight spine curl, corner bump, and other light shopwear. Overall a nice clean copy.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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20) Blood and Grits
Crews, Harry

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 1988. Spine lean, corner bump, some dents and dings to the rear cover, and other light to moderate shopwear. Essays on various topics. For some reason a rather scarce book.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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21) Attorney for the Damned
Darrow, Clarence and Arthur Weinberg (ed.)

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1983. Slight spine lean, remainder mark bottom edge of book, corner bumps, covers age toning, some soiling to the spine, and other light to moderate shopwear. A collection Clarence Darrow's court summations and lectures.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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22) Devilish Doings: 20 Fiendish Tales
Dickens, Charles; Poe, Edgar Allan; Beerbohm, Max; Le Fanu, J. Sheridan; Benet, Stephen; Irving, Washington

U.S.A.: Grammercy, 1997. Slight yellowing to the page edges, a few inclusions to the top edge of the jacket, a small scuff to the rear jacket and other light shopwear. Text is clean.. Edition Unstated. Hard Cover. Good+/Good+. more information

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23) Inspired by Drink: An Anthology
Digby, Joan; Digby, John

William Morrow & Co, 1988. Spine lean, remainder mark bottom edge, bump to head of spine, page edges soiled, pages age toning, jacket price clipped, and heavily shopworn and edgeworn(including several small open tears to the top edge of book). . First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Good+. more information

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24) Teaching a Stone to Talk : Expeditions and Encounters
Dillard, Annie

Scarborough, ON, Canada: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited, 1988. Spine lean, corner bumps, a couple of scratches and a ding to the front cover, small corner crease as well, and other light shopwear.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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25) Mentors the Ohio Review Number 51
Dodd, Wayne (ed.)

Ohio Universtity Press, 1994. Spine lean, corner bump, long scratch to the front cover, blank price sticker on front cover, some soiling to the rear cover, and other light shopwear. An Essay issue.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good/As issued No Jacket. Literary Journal. more information

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26) Broken Vessels
Dubus, Andre

Jaffrey, New Hampshire, U.S.A.: David R Godine Publisher, 1992. Spine lean, corner bumpsl corner creases to the lower front corner of the front corner and first 10 or so pages, underlining and marginalia to the text, notes on the inside cover and ffep, and other light to moderate shopwear. . Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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27) Broken Vessels
Dubus, Andre

Jaffrey, New Hampshire, U.S.A.: David R Godine Publisher, 1992. Slight spine lean, blackened-out sticker to the bottom of the spine, price sticker to the front cover, and other light shopwear.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/As issued No Jacket. more information

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28) Essays: First and Second Series
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1990. Spine lean, nasty reading crease to rear cover, rear free endpaper was crumpled at some point, corner bumps, covers soiled, and other moderate to heavy shopwear. Text is clean and binding is solid. Reading copy only.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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29) Prisoners of Hope: Essays on Life's Journey
Escamilla, Roberto

Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Abingdon Press, 1982. Spine lean, corner bumps, edgewear to the covers and spine corners, old price sticker on rear cover, and other light to moderate shopwear. . Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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30) Classic Minnesota Fishing Stories
Fellegy, Joe

Waldman House Press, 1983. Spine lean, corner bumps, corner creases to the covers, scuffs to the covers, penmark on rear cover, scratches to the right edge of the book, and other light to moderate shopwear.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Good+/As issued No Jacket. more information

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31) To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs, 1908-1929
Fisher, M. F. K

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1993. Slight spine lean, minor corner bump, and the book has a slight bend to it from bad storage( might straigjten out under the weight of my storage, we'll see).. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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32) Ornament and Silence : Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer
Fraser, Kennedy

Vintage, 1998. Spine lean, corner bumps, sticker residue on rear cover over ups, handling creases to the covers, pages age toned, and other light shopwear. . Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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33) The King's Indian: Stories and Tales
Gardner, John

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1989. Some minor creases and dents to the covers, remainder mark to bottom edge of book near spine heel, slight spine lean, and other light shopwear. IMHO Gardner's best collection of short stories. By the author of Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues, etc.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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34) The Walker's Literary Companion
Gilbert, Roger (editor); Robinson, Jeffrey (editor); Wallace, Anne (editor)

Halcottsville, NY, U.S.A.: Breakaway Books, 2000. Collection of literary musings on walking. A couple of smudges back cover, small stain right edge(very small), and some light shopwear. (unread copy rescued from bookstore bargain bin).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. more information

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35) A Moving Target
Golding, William

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1984. Spine lean, cover soiling, small tear to front cover(right edge) and first 10 so pages, bumps to head and heel of spine, small chip missing at heel of spine, and other light to moderate shopwear. This edition includes the Nobel Lecture.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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36) Dispatches from Maine: 1942-1992
Gould, John

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1994. Spine lean, edgewear to the jacket, dampstaining to the top edge of the book that bleeds down about an inch causing the top inch of all the pages to be wrinkled(text readability unaffected), rub lines on the jacket that correspond with where the cloth meets board on the boards.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Very Good. more information

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37) Occupation: Writer
Graves, Robert

Grosset and Dunlap / Universal Library, 1950. Collection of occaisonal pieces. Includes: "The Lost Art of Swearing," "Imperial Incest," "The Ancestors of Colonel Blimp," and others. Spine curl, pages badly browning, and moderate to heavy shopwear.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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38) the Last Cuckoo
Gregory, Kenneth (ed.)

