Essays, Anthologies, Humor from edburynbooks
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MvSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
by Chabon, Michael; illus by Mike Moignola
- Condition
- Used - VeryGood, would be Fine except for dampstained fore-edge, crinkling.
- Edition
- 1st edition, 1st printing.
- Published
- 2004
- Binding
- Trade PB in glossy color-illus wraps.
- ISBN
- 9781400078745
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$5.00
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New York: Vintage Books, 2004. 1st edition, 1st printing.. Trade PB in glossy color-illus wraps.. VeryGood, would be Fine except for dampstained fore-edge, crinkling.. Brand-new stay-up-all-night story collection includes Atwood, King, Oates, Lethem, more. Bright clean tight reading copy of PB 1st.
5-12/45 x 8, 328 pp, full-pg b/w illus. Item Price
$5.00
English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement (Revised Edition)
by Woods, George Benjamin, ed.
- Condition
- Used - VeryGood, tight binding, a few pencil notes.
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Published
- 1950
- Binding
- Hardback in blue boards, no jacket as issued.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$10.00
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Chicago IL: Scott Foresman Co, 1950. Revised edition. Hardback in blue boards, no jacket as issued.. VeryGood, tight binding, a few pencil notes.. Massive scholarly anthology. Bright tight HB copy.
6-1/2 x 9-1/2, 1538 pp, index, glossary, bibliographies, notes, endpaper masps.. Item Price
$10.00
San Franciso Stories - Great Writers on the City
by Miller, John
- Condition
- Used - VeryGood unmarked except owner name, no spine creases.
- Edition
- 6th prtinting
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Trade PB in glossy color-illus winged wraps.
- ISBN
- 9780877016694
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$15.00
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San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990. 6th prtinting. Trade PB in glossy color-illus winged wraps.. VeryGood unmarked except owner name, no spine creases.. 28 famous authors describe their own San Franciscos. Bright tight clean PB copy.
6 x 9, 299 pp, author bios, b/w photos. Item Price
$15.00
the Rising Gorge
by Perelman, S.J.
- Condition
- Used - VeryGood unmarked, no spine creases.
- Edition
- 1st printing.
- Published
- 1987
- Binding
- Trade Paperback in white illus wraps.
- ISBN
- 9780140080414
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$10.00
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New York: Viking Penguin, 1987. 1st printing.. Trade Paperback in white illus wraps.. VeryGood unmarked, no spine creases.. 36 hilarious stories from America*s master humorist. Clean tight PB copy.
5 x 7-3/4, 287 pp. Item Price
$10.00
Lanterns and Lances
by Thurber, James; intro by Peter De Vries
- Condition
- Used - VeryGood+ unmarked.
- Edition
- Not stated, presumed 1st edition
- Published
- 1962
- Binding
- Trade paperback in white illus wraps.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$8.00
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New York: Time-Life Books, 1962. Not stated, presumed 1st edition. Trade paperback in white illus wraps.. VeryGood+ unmarked.. Great humorist's last book. Bright tight clean unread PB copy.
5-1/4 x 8, 180 pp, b/w dwgs. Item Price
$8.00
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear
by Lear, Edward; collected by Holbrook Jackson
- Condition
- Used - Good w some edge stain, some of the drawings neatly hand-colored.
- Edition
- No edition stated
- Published
- 1951
- Binding
- Trade PB in glossy illus wraps.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$5.00
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New York: Dover Publ, 1951. No edition stated. Trade PB in glossy illus wraps.. Good w some edge stain, some of the drawings neatly hand-colored.. Wityh all 546 original illustrations, some hand-colored. Acceptable used PB copy.
5-1/2 x 8, 287 pp, b/w dwgs. Item Price
$5.00
The Family Treasury of Children's Stories - Book One
by Evans, Pauline Rush, ed.; illus by Donald Sibley
- Condition
- Used - Good unmarked.
- Edition
- Not stated, presumed 1st edition
- Published
- 1956
- Binding
- Hardback in black/red boards, no jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$10.00
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Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1956. Not stated, presumed 1st edition. Hardback in black/red boards, no jacket.. Good unmarked.. Nursery rhymes, bedtime verses, songs, poems, riddles, stories, fairy tales, fantasy.
