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
SHORT STORIES
BAD BEHAVIOR.
New York: Poseidon Press, (1988). First edition. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Item #50757 More
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OF GREAT SPACES [Short stories by the founders of the Black Heron Press].
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
THE CASE OF THE CRYING SWALLOW And Other Stories.
London: Heinemann, (1974). First UK edition. Also includes "The Candy Kid," "The Vanishing Corpse," and "The Affair of the Reluctant Witness." Few small dents to rear panel of jacket and rear board otherwise both the book and dust jacket are bright and fine. Item #54884 More
IN THE HEART OF THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY: And Other Stories.
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
NOT FOR PUBLICATION.
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
THE SOFT VOICE OF THE SERPENT: and other stories.
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
THE FOREST OF THE SOUTH.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1945). First edition. Very good or better with slight fading to cloth and light offset to the endpapers. In a very good dust jacket, aged and faded along the spine, with shallow chipping at spine ends and corners and otherwise light wear to the edges..... Item #51040 More
OLD RED And Other Stories.
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
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM GOYEN.
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
GRANTA: THE MAGAZINE OF NEW WRITING; [119 issues from the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman--40 of the issues with contents pages heavily annotated in pencil by him].
Cambridge, et al: Granta Publications, 1980 to 2014. First edition of the "new series" issues 2 - 126 lacking issues 3, 13, 14, 20, 49, 63, 104, and with 4th edition of issue 1 published May, 1994 (originally published 1979) and 2nd edition of "The Granta Book of Family." In..... Item #54388 More
MAY WE BORROW YOUR HUSBAND?: And Other Comedies of the Sexual Life.
London: The Bodley Head, (1967). First edition. Short stories. Fine in very good to near fine dust jacket very slightly toned at spine, with staining to verso and a little to upper edge rear panel where there's one short closed tear. Item #54200 More
SUSAN'S ESCORT AND OTHERS
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper, where the previous owner has also made notations (at the bottom). Printed photo of the author affixed at front, creating offset to front endpaper, and notation -- which appears to be in the..... Item #51434 More
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TENNESSEE'S PARTNER [and] THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT.
(Napa: Tales for Travellers, 1985). First edition thus: Number 15 in the short-lived "Selected Short Stories by Great Writers" series devised by James H. Schmidt in 1982 with the intent of providing quality reading material for daily commuters that was inexpensive enough to share. Originally issued in 4 slipcased volumes..... Item #71818 More
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1001 AFTERNOONS IN NEW YORK; [Together with] THE BEWITCHED TAILOR.
New York: Viking Press, 1941. First edition of the book which is near fine in a very good dust jacket darkened on spine and edges. Promotional letter laid in from Kroch's & Brentano's with sales pitch for A CHILD OF THE CENTURY, Hecht's 1954 autobiography which Adolph Kroch calls "the..... Item #55558 More
THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1923: and the Yearbook of the American Short Story.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., (1924). First edition. Edited by Edward J. O'Brien. Dedicated to and includes "My Old Man," Hemingway's first book appearance in the U.S.; also includes short stories by Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Edna Ferber, et al. First issue with Hemingway misspelled "Hemenway." Spine somewhat faded and..... Item #54870 More
WINNER TAKE NOTHING.
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
HOUSE OF THIEVES.
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
THE BLACK HOUSE.
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
A BIT OF SINGING AND DANCING.
(Napa: Tales for Travellers, 1986). First edition thus: Number 30 in the short-lived "Selected Short Stories by Great Writers" series devised by James H. Schmidt in 1982 with the intent of providing quality reading material for daily commuters that was inexpensive enough to share. Originally issued in 4 slipcased volumes..... Item #71830 More
MORTAL COILS.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. First edition of this early collection of five short stories. Small stain to page fore edges, head of spine crimped, otherwise near fine in about very good dust jacket with spine ends and corners chipped and rubbing to spine title (taking out "RT" AND "L"..... Item #55190 More
COME ALONG WITH ME: Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lectures.
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
THE LOTTERY.
(Napa: Tales for Travellers, 1985). First edition thus: Number 13 in the short-lived "Selected Short Stories by Great Writers" series devised by James H. Schmidt in 1982 with the intent of providing quality reading material for daily commuters that was inexpensive enough to share. Originally issued in 4 slipcased volumes..... Item #71817 More
SCARS MAKE YOUR BODY MORE INTERESTING.
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
HOW I BECAME A HOLY MOTHER And Other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row, (1979). First U.S. edition. Near fine in very good to near fine price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing to head of spine and corners and one small tear. Item #45590 More