fiction shortstories

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY NELSON on title page. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover.168 pages. Faint wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated green cloth covers, 8 b&w plates. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, front hinge tender. 192 pages. Light soil, foxing to a few pages.

Hardcover. London, The Epworth Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Stories and fables from French West Africa. 126 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 11th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era, and one of the greatest African-American writers of this century. "Early Novels and Stories" presents the novels and short stories that established Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism with rare verbal eloquence. This volume includes his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953), "Giovanni's Room" (1956), and other early works. 970 pages, Remainder mark to bottom edge otherwise like new.

Hardcover. Flame Tree, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 480 pages. This book explores Japan's mythology, which is alive with gods, spirits, and monsters, and draws on Buddhist and Shinto traditions. Foreword by Alan Cummings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

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, Library of America, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 860 pages. Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he said, "to record the way people talked and thought and felt . . . with complete honesty." Praised by contemporaries including Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, he wrote about sex, drinking, and social class with a frankness ahead of its time. The fiction he published in The New Yorker (more than any other writer to this day) came to epitomize the kind of short story featured in that magazine, and his impeccable ear and skillful dialogue have influenced later writers such as Raymond Carver. Bringing together sixty stories written over four decades--the largest, most comprehensive collection of O'Hara's stories ever published--former New York Times Book Review editor Charles McGrath presents a fresh and arresting new perspective on one of American literature's master storytellers. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , proof wraps, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, an uncorrected proof in green wrappers, great condition. A collection of three novellas, one of which features Harrison"s memorable character, Brown Dog.

Hardcover. Sauk City WI, Arkham House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and price-clipped dust jacket. 394 pages. Limited to 1559 copies; the sixth Arkham House book, Introduction by R. H. Barlow. 14 weird stories, 11 from WEIRD TALES (from 1924 to 1933) and all but one set in the West Indies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An excellent copy of the Nobel laureate's eighth collection of shorter fiction.

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday Doran and Co., reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on cover with a black decoration of a sailing boat. This is the uncommon 1928 reprint, notable for the 35 b&w illustrated plates by different artists but not credited. The chapter decorations are by John Lockwood Kipling. The book is square and clean, the spine gilt has faded, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Garden City, Garden City, 1st Thus, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Full color and black & white illustrations by J. M. Gleeson and Paul Bransom. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page & Co., reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages, dark green cloth with black decoration, b&w drawings by Kipling. Top and bottom of spine cloth with light fraying. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Company, reprint, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with tan cloth spine with a blue title label. Preface By Hillaire Belloc. 'Bramah attained commercial and critical success with his creation of Kai Lung, an itinerant storyteller. He first appears in The Wallet of Kai Lung which was rejected by eight publishers before Grant Richards published it in 1900. It was still in print a hundred years later. The Kai Lung stories are humorous tales set in China, often with fantasy elements such as dragons and gods." Numeral 1 on copyright page, no date on title page, so suspected 2nd printing. Clean copy.

NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W drawings by Ati Forberg. 56 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Oyehaug's radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds. In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Oyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud's thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family, these stories do the chilling work of tracing the outlines of what could have been in both the quietly morbid and the delightfully comical. A young man is born with an uncuttable umbilical cord and spends his life physically tethered to his mother; a tipsy uncle makes an uncomfortable toast with unforeseeable repercussions; and a dissatisfied deer yearns to be seen. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, NA, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Black & white illustrations. Pink endpapers. Preliminary page missing. Inscription at top of title page. Cover features image of girl and boy near a tree; decorated in red, blue, black, and gold. Some light rubbing at top and base of spine, and corners. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with gilt decorated cover and spine, top edge gilt. 313 pages, with illustrations throughout. Stories and sketches about Holland and the Dutch. Mild foxing throughout and previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise, bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 237 pages. Author's critically acclaimed first book marks the debut of an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Wonderfully poignant and witty stories based on people and places she knows well, Ellen Slezak documents the colorful clash of young and old, of religious and secular, of traditional values and the temptations of the flesh. Like Winesburg, Ohio, Last Year's Jesus creates a fully realized world teetering on the brink of change. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Six novellas, one written for this edition, about Brooklyn cop Abe Levine.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations by James Teason. Light residue sticker to inside front cover, otherwise clean. Dust jacket with light fading to edge, spine.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, spotless and tight copy with dust jacket. Pulitzer Prize winner's debut collection of short stories, set in his native Washington, D.C.