Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2009. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter red paper, black paper boards. xiv, 370 pp. B&W photos. Fine. More
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Bound To Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter black paper, yellow paper boards. xxvii, 525 pp. Fine. Surveying the whole world of books, Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary essayist, proves himself to be one of the most engaging critics of our time - and great fun..... More
On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft
New York: Scribner, 2000. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter black cloth, yellow paper boards. 288 pp. Some mild bumping to edges of dust jacket, fine overall. Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, so revealing. On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's childhood..... More
Louis Sullivan: An Architect of American Thought
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 176 pp. B&W photos. Rubbing to extremities, crease to spin and joints. A few pencil annotations. Ink inscription to inside rear cover. Louis Sullivan is remembered as a genius in architecture, as a developer of the modern skyscraper, and..... More
Chinua Achebe
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1969. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. Writers and Their Work: No 209. Orig. yellow paper wraps, staple bound. 40 pp. Some sunning to extremities, else fine. More
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