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A HOLE IN THE LEAD APRON and Six Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book and first collection of shorter works - three novellas, four short stories - by this author, with three of the stories rooted in World War II. The NY Times review noted "their combination of sound, fictional craftsmanship with a lowering and sinister vision of life. . . his [characters are] acting roles designed to dramatize the ironies, the sinister mysteries and the dark fears." Born in New Jersey, and transplanted to Montana, WWII veteran writer and professor, Bier wrote several novels, short stories, plays, and scholarly essays and nonfiction during his tenure at the University of Montana, including in 2018, in his 93rd year a collection of poetry with the appropriate name of "Phenomenal Farewell." 248 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83315More details Price: $30.00 -
A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY, A WATCHER BY THE DEAD, and THE MAN AND THE SNAKE.
Edition: Limited edition.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1920. Hardcover first edition - #171 out of a total edition of 400 copies of this collection of three short stories. Printed by John Henry Nash with decorations by Ray F. Coyle. 37 pp plus colophon.
Condition: Good condition - some sunning to the marbled paper boards. Olive green cloth spine, paper label. Long and interesting gift inscription on the front endpaper ("to the most devoted and loving mother on my first Christmas away from home") followed by the mother's comments in 1949 about her ever-thoughtful and generous son. Photograph laid in.
Book ID: 69516More details Price: $35.00 -
TRANSGRESSIONS: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of eleven short stories which seem to examine modern-day "transgressions" in affairs of the heart - but the real transgressions are those of the self against the self. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 180 pp. ISBN: 1-889330779.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79399More details Price: $30.00 -
IN THE SHADOW OF OUR HOUSE: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a "collection of nine thematically linked stories set in Austin, Texas, people live on the cusp of the past and present. . [His characters] face the results of the irrevocable choices they've made, accept their losses and attempt to forge something meaningful out of what remains." SIGNED on the half title page. 159 pp. ISBN: 0-87074464X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 82416More details Price: $30.00 -
ONE NIGHT STANDS.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Contains 24 early previously uncollected Block stories which were originally published in the 1950s hard-boiled mystery digests. Includes a new introduction by Block, and a bonus science fiction story, "Make a Prison," in a separately printed pamphlet tucked into a bright yellow pocket on the rear pastedown. "122 out of 450 SIGNED and numbered copies. 206 pp. ISBN: 1-885941307.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (some sunning to the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 67644More details Price: $50.00 -
A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD: Short Fictions.
Edition: First printing.
Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first major collection of this award-winning writer's work - in her introduction Hoffman notes that Bocock is a writer who "has long been admired by other writers." Spanning over half a century, this collection of twelve short stories and one novalle introduces readers to Bocock's powerfully assured and accomplished short fiction. These are stories of courageous women facing crises of identity, oppression, and betrayal. The first five are set in the South where Bocock was born and raised. Introduction by Alice Hoffman. SIGNED on the bottom of the title page by Alice Hoffman, and uncommon thus. 246 pp. ISBN: 1-581950004.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 80875More details Price: $30.00 -
THE NOTEBOOKS OF LENI CLARE and Other Short Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, (19820. First edition - A collection of short stories. In addition to the long title story, this includes Kansas in the Spring, The Cutting Room, Charm School and 3 other stories. A title in the Crossing Press Feminist Series 150 pp. ISBN: 0-895940760.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some creasing to the covers, red stain on bottom edge)
Book ID: 78663More details Price: $13.50 -
EARLY STORIES: Encounters and Ann Lee's.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes 25 stories - all those which appeared in her first two collections: "Encounters" published in 1923, and "Ann Lee's and Other Stories" in 1926 - with a new preface by Bowen for this combined edition. xx, 364 pp.
Condition: Good in mauve cloth with silver lettering on spine (toning to pages) in a fair only dust jacket with several small chips, rubbing and spotting to back cover, price-clipped.
Book ID: 78334More details Price: $15.00 -
THE HUMAN FLY and Other Stories.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Speak / Penguin, (2005). First edition - A collection of fifteen short stories, selected for their appeal to young adults, including the first book publication of "Almost Shooting an Elephant." Afterword by Boyle in which he discusses storytelling, and these stories. 179 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81892More details Price: $20.00 -
THE HUMAN FLY and Other Stories.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Speak / Penguin, (2005). SIGNED first edition - A collection of fifteen short stories, selected for their appeal to young adults, including the first book publication of "Almost Shooting an Elephant." Afterword by Boyle in which he discusses storytelling, and these stories. SIGNED on the title page. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-142403636.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81891More details Price: $30.00 -
STORIES II: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A massive volume containing 58 stories written over the past 18 years by one of the masters of the form - this includes work from his three most recent collections along with fourteen new tales previously unpublished in book form and a preface in which Boyle looks back on his career as a writer of stories and the art of making them. SIGNED on the title page. 915 pp. ISBN: 978-0670026258.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 69510More details Price: $35.00 -
TOOTH AND CLAW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen short stories, by one of the best American short story writers of his time. SIGNED on the title page. 284 pp. ISBN: 0-670034355.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81877More details Price: $35.00 -
TOOTH AND CLAW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen short stories, by one of the best American short story writers of his time. SIGNED on the title page. 284 pp. ISBN: 0-670034355.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (few rubbed spots on front cover of dj
Book ID: 81878More details Price: $31.50 -
TOOTH AND CLAW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen short stories, by one of the best American short story writers of his time. SIGNED on the title page. 284 pp. ISBN: 0-670034355.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (small peeled spot on front cover, creasing to dj at top of spine).
