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Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest, 1995. Book. Illus. by Bob Eggleton;. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 226 pp. Glossy pictorial boards; headband. Lightly rubbed at the corners; as issued, no dustjacket; no interior markings. The Contents are: Why Write About Aliens?; What Is Plausible?; Astronomical Basics; Biochemical Basics; Engineering Organisms; Creating Alien Societies; Alien Language; Interaction with Humans; Writing About Aliens; Case Studies; and Farther Out: Life Not As We Know It; followed by: A Xenologist's Bookshelf; A Glossary of Selected Terms; and an index..

New York: Laurel - Dell Publishing, 1989. Book. Illus. by Bill Thompson;. Very Good+. Paperback. Later Printing. (x) 177 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover and interior line drawings by Bill Thompson. The Contents are: Introduction; Schoolishness; The Blunderful World of Blooers; Inspired Gibberish; and Grammer Gaffes..

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Revised Edition. 8vo. (xii) 304 pp. Brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Vocation; The Spirit of Scholarship; Some Scholarly Occupations; The Task; Finding Materials; Libraries; Making Notes; The Philosophy of Composition; and The Scholar's Life; followed by Exercises and an index..

New York: Paragon House, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. (xxi) 188 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. The Contents are: Foreword: The Art of Film; Preface by Beatrice Straight; Where Did Screenwriters Come From; Writing for Film as Opposed to Writing for Stage - Time and Space on Film - Film Acting; Adapting Work from Another Genre to Film - Screenplays Based on Novels, Stage Plays, History; Writing Original Screenplays - Story Lines - Actions Visuals and Titles; Developing a Film Head - Learning to Use a Camera - Montage and Film Editing; The Process of Writing - Page by Page and Day by Day - Film Schools; Screen Treatments; Screenplay Format - Glossary of Technical Terms; Marketing and Agentry - Contracts, Unions, Copyright Protections, Plagiarism, Pseudonyms; And Collaboration - The Screenwriter and the Rest of the Film Industry; followed by an afterword and an index..

New York: Bantam Books, 1964. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. (viii) 182 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a crease in the upper left of the back cover and a faint crease on the spine; some aging but no interior markings. The Contents are: Preface; Technical and Scientific Writing: The Abstract; The Technical Proposal; Letters and Short Reports; The Technical Memorandum; The Journal Article; Management of Technical Writing. A Handbook of Style and Usage: Getting Started; Strong, Well Developed Paragraphs; The Sentence; The Right Word; Verbs; Punctuation; Agreement and Reference; Editing; References and Bibliography; Abbreviations; Spelling; and Glossary of Important Words and Phrases; followed by an index..

New York: Basic Books - Perseus Books Group, 2001. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xi) 276 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Contents are: Preface; The Code Talker Paradox; The Discovery of Atoms; Samples Versus Recipes; Baking a Polysynthetic Language; Alloys and Compounds; Toward a Periodic Table of Languages; and Why Parameters?; followed by notes, a map and an index..

Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Printing. 8vo. 268 pp. Black boards lettered in red on the spine; headband. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings..

Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media Corporation, 2005. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 249 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed at the corners with a faint crease in the upper right of the front cover and a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The art of creating the killer book proposal....

Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press, 1982. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 137 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Contents are: Letters - The Human Touch; Letter-Writing Style; Composing a Better Letter; Business Letter Format; Business Letters; Personal Letters; Dear Sir or Madam; and The Benevolent Dictator..

Toronto: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 44 pp. Staple-bound in card covers. Light wear on the corners; previous owner's name inside..

New York: Broadway Books, 2002. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Later Printing. 8vo. (xiii) 241 pp. Quarter-bound in red on red boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction; Troublesome Words; Appendix: Punctuation; and Glossary..

Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (vi) 177 pp. Black cloth lettered in red on the spine; red endpapers. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction by Mickey Pearlman; The Art of Alice Munro: Memory Identity and the Aesthetics of Connection by Georgeann Murphy; Remittance Men: Exile and Identity in the Short Stories of Mavis Gallant by Diane Simmons; Anne Hebert: The Tragic Melodramas by Marilyn C. Wesley; Margaret Atwood: Reflections in a Convex Mirror by Roberta White; Ties That Bind in Marie-Claire Blais's Deaf to the City by Martha M. Vertreace; Identity and Family in the Novels of Janette Turner Hospital by Margaret K. Schramm; Isabel Huggan and Jane Urquhart: Feminie in This by Katherine K. Gottschalk; The I as Sight and Site: Memory and Space in Audrey Thomas's Fiction by Virginia Tiger; Canadian Identity and Women's Voices: The Fiction of Sandra… Read More

London: Collins, 1977. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Later Printing. 12mo. 317 pp. Blue boards lettered in silver on the front panel and spine. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings..

