181 pages. "With encouragement, inspiration and advice to help you become an author from the careers and experience of...Isaac Asimov, Saul Bellow, Taylor Caldwell, Louis L"Amour, Norah Lofts, James A. Michener, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Vincent Peale, Mary Stewart, Jessamyn West...etc." Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1977. Number line shows as 2nd printing. Hardback with unclipped dust jacket. NOT EX LIB. EXCELLENT inside and out, very minor signs of any kind of wear. No highlighting, markings, tears, or holes, and all 100% legible. Tightly bound.