Palma de Mallorca: Story Magazine, 1932. First edition. First appearance of Slesinger's story which was to become the final chapter in her 1934 novel, THE UNPOSSESSED, and is considered to be among the first stories published in a well-circulated magazine to deal explicitly with the theme of abortion. Orange paperwraps..... Item #71709 More
(Napa: Tales for Travellers, 1985). First edition thus: Number 16 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 #71819 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1884. First edition. Twelve short stories. A Merle Johnson High Spot and Queen's Quorum selection. The title story has been much anthologized and staged a number of times. Issued in small printing of only 1,500 copies. Contemporaneous ownership signature on first blank. Scuffs to spine ends..... Item #56009 More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, (1973). First edition. INSCRIBED, "For the Laites with thanks and warmest good wishes. Theodore Sturgeon / April 1973." About fine with just the barest rubbing on corners; in a near fine dust jacket with light soiling, a few spots of creasing, most noticeably on..... Item #51499 More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1969). First edition. A remarkably bright copy, fine in fine dust jacket. Item #54561 More
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1959). First edition. Very good or better in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with very minor wear on corners and spine ends and few tears. Item #52053 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1972. First edition. His first short-story collection. INSCRIBED, "To Lana, with best wishes, Paul Theroux." Provenance: from the estate of Lana Pipes. Lana and her husband, Lane, were prominent Washington-area collectors. Tiny imperfection to front endpaper at base of hinge otherwise fine in near fine, lightly..... Item #54797 More
[Toronto]: (Knopf Canada), [circa 2016]. First edition. SIGNED BY THIEN. Would appear to be a promotional chapbook issued to coincide with the Canadian release of her 2016 Booker short-listed novel, DO NOT SAY WE HAVE NOTHING. Annotated with footnotes, “written from Beirut as Thien prepared for the release of her..... Item #71701 More
New York: Greenberg, (1946). First edition. Edited by the publisher, David B. Greenberg, with an introduction by Louis Bromfield. Includes Jim Thompson's "Mr. Simpson Makes a Sale" from his second novel, HEED THE THUNDER, published by Greenberg the same year. Also includes William Saroyan, Leo Tolstoi, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, E...... Item #51531 More
![A COUPLE OF HAMBURGERS [and] THE CATBIRD SEAT. James Thurber](/pictures/thumb/71828.jpg?v=1650667324)
(Napa: Tales for Travellers, 1986). First edition thus: Number 28 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 #71828 More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1990). First separate edition, a limited issue of the first story in Tilghman's collection IN A FATHER'S PLACE. Issued as a New Year's greeting to friends of the publisher. Fine in white, stapled paperwraps. Item #51292 More
![DER BUSCH [The Bush]. B. Traven](/pictures/thumb/54075.jpg?v=1551394843)
Berlin: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1928. First edition. First issue with all signature numbers present [Treverton 984]. German text. His fourth book and first book of short stories. 16mo orange cloth boards lettered in black on front and spine; top edge black. Spine ends a little worn with touch of soiling and..... Item #54075 More
![DER DRITTE GAST und Andere Erzahlungen [The Third Guest and Other Stories]. B. Traven](/pictures/thumb/53981.jpg?v=1561332498)
Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt, 1958. First edition by this publisher. Published simultaneously in Frankfurt and Zurich [Treverton 1007]. German text. Flexible yellow cloth stamped in black on front and spine. Fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with few light marks to spine and minor aging and..... Item #53981 More
New York: Lawrence Hill and Company, (1975). First edition. First appearance of ten short stories edited and with introductions by Rosa Elena Lujan, who was Traven's wife, and Mina C. and H. Arthur Klein. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #54113 More
London: Cassell, (1967). First UK edition. Fourteen stories including the title one, presenting "an affectionate and humane picture of the people of the Mexican bush and their life."--from the jacket flap, Fine in bright, fine dust jacket showing only the barest soiling and wear. Item #54063 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: Viking Press, (1972). First U.S. edition, printed and bound in England from the English sheets. Review copy with publisher's slip (with publication date Oct. 19, 1972) and "News from Viking" letter laid in. Fine in dust jacket with slight discoloration along upper edge front flap but otherwise quite..... Item #54990 More
(San Francisco: Tales for Travellers, 1982). First edition thus: Number 6 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..... Item #71812 More
(Napa: Tales for Travellers, 1986). First edition thus: Number 29 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 #71829 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
London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. First edition. No comparable U.S. edition. First printing without "A New Edition" on title page and with 32 pages of ads at rear dated November 1896. Although title page dated 1897, actually published December 8, 1896. Includes the first appearance of four stories: "How to..... Item #55536 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First edition, first state. Near fine with light wear and bumping to spine ends and corners. In a fine dust jacket with a small stamp on the front flap. Item #50919 More
El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, (2002). First edition, a paperback original. Six stories and an afterword, SIGNED BY URREA, the Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Sherman Alexie blurb on rear cover ("...this book proves that [Urrea] speaks with a multitiude of passionate, powerful and hilarious voices. This book is a...... Item #55456 More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1981). First edition. "Fourteen provocative and sometimes humorous stories about contemporary women." Fine in near fine dust jacket with very minor edge wear and faint soiling. Item #11992 More