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THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2000.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. SIGNED first edition - These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes stories by Amy Bloom, Raymond Carver, Walter Mosley , Jhumpa Lahiri, Ha Jin, Ron Carlson, Junot Diaz, Z Z Packer, Percival Everett and more. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Ron Carlson at his story 'The Ordinary Son' and Walter Mosley at "Pet Fly." Brief biographies of the contributors. Edited and with an ntroduction by E. :L Doctorow. Katrina Kennison, series editor. Includes contributors' notes and list of 100 other distinguished stories of 1999. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-395-926866.
Condition: Very near fine in printed wrappers.
Book ID: 64975More details Price: $30.00 -
STORY [Magazine] Winter 1998.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Cincinnati: F & W Publications, 1998. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Bender at her story "The Healer." Also include stories by Jean Fong Kwok, Melanie Sumner, Percival Everett, A. L. Kennedy, Julia Slavin and others. Notes on contributors. 128 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many other issues - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Near fine in stiff wrappers (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 43034More details Price: $22.50 -
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2000.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. First edition - These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes stories by Amy Bloom, Raymond Carver, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ha Jin, Ron Carlson, Junot Diaz, Walter Mosley, Percival Everett, ZZ Packer and more. Brief biographies of the contributors. Edited and with an introduction by E. :L Doctorow. Katrina Kennison, series editor. Includes contributors' notes and list of 100 other distinguished stories of 1999. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-395-926866.
Condition: Very good+ in printed wrappers.
Book ID: 55472More details Price: $12.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2000.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes stories by Amy Bloom, Raymond Carver, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ha Jin, Ron Carlson, Junot Diaz, Walter Mosley, Percival Everett, ZZ Packer and more. Brief biographies of the contributors. Edited and with an introduction by E. L Doctorow. Katrina Kennison, series editor. Includes contributors' notes and list of 100 other distinguished stories of 1999. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-395-926874.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79907More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2000.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. SIGNED first edition - These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes stories by Amy Bloom, Raymond Carver, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ha Jin, Ron Carlson, Junot Diaz, Walter Mosley, Percival Everett, ZZ Packer and more. SIGNED by Mosley at his story "Pet Fly." Brief biographies of the contributors. Edited and with an introduction by E. :L Doctorow. Katrina Kennison, series editor. Includes contributors' notes and list of 100 other distinguished stories of 1999. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-395-926866.
Condition: Very good+ in printed wrappers.
Book ID: 75461More details Price: $21.50 -
SUDER.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (bit of sunning to edges of boards, spine of dj)
Book ID: 86598More details Price: $145.00 -
ZULUS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Permanent Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth book by the author of "Erasure" (which is the basis for the film "American Fiction"), a dark and engrossing post-apocalyptic novel set against the landscape and among a society which has emerged years after a thermonuclear war. A blend of the realistic and the surrealistic, this is difficult-to-define novel, an exploration of the themes of alienation, isolation and the grotesque body - and whether man and the planet can both survive - and also, an alphabet book beginning with 'A is for Achitophel' and ending with 'Z is for Zulus.' 247 pp. ISBN: 0-932966-977.
Condition: Fine in rust cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, black endpapers, in a fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 88505More details Price: $45.00 -
FOR HER DARK SKIN.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88507More details Price: $150.00 -
GOD'S COUNTRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Faber & Faber, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early novel by the author now best known for 'Erasure' (basis for the film "American Fiction") and the first book in the publisher's Callaloo series, dedicated to books by ``writers of African descent.'' This is a "corrosively funny and disquieting picaresque novel which addresses the politics of identity and the racist brutality that marked America's westward expansion after the Civil War. " Hard to find in the first edition, and especially so in this condition. 219 pp. ISBN: 978-057119832-0.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 88508More details Price: $65.00