Essays from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

919pp. blue cloth 8vo: near Very Good in a Good dj torn @ spine head and now protected in a Brodart poly cover.

New York: Norton, 1971 book club ed. 222pp. navy cloth 8vo w/gilt spine titles: near Very Good in an edge-torn but not tattered dj. A collection of shorter pieces, speeches, articles and papers by the American Secretary of State Acheson (1893-1971). This Saturday Review Book Club edition is actually a quality publisher's original printing sold to them for book club… Read more about this item

New York: Vintage Books, 1983 reprint. 261pp. paperback 8vo: Good+ [text is age browned; some old water mark outlines in bottom blank margins of first few pp. not affecting text; else a clean, complete & tight copy.

Haworth, NJ: St. Johann Press, 2004 1st ed. INSCRIBED by author on title p. & signed "George." 139pp. paperback 8vo: Fine.

New York: Norton, 1971 reprint. 222pp. navy cloth 8vo w/gilt spine titles: near Fine in a near Very Good dj [dj = corner-clipped; else nrVG] A collection of shorter pieces, speeches, articles and papers.

Kansas City: Andrews-McMeel, 2008 1st ed. 228pp. hardback 12mo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. More humorous essays ("a sort of David Sedaris take on knitting," said the Library Journal) by the author of Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2001 uncorrected bound galleys. 301pp. illus. paperback 12mo: Good+ [cover fading; a smudge on front cover; else a clean, complete & tight copy] An uncorrected proof copy of the reissue of a book originally published in 1938.

New York: Scribner's, 1953 1st ed. 203pp. blue cloth sm 8vo: Very Good in a generally Good dj in poly cover [a top corner bump; else VG; dj = p-c; some edge tears; else G] Autobiographical essays by the Anglo-Indian writer Menen (1912-89).

Paris, KY: Plum Lick Publishing, 1994 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 227pp. illus. blue cloth tall 8vo w/gilt titles: Fine in a Fine dj in poly cover. Personal essays by the former CBS news reporter Dick (1930-2010). Jacket praise from Wendell Berry, Charles Kuralt, et al.

London: Constable, 1937 2nd ptg. 248pp. burgundy cloth sm 8vo w/gilt spine titles: near Very Good/no dj. A nice copy of these essays by the British diplomat and prolific writer Nicolson (1886-1968).

New York: Delacorte, 1990 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 211pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. The thoughts of Dr. John Stone (1936-2008), poet and philosophical cardiologist at the Emory University School of Medicine. Advance jacket praise from Annie Dillard, Robert Coles, Ellen Gilchrist, President Jimmy Carter, et al.

Istanbul: Cinius Yayinlari, 2017 1st ed. 208pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. Author has written her name as her email address on half-title p. Her business card as an attorney is laid in.

New York: Viking, 1973 1st ed. 214pp. black cloth 8vo: Very Good+ in a near Fine dj in poly cover [fore edge shows light foxing; else VG+; dj = p-c; else nrF] English writer Wain's (1925-94) literary views on such subjects as Orwell in the Õ30s, Flann O'Brien's fiction, Dr. Johnson's poetry, the meaning of "Dr. Zhivago" and much more.

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995 reprint.  INSCRIBED on ffep by author. 238pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. Jacket praise for these humorous essays from Isabel Allende, et al.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995 1st ed. INSCRIBED on half-title p. by author. 292pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1983. 262pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine.

New York: Macmillan, 1946 2nd ptg. 287pp. russet cloth 8vo: Good+ in a worn but not tattered dj in poly cover [text is lightly age browned; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] The English writer Connolly (1903-74) was editor of Horizon when this book was published.

London: Collins, 1946 1st ed. 48pp. illus. hardback 8vo in paper-covered pictorial boards: about Good in a generally Good dj that shows wear [endpp are foxed; bit of foxing in text; long gift inscription on front pastedown and ffep; else a complete & tight copy] A Britain in Pictures title featuring 8 color plates and 23 black & white illustrations.

New York: Lippincott, 1979 1st ed. thus. 218pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Good dj torn on front cover but now protected in a Brodart cover. An updated version of a 1971 publication that includes 14 essays by children's writers ranging from Penelope Lively to Peter Dickinson.

Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1979. SIGNED on ffep by author. 127pp. purple cloth 8vo: near Fine in a Good+ dj [inexplicable "discarded" stamp on ffep above author’s signature; else nrF; dj = p-c; few edge nicks; else G] A nice signed copy of this book by the Christian writer and novelist Eugenia Price (1916-96).