THE PUSHCART PRIZE XXIII: Best of the Small Presses, 1999.
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An annual anthology of essays, short stories and poems, selected from small literary journals across America - a reflection of the diversity and excellence to be found in offbeat publications from across the United States. Includes fiction from Colum McCann, Bharati Mukherjee, Patricia Hampl, Louis Berney, Jeffrey Eugenides, Frederick Busch, Joyce Carol Oates; poetry from Carol Muske, Marilyn Hacker, Toi Derricote, Martin Espada, Marvin Bell; nonfiction from Andre Dubus, Julie Showalter, Philip Levine and much more. List of special mentions, brief notes on the authors, and index to the first 23 volumes. 606 pp. ISBN: 1888889098.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (chipping and edgewear to the dj, especially at the ends of the spine, now protected by an archival cover.)