Search Results: Writing from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: Times Books, 1997 reprint. SIGNED on ffep by author. 424pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Very Good in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [First half-dozen or so pp. have some tiny specks from having come into contact with grit; last several index pp. have some smudging; light foxing of edges; book is otherwise untroubled; else VG] Lamb (b. 1941) is the founding CEO of C-Span whose popular program "Booknotes" first aired in 1989.

Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books. 1982 1st ed. 197pp. hardback 8vo: ex lib. copy; stickers & stamps pub. lib. style; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy.

Great Neck, NY: Channel Press, 1961. SIGNED ffep by author. 366pp. hardback sm 8vo: Very Good in a near Very Good dj [some light age browning of edges; else VG] Ideas that could be recycled today, organized chronologically by every day of the calendar.

New York: Perennial Library, 1987 1st ed. thus. 127pp. paperback 8vo: Fine.

New York: Harper Collins, 1994 reprint. 205pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a Fine dj [top & fore edge show foxing; else a nice clean and crisp copy] A useful and entertaining volume by the prolific Columbia University word maven Ehrlich (1922-2008).

New York: New Chapter Press, 1992 reprint. 309pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine [touch of age browning to edges; else a nice crisp copy] Sautter (1948-93) was a successful television writer who died not long after publication of this well-received book.

New York: Harper & Row Perennial Library, 1988 reprint. 192pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [text is age browned; else a nice crisp copy]

New York: Scribner's, 1984 book club ed. 191pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a near Fine dj [text is age browned; else VG]

Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, 1979 1st ed. 240pp. hardback 8vo: near Very Good in a Good dj [ink name; some penciled annotations in text; else a clean, complete & tight copy; dj = some edge tears; else G]

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1978 4th ptg. 114pp. illus. green cloth 8vo: near Fine in a Good+ dj. An entertaining look at antiquarian words in which a "poop-noddy" is a fool and "snawky" is nauseating. George Moran supplies 50 humorous illustrations.

New York: Penguin, 1997 1st ed. thus. 340pp. paperback: Very Good [text is uniformly age browned in the usual Penguin manner; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] Essays on writing.

New York: Fawcett-Columbine, 1987 1st ed. thus. 414pp. paperback tall 8vo: near Very Good [text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] From pitch to picture by an Emmy award winning writer.

Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1964 1st ed. 112pp. beige cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [school presentation bookplate on front pastedown has dried out and is laid in; discolored evidence of old glue residue on that pastedown; else a very nice copy; dj = p-c; else G] Thirty-one letters on the subject from Pulitzer Prize winning poet Benet (1898-1943) to the younger American poet Abbe (1911-89).

HarperSanFrancisco, 1994 1st ed. thus. 220pp. paperback: Good [ink name; some highlighting & a short note or two in text; else a complete & tight copy] Cover praise from Erica Jong.

Dorset Press, reissue of c1981 ed. 431pp. hardback tall 8vo: Very Good in a Fine dj [some top & fore edge foxing; some foxing to endpp; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] Words of wisdom from almost 500 writers selected by the literary masters Auden (1907-73) & Kronenberger (1904-80).

New York: Grosset/Putnam, 1996 reprint. 227pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. The late Molly Ivins called this surprising book "The best thing to happen to grammar since Strunk and White."

Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1979 1st ed. 203pp. beige cloth 8vo: Very Good in a near Fine dj [edges show some foxing; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy[ Old school tips that can still be adapted to the internet age.

Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books. 1985 reprint. 197pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. A crisp copy of this how to guide by the prolific American writer Block (b. 1938).