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Fighting Words: Writers Lambast Other Writers--From Aristotle to Anne Rice
by Charlton, James (editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 1565120736
- ISBN 13
- 9781565120730
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994. CE2 - A hard cover first edition book in very good+ condition with a dust jacket in good+ very good- condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in gray paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is a remainder mark on the bottom outside paper edges. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus there is some very light edge wear along the spine top and bottom edges plus there is a very small (less than 0.25") closed tear at the front bottom right corner plus there is some very light soiling overall. A book about the in-fighting and one-upmanship that poets and writers have engaged in at cocktail parties and literary gatherings for centuries. It includes over 400 quotations of literary gossip and well-turned phrases. Illustrated by caricaturist Tullio Pericoli. Indexed, 152p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Pericoli, Tullio. 5.25"x7.25".
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- Bookmarc's
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SCW06654
- Title
- Fighting Words: Writers Lambast Other Writers--From Aristotle to Anne Rice
- Author
- Charlton, James (editor)
- Illustrator
- Pericoli, Tullio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1565120736
- ISBN 13
- 9781565120730
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Nonfiction Non-fiction Author Authors Writer Writers Literary Criticism Reference Quotation Quotations Gossip Feud Feuds Rivalry Rivalries Mudslinging Eloquence Socrates Krantz Judith Aristotle Rice Anne
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor; Literature / History of Literature;
- Size
- 5.25"x7.25"
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