fiction shortstories

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages, b&w illustrations, color frontispiece by Maud and Miska Petersham. Blue cloth covers w/ yellow lettering and design. Light edgewear, rubbing to covers. Hinges cracked. Else pages clean and tight.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Limited edition. Brown leather with elaborately decorative 22Kt gold gilt embossed to the front and rear covers and to the spine, gilt embossed titles, rules and decorations to the nicely hubbed spine, sewn head and tail bands, all page edges fine gilt, satin moire end-papers, and bound-in silk ribbon marker. A collection of thirty-five of the best stories by Lardner. 569 pages. 2-color illustrations by Gerry Gersten.Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with red decoration, 279 pages. B&w, some color illustrations by Will Crawford. Previous owner's bookplate on inside cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 221 pages. Black & white illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Dust jacket with faded spine, library labels on spine, light edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with black stamping. 221 pages. Black & white illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

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. NY, Random House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The New Yorker magazine named Matt Klam one of the twenty best young writers in America, and the seven stories that comprise Sam the Cat are all the proof we need. Knowing, perceptive, and wickedly funny, Matt Klam loves his characters but spares them nothing: the swaggering womanizer Sam falls in love with a woman across a crowded room who, upon closer inspection, turns out to be not quite what he expected; a self-doubting young professional attends the posh wedding of his successful friend and delivers a disastrous toast; the chicken one man's girlfriend is preparing for dinner comes to embody the darkly corrosive element in their relationship. These stories crackle with humor, intelligence and style and add up to an outrageously funny, unforgettable debut. 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. Cambridge MA, Zoland Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of short stories, most of them set in Indiana, focuses on the meddling of fact and fiction and includes a dozen satiric - but also sympathetic - tales written in the persona of Indiana's famous son, Dan Quayle. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 130 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight 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, 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. 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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages, green cloth with circular design on front cover with gilt and 2-colors. One inch tear to top of title page, previous owner's signature on front blank prelim page. Still a very good copy overall.

Paperback. Bear Creek NC, Blackie Bear Corp., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 58 pages, spiral-bound. B&W illustrations by the author throughout. Some rust on binding. Heavy paper cover exhibits some edgewear, bottom fore-edge corner bumped. Small water damage stain to the bottom corner of the spine. Large pencil mark on page 29. Otherwise clean edition. Sixth in a series of Blackie Bear books for children about anthropomorphized, clothes-wearing animals of the Smoky Mountain region. Blackie Bear introduces children to nature through his woodland antics and wildlife adventures.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1st Thus, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 437 total pages, two volumes. Hardcovers. Domestic shipping only. B/w illustrations throughout (tipped in plates). Gilt top edges. Half leather bound, marble gilt boards, gilt title on leather spine with raised bands (gilt slightly faded). As is with agewear: Volume 1 has front cover board completely detached and cover board of Volume 2 is partially detached, pages unmarked with tanning from age. Previous owner attached (via old style paperclip) a relevant document within. "Edition De Luxe. 500 Copies Printed, of Which This is No. 204". Collection of 34 essays and short stories written by the American author Washington Irving under pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Ontario Review Press, 1st thus, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Light shelf-wear. Nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 355 pages. An illustrated collection of thrilling tales from science fiction masters such as Bradbury, Asimov, and Vinge focuses on life in space habitats and includes essays by scientists that discuss the potential realities of space stations and homes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 81 pages, with drawings by Karen Usborne throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

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.

Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Friends of the Library of Middlebury College, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover booklet with cream colored heavy stock paper. Black decoration on front. Limited to 350 copies. Clean copy.

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. 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. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 169 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dj.