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60053 Fisher, Irving and Eugene Lyman Fisk, How To Live. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1932. 19th edition, 371 pages. A charming period piece, this edition includes Wm. Howard Taft's forwards to the first and 15th editions, as well as a frontispiece portrait of him. There is also a pull-out table of height and weight goals and advice on numerous aspects of life, from shoes to sex infections. Fair to good condition, cover somewhat soiled, but all the plates included, and no internal marks. A good reading copy. $5.00

60054  Fisher, M.F.K., Among Friends. New York: Knopf, 1971. First edition, 306 pages. A memoir by the noted food writer, and a must for anyone interested in the origins of her taste and the formation of her writing style. Unlike many current memoirs, this one is informative without being "pathobiographical." It well reflects its time and Fisher's interests—she is a bit quaint about relations between the various ethnic and racial groups in the US, and offers many comments on the relationships between her non-Quaker family and the dominant religious group in Whittier, California—as well as probing how her childhood may have affected a difficult adult relationship with one of her younger sisters. Ex-library, but still in good condition, previous taping of the plastic-covered DJ to the book cover has left some marks, but there is only a whiff of old-age mustiness; spine is tight, and the pages are unmarked and unbent. $7.00

60055  Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, Within the Plantation Household. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Trade paperback, 544 pages. A modern classic in US women's history of the antebellum south. Good condition, has a gift inscription on the title page. $5.00

60060  Gordon, Karen Elizabeth, The Transitive Vampire. New York: Times Books, 1984. 2nd printing, 149 pages. Amusing handbook of grammar, illustrated with line drawings. Very good condition, marred only by some very neatly done yellow highlightings, and some traces of something written but now erased on the first leaf. Dust jacket is also in very good condition, but price clipped. $5.00

60061  Greenspan, Ezra and Jonathan Rose, Book History, Vol. 1. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. First edition, 306 pages. First volume of a hard-bound, annual journal on the history of books, reading, publishing, authorship. Twelve articles, including one on the way in which print culture helped create Jenny Lind "mania," another on how translations of Robinson Crusoe affected the Maori of New Zealand, another about early Soviet censorship. Very good to excellent condition; issued without dustjacket. $8.00

60062  Greenspan, Ezra and Jonathan Rose, Book History, Vol. 2. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. First edition, 268 pages. Second volume of a hard-bound, annual journal on the history of books, reading, publishing, authorship. Twelve articles, including two on drama (in the 17th century and in Victorian England), one on religious publishing in the US in the early 20th century, and another on popular science books of the 1950s. Good condition, but a visible scratch on the front cover; issued without dustjacket. $7.50

60063  Greenspan, Ezra and Jonathan Rose, Book History, Vol. 3. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. First edition, 317 pages. Third volume of a hard-bound, annual journal on the history of books, reading, publishing, authorship. Thirteen articles, including one on pulp magazines, another on the New Yorker, and several on British publishing history. Good to very good condition, some faint scratching of the covers; issued without dustjacket. $8.00

60064  Greenspan, Ezra and Jonathan Rose, Book History, Vol. 4. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. First edition, 373 pages. Fourth volume of a hard-bound, annual journal on the history of books, reading, publishing, authorship. Twelve articles span the world and many eras, including 19th century France, the British Raj, early independent Spanish America, and the United States. Very good to excellent condition; issued without dustjacket. $8.50

60066  Greenspan, Ezra and Jonathan Rose, Book History, Vol. 5. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. First edition, 296 pages. Fifth volume of a hard-bound, annual journal on the history of books, reading, publishing, authorship. Nine articles, including one on Finnish book stores of the early 19th century, science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s, and online sales of Christian novels. Very good to excellent condition; issued without dustjacket. $10.00

60067  Greenspan, Ezra and Jonathan Rose, Book History, Vol. 6. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. First edition, 310 pages. Sixth volume of a hard-bound, annual journal on the history of books, reading, publishing, authorship. Twelve articles span the world and many eras, including colonial India, New Zealand, Yiddish Publishing in the Soviet Russia in the 1920s, and Japan, as well as the United States and Great Britain. Very good to excellent condition, very slight wear visible on the front cover; issued without dustjacket. $12.50

60065  Harvey, Miles, The Island of Lost Maps. New York: Random House, 2000. 4th paperback edition, 405 pages. Interesting "true crime" story of a map thief which also explores the world of map collecting. Has a few illustrations. Very good condition, some expectable edge wear. $2.50

60068  Hazen, Helen, Endless Rapture. New York: Scribners, 1983. First edition, 184 pages. In the 1980s, when romance novels were an extremely important part of the publishing world, there was a great deal of academic and popular discussion of the content of this fiction, which often included rape or violence against the heroine by the hero. This rather rare volume is an anti-feminist analysis written pseudonymously by a librarian at the University of Iowa. It includes a chapter specifically decrying academic feminism and another on the errors within feminism. This is a review copy and includes a letter from Scribners requesting a review in the local campus paper. Very good condition in good dust jacket. There is an impression of a paperclip at the top of the front cover, but no tears or chips. $50.00

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