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An excellent copy of an incredible book in Ms. Oates always inventive and trademark style.

New York: Random House, 1952. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Good. A Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. The Libretto and Lyrics of this wonderful musical. And, of course the music was by Rodgers with lyrics by Hart. DJ has some edge wear with a few tears and minor soiling to covers with tanning to spine.

Windsor, Ontario, Canada: Black Moss Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Phil McLeod. Edges worn with the base of spine bumped. Signed: " For ___ from [here there is a stamp of a horse within a horse shoe that is inscribed with "the ghost horse of the mounties"] & sean o huigin"...the effect is that the horse and the author have inscribe this book!

London: Phoenix House, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. From the author of The English Patient, "a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time".

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 2000. Hardcover. As New/As New. From the Booker prize winning poet and novelist a story of a girl set against the lushness of Ondaatje's birth place - Sri Lanka. As new in like dust jacket. The signature you see is pretty well what you get these days.

Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. The third book of poetry by the celebrated author of The English Patient. A very good copy of an early work. Some edge wear. Inscribed and signed (with his more legible earlier script) on front free end paper.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1934. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Remember in Maugham's The Razor's Edge, when Larry is asked what he wants to do with his life? He replies "Loaf". It's not a term that is much in use anymore, as it must have been when Maugham wrote his book and Overstreet published this. It is interesting though to read the DJ blurb and remember. this book was published in 1934. "Almost over night a new idea has come to us. It is the idea that at last we are to have more time to live our lives as we please. Hitherto we have been occupied with other things. We have grown work-wise. It is time now to grow leisure-wise. For while we recognize that work should bring its own satisfactions, it will still remain true that in our leisure life we shall find the means for cultivating the interests, powers, and delights that should be our human privilege." Some things never change. A near fine book with a previous ownership signature (and a… Read More