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London: Jonathan Cape 1965. (Mass market paperback) 221pp. Very good plus. "Sir Ernest Barker, reviewing the first edition of The Reader Over Your Shoulder in the Manchester Guardian, said: 'The whole work trends to moral as well as aesthetic consequences. The writing of good English is a moral matter; and the muddle of our… Read more

Cambridge: Belknap Press 1968. (4to) 733pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Indices. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly edgeworn with a few small closed tears and a faint dampstain along the top inch of the back cover and back panel. "This book is a collection of English proverbs, sentences, and proverbial… Read more

Pearson Education 978-0-321-54933-4 [978-0-321-54933-4] 2009, 4th Canadian Edition. (Spiral-bound card) 505pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Glossary, index. Book about American Psychological Association, Formatting & Modern Language Association. (Writing, Essays, Guidebooks, Style, Textbook, Writer's Reference, Writing).

Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers [0-15-506617-X] 2002, 6th edition. (Trade paperback) 347pp. Near fine. Index. (Writing, Essays, Guidebooks, Literature, Reference, Style, Textbook, Writer's Reference, Writing).

Chicago: University of Chicago [0-226-81621-4] 1973, 4th edition. (Trade paperback) 216pp. Near fine. Tables, index. (Writing, Essays, Guidebooks, Textbook, Writing).

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press [0-8156-2613-4] 1994, 1st edition. (Trade paperback) 233pp. Fine. Notes, bibliography, index. Based on the work of James Joyce--Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. (Literary Criticism, Irish Studies, Literary Criticism).

New York: Viking [1991]. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 260pp. Illustrations, notes, index. "In Waiting for the Weekend, Witold Rybczynski unfolds the history of leisure; there have always been breaks from the routine of work: taboo days, market days, public festivals, holy days - we couldn't survive without them. He explores the… Read more

London: Richard Bentley 1869, new edition. (Hardcover) Very good. 468pp. Green leather decoratively stamped in gilt on both covers, the spine, and inner dentelles. All edges gilt, coated yellow endpapers, ribbon page marker, illustrated title page, illustrations, 2 plates. The spine and corners are lightly scuffed and there is a previous owner's inscription on the front… Read more

Winnipeg: Manitoba Writers' Guild [0-9692525-1-X] [1991], 1st edition. (Trade paperback) Near fine. 76pp. (Writing, Handbook).

Girard: Haldeman-Julius [no date]. (stiff paper covers) Near fine. 62pp. Publisher series: Little Blue Book 89. (Essays, Letters, Love).

London: Collins Clear-Type Press [no date]. (Limp leather) Very good. 539pp. Burgundy leather with gilt facsimile signature of Emerson on the front cover. The pages are of India paper. All edges gilt over red, ribbon marker, frontispiece, illustrated title page. There is minor pencil underlining. Illustration by Malcolm Patterson. (Essays, Lectures).

London: MacMillan 1908. (Hardcover) 364pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Frontispiece, notes, index. The spine is lightly worn at the top and bottom. Biography of Charles Kingsley. Edited by Fanny Kingsley. (Essays, Letters).

New York: Grove Press [0-8021-0072-4] [1975], 1st edition. (Hardcover) 184pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Frontispiece, photographs, appendix, index. Book about Henry Miller. Introduction by Wallace Fowlie. (Essays, Correspondence, Writers).

Don Mills: Longmans Canada [1968]. (Hardcover) 257pp. Very good in good to very good dust jacket. Appendix. The dust jacket has edgewear and chipping and is faded on the spine. (Writing, Playwriting).

London: Victor Gollancz 1948. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 286pp. Frontispiece. Edited with introduction by H.N. Brailsford. (Essays).

Stamford: Overbrook Press 1941, an unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 1000. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 20pp. Blue patterned boards with paper title label on front cover. The bottom of the spine is lightly worn and there is a small chip from the top of the spine. The complimentary slip is laid in.… Read more

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [0-15-144820-5] [1992], 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 114pp. Foreword by Elizabeth Hardwick. Locale: New York; United States. (Essays, Personal Narratives, Writers).

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press [1928], a numbered copy from a limited edition of 925. (Hardcover) 335pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, illustration. The spine is faded, and there is a previous owner's bookplate. Edited with introduction and notes by Edward Garnett. (Essays, Authors, Letters).

Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press 1975. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 216pp. Illustrations, notes. Preliminary pp.iii-iv has been removed and there is a "booksale" stamp on the title page, the dust jacket has minor edgewear. Articles by Per Nykrog, Pierre Jonin, Michelle Augier and Marie-Louise Ollier are in French. Time… Read more

Oxford: Oxford University Press [0-19-866130-4] [1985], 5th edition. (Hardcover) 1155pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt crest on the spine. Appendices, tables. Previous owner's inscription. Locale:. (Essays, Dictionary, Literature).