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BLOOD LINES: Long and Short Stories..
Edition: First printing.
London: Hutchinson, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 11 stories by this award-winning writer, some featuring Inspector Wexford. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-09-1791883.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68556More details Price: $18.50 -
MEANS OF EVIL.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hutchinson, (1979) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of five shorter pieces involving Chief Inspector Wexford, including one especially written for this volume. SIGNED on the title page,and quite uncommon in the first edition, scarce signed. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-09-1396301.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65762More details Price: $100.00 -
PIRANHA TO SCURFY and Other Stories.
Edition: First Canadian printing.
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rendell's seventh collection of short stories. Includes two previously unpublished novellas - "the long title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. There are shelves in every room, packed with titles which Ambrose Ribbon has checked pedantically for mistakes of grammar and fact." 218 pp. ISBN: 0-091793475.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (lower corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 74975More details Price: $18.50 -
GALACTIC NORTH.
Edition: First printing.
London: Gollancz, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Nine stories and novelettes set in the universe of "Revelation Space" including several brand-new stories and novelettes written specially for this collection. SIGNED on the title page by the cover artist Chris Moore, and uncommon thus. Slightly oversized format. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-57507910X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73482More details Price: $60.00 -
JEAN RHYS: A Study in Short Fiction
Edition: First printing.
New York: Twayne, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - In her 50 year career, Rhys produced just 5 novels and 3 volumes of short stories, but she was a central feminist and modernist voice in 20th century fiction. This is the first "full-length critical analysis of Rhys's contributions to the short story genre. Maintaining that Rhys's overriding interest was the outsider - 'the underdog, the normally silenced, the excluded, the ignored' - the Malcolms examine the stories from the perspective of this motif. Selected stories 6 among them 'Illusion', 'Mannequin', and 'Let Them Call It Jazz' - are given in-depth treatment, as are the heretofore neglected technical aspects of Rhys's work: narration, style, plot, action, and setting." Frontispiece portrait, chronology, selected bibliography, index. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-805708553.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. (as new, but sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 86553More details Price: $21.50 -
THE WHORE'S CHILD and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First book of short fiction by this Pulitzer prize winning novelist. SIGNED on the title page. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-375-411682.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 45535More details Price: $35.00 -
THE PUSHCART PRIZE XVII: Best of the Small Presses, 1992 - 1993.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good+ in very good dust jacket (short closed tear to front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 39266More details Price: $45.00 -
QUARTET. New Voices from South Africa.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Crown, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - A showcase for four talented writers from South Africa, this includes 4 stories each by Richard Rive, Alex La Guma, Alf Wannenburgh and James Matthews. Compiled and edited by Richard Rive. Introduction by Alan Paton. Biographical notes. 223 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (small address label on front pastedown, minor edgewear to dj) .
Book ID: 87849More details Price: $35.00 -
BAD BOY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - An Inspector Banks and Annie Cabot novel, one in which Banks's daughter Tracy is in grave danger. 341 pp. ISBN: 9780061362958.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62276More details Price: $18.50 -
STORY COMPETITION WINNERS.
Edition: First printing, a slim booklet.
Cincinnatti: Story Magazine, (1998). SIGNED first edition - Contains the winning stories from three years (1995-1997) of Story Magazine's short story competition. SIGNED by Ann Hood at her story "The Doctor." Also includes stories by Adrianne Harun, Peter Christopher, Amanda Davis, Mary Sojourner and more. Notes on the authors. 48 pp.
Condition: Near fine in light blue stapled wrappers (sunning to the covers near the spine) Uncommon.
Book ID: 82142More details Price: $25.00 -
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STORY [Magazine] Summer 1994
Edition: First printing.
Cincinnati: F & W Publications, 1994. SIGNED first edition - This issue includes works by Ursula Hegi, Bernad MacLaverty, Walter Kirn, Maxine Clair, Greg Sarris,Thomas Barbash, and others, SIGNED by Greg Sarris at "The Magic Pony." 128 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Good only in stiff wrappers (crease to corner of front cover.)
Book ID: 10717More details Price: $20.00 -
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STORY [Magazine] Autumn 1993.
Edition: First printing.
New York: F & W Publications, 1993. First edition - Includes the first published story by Art Corriveau, and stories by Evan S. Connell, Paula Huston, Danit Brown, David Williams, Carol Anshaw, Melanie Sumner, Sherman Alexie, Lewis Nordan and Aryeh Lev Stollman. Notes on contributors. 125 pp plus ads. Cover by R.O. Blechman.
Condition: Near fine in stiff wrappers.
Book ID: 71299More details Price: $12.50 -
A FEW LAST WORDS: A Parable And A Prophecy.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, (1970) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by Sallis, a collection of speculative short fiction, sometimes surreal, sometimes comic, but often with a quiet horror combined with mundane details, a glimpse of a future bleak and violent and full of death. SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 70580More details Price: $175.00 -
A FEW LAST WORDS: A Parable And A Prophecy.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, (1970) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by Sallis, a collection of speculative short fiction, sometimes surreal, sometimes comic, but often with a quiet horror combined with mundane details, a glimpse of a future bleak and violent and full of death. SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp.
Condition: Damaged condition - the back board has been cracked and bent, lower corner bumped - but the binding is still tight, spine is straight and the dj is very good. An uncommon first book, especially signed and in the first edition, and so worth offering at a significantly reduced price.
