Editor Jacques Barzun (51 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked trade paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good clean copy.//B1.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Octavo. Dustjacket missing. Cedar colored cloth with gold lettering on spine. Previous owner's name inked fep. 5th printing. [436 pages].

Hardcover. First Edition. Clean pages, solid binding, cloth boards clean, bumping and tatter to dust jacket, Illustrated dust jacket over cloth boards Clean pages, solid binding, clot Illustrated dust jacket over clo.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: G+. No Jacket. None Listed. 276 pp, the book and contents are clean and tight, there is some browning on the page edges, covers are tight with light soil.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price; 615 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 381 pages, gray quarter-cloth. A very good, clean hardcover with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper slightly yellowed, slight soiling to the fore-edges. In a good, edge worn dust jacket, with small chips at the flap fold edges and back strip top and bottom, with original price present. A very nice reading copy.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Stiff wraps. New/as issued. Square, uncreased binding, clean and unmarked interior. xxii,616,[2] pp. 1st ptg. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Tan colored dust jacket with black and red lettering. Chipping to ends, light soiling. Brown linen hardboards, gold lettering, pressed lettering to face. Clean, light wear. P/O name on ffep. Clean text. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Trade paperback. 624 p. 22 cm. binding cover wear. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. SC 197 Very good. Signed by previous owner.

Mass Market PaperBack. Condition: Good. Mass market paperback with darkened spine. Previous owner's name inked half title page. Volume one of six volume set, edited by Bentley. [302 pages plus five page list of available Anchor titles.].

Mass Market PaperBack. Condition: Fair. Darkened spine, dust stained cover, inked tick marks next to 3 out of 5 plays listed on front & there is a black marker strike top left corner front cover. Large elaborate previous dealer's stamp in red ink with handwritten number in blue ink. There is a cluster of pages 7 through 27 with splashes of brown stains (coffee?). (302 pp. plus six pages of Anchor titles available.).

Soft Cover. Condition: Poor. 14th printing 1987.

Here is "The Writer's Book : Practical Advice by Experts in Every Field of Writing" . Published by Barnes & Noble, the book was Presented by the Author's Guild and Edited by Helen Hull. This is 1969 10th Printing. From the cover blurb: "This book is a comprehensive and imaginative collection of essays on every phase of the writer's art and craft: forty noted authors discuss the making and marketing of the novel, short story, poem, magazine article, the TV and Film Play. Here is practical professional advice on problems of characterization, style, conflict, and plot for everyone who wants to write. This book was issued well before the internet, and exhibits nothing remotely akin to the modes necessary for writing today. Thus it should prove fascinating for anyone interested in such near-past thinking. We've provided two scans of the Table of Contents, which is fairly lengthy, so view it carefully. SERIES : Everyday Handbooks TITLE : The Writer's Book AUTHORS : Pearl Buck, Paul Gallico, Jacques Barzun, Lionel Trilling, Babette Deutsch, Lajos Egri, Ann Petry, John Hersey, Rex Stout, Arthur Koestler, Faith Baldwin, W H Auden, Frederick Lewis Adams, Katherine Anthony, Leonora Speyer, Phyllis McGinley, Niven Busch, Winston Churchill, et al AEGIS : The Author's Guild EDITOR : Helen Hull IMPRINT : Barnes & Noble PLACE : New York DATE : (1969) STATUS : Out of Print - OP DETAILS : Trade paperback; 5 " x 8', card-stock wraps (cover printed in brownish-orange with white and black lettering - a picture of a plumed ink pen decorates the front cover); 353 pages CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted: EXTERIOR -- No creasing to spine; soft impacts have caused creasing to the lower fore-edge corners, front and back; the cover surfaces have modest rub and a touch of abrasion; cover edges have scattered mild nicking (most noticeable at spine extremities. BINDING -- Tight INTERIOR -- Clean and free of marking. Soft bumps to a few leaf corner tips. All in all a well preserved copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ninth printing. Price clipped. Owner name. Solid jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Contributors include W. H. Auden, Eric Bentley, Robert Lowell, Peter F. Drucker and others. Small octavo in paper wraps. Four color plates. Condition: minor wear & slight soiling; else very good. 168 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Edited and completed in collaboration with Carlos Baker, Frederick W. Dupee, Dudley Fitts, James D. Hart, Phyllis McGinley, and Lionel Trilling.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages. Roy Campbell "The Poetry of Luiz de Camoes" / Janice Warnke "Time of Order" / Geoffrey Gorer "Poor Honey: Some Notes on Jane Austen and Her Mother" / Jacques Barzun "The Anti-Modern essays of Aldous Huxley" / Colin Wilson on Goethe and Nietzsche / Maurice Cranston on the Author and the Public.

Hardcover. Condition: Good condition, clean & tight. 624p.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Clean solid copy, some spotting around edges of front panel, contains work by Wallace Stevens, Lionel Trilling, Robert Lowell, W.H. Auden and others plus colour reproductions of paintings by Jacques Villon.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Smaller, thicker sturdy book, black cloth spine, yellow boards, gilt lettering very bright on spine, 615 lightly browned pages. DJ heavy paper beneath mylar, very colorful with light blue front and spine top, the spine and back with bands of yellow, purple, brown, pink, a photo of Barzun at back right, DJ and book, both As New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This book is in good condition only. Dustjacket does have some shelfwear, edge wear, several small edge tears. Name inscription to fly leaf. Some scattered margin marks : most pages are clean. ; 294 pages.

First Edition. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. Remainder marks bottom edge.

Jacques Barzun (editor); Ernest Bramah, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, John D. MacDonald, Rex Stout, others The Delights of Detection Criterion, 1961. First Edition. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in an about Very good dust jacket. Text clean. Spine ends lightly rubbed and bumped. Blue cloth cover. Spine lightly faded. Chipping to dust jacket spine ends. 2 inch piece torn off on top corner on rear dust jacket. Small tears on edges and corners of dust jacket.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 91 + pp. Spring 1991, Vol. 4, No. 2 issue only! ISSN 0895-4852. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Some stains on front cover.