New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Top edge and endpapers faintly foxed, jacket lightly toned with faint crease on front flap corner, spine cloth a bit discolored along edges.
195 pp. "The author writes in these stories of people.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Faint edge wear.
Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1864. Croome. Small Hard Cover.
Spine lightly toned.
151 pp. With illustrations from original designs by Croome. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885) — known as T. S. Arthur — was a popular 19th-century American author. He.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Light edge wear, tiny smudge.
Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.
New York: The Modern Library, 1954. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1954-59 printing, Toledano 193.1, binding/jacket style 8i with 388 titles on verso, $1.95 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Good in very good jacket. Ink underlining and marginalia throughout, jacket corners a bit rubbed, jacket lightly toned.
xi, 553 pp. Honoré.....
New York: Bantam Books, 1971. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
First printing. Spine and front wrapper lightly creased, ink name on blurb page, pages lightly toned.
180 pp. Barthelmes latest collection of fiction is the most successfull example of a new strand of American writing that draws on surrealism, Kafka.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages toned. Jacket toned.
283 pp. "A collection of 19 short stories, many of which previously appeared in print, mostly in The New Yorker. The author's list of characters is diverse.....
Worcester, Massachusetts: Metacom Press, 1981. Soft Cover.
Signed by author without inscription. #34 of 250. Prospectus laid in. Near fine.
20 pp. "Nicholas has died sometime during the past year from injuries incurred while he was taking a midnight ride on his Harley and a drunk, driving a van, hit.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy.
477 pp. "Thirty-six stories--eight appearing in a book for the first time and a generous selection from her earlier collections--give us Ann Beattie at stunning mid-career. Emotionally complex, edgy.....
New York: Random House, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Author trading card laid in. A very nice copy.
192 pp. "In this superb collection of short stories, the bestselling author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep takes us into the times in.....
London: Grayson & Grayson. Boulton, Doris. Hard Cover.
No publisher date (circa 1930s/'40s). No jacket. Light general wear.
285 pp. A collection of short stories. CONTENTS: Foreword; Wind Up; The Machine; The Silver Pyx; Twopenny Factory; The Dandie Dinmont Dog; Heart; An Order for Bottles; Just Temper; Gas Bills; A......
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Paper title on spine torn and lightly stained, front free endpaper removed.
315 pp. Author's first book. A collection of short stories by the author best known for Pin a Rose on Me. She was married to.....
New York: Viking, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Top page ridge faintly foxed.
238 pp. "Fifteen darkly satirical stories by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of If the River Was Whiskey feature a couple in search of the last toads on earth, and a real-estate wonder boy on safari."
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New York: Viking, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover.
Signed by author without inscription. First edition. Faint smell of smoke, top page edges lightly foxed.
303 pp. "Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T. C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more.....
New York: Penguin, 1999. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Faint edge wear.
T. C. Boyle is one of the most inventive and wickedly funny short story writers at work today. Over the course of twenty-five years, Boyle has built up a body of short fiction that is remarkable in.....
Beverly Hills: The Bards, 1950. Stapled Binding.
Edges lightly rubbed.
92 pp. Stapled binding. Ads precede and follow text. A mid-twentieth century collection of stories, including an early appearance by Ray Bradbury: he published stories in various magazines and journals beginning in 1938; but Fahrenheit 451, his first book not.....
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1882. Hard Cover.
None located in OCLC. No publisher date (ink gift note dated 1882). Board corners bumped, spine ends rubbed.
Unpaginated. Green cloth boards with decor. Includes 12 plates. Stories, some in dialect with now-inappropriate racial language. Advertised by publisher as "An entertaining story.....
Reno/Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1998. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription.
180 pp. "The indigo skies and lush vegetation of the contemporary West Coast belie the damaged souls and desperate alienation that lurk behind fading stucco walls and off.....
New York: Mariner, 2011. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
2nd printing. A few pencil marks.
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a......
Ohio / Washington, D.C. National Cash Register / Microcard Editions, 1969. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Ink gift note on front paste-down endpaper.
146 pp. A yearly publication of articles written about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
Ohio / Washington, D.C. National Cash Register / Microcard Editions, 1970. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Light general wear.
276 pp. A yearly publication of articles written about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
New York: [Self-Published], 1962. First Thus. Soft Cover.
First edition, second state, with overstruck obscenities. Whited out price on front corner, small sticker ghost inside rear wrapper.
The first book by the irreverent comedian whose off-color brand of humor led to criminal charges of obscenity. In anticipation of the resulting.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. Early Reprint. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Light stain on page base.
290 pp. "The Path of the King is a 1921 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, presented as a loosely-coupled series of short stories. The novel takes the form of.....
New York: Junior Deluxe Editions, 1950. Grey, Joseph E., II. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor tears. Stain on top page ridge, ink name on front free endpaper.
187 pp. Now, in one volume - three of the most popular stories.....
New York: Random House, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine head and spine base lightly bumped. Page ridges lightly foxed.
290 pp. Stories imagine a meeting between Shakespeare and Cervantes, Attila the Hun's thoughts on civilization, Claude Debussy's musical discovery, and a man who becomes a permanent.....