Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First edition - A collection of stories set against the backdrop of the violent Maoist insurgencies which have claimed thousands of lives - they show Nepal's citizens strugglng with their duties to their aging parents, an oppressive caste system, and the frustrations of arranged marriage. 207 p. ISBN: 0-618-517499.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1911, c 1902) dj. Hardcover - A collection of nine short stories. Color frontispiece with tissue guard. A lovely vintage copy in blue cloth with a cream panel on the front cover, edged in gilt with gilt lettering, depicting a blue flower. Dark blue lettering on spine. 299 pp plus 9 pp publisher's ads.

Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing, (1948) dj. Collects six stories, three by each author. Uncommon soft cover issue in off-white printed wrappers. 141 pp. Dust jacket by Roy Hunt.

Prime Books, (2007). SIGNED first edition - The first in a new annual fantasy anthology series praised for being "a breath of eclectic and delightfully innovative fresh air. While the VanderMeers have included such fantasy veterans as Kelly Link and Elizabeth Hand, most of the 29 stories are by nongenre authors as well as gifted newcomers." (Publishers Weekly) SIGNED by 3 authors: on the title page by Jeff Vandermeer, and by Chris Adrian ('A Better Angel') and Daniel Alarcon ('Abraham Lincoln Has Been Shot') at their stories. Preface by Matthew Cheney, introduction by the editors. Notes on contributors. Recommended reading. 459 pp. ISBN: 978-0809562800.

New York: Bluejay Books, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects six short stories, of many possible futures, each focusing on men and women in transition. Includes "Psiren", a continuation of her novel "Psion". Illustrated with 12 full page pencil drawings by Susan Collins, who also provided the dust jacket art. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-312943644.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1979.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of interrelated short stories, originally published in The New Yorker magazine, and centering on three members of a Sienese family. 145 pp. ISBN: 0-684162768.

Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 1987. First edition - A literary journal containing fiction, poetry, reviews and essays, named for the river that borders the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. This was the first issue to include a chapbook, printed on different color paper and bound in at the center - Michael S. Harper's Po man's heart disease. Also includes contributions from Linda Hogan, Eileen Drew, Billy Collins, Andre Dubus and more. Illustrated, notes on contributors, ads. 118 pp.

Boston: Emerson College, 1994. SIGNED first edition - Includes stories and poems by Stephen Dobyns, Gish Jen, Elizabeth GIlbert, David Rivard, James Duffy, Tony Hoagland, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Maurya Simon, Melissa Monroe and others. SIGNED by Connie Voisine at her first poem "Hot." Book reviews, notes on contributors. Index to Volume XX. 220 pp plus ads. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 0-933277-121.

New York: Atheneum, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second collection of short stories. Dust jacket praise from such writers as Richard Yates, Gordon Lish and Terry McMillan. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-689-120613.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1993. SIGNED first edition - The true first edition, preceding the US edition, and only issued as a trade paperback in the UK. Typically indescribable novel by Vollmann - 'Butterfly Boy' is searching for love, in the company of a hedonistic photographer, in Cambodia and Thailand where 'Bendadryl and prostitutes with AIDS are his ever-present companions.' Illustrated with drawings by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. ISBN: 0-233-988084.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1993. First edition - The true first edition, preceding the US edition, and only issued as a trade paperback in the UK. Typically indescribable novel by Vollmann - 'Butterfly Boy' is searching for love, in the company of a hedonistic photographer, in Cambodia and Thailand where 'Bendadryl and prostitutes with AIDS are his ever-present companions.' Illustrated with drawings by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. ISBN: 0-233-988084.

San Francisco: McAdam / Cage, (2008). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a very highly praised collection of twelve short stories. Among those commenting are Chris Offutt, Stewart O'Nan and Lee Smith who said "There are large cracks in America, and a person can fall right down into them, and never be seen again. Many of Matthew Vollmer's characters are on the verge of doing that. Wacked-out teenagers, mountain survivalists, Adventist evangelists, compulsive gamblers, estranged mothers, Goth girls, world-class skateboarders, English department dopeheads, broken-hearted dentists, every one of them caught in the midst of an unimaginable situation." SIGNED and dated on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1596923126.

New York: DAW Books, (1981). First edition - Includes an introduction by the editor and ten stories by Stephen KIng, Dennis Etchison, Harlan Ellison, T.E.D.Klein, Ramsey Campbell and more. Daw Books, #445. 223 pp. Cover art by Michael Whelan, Note: vintage paperbacks are very fragile and need to be handled with care. ISBN: 0-879976470.

Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Walbert's very highly praised debut collection, containing fourteen interlocked short stories, set in the years ranging from 1954 to 1992. "The first half of the book chronicles the life of Marion Clark, a 'company wife' who repeatedly packs the household and accompanies her husband around the globe with a 'melancholy view before her of what seemed like endless houses with endless garages and endless kitchen windows.' In the stories that follow, her adult daughter, Rebecca, dutifully attempts to fulfill her mother's thwarted aspirations, 'but isn't sure where to go'." SIGNED on the title page. 197 pp. ISBN: 1-889330159.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nine interwoven stories which bring "a small-town high school to life through the sharp, spare voice - and the heart-pounding defeats and triumphs - of an athlete." 127 pp. ISBN: 0-375813519.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Hardcover - Ten powerful short stories of Afro-Caribbean life, set in the West Indies, Panama, and the Central American isthmus. An uncommon book (in any original edition) by this Harlem Renaissance writer who was born in Guyana. Although DuBois praised this book for its significance - "Here is a book of ten stories of death, which, with impressionistic pen and little plot, show forth with singular vividness the life of black laborers of the West Indies. There is superstition, unusual dialect, singular economic glimpses; but above all, there is truth and human sympathy" he also called it "hard reading." 282 pp.

New York: HarperPerennial, (2013). First edition - First collection of short stories by this award-winning author, which "veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once hip Seattle to never hip Spokane" and more. Issued as a trade paperback original, 177 pp.

New York: Norton, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of spare but compassionate short stories by this award-winning writer. 268 pp. ISBN: 9780393057119.

London: Gollancz, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes ten short stories - his fourth collection of short fiction - with themes ranging from parasitic aliens to the dangers of space travel and more. The title story is one of quiet horror as ancient witchcraft comes to a smug suburban town. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-575-039531.

Lewisberg, PA: Bucknell University, 2003. First edition - A journal of poetry, fiction and non-fiction and reviews. Contributors to this issue include Charles Harper Webb, Richard Selzer, Thomas Rabbitt, Moira Egan, Joseph Harmon, Joseph Bathanti, and more, Notes on the contributors. 145 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-971373035.

London: Flamingo / Harper Collins, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Tales not just of wicked women, but of wicked men, and children, and even 'from the other side.' SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication, 289 pp. ISBN: 0-00-2239213.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, (1934). Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon mystery anthology, selected and with an introduction by Carolyn Wells. Includes 'The Farewell Murder' by Dashiell Hammett, "The Ax" by Ben Hecht, and contributions by Ben Ames Williams, Melville Post, Jerome Beatty, Faraday Keene, McKinley Kantor and more. xvii, 533 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943. Hardcover - The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition of this influential anthology. Includes stories by Eudora Welty (first prize for 'Livvie is Back'), the second year in a row that Welty won the first prize; Dorothy Canfield (second prize for 'The Knot Hole'), Pearl Buck, Kay Boyle, Josephine Johnson and others. Introduction by Herschell Brickell. Appendix. 319 pp.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories (including her first short story "The Typewriter" which took second prize in a writing contest when she was only 17) and autobiographical essays, selected and introduced by the author - the last living writer from the days of the Harlem Renaissance. Preface by Mary Helen Washington. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471459.

Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library by the University of California, Berkeley, 1982. First edition - A collection of four short works by the author best known for the novel "Friendly Persuasion", including two which had not been published previously. Bound in at the beginning of "Babes in the Woods" is a "reasonable' reproduction of a manuscript page on yellow legal size paper. Portrait frontispiece. #30 in the series of keepsakes issued by The Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members. 67pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of eight short stories set in rural New England and rural Texas, which "explore the reality of life among the ill, the dying and the disadvantaged people who seem to exist at the margins." A presentation copy, SIGNED on the title page, and very warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page to another writer, and dated in 2004. ISBN: 0-15-1008523.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.). First edition - The author's first book, a collection of eight short stories set in rural New England and rural Texas, which "explore the reality of life among the ill, the dying and the disadvantaged people who seem to exist at the margins."274 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of eight short stories set in rural New England and rural Texas, which "explore the reality of life among the ill, the dying and the disadvantaged people who seem to exist at the margins." A presentation copy, SIGNED on the title page, and very warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page to another writer, and dated in 2004. ISBN: 0-15-1008523.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first book, a collection of fourteen stories, many about love in all its forms. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-813515351.