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GANADO RED: A Novella and Short Stories.
Edition: 3rd printing, a trade paperback.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, (1991). Includes the title novella and eight stories, most set in the Southwest. Winner of the first Milkweed National Fiction Prize. Foreword by Philip Lopate. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-915943263.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 73168More details Price: $12.00 -
HAPPY NEW YEAR, KAMERADES!
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of short stories, many dealing with life on the dark edges - in the military, abortion, a woman with a crippled hand, homosexuality - each illustrated with a minimalist brush-and-ink drawing by the author. This includes his O Henry Award winning story "Be Nice to Mr Campbell" and a "rougher and tougher version" of his first short novel, "Casualty." Lowry himself had a tragic life - after early acclaim, he was diagnosed as a schizophrenic in 1952 (shortly before this collection was published), forced to undergo electric shock therapy and spent the rest of his between mental institutions and squalid hotels. 256 pp. Dust jacket by Gene Frederico.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some minor chipping and edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 66561More details Price: $24.50 -
EVENINGS AT MONGINI'S and Other Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Summit Books, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of ten sexually charged short stories set in Bombay, India during the 1940s and 1950s. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-67172746x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82304More details Price: $17.50 -
THE ASSASSINATION OF MARGARET THATCHER: Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt, (2014). First edition - A collection of ten short stories by this two time Booker award winning writer. 201 pp. An uncommon advance issue.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74826More details Price: $25.00 -
THE ASSASSINATION OF MARGARET THATCHER: Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2014). Hardcover first edition - A collection of ten short stories by this two time Booker award winning writer. 242 pp. ISBN: 978-1627792103.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74980More details Price: $21.50 -
LEAVING THE SEA: Stories.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First edition - A collection of fifteen short stories, ranging from traditional to experimental in form, by this award winning writer. Publisher's material laid in. 271 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in printed light blue wrappers with full color cover bound in.
Book ID: 82143More details Price: $18.50 -
RISING and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Beverly Hills, CA: Bronzeville Books, (2021). SIGNED first edition - Award winning Florida author's first collection of short fiction. Alafair Burke commented that her "insight and empathy resonate throughout this beautifully written collection. She has just the right words to make us feel the pain and hardships affecting her characters, but always with hope." SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half title page. 128 pp. ISBN: 978-1952427190.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87837More details Price: $30.00 -
HAMMERTOWN TALES.
Edition: First printing.
Winston-Salem: Stuart Wright Publisher, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories set in the fictitious community of Hammertown in the rolling northeast upstate New York dairy country. Masters is the son of Edgar Lee Masters, author of the classic "Spoon River Anthology." 128 pp. ISBN: 0-913773-182.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60151More details Price: $18.00 -
INCIDENTAL MUSIC: Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books, 2007. First edition - Canadian author's first collection of short fiction, seven linked stories, set in Montreal, Vancouver and on Vancouver Island, these show "Tannis and her husband Stephen, as they negotiate the day-to-day twists, turns, impasses and throughways of their domestic and work lives. . facing mid-life, aging and abandonment." 228 pp. ISBN: 978-0889822344.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84505More details Price: $18.50 -
ALL THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: The Collected Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80075More details Price: $30.00 -
CREATURES OF HABIT.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Press, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve short stories set in her fictional home town of Fulton, North Carolina - each story matches people with animals - "In Billy Goats, Fulton's herd of seventh graders cruises the summer nights, peeking into parked cars, maddening the town madman. In Dogs, a single mother who works for a veterinarian compares him - unfavorably - with his patients. And, in the final story, Fish, a grieving daughter remembers her father's empathy for the ugliest of all fishes." Small format. 240 pp. ISBN: 1-565122569.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84561More details Price: $16.50 -
TO SKIN A CAT: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first collection of short stories by this Western writer - 13 stories notable for their range in approach and in subject - from a homicidal rancher to a young girl facing motherhood and the childless old. SIGNED on the title page. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-525244603.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65010More details Price: $45.00 -
BUCKET OF TONGUES.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to the pages).
