Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 197 pages. Slight wear and creasing to dust jacket, some foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy protected by mylar cover. The author's third book, an amusing collection of satiric sketches. 20 stories beginning with 'Walt and Will' a freewheeling version of the creation of the Disney empire. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, 294 pages. SIGNED BY LEACOCK and dated Nov 25, 1927 on front fly leaf. Book was first published in 1917, this is the 1924 Edition. No dust jacket, cover has light flecking to edge, spine darkened, otherwise clean and tight.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering, 274 pages. B&w decorations by Lois Lenski. A nice selection of Canadian stories. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Columbia, MO, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 149 pages. Minor rubbing, edgewear to cover wraps. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Hardcover. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Spine lightly faded, with gilt lettering. Clean, brown cloth cover boards. Internal pages clean and signatures tight.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's second book.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. These twelve stories further Joy Williamss utterly singular achievement, described by the Washington Post as poetic, disturbing, yet very funny. Her landscapes reach from Maine and Nantucket to the Southwest and into Mexico and Guatemala, while the events cover a range of human travail, from children confronting the death of a parent to parents instead burying their own young, and the various ways-comic, tragic, unnerving-we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss.

Hardcover. NY, E.J. Hale & Son, 1st, 1875, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original gilt decorated cloth, the author's first work of fiction. A collection of nine short stories, 195 pages. There is a tear to cloth along 60% of spine edge. very repairable.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 222 pages. Lovely copy in brodart protected dust jacket. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, in a protected sleeve. Intelligent and heartfelt short stories. Rough-cut edges. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1ST, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "Now, Diaz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love--obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love."

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like Faulkner's Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy's American West, Gay's Tennessee is redolent of broken souls. Mining that same fertile soil, his debut collection, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, brings together thirteen stories charting the pathos of interior lives. Among the colorful people readers meet are: old man Meecham, who escapes from his nursing home only to find his son has rented their homestead to "white trash"; Quincy Nell Qualls, who not only falls in love with the town lothario but, pregnant, faces an inescapable end when he abandons her; Finis and Doneita Beasley, whose forty-year marriage is broken up by a dead dog; and Bobby Pettijohn -- awakened in the night by a search party after a body is discovered in his back woods. William Gay expertly sets these conflicted characters against lush backcountry scenery and defies our moral logic as we grow to love them for the weight of their human errors. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth bound cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board with design. Some age wear to covers (see image). Some fingerprint smudges (see image) and tanning throughout. Original author's name written on title page (see image). In very good shape for its age, no pages missing. True and fictional shortstories about French culture.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 213 pages. Light bump to lower edge of spine, else a lovely copy of the author's first book. Blurbs by Andre Dubus, Richard Ford, Wright Morris & Larry Woiwode on back cover.

Hardcover. Westvaco Corporation, Ltd. Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 194 pages, Bound in light brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt decoration on the covers. In a pictorial cardboard slipcase illustrated with Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley painted by Paul Cezanne. When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories Indian Camp and The Three Day Blow, and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose, enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic. His writing suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of vision. Limited Edition, privately published by Westvaco. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Ecco Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, light rubbing, mild soil to the unclipped dust jacket, small tape repair to inside of jacket at top of spine, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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, 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. 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.

Softcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st paperback., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 248 pages. This short story collection contains: A Time of Learning; The Mysteries of Life in an Orderly Manner; Love, Death, and the Ladies' Drill Team; Home Coming; The Battle of the Suits; Tom Wolfe's My Name; Learn to Say Good-by; A Little Collar for the Monkey; Public Address System; Foot-Shaped Shoes; Horace Chooney, M.D.; The Linden Trees; Breach of Promise; and The Singing Lesson. Stated first edition. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, August 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 224 pages. Newspaper clippings laid in. Light edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. N Y, Random House, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Previous owner's sticker, name blacked-out on front end papers. Spine with light fade. Internally very good.

Softcover. NY, American News Company, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original pictorial green wrappers. 32 pages. BAL 3360, state 2, with the Aetna Life insurance ad on the back cover. B&w line illustrations R.T. Sperry. The copyright page states 1874, The Aetna ad claims assets of Jan. 1 1877 in it's ad. Front wrapper with moderate size chunk gone from top spine edge (see pic), chip to top right corner, small tear to bottom at center with mnor paper loss. Includes such works as The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract, The Undertaker's Chat, and ten other stories. The upper wrapper features Sperry"s illustration of the Jumping Frog seated beneath a mushroom while smoking a cigarette and reading a copy of this very pamphlet. Overall, good plus copy of this fragile item.

