Short Story Collections | Used, Rare & Out-of-Print - pg. 5 including Love Life by: Bobbie Ann Mason

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sixteen stories centering on small-town existence and how peoples' lives are shaped by love explore the ways in which need and loneliness color individuals' longings for affection.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The author's first book. Ten quirky, big-hearted tales from the contemporary West. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Sixteen stories filled with characters who run the gamut from slow sizzle to high sass are brought to life in an anthology of short fiction that captures them struggling to cope with love and loss, pain and healing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, Granta Books / Viking Penguin, 1st , 1990, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating novel, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers. 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. Sauk City, Arkham House, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The second and final collection of supernatural tales by Whitehead, a companion to Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales. Pictorial dust jacket, illustrated by Ronald Clyne, is clean with minor toning. 3,000 copies printed. Clean copy.

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. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, lightly worn dust jacket, 262 pages. A collection of short stories by a Tennessee humorist. His creation of Sut Lovingood, a Southern mountaineer who opines on various subjects. Popular in the pre-Civil War era. Introduction by Brom Weber has 2 lines with underlining, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Macdonald, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 159 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with minor tape repairs in reverse side, 283 pages. A new collection of 19 stories by the Russian master, Translated for the first time. Translated by Max Hayward. Edited and with Notes by Nathalie Babel. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st UK, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with blue titles to spine and drawing on front. 312 pages, 10 b&w plates by Nicolas Bentley. A marvelous collection by one of America's most colorful and gifted writers. Contents: Breach of promise -- Romance in the roaring forties -- Dream street rose -- The old doll's house -- Blood pressure -- The bloodhounds of Broadway -- Tobias the terrible -- The snatching of bookie bob -- The lily of st. pierre -- Hold 'em yale! -- Earthquake -- "Gentlemen, the king!" -- A nice price -- Broadway financier -- The brain goes home. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Otherwise clean. Mild shelfwear.

Softcover. Woodstock NY, Ardis Publishers, REPRINT, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 496 pages. With an introduction by Susan Sontag. Clean copy.

