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PRIZE STORIES 1996: The O. Henry Awards.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Anchor Books, (1996.). SIGNED - In addition to the prizewinners - with Stephen King winning first prize for 'The Man in the Black Suit' , this also includes stories by Akhil Sharma, William Hoffman, Joyce Carol Oates, T. J. McNally, Daniel Menaker, Alice Adams, Jane Smiley, Walter Mosley and more. SIGNED by Akhil Sharma at "If You Sing Like That for Me" (his first publiched story) Introduction by Abrahams. Biographical notes and comments by the authors. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-385-481829.
Condition: Near fine in glossy wrappers (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 54796More details Price: $21.50 -
PRIZE STORIES 1996: The O. Henry Awards.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Anchor Books, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - In addition to the prizewinners - with Stephen King winning first prize for 'The Man in the Black Suit' , this also includes stories by Akhil Sharma, William Hoffman, Joyce Carol Oates, T. J. McNally, Alice Adams, Jane Smiley, and more. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Sharma at "If You Sing Like That for Me" (his first publiched story) and Mosley at "The Thief." Introduction by Abrahams. Biographical notes and comments by the authors. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-385-481829.
Condition: Near fine in glossy wrappers (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 43292More details Price: $28.50 -
THE PUSHCART PRIZE XVI: Best of the Small Presses.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, (1992.). SIGNED 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. SIGNED by Joyce Carol Oates at her story "The Hair." Also includes Li-Young Lee, Ursula Le Guin, Marvin Bell, Katha Pollitt, Susan Straight, Linda Gregg, Eric Chock, Jess Mowry, Yann Martel, Brenda Hillman and many more. List of special mentions, brief notes on the author, and index to the first 16 volumes. 574 pp. ISBN: 0-671734350.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (spine slightly sunned)
Book ID: 73039More details Price: $37.50 -
DEMONS & DREAMS: The Best Fantasy and Horror.
Edition: Reprint.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (the usual toning to the pages so often found in UK editions.)
Book ID: 34990More details Price: $50.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 1998.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Second in this series of anthologies, and fairly uncommon in hardcover. SIGNED by FOUR authors: by Sue Grafton on the title page and by John Lescroart, Joyce Carol Oates and Walter Mosley. Also includes stories by Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block, Margaret Maron, Donald Westlake, John Lutz, Peter Robinson, Jay McInerney, Stuart Kaminsky, David Ballard, Steve Yarbrough and others. Foreword by series editor Otto Penzler and introduction by Grafton. Also includes notes on the contributors and a list of other distinguished stories of the year. xix, 345 pp. ISBN: 0-395-835860.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 55657More details Price: $60.00 -
TRANSGRESSIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Ten brand-new, never-before published novellas from ten of the very best writers of the modern novel." SIGNED by Joyce Carol Oates at "The Corn Maiden." Also includes "Walking Around Money" by Donald E. Westlake; "Hostages" by Anne Perry; "Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line" by Walter Mosley; "The Resurrection Man" by Sharyn McCrumb; "Merely Hate" by Ed McBain; "The Things They Left Behind" by Stephen King; "The Ransome Women" by John Farris; "Forever" by Jeffery Deaver; and "Keller's Adjustment" by Lawrence Block. Introduction by McBain. 783 pp. ISBN: 0-765308517.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72796More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 1991.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by TWO contributors: Amy Tan at her essay, 'Mother Tongue' and Garrett Hongo at "Kubota." Uncommon thus. The sixth in the series. In addition to the contributions by the writers shown above, some other selections are an essay on watching the Miss America pageant with his daughters by Gerald Early, questions of conquest by Mario Vargas Llosa, Counters and cable cars by Stephen Jay Gould and more. Introduction by Oates and brief biographies of the contributors. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-9283.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 61127More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2005.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. SIGNED first edition - Includes stories by: George V. Higgins, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Daniel Handler, Laura Lippman, Dennis Lehane, Louise Erdrich, Edward P. Jones, Kent Nelson, Scott Turow and more. SIGNED by two authors at their stories: Dennis Lehane at "Until Gwen" and Scott Turow at "Loyalty." Introduction by Oates, notes on contributors, list of other distinguished storie of the year. xviii, 324 pp. ISBN: 0-618517456.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72508More details Price: $25.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2002.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An annual anthology which collects stories by some of today's best crime writers - including Michael Connelly, Sean Doolittle, Brendan Du Bois, Joe Gores Joe R. Lansdale and Robert B. Parker, Stuart Kaminsky, Joyce Carol Oates, Annette Meyers, Thomas H. Cook, Howard Clark, and many others. SIGNED by THREE authors - by James Ellroy on the title page, by Lansdale at "The Mule Rustlers" and by Oates at "The High School Sweetheart." Introduction by Ellroy. Notes on contributors and list of other distinguished stories of the year. xv, 405 pp. ISBN: 0-618124942.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74377More details Price: $65.00 -
THE BEST OF THE BEST: 18 New Stories by America's Leading Authors.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Signet, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology of new, previously unpublished stories, designed to celebrate Signet's Fifthieth Anniversary. Includes stories by Stephen King ('L.T.'s Theory Of Pets'), Joyce Carol Oates, Ed McBain, Joan Hess, E. L. Doctorow, Lisa Alther, Lawrence Block, Wendy Hornsby, Sharon McCrumb, Erica Jong and others. SIGNED by Joyce Carol Oates at her story "Color Blind." Notes on the authors. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-451-193903.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 73038More details Price: $35.00 -
BELLEFLEUR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1980.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An amazing tour de force - a historical novel which covers six generations of the Bellefleur family and combines actual events of the 19th century with the magical and the surreal. SIGNED on the title page. 558 pp. ISBN: 0-525-063021.
