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Description: Carefully revised to give students more help with more research and writing advice, Rules for Writers, Third Edition, offers comprehensive Diana Hacker handbook coverage.

Publisher Information: Copyright date - 1996, third edition, St. Martin's - Bedford Books, New York, # Pages - 495+, softcover, spiral bound, includes illustrations, index, glossary.

Overall Condition: Good � structurally intact, slight yellowing to pages, light soil and/or wear, shows some light edge and corner wear on cover

Washington, DC : US Department of Health, Education & Welfare (Training Manual #7)/US Govenment Printing Office, 1950. Paperback. VERY GOOD. Tight, slightly yellowed pages, faint age soil to exterior, clean interior, slight flare. 44 page, staple-bound. Owner's name. "a practical guide to writing without art - the hard, plain job of getting ideas across to others."

Writer's Institute Publications, October 25, 2005. Paperback. Good. Good Softcover. 2005 Writer's Institute. Cover is faintly creased. One page is wrinkled. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. Tight binding.

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Story Press, 1994. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

University Of Chicago Press, 1999. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Includes black & white photographs. Book and jacket are fine with little edge wear. Jacket is not clipped.

Harper & Row. 2nd printing,1989. Very Good-/Very Good hard cover. 8vo,cloth,111pp. edgewear,rubbing,scratches,thin crease marks overlay,dust jacket. slight warping cover. yellow spotting topedges,clean,tight,text. nature.

Viking. 1st printing,1992. Very Good/Very Good hard cover. 12mo,boards,255pp. edgewear dust jacket. spine skewed a bit, front foot front corner bumped,light shelfwear,cover. clean,tight,text. ref.

Los Angeles, CA: Lone Eagle Publishing, 1997. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 p. "I have used Linda Cowgill's book, Writing Short Films, for a three-hundred level course, which I have taught at the University of Arizona, for over four years. It continues to be an excellent basic text for my students even though I have read many of the other books on the market. Linda defines all the important tools of a writer and their uses within the craft. She uses many short films in the book to exemplify her points directly and easily. The short films are excellent references and are accessible for showing--which is a perfect visual teaching tool. Even though the title is for short scriptwriting, she talks about full length films in comparison and, of course, all of these elements and tools are equally important for the full length form. It remains my favorite reference book for my own writing of screenplays and recommend it as the best of the screenwriting books on the… Read More

Boston: Challenge Press, 1964. First Edition . Purple Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. Clean and unmarked. Jacket a bit faded, slight wear. The inside scoop on the publishing world, written by a literary agent.

New York: Viking, 1971. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Bump to lower spine, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows minor edgewear, light rubbing. "F.Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood". Detailed biography; indexed.

New York: Random House, 1991. Tan Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. Clean and unmarked. Jacket shows only minimal edgewear. "The Essential Handbook for Writers".

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952. First Edition . Brown Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Light shelf wear, spine soiled, fading to back top edge, inscription on flyleaf. Fifth title in the series,"A History of the Writer in America 1800-1915". Indexed. Extra postage outside the US.

Cincinnati: Writers Digest, 1968. Illustrated Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Slight bumps to corners, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows wear at corners and edges. A thorough guide to the art, written by a very prolific author.

New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1965. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Light wear to edges, clean and unmarked. Priceclipped jacket shows minor edgewear. "The Life and Headline Hard Times of the Curtis Publishing Company and the Saturday Evening Post".

Garden City: Doubleday, 1977. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Light wear to corners, minor shelfwear. Jacket somewhat faded, light wear. "The Shaping of a Writer". The story of Daphne's first twenty-two years. Numerous B&W photos.

Chicago: American Library Assoc., 1949. Second Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Light edgewear, name on flyleaf, underlining to several pages.

New York: Stein & Day, 1977. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Minimal wear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows a bit of edgewear, not price clipped. Third volume of the author's autobiography.

New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1932. Third Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. Real nice copy showing minimal soiling to page edges. Plain orange jacket, clean and unmarked. A compact little volume that "...treats essential matters of grammar, diction, spelling, mechanics; and develops with thoroughness the principles of sentence structure".

Boston: Atlantic Little Brown, 1969. First American Edition . Purple Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Slight bumps to corners, minor wear to edges, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, rubbing, not price clipped. The author of "National Velvet" tells her story. Many B&W photos, indexed.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. First Edition . Yellow Cloth. Good+/Fair. Minor shelfwear, light soing, inscription inside front cover. Jacket complete, quite edgeworn. "A Portrait in the Form of a Novel".