New York: The Vanguard Press, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second collection of short stories - includes eleven stories - "intense, ironic, sinister and violent" - many of them award-winning. 250 pp.

New York Dutton, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Collection of 22 short stories that focus on the emotional turmoil of everyday life. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-525-939725.

New York: The Vanguard Press, (1977) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of stories which explore the dark side of the human soul - 'the other worlds of dreams and nightmares, mediums and odd-happenings.' SIGNED on title page. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-8149-07038.

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.

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.

Powell Butte, OR: Big Juniper Press, (1992). SIGNED first edition - A collection of seven short stories by this doctor who has spent many years working in the Alaskan Arctic and then overseas in third world countries. Includes an introduction by Richard Moss and two prologues and an epilogue by the author. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1995. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-962756938.

Santa Barbara: John Daniel & Company, 1997. First edition - The author's fourth collection of short stories, a "look at old family ties in the new South." 142 pp. ISBN: 1-880284200.

Sacramento, CA: Ecology Digest Library, (1987). SIGNED first edition - A collection of nine short stories, eight poems, INSCRIBED on the title page by the author. 126 pp.

Koln: Konemann, 1995. dj. Hardcover - An attractively produced edition of this collection of 14 classic stories of horror and detection, including - in addition to the title story - The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Purloined Letter and more. Includes a section of notes at the end. A compact format, measuring just 6 3/4 inches by 5 inches, and well printed on good quality paper, and bound in teal cloth. 310 pp. ISBN: 3-89508090x.

New York: Catapult, (2015). First edition - A collection of 44 short stories, sometimes very short, which was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Vanity Fair. Issued as a trade paperback original, one of two books which launched the independent publisher Catapult in 2015. 175 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by the author of Morte d'Urban, winner of the 1963 National Book Award. Powers has been called the greatest Catholic writer of the 20th century (although he rejected the label of Catholic writer), one whose writing contrasts the foibles of priestly life with the ideal of what it should stand for. These stories are of the people -laymen and priests, faithful and not-so-faithful - who live in the heartland of America. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-394496086.

Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of ten stories set in Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska and in other western or midwestern states, these stories have grit and authenticity as they explore innocence lost, abandoned, stolen and occasionally regained. Winner of John Simmons Short Fiction Award, selected by Robert Stone. 129 pp. ISBN: 0-877452202.

New York: Scribner, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of nine very highly praised prize-winning short stories, described as "fiercely funny and quietly heartbreaking portraying a group of cultural misfits attempting to navigate mainstream America." SIGNED on the title page. 209 pp. ISBN: 978-0743270465.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1975). First edition - A re-issue of the original Seven Seas edition (published in Berlin in 1966) by this journalist and radical activist best known for "Ten Days That Shook the World" about the October Revolution. This edition includes a new a preface by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who notes that "no American publisher saw fit to print" these stories, as well as an additional piece "Almost Thiry", Reed's assessment of himself, looking back. 144 pp. Original price of $3.00 on the back cover which notes that these were "suppressed and ignored short stories.". ISBN: 0-872860833.

New York: Doubleday, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first collection of short stories (second book) by this novelist and television screen writer. "The subject of these stories are all working men, part of a culture that is no longer relevant in a shinier America. Reid gives the reader an American landscape where blue-collar manliness is a value besieged from without and corrupted from within." SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-385491212.

New York: Doubleday, (1999). First edition - The first collection of short stories (second book) by this novelist and television screen writer. "The subject of these stories are all working men, part of a culture that is no longer relevant in a shinier America. Reid gives the reader an American landscape where blue-collar manliness is a value besieged from without and corrupted from within." 226 pp.

Eugene, OR: IFD Publishing, (2001). SIGNED first edition - A collection of mostly short-short stories, some mysteries, some science fiction, with an introduction by Kate Wilhelm and an afterword by the author. Illustrated by Jill Bauman, and Alan M. Clark. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated on Whidbey Island in the year of publication. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-96719122X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first collection of short stories, thirteen stories set in a contemporary America featuring "people, above all, contending with an ever-present element of fear" - whether from nuclear fall-out, polluted water, smog, a niece who is a revolutionary bomber, or campers who imagine monsters in nature. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-394-501918.

New York: Fiction Collective, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third collection of stories by this author, born in North Carolina, but living in Canada - "thirteen absorbing and exciting stories - about magicians, about wives and husbands, friends and lovers (some of whom are eccentric and some of whom are just 'down home')" 201 pp. ISBN: 0-914590421.

Downsview, Ontario: ECW Press, (1982). SIGNED first edition - A collection of eight stories, by this author, born in North Carolina, but living in Canada. SIGNED on the title page. 148 pp. ISBN: 0-920802486.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book by the author of the novel "Swamplandia!" Russell has been named to The New Yorkers list of the twenty best writers under the age of forty, Grantas Best of Young American Novelists, and the National Book Foundations five best writers under the age of thirty-five. 243 pp. ISBN: 978-0307957238.

New York: Orchard Books, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories for young adults by this award-winning author. 104 pp. ISBN: 0-531059006.

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories, a title in the Illinois Short Fiction Series. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Dust jacket praise from John Calvin Batchelor, Ursula K. LeGuin and others. 141 pp. ISBN: 0-252011155.

n.p. By the author, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Privately published true first edition of this collection of short stories by this Minnesota-born author, originally published in The American Mercury and The Woman's Home Companion between 1925 and 1931. Includes the author's memorable classic story of Texas oil fields "Windfall" as well as other stories of the gypsy life of the oil boom of the 1920s. Also includes some previously unpublished pieces on a family doll and her grandmother and a biographical introduction by Emerett Sanford Miles. Photograph. xi, 134 pp.

Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - First trade edition of this collection of short stories by this Minnesota-born author, originally published in The American Mercury and The Woman's Home Companion between 1925 and 1931. Includes the author's memorable classic story of Texas oil fields "Windfall" as well as other stories of the gypsy life of the oil boom of the 1920s. Includes a biographical introduction by Sanford's daughter Emerett Sanford Miles and an afterword by Lou Halsell Rodenberger. Frontispiece and chronology of Sanford's publications. A title in the Southwest Life and Letters. xviii, 179 pp.
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New York: Riverhead Books, (2001). An incredible collection of stories by this award-winning author "set against a warped, hilarious, and terrifyingly recognizable American landscape." 188 pp. ISBN: 1-573228729.

New York: Picador (St Martin's) (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second collection of short fiction - ten stories about love and what we do with it... SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-312-281781.

New York: Picador, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve stories, which reveal Scholz's remarkable range. "Traveling from the surface of the moon to the New Jersey suburbs, from Jan Van Eycks 'invention' of oil painting to the aged Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeths, from Galileo's telescope to a theory of catastrophes, they explore the places in the human mind where science and fiction merge." SIGNED on the title page and dated 25 Feb 03, in the month of publication. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-312269013.

New York: SOHO Press, (1997). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book and first collection of short stories. Contains nine stories, including the O Henry award winning "Dummies." SIGNED on the title page. 165 pp. ISBN: 1-569470707.

New York: Random House, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Interconnected stories about a father and son over a period of 40 years. ISBN: 0-394-569679.