fiction shortstories

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Arranged by Rachel Field. Color, b&w Illustrations by Elizabeth MacKinstry. Paper covered boards with pink label on cover, w/ some discoloration, corner wear. Middle third of book w/ light crimp to bottom corner.

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. 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.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 391 pages, poor dust jacket tattered with a chunk gone from spine and rear panel. An anthology edited by Derleth, collecting previously published stories by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Theodore Sturgeon, Algernon Blackwood, and others. Grey cloth with green titling and decoration, with b&w illustrations by Lee Brown Coye. Spine square. Binding sound. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED TO "GEORGE" by AUTHOR ON HALF COVER. Otherwise unmarked. A clean, tight copy. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Falls--also named the year's best novel by Time--Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian nun invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint, 1884, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by F.S. Church, 150 pages. Red cloth covers with gilt design of flying horse in front of moon, beveled edges. All edges gilt. Light fraying to top, bottom of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down.

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. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WEAVER on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy. A collection of short stories which illuminate, with imagery and humor, the darkest corners of the American soul. The author attempts to capture the personalities of rural America, shaped by poverty, cruelty and an odd compassion.

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.

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. The Library of America, 1st pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A first printing of the Library of America. Green cloth with spine printed in gilt. Patterned endpapers and attached blue ribbon bookmark. Ivory slipcase lettered and bordered in gilt. 1054 pages. Clean copy.