Category: Essays

Hoosier Caravan : a Treasury of Indiana Life & Lore

Price: $31.50

Publisher: Bloomington, In, U. S. A.. Bloomington, In, U. S. A., Indiana University Press : 1975

Seller ID: 15079

No defects. Pages are crisp, tight, book appears unread. . This is a wonderful collection of 92 essays, fiction, poetry, history, and other pieces, all concerning the history and culture of the great state of Indiana. Each piece is written by an Indiana author, such as Booth Tarkington, Theodore Dreiser, James Whitcomb Riley, GeneStratton Porter, Ernie Pyle, Jessamyn West, Emily Kimbrough, Hoagy Carmichael, Kurt Vonnegut, and many others. This is the New and Enlarged edition. A handsome copy. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 620 pages. A6
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At Home in the Heartland: Seasons of Serenity

By: Bass, Jan K. Stewart

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Council Bluffs, IO. Council Bluffs, IO, Windmill Writing : 1996

Seller ID: 20897

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

No defects. . Several short stories or essays or prose poems about each of the seasons enjoyed in the Heartland. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author on title page. Stapled booklet with attractive floral cover design. No defects; pages are crisp and tight, book appears unread. 74pp. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 74 pages. Signed by Author. A6
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Farewells

By: Bryan, William Lowe

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Indiana University : 1938

Seller ID: 33445

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Light wear to edges of black leather covers, no other defects. This is copy #1 of a limited edition of 100 autographed copies. Bound in black leather with bright gilt titles to front cover and spine. Author was the tenth President of Indiana University, serving from 1902 to 1937. . The book consists of Commencement Addresses and Columns in the student newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, written by President Bryan. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 167 pages. Signed by Author. T1
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The Portable Coleridge;

By: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor & I A Richards (Ed. )

Price: $26.50

Publisher: Viking Press : 1950

Seller ID: 32719

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Lightly bumped corners, no other defects. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. Lacking the dust jacket. . Includes a selection of poems, letters, essays, book chapters and more. Also a fifty-four page Introduction by the editor. This is the first edition, published in 1950. A handsome copy. . The Viking Portable Library Series. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 630 pages. I1
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Sacred Beetle and Other Great Essays in Science

By: Gardner, Martin

Price: $31.50

Publisher: Prometheus Books : 1984

Seller ID: 32490

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book has no defects, As New. Bound in cream cloth with bright gilt titles to spine. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked, appears unread. Lacking the dust jacket. . Thirty-four essays by great scientists, edited by Martin Gardner. Revised edition, first published in 1957. A beautiful copy. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 427 pages. G5
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Julia Duckworth Stephen: Stories for Children, Essays for Adults

By: Gillespie, Diane F.; Steele, Elizabeth

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Syracuse University Press : 1987

Seller ID: 23194

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

No defects. Covers are clean and unworn, binding is tight, pages are crisp and unmarked. Book appears unread. . Author is mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index. . Trade PB. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 277 pages. j3
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Life and Art; Essays, Notes, and Letters Collected for the First Time

By: Hardy, Thomas

Price: $31.00

Publisher: NY. NY, Haskell House : 1966

Seller ID: 29060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

A few faint marks on spine, no other defects. Pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; book appears unread. . Reprint of a book originally published in 1925. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 140 pages. D3
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Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez

By: Jimenez, Juan Ramon

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. : 1957

Seller ID: 32352

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Fine book in Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket spine has age-toned from the light green of the front cover to tan. No other defects in jacket, now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Book has no defects. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked, appears unread. . Poetry, prose, essays. A beautiful copy of the first printing, stated. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1956.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 260 pages. G1
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Essays in Monetary Economics

By: Johnson, Harry G.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Harvard U. Press : 1967

Seller ID: 32166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

No defects in book or jacket, the latter now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. . Ten essays, Appendix, Index. A handsome first edition of a classic work. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 332 pages. F1
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The Huron River: Voices from the Watershed

By: Knott, John R. & Keith Taylor, Eds.

Price: $26.50

Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional : 2001

Seller ID: 25642

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Mild bump to top corner, no other defects. Pages are clean and crisp, binding is tight; book appears unread. . 33 essays, poems, and stories that celebrate the Huron River in Michigan. Illustrated with photos and drawings. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by both editors. A beautiful, collectible copy. . Trade PB. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 230 pages. Signed by Editors. G4
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The Indiana Experience

By: Lazarus, A. L. , Ed.

