Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with green and white design on front cover, spine with green lettering. 32 b&w plates by Remington.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 248 pages. This short story collection contains: A Time of Learning; The Mysteries of Life in an Orderly Manner; Love, Death, and the Ladies' Drill Team; Home Coming; The Battle of the Suits; Tom Wolfe's My Name; Learn to Say Good-by; A Little Collar for the Monkey; Public Address System; Foot-Shaped Shoes; Horace Chooney, M.D.; The Linden Trees; Breach of Promise; and The Singing Lesson. Stated first edition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The New Yorker magazine named Matt Klam one of the twenty best young writers in America, and the seven stories that comprise Sam the Cat are all the proof we need. Knowing, perceptive, and wickedly funny, Matt Klam loves his characters but spares them nothing: the swaggering womanizer Sam falls in love with a woman across a crowded room who, upon closer inspection, turns out to be not quite what he expected; a self-doubting young professional attends the posh wedding of his successful friend and delivers a disastrous toast; the chicken one man's girlfriend is preparing for dinner comes to embody the darkly corrosive element in their relationship. These stories crackle with humor, intelligence and style and add up to an outrageously funny, unforgettable debut. Clean copy.
Softcover. Taipei, Bookman Books, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages. An expanded edition of a book first published in 1983. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1990, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page spread. In his first collection of stories, Ralph Lombreglia writes about being young and unsettled, about trying to connect and not always making it - or succeeding in startling ways. Original, at times whimsical, the stories, some of which have appeared in the New Yorker and the Atlantic , are deft and biting entertainment. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY NELSON on title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 234 pages. Remainder mark to top edge, slight soiling to rear cover of dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, N.C., Algonquin Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages, with SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY THE AUTHOR laid-in. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. National Book Award Finalist sticker on front. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 334 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover. Light foxing to edges and preliminary pages.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in red and gilt. 103 pages, with drawn text and illustrations by Frank T. Merrill throughout, tipped-in color frontis., all edges gilt with gilt titles, clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st limited, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages. Hardcover with original slip case. (1st LIMITED EDITION #1337 OUT OF 2000. Monthly letter laid-in.)(SIGNED AT BACK PAGE BY ILLUSTRATOR) Bound in green/blue, gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover. Vibrant color and b/w illustrations throughout by Charles Raymond. Slip case has a little bit of age wear. Spine has a touch of shelf wear. In very good condition, clean and bright inside.
Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. WInner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. One of his landmark, defining works. Ha Jin has seamlessly and eloquently melded historical fact with personal experience. His short stories have been compared to the works of Isaac Babel, the greatest Russian short-story writer of the 20th century. Clean copy.
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.
Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Friends of the Library of Middlebury College, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover booklet with cream colored heavy stock paper. Black decoration on front. Limited to 350 copies. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.J. Hale & Son, 1st, 1875, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original gilt decorated cloth, the author's first work of fiction. A collection of nine short stories, 195 pages. There is a tear to cloth along 60% of spine edge. very repairable.
Hardcover. London, Julia MacRae Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Ontario Review Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. A debut collection of short fiction from the author of the novel Leaving the Land, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Douglas Unger's fiction is sharp-edged and compelling, whether he's exploring his own boyhood on the street ("Autobiography") or the life of a student lab assistant who bonds with a burnt-out rhesus monkey ("Leslie and Sam") or the strange fate of a young woman who returns from a second honeymoon on a paradisiacal Brazilian island to succumb to a mysterious disease ("Tide Pool"). The collection is capped by the powerful novella "Looking for War," where a would-be war correspondent, whose older brother is a shell-shocked Vietnam vet, stumbles upon his own war in a grisly five-minute action in the jungles of Paraguay.
Hardcover. Lexington KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In language both spare and colorful, sure in its command of Appalachian dialect and poetic in its evocation of mountain settings, James Still's stories reveal the lives of his people--lives of privation and struggle, lived with honesty as well as humor. With a foreword by Cleanth Brooks and an afterword by the author, The Run for the Elbertas features thirteen stories from one of America's masters of the short story. Enjoyable and enriching, Still's stories sparkle with wisdom and joy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green cloth with gilt stamped design on front cover, 232 pages. Copyright page states 1899 but roman numerals on title page say 1900, so perhaps second printing. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "With The Angel on the Roof, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 168 pages. In these 14 short stories, the author "displays the inimitable wit and the astonishing stylistic command that have set him at the forefront of American writing today." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. The Pulitzer Prize winner's first book, a collection of short stories.
Hardcover. New York, Ecco Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, light rubbing, mild soil to the unclipped dust jacket, small tape repair to inside of jacket at top of spine, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
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. New York, Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 237 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
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. New York , Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. INSCRIBED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very clean, tight copy. Varied in theme, situation and character, this collection of vivid and gritty short stories deals with the brutality in intimate human relations, the exquisite horrors of New York City, looking at the worst and laughing to save sanity. all unmistakably Leonard Michaels.
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Little Brown , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Boyle's 1st book, 2,500 copies printed, dust jacket unclipped w/ light nicks to top edge. The PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author's first book, a collection of 17 short stories gathered from various literary magazines and journals.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover. More than seventy b/w engravings by the author. Some tanning to pages due to age. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Some foxing at gutters and endpapers. Binding good. Spine straight. Here is a record of English village life. Several stories out of Leighton's imagination accompanied by her detailed engravings.
Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY BELL on half-title page.
Hardcover. New York, Tait, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. ISBN sticker on inside of back cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles, National Lampoon Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Mel Brooks said, Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall in an open sewer and die." It's this kind of thinking that got National Lampoon a reputation in the first place, and now in this glorious collection they're committing that reputation to print again. It's funnier than a fetus in a cookie jar, grosser than a thong with cellulite cling-ons, and even less intelligent than intelligent design".
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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green boards with design and paste-down illustration on cover. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. These are thick pages with glossy color plates on most every page. This edition is the first illustrated edition of the poetry which was first published in 1870 .
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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1985, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. INSCRIBED BY MORRIS on the half-title page. The author's third book.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated by Marc Romano. Clean copy.
With variorum notes, and numerous illustrations by Gustave Doré. Hardcover. Privately Printed, circa 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with faded gilt lettering, 640 pages. Circa 1920's (there is no date of publication stated). Many pages toward second half are unopened. Solid binding, paper tanning slightly. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Doré's beautiful b&w drawings throughout.
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.
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, 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. Chicago, Reilly and Lee Co., reprint, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Illustrations from woodcuts by John T. McCutcheon. Red cloth covers with gold lettering, some stains on covers. Dust jacket fragile with minor tears on edges.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 180 pages. INSCRIBED BY DUBUS on the half title page as well as SIGNED on the title page. Previous owner's signature on the front fly leaf.
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