New York: Doubleday, (1994.). The winning and finalist short stories for the O. Henry Award for 1992, .edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. Includes 21 stories: Alison Baker's Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight; John Rolfe Gardiner's The Voyage Out; Lorrie Moore's Terrific Mother; Stuart Dybek's We Didn't; Marlin Barton's Jeremiah's Road; Kelly Cherry's Not The Phil Donahue Show; Elizabeth Cox's The Third Of July; Terry Bain's Games; Amy Bloom's Semper Fidelis; Michael Fox's Rise And Shine; David McLean's Marine Corps Issue; Elizabeth Graver's The Boy Who Fell Forty Feet; Susan Starr Richards' The Hanging In The Foaling Barn; Janice Eidus' Pandora's Box; Judith Ortiz Cofer's Nada; Mary Tannen's Elaine's House; Dennis Trudell's Gook; Helen Fremont's Where She Was; Elizabeth Oness' The Oracle; Katherine L. Hester's Labor; and Thomas E. Kennedy's Landing Zone X-Ray.. Biographies of the authors. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471181.

New York: Doubleday, (1994.). The winning and finalist short stories for the O. Henry Award for 1992, .edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. Includes 21 stories: Alison Baker's Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight; John Rolfe Gardiner's The Voyage Out; Lorrie Moore's Terrific Mother; Stuart Dybek's We Didn't; Marlin Barton's Jeremiah's Road; Kelly Cherry's Not The Phil Donahue Show; Elizabeth Cox's The Third Of July; Terry Bain's Games; Amy Bloom's Semper Fidelis; Michael Fox's Rise And Shine; David McLean's Marine Corps Issue; Elizabeth Graver's The Boy Who Fell Forty Feet; Susan Starr Richards' The Hanging In The Foaling Barn; Janice Eidus' Pandora's Box; Judith Ortiz Cofer's Nada; Mary Tannen's Elaine's House; Dennis Trudell's Gook; Helen Fremont's Where She Was; Elizabeth Oness' The Oracle; Katherine L. Hester's Labor; and Thomas E. Kennedy's Landing Zone X-Ray.. Biographies of the authors. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471181.

San Francisco: Night Shade Books (2008). SIGNED first edition - An anthology which gathers together some of the best postapocalyptic literature of the last two decades by renowned authors of speculative fiction - including George R. R. Martin, Paolo Bacigalupi, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Cory Doctorow, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King, edited and with an introduction by John Joseph . A book which explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in a postapocalyptic world. "Whether the end of the world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely surviving." SIGNED by THEE authors at their stories: Nancy Kress at "Inertia" and James Van Pelt at "The Last of the O-Forms" and inscribed by Doctorow at "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth." Each story contains an introduction by Adams. List of futher readings. 333 pp plus publisher's ads. ISBN: 9781597801058.

San Francisco: Night Shade Books (2008). SIGNED first edition - An anthology which gathers together some of the best postapocalyptic literature of the last two decades by renowned authors of speculative fiction - including George R. R. Martin, Paolo Bacigalupi, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Cory Doctorow, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King, edited and with an introduction by John Joseph . A book which explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in a postapocalyptic world. "Whether the end of the world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely surviving." SIGNED by THREE authors at their stories: Nancy Kress at "Inertia"; James Van Pelt at "The Last of the O-Forms" by Doctorow at "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth." Each story contains an introduction by Adams. List of futher readings. 333 pp plus publisher's ads. ISBN: 9781597801058.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2008). First edition - Nigerian author's prize winning first book - a collection of five short stories, each set in a different country in Africa, and each a testament to the incredible resilience of children. From a family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya in "Ex-Mas Feast" to a a Rwandan girl who relates her family's struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts, and a young brother and sister coping with their uncle's attempt to sell them into slavery, the toll of poverty and religious conflict becomes clear. Louise Erdrich called this book "A beautiful, bitter, compelling read. The savagely strange juxtapositions in these stories are grounded by the loving relationships between brothers and sisters forced to survive in a world of dreamlike horror. Open the book at any page, as in divination, and a stunning sentence will leap out. Newspaper facts are molded by Akpan's sure touch into fictional works of great power." Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa Region) 2009 and PEN/Beyond Margins Award 2009, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction among other honors. The author has his first novel, second book, coming out in November 2021. Map frontispiece. Includes a conversation with the author. 364 pp.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2008). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Nigerian author's prize winning first book - a collection of five short stories, each set in a different country in Africa, and each a testament to the incredible resilience of children. From a family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya in "Ex-Mas Feast" to a a Rwandan girl who relates her family's struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts, and a young brother and sister coping with their uncle's attempt to sell them into slavery, the toll of poverty and religious conflict becomes clear. Louise Erdrich called this book "A beautiful, bitter, compelling read. The savagely strange juxtapositions in these stories are grounded by the loving relationships between brothers and sisters forced to survive in a world of dreamlike horror. Open the book at any page, as in divination, and a stunning sentence will leap out. Newspaper facts are molded by Akpan's sure touch into fictional works of great power." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa Region) 2009 and PEN/Beyond Margins Award 2009, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction among other honors. The author's first novel, "New York, My Village", was published in November 2021 to excellent reviews. Map frontispiece. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-0316113786.

Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1999. SIGNED first edition - A journal of poetry and short fiction published three times a year. Notable for the fact that every issue includes works by writers still in high school. SIGNED by Alexie at his poem 'TheTheory of Cockroaches.' Also includes contributions from Ha Jin, Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Stephen Beal, Eula Biss, Lee Briccetti, Hayan Charara, Julie Cox, Susan Firer, Cliff Fyman, Ariel Greene, Linda Healey, Carmen Hoover, Daniel Kane, Richard Lehnert, Morton Marcus, Norman MacAfee, Maggie Nelson, Ron Overton, Tim Robbins, Barry Seiler, Harvey Shapiro, Angel Varga, Janine Pommy Vega, Paul Violi, Chuck Wachtel, Wang Ping, Bill Zavatsky, and more. Section of 8 photographs by Nancy Miller Elliott, who also provided the cover photographs of Miles Davis (on the front) and a man in a snowstorm (on the back.) 139 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 0440-2316.