New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second collection of short stories - but the first to be published in hardcover by a major publisher. These stories, mostly set on the West Coast, are about people "trying to make sense of the world that has fallen out beneath them." 318 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-03801.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1905. Hardcover first edition - A collection of mostly humorous stories with decorations and 10 full page illustrations by Will Owen. Tissue guard at frontispiece. 269 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

Boston: Little Brown, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, a collection of 12 short stories about those who fight desperately against fate. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316472239.

New York: Norton, (1998). SIGNED - Collection of 35 short stories written over a period of 20 years by this Booker Prize winning novelist. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-393317773.

Kansas City: BkMkPress / The University of Missouri, Kansas City, (1997). First edition - The author's second collection of short stories, - the title story is a wonderful tale of a 30 year old man overcoming his fears. 152 pp. ISBN: 1886157146.

New York: Grove Press, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first collection of short fiction - contains ten stories which "subvert expectations," sometimes with a jolt of violence. 231 pp. ISBN: 978-0802158765.

Toronto: HarperPerennial / Harper Collins, (1993). First edition - A collection of ten short stories by this award-winning author, born in California but resident of Canada for many years, and who identifies as being of Cherokee and Greek descent. These stories are "steeped in native oral tradition, led off by a sly creation tale, introducing the traditional native trickster coyote. Weaving the realities of native history and contemporary life through the story, King recounts a parodic version of the Garden of Eden story, slyly pulling our leg and our funnybone." Named in the University of Toronto Bookstore Review as one of the top100 Canadian books of all time. 145 pp. ISBN: 0-002240009.

New York: Harper Collins, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of "ghostly baseball stories" by the Canadian author best known for "Shoeless Joe" which was made into the film "Field of Dreams." 180 pp. ISBN: 0-06017188X.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (2003). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 13 stories by this Western writer. Barry Lopez calls "stories of laconic isolated men and prodding women. .. genuine, unflinching and tender." SIGNED on the title page. 220 pp. ISBN: 1555973841.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2002). First edition - Award winning writer's second collection of short fiction, nine stories which explore "rediscovered love, reconciliation, and peace amid the trials of everyday life." In 'Killing Stonewall Jackson,' a band of Confederate soldiers resorts to surprising measures to survive on the battlefield; in 'The Mesmerist,' a man hypnotizes a stranger on the train and makes her his wife, and the final story 'Blackout' is a comedy of errors involving two couples, a downed power line, a dead neighbor and a pair of night vision goggles. 160 pp.

New York: Plume / Dutton, (1998). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book (issued at the same time as his first novel), a collection of ten stories which capture "the pathos and small triumphs of everyday life, with its fumbling attempts at deeper human relations, disappointments, and moments of grace." SIGNED on the title page. Praise from Madison Smartt Bell, Winston Groom, David Long and others. A Los Angeles Times Notable Book. 161 pp. ISBN: 0-452278945.

New York: Plume / Dutton, (1998). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book (issued as a trade paperback original at the same time as his first novel), a collection of ten stories which capture "the pathos and small triumphs of everyday life, with its fumbling attempts at deeper human relations, disappointments, and moments of grace." SIGNED on the title page. Praise from Madison Smartt Bell, Clyde Edgerton, George Garrett and others. A Los Angeles Times Notable Book. An uncommon advance issue. 161 pp.

New York: Scribner, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of ten short stories by this award-winning writer. They feature his "dead-on observations of human passion and folly, his brilliant depiction of seedy locales and magical characters, and his original, wicked sense of humor." 212 pp. ISBN: 0-684837943.

New York: Washington Square Press Books, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first work of fiction - a novella and eight short stories - by this historian and journalist who has spent many years in the Caribbean. These stories are comedies of cultural misunderstandings, set in the Caribbean, Paris, and New York, in which the characters, because of their diversity, misjudge one another. Glossary. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-67103605X.

New York: Crown, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of short stories by this winner of the PEN/Nelson Algren Award (the judges were Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme and Roger Groening.) This contains ten stories, set in the Great Lakes Region of the American midwest, which examine the courage and loneliness of misfits in a society that values conformity 242 p. ISBN: 0-517567822.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of short stories set in desolate landscapes which explores the underbelly of contemporary America. Despite being praised by writers such as Thom Jones ("one of those rare writers who is as funny as he is profound"), Daniel Woodrell ("the stories are matter-of-fact, then lacerating, then humbly visionary and suddenly unforgettable"), Larry Brown and others, this remains Lattimore's only book. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-395854075.

Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of twelve "sharp-edged, uncompromising, often comic stories [which] take on the daunting complexities of our much afflicted and logic-resistant world. From the multiracial streets of New York City to Mexican villages caught up in social change, here are people of our times in pursuit of human connection." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-944072410.

New York: Harper & Row, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her only collection of short stories so far - the title story was the O.Henry Prize winner for 1977. ISBN: 0-06-0125543.

New York: Harper & Row, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her only collection of short stories so far - the title story was the O.Henry Prize winner for 1977. ISBN: 0-06-0125543.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, first collection of short stories. 143 pp. ISBN: 0+671+648829.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eleven short stories, the author's second book, and first collection of stories. 143 pp. ISBN: 0+671+648829.

New York: Doubleday, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third collection - consisting of nine stories - by this award winning author. SIGNED on the title page. 157 pp. ISBN: 978-0385539814.

New York: Doubleday, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of "nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original." SIGNED on the title page. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-385-512163.

New York & London: Liveright, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - First book by this Canadian author to appear in the US. Winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, these interconnected stories are set in a brand new subdivision in 1970s Toronto. "When a series of inexplicable suicides begin to haunt their community, no one is more fascinated by the terrible phenomenon than young June. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she sits hawk-eyed at the center, bearing witness to the truth behind pulled curtains: the affairs, the racism, the hidden abuses." 212 pp. ISBN: 978-1631495526.

New York: Random House, (2015). First edition - The third collection of short stories by this Nebula award winning writer, whose stories combine elements of fantasy with sly humor and understanding. Michael Chabon called her Òthe most darkly playful voice in American fictionÓ; Neil Gaiman said she was Òa national treasureÓ; and Karen Russell described her as ÒFranz Kafka with a better understanding of ladiesÕ footwear and bad first dates.Ó 333 pp.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1992). Hardcover first edition - Eleven stories, set in a German neighborhood in Pittsburgh at the turn of the century, populated by sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued gossips. Originally published in 1955 under the title Kaffeeklatsch. New foreword by Clarke Thomas for this edition. Illustrated with drawings by Frank A. Trapp. xiv, 135 pp. ISBN: 0-822937263.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's book, a collection of nine new short stories. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-374200041.

New York: Picador USA, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book, a collection of short stories set in a small midwestern town. The title novells is the story of two sisters growing old together, who finally face a lifetime of betrayals. SIGNED on the title page. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-312-186827.

New York: Picador USA, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book, a collection of short stories set in a small midwestern town. The title novells is the story of two sisters growing old together, who finally face a lifetime of betrayals. SIGNED on the title page. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-312-186827.

Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories which "explore the dangers and trials of everyday life." 206 pp. ISBN: 0-895871408.