Short Story Collections | Used, Rare & Out-of-Print

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 2nd pr., 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 283 pages. In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist's transcendent prose. These tales, essays, and fragments move across inner landscapes, exploring the shaky bridges between reason and feeling and the frontiers between the human psyche and the divine. From the "The Earthquake in Chile," his damning invective against moral tyranny; to "Michael Kohlhaas," an exploration of the extreme price of justice; to "The Marquise of O . . . ," his twist on the mythic triumph of love story; to his essay "On the Gradual Formulation of Thoughts While Speaking," which tracks the movements of the unconscious decades before Freud; Kleist unrelentingly confronts the dangers of self-deception and the ultimate impossibility of existence in a world of absolutes. Wortsman's illuminating afterword demystifies Kleist's vexed history, explaining how the century after his death saw Kleist's legacy transformed from that of a largely derided playwright into a literary giant who would inspire Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. Clean copy.

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, Simon & Schuster, 1ST, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 235 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 255 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean, copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

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. Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, C. B. Falls. Minor corner and edge wear, previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's second book.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PROSE on half-title page. Tight copy with only minor wear to covers.

Paperback. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, uncorr. proof, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY NELSON on title page at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference 2000. Yellow wraps. A proof of Nelson's 1st book.

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, 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, 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. 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, 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, 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. 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.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "With The Angel on the Roof, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 168 pages. In these 14 short stories, the author "displays the inimitable wit and the astonishing stylistic command that have set him at the forefront of American writing today." 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.

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.

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, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages. Light wear to upper edge of pictorial dust jacket, remainder mark to bottom edge, else a very nice, tight copy.

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.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. Tight, clean copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line bottom edge.

Hardcover. New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 286 pages, 8 b&w illustrations by A.B. Frost. Gray covers w/ light edge wear, Illustration on cover pastedown. Small stain to fore-edge. Front hinge weak. Spine lettering faded. Else a clean, tight copy.

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."

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. 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.

NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

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.

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, 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, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st trade ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in white cloth stamped in maroon and gilt on spine and front cover. Fine in a blue cloth slipcase with a color illustration paste-down on front. The author's strongest collection of stories and the last to be published in his lifetime. One of only 250 numbered copies of the publisher's limited first edition SIGNED by the author. This copy is unnumbered. Carver died at the age of only fifty, shortly after this book was published.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1985, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. INSCRIBED BY MORRIS on the half-title page. The author's third book.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated by Marc Romano. 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.

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.

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

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.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 257 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st US, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Kipling's classic poetic tribute to his beloved Scottie. Seven black and white full page illustrations by Cecil Aldin, whose name is misspelled on the cover. There is tanning to the cover , light corner wear to boards. Previous owner's notation on front fly leaf. Aldin's charming drawings are clean and bright.

Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gray boards, red cloth spine. Very good in pictorial dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 180 pages. INSCRIBED BY DUBUS on the half title page as well as SIGNED on the title page. Previous owner's signature on the front fly leaf.

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.