Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1976. First edition. SIGNED on front end paper. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK of short stories, published simultaneously with CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER, her first novel. Fine in dust jacket with one small tape repair at back of top of front panel and touch of lightly rubbed..... Item #16213 More
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1953. First edition. Includes the title novella and two short stories (extensively revised by H. P. Lovecraft) as well as Bishop's profiles of Lovecraft and August Derleth: "H. P. Lovecraft: A Pupil's View" and "A Wisconsin Balzac: A Profile of August Derleth." Fine in fine..... Item #55906 More
New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, (1933). First edition. Dark blue cloth cover and gilt lettering very good to fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket slightly tanned at spine, with two small chips and one small closed tear. Item #23866 More
New York: John Lane, (1916). First edition, first state, with "The War! The War!" They were chasing" in last paragraph p.173 (later deleted). In first issue binding with green buckram spine vs blue. Illustrated with 32 full-page sketches by Franklin Booth. Near fine in very good or better dust jacket..... Item #54029 More
(Berkeley, California): Circle Edition, 1947. First U.S. edition, preceded by a limited edition published in 1946. Two surrealist short stories exploring madness and creativity. 8vo white paper boards printed in red and black; in matching dust jacket. Covers foxed otherwise very good in good dust jacket with price on flap..... Item #54100 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: Macmillan and Co., 1917. First edition. First issue binding with publisher's name at foot of spine measuring over one inch; in second issue dust jacket. Fourteen stories and 14 poems. First appearances for two of the stories and most of the poems. Page fore edges lightly foxed otherwise near..... Item #53934 More
New York: B. W. Dodge, 1909. First edition, unauthorized. Third issue with red lettering printed vs stamped (or gilt); in dust jacket--the only one of the three to be issued in one. Short stories and one poem. Very good in good dust jacket with old tape repair to chips and..... Item #54088 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1891. First U.S. edition with imprint of New York printer at base of copyright page. First issue sheets without "October" on copyright page; in second issue binding [Richards A58]. Short stories and a poem. 8vo half light-olive cloth stamped in gilt and black, dark-olive cloth lettered..... Item #54277 More
Boston: L.C. Page & Co., (1911). First edition. Umbstaetter's tales with an introduction by London who credits him with saving his literary life (and perhaps his literal one) by accepting one of London's stories for publication in "Black Cat" magazine -- and paying for it immediately rather than making him..... Item #43314 More
New York: Random House, (1950). First edition. 37 stories including some of his finest such as "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" and "The Eighty-yard Run." A very good to near fine copy in the fragile parchment-like wrapper with shallow chipping to spine ends and corners. Item #51451 More
Prairie City: The Press of James A. Decker, (1942). First edition. Collects stories and poems from 1941 appearances in “little” magazines which Swallows describes in his introduction as often short-lived and with low circulations but important for their embrace of new authors and experimental fiction. Contains a number of first..... Item #71943 More
New York: Viking Press, (1972). First U.S. edition, using the English sheets. Fine in near fine dust jacket with touch of light creasing and inconspicuous tear. Item #50313 More
New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1897. First edition. Collection of essays, parodies, etc., including, as #52, Mark Twain's "The Panama Railroad." 12mo yellow pictorial cloth boards with illustration of man reading on front and woman reading on back; unpaginated. Very good or better with covers only lightly rubbed and..... Item #51424 More
Hartford: American Publ. Co., 1875. First edition, second issue. With 65 sketches and numerous illustrations. Original decorated blue cloth. Very good or better with few small pieces of tape on verso front endpaper and the occasional small stain to fore edges and margins but gilt on spine and cover nice..... Item #54279 More