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  • FUN WITH PROBLEMS: Stories. by Stone, Robert.
    Stone, Robert.
    FUN WITH PROBLEMS: Stories.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. First edition - Second collection of short stories by this award-winning writer. 195 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 58532
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  • THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR, VOLUME FIVE (5) by Strahan, Jonathan, editor.
    Strahan, Jonathan, editor.
    THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR, VOLUME FIVE (5)

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    San Francisco: Night Shade Books, (2011). First edition - Collects 29 stories by Joe Abercrombie, Christopher Barzak, Cory Doctorow, Elizabeth Hand, Kij Johnson, James Patrick Kelly, Margo Lanagan,Hannu Rajaniemi,Holly Black, Theodora Goss, Ellen Kushner, Margo Lanagan, Christopher Barzak, Maureen Mchugh, Geoffrey A. Landis, Ian Tregallis, Rachel Swirsky and more. Edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Strahan. 536 pp. plus publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-1597801720.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 89063
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  • STURGEON IS ALIVE AND WELL: A Collection of Short Stories. by Sturgeon, Theodore
    Sturgeon, Theodore
    STURGEON IS ALIVE AND WELL: A Collection of Short Stories.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Putnam, (1971) dj. Hardcover - Includes a foreword by Sturgeon and twelve new stories. In the foreword, he describes how Wina came into his life and changed it so miraculously that he was able write one new story a week for eleven consecutive weeks - the stories he refers to as the Wina stories. xii, 207 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj)

    Book ID: 65536
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  • TRAILER GIRL and Other Stories. by Svoboda, Terese.
    Svoboda, Terese.
    TRAILER GIRL and Other Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First collection of short stories by this author. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Molly Giles, A. M. Homes and others. 230 pp. ISBN: 1582430853.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 49124
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  • TRAILER GIRL and Other Stories. by Svoboda, Terese.
    Svoboda, Terese.
    TRAILER GIRL and Other Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First collection of short stories by this author. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Molly Giles, A. M. Homes and others. 230 pp. ISBN: 1582430853.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (faint bookstore stamp on front endpaper.).

    Book ID: 54864
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  • TRAILER GIRL and Other Stories. by Svoboda, Terese.
    Svoboda, Terese.
    TRAILER GIRL and Other Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First collection of short stories by this author. Cover praise from Molly Giles, A. M. Homes and others. 230 pp. ISBN: 1-582430853.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 75964
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  • STUPID BOYS ARE GOOD TO RELAX WITH. by Swan, Susan.
    Swan, Susan.
    STUPID BOYS ARE GOOD TO RELAX WITH.

    Edition: First printing.

    Toronto: Somerville House Books, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, SIGNED on the title page with the word "Enjoy." 282 pp. ISBN: 1895897734.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some light toning to the pages, otherwise like new).

    Book ID: 64773
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  • THE TIGERS OF SUBTOPIA and Other Stories. by Symons, Julian.
    Symons, Julian.
    THE TIGERS OF SUBTOPIA and Other Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eleven masterful short stories of boredom, frustration and murder in suburbia. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-670-712833.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some bleeding from the cloth spine, short closed tear and other edgewear to the dj)

    Book ID: 66668
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  • Tallent, Elizabeth.
    IN CONSTANT FLIGHT: Stories

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, several of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, "framed by the outposts of the new American West - Berkeley, Santa Fe, Boulder." 59 pp.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj, very short closed tear)

    Book ID: 35854
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  • HE KNEW LINCOLN and Other Billy Brown Stories. by Tarbell, Ida M.
    Tarbell, Ida M.
    HE KNEW LINCOLN and Other Billy Brown Stories.

    Edition: Early reprint.

    New York: Macmillan, 1922. Hardcover - A collection of four stories, originally published in 1907 and 1909, which present a picture of Lincoln as told, in informal midwestern dialect, by Billy Brown, a young Illinois neighbor. Includes an introduction by Tarbell in which she talks about the connection between the "Billy Browns" found in many small towns and Lincoln. In addition to her muckracking journalism regarding Standard Oil, Tarbell was also known for her biography "The Life of Abraham Lincoln." Illustrated with 6 full-page glossy plates, all in the first story. xix, 179 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in black cloth with red lettering and illustration of Lincoln on front cover, gilt titling on spine, no dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86429
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  • FRONT PORCH STORIES AT THE ONE-ROOM SCHOOL. by Tate, Eleanora E (illustrated by Eric Velasquez.)
    Tate, Eleanora E (illustrated by Eric Velasquez.)
    FRONT PORCH STORIES AT THE ONE-ROOM SCHOOL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bantam, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Stories told by Margie's father to her and her younger cousin about growing up in Nutbrush, Missouri and attending the one-room school there. A "celebration of family, friendship, and childhood - and of the storytelling tradition." Author's note - in which she states that while Nutbrush is fictional, it is based on the real Missippi River town of Canton, Missouri. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Eric Velasquez. 98 pp. ISBN: 0-553-083848.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 45191
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  • SEAGULLS UNDER GLASS and Other Stories. by Tate, Peter.
    Tate, Peter.
    SEAGULLS UNDER GLASS and Other Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects 12 short stories "ranging from the macabre to the mind-expanding." From the collection of Ken Krueger (1926-2009), publisher and founder of San Diego's comic con, among other things, with his signature in pencil on the front endpaper. 230 pp. Dustjacket art by Richard Martell. ISBN: 0-385018274.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder spray bottom edge)

