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DREAMS AND SWORDS.
Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback original.
Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1991. A collection of gay-themed stories of mystery and speculation. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-941483037.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 83403More details Price: $11.50 -
HEARING FROM WAYNE and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of 18 short short stories, described as "carefully crafted studies in whimsy and moments of truth - all of them prompt a smile. In the title story, the narrator receives a postcard from his best friend, written from beyond the grave; 'After I Won the Lottery'concerns a man who has trouble giving away his money; and '37 Years' is about a man whose doctor tells him he has only that exact number of years left to live and who brags about the heightened reality of his existence as a result." (Publisher's Weekly) x, 127 pp. ISBN: 0-394555015.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84010More details Price: $25.00 -
DRY RAIN: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Lyons and Burford, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - HIs fourth book, a collection of sixteen stories by this Montana author, stories set in the American West about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. The title story was the basis for a short film starring James LeGros and Nathan Gamble215 pp. ISBN: 1558215549.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64895More details Price: $30.00 -
RETRIBUTION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Picador, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of eleven stories "set in cars, laundromats, motels, ranch houses, and roadside diners, where his characters struggle with and against the demands of family loyalty, love, loss, and sexual desire." SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket comments from Charles Baxter, Pam Houston, and more. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-31227680X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 69100More details Price: $30.00 -
BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second highly praised collection (her third book) of a dozen very original short stories. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-684-808560.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61138More details Price: $17.50 -
THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book and his first collection of short stories. One reviewer commented that they "step beyond being perfect examples of their form to become something fresh, compassionate, and witty. He has an astonishing handle on the way people talk, not just to each other, but to themselves." 258 pp. ISBN: 0-679436685.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81389More details Price: $18.50 -
CONSIDERING HER CONDITION.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Vanguard, (1978) dj. Hardcover - Award-winning Canadian author's second collection of seven short stories. 130 pp. ISBN: 09814908551.
Condition: Fine in light tan boards with beige cloth spine with copper gilt lettering in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78750More details Price: $15.00 -
AMERICAN FALLS: The Collected Short Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Seven Stories Press, (2002). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first major collection of short stories by this award-winning author. It includes 22 stories which "range widely in style and period, from the 1950s to the present, from absurdist exercises to romantic tales, from stories about childhood innocence to novellas of murder and revenge." SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 1-58322470X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86952More details Price: $30.00 -
NEW MYSTERIES OF PARIS: Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Livingston: Clark City Press, (1991). First edition - A collection of four stories in which Gifford "borrows the imaginations of four men -the painter August Macke, the narrator of Andre Breton's Nadja, an aide to King Farouk, and the artist and connoisseur of women, Pascin. The four stories that emerge through each narrator's voice are by turns straightforward, fantastic, bitter and erotic." Illustrated. 82 pp. Cover by Russell Chatham. ISBN: 0+944439314.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76306More details Price: $15.00 -
COLLECTED STORIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of her stories, chosen by Gilchrist herself, from seven earlier collections, including her first volume of short stories "In the Land of Dreamy Dreams" to her National Book Award-winning "Victory Over Japan" through "Flights of Angels." 563 pp. ISBN: 0-316299480.
Condition: Very good in a very good jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 79595More details Price: $17.50 -
THEY SLEEP WITHOUT DREAMING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - the author's fifth collection of short fiction, containing 10 short stories, and one play - "Cliff-Dwellers." 175 pp. ISBN: 0-396084931.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to pages)
Book ID: 83431More details Price: $17.50 -
GLENCANNON AFLOAT; or, Golden Rule and Brass Knuckles on the S. S. Inchcliffe Castle.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1941. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of seven humorous stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, featuring Mr. Colin Glencannon, a "canny old Scot," the Chief Engineer of the rusty S.S. Inchcliffe Castle, by this author who was also a fighter pilot in World War I, a war reporter and professional aviator and much more but who remains best known for the Glencannon stories. 240 pp.
Condition: Very good in blue cloth with black lettering and illustration on the front cover, in a partial example of the rather scarce dustjacket - one in two pieces, front and back, but missing the spine covering. Original price of $2.00 still present. Overall edgewear to the dj, rubbing and wear to the folds.
Book ID: 81795More details Price: $100.00 -
BAD NEWS OF THE HEART.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Dalkey Archive Press, 2003. First edition - A collection of 12 darkly humorous, "wildly inventive, deadpan commedies" by this award winning Canadian author. A Lannan Selection in the Canadian Literature Series. 212 pp. ISBN: 1-564782867.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers - appears unread, but corners slightly bumped.
Book ID: 86667More details Price: $18.00 -
THE FAMILY MARKOWITZ.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, a collection of interconnected short stories about three generations of the Markowitz family. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-374153213.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread, but with a remainder line).
