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English Papers: A Teaching Life
by William H. Pritchard
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1555972349
- ISBN 13
- 9781555972349
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Graywolf Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 197 pages. Autobiography of critic and English literature teacher at Amherst. 8vo, black paper over boards, silver gilt lettering, scant wear, some foxing to fore-edge and end papers, touch of dust soil to top edge, folded spot in top edge of one page. Unclipped dust jacket has wear to top right corner, crease in front flap, foxing to interior. Name of former owners written on front free end paper, marginalia in pencil on approximately 40 pages.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-1226
- Title
- English Papers: A Teaching Life
- Author
- William H. Pritchard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1555972349
- ISBN 13
- 9781555972349
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Place of Publication
- St Paul, Minnesota, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- AMHERST COLLEGE, HARVARD, TEACHING, ENGLISH LITERATURE, HIGHER EDUCATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary criticism; Autobiography; Education;
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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