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Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; and sunning on the spine. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean. 9.5 inches tall; 322 pages. Assembled here are a distinctive collection of writings--fiction, poetry, essays, travelers' tales, reportage, journals--to analyze the California mystique. Most of the material covers the last 50 years, though a few pieces reach back into the 19th century. Topics are as varied as the state's scenery: sex and drugs, murder, youth gangs, internment of the Japanese in World War II, Hollywood, hippies, Esalen, student revolt in the '60s, the desert. Simone de Beauvoir records her impressions of San Francisco and Berkeley; Umberto Eco writes about cults and the Jonestown suicides; Amy Tan takes us to a meeting of the Joy Luck Club; Tom Wolfe introduces the Pump House Gang. A Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. An exceptional gathering of British & American observations on English as the sensitive register of our ideas, feelings, and manners at the beginning of the 1980s. 3rd printing. 609pp. Published in Association with the English-Speaking Union, San Francisco Branch. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "What are we doing with words today? In original short essays and poems, many of the gifted writers of our day--novelists, linguists, literary critics, philosophers, politicians, people in law, business, and the arts--offer informed and lively responses to this question. They discuss topics as different as liturgical English and the language of popular music; the language of legal interpretation and the play-talk of children; the use of dialects; the language of philosophy, women, and computers; and the state of letter writing. For the authors in this book, English is not only crucial to their work, but also a sensitive record of the way we think and feel about--indeed create--our world. Touching on much of contemporary life--art, religion, sex, science, politics, education, business--the essayists together embrace what is vital and distinctive in our language as we enter the 1980s." [jacket copy] Among the 64 writers are Amis, Carter, Donoghue, Fisher, Johnson, Lodge, Miles, Ostriker, Reed, Simon, Wilmers, White, dozens more. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding (slightly cocked spine), unmarked & quite presentable, wrapped in an intact NF jacket w/slight spine fading.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Later printing. Octavo. 609pp. Embossed stamp on front fly, else near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Uncorrected proof. Fine with a light sticker shadow on the front wrapper.

Cloth & Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Slight foxing to edge. Previous owner's name stamp to inside cover. Sunned spine to D/J. Small waterstain mark to top edge of inside back of D/J. Price clipped. An exceptional gathering of British & American observations on English as the Sensitive register of our ideas, feelings, and mannners at the beginning of the 1980s. For the author's in this book, English is not only crucial to their work, but also a sensitive record of the way we think and feel about - indeed create - our world. Touching on much of contemporary life - art, religion, sex, science, politics, education, business - the essayists together embrace what is vital and distinctive in our language as we enter the 1980s. 609 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Blue wrappers. Slight creasing else fine.