Hardcover. New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Ed., 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, light blue cloth covers with dark blue lettering, light soil, spine darkened. Clean, sound copy. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL PRINTING - NOT A REPRINT.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else very good. One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures. With remarkable insight and candor, Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound. A couple weekending in Maine try to recapture the ardor that has disappeared from their life together. And on a spring evening, a young wife tells her husband of her affair with the host of the dinner party they're about to join. The rigorous intensity Ford brings to these vivid, unforgettable dramas marks this as his most powerfully arresting book to date-confirming the judgment of the New York Times Book Review that "nobody now writing looks more like an American classic."
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. US, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 209 pages, decorated gray cloth covers. Title page with red decorations, small red circular decoration on each page. Tight, clean 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. 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, Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 327 pages. SIGNED BY UPDIKE on half title page. Includes autographed personal note. Decorative stain to top edge. Dust jacket clipped. Light rubbing to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.
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. 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. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 192 pages. By "the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today" (Joseph Brodsky), Sleepwalker in a Fog is a collection of seven stories and a novella set in contemporary Russia. Here is Denisov, who fears his greatest accomplishment in life will be the treatise he wrote and tore up. He is betrothed to Lora, an incessant talker who dreams of having a fluffy tail. We also read of Natasha, who searches Leningrad and her memory for her lost love; of Dmitry Ilich's elaborate seduction of Olga Mikhailovna; and more. In the tradition of such writers as Gogol and Chekhov, Tatyana Tolstaya transforms ordinary lives into something magical and strange. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Fiction Collective, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 153 pages. Banks' first story collection published in the same year as his first novel, Family Life.. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated boards with a red cloth spine, 60 pages. Preface by the translator, Gerold Lauck. Illustrated by Peter Lauck. Story of a heroic priest who survives Nazi arrest and later helps liberate Paris. Name, mild residue on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
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. 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. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Oyehaug's radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds. In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Oyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud's thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family, these stories do the chilling work of tracing the outlines of what could have been in both the quietly morbid and the delightfully comical. A young man is born with an uncuttable umbilical cord and spends his life physically tethered to his mother; a tipsy uncle makes an uncomfortable toast with unforeseeable repercussions; and a dissatisfied deer yearns to be seen. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Includes The Steinway Quintet, Music of the Spheres and the Magic Flute. By the author of Pinto and Sons, King of the Jews and other fiction. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages plus ads in rear. Illustrated in b&w by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. Brown cloth decorated in gilt and black (bright gilt drawing of rabbit with pipe on front). First printing with no mention of this title among 8 pages of publisher's ads in back and the word presumptive in the last line on page 9. Endpapers feature a light gray butterfly pattern. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 145 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.
Softcover. New York, Vintage, 1st paperback., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages, softcover uncorrected proof. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor corner wear, otherwise, very clean and tight 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.
Softcover. Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1st pb, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Japan Foundation Translation Series. 266 pages. Translated to English by Dennis Keene. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy of this scarce title.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages, with illustrations by Sarah S. Stilwell throughout. Gilt titles and top edge. Minor corner and edge wear, frontispiece illustration loose, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean and tight 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, Henry Holt, 1st , 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Author's 1st book. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Gluyas Williams. Two-color drawing. on front cloth cover. Previous owner's signature front end paper, mild tanning to end papers. Slight wear to cloth hinges.
Hardcover. New York, F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, small publication date slip laid-in. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Nice, bright copy, end papers illustrated in 2-colors.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Colored decoration on front cover, light rubbing. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
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. NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth boards, orange title label to upper board and back strip, black lettering, orange end papers, top edge stained red, black illustrative boarders on leaves. Two stories: "The Story of a White Blackbird" and "The Young Foreigner". Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ELLISON on the title page. Ellison's sixteen previously uncollected stories and new novella further his reputation as an intrepid explorer of odd psychological corners and a master of pure horror and black comedy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Robert Carter & Brothers, reprint, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt and black, 436 pages plus publisher's ads. Miller's first prose work, a mixture of legend, folklore, history and contemporary observation, 'a delightfully affectionate picture of his birthplace'. First published in the UK in 1835. Includes the author's dedication and his Introduction to the Second Edition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This collection of twenty-seven stories of Frank O'Connor, written between 1957 and his death in 1966, presents us with a stifling petitbourgeois society which seems deliberately organized to starve the mind and the emotions. Young people, crippled by poverty and sexual timidity, wait for their parents to die in order to marry; illegitimate children dream and mourn over families they never know; middle-aged bachelors nest with their mothers; priests live and die in terrible loneliness. Through all the stories runs the ubiquitous influence of the Church--like drink, a curse of the Irish. And yet somehow, this depressing material is turned in O'Connor's stories to charm. 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.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy. A collection of short stories which illuminate, with imagery and humor, the darkest corners of the American soul. The author attempts to capture the personalities of rural America, shaped by poverty, cruelty and an odd compassion.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 188 pages. His second collection of short stories - 'quick and precise. . . obsessed with city life and the sexual body/erotic mind.' (His first collection was nominated for the National Book Award and this was selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the six best works of fiction published that year). Price sticker on front flap otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 3rd Ed., 1875, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth decorated in gilt and black, 386 pages. 4 b&w engraved illustrations. Humorous tales of western rural life. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London, Canongate Pub Ltd, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 183 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page, minor dust jacket edge fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. London , E. Nister, unk, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 319 pages. 6 color plates and 70 half-tone illustrations by W. Paget. Green cloth covers with red, yellow, and gold decoration. Gold and black lettering. Beveled edge. Front hinge cracked. Soiling to covers. Wear to extremities. Sticker on front end paper.
Softcover. Columbia, MO, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 149 pages. Minor rubbing, edgewear to cover wraps. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Esquire, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY GINGRICH on copyright page. Slip case slight foxing on label. Top edge gilt. Limited Edition.
Hardcover. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Spine lightly faded, with gilt lettering. Clean, brown cloth cover boards. Internal pages clean and signatures tight.
Hardcover. NY, Picador, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY CARLSON on the title page. Clean.
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. 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, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. "Collection of stories including scientific romances, contes philosophiques and stories of the supernatural. The most important of the latter is the novella Dromenon, in which an antiquarian discovers the true nature of medieval Christian worship by means of a restored church organ". Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
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