Book ID: 76102More details Price: $15.00 -
A SOLDIER'S EMBRACE: Stories,
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve short stories, most set in her native South Africa, by this Nobel Prize winning author. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-670656380.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (hint of sunning to the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 79966More details Price: $17.50 -
LIVINGSTONE'S COMPANIONS: Stories,
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of sixteen short stories, all but three set in Africa, by this Nobel Prize winning author. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-670435708.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (discoloration from glue on rear endpaper, otherwise very tight and clean)
Book ID: 83285More details Price: $17.50 -
A SOLDIER'S EMBRACE: Stories,
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve short stories, most set in her native South Africa, by this Nobel Prize winning author. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-670656380.
Condition: Good in a dust jacket (some shelfwear to boards, corners slightly bumped, price-clipped).
Book ID: 78698More details Price: $13.50 -
I SAW A MAN HIT HIS WIFE.
Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback.
Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, (1997). SIGNED - Collection of short stories about men and women caught up in love's complexity SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in Oakland, 2005. 167 pp. ISBN: 1877727644.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 64177More details Price: $21.50 -
WHITE PEOPLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by this Southern writer and his first collection of shorter fiction, consisting of nine stories and two novellas, written over a period of 20 years. 252 pp. Dust jacket design by Chip Kidd. ISBN: 0-394-58841X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark)
Book ID: 78565More details Price: $16.50 -
HIGH LONESOME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of thirteen short stories - "darkly comic, fiercely tragic and always strikingly original." SIGNED on the title page. Hannah received the Pen/Faulkner award for short fiction, and this collection, the last to be published during his lifetime, was nominated for the Pulitzer. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-871136686.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (some toning to the edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 68372More details Price: $40.00 -
JIGS AND REELS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Doubleday, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first collection of short stories by the author of "Chocolat." The characters in these 22 stories include "Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear." SIGNED on the title page. Small format. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-385606427.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73878More details Price: $30.00 -
LIKE NEVER BEFORE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of ten short stories by this award winning writer. 268 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61255More details Price: $18.00 -
PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES: Portraits from Organization Life.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book, a collection of eight short stories, by this Australian-American writer, one which is "a masterpiece of observation which clearly demonstrates the authors perceptive wit. Set in the 1950s, amidst the corridors and offices of the newly-created monolithic and meandering bureaucracy of 'the Organization' (read the United Nations, where Hazzard worked for 10 years) an American-based concern intent on inflicting improvement the world over, readers are introduced to an immalleable world hemmed in by regulations, memoranda and mediocrity. A place where once vibrant personalities are smothered and strangulated by red tape, and the general life-sapping realities of paper-pushing and the exacting demands of pointless tasks reign paramount." 179 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, 'H' on front endpaper, light overall edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 83919More details Price: $40.00 -
THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN US.
Edition: First printing.
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of five stories. A Breakthrough Book. 113 pp. ISBN: 0-826201415.
Condition: Near fine in a fair only dust jacket (overall edgewear and short closed tears to the dj, small hole in middle of spine, toning - now protected by an archival cover) .
Book ID: 70128More details Price: $14.50 -
LIMBO RIVER.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Ecco Press, 1991. Collection of short stories - winner of the Heinz Drue prize for literature. ISBN: 0-88001-315x.
Condition: Very good (bookstore's "bargain stamp" on first page.)
Book ID: 19253More details Price: $8.50 -
LIMBO RIVER.
Edition: First printing.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories - winner of the Heinz Drue prize for literature, selected by Russell Banks, who called this 'a wonderful book - in the rarified company of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff.' 142 pp. ISBN: 0-9229-36534.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69072More details Price: $25.00 -
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW: A Collection of Stories.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2002) dj. Hardcover - Includes eleven short stories - cover praise from Michael Cunningham, Robert Stone and others. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-688167128.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75536More details Price: $14.50 -
DISLOCATIONS.
Edition: First US printing.
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised first collection of short stories by this Australian-born novelist who now lives in Canada. A previous recipient of Canada's Seal Award, Hospital is not as well-known as her writing would merit; this collection also received the Fiction Award of the Fellowship of Australian Authors. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1992. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-15088.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84564More details Price: $35.00 -
ONLY THE LITTLE BONE: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of short fiction - six interconnected short stories and one novella set in rural Virginia in the 1950s - by this poet and storyteller. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-879236248.
Condition: Near fine in a fair dust jacket (long tear along the fold of the rear cover with associated creasing).
Book ID: 85230More details Price: $16.50 -
SEPTEMBER SONG
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twenty short stories that "reach deep into the heart of American life." 256 pp. ISBN: 0-395-584140.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84443More details Price: $18.00
