Fiction ShortStories

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st US advanced review copy , 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Minor wear to dust jacket. Hardbound. Laid-in: review slip.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 178 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, with publisher's letter laid in. Very clean and tight copy.

NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. Taipei, Bookman Books, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages. An expanded edition of a book first published in 1983. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean, copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean, copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A collection of short stories.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. Previously uncollected short fiction; "Career in C Major" appears here for the first time in hardcover book. Edited & introduced by Roy Hoopes.

Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Catina's Haircut: A Novel in Stories spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-Unification southern Italy and in an immigrant's United States. The women in these tales dare to cross boundaries by discovering magical leaps inherent in the landscape, in themselves, and in the stories they tell and retell of family tragedy at a time of political unrest. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York /London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1st thus, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 104 pages, 12 color plates and many in b&w. Maroon cloth spine over glazed boards illustrated in color. No date given, but circa 1900. Various illustrators contributed including Frances Brundage and Harold Copping. Frontispiece loose but otherwise good+, light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt and black, 119 pages. Eight color and six b&w plates by Florence Storer. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Rob Weisbach/William Morrow, Uncorr. proof, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Lime green wraps, uncorrected bound galleys. SIGNED BY DAVIS. A short story collection, the first of only two books by Amanda Davis before she was killed in a plane crash in North Carolina at 32 years old.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED TWICE: First to "Helen and Alec from Francis Steegmuller." Then comes the explanation: "This copy was sent to the philosopher Alexander Meikeljohn and his wife by my husband, Francis Steegmuller before our marriage in 1963." and that is SIGNED SHIRLEY HAZZARD, Breadloaf, Aug. 1999. Hazzard's first book.

Softcover. Ann Arbor MI, Ardis Publishers, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 430 pages. Clean, bright copy. Contents: The Steel Bird by Vasily Aksenov, Snowball Berry Red by Vasily Shukshin, A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov, The Exchange by Yury Trifonov, Life in Windy Weather by Andrei Bitov, Belshazzar's Feasts by Fazil Iskander, Downstream by Valentin Rasputin.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 171 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 211 pages. The author's first collection of short stories, ten stories which explore the British experience of France over a period of 300 years, from the 17th century to the present. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a beautiful copy,

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 234 pages. Remainder mark to top edge, slight soiling to rear cover of dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.

NY, The Viking Press, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. "A feeble-minded professional wrestler, the wife of an unfaithful husband, a man in search of a tree, the hind legs of the horse in a vaudeville act: these are a few of the human animals upon whom John Wain turns his compassionate eye in this new collection of short stories."

Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. The Pulitzer Prize winner's first book, a collection of short stories.

Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. The Pulitzer Prize winner's first book, a collection of short stories.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt lettering and design. Published February 1928 on copyright page with no other printings. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge partially cracked. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with fading to spine, 307 pages. Edited by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg. Collects twenty-two stories. Introduction and checklist of Boucher's fiction by Nevins. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green, silver and gold gilt. 221 pages illustrated with b&w plates by various artists. Spine slightly cocked, darkened otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Paris, Hector Bossange, reprint, 1829, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Two parts in one volume, 136 + 203 pages, bound in maroon half leather over marbled boards, gilt design on spine. Edition Stereotype: D'apres le procede de Firmin Didot. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and blank prelim page, moderate foxing to pages.