fiction shortstories

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rust colored cloth, stamped in black and silver, 307 pages. Stated first printing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co. , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, salmon cloth with black lettering, 178 pages. Color frontis, b&w drawings throughout. A collection of short stories for young adult readers.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, price-clipped dust jacket, 101 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Babbitt. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 122 pages, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Six animal stories with full page black and white illustrations by author. Previous owner's inscription and SIGNED UNDERNEATH BY SAVITT. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 9th pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 392 pages, b&w drawings by Pamela Bianco. A lovely collection of stories and poems about the springtime holiday with charming b&w line drawings by the splendid Bianco.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st US, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The secrets people kept, the lies they told. In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories, people are effortlessly cruel to one another, and the natural world is a primitive salve. Here, women are domestically trapped by predatory men. Ireland's folklore and politics loom large, and poverty, emotional and material, seeps through every crack. By an award-winning Irish writer, her second book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1st transl. thus, 1853, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, marbled boards with black leather spine and corners. 100 pages, illustrated frontis, drawing on title page. Preface on Fable, The Fabulists and La Fontaine by the translator, text is formatted in double columns per page. Name on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The three stories in The Farmer's Daughter display a writer whose gift is in full flower. The title novella is the uncompromising, heartbreaking tale of Sarah, a home-schooled fifteen-year old girl recently transplanted by her somewhat oblivious parents to rural Montana, who is learning that the world is larger than her fundamentalist mother wants her to know. In the rapture of playing music, riding her horse, and enjoying the natural world, Sarah searches for clues to understand her own coming of age. But when her mother runs off with another man, the girl is left to deal with an act of unexpected brutality that will test her faith in the world she is starting to embrace. In Brown Dog Redux, Harrison shifts to the lighter side. The beloved recurring character Brown Dog is killing time in Toronto where he's fled to save his adopted daughter, Berry, from being locked in an institution. But Toronto has run out of welcome and BD, still looking for love, enlists the help of an unexpected benefactor to sneak Berry back into the States on the tour bus of an Indian rock band called Thunderskins, with riotously funny results. Harrison's final tale, Games of Night, is the witty, ribald, and occasionally harrowing memoir of a retired werewolf in contemporary times. Misdiagnosed with a rare blood disorder brought on by the bite of a Mexican hummingbird, he attempts to lead a normal life, but is nevertheless plagued by hazy, feverish episodes of epic lust, physical appetite, athletic exertions, and outbursts of violence under the full moon. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 597 pages, no dust jacket. Title page dated 1939, An early reprint without the 'A'. Bound in red cloth with black signature on top board and gold titles against black labels of spine. Light wear to top of cloth spine, mild darkening to spine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Macdonald, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 159 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ny, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. "Collection of stories including scientific romances, contes philosophiques and stories of the supernatural. The most important of the latter is the novella Dromenon, in which an antiquarian discovers the true nature of medieval Christian worship by means of a restored church organ". Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a very worn and chipped dust jacket, 294 pages. In these four short novels set in America, England and Paris, Rebecca West explores the lives and relationships of rich women and men who are ruled by 'the harsh voice we hear when money talks, or hate'. There is Josie, a flower of American girlhood with boundless ambition for wealth. There is Etienne de Sefavenac, a dilettante French aristocrat whose courtly stratagems are intended to ensnare Nancy Sarle - a plain American businesswoman. There is Alice Pemberton, a sensible Englishwoman - the very salt of the earth - in her own estimation. And lastly there is Sam Hartley, an American businessman who has fought his way to riches with his wife at his side, but whose life is now haunted by visions of beautiful young women.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped in black, 175 pages illustrated in b&w by Elizabeth Black Carmer. A collection of American folk tales. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt design and lettering. A collection of Turkish folk tales, b&w drawings by Tony Sarg. Introduction by Sir Valentine Chirol. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Gilt on spine faded.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, reprint, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Laura Brey. A variety of stories that teach valuable lessons in a good-humored, sympathetic way. Light soil to covers, name on front fly leaf, section of dedication page cut away, not affecting any text or pictures. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Michael Sporn. Small nick & white paper wheresticker lifted-off on dust jacket otherwise very good, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. , 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in red, 226 pages A collection of 12 stories from different countries, illustrated by Harold Cue from drawings by Jenny Nystrom. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In Gallagher's collection of 12 short stories we enter the working class world depicted by Dreiser and Farrell and, more recently, by Bobbie Ann Mason and Russell Banks. Gallagher finds her characters in laundromats and trailer parks, picking them up at a moment of revelation when suddenly the air is cleared by a profound understanding that cannot change anything. In "Bad Company" Mrs. Herbert, bringing flowers to her husband's grave, confides in a young woman she has met in the cemetery. In doing so she realizes how completely she had shut her husband out of her life. In "Girls" Ada is reunited with Esther, once her best friend. But Esther doesn't remember Ada, who comes to realize that her past has drifted away irreparably. These finely crafted stories, authentic in every detail, deal with constricted, confined lives in an unemotional yet compassionate manner. Clean copy.

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. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in bright decorated cloth, 243 pages. B&w illustrations by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

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.