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Outdoor Writers Association of America, 1975. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 317 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine and some darkening around the edges; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs. There are far too many articles here to list them all but the authors are: Norman Strung; Enos Bradner; Peter A. Barrett; Chet Fish; Dave Petzal; Bob Gilsvik; Dave Harbour; Norman E. Johnson; V. Lee Oertle; Connie B. Howes; Chuck Cadieux; Thomas P. McElroy; Clyde P. Peters; Dan Morris; Vlad Evanoff; Roger Caras; Mark Sosin; Joe DeFalco; Bill Cochran; Bob Gooch; Hal Sharp; Glenn Helegland; Norman D. Weis; Charles J. Farmer; Bill McRae; George H. Harrison; C. E. Harris; Pete Czura; Jim Tallon; Milt Rosko; Howard Gray; Francis Carter Wood; Mort Neff; John Madson; Franc White; Don Ingle; Sheila Link; Bill Horine; Bill Clede; Jerry Chiappetta; Jerry McKinnis; David Sumner; Mike Endres; Bill… Read More

Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2001. Book. Illus. by Clarice Cliff;. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 262 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. From abacus to featherwork, from pricking to Zwischengoldglass, all the art terms you could ever need for anything at all..

London: Routledge, 1946. Book. Illus. by Augustus John;. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Printing. 12mo. (viii) 287 pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; frontis drawing of the author by Augustus John. Light chipping on the corners of the dustjacket with a few small nicks around the edges; some loss at the head of the spine; price intact; no interior markings. This collection contains: The Position of Joyce; Lews Faux Monnayeurs; Distress of Plenty; New Swift Letters; Lord Chesterfield; Imitations of Horace; Illusions of Likeness; A. E. Housman: A Controversy; Thomas Mann; Onus Vallis Visionis; French and English Cultural Relations; Ninety Years of Novel Reviewing; More About the Modern Nobel; Defects of English Novels; Reviewers; Mr Mossbross Takes the Class; Felicity; The Novel Addict's Cupboard; Felicity Entertains; Told in Gath; Where Engels Fears to Tread; Year Nine; What Will He Do Next; An Unfortunate Visit; Ackermann's England; Spring Revolution; Barcelona; England Not My… Read More

Reston, Virginia: Reston Publishing Company, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (ix) 150 pp. Brown boards lettered in white and gold on the front panel and spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. The Contents are: Preface; The Precarious Profession; The Nature of Fiction; You As a Writer; Character or Plot; Characterization; Transitions; Dialogue; Locale and Action; Flashback; Point of View; Theme; Making an Outline; Inspiration or Perspiration; Openings; Believability; Rewriting; Getting Published; and Now That You Are a Writer..

New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1976. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xi) 321 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; a star put on the upper left of the front cover; some rubbing on the back cover; no interior markings. Subtitled: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasy by: Harlan Ellison; Frank Herbert; Norman Spinrad; Poul Anderson; Hal Clement; Alan E. Nourse; Theodore Sturgeon; Jerry Pournelle; Katherine MacLean; James Gunn; Larry Niven; Jack Williamson; John Brunner; Frederik Pohl; and Reginald Bretnor..

New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1975. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Second Edition. 8vo. 138 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine and a star stamped on the front cover..

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 186 pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with a short tear at the head of the spine and a small mark on the front panel; price intact; previous owner's inscription on the front free endpaper; some rubbing along the spine of the book itself. The Contents are: Introduction by C. B. Cox; Dylan Thomas: A Review of His Collected Poems by John Wain; The Poetry of Dylan Thomas by David Daiches; The Welsh Background by John Ackerman; The Universe of the Early Poems by Elder Olson; There Was a Saviour by Winifred Nowottny; Last Poems by Ralph Maud; Collected Poems and Under Milk Wood by William Empson; Dylan Thomas's Play for Voices by Raymond Williams; A Place of Love - Under Milk Wood by David Holbrook; Dylan Thomas's Prose by Annis Pratt; Crashaw and Dylan Thomas: Devotional Athletes by Robert M. Adams; Dylan Thomas by John Bayley; and Dylan… Read More