Akadine, 1996. Trade Paperback. Very Good/As Issued No Jacket. Reprint. The very best letters to The TImes(London times presumably as this is a British book), since 1900. Reading crease to front and back cover other wise nice clean copy.. more information

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39) Living in Truth: 22 Essays Published on the Occasion of the Award of the Erasmus Prize to Vaclav Havel
Havel, Vaclav

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Faber & Faber, 1990. Spine lean, corner bumps, some scratches and dents to the covers, price sticker on rear cover, and other light shopwear. 6 essays by Havel plus 16 pieces in his honor (including Samuel Beckett's play Catastrophe dedicated to him).. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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40) Death in the Afternoon
Hemingway, Ernest

Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Scribner, 1960. Spine lean , corner bumps, small stain on the bottom edge of the book, corner crease front cover, front cover curls up a bit, and other light shopwear. Text is clean. This is an older edition probably from the 1970's(2.95 cover price).. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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41) By-Line Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway, Ernest

Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Scribner, 1974. Spine lean, corner bumps, price sticker on rear cover, sticker residue on spine, a couple of the articles have some underlining and marginalia, a few smudges to the bottom edge of the book, and other light shopwear. Includes a broad selection of Hemingways journalism and magazine work from the twenties to the fifties.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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42) The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth; Meyer, Howard N

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Da Capo Press, 2000. Slight spine twist, corner bump, front cover curls up a bit, and other light shopwear. A nice clean copy. Higginson "fought pro-slavery settlers in Kansas and conspired in John Brown's raid; he also wrote and lectured tirelessly for suffrage and other women's rights. During the Civil War, he commanded the first African-American unit to fight for the Union, and publicized their achievements with his classic Army Life in a Black Regiment. His lifelong correspondence with Emily Dickinson led to his editing her verse for publication, in what some have called his greatest literary legacy. But in fact that legacy is here in his essays. Whith this volume, Meyer has guaranteed the rediscovery of a major American figure whose ideas made him a radical in his own time but a visionary in ours.". Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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43) The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other Indian Country Affairs
Hillerman, Tony

Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.: University of New Mexico Press, 1980. Slight spine lean, minor corner bumps, some hanlding smudges to the covers(cover is made from an uncoated paper similar to the Black Swallow Press paperbacks), and other light shopwear. . Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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44) Red Wolves and Black Bears
Hoagland, Edward

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1983. "Exuberant writings on carnivals, baseball, literary backbiting, city walks, Texas, an newts." Light to moderate shopwear to the covers, otherwise clean.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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45) Heart's Desire : The Best of Edward Hoagland
Hoagland, Edward

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1988. Essays from the last 20 years of Hoagland's writing. Some light shopwear, a few black spots front cover, and a couple of light stains top edge. Otherwise bright clean copy.. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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46) Shedding Life : Disease, Politics, and Other Human Conditions
Holub, Miroslav; Young, David (translator)

Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.: Milkweed Editions, 1997. Essays by Eastern European Poet, scientist and doctor. Bookstore date stamp bottom edge, some light shopwear to jacket, otherwise a nice clean copy.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. more information

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47) Profitable Promises: Essays on Women, Science and Health
Hubbard, Ruth

Monroe, Maine, U.S.A.: Common Courage Press, 1994. Spine lean, corner bump, small corner crease front cover, some light scuffing to rear cover, and other light shopwear. . Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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48) Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions
Iyer, Pico

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1998. Slight spine twist, pages age toning, and other slight shopwear. A nice clean copy.. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good/As issued No Jacket. more information

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49) Selected Writings
Johnson, Samuel; Cruttwell, Patrick

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Penguin, 1982. Spine lean, corner bumps, corner creases, paperlifts on front cover corners, notes on ffep, scattered underlining throughout. . Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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50) Girl Who Would Be Russian and Other Stories
Johnson, Willis

Gardiner, Maine, U.S.A.: Tilbury House Pub, 1991. Spine lean, spine sunned, corner bumps, handling creases to the front cover, corner crease to upper right corner of front cover, dent to top edge of rear cover, and other light to moderate shopwear. . Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. more information

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