Writing from Spafford Books

Guilford, Connecticut: The Lyons Press [1-58574-520-0] 2002, 1st US edition. (hardcover) viii, 275pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. !5 travel and adventure essays; journeys of profound experiences. Signed. First US edition. Fine / Fine copy; jacket protected in loose mylar sleeve..

Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press [0-8203-0827-7] 1986. (hardcover) xxviii, 349pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. In the early years of the 1930s, Virginia and Leonard Woolf commissioned a series of letters that would be published as pamphlets by The Hogarth Press. The letters addressed the ams race, poetry, the novel, religion, history,… Read more about this item

T. Nelson & Sons, Ltd. NONE [NONE] 1900 edition. (hardcover) 475pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 16mo. Includes XXV (25) essays. Red cloth, decoration stamped to front, gilt title to spine. Jacket show light chipping at the upper and lower edges, the spine has darkened. Lower fore edge has light spotting. Some creasing.… Read more about this item

London, UK: Eyre & Spottiswoode NONE [NONE] 1962. (hardcover) 287pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Jacket shows light wear along the edges. Blue cloth, silver title stamped to spine. Illustrated endpapers. A look at artsitic and communities in Paris, Rome, Edinburgh, and London, primarily through his family's letters. Clean, bright, solid copy..… Read more about this item

Stanford, California 2002. (Mass market paperback) xviii, 286pp. Very good. 4to. A dissertation, a cross linguistic study on the dialect of Southern Quechua spoken in Cuzco and the Cuzco region of Peru, prior to publication, bound with black plastic coil. Paper covers. Clean and bright. A diissertation submitted to the Department of Linguistics and… Read more about this item

Pocket Book 1971. (Mass market paperback) xvii, 299pp. Very good. 12mo. Internally without blemish. Tight, bright, and clean..

Calgary, AB: Em/Media and Production Society 978-0-9737962-9-2 [978-0-9737962-9-2] 2010. (Mass market paperback) 62pp. Very good. 8vo. Impact Statements is a collection of essays written by participants of an EMMEDIA workshop, 'A Thousand Words, Exactly: Writing about Art, Film and Video for Publication, organized by Tomas Jonsson. The first session was held November 27 - 28,… Read more about this item

New Haven/London: Yale University Press/Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 978-0-300-16630-9 [978-0-300-16630-9] 2011. (Mass market paperback) xvii, 814pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 4to. Between 1915 and 1946, Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz wrote over 5,000 letters to each other, more than 25,000 pages that offer the details of their daily lives. There… Read more about this item

New York London: Harper & Brothers 1926, 1st edition. (hardcover) xii, 173pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Volume 1 only. First edition. Jacket shows light wear at edges. Quarter bound, brown paper boards, paper pastedown title block to spine. Top edge stained. Deckled edges. The paper is evr so lightly age-toned,… Read more about this item

London: the Hogarth Press 1966, 1st edition, 1st printing. (hardcover) [4], 361pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Short 8vo. Dark-brown boards; lettering in gold to spine, title within blue oval. Dust jacket in protective mylar. Dust jacket foxed; price clipped; "43 / 6" notation in pen at top corner of front flap; spine… Read more about this item

New York: The New Yorker/Random House 1-4000-674-0 [1-4000-674-0] 2005, 1st edition. (hardcover) 123+. Very good in very good dust jacket. Folio. Clean, very crisp and tight. Includes a New Yorker time line book from 1925 to 2005, which includes reprints of selected articles from the first eighty years. There are also over 4,000 issues of… Read more about this item

Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press [0-226-45283-2] 1994. (Mass market paperback) xv, 454pp. Very good. 4to. Largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. Clean, crisp copy with maps..

New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc. [0-671-63963-3] 1987. (Mass market paperback) 319pp. Very good. 8vo. Funny, classic Groucho. Clean, tight, bright..

Calgary, AB: Logos, Department of Linguistics, University of Calgary 1975. (Mass market paperback) 46pp. Very good. 4to. Red card covers, stapled. Small tear at front hinge to cover and first two pages; does not affect content. Corners are lightly bumped. Otherwise, a clean, bright copy. Related ephemera laid in..

Ottawa, Canada: Universite D'ottawa/ University of Ottawa 1971. (Mass market paperback) 39pp. Very good. 4to. Periodical journal. Yellow card covers, stapled, with yellow binding tape. Microfische included, as well as other related ephemera laid in. Small and faint stain to front; the binding tape is lightly cracked along the spine; else is clean, tight, bright… Read more about this item

Éditions Gallimard 1990. (Mass market paperback) 399pp+ ; 440pp+. Very good plus. Two (2) volumes. Short 8vo. Uniform. In distinctive Gallimard wrappers. Reading creases to spine. Small soiled smudge to first blanco of vol.I. Else volumes are tight, bright, and clean. Illustrated with facsimiles of original letters. Text in French..

Éditions Gallimard 1983. (Mass market paperback) 366pp+ ; 519pp+. Very good. Two (2) volumes. Short 8vo. In distinctive Gallimard wrappers. Wrappers age-toned; spines ever-so lightly faded; reading creases to spines; wrappers rubbed, lightly dirtied from rubbing. Small soiled stain to top-edge of vol.I; not at all evident internally. Previous owner's name to first blanco of… Read more about this item

New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf [0-375-41513-0] 2002, 1st American Edition. (hardcover) xix; 295pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. DJ with some sticker residue to back cover and a miniscule spot of discolouration to the front cover at the lower spine; else clean, tight and bright. The book is pristine..

New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [0-15-192270-5] 1990, 1st edition. (hardcover) 123pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. DJ in loose plastic protective covering with a small sticker of no real consequence to the back. Clean, tight, bright and pristine copy..

New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company [0-07-008977-9] 1986, 1st edition; 1st printing. (hardcover) xiv, 589pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. First Edition; First Printing. Heavy. Some light residue to front cover on and evidence of light water damage to dj. The book is free of blemish and clean, tight..