The Collected Short Prose of James Agee
New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Faint edge wear.
A collection previously uncollected prose, complete with a biography of the author by Robert Fitzgerald.
Short Stories
Rashomon and Other Stories (Tuttle Classics)
New York: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
3rd printing. An exceptional copy.
With an introduction by Howard Hibbet. This collection of six short stories, most of which have never been translated before, includes "In a Grove", a psychologically sophisticated tale about murder, rape, and suicide; "Rashomon", the story.....
Marjorie Daw and Other Stories
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. Early printing. Hard Cover.
Early printing. Light stain along top edge.
Green cloth boards with gilt decor and titles on spine and front board, top edge gilt. "Marjorie Daw" is a short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. One of Aldrich's first.....
Horses and Men: Tales, Long and Short, from Our American Life
New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc., 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition.
xiii, 347 pp. 7 1/2 x 5 3/8. 8vo. Original orange cloth, embossed menorah on front cover, paper spine label, orange top page ridge. Dedicated to Theodore Dreiser, author of An American Tragedy. A collection of short stories.....
The Best American Short Stories 1989
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.
The Winthrop Covenant (The First Edition Society)
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1976. Pinkney, Jerry. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First edition, preceding the Houghton Mifflin trade edition. A few minor scuffs to gilt along edges.
294 pp. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Jerry.....
Droll Stories (The Modern Library, No. 193)
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.....
Off the Beaten Path: Stories of Place
New York: North Point Press, 1999. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Minor edge wear.
viii, 262 pp. A collection of short fiction features the contributions of Howard Norman, Jill McCorkle, David James Duncan, Gretel Ehrlich, Richard Bausch, Lee Smith, Eric Lustbader, Barry Lopez, Annie Proulx, Rick Bass, Rita Mae.....
Ship Fever and Other Stories
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Signed by author on title page with inscription, "For Dave, with best wishes." National Book Award Winner sticker on front jacket panel. Minor general wear.
254 pp. National Book Award winner. "A collection of stories that consider.....
The Cry of An Occasion: Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Faint edge wear.
This “smorgasbord of literary offerings” (Publishers Weekly) self-selected by its contributors―“a long list of luminaries” (Library Journal)―includes works by Madison Smartt Bell, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ellen Douglas, Shelby Foote, George Garrett, Allan Gurganus.....
The Burning House: Short Stories
New York: Random House, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket faintly toned, front jacket flap creased. Jacket ghosting on front board.
256 pp. "A collection of the author's most recent stories features their unnervingly sophisticated young people and older folks striving for wisdom.....
The Burning House: Short Stories
London: Secker & Warburg, 1983. First UK Edition. Hard Cover.
First UK edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. Sticker ghost on front paste-down endpaper.
256 pp. "A collection of the author's most recent stories features their unnervingly sophisticated young people and older folks striving for wisdom and grace, all of whom.....
Distortions
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.....
Follies: New Stories
New York: Scribner, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy.
305 pp. "Ann Beattie's Follies is a superb novella and collection of stories about adult children, aging parents, and the chance encounters that irrevocably alter lives. Beattie, winner of four O......
Jacklighting
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.....
Park City: New and Selected Stories
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.....
Perfect Recall: New Stories
New York: Scribner, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy.
347 pp. "Presents a new collection of short stories involving characters who are coming to terms with the legacies of long-believed family myths, describing how they confront new circumstances such as weakness.....
Secrets and Surprises: Short Stories
New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription.
307 pp. "These fifteen stories by Ann Beattie garnered universal critical acclaim on their first publication, earning Beattie the reputation as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction."
What Was Mine: Stories
New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy.
237 pp. "A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage.....
Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories
New York: Linden Press, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy.
191 pp. "A collection of short fiction reflects on coping with life's inevitable sadness."
And Even Now
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1921. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, one of 1500 copies published the year after the UK original. Spine toned ink name and date on front endpaper.
ix, [1], 320 pp. A collection of short works by the drama critic for Saturday Review, known.....
Hundreds and Thousands: Tales
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......
Shrimps for Tea
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.....
Without a Hero and Other Stories
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."
.....
After the Plague, and Other Stories
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.....