Short Stories

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 129 pages. Anthology of 20 stories gathered from 16th Century chronicles of missionaries. Illustrated by Bierhorst, Jane Byers. Clean copy. Dust jacket price-clipped.

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, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. These twelve stories further Joy Williamss utterly singular achievement, described by the Washington Post as poetic, disturbing, yet very funny. Her landscapes reach from Maine and Nantucket to the Southwest and into Mexico and Guatemala, while the events cover a range of human travail, from children confronting the death of a parent to parents instead burying their own young, and the various ways-comic, tragic, unnerving-we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss.

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. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear is price clipped - now protected with clear plastic cover. Minor sun fade to top and bottom edges of covers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Hector Bossange, reprint, 1829, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Two parts in one volume, 136 + 203 pages, bound in maroon half leather over marbled boards, gilt design on spine. Edition Stereotype: D'apres le procede de Firmin Didot. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and blank prelim page, moderate foxing to pages.

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, Summit, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by NORMAN on title page.

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. New York, Riggs Publishing, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 321 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B/W illustrations by Peter Newell. Moderate wear on cover boards, pages tanned. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , Lippincott, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 286 pages, color frontispiece, fold-out map of Tokyo Bay, cream colored cloth with Japanese characters on front. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, tight copy.

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, 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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover.168 pages. Faint wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, 294 pages. SIGNED BY LEACOCK and dated Nov 25, 1927 on front fly leaf. Book was first published in 1917, this is the 1924 Edition. No dust jacket, cover has light flecking to edge, spine darkened, otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. No dust jacket. Author's first book. 214 pages. Light wear to edges of cover. Minor foxing on edges, but inside pages are clean and bright. A tight copy.

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. 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. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The three stories in The Farmer's Daughter display a writer whose gift is in full flower. The title novella is the uncompromising, heartbreaking tale of Sarah, a home-schooled fifteen-year old girl recently transplanted by her somewhat oblivious parents to rural Montana, who is learning that the world is larger than her fundamentalist mother wants her to know. In the rapture of playing music, riding her horse, and enjoying the natural world, Sarah searches for clues to understand her own coming of age. But when her mother runs off with another man, the girl is left to deal with an act of unexpected brutality that will test her faith in the world she is starting to embrace. In Brown Dog Redux, Harrison shifts to the lighter side. The beloved recurring character Brown Dog is killing time in Toronto where he's fled to save his adopted daughter, Berry, from being locked in an institution. But Toronto has run out of welcome and BD, still looking for love, enlists the help of an unexpected benefactor to sneak Berry back into the States on the tour bus of an Indian rock band called Thunderskins, with riotously funny results. Harrison's final tale, Games of Night, is the witty, ribald, and occasionally harrowing memoir of a retired werewolf in contemporary times. Misdiagnosed with a rare blood disorder brought on by the bite of a Mexican hummingbird, he attempts to lead a normal life, but is nevertheless plagued by hazy, feverish episodes of epic lust, physical appetite, athletic exertions, and outbursts of violence under the full moon. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in b&w on the front color, gilt lettering on the spine. Robinson (1833-1900) was a noted Quaker author from a well-respected and artistic Vermont family whose writings and art captured the dialect, culture and time of pre-Civil War Vermont, set in the imaginary town of Danvis, largely drawing from his the inhabitants and experiences of Ferrisburgh, VT. Bright, clean copy.

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. 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.

Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , proof wraps, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, an uncorrected proof in green wrappers, great condition. A collection of three novellas, one of which features Harrison"s memorable character, Brown Dog.

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.

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.

Softcover. New York, Faber, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Sinclair Stevenson, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 195 pages, in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOYD on the title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 231 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED on title page, also INSCRIBED on half-title by Wachtel.

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st US advanced review copy , 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Minor wear to dust jacket. Hardbound. Laid-in: review slip.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 238 pages. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With the sticker on cover stating" "Selected By The New Yorker As one of the best American fiction writers under 40". A collection of stories about young Native Americans introduces a surprising cast of characters who live and love in two worlds, balancing their Indian heritage and traditions against the realities of the modern world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Derry, Babcock & Koontz, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED - LIMITED EDITION OF 240 HARDCOVER COPIES - THIS HANDNUMBERED # 87. Clean, tight copy.

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. 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, William Morrow, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet. Clean copy.

Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY McKNIGHT on title-page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New york, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 756 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil on bottom page block corner, as well as a few pages with short folded corners. Yellow decorative stain on top page block, light foxing. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Boni and Liveright, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Maroon cloth, white lettering. Spine faded. Illustrated in b&w by Gluyas Williams

Hardcover. New York, NY, Scribner, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1ST, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "Now, Diaz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love--obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love."

Softcover. NY, Delta, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 328 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Corner and edge wear otherwise very clean and tight copy.

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 144 pages in a nice dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Gluyas Williams.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Publisher's blue cloth with decoration of men sitting at table and smoking cigars. Humorous essays, including "The Social Life of a Newt." Author's first book. This copy published without the four pages of advertisements at the back (no priority known). 234 pages. Tiny hole near bottom of fist two pages, not affectin title page. Previous owner's inscription dated 1921 on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.