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ATLANTIS: Three Tales.
Edition: First printing.
Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press/ University Press of New England, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A short novel and two long short stories which explore "the intricate interdependencies of memory, experience, and self." SIGNED and dated on the title page. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-819552836.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75667More details Price: $45.00 -
WHERE MY HEART IS TURNING EVER: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform 1861-1876.
Edition: First printing.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Looks at more than 300 short narratives published throughout the country,in 16 different magazines, stories that either confronted or evaded the Civil War and its aftermath. Diffley divides these stories into three broad genres - Old Homestead, Romance and Adventure. Included in this book are three examples of these stories: Mark Twain 'A True Story Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It.' De Forest 'Parole de Honneur' and Rebecca Harding Davis 'How the Widow Crossed the Lines.' Illustrated, bibliography, index. xlvii, 236 pp. ISBN: 0-8203-1445-5.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 52069More details Price: $23.50 -
THE LUCKIEST MAN IN THE WORLD
Edition: First printing.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of 2 darkly comic novellas and 4 short stories. Winner of the 4th Drue Heinz Literature award (judges included Lewis Nordan and Joyce Carol Oates.) 212 pp. ISBN: 0-822934760.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (faint line on top edge)
Book ID: 83190More details Price: $17.50