    Book ID: 84543
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  • THE DEVASTATING BOYS and Other Stories. by Taylor, Elizabeth.
    Taylor, Elizabeth.
    THE DEVASTATING BOYS and Other Stories.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eleven short stories of men and woman suddenly confronting the unfamiliar. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-670270679.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good unmarked dust jacket.

    Book ID: 89226
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  • MONSTRESS: Stories. by Tenorio, Lysley.
    Tenorio, Lysley.
    MONSTRESS: Stories.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Ecco Press, (2012.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, published as a trade paperback original, a collection of short stories 'which explore the clash and meld of American and Filipino culture.' SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 54942
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  • DOG STORIES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW by Terhune, Albert Payson.
    Terhune, Albert Payson.
    DOG STORIES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW

    Edition: Vintage hardcover.

    New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., for The Parents' Institute, Inc., (c 1922). Hardcover - Contains 11 stories which tell the further adventures of Lad. A title in The What Every Child Should Know, third series. Full-color frontispiece. Bound in blue cloth with an embossed border of children in different poses and a pasted-on illustration reproducing the frontispiece. 341 pp.

    Condition: Very good (rubbing to the gilt lettering on the spine, so barely legible)

    Book ID: 88825
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  • Thames, Susan
    AS MUCH AS I KNOW.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Virginia-born author's first book, a collection of short stories about troubled women in motion, about love and what passes for love in families, sensitively and perceptively told. 193 pp. ISBN: 0-679-404953.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 35778
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  • Thames, Susan
    AS MUCH AS I KNOW.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Virginia-born author's first book, a collection of short stories about troubled women in motion, about love and what passes for love in families, sensitively and perceptively told. 193 pp. ISBN: 0-679-404953.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)

    Book ID: 35793
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  • GETTING OVER TOM: Stories. by Thomas, Abigail.
    Thomas, Abigail.
    GETTING OVER TOM: Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Algonquin, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of stories about "open-hearted, unsuspecting women of all ages." 204 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-0248.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark)

    Book ID: 87566
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  • THE BEST OF THE WEST 4: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. by Thomas, James & Denise Thomas, editors. Ron Hansen, signed.
    Thomas, James & Denise Thomas, editors. Ron Hansen, signed.
    THE BEST OF THE WEST 4: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Introduction by Ron Hansen. Contains fifteen stories by authors both new and well-established, including Peter Lasalle, Joy Harjo, Rick Bass, Ken Smith, Larry Levis, Rudolfo Anaya, Leslie Johnson, Thomas Fox Averill, Antonya Nelson, Kent Meyers, Dagoberto Gilb and more. SIGNED by Hansen on the title page. Notes on authors, list of other notable stories. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-393030180.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 67033
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  • A GATHERING OF FLOWERS: Stories about Being Young in America by Thomas, Joyce Carol, editor; Lois Lowry, signed
    Thomas, Joyce Carol, editor; Lois Lowry, signed
    A GATHERING OF FLOWERS: Stories about Being Young in America

    Edition: First paperback printing.

    New York: HarperCollins, 1992. SIGNED - A collection of 11 stories (most being published for the first time) by authors such as Gary Soto, Al Young, Maxine Hong Kingston, Lois Lowry, Kevin Kyung , Ana Castillo, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Gerald Haslam, Rick Wernli and Gerald Vizenor. SIGNED by Lois Lowry at her story "The Harringtons' Daughter." Includes brief biographies of the contributors. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-06-4470822.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 87132
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  • DARK MATTER: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. by Thomas, Sheree, editor.
    Thomas, Sheree, editor.
    DARK MATTER: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Warner, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first anthology to focus on the presence and influence of black writers in speculative fiction - it includes 25 stories (many of them original) three novel excerpts, and five essays. The stories range from Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Goophered Grapevine" (1887) to an excerpt George S. Schuyler's "Black No More" (1931) as well as Octavia E. Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night"and and Derrick Bell's "The Space Traders" (1992) Other contributors include Stephen Barnes, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Ishmael Reed, Walter Mosley, Robert Fleming, Jewelle Gomez, Akua Lezli Hope, Honore Fanonne Jeffers, Kalamu ya Salaam, Kiini Ibura Salaam, Evie Shockley, and more. Notes on contributors. xiv, 427 pp. ISBN: 0-446525839.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (significant toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 87246
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  • OAKLAND NOIR. by Thompson, Jerry and Eddie Muller, editors. Nick Petrulakis, signed.
    Thompson, Jerry and Eddie Muller, editors. Nick Petrulakis, signed.
    OAKLAND NOIR.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, (2017). SIGNED first edition - A title in the Akashic Noir series, this contains 16 new stories by Nick Petrulakis, Kim Addonizio, Keenan Norris, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Katie Gilmartin, Dorothy Lazard, Harry Louis Williams II, Carolyn Alexander, Phil Canalin, Judy Juanita, Jamie DeWolf, Nayomi Munaweera, Mahmud Rahman, Tom McElravey, Joe Loya, and Eddie Muller. Introduction by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller - Kirkus Reviews commented that they "have taken such pains to choose stories highlighting Oakland's diversity and history that the result is a volume rich in local culture as well as crime." SIGNED on the title page and dated 4/7/17, in the year of publication by TWO authors : Jerry Thompson and Nick Petrulakis. 267 pp plus 4 pp of Notes on contributors. ISBN: 1-617755303.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (sticker on the front cover indicating that this is advance reading copy, although it is a finished book, two lines on bottom edge).