Book ID: 70560More details Price: $30.00 -
IF THE RIVER WAS WHISKEY: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-670-826901.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81918More details Price: $35.00 -
WITHOUT A HERO: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth collection of short stories, by this highly praised author - 15 stories which display his 'astonishing range.' SIGNED on the title page. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-670-849634.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81916More details Price: $30.00 -
AFTER THE PLAGUE AND OTHER STORIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His sixth collection of short stories. The title story is an account of life in a post-apocalyptic world, where the narrator only survived the plague that destroyed almost the entire human population because he was camping in a remote Sierra cabin, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-670030058.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 81914More details Price: $35.00 -
WILD CHILD: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2010). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen short stories which "showcase the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of our time." The long title story is an imaginative retelling of the story of a feral boy who was "captured" in Napleonic France. SIGNED on the title page. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0670021420.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81940More details Price: $35.00 -
WILD CHILD: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2010). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen short stories which "showcase the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of our time." The long title story is an imaginative retelling of the story of a feral boy who was "captured" in Napleonic France. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0670021420.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81941More details Price: $40.00 -
THE ROSE GARDEN: Short Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous collection of 20 short stories by this Irish-born author, 19 originally published in The New Yorker in the 1950s and 1960s, and set in both her native Dublin and her adopted home of Manhattan. Includes 6 stories which had not previously been collected. vii, 307 pp. plus final note. ISBN: 1-582430500.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 86957More details Price: $18.50 -
STORIES IN AN ALMOST CLASSICAL MODE.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. First edition - His second collection of short stories, spanning three decades, and arranged in chronological order. Bibliographical note. 602 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed cream wrappers (light crease to lower corner of front cover) in a fine mock-up of the dust jacket.
Book ID: 66958More details Price: $24.50 -
STORIES IN AN ALMOST CLASSICAL MODE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of short stories, spanning three decades, and arranged in chronological order. Bibliographical note. 596 pp. ISBN: 0-394506995.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to dj at upper corner.)
Book ID: 78688More details Price: $19.50 -
STORIES IN AN ALMOST CLASSICAL MODE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of short stories, spanning three decades, and arranged in chronological order. Bibliographical note. 596 pp. ISBN: 0-394506995.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 42939More details Price: $16.50 -
WHAT KEEPS ME HERE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, both realistic and fantastic, by this prize-winning author. INSCRIBED on the title page. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0174404.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64775More details Price: $28.50 -
MAN WITHOUT MEMORY.
Edition: First printing.
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories described by Madison Smartt Bell as "thoughtful and thought-provoking, wittily executed, seriously conceived, and refreshingly dissimilar to almost anything else in recent American fiction." Burgin is a five-time winner of the Pushcart Prize (two of his winning stories are in this collection) and editor for more than 25 years of the award-winning journal Boulevard, among other things. SIGNED and dated on the title page. A title in the Illinois Short Fiction series. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-252016025.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86571More details Price: $35.00 -
THE CHILDREN IN THE WOODS: New and Selected Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1994. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of twenty-three short stories, including eight previously uncollected, by this award-winning writer - stories which "center around relationships gone awry, families grappling with loss, and lonely men and women struggling with remnants of love." SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-39564724X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81476More details Price: $35.00 -
DON'T TELL ANYONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of seventeen short stories by this award-winning writers. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-393-049736.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71852More details Price: $18.50 -
HAD A GOOD TIME: Stories from American Postcards.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of fifteen short stories, each inspired by the comments written on the back of postcards (the actual postcard is pictured at the beginning of each story.) 367 pp. ISBN: 0-802117775.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 74526More details Price: $16.50 -
HAD A GOOD TIME: Stories from American Postcards.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fifteen short stories, each inspired by the comments written on the back of postcards (the actual postcard is pictured at the beginning of each story.) SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-802117775.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76566More details Price: $30.00 -
THE COAST OF GOOD INTENTIONS.
Edition: Trade paperback original, later printing.
New York Mariner Books (1998). SIGNED - The author's first book, a collection of short stories that describe living in the Pacific Northwest coast - from the lives of ferry workers, carpenters and park rangers to adolescents leaving home and retirees coming home again. SIGNED on the title page with the words "this one is with all best." A Best American Short Stories Discovery. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-395-891701.
Condition: Near fine .
Book ID: 60757More details Price: $14.50