Softcover. Albuquerque, NM, Amador Publishers, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. INSCRIBED by author to Roger Shattuck, literary critic and historian. Publisher's release laid in. 240 pages. "Childhood overseas. Trying to find oneself as an artist. Growing up Latino. Music, musicians, and an eccentric musicologist. A nightmarish piano recital. Abortive romances. Loneliness, silence. The problem of fascism. These are among the subjects evoked in this collection of 14 pieces. Atmospheres vary from wholesome to sinister. Settings include San Juan, Philadelphia, Cambridge, Manhattan, Tucson, Berkeley and an imaginary isle of silence. In the title piece, the Chicano jazz pianist falls in love with a sorority girl who believes in Ayn Rand. To get in her good graces, he reads all of Rand and ends up converted -- with strange consequences." Spine slightly cocked. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st US, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 187 pages, b&w illustrations. A collection of radical political fairy tales-some in English for the first time-from one of the great female practitioners of the genre Hermynia Zur Muhlen (1883-1951), one of the twentieth century's great political writers, was not seemingly destined for a revolutionary, unconventional literary career. Born in Vienna to an aristocratic Catholic family, Zur Muhlen married an Estonian count. But she rebelled, leaving her upper-class life to be with the Hungarian writer and Communist Stefan Klein, and supporting herself through translations and publications. Altogether, Zur Muhlen wrote thirty novels, mysteries, and story collections, and translated around 150 works, including those of Upton Sinclair, John Galsworthy, and Edna Ferber. A wonderful new addition to the Oddly Modern Fairy Tales series, The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales presents English readers with a selection of Zur Muhlen's best political fairy tales, some translated from German for the first time. Clean copy.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st US, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages, b&w illustrations. Wry political fairy tales from a nineteenth-century politician that speak to our current times. Edouard Laboulaye (1811-1883), one of nineteenth-century France's most prominent politicians and an instrumental figure in establishing the Statue of Liberty, was also a prolific writer of fairy tales. Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men brings together sixteen of Laboulaye's most artful stories in new translations. Filled with biting social commentary and strong notions of social justice, these rediscovered tales continue to impart lessons today. Inspired by folktales from such places as Estonia, Germany, Iceland, and Italy, Laboulaye's deceptively entertaining stories explore the relationships between society and the ruling class. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Wings Books, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, contains Without Feathers, Getting Even, and Side Effects. 473 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a chip out of bottom edge front panel. Contains Agatha, Aunt Anna, The Golden, The Locomobile, The Major, and many other stories. Embossed stamp on prelim page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 237 pages. Author's critically acclaimed first book marks the debut of an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Wonderfully poignant and witty stories based on people and places she knows well, Ellen Slezak documents the colorful clash of young and old, of religious and secular, of traditional values and the temptations of the flesh. Like Winesburg, Ohio, Last Year's Jesus creates a fully realized world teetering on the brink of change. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 2nd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 216 pages. Nicola Barker's collection of her nineteen most brilliant stories exemplifies her ability to create daring, witty, and dynamic characters, all their idiosyncrasies intact. Barker's stories often use wordplay and humor to stretch the boundaries of metaphor and reality as the outrageously original plots unfold. The collection begins with a smart tale of a teenage girl whose obsession with the size of her nose dangerously compromises her relationships with her friends and her family. "Inside Information" is a pun of a title, describing how the protagonist's unborn fetus is the only one able to reform his mother's compulsive shoplifting by pulling the ultimate prank. "G-String" and "Symbiosis: Class Cestoda" detail women who gain self-esteem, albeit through quirky methods, despite the cowardly men who try to suppress them. The title story, "Three Button Trick," is about a man who deliberately buttons his duffel coat incorrectly to attract sympathetic females. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with minor fading to spine, 246 pages. A dozen new stories by the acclaimed "minimalist" writer introduce more of her plucky, hardworking, slightly askew characters--losers, absconders, plotters, ponderers and pontificators. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 318 pages. This new, expanded collection of Antonio Tabucchi's stories collects the best short fiction from the Italian author recognized as one of the masters of the form. These playful tales explore Tabucchi's signature themes, from his inventive, lyrical meditations on language, art, and philosophy, to his fascination with the passage of time, and the mystery of storytelling. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 362 pages. By the celebrated author of A Dream in Polar Fog, a collection of the myths and stories of Yuri Rytkheu's own family that is at once a moving history of the Chukchi people who inhabit the northern shores of the Bering Sea and a beautiful cautionary tale rife with conflict, human drama, and humor. We meet fantastic characters: Nau, the mother of the human race; Rau, her half-whale husband; and Rytkheu's own grandfather, fated to be an intrepid traveler, far-ranging whaler, living ethnographic exhibit, and the last shaman of Uelen. The Chukchi Bible moves through vast Arctic tundra, sea, and sky - and to places deep within ourselves--introducing readers, in vivid prose, to an extraordinary mythology and a resilient people. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 273 pages. Ikonomou's stories convey the plight of those worst affected by the Greek economic crisis--laid-off workers, hungry children. In the urban sprawl between Athens and Piraeus, the narratives roam restlessly through the impoverished working-class quarters located off the tourist routes. Everyone is dreaming of escape: to the mountains, to an island or a palatial estate, into a Hans Christian Andersen story world. What are they fleeing? The old woes--gossip, watchful neighbors, the oppression and indifference of the rich--now made infinitely worse. In Ikonomou's concrete streets, the rain is always looming, the politicians' slogans are ignored, and the police remain a violent, threatening presence offstage. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 547 pages. A Dream Come True collects the complete stories of Juan Carlos Onetti, presenting his existentialist, complex, and ironic style over the course of his writing career. Onetti was praised by Latin America's greatest authors, and regarded as an inventor of a new form and school of writing. The stories span from a few pages in "Avenida de Mayo - Diagonal - Avenida de Mayo" to short novellas, like the celebrated detective story "The Face of Disgrace" and "Death and the Girl," an existential masterpiece that explores the complexity of violence and murder in the mythical town of Santa Maria. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 477 pages. The Scent of Buenos Aires is the first collection of Uhart's to be published in English, drawing together her best vignettes of quotidian life, stories that sneak up on you. Refreshingly approachable, they are punctuated by street talk and saturated with a cryptic wit that recalls Lydia Davis. Uhart renders moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a homeowners association meeting with delightfully eccentric insight. These stories cast an unusual, intimate light on the inner lives of plants, animals, and humans, magnifying the minute, everyday quirks of Argentina's small towns: a cat curls around his owner to humor him, a classroom of children sway like trees when their teacher turns her back. Smiling to herself, Uhart reveals the infinite ways we show ourselves to one another. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st US, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 252 pages. collection of four blistering, darkly humorous stories that upend the idyllic image of the Greek holiday island. Seeking to escape the paralyzing effects of the Greek economic crisis, a group of Athenian friends move to an Aegean island in the hopes of starting over. Viewed with suspicion and disdain by the locals, they soon find themselves enmeshed in the same vicious cycle of money, power, and violence they thought they had left behind. Clean copy.

