fiction shortstories

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, Knopf, 1st, October 13, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Gray top edge. Spine of price-clipped dust jacket faded. Else a clean, tight 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 , Delacorte Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.

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 , 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Cover shows wear. Stamped lettering on front. Spine faded and rear bottom by spine has light soil.

Hardcover. Philadephia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial red cloth boards with gilt titles to front board. 212 pages; 8 illustrations in color by Maria L. Kirk; 7 stories for children by Louisa de la Rame (Ouida) : "Moufflou," "A Provence Rose," "Lampblack," "The Ambitious Rose Tree," "The Child of Urbing," Meleagris Gallopavo," "Findelkind."

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.

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. New York, Random House, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 178 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, with publisher's letter laid in. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hurd and Houghton, unk, 1878, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards, corner wear, minor edgewear, previous owner's signature otherwise nice. Copyright 1877. Many b&w engravings, not credited. Children's stories, poems, and songs embedded in the daily life of a comfortable, cultured, and unassuming New England family. From the first Bodley series, very popular in their day. Scudder (1838 - 1902) was closely connected to Houghton for most of his career and for nine years the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.

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

Softcover. Taipei, Bookman Books, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages. An expanded edition of a book first published in 1983. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st Thus, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages. Hardcover, tan boards with color illustration pastedown. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover and at top of title page. Missing front endpaper. A Collection of abbreviated children's classic stories. Features full page color illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Pages of text have darkened due to age. Minor pencil marking at edges of a few pages. Cover paste down illustration intact. Small chip at bottom of spine.

Hardcover. London, George Bell, reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 8 color plates by M. V. Wheelhouse. 176 pages, tan cloth with lettering and decoration in white. Spine lettering worn, front bright.Top edge gilt, ribbon marker, clean 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. NY, Random House, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean, copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A collection of short stories.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. Previously uncollected short fiction; "Career in C Major" appears here for the first time in hardcover book. Edited & introduced by Roy Hoopes.

Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Catina's Haircut: A Novel in Stories spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-Unification southern Italy and in an immigrant's United States. The women in these tales dare to cross boundaries by discovering magical leaps inherent in the landscape, in themselves, and in the stories they tell and retell of family tragedy at a time of political unrest. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Light soiling, small tear to dust jacket; in brodart. Small remainder dot on top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York /London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1st thus, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 104 pages, 12 color plates and many in b&w. Maroon cloth spine over glazed boards illustrated in color. No date given, but circa 1900. Various illustrators contributed including Frances Brundage and Harold Copping. Frontispiece loose but otherwise good+, light edgewear to covers.

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.

Softcover. NY, Rob Weisbach/William Morrow, Uncorr. proof, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Lime green wraps, uncorrected bound galleys. SIGNED BY DAVIS. A short story collection, the first of only two books by Amanda Davis before she was killed in a plane crash in North Carolina at 32 years old.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED TWICE: First to "Helen and Alec from Francis Steegmuller." Then comes the explanation: "This copy was sent to the philosopher Alexander Meikeljohn and his wife by my husband, Francis Steegmuller before our marriage in 1963." and that is SIGNED SHIRLEY HAZZARD, Breadloaf, Aug. 1999. Hazzard's first book.