Softcover. Freedom CA, Crossing Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 150 pages. The author's second book. In 10 astute, mildly zany and often wickedly funny stories, Kirshenbaum peers at a multifaceted assortment of modern relationships. A wife who decides to organize her life by making lists of "Things to Do" discovers she married not for love, but for a good health plan. If you are a woman with a past, there is no point to an attachment with a man who thinks only of the future, according to "Past Perfect." Reality may encompass a gray Honda Civic in suburban Connecticut, but to the narrator of "Wheels," true love is a sleek, cobalt-blue Alfa Romeo on the open road. "Pravda" describes two women, friends of many years, who spend a fall afternoon outdoors on a bench discussing Marxism, men and amorality. An American couple who have come to Romania in search of romance to save their marriage find only "Travail"; the highlight of their vacation is the sight of three stuffed goats in pink tutus.

Hardcover. London, UK, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight, clean copy. This story collection contains: First Love; The Butcher's Daughter; The Whore Mother; The Garden of Eden; Northern Summers; The Dead; The Enemy; The Man Who Dreamt of Lobsters; and The Meat Eaters.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, in a bright dust jacket that's unclipped.Light edgewear to dust jacket.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray paper covered boards with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, spine ends and corners with light wear, First Edition, frontispiece portrait of author with tissue guard. INSCRIBED BY DASKAM on front fly leaf and dated May 1903. Daskam(1876-1961) was a prolific author of adult and children's fiction whose best-known work was MEMOIRS OF A BABY (1904), a satire on modern methods of child training. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Tucson AZ, Dennis McMillan, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Firmly rooted in the hard-boiled tradition, these 13 stories from Phillips showcase the cool exuberance of black Los Angeles PI Ivan Monk, whose family connections tend to prod him into taking cases no one in his right mind would investigate. Nostalgia is a recurrent theme, as in "Through the Fog Softly," which introduces Monk's father, Josiah Monk, as a soldier in Korea, and in Monk's love of 1950s and '60s cars. Some tales verge on fantasy, such as "The King Alfred Plan," which imagines a scheme to round up blacks into concentration camps. A pseudo-screenplay, "Bring Me the Head of Osama Bin-Laden," is the weakest effort in an otherwise strong collection. At his best, Monk displays something of the cockiness of Robert Parker's Spenser and the racial awareness of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins. Monk has a toughness all his own, however, and a noir sensibility shines brightly in stories like "Lowball" and "The Raiders." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1836, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue textured cloth with decorative gilt title on spine. Vol. 2 ONLY of a ten volume set. This book combines the 3rd and 4th volumes in the original 18 volume set. 213 + 238 pages. Frontis. engraving and illustrated title page reprinted from the 1832 edition. This collection of moral tales written by Maria Edgeworth explores themes of education, family relationships, and social issues in 19th century Ireland. The stories are entertaining and engaging while also providing valuable lessons about life and morality. Edgeworth was a significant figure in the development of the novel as a literary form and her work is still widely read and admired today. Solid binding, mild foxing. Previous owner's name on title page.

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

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else very good. One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures.With remarkable insight and candor, Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound. A couple weekending in Maine try to recapture the ardor that has disappeared from their life together. And on a spring evening, a young wife tells her husband of her affair with the host of the dinner party they're about to join. The rigorous intensity Ford brings to these vivid, unforgettable dramas marks this as his most powerfully arresting book to date-confirming the judgment of the New York Times Book Review that "nobody now writing looks more like an American classic."

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 282 pages. Stories dating from 1960-1972. Gray-green cloth with gilt and silver gilt lettering on spine and front board, top edge tinted purple. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 317 pages, color frontis by Marguerite Kirmse (repeated on dj). Red cloth boards, black stamped lettering on cover and spine. Fading to covers at bottom.

Hardcover. NY, Phaedra, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 104 pages. Unclipped dust jacket with light tanning, shelfwear. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, American Tract SocietyNY, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Shepherd of Salisbury Plain 47 pages, Mountain Miller 34 pages. George Vining 16 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings. Foxing to pages. Small format. Hinge cracked at spine. Marblized paper covers with worn spine label. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. New York, G. W. Dillingham, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with a 3-color design. Tales of New York City before the turn of the century. Decorated green cloth. Frontispiece of the author, black & white illustrations by F.A. Nankivell. Clean copy.