fiction shortstories

Softcover. Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1st pb, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Japan Foundation Translation Series. 266 pages. Translated to English by Dennis Keene. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy of this scarce title.

Chicago, Judson, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Decorated cloth covers with bold black title, 142 pages. Black & white illustrations by Charles H. Steinbacher. A collection of folk tales from Burma. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black and white with a collie and her pup on the cover. 36 pages, 4 color plates by W.T. Smedley. Story told from a dog's perspective. Light fading to spine, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A clean copy of this Nobel Prize winning author's book of eleven short stories.

Hardcover. London, George Bell, reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with lettering and decoration in white. 8 color plates by M. V. Wheelhouse. 223 pages. Spine lettering faded, front bright.Top edge gilt, ribbon marker, clean tight copy. A lovely book of stories for children by this famed English author.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with pictorial design of girl on a horse stamped in white and black. 153 pages illustrated with 5 b&w plates by Lucius Hitchcock. Twain's historical fiction novel, partially written from the point of view of Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, Soldier Boy. This novel was first published in two installments in August and September 1906 in 'Harper's Magazine'. Twain's daughter Susy Clemens, who died in 1896 at age 24 of spinal meningitis, is understood to be the inspiration for lead character Cathy Alison. When Twain provided the story to Harper's, he included a photograph of Susy for the illustrator to use for Cathy. Spine is lightly faded, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1891, Hardcover, original decorative blue cloth stamped in gilt, with a paper black and white oval cameo laid on front board. First edition. A cornerstone collection of 24 New England regional tales, including the ghost stories "A Gentle Ghost", "The Twelfth Guest," and "A Village Lear". Spine gilt lightly faded otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This collection of twenty-seven stories of Frank O'Connor, written between 1957 and his death in 1966, presents us with a stifling petitbourgeois society which seems deliberately organized to starve the mind and the emotions. Young people, crippled by poverty and sexual timidity, wait for their parents to die in order to marry; illegitimate children dream and mourn over families they never know; middle-aged bachelors nest with their mothers; priests live and die in terrible loneliness. Through all the stories runs the ubiquitous influence of the Church--like drink, a curse of the Irish. And yet somehow, this depressing material is turned in O'Connor's stories to charm. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1st US thus., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 421 pages. With black & white illustrations. Red cloth cover with gilt title and illustration on front. Spine slightly faded, embossed title complete. First U.S. edition with both titles in one volume.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 178 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DUBUS on title page and also INSCRIBED by him on the opposite blank leaf. Previous owner's signature and address on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stroughton, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages, light blue cloth covers with dark blue lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Eleven stories featuring detective Baroness Clara Linz.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated by Marc Romano. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Eleven stories of suspense illustrated by Arthur Shilstone, 208 pages. Collected are the following: The Day the Children Vanished by Hugh Pentecost, Through a Dead Man's Eye by Cornell Woolrich, The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim by Agatha Christie, Green Ice by Stuart Palmer, The Grave Grass Quivers by MacKinlay Kantor, The Case of the Irate Witness by Erle Stanley Gardner, Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse by August Derleth, The Headmaster by Michael Gilbert, The Adventureof the Seven Black Cats by Ellery Queen, The Wicked Cousin by Leslie Charteris, The Footprint in the Sky by John Dickson Carr. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and gilt. 163 pages plus publisher's ads. Eight b&w illustrations by W.L. Sheppard. Four stories about boy's adventure in the Civil War that originally ran in Harper's Young People. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Minneapolis, Minn., Milkweed Editions, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 195 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Wraps with slight edge wear. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps. Paperback original. Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. Signed by author on title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 198 pages. SIGNED BY LEAVITT on title page. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 327 pages. SIGNED BY UPDIKE on half title page. Includes autographed personal note. Decorative stain to top edge. Dust jacket clipped. Light rubbing to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Sixteen stories filled with characters who run the gamut from slow sizzle to high sass are brought to life in an anthology of short fiction that captures them struggling to cope with love and loss, pain and healing. Clean copy.

Philadelphia, Muhlenberg Press, 1st , 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white woodcut illustrations by the author. 108 pages, a collection of humorous animal stories from the Old Testament. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 275 pages. First published in 1957 in Poland, Bacacay(a nod to his street in Buenos Aires) is a collection of 12 short stories by Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1968), one of the major European literary figures of the 20th century. Stunningly original in both style and content, these stories are often hilarious yet have an undercurrent of profound moral disquiet and horror when the respectable turns slowly but inexorably into the outrageous, conveying both the horrors of upper-class life and the deepest anguish of the human condition. Gombrowicz has perfect pitch for language; he revels in linguistic play, combining words in extraordinary ways. The commonplace and the everyday are juxtaposed with the bizarre and unsettling to make a world in which unspeakable subconscious urges have a habit of poking through the surface of ordinary life, leaving permanent scars. Bacacayis a brilliant series of satires on the limitations, quirks and phobias of the upper class. In Gombrowicz's hands, words create worlds. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 286 pages, 8 b&w illustrations by A.B. Frost. Gray covers w/ light edge wear, Illustration on cover pastedown. Small stain to fore-edge. Front hinge weak. Spine lettering faded. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages. Light edgewear, tears, rubbing to dust jacket. Internally very neat and tight.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Facsimile reprint of 18th century edition; stapled wraps; 64 clean, umarked pages, with 10 page introduction by Simon Varey. Fictional letters by an 18th century romance writer. Clean copy.