Condition: Very good in a very good minus dust jacket (some short closed edgetears.)
Book ID: 46833More details Price: $35.00 -
THE SACRIFICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which "illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives." SIGNED on the title page with her full name and dated in the year of publication. 309 pp plus an afterword. ISBN: 978-0062332974.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81148More details Price: $45.00 -
BECAUSE IT IS BITTER, AND BECAUSE IT IS MY HEART
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of two families in a small town in upstate New York - one white, one black - in the 50's and 60's - before the upsurge of the civil rights movement when racism was habitual and inflexible. 405 pp. ISBN: 0-525-248609.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread., but with a remainder line)
Book ID: 41423More details Price: $16.00 -
UNCENSORED: VIEWS & (RE)VIEWS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains trenchant pieces, always worth reading. on Doctorow, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel, Sylvia Plath, Richard Yates, Pat Barker, Michael Connelly and a lot more writers, popular or literary. xiii, 367 pp. ISBN: 0-060775564.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75605More details Price: $19.50 -
SOLSTICE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel - set in modern times, the story of two women who meet, become friends - and gradually the friendship begins to move towards love - and eventually to a near-fatal obsession with each other. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-525-242937.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 41415More details Price: $15.00 -
FAIR MAIDEN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. First edition - An 'ambiguous tale of mounting suspense and gradually unfolding horror' as the relationship between a working class 16 year old girl and an elderly rich artist develops. 165 pp. ISBN: 9780151015160.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 59074More details Price: $20.00 -
THE GODDESS and Other Women.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Vanguard, (1974.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An unusually attractive copy of the fifth collection of short stories, by this prolific and award-winning author. SIGNED on the title page. 468 pp. ISBN: 0-8149-07458.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dustjacket (just a hint of toning to the white background of the d) .
Book ID: 38504More details Price: $65.00 -
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES: Tales of Mystery and Suspense.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories which demonstrate that the female of the species is the deadlier than the male. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1011796.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (bit of wear to the top of the dj spine).
Book ID: 75611More details Price: $20.00 -
UPON THE SWEEPING FLOOD and Other Stories.
Edition: First edition.
New York: The Vanguard Press, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second collection of short stories - includes eleven stories - "intense, ironic, sinister and violent" - many of them award-winning. 250 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings and reading wear in a very good unmarked dust jacket (chip to bottom of dj spine, some wear to top edge of spine)
Book ID: 86534More details Price: $24.50 -
THE ASSIGNATION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories - racy, sexy, intriguing, and slightly off-center. ISBN: 0-8801-2005.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 30974More details Price: $12.50 -
THE EDGE OF IMPOSSIBILITY: Tragic Forms in Literature.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Vanguard, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which examine the works of such writers as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Melville, Dostoevski, Thomas Mann, etc. Notes, 259 pp. ISBN: 0-814906753.
Condition: Very good in a fair only dust jacket (bookplate, significant rubbing and some edgewear to the dj) .
Book ID: 75608More details Price: $18.00 -
THE PERFECTIONIST and Other Plays,
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes two full length plays - the title story, which was nominated for a Theater Critics Award, and "Black" - as well as nine one-act plays. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-880014008.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75606More details Price: $20.00 -
ANGEL OF LIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - An exploration of America's political heritage in this story of loyalty, revenge, betrayal, and, ultimately, forgiveness - the term 'Angel of Light' was used by Thoreau for John Brown, who was hanged for his anti-slavery activities. 434 pp. ISBN: 0-525-054839.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some spotting to edges of textblock.)
Book ID: 24563More details Price: $16.00 -
ANGEL OF LIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1981. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An exploration of America's political heritage in this story of loyalty, revenge, betrayal, and, ultimately, forgiveness - the term 'Angel of Light' was used by Thoreau for John Brown, who was hanged for his anti-slavery activities. SIGNED on the title page. 434 pp. ISBN: 0-525-054839.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 24562More details Price: $35.00 -
THE RISE OF LIFE ON EARTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New Directions, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon short novel by Oates, one set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the 1960s and 1970s, and which draws us into the secret life of a nurse's aide, overworked, underpaid and quietly overzealous. 135 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-11711.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53659More details Price: $17.50 -
I'LL TAKE YOU THERE.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2003.). Told in the first person, in edgy and sometimes incomplete sentences, this is the story of a an intelligent and gifted college student, who is also "drastically inclined to obsession." 290 pp. ISBN: 0-06-050189.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 51634More details Price: $11.50 -
NIGHT, SLEEP, DEATH, THE STARS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2020). Hardcover first edition - A look at the darker side of our society through the prism of a family tragedy. 787 pp. ISBN: 978-0062797582.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87940More details Price: $28.50 -
THE FALLS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press (Harper Collins), (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - From the dj: "A haunting story of the powerful spell Niagara Falls casts upon two generations of a family, leading to tragedy, love, loss, and, ultimately, redemption... explores the American family in crisis, but also America itself in mid-century." SIGNED by Oates on the title page. 481 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0722282.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81145More details Price: $28.50 -
THE FAITH OF A WRITER: Life, Craft, Art.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Discusses - among other things - the importance of reading for a writer, her childhood inspirations, and how she learned the craft of writing. 158 pp. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-06-0565535.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75607More details Price: $20.00 -
MY SISTER, MY LOVE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ecco Press (Harper Collins), (2008.). First edition - A dark, satirical story inspired by an unsolved true-crime mystery - the murder of a 6 year old girl, as told by the 19 year-old "survivor" of a family torn apart by intense media scrutiny. 562 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59383More details Price: $21.00