Book ID: 71379More details Price: $30.00 -
A NIGHT OF MUSIC: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first book, a collection of eleven evocative short stories with settings "ranging from pre-World War II Europe to a Nebraska fairground to suburban California." 183 pp. ISBN: 0-880012366.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread, but with a remainder line)
Book ID: 75940More details Price: $17.50 -
SEESIK THE SAILOR AND TRAMPO THE TRAVELER.
Edition: First or very early edition.
Clevland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Co., (1931). Hardcover first edition - Eight rather fantasical and humorous stories, each illustrated with a full page black and white drawing by Leo Nowak. 191 pp. Green illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Very good in green cloth with a pasted on color illustration on the front cover, gilt lettering (gift inscription dated Christmas 1933)
Book ID: 69860More details Price: $20.00 -
GRAND AVENUE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "novel in stories" - the author's first book, ten interconnected stories that depict the lives of the Pomo Indians, bound together by a lone ancestor and making a life off the reservation in the Northern California town of Santa Rosa. SIGNED and dated on the title page. Includes a family tree. Dust jacket praise from Peter Matthiessen, Sherman Alexie and Joy Harjo. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-786860170.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a few specks of foxing on the edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 82642More details Price: $30.00 -
THE HOUSE OF THE VESTALS: The Investigations of Gordianus the Finder
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, part of his 'Roma sub rosa' series of mysteries set in Ancient Rome. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-312-154445.
Condition: Very good in fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, stamp of private library on front endpaper, but otherwise a tight and clean copy.)
Book ID: 48664More details Price: $35.00 -
THE HOUSE OF THE VESTALS: The Investigations of Gordianus the Finder
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, part of his 'Roma sub rosa' series of mysteries set in Ancient Rome. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-312-154445.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 49484More details Price: $20.00 -
APPROXIMATION.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories and brief vignettes about life in Communist East Germany, written between 1969 - 1977. "Some of the stories have the nightmarish quality of Kafka, only they are not nightmares but meticulously noted reality. " Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. 267 pp. Dust jacket art by Gunter Grass. ISBN: 0-151078475.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light toning to the dj flaps, tiny nick at top of spine, book appears unread)
Book ID: 79117More details Price: $17.50 -
THE BED MOVED: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of short stories (several very short) described as "audacious, savagely funny." 139 pp. ISBN: 978-1101875414.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74584More details Price: $17.50 -
THE ROSE THIEVES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanich, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of short stories set in a small New England town, and, although it was recently issued in trade paperback, it is surprisingly uncommon in the hardcover first edition. ISBN: 0-15-1790132.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (an apparently unread copy, but with a remainder line)
Book ID: 19181More details Price: $17.50 -
THE ROSE THIEVES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanich, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of short stories set in a small New England town, and surprisingly uncommon. ISBN: 0-15-1790132.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.(remainder line, some edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 39490More details Price: $14.50 -
ANALOG'S EXPANDING UNIVERSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Longmeadow Press, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Eleven stories culled from 50 years of Analog / Astounding including Asimov's Nightfall and stories by George R. R. Martin, Hal Clement, Poul Anderson and others. SIGNED on the title page by Schmidt. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-681400323.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some wear to the dj at the corners of the folds of the flaps).
Book ID: 83564More details Price: $30.00 -
ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth book, first collection of short stories. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0153075.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (small star on bottom edge, minor edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 20452More details Price: $16.50 -
BLACK MAN OF SHADWELL: Four Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. (initials on first page, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 37702More details Price: $25.00 -
MARGARET OF THE IMPERFECTIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Persea Books, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first work of fiction (second book), a collection of short stories. Cover praise from Amy Clampitt, Guy Davenport and Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (who said 'In these remarkable stories, Lynda Sexson takes as her own that strange and enchanted place where the natural world intersects with the supernatural, where the civilized becomes aware of its bloody, rampant origins.') Striking dustjacket art is 'Magpies in a Snowstorm' by Jessie Wilbur. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-892551313.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 30947More details Price: $16.00 -
THE NEXT NEW WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the half title page with a long and wonderful inscription "For Joy, brave brave, lady, stay shining in the light of all the rivers, all the bright blue seas they give themselves to. See you again, yes? someday, down around the bend' and dated in 1992. His second collection of short stories (the first won the American Book Award, and this collection won the Prix de Rome.) Set in the Caribbean, Virginia, New Orleans and elsewhere, these stories are touching, totally original and captivating. Dustjacket praise from Robert Stone, Barry Hannah, Russell Banks, and others. ISBN: 0-517-57067x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 27092More details Price: $45.00 -
THE NEXT NEW WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of short stories (the first won the American Book Award, and this collection won the Prix de Rome.) Set in the Caribbean, Virginia, New Orleans and elsewhere, these stories are touching, totally original and captivating. Dustjacket praise from Robert Stone, Barry Hannah, Russell Banks, and others. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-517-57067x.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (embossed seal of previous owner.).
Book ID: 36156More details Price: $15.00 -
THE NEXT NEW WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of short stories (the first won the American Book Award, and this collection won the Prix de Rome.) Set in the Caribbean, Virginia, New Orleans and elsewhere, these stories are touching, totally original and captivating. Dustjacket praise from Robert Stone, Barry Hannah, Russell Banks, and others. 209 pp. Dust jacket art by Connie Nelson. ISBN: 0-517-57067x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64312More details Price: $20.00
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