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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with a bright gilt design, deep purple endpapers, 309 pages. A collection of Jewett's short stories, including A Native of Winby, Decoration Day, Jim's Little Woman, The Failure of David Berry, The Passing of Sister Barsett, Miss Esther's Guest, The Flight of Betsy Lane, Between Mass and Vespers, and A Little Captive Maid. Binding design by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Clean copy.
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. 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. 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. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 231 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED on title page, also INSCRIBED on half-title by Wachtel.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, October 13, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Gray top edge. Spine of price-clipped dust jacket faded. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 1st , 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Cover shows wear. Stamped lettering on front. Spine faded and rear bottom by spine has light soil.
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.
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, 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. 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.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st thus, 1996-99, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Five volume set, complete. Light brown cloth with bound-in ribbon marker. All fine in fine, unclipped jackets. All are first printings. The volumes are grouped chronologically: 1864-74, 1874-84, 1884-91, 1892-98, and 1898-1910. Clean set.
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. South Royalton, Vt., Steerforth Press, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 452 pages, three short novels and a collection of short stories. Price-clipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing and edgewear. Very clean interior.
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.
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, 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. Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear and fading to spine.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 183 pages. INSCRIBED BY DUBUS on the title page. Previous owner's signature on the front fly leaf. Set in Dubus's largely coastal New England world, these short works focus on the residual anguish and momentary elation of deep emotional attachments--between lovers, between parent and child, and between estranged spouses
Softcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st wraps, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 308 pages. A collection of short stories from the winner of the National Book Award 1n 2013. The stories in Five-Carat Soul--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic--all told with McBride's unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives.
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.
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. 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. 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. 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. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with 1" interior tape repair at bottom left edge; not price clipped - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight 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. 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, 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.
