Short Stories

Softcover. Louisville, KY, Sarabande Books, 1st wraps, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, author's first book. SIGNED BY CLARKE on title-page. Original Paperback Edition.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, in a bright dust jacket that's unclipped.Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Paris, Baudry's European Library, 1st, 1838, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, calf binding with title label on spine. Illustrated with 8 b&w engravings. Well written, entertaining legends, history and folklore of the Rhine, including the Mouse Tower, Hildegard von Bingen, St. Ursula, etc. Cover is scuffed with surface scars, but binding is firm. 354 pages. Minor foxing. Aside from cover appearance, very good.

Softcover. NY, American News Company, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original pictorial green wrappers. 32 pages. BAL 3360, state 2, with the Aetna Life insurance ad on the back cover. B&w line illustrations R.T. Sperry. The copyright page states 1874, The Aetna ad claims assets of Jan. 1 1877 in it's ad. Front wrapper with moderate size chunk gone from top spine edge (see pic), chip to top right corner, small tear to bottom at center with mnor paper loss. Includes such works as The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract, The Undertaker's Chat, and ten other stories. The upper wrapper features Sperry"s illustration of the Jumping Frog seated beneath a mushroom while smoking a cigarette and reading a copy of this very pamphlet. Overall, good plus copy of this fragile item.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st trade ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in white cloth stamped in maroon and gilt on spine and front cover. Fine in a blue cloth slipcase with a color illustration paste-down on front. The author's strongest collection of stories and the last to be published in his lifetime. One of only 250 numbered copies of the publisher's limited first edition SIGNED by the author. This copy is unnumbered. Carver died at the age of only fifty, shortly after this book was published.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 197 pages. Slight wear and creasing to dust jacket, some foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy protected by mylar cover. The author's third book, an amusing collection of satiric sketches. 20 stories beginning with 'Walt and Will' a freewheeling version of the creation of the Disney empire. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 211 pages. The author's first collection of short stories, ten stories which explore the British experience of France over a period of 300 years, from the 17th century to the present. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a beautiful copy,

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 255 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 651 pages. Clean, tight copy. Few writers of the past quarter-century have so consistently surprised, startled, and delighted their readers as has the masterful Richard Bausch, whom the Washington Post Book World calls "a virtuoso of language and literary grace." His nine critically acclaimed novels have established him as one of the most important fiction writers of his generation, a visionary stylist with an acute eye for the minute detail that illuminates the deepest wells of human experience. Yet it is for his award-winning short fiction that Bausch is perhaps most admired.The Stories of Richard Bausch celebrates the work of a great American artist, a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy expectation, attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and affirm his place alongside such acclaimed story writers as John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 417 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light edge wear to cover boards. Ex-library embossed stamp on title page. light markings on rear end paper. otherwise, clean, tight copy.

hardcover. London, SelfMadeHero, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Color comic illustrations make up this graphic novel. Bottom corner bumps otherwise, bright, and lean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Red decorative staining to page block and black satin ribbon marker.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 83 pages. Illustrated with 10 tipped-in plates by D. Howard Hitchcock. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Brown cloth with gilt titles.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 213 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edgewear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on the title page. A fresh, crisp copy of his third book.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Top edge dyed. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, spotless and tight copy with dust jacket. Pulitzer Prize winner's debut collection of short stories, set in his native Washington, D.C.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 220 pages plus 4 pages of publisher's ads. Blue cloth covers with white, green and gilt floral decoration on front and spine. 22 b&w illustrations by A.B. Frost. Minor wear to top and bottom of spine, otherwise a bright, crisp copy. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover.

Hardcover. New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR in rear fly leaf, number 940 of a limited 1500 copies, color illustrations by Edmund Dulac throughout, golden metal cockerel affixed to front cover, illustrated cover jacket, slipcase. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Jeff Thomas. A collection of classic Welsh stories. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Beautiful, new-looking condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and Black/white comics. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, American Tract SocietyNY, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Shepherd of Salisbury Plain 47 pages, Mountain Miller 34 pages. George Vining 16 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings. Foxing to pages. Small format. Hinge cracked at spine. Marblized paper covers with worn spine label. Corners bumped.

Softcover. NY, Rob Weisbach/William Morrow, Uncorr. proof, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Lime green wraps, uncorrected bound galleys. SIGNED BY DAVIS. A short story collection, the first of only two books by Amanda Davis before she was killed in a plane crash in North Carolina at 32 years old.

