Short Stories

Hardcover. Fort Collins, Colo., University of Colorado, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and clean copy.

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Posthumous collection of short stories, burlesques, poems and whimsies published in the HOUSTON DAILY POST in 1895 and 1896, with an introduction by Florence Stratton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

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. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Satirical writing by author. Unlike Al Capp's all cartoon books, this one is a work of prose with occasional comic illustrations, some nearly full page in size. Dust jacket with light shelf wear, unclipped.

Hardcover. New York, The World Publishing House, 1st US, 1877, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Hardcover. With 60 b/w illustrations/plates. B/w illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. No other printings mentioned on publication page, either 1st edition or very early printing. Cover boards bound in green cloth, title reverse in gilt on spine, black decoration on spine and front cover board, decoration blind stamped on back cover board. Some rubbing and chipping to boards (see images). Some tanning to edges and pages, doesn't affect illustrations or text. Some foxing on a few pages (see image). Binding remains tight. Spine very slightly cocked. Short stories by literary master Jules Verne, beautifully bound and ready for display. Illustrated by Henri Theophile Hildibrand, well known for his illustrations in Verne's books.

Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edge wear to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Tight copy

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st UK, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages. Author's first book. Lovely copy in protective brodart cover. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Hardcover. New York, G. W. Dillingham, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with a 3-color design. Tales of New York City before the turn of the century. Decorated green cloth. Frontispiece of the author, black & white illustrations by F.A. Nankivell. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 222 pages. Lovely copy in brodart protected dust jacket. Like new.

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY O'NAN on title page, with a short hand-written note from the author laid in. His first book. The 1993 winner of the Drue Heinz Prize and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize. A collection of twelve short stories.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1891, Hardcover, original decorative blue cloth stamped in gilt, with a paper black and white oval cameo laid on front board. First edition. A cornerstone collection of 24 New England regional tales, including the ghost stories "A Gentle Ghost", "The Twelfth Guest," and "A Village Lear". Spine gilt lightly faded otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Following The Missing Person, her highly praised debut--"A seriously entertaining and probing novel," wrote The Washington Post Book World--Alix Ohlin gives us a collection of stories that demonstrates her impressive range. In their various locales, from Montreal (where a prosthetic leg casts a furious spell on its beholders) to the Southwest (where a Soviet-era exchange student changes a family's dynamic forever), the characters in Babylon are coming to terms with life's epiphanies, for good or ill. They range from the very young who, confronted with their parents' limitations, discover their own resolve, to those facing middle age and its particular indignities, no less determined to assert themselves and shape their destinies. A tenacious eight-year-old practices piano on paper keys; an expectant mother, settling into an idyllic farmhouse, discovers the tragic story of its previous, rightful inhabitants; and a fictional haunted hospital becomes an obsession for a ghostwriter grappling with her empty nest. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. A long novella and a collection of short stories by this South African Nobel Prize lauriate. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt. Orange and white pictorial paste-on cover. Orange and white pictorial endpapers. 36 illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. Includes a section of Flagg illustrations spoofing other contemporary colleagues in their styling, including Howard Chandler Christy, Harrison Fisher, Charles Dana Gibson, among others. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear and fading to spine.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Lousiana State University, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY WEAVER TO JOHN GARDNER in 1973 on half title page. dust jacket with closed tear to front cover, light edgewear.

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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Twentieth Anniversary Edition. INSCRIBED BY O'BRIEN on the title page wih a black marker. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time, the place, and the men who experienced that particular conflict. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Viking , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 245 pages. SIGNED BY TREVOR on half title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st , 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 310 page, illustrated by Gluyas Williams with black & white drawings and two-color illustration on front cloth cover. Benchley's 2nd book. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Mild wear.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 165 pages. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean, very good in a bright, unclipped dj.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 310 pages. B/W illustrations by E.W. Kemble, A.B. Frost and others. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf (dated 1891). Light fraying to top and bottom edge of spine.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First edition. Collection of short fiction including the title story, the basis for the film "Rollerball" directed by Norman Jewison and starring James Caan. Clean copy.

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with stamped colored cover illustration of a winter mountain scene framed by a holly leaf wreath. Top edge gilt. Thick card pages all have pictorial borders in soft pale yellow and black by Remington. Remington end papers, tissue covered frontis and two additional full page Remington plates. Christmas story featuring Lin McLean. Beautiful illustrated book. 92 numbered pages. Some rubbing/flecking to red cloth, especially spine and rear cover. Otherwise clean.

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. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st thus, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four hardcovers, uniform blue cloth with paste-down labels on front covers and spines. 1st printings as indicated by the "1" at the end of the text. Complete in 4 volumes: False Dawn (The 'Forties), The Old Maid (The 'Fifties), The Spark (The 'Sixties), New Year's Day (The'Seventies). Decorations, illustrated endpapers by E. C. Caswell. Each volume in Very Good unmarked condition. No dust jackets.

Hardcover. Prague, SNDK, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY WENIG. Czech language. Black & white pen-line drawings in color by Mikolase Alse. Red cloth with gilt decoration.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An excellent copy of the Nobel laureate's eighth collection of shorter fiction.

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.

Softcover. Union City CA, Fault Publications, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Unpaginated, but 48 pages, illustrations by Susan Seeley Hay. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication page. A collection of short stories. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., First Edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover. Original dust jacket with attractive graphics, and only light marginal wear to edges. Top edge yellow. Clean, unmarked text.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 194 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY LEAVITT on title page. Pristine copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hearst International Library, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Pseudonym of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer. 21 captioned illustrations by E.W. Kimble. Brown cloth boards, stamped black image of Mirandy on front board, with pale yellow stamped text on front and spine. Tales told in black dialect.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 47 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with a bright gilt design, deep purple endpapers, 309 pages. A collection of Jewett's short stories, including A Native of Winby, Decoration Day, Jim's Little Woman, The Failure of David Berry, The Passing of Sister Barsett, Miss Esther's Guest, The Flight of Betsy Lane, Between Mass and Vespers, and A Little Captive Maid. Binding design by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Clean 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. Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Limited edition. Brown leather with elaborately decorative 22Kt gold gilt embossed to the front and rear covers and to the spine, gilt embossed titles, rules and decorations to the nicely hubbed spine, sewn head and tail bands, all page edges fine gilt, satin moire end-papers, and bound-in silk ribbon marker. A collection of thirty-five of the best stories by Lardner. 569 pages. 2-color illustrations by Gerry Gersten.Clean copy.

Hardcover. Emmaus, PA, Story Classics, Ltd Ed., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in white linen cloth with black and maroon lettering on spine. # 827 of 3000. Contents include: Cavalleria rusticana. The Saint Joseph's ass. Ugly weather. Property. The mystery play. Home tragedy, and more. illust. by Aldren Watson in 2 colors. No translator credited. Slipcased.

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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages. Light edgewear, tears, rubbing to dust jacket. Internally very neat and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 282 pages. Stories dating from 1960-1972. Gray-green cloth with gilt and silver gilt lettering on spine and front board, top edge tinted purple. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, October 13, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Gray top edge. Spine of price-clipped dust jacket faded. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rust colored cloth, stamped in black and silver, 307 pages. Stated first printing. Clean copy.

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. 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, Horizon Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 252 pages. A collection of short stories. Clean copy.