Short Story Collections | Used, Rare & Out-of-Print - pg. 3 including The Eliza Stories by: Pain, Barry

Hardcover. NY, Beaufort Books, 1st thus, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket with minor fading, 270 pages. An omnibus volume containing all 5 of Barry Pain's "Eliza" books, written between 1900 and 1913 and, according to Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame), "some of the funniest books in the English language". Clean copy.

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. London, Michael Russell, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Limited edition. 8vo. 50 pages, B/W illustrations by John Lawrence. Number 275 of 450 numbered copies SIGNED by both the author and the illustrator, of which 300 are for sale. Signed by the author and illustrator on copyright page. Near fine. Glassine dust jacket present.

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, 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. NY, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of twelve 'startingly original stories about erotic desire' with exotic settings ranging across centuries and cultures from Algeria to Egypt to Italy and France. 193 pages, clean copy.

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. NY, Library of America, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 860 pages. Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he said, "to record the way people talked and thought and felt . . . with complete honesty." Praised by contemporaries including Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, he wrote about sex, drinking, and social class with a frankness ahead of its time. The fiction he published in The New Yorker (more than any other writer to this day) came to epitomize the kind of short story featured in that magazine, and his impeccable ear and skillful dialogue have influenced later writers such as Raymond Carver. Bringing together sixty stories written over four decades--the largest, most comprehensive collection of O'Hara's stories ever published--former New York Times Book Review editor Charles McGrath presents a fresh and arresting new perspective on one of American literature's master storytellers. Clean copy.

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. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 597 pages, no dust jacket. Title page dated 1939, An early reprint without the 'A'. Bound in red cloth with black signature on top board and gold titles against black labels of spine. Light wear to top of cloth spine, mild darkening to spine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. East Aurora NY, The Roycrofters; Elbert Hubbard, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, publisher's brown suede spine and printed gray boards with title in gilt to spine. Ribbon marker, 82 pages, Initials, borders and ornaments designed by St. Gerome [Jerome Conner]. Top edge gilt, other sides deckle edge. So Here Then Are Dreams is a collection of poetic short stories that deal with the fundamental issues of life such as freedom, justice, and love. Olive Shreiner (1855-1920) South African author, suffragist, and political activist. White title on cover is partially faded, otherwise a sharp, clean copy.

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, Riverhead Books, 1st illust thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. This is a collaborative edition with Jaime Hernandez illustrations. John Hodgman calls Hernandez "one of the most talented artists our polyglot culture has produced." Bright teal slipcase. Book has no DJ as issued. Still in publisher's shrink wrap.

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.

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.

Softcover. Rutland VT, self-published, 2nd Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red paper covers stamped with a black title and cartoon portrait of author. Yankee humor in the form of short sketches originally published in the Rutland Herald. The author (pictured in a photo on the first inside page) was a member of the Vermont legislature. Several cartoons by George Randall embellish the 90 pages of text. Ads in rear. Clean copy.

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. 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. 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, 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.

Softcover. Saranac Lake NY, self published, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages, light tan card wraps. SIGNED BY TYLER on title page. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Saranac Lake NY, self published, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages, light peach card wraps. SIGNED BY TYLER on title page. Clean, bright copy.

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. 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. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust with mild tanning. Decorative endpapers, clean interior. Stated first edition. The book tells the story of flower now known as the poinsettia, which has its basis in Mexican legend. Woodcuts by Tom Lea. Inscription opposite title page, otherwise clean.

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. 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. 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. 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, 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. NY, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, spine stamped in black and gilt, gilt faded. 165 pages, 20 Native American myths. Emdossed stamp on title page, otherwise clean, very good. Uncommon title.

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.

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. 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. 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, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Preface by Jorge Luis Borges. Translated from the Spanish by Richard and Lucia Cunningham. Published originally as La Ultima Niebla, by Editorial Orbe, Santiago de Chile: 1976. Maria Luisa Bombal (1910-1980) was one of the most important Chilean writers of the 20th century. The stories in New Islands, written in the 1940s, represent the best of Bombal's work. Clean copy.

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, 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, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 250 pages, clean copy. Includes a preface by Nin of several diary entries from the early 1940's, explaining the origin of these stories (written for $1 a page, when in need of money.) Posthumous publication of these erotic stories: The Hungarian Adventurer; Mathilde; The Boarding School; The Ring; Mallorca; Artists and Models; Lilith; Marianne; The Veiled Woman; Elena; The Basque and the Bijou; Pierre; Manuel; Linda; Marcel.

London, Serpent's Tail, 1st pbk, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages. Stories that capture the absurdity of life. Valenzuela's view of life captures our imagination because we know how far it is from reality - cops in Buenos Aires are not afraid of dogs, latin lovers in cafes do make moves in the game of courtship, hotels in Venice overlook canals. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Harper Perennial, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 617 pages. Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Wright, and more than fifty other important Black authors record the experiences of African Americans from the reconstruction to the present and demonstrate the evolution of the American short story form. 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.

NY, The Viking Press, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. "A feeble-minded professional wrestler, the wife of an unfaithful husband, a man in search of a tree, the hind legs of the horse in a vaudeville act: these are a few of the human animals upon whom John Wain turns his compassionate eye in this new collection of short stories."

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 331 pages. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Light rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Light foxing to end papers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy. A collection of nine short stories by Bret Harte (1836-1902), published a month before the author's death in England. Includes the author's "A Mercury of the Foot-Hills" and eight other stories.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st US, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 265 pages. Collection of short stories by the acclaimed poet and novelist Stephen Harold Spender (1909-1995). Printed on English sheets. States printed in Great Britain 1936 on copyright page but no indication of subsequent printings. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Light fade to red cloth on spine.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. A signed collectible first edition copy of this short story collection from this National Book Award winning and PEN/Faulkner and Pulitzer Prize nominated author. 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. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 177 pages. INSCRIBED BY BLOOM ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Related newspaper clippings laid in. A very nice, tight copy. A first collection of short stories features tales of psychiatrists crossing professional boundaries, a small girl in need of love, a frightened father in need of redemption, and wives who become mistresses.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In Gallagher's collection of 12 short stories we enter the working class world depicted by Dreiser and Farrell and, more recently, by Bobbie Ann Mason and Russell Banks. Gallagher finds her characters in laundromats and trailer parks, picking them up at a moment of revelation when suddenly the air is cleared by a profound understanding that cannot change anything. In "Bad Company" Mrs. Herbert, bringing flowers to her husband's grave, confides in a young woman she has met in the cemetery. In doing so she realizes how completely she had shut her husband out of her life. In "Girls" Ada is reunited with Esther, once her best friend. But Esther doesn't remember Ada, who comes to realize that her past has drifted away irreparably. These finely crafted stories, authentic in every detail, deal with constricted, confined lives in an unemotional yet compassionate manner. Clean copy.

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.