Hardcover. NY, R. F. Fenno & Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in white, unpaginated but approx. 120 pages. Features two short stories by the Polish writer: Sielanka and Orso. This book is NOT to be confused with a book near the same title: Sielanka: A Forest Picture and Other Stories, published the same year by Little, Brown. A small tear to the half title page otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated throughout with eight color plates including frontispiece by Frank Schoonover with tissue guard. Bright gilt decorations by Margaret Armstrong (whose initials appear at lower right in the design), on dark blue cloth-bound boards (some age-wear--see image). Previous owner's dated inscription on front flyleaf (see image). Gilt top edge. Untrimmed deckled edges. Pages and edges have some tanning from age, doesn't affect illustrations or text. Binding is tight. Stories and essays on nature and the outdoors. Beautiful old book.

Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st trade, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 393 pages. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Slight bump to upper edge of spine, else a lovely copy in protective brodart cover.

Softcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's uncorrected proof, color illustrated wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Like new.

Hardcover. Quick, Vaduz, Quick, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with edgewear, Signed and inscribed to former owner by Paul Gallico and signed by Baroness von Falz-fein (Mother of Ludmila), otherwise unmarked clean and solid copy. Charming story of The Weakling, a cow with great ambition to be the champion milk prducer in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Gallico was a resident of Liechtenstein at the time the book was written. Later, in 1963, Gallico married the Baroness, 30 years his junior.

Hardcover. London, Grant Richards, 1st UK, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Karl Moseley. Pictorial decoration on cover boards. Page block tanned, light foxing throughout. Light edgewear on covers. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Inscribed by Doreen Baingana on title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 171 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Finding seeds of inspiration in the stories of the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers--characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY FORD on title-page. Nice, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket price-clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean, copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 241 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AS 'BILL' UPSON ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Red cloth covers, yellow dust jacket. Light edgewear and mild rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisped and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Paperback. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, uncorr. proof, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY NELSON on title page at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference 2000. Yellow wraps. A proof of Nelson's 1st book.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. Tight, clean copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line bottom edge.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED TO "GEORGE" by AUTHOR ON HALF COVER. Otherwise unmarked. A clean, tight copy. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Falls--also named the year's best novel by Time--Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian nun invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Middlebury College Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 355 pages. Edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini. "Collecting short stories, essays, and the long narrativ poem "Fever and Chills," this Reader reveals the range of Elliott's talents and his seemingly effortless command of the written word. The smooth, realistic style of his short stories enhances the emotional resonance of such pieces as "Hymn of Angels," or contrasts with the caustic satire of others, such as the darkly Orwellian "The N.R.A.C.P." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With a new Preface by the Author. Hardcover, numbered and signed issue, limited to 350 numbered hardcover copies, SIGNED BY PAUL BOWLES [# 65]. A fine copy in fine, unprinted acetate dust jacket. Octavo, cloth spine, paper-covered boards, 162 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers , 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with brown decoration and lettering. "Selected from The Works of Mark Twain by C.N. Kendall, Superintendent of Schools in Indianapolis, and Arranged for Home and Supplementary Reading in the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grades." - from the title page. Eight b&w plates. Scarce Twain title. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Shoemaker & Hoard, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. That Distant Land brings together twenty-three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a coherent temporal mapping of this landscape over time, revealing Berrys mastery of decades of the life lived alongside this clutch of interrelated characters bound by affection and followed over generations. This volume combines the stories found in The Wild Birds (1985), Fidelity (1992), and Watch with Me (1994), together with a map and a charting of the complex and interlocking genealogies.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1ST, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 235 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, uncor. proof, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. TIght copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages, green cloth with circular design on front cover with gilt and 2-colors. One inch tear to top of title page, previous owner's signature on front blank prelim page. Still a very good copy overall.

Softcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages, illustrated wraps. SIGNED BY NOVAKOVICH on the title page. Tight copy with minor wear to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt and black, 119 pages. Eight color and six b&w plates by Florence Storer. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First printing with full number line. National Book award winner for 2014. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st , 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cloth covers. Covers moderately worn. Bookplate on front end paper, previous owner's name written on front fly leaf, otherwise tight copy. Brick cloth covers w/a green & pink floral design by Margaret Armstrong was stamped on the front cover & spine. Five tales from the author's native Georgia. In the first story set in 1850, Free Joe is a freed slave whose serious demeanor and energy are a bit troublesome to slave-owners.