Price: $26.50

Publisher: Bloomington, IN. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press : 1977

Seller ID: 31740

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Blue boards are slightly rubbed at corners, owner blindstamp at bottom margin of half title page, no other defects. Pages are clean and bright, very tight and square, still crisp, a beautiful copy. Jacket is a bit rubbed with slight edgewear, in bright Hoosier crimson. Protected w mylar cover. . This is a large and impressive tribute to the great Hoosier state. Essays, short stories, poems, songs, plays about Indiana written by its children. Including works by Eli Lilly, Wendall Willkie, Ernie Pyle, Booth Tarkington, Rex Stout, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. , Jean Shepherd, Cole Porter, and many, many mo...
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The Indiana Experience: an Anthology

By: Lazarus, A. L. , Ed.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Bloomington, IN. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press : 1977

Seller ID: 14290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Pages are clean and bright, very tight and square, still crisp. This is a beautiful copy. Jacket is a bit rubbed w light edgewear and a 1/2" tear and fold on back flap, in bright Hoosier crimson. Protected w mylar cover. . A large and impressive tribute to the great Hoosier state. Essays, short stories, poems, songs, plays about Indiana written by its children. Including works by Eli Lilly, Wendall Willkie, Ernie Pyle, Booth Tarkington, Rex Stout, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. , Jean Shepherd, Cole Porter, and many, many more. This is the first edition. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 426 pages. H4
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A View of the World Selected Journalism

By: Lewis, Norman

Price: $31.50

Publisher: Eland Books : 2005

Seller ID: 30491

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

No defects. Book is As New. . 20 wonderful travel essays, in locations from around the world. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 310 pages. L2
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Province of the Heart

By: McGinley, Phyllis

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Viking Press : 1959

Seller ID: 32181

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

Fine book in VG- dust jacket. Jacket has shallow chipping at head and foot of spine and is price-clipped, now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Book has no defects. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked, appears unread. A beautiful copy of the first printing. . Eighteen thoughtful and humorous essays by Ms McGinley. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 181 pages. F2
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In Pursuit of Relevance

By: Muller, Herbert Joseph

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Indiana University Press : 1971

Seller ID: 28099

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Dust jacket has several tiny tears, slightly faded spine, now protected by clear mylar sleeve. Top page ends of book are mildly spotted, no other defects. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. Bound in brown cloth with bright gilt titles. . Author addresses the relevance of the humanities to the urgent problems of the day (that is, the 1960s). Laid in is a lengthy handwritten review of the book. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author to a colleague or friend. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 306 pages. Signed by Author. A2
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South to a Very Old Place

By: Murray, Albert

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Modern Library : 1995

Seller ID: 32859

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

No defects in book or jacket, the latter now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. . Selections from the writings of Albert Murray. . 12mo 7" - 7" tall. 266 pages. J1
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Tri-Quarterly (Spring, 1965) Creativity in the Soviet Union

By: Newman, Charles, Ed.

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Evanston, IL. Evanston, IL, Northwestern U. Press : 1965

Seller ID: 18462

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

SlIght foxing to back cover, faint corner crease to front cover. . Most of the issue is devoted to creativity in the Soviet Union. Contributions by Andrei Voznesensky, Joseph Brodsky, Yuri Kazakov, Evgeny Evtushenko, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudshava, Peter Viereck, Andrew Field, Deming Brown, David Joravsky, Norris Houghton, Peter Chaadayyev, John Stewart Carter, Maurice English, Erich Heller, Leslie Epstein, Sondra Fargo, and Thomas I. Cook. . Trade PB. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 190 pages. L4
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Quest Club The First 100 Years Selected Papers Presented by Members of the Quest Club

By: Quest Club Of Fort Wayne

Price: $21.50

Publisher: The Quest Club of Fort Wayne : 2011

Seller ID: 32007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

As New, no defects. 18 essays by members of the Quest Club of Fort Wayne, Indiana. . Beautiful, As New copy. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 296 pages. E1
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KWMU Presents The Best Harry James Cargas Commentaries

By: Radio, KWMU & Harry Cargas

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Focus/Graphics : 1995

Seller ID: 31360

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

No defects. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Harry Cargas on the title page. . Harry James Cargas was an American scholar, author, and teacher. He was perhaps best known for his writing and research on Jewish-Catholic relations and American literature, but this collection covers a wide variety of subjects. They are a sample of the best of the commentaries delivered by Cargas on KWMU radio (St Louis, Missouri) over a period of twenty years. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 124 pages. Signed by Author. A2
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The First Dozen: "Like Some of You"

By: Seward, Doris

Price: $21.50

Publisher: Bloomington. Bloomington, Self Published : 1996

Seller ID: 28926

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Stapled wraps, papers covers have some faint and partial creasing, no other defects. The first dozen essays written by the author and published in the Bloomington Herald-Times in the column "Like Some of You." . WARMLY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author to a friend. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 24 pages. Signed by Author. C5
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Category: Essays