Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Preface by Jorge Luis Borges. Translated from the Spanish by Richard and Lucia Cunningham. Published originally as La Ultima Niebla, by Editorial Orbe, Santiago de Chile: 1976. Maria Luisa Bombal (1910-1980) was one of the most important Chilean writers of the 20th century. The stories in New Islands, written in the 1940s, represent the best of Bombal's work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Garnier Freres, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, French text, 589 pages with 4 color gravures by M. E. Bayard bound in 1/2 leather. Calf spine with gilt decorations and title label, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled boards and end papers.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Publisher's blue cloth with decoration of men sitting at table and smoking cigars. Humorous essays, including "The Social Life of a Newt." Author's first book. This copy published without the four pages of advertisements at the back (no priority known). 234 pages. Tiny hole near bottom of fist two pages, not affectin title page. Previous owner's inscription dated 1921 on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st thus, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four hardcovers, uniform blue cloth with paste-down labels on front covers and spines. 1st printings as indicated by the "1" at the end of the text. Complete in 4 volumes: False Dawn (The 'Forties), The Old Maid (The 'Fifties), The Spark (The 'Sixties), New Year's Day (The'Seventies). Decorations, illustrated endpapers by E. C. Caswell. Each volume in Very Good unmarked condition. No dust jackets.

Hardcover. Derry, Babcock & Koontz, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED - LIMITED EDITION OF 240 HARDCOVER COPIES - THIS HANDNUMBERED # 87. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Horizon Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 252 pages. A collection of short stories. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 220 pages plus 4 pages of publisher's ads. Blue cloth covers with white, green and gilt floral decoration on front and spine. 22 b&w illustrations by A.B. Frost. Minor wear to top and bottom of spine, otherwise a bright, crisp copy. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover.

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Posthumous collection of short stories, burlesques, poems and whimsies published in the HOUSTON DAILY POST in 1895 and 1896, with an introduction by Florence Stratton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 310 pages. B/W illustrations by E.W. Kemble, A.B. Frost and others. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf (dated 1891). Light fraying to top and bottom edge of spine.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 3rd Ed., 1875, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth decorated in gilt and black, 386 pages. 4 b&w engraved illustrations. Humorous tales of western rural life. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J. M. Stoddart & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages. Hardcover. Scarce, early Frost work. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Back endpapers have a mended rip at gutter. Cover boards bound in orange. Covers have some age wear. Pages are age-yellowed with a touch of foxing in places. Does not affect text or illustrations. In very good shape for its age.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1199 pages, ribbon marker. In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent. In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive--and man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler's phrase) "down these mean streets" among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire.In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler's personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe's search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes a catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling drive. Stories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel--thirteen in all, among them such classics as "Red Wind," "Finger Man," The King in Yellow," and "Trouble Is My Business." Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazine--with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue--to his own emerging vision of twentieth-century America. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First printing with full number line. National Book award winner for 2014. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First edition. Collection of short fiction including the title story, the basis for the film "Rollerball" directed by Norman Jewison and starring James Caan. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 209 pages, decorated gray cloth covers. Title page with red decorations, small red circular decoration on each page. Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Limited edition. Brown leather with elaborately decorative 22Kt gold gilt embossed to the front and rear covers and to the spine, gilt embossed titles, rules and decorations to the nicely hubbed spine, sewn head and tail bands, all page edges fine gilt, satin moire end-papers, and bound-in silk ribbon marker. A collection of thirty-five of the best stories by Lardner. 569 pages. 2-color illustrations by Gerry Gersten.Clean copy.

Softcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages, illustrated wraps. SIGNED BY NOVAKOVICH on the title page. Tight copy with minor wear to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The New Yorker magazine named Matt Klam one of the twenty best young writers in America, and the seven stories that comprise Sam the Cat are all the proof we need. Knowing, perceptive, and wickedly funny, Matt Klam loves his characters but spares them nothing: the swaggering womanizer Sam falls in love with a woman across a crowded room who, upon closer inspection, turns out to be not quite what he expected; a self-doubting young professional attends the posh wedding of his successful friend and delivers a disastrous toast; the chicken one man's girlfriend is preparing for dinner comes to embody the darkly corrosive element in their relationship. These stories crackle with humor, intelligence and style and add up to an outrageously funny, unforgettable debut. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Fiction Collective, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 153 pages. Banks' first story collection published in the same year as his first novel, Family Life.. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 130 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Ed., 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, light blue cloth covers with dark blue lettering, light soil, spine darkened. Clean, sound copy. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL PRINTING - NOT A REPRINT.