    Book ID: 78205
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  • TOLSTOY'S TALES OF COURAGE AND CONFLICT. by Tolstoy, Count Leo N. ; edited by Charles Neider
    Tolstoy, Count Leo N. ; edited by Charles Neider
    TOLSTOY'S TALES OF COURAGE AND CONFLICT.

    Edition: First edition.

    Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first major one-volume collection of Tolstoy's stories, edited and with an introduction by Charles Neider. Includes 46 stories from all stages of his life, ranging in length from short stories to novellas. Most were translated by Nathan Haskell Dole; the three Sevastapol stories were translated by Isabel F. Hapgood. 574 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in a fair only dust jacket (chipping, tears and discoloration to the dust jacket, now protected by an archival cover.)

    Book ID: 54972
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  • SANTA MONICA REVIEW, SPRING 2008: Twentieth Anniversary Edition.Vol 20, No. 1 by Tonkovich, Andrew, editor. Terese Svoboda, signed.
    Tonkovich, Andrew, editor. Terese Svoboda, signed.
    SANTA MONICA REVIEW, SPRING 2008: Twentieth Anniversary Edition.Vol 20, No. 1

    Edition: First printing.

    Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica College, 2008. SIGNED first edition - Contributors include Jim Krusoe, Victoria Patterson, Barry Gifford, Robert Ontiveros, Jervey Tervalon and others. SIGNED by Terese Svoboda at her story "Drug Dealers." Notes on contributors. 225 pp plus ads.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 69720
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  • EVERYTHING RAVAGED, EVERYTHING BURNED by Tower, Wells
    Tower, Wells
    EVERYTHING RAVAGED, EVERYTHING BURNED

    Edition: First UK printing,a trade paperback original.

    London: Granta, (2009). SIGNED first edition - Tower's very highly praised first book, a collection of short stories. In her review, Michiko Kakutani comments that this collection "decisively establishes Mr. Tower - a magazine journalist who has also won two Pushcart Prizes - as a writer of uncommon talent, a writer with Sam Shepard's radar for the violent, surreal convolutions of American society; Frederick Barthelme's keen ear for contemporary slang; and David Foster Wallace's eye for the often hilarious absurdities of contemporary life." SIGNED on the title page. 238 pp. ISBN: 978-1847080486.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner slightly bumped)

    Book ID: 81296
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  • GROWING THINGS and Other Stories. by Tremblay, Paul.
    Tremblay, Paul.
    GROWING THINGS and Other Stories.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019). First edition - A collection of nineteen stories of psychological suspense and literary horror by this award winning author, including ÒThe Teacher,Ó a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story. "From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored." Notes. 333 pp. ISBN: 978-0062679130.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 78119
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  • GROWING THINGS and Other Stories. by Tremblay, Paul.
    Tremblay, Paul.
    GROWING THINGS and Other Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nineteen stories of psychological suspense and literary horror by this award winning author, including ÒThe Teacher,Ó a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story. "From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored." Notes. 333 pp. ISBN: 978-0062679130.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86710
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  • GROWING THINGS and Other Stories. by Tremblay, Paul.
    Tremblay, Paul.
    GROWING THINGS and Other Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nineteen stories of psychological suspense and literary horror by this award winning author, including ÒThe Teacher,Ó a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story. "From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored." Notes. 333 pp. ISBN: 978-0062679130.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line)

    Book ID: 86923
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  • SURVIVOR SONG. by Tremblay, Paul.
    Tremblay, Paul.
    SURVIVOR SONG.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020). First edition - In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun with an incredibly fast acting rabies-like virus - as society disintegrates, a man is killed by an infected neighbor and, in attempting to help save him, his pregnant wife is bitten. Calling upon her best friend, a pediatrician, the 2 embark on a dangerous journey to obtain a C-section to save the baby before the mother succumbs to the infection. 303 pp. ISBN: 978-0062679130.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 88927
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  • AFTER RAIN. by Trevor, William.
    Trevor, William.
    AFTER RAIN.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve new stories by this award-winning writer. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-670870072.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot).

    Book ID: 77872
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