5-3/4 xb8-1/2, 486 pp, index, b/w & color illus, green illus endpapers. Item Price
$10.00
On Writing, Editing, and Publishing - Essays Explicative and Hortatory
by Barzun, Jacques; forward by Morris Phiilipson
- Condition
- Used - Good unmarked
- Edition
- Not stated, presumed 1st edition
- Published
- 1971
- Binding
- Trade PB in glossy green wraps.
- ISBN
- 9780226038483
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$6.00
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Chicago IL: Univ of Chicago, 1971. Not stated, presumed 1st edition. Trade PB in glossy green wraps.. Good unmarked. Collection of brilliant essays on writing.
5-1/4 x 8, 130 pp. Item Price
$6.00
VOLTAIRE - a Laurel Reader
by Fuller, Edmund, ed.
- Condition
- Used - VeryGood, small stain to first few pp only.
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 1959
- Binding
- MM paperback in glossy color illus wraps.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$8.00
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New York: Dell Publ, 1959. 1st printing. MM paperback in glossy color illus wraps.. VeryGood, small stain to first few pp only.. Included the complete 13 unabriged shorter works by the great French social critic. Unread PB copy. Scarce book.
3873 pp, tinted edges. Item Price
$8.00
Lanterns and Lances
by Thurber, James; intro by Peter De Vries
- Condition
- Used - VeryGood unmarked, sunned spine.
- Edition
- Not stated, presumed 1st edition
- Published
- 1962
- Binding
- Trade paperback in white illus wraps.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$6.00
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New York: Time-Life Books, 1962. Not stated, presumed 1st edition. Trade paperback in white illus wraps.. VeryGood unmarked, sunned spine.. Great humorist's last book. Bright tight clean unread PB copy.
5-1/4 x 8, 180 pp, b/w dwgs. Item Price
$6.00
At the Leading Edge - New Visions of Science, Spirituality, and Society
by Toms, Michael
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- Used - VeryGood unmarked, no spine creases.
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- Trade PB in glossy color-photo wraps.
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$8.00
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Trade PB in glossy color-photo wraps.. VeryGood unmarked, no spine creases.. 14 interviews: Matthew Fox, Rupert Sheldrake, Merlin Stone, David Bohm, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Willis Harmon, Andrew Schmookler, Robert Fuller, Patricia Sun, Joan Halifax, Henryk Skolimowski, Marsha Sinetar.Solid clean tight PB copy.
6 x9, 286 pp, bibliography, b/w photos. Item Price
$8.00
The Edge of Never
by Hoskins, Robert, ed.
- Condition
- Used - VeryGood ujmarked
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- MM PB in color wraps.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$6.00
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Greenwich CT: Fawcett Publ, 1973. 1st printing. MM PB in color wraps.. VeryGood ujmarked. Classic & contemporary tales of the supernatural. Clean tight PB copy.
287 pp. Item Price
$6.00
Borzoi College Reader
by Muscatine, Charles and Marlene Griffith
- Condition
- Used - Good unmarked.
- Edition
- 6th printing
- Published
- 1968
- Binding
- Hardback in navy cloth boards, no jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$8.00
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NY: Alfred A Knopf, 1968. 6th printing. Hardback in navy cloth boards, no jacket.. Good unmarked.. Classic collection of readings on variety of contemporary issues. 1st edition.
6-1/4 x 9-1/2, 850pp, index. Item Price
$8.00
THE FUTURE OF MAN
by Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de; trans by Norman Denny
- Condition
- Used - Good unmarked exceopt scribbles on title page.
- Edition
- Not stated, presumed 1st edition
- Published
- 1969
- Binding
- Trade Paperback in dark blue wraps.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$5.00
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New York: Harper Colophon, 1969. Not stated, presumed 1st edition. Trade Paperback in dark blue wraps.. Good unmarked exceopt scribbles on title page.. Collected essays on human progress. Solid clean tight PB copy.
5-1/4 x 8, 332 pp, index Item Price
$5.00
BITCHES and Sad Ladies - an Anthology of Fiction By and About Women
by Rotter, Pat, ed.
