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WRITING and RHETORIC

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Author: Cameron, Julia
Title: The right to write : an invitation and initiation into the writing life
Publisher: New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, c1998.
Edition: 4th printing
Physical description: xvii, 236 p. ; 22 cm.
Condition: hardback ; vg+/vg+ ;
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-236).
Subjects: Authorship.
Price: $18.00
Author: Cameron, Julia
Title: The sound of paper : starting from scratch
Publisher: New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2004.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical description: 315 p. ; 22 cm.
Condition: hardback ; vg+/vg+ ;
Notes:
Subjects: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Self-actualization (Psychology)
Price: $15.00
Author: Clark, Roy Peter.
Title: The glamour of grammar : a guide to the magic and mystery of practical English
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co, c2010.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical description: x, 294 p. ; 22 cm.
Condition: hardback ; vg/vg ;
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: English language Grammar.
Price: $18.00
Author: Delbanco, Nicholas editor
Title: The Hopwood Lectures, Sixth Series
Publisher: Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2009.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical description: 148 p.
Condition: paperback ; new ;
Notes:
Subjects: Writing. Inspiration.
Price: $25.00
Author: Edited by James Crawford ; with an afterword by Geoffrey Nunberg
Title: Language loyalties : a source book on the official English controversy
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical description: x, 522 p. ; 24 cm.
Condition: paperback ; vg+ ; (acid-free paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-505) and index.
Subjects: Language policy United States. English language Political aspects United States.
Price: $35.00
Author: Gardner, John
Title: The art of fiction : notes on craft for young writers
Publisher: New York : A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1984, c1983.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical description: xii, 224 p. ; 22 cm.
Condition: hardback ; fine/vg+ ; dj has one slight closed tear
Notes: Includes index.
Subjects: Fiction Technique.
Price: $35.00
Author: Gardner, John
Title: The art of fiction : notes on craft for young writers
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
Edition: 9th printing
Physical description: xii, 224 p. ; 19 cm.
Condition: paperback ; vg ;
Notes: Includes index.
Subjects: Fiction Technique.
Price: $10.00
Author: Gordon, Karen Elizabeth
Title: The transitive vampire : a handbook of grammar for the innocent, the eager, and the doomed
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Times Books, c1984.
Edition: 7th printing
Physical description: x, 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Condition: hardback ; vg/vg ;
Notes:
Subjects: English language Grammar Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Price: $15.00
Author: Green, Jonathon
Title: Chasing the sun : dictionary makers and the dictionaries they made
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt, 1996.
Edition: 1st
Physical description: xv, 510 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Condition: hardback ; vg/vg ;
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-483) and index.
Subjects: Lexicography History.
Price: $15.00
Author: Hamilton, Nigel
Title: How to do biography : a primer
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical description: viii, 379 p. ; 19 cm.
Condition: hardback ; new/new ; (alk. paper) ; additional ISBN 9780674027961
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-367) and index.
Subjects: Biography as a literary form. Biography Research Methodology. Autobiography Authorship.
Price: $25.00
Author: Knowles, Carrie Jane
Title: A Self-Guided Workbook and Gentle Tour on Learning How to Write Stories
Publisher: Boulder, Colorado, 2020
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical description: 214 p.
Condition: softcover ; new
Notes:
Subjects: fiction writing.
Price: $18.95
Author: Knott, Leonard L.
Title: Writing after fifty how to find-enjoy-and make money from a new career as a writer after you retire
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, 1985
Edition: [no ed. stated]
Physical description: 218 p.
Condition: hardback ; vg+/vg+ ;
Notes:
Subjects: Authorship.; Older authors.
Price: $10.00
Author: Lamott, Anne
Title: Bird by bird : some instructions on writing and life
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c1994.
Edition: 1st ed. 2nd printing
Physical description: xxxi, 239 p. ; 21 cm.
Condition: hardback ; 1 ; Very Good
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239).
Subjects: Authorship Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Price: $25.00
Author: Leader, Zachary
Title: Writer's block
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1991.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical description: x, 325 p. ; 24 cm.
Condition: hardback ; vg+/vg+ ; (alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-313). Includes index.
Subjects: Writer's block. Creative writing Psychological aspects. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Price: $18.00
Author: Leland, Christopher T.
Title: The Art of Compelling Fiction
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : Story Press, c1998.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical description: 214 p. ; 24 cm.
Condition: hardback ; vg/vg ;
Notes: Includes index.
Subjects: Fiction Technique.
Price: $18.00
Author: Mailer, Norman
Title: The Spooky Art :some thoughts on writing
Publisher: New York : Random House, c2003.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical description: xviii, 330 p. ; 25 cm.
Condition: hardback ; vg/vg ;
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([311]-320) and index.
Subjects: Mailer, Norman. Fiction Authorship.
Price: $30.00
Author: Miller, Henry
Title: Henry Miller on writing. Selected by Thomas H. Moore from the published and unpublished works of Henry Miller.
Publisher: [New York] New Directions [1964]
Edition: 21st printing
Physical description: vi, 216 p. illus. 21 cm.
Condition: paperback ; new ;
Notes:
Subjects: A New directions paperbook original ND151.
Price: $18.00
Author: Solnit, Rebecca
Title: The faraway nearby
Publisher: New York, New York, USA : Viking, [2013]
Edition: 1st printing
Physical description: 259 pages ; 22 cm
Condition: hardback ; vg+/vg+ ;
Notes:
Subjects: Solnit, Rebecca. Autobiography Authorship. Storytelling. Narration (Rhetoric) Psychological aspects.
Price: $45.00
Author: Truss, Lynne
Title: Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation
Publisher: New York : Gotham Books, 2004.
Edition: 23rd printing
Physical description: xxvii, 209 p. ; 20 cm.
Condition: hardback ; vg+/vg+ ; (acid-free paper)
Notes: Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books. Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-209).
Subjects: English language Punctuation.
Price: $10.00
Author: Truss, Lynne
Title: Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation
Publisher: New York : Gotham Books, 2004.
Edition: 5th printing
Physical description: xxvii, 209 p. ; 20 cm.
Condition: hardback ; vg/vg ; (acid-free paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-209).
Subjects: English language Punctuation.
Price: $10.00
Author: Truss, Lynne
Title: Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation
Publisher: New York : Gotham Books, 2004.
Edition: 8th printing
Physical description: xxvii, 209 p. ; 20 cm. (acid-free paper).
Condition: hardback ; vg/vg ;
Notes: Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books. Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-209).
Subjects: English language Punctuation.
Price: $10.00
Author: Winchester, Simon
Title: The meaning of everything : the story of the Oxford English dictionary
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical description: xxv, 260 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Condition: hardback ; vg+/vg+ ;
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-253) and index.
Price: $12.00
Author: Yagoda, Ben
Title: When you catch an adjective, kill it : the parts of speech for better and/or worse
Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, 2006.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical description: 241 p. ; 21 cm.
Condition: hardback ; new/new ; (alk. paper)
Notes:
Subjects: English language Parts of speech. English language Syntax. English language Grammar. Vocabulary.
Price: $12.00