Softcover. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 309 pages. "If you want to write good short stories," Lao She once observed, "you have to give it everything you've got. The world will allow the existence of a very imperfect novel, but it won't be that polite with a short story. Art, after all, is not like a pig-the fatter the better." Lao She's stories proved to be very good indeed, moving and delighting readers for many years and establishing him as a master of classic modern fiction. Thankfully we now have access to a rich collection of his short stories in superb English translations. These stories showcase the varied facets of Lao She's impressive talent and draw us effortlessly into his world-and we emerge the better for it. Clean copy.

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.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 425 pages. Macabre and fantastical, Hoffmann's wildly imaginative tales offer an unflinching view of human nature and sing clearer than ever in a masterful new translation. Whether a surrealist exploration of the anxieties surrounding automation, or a mystery concerning a goldsmith, missing jewels, and a spate of murders, each tale in this collection reveals the complexities of human desire and fear. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st Eng. transl., 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 181 pages. In these surreal and gripping stories about desire, tyranny, fear, and love, one of Brazil's greatest queer writers appears in English for the first time. In 18 daring, scheming stories filled with tension and intimacy, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the 80s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 275 pages. First published in 1957 in Poland, Bacacay(a nod to his street in Buenos Aires) is a collection of 12 short stories by Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1968), one of the major European literary figures of the 20th century. Stunningly original in both style and content, these stories are often hilarious yet have an undercurrent of profound moral disquiet and horror when the respectable turns slowly but inexorably into the outrageous, conveying both the horrors of upper-class life and the deepest anguish of the human condition. Gombrowicz has perfect pitch for language; he revels in linguistic play, combining words in extraordinary ways. The commonplace and the everyday are juxtaposed with the bizarre and unsettling to make a world in which unspeakable subconscious urges have a habit of poking through the surface of ordinary life, leaving permanent scars. Bacacayis a brilliant series of satires on the limitations, quirks and phobias of the upper class. In Gombrowicz's hands, words create worlds. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 477 pages. The Scent of Buenos Aires is the first collection of Uhart's to be published in English, drawing together her best vignettes of quotidian life, stories that sneak up on you. Refreshingly approachable, they are punctuated by street talk and saturated with a cryptic wit that recalls Lydia Davis. Uhart renders moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a homeowners association meeting with delightfully eccentric insight. These stories cast an unusual, intimate light on the inner lives of plants, animals, and humans, magnifying the minute, everyday quirks of Argentina's small towns: a cat curls around his owner to humor him, a classroom of children sway like trees when their teacher turns her back. Smiling to herself, Uhart reveals the infinite ways we show ourselves to one another. 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. London, UK, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight, clean copy. This story collection contains: First Love; The Butcher's Daughter; The Whore Mother; The Garden of Eden; Northern Summers; The Dead; The Enemy; The Man Who Dreamt of Lobsters; and The Meat Eaters.

Softcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages, illustrated wraps. SIGNED BY NOVAKOVICH on the title page. Tight copy with minor wear to paper wrappers.

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. New York, David McKay, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 241 pages, red cloth with black lettering on spine. Dust jacket with light wear, mild fading to spine, unclipped. INSCRIBED BY UPSON on front fly leaf to fellow Vermont author John Clagett.

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. San Francisco, Paul Elder and Co., 1st thus, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 47 pages, blue boards with gilt design, beveled edges, tan spine. Limited to 1000 copies printed on handmade paper, deckle edges, top edge gilt. Light rubbing to edges of spine.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 161 pages, 8 color plates, many b&w drawings by Charles Robinson. Purple cloth with gilt design, blank page in rear has a list in pencil, otherwise clean. Printed from the English sheets.

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.

Softcover. New York , Vintage, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages, a paperback original. Author's first book, no hardcover published. Number line with 1, stated First Edition on copyright page.

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.

Hardcover. New York , Delacorte Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. London, Elkin Mathews and Marrot Limited, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color decorated boards with an orange cloth spine, 36 pages. Paper label on front with title. SIGNED BY COLUM on the limitation page, this is #263 of 500 for sale. Endpapers darkened otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green, silver and gold gilt. 221 pages illustrated with b&w plates by various artists. Spine slightly cocked, darkened otherwise clean, very good.

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.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt and black, 119 pages. Eight color and six b&w plates by Florence Storer. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

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. 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.