- Condition
- Used - Gooid unmarked, faded boards, in Good-minus jacket w taped edgwear.
- Edition
- 1st edition, 1st printing.
- Published
- 1975
- Binding
- Hardback in tan/violet boards, in glossy color jacket.
- ISBN
- 9780061275159
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$30.00
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New York: Harpers Magazine Press, 1975. 1st edition, 1st printing.. Hardback in tan/violet boards, in glossy color jacket.. Gooid unmarked, faded boards, in Good-minus jacket w taped edgwear.. 35 wild and wooly women tales. Solid clean tight HB copy.
6-1/2 x 9-1/2, 430 pp, author notes, violet endpapers. Item Price
$30.00
Mystery, Intrigue and the Supernatural
by Boar, Roger & Nigel Blundell
- Condition
- New/New
- Edition
- 1st edition, 1st printing.
- Published
- 1991
- Binding
- Hardback in glossy black boards, in glossy color illus jacket.
- ISBN
- 9780880296168
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- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$10.00
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New York: Dorset press, 1991. 1st edition, 1st printing.. Hardback in glossy black boards, in glossy color illus jacket.. New/New. Enthralling mysteries, old & new, explored in detail: science, ufo's, ghosts, ghouls, haunts, mystics, crime, intrigue. Mint new HB copy.
6 x 8-1/2, 544 pp, b/w photos & illuds. Item Price
$10.00
Travels in Hyper Reality - Essays
by Eco, Umberto; trans by William Weaver
- Condition
- Used - Fine unmarked, no spine creases.
- Edition
- Prfinting D
- Published
- 12990
- Binding
- Trade PB in glossy white wraps.
- ISBN
- 9780156913218
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- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$13.00
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San Diego CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch (HBJ), 12990. Prfinting D. Trade PB in glossy white wraps.. Fine unmarked, no spine creases.. Scintillating collection. Bright tight clean PB copy.
5-1/4 x 8, 307 pp. Item Price
$13.00
Ten Modern Short Novels
by Hamalian, Leo & Edmond L. Volpe, eds.
- Condition
- Used - Good unmarked, owner name whited-out
- Edition
- Later printing
- Published
- 1958
- Binding
- Hardback in black boards, no jacket.
- Quantity Available
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$12.00
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New York: Putnams Sons, 1958. Later printing. Hardback in black boards, no jacket.. Good unmarked, owner name whited-out. With commentaries; includes: Death Ivan Ilych/Tolstoy, Beast in the Jungle/Henry James; Heart of Darkness/Conrad, Seven Who Were Hanged/Andreyev, Abel Sanchez/Unamuno, Pastoral Symphony/Gide, Mario and Magician/Mann, The Old Man/Faulkner, The Stranger/Camus, Agostino/Moravia. Clean tight HB copy.
6 x 8-3/4, 718 pp. Item Price
$12.00
Irish Stories and Tales
by Garrity, Davin A., ed.
- Condition
- Used - Good unmarked, faint dampstain to lwr left corner.
- Edition
- 4th printing
- Published
- 1966
- Binding
- MM Paperback in glossy illus wraps.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$6.00
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New York: Washington Square Press, 1966. 4th printing. MM Paperback in glossy illus wraps.. Good unmarked, faint dampstain to lwr left corner.. Authors include Joyce, Wilde, Yeats, Shaw, Dunsany, 27 others. Bright clean PB copy.
340 pp. Item Price
$6.00
Eight Modern Essayists - Fifth edition
by Smart, William
- Condition
- Used - VeryGood, highlighting in early chapters.
- Edition
- Printing b
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Trade PB in glossy color-illus wraps.
- ISBN
- 9780312012335
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- 1
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Nevada City, California, USA
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$5.00
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Printing b. Trade PB in glossy color-illus wraps.. VeryGood, highlighting in early chapters.. Best essays by best modern writers: Woolf, Orwell, EB White, Lewis Thomas, Fussell, Carol Bly, Didion, Alice Walker. Good PB reading copy.
5-1/2 x 8-1/4, 352 pp, b/w photos. Item Price
$5.00