ROCK SPRINGS: Stories.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1987). First edition. SIGNED by the prize-winning author. Light staining to half-title page, otherwise would be fine in dust jacket. Item #40487 More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1987). First edition. SIGNED by the prize-winning author. Light staining to half-title page, otherwise would be fine in dust jacket. Item #40487 More
New York: Poseidon Press, (1988). First edition. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Item #50757 More
Seattle: Black Heron Press, (1987). First edition. Short stories by the founders of the Black Heron Press -- five by Galloway and six by Gold. Full-plate illustrations by Robin Adsit. Early proof, presumably made up specifically for the illustrations as you can see the outlines of each page and those..... Item #51399 More
New York: Harper & Row, (1968). First edition of author's second book. Collection of five stories includes the title story plus "The Pedersen Kid," "Mrs. Mean," "Icicles," and "Order of Insects." Minor spine crimps, otherwise bright and fine in near fine dust jacket folded onto the book slightly off-center. Jacket..... Item #49138 More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1965. First edition. Endpapers offset and page edges somewhat soiled, otherwise near fine in bright dust jacket with slightly tanned spine and light edgewear (mostly to spine ends and tips). A bright copy. Item #30912 More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. First U.S. edition; preceding the UK. Nobel Prize winner's second book -- her first to be published in the U.S. Bright and near fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with pin-prick hole and small light stain to front panel, edges lightly..... Item #54915 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. First edition. The influential Southern novelists first book of short stories. 8vo teal cloth boards stamped in reddish brown; 245 pages. Near fine with spine slightly toned; in about very good dust jacket with chipping to spine ends and corners and spine somewhat faded..... Item #72107 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1963). First edition. Fine in a very good or better dust jacket with light rubbing very slight soiling and a few small closed tears (not immediately noticeable), Item #28899 More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1975. First edition. Minor rubbing to spine ends, otherwise fine in dust jacket with light soiling, shallow chip to bottom of spine and light edgewear. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Item #34602 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First edition. Collects eighteen short stories including the title one. INSCRIBED BY HALE on front endpaper TO FAMED NATURALIST CLINTON HART MERRIAM, "Dr. Merriam/ with the regards of/ E. E. Hale/ Please look at page/ 210. I understand that/ you have seen a traveler/..... Item #51434 More
New York: Viking Press, 1941. First edition. Near fine with pages slightly age toned and touch of light foxing to endpapers; in very good dust jacket somewhat tanned at spine and along rear edges, with few tiny nicks and short tears and a small rubbed v-shaped tear to front panel..... Item #55558 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1933. First edition. His third collection of stories, fourteen in total with nine being published for the first time. About very good with spine ends bumped, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, gold spine label somewhat dulled and a little askew but label on front still..... Item #51885 More
New York: Penguin Press, 2005. First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, a book of short stories. The first story, "The Minor Wars," was expanded into the novel, THE DESCENDENTS, which was the basis for the Academy Award-winning movie of the same name starring George Clooney. Fine in dust jacket. Both this..... Item #50225 More
London: Heinemann, (1981). First edition. A book of short stories. Very good to fine in dust jacket with blue on spine a bit faded. Item #54459 More
London: Duckworth & Co., 1902. First edition. The hardcover issue, which would appear to be more scarce than the simultaneously issued softcover. Collection of short stories in "Duckworth's Greenback Library" series. 12mo green cloth stamped in black; 182 pages. This copy with small, tasteful bookplate of cartoonist Claude Smith. Bright..... Item #72126 More
New York: Viking Press, (1968). First edition. Posthumous collection edited by her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations on rear endpaper and contents page and corresponding passages lightly marked in pencil in margins. Page edges moderately foxed otherwise..... Item #54982 More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First edition. Short, offbeat stories illustrated with drawings by David Bromige. Number Number 24 of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY JAFFE (of 226 total). Lower corners gently bumped still fine in original acetate. Item #54880 More
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1950. First edition. His second story collection. SIGNED by the author as Leinster, and with his real name, William F[itzgerald] Jenkins. Leinster is credited with the invention of parallel universe stories, such as this collection's title story, which first appeared in 1934 in Astounding Stories magazine. Hinges..... Item #49173 More
London: Methuen, (1935). First edition. Winner in 1936 of the first-ever National Book Award under the category of "Bookseller Discovery" -- or, as it was called at the time, the "forgotten book of the year that least deserved to be forgotten." This was in the early, pre-war days when NBA's..... Item #71920 More
London: Constable & Co Ltd., (1924). First edition, second issue (the first is very rare) with "First published, 1924" on copyright page. Light offset to endpapers, minor soiling to page edges, touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners, small crease on front bottom edge, otherwise very good to near..... Item #48790 More
Old Westbury: The Feminist Press, (1983). First edition, a paperback original. Sshort stories preceded by introductory headnotes written by Marshall expressly for this collection. Also includes an autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen," and "Merle," a novella reshaped from her 1969 novel "The Chosen Place, The Timeless People."..... Item #42060 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. First edition. An uncorrected proof in tall, printed, orange-red wraps. Introduction by Virginia Spencer Carr, McCullers' biographer. Includes "The Member of the Wedding," "The Ballad of the Sad Café," and 19 other stories. Small cracks in the perfect-bound spine, otherwise fine. Item #46646 More
New York: Knopf, 1929. First edition. August 1929 issue of the monthly review edited by Mencken. Good to about very good in heavy plastic cover protector. Item #35154 More
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992. First edition. INSCRIBED on the title page, "For Walter & Jane/ With warmest personal regards,/ Bill." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature, and one of the founding members of The Fellowship of Southern Writers. His..... Item #72115 More
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, (1982). True first edition. The Nobel Prize-winning author's fifth collection of short stories. Fine in very good or better dust jacket with one tiny tear at base of spine, and spine slightly toned and showing a few light stains. Item #72027 More