Hardcover. New york, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 756 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil on bottom page block corner, as well as a few pages with short folded corners. Yellow decorative stain on top page block, light foxing. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, R. F. Fenno & Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in white, unpaginated but approx. 120 pages. Features two short stories by the Polish writer: Sielanka and Orso. This book is NOT to be confused with a book near the same title: Sielanka: A Forest Picture and Other Stories, published the same year by Little, Brown. A small tear to the half title page otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages, green cloth with circular design on front cover with gilt and 2-colors. One inch tear to top of title page, previous owner's signature on front blank prelim page. Still a very good copy overall.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1st Thus, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 437 total pages, two volumes. Hardcovers. Domestic shipping only. B/w illustrations throughout (tipped in plates). Gilt top edges. Half leather bound, marble gilt boards, gilt title on leather spine with raised bands (gilt slightly faded). As is with agewear: Volume 1 has front cover board completely detached and cover board of Volume 2 is partially detached, pages unmarked with tanning from age. Previous owner attached (via old style paperclip) a relevant document within. "Edition De Luxe. 500 Copies Printed, of Which This is No. 204". Collection of 34 essays and short stories written by the American author Washington Irving under pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Ontario Review Press, 1st thus, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Light shelf-wear. Nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 81 pages, with drawings by Karen Usborne throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 192 pages. By "the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today" (Joseph Brodsky), Sleepwalker in a Fog is a collection of seven stories and a novella set in contemporary Russia. Here is Denisov, who fears his greatest accomplishment in life will be the treatise he wrote and tore up. He is betrothed to Lora, an incessant talker who dreams of having a fluffy tail. We also read of Natasha, who searches Leningrad and her memory for her lost love; of Dmitry Ilich's elaborate seduction of Olga Mikhailovna; and more. In the tradition of such writers as Gogol and Chekhov, Tatyana Tolstaya transforms ordinary lives into something magical and strange. Like new.

Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Friends of the Library of Middlebury College, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover booklet with cream colored heavy stock paper. Black decoration on front. Limited to 350 copies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. A long novella and a collection of short stories by this South African Nobel Prize lauriate. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder and Co., 1st thus, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 47 pages, blue boards with gilt design, beveled edges, tan spine. Limited to 1000 copies printed on handmade paper, deckle edges, top edge gilt. Light rubbing to edges of spine.

Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 169 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dj.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Brown cloth cover boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Light soil and darkening to pages. Gutter crack in middle. Moderate rubbing and wear.

Hardcover. New York, F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, small publication date slip laid-in. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Nice, bright copy, end papers illustrated in 2-colors.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light green cloth with dark green lettering on cover, 79 pages, b&w frontis. Seven stories set in New England and told, in part, in dialect. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st limited, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages. Hardcover with original slip case. (1st LIMITED EDITION #1337 OUT OF 2000. Monthly letter laid-in.)(SIGNED AT BACK PAGE BY ILLUSTRATOR) Bound in green/blue, gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover. Vibrant color and b/w illustrations throughout by Charles Raymond. Slip case has a little bit of age wear. Spine has a touch of shelf wear. In very good condition, clean and bright inside.

Hardcover. NY, Tudor Publishing , 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 412 pages. 4to. Original black cloth, gilt titles, black top page ridge. Tipped in color illustrations and full-page engravings by Harry Clarke, illustrated label on front board. An attractive edition of Poe's classic collection of stories.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 417 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light edge wear to cover boards. Ex-library embossed stamp on title page. light markings on rear end paper. otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Tait, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. ISBN sticker on inside of back cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Utah, Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine and front cover board. Clean inside. From the dust jacket front flap: "In his latest book,..., Cheuse once again presents a vividly rendered gallery of characters traversing a shifting moral landscape, this time the 'new' South and West of the eighties."

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First work of longer fiction (although still a brief one) by this Virginia-born poet and short story writer. A moving story of jazz and an old muscian brought back to the United States as a 'museum project' to capture his creative process and preserve his music. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Shoemaker & Hoard, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. That Distant Land brings together twenty-three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a coherent temporal mapping of this landscape over time, revealing Berrys mastery of decades of the life lived alongside this clutch of interrelated characters bound by affection and followed over generations. This volume combines the stories found in The Wild Birds (1985), Fidelity (1992), and Watch with Me (1994), together with a map and a charting of the complex and interlocking genealogies.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "With The Angel on the Roof, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. A signed collectible first edition copy of this short story collection from this National Book Award winning and PEN/Faulkner and Pulitzer Prize nominated author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1985, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. INSCRIBED BY MORRIS on the half-title page. The author's third book.

Hardcover. Chicago, Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated burgundy cloth stamped in white and green, top edge gilt. Illustrated by Thorton Oakley, William Rogers, Henry Hutt. Short stories including "The Stolen Stradivarius", A Girl of the Period" and more set in the Victorian Era. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Covici-Friede, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket with pieces gone from spine and rear panel. 323 pages. Nice First Edition of this uncommon anthology. Bound in publisher's original back cloth with titles in gilt on front board and spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little wear. A touch of bumping to the heel. Spine gilt bright. Attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.50),

Softcover. Norfolk VA, Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 249 pages. Best-known for her novels, Margaret Millar also wrote a handful of short stories, tales much admired by peers (including her husband Kenneth Millar, who used the pseudonym Ross Macdonald) but never collected in book form. Now Macdonald's biographer Tom Nolan has gathered and introduced those stories in this volume, which includes two all-but-unknown novellas from the 1940s. Here are half-a-dozen exhibits in evidence of the case made by English author and critic H.R.F. Keating, who judged: "No woman in twentieth-century American mystery writing is more important than Margaret Millar." Clean copy.

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. 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.