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. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 164 pages. Translated from German by Breon Mitchell. Beautiful copy. Like new.
Hardcover. Lewisburg, PA, Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library/Appletree Alley, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Limited press run. Numbered 17/150. Small brown dot on front cover, otherwise, clean, tight copy. Wood Engravings by John DePol. The story of a man who tries to control his life and find fulfillment by moving to ever smaller islands. But his attempts to create a perfect world on islands fails and leads to isolation.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers to a vivid and eclectic cast of combatants. A seasoned claims investigator tracks a supposedly dead man from Miami to Brazil, only to be thrown off his game by a kid from the local slum. An aging loser takes a last stab at respectability by becoming a police informant. A Greek-American couple adopts an interracial trio of sons and then struggles to keep their family together, giving us a stirring bit of background on one of Pelecanos' most beloved protagonists, Spero Lucas. In the title novella - which takes its name from Hollywood slang for the last shot of the day, the one that comes before the liquor shots begin - we go behind the scenes of a television cop show, where a writer gets caught up in a drama more real than anything he could have conjured for a script.
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. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st US, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 242 pages. Gray cloth cover with minor bumping to corners and edges. Residue from small sticker on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. A series of short stories based around the Nazi regime during it's tenure in Germany and Europe.
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. 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.
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. NY, Seabury, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 154 pages. Black & white illustrations by Anne Dalton. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Sauk City WI, Arkham House, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly chipped dust jacket. 2527 copies published. Jacket art by Richard Taylor. Collection of Lovecraft stories & juvenilia, plus many articles, essays and appreciations by others for Lovecraft. Some b&w photos.
Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine and double blind stamped ruling around border of front and back.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering. The acclaimed crime writer's last book (he died in 1930), a collection of courtroom stories featuring Colonel Braxton, "great lawyer, great detective, and gallant gentleman ", and set in Virginia in the 1850's. Both Howard Haycraft and Ellery Queen considered Post second only to Poe as an American writer of detective fiction. Clean, square copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth boards decorated in darker green and gilt on cover and gilt on spine, top edges gilt, 105 pages. Forty-five children's tales from the prolific Boston author. Light residue to inside rear cover otherwise bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 119 pages, illustrated in B&W by Judith Gwyn Brown. Dust jacket spine faded with a large chunk out of top, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 11th pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a Coretta Scott King Award sticker on front. Illustrated in b&w and color by Jerry Pinkney.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt decoration. Octavo, seven inserted plates with illustrations by Helen Mason Grose, original decorated red cloth. First edition. Collection of twenty stories. INSCRIBED BY PORTER on front fly leaf. Directly underneath there's another inscription from the person the book is dedicated to: ANNIE SANFORD HEAD.
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. NY, C.S. Francis & Co., 1st, 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth with the publisher's Little Library motif on the cover, 160 pages, two illustrated title pages, several b&w line drawings throughout, not credited. Title page dated 1850. Inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean with only mild foxing.
Hardcover. NY, Jonathan Cape, reprint, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 256 pages.Foreword by John Galsworthy. Traveler's Library edition. Bookplate on inside front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rose-colored cloth with black and red design on front cover. 24 short tales illustrated in b&w by Pyle. Verses by Katherine Pyle. Originally published in 1887, appears to be a 1940s reprint. Mild soil, inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
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.
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