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1	The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon The most stringent rules of grammar are explicated here by means of an outrageous Gothic plot that involves not only vampires but gargoyles and mastodons. see all copies from $8.39! new only from $11.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon The mysteries of colons and semicolons are uncovered in this inventive guide that is populated with a wacky cast of characters that manage to make the rules of punctuation seem simple and fun. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose more books like this by Constance Hale, Karen Elizabeth Gordon (Foreword by) Today's writers need more spunk than Strunk: whether it's the Great American e-mail, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Copy veteran Constance Hale is on a mission to make creative communication, both the lyrical and the unlawful, an option for everyone. With its crisp, witty ... see all copies from $4.25! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon Gordon's dictionary of odd and wonderful words is populated by an eccentric cast of characters that brings the words to life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Chronicle Books, Karen Elizabeth From the author of "The Transitive Vampire," comes an invitation to a strangely illuminated City of Light, "Paris out of Hand." This seductively beautiful replica of a 19th-century travel book--replete with illustrations of sights you will never see and maps that may plummet you into a different era--guides readers through the Paris that is, that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Transitive Vampire more books like this by Karen E. Gordon The most stringent rules of grammar are explicated here by means of an outrageous Gothic plot that involves not only vampires but gargoyles and mastodons. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon In this witty exploration of words, Gordon once again introduces the world of Gothic eccentricity of her other books. Here, Count Ghastly, the vampire Dodeska Tutulescu, and their pals decode the differences between "masterful" and "masterly" and other frequently confused or misused words. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.47! \| first editions
8	The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon These six tales have been "sewn together" into a novel and recall both the fairy tales of Anderson and the Brothers Grimm, and the postmodern metafictions of Queneau, Gass, and Pavic. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	My Dear Mother: Stormy Boastful, and Tender Letters by Distinguished Sons--From Dostoevsky to Elvis more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Holly Johnson (Editor) This fascinating collection of letters between sons and mothers offers an intimate and unexpected glimpse into the mind and heart of the artist. Here are letters by over fifty writers, painters, and musicians, from boyhood to manhood--including Elvis Presley, Ezra Pound, E. B. White, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Richard ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.74! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon A collection of highly amusing, and often disconcerting, quotations about food and drink from writers as diverse as James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, and the Marquis de Sade. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
11	The Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doo more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon The mysteries of colons and semicolons are uncovered in this inventive guide that is populated with a wacky cast of characters that manage to make the rules of punctuation seem simple and fun. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Gardn Eternal Swalows more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon see all copies from $2.19! first editions
13	The Garden of Eternal Swallows: A Natural Foods Cookbook more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon see all copies from $15.00!
14	The transitive vampire : a handbook of grammar for the innocent, the eager and the doomed more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon see all copies from $2.00! first editions

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