Book ID: 83828More details Price: $18.00 -
SHADOW BONES.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
La Grande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon, 1999. SIGNED first edition - A collection of short stories (the first book of fiction, preceded by some poetry books) by this Rhysling Award winner and Fishtrap Fellow - stories which "glance through sci-fi and fantasy on into other magical and imaginative spaces, never ceasing to pose the central ontological question 'What does it mean to be human?' " SIGNED on the title page. A title in The Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series. 116 pp. ISBN: 1-877655287.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76412More details Price: $28.50 -
DANGEROUS LAUGHTER: Thirteen Stories.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. dj. Hardcover - A collection of short stories by this Pulitzer prize winning author. Winner of the Ambassador Book Award in 2009 and named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year for 2008. 244 pp. ISBN: 978-0307267566.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 74735More details Price: $16.50 -
DANGEROUS LAUGHTER: Thirteen Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this Pulitzer prize winning author. Winner of the Ambassador Book Award in 2009 and named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year for 2008. 244 pp. ISBN: 978-0307267566.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 88063More details Price: $21.50 -
CAIRO DAWNS: A Story Cycle with a Proem.
Edition: First American edition.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1931). Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon early collection of linked short stories, with elements of fantasy by this Scotish writer. Includes introductions by H. G. Wells (two brief letters) and by Dr. Leonard Huxley who states: "Mr. Mitchell, with his vivid knowledge of the East, went on to plan a set of stories which should have the mysterious heart of Cairo for background, and should be linked together as the experiences of a Russian exile living in the city. The result was the series of a dozen tales of many colored romance.which.are now issued as Cairo Dawns." 313 pp
Condition: Good overall in magenta cloth with gold lettering (both free endpapers cut out, some fading to the spine, a couple of bumps to the edges of the boards, but a straight and tight copy), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 78135More details Price: $20.00 -
A WILD COLD STATE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995). SIGNED first edition - Second collection of short stories by this award-winning author - stories "linked by the cold, unforgiving geography of rural Wisconsin." SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67427More details Price: $25.00 -
DEMONOLOGY: Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of thirteen short stories (including one which is a parody of a bookseller's catalogue) by this award-winning writer, best known for his novel "The Ice Storm." 306 pp. ISBN: 0-316588741.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 84365More details Price: $17.50 -
LIKE LIFE: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth book, 2nd collection of short stories. Moore was selected as one of the 20 best young American writers by Granta magazine. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-394-58101-6.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65872More details Price: $45.00 -
BARK: Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First edition - A collection of eight short stories. 160 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72868More details Price: $18.50 -
THE BUS OF DREAMS: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of fifteen short stories by this award-winning writer, set in places all around the world from an isolated Greek village to New York City, from the Caribbean to Lake Michigan. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-395-362369.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44813More details Price: $15.00 -
HERE IS EINBAUM.
Edition: Limited, signed edition.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of five short stories, one of 226 specially bound copies, individually numbered and SIGNED by Morris. Printed by Noel Young, designed by Barbara Martin and handbound by Earle Gray. 84 pp plus colophon.
Condition: Fine in decorated boards with a paper label on the spine in a near fine acetate dust jacket.
Book ID: 81026More details Price: $80.00 -
THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart /Douglas Gibson Book, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of this very personal collection of stories - stories inspired by her the history of her Laidlaw ancestors, starting in the wilds of the Scottish Border in 1700 - by this award-winning Canadian writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013. Includes a brief foreword by Munro. x, 349 pp. plus author bio and 5 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 0-771065264.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88520More details Price: $35.00 -
THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK: Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - A very personal collection of stories by this award-winning writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013. Includes a brief foreword by Munro. x, 349 pp. ISBN: 978-1400042821.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74701More details Price: $17.50 -
TOWARD THE SUN: The Collected Sports Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88132More details Price: $30.00 -
AND OTHER STORIES:
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve new stories. 336 pp. Dust jacket design by Muriel Nasser.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.) Uncommon in this condition.
Book ID: 79961More details Price: $25.00 -
GOOD SAMARITAN and Other Stories .
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication of these fourteen previously uncollected and longer stories, "some of the best he produced, written during the nineteen sixties." The title story was published in the Saturday Evening Post in November 1968, the last story to be printed by a magazine during his lifetime. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-394490703.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, some wear to the top of the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 82448More details Price: $25.00 -
HAUNTED: Tales of the Grotesque.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of sixteen stories ranging from classic ghost stories to portrayals of chilling psychological terror. Includes an afterword by Oates. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-525936556.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83187More details Price: $18.00 -
SOURLAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes sixteen previously uncollected short stories - "stories that reimagine the meaning of loss -through unexpected and often violent means." 373 pp. ISBN: 978-0061996528.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (partially price-clipped)
Book ID: 83495More details Price: $18.50