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  • LOVE IS THE CROOKED THING. by Abbott, Lee K.
    Abbott, Lee K.
    LOVE IS THE CROOKED THING.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second collection of short stories by this award-winning and highly praised writer, born and raised in New Mexico. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication on the title page. A title in the Bright Leaf Short Fiction series, edited by Shannon Ravenel. 182 pp. Cover art reproduces the painting 'New Mexico Landscape #5' by David Mason. ISBN: 0-912697-30x.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (name on half title page).

    Book ID: 81159
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  • LOVE IS THE CROOKED THING. by Abbott, Lee K.
    Abbott, Lee K.
    LOVE IS THE CROOKED THING.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second collection of short stories by this award-winning and highly praised writer, born and raised in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. A title in the Bright Leaf Short Fiction series, edited by Shannon Ravenel. 182 pp. Cover art reproduces the painting 'New Mexico Landscape #5' by David Mason. ISBN: 0-912697-30x.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 81158
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  • BEYOND THE CURVE. by Abe, Kobo
    Abe, Kobo
    BEYOND THE CURVE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & Tokyo: Kodansha, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first collection of short fiction, one which confirms his reputation as one of Japan's most significant modern writers. The stories - often surrealistic - start from the same point: a seemingly innocuous act plunges an ordinary individual into extraordinary, often nightmarish circumstances that lead him to question his identity or his sanity. Translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter. 247 pp. ISBN: 4770014651.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 57867
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  • PRIZE STORIES 1994: The O. Henry Awards. by Abrahams, William, editor.
    Abrahams, William, editor.
    PRIZE STORIES 1994: The O. Henry Awards.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    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…

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    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.

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    Condition: Very near fine (usual toning to the pages, but otherwise appears unread)

    Book ID: 58471
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  • PRIZE STORIES 1994: The O. Henry Awards. by Abrahams, William, editor.
    Abrahams, William, editor.
    PRIZE STORIES 1994: The O. Henry Awards.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    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…

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    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.

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    Condition: Good only (some crinkling from dampness to upper corner.)

    Book ID: 52278
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  • PRIZE STORIES 1992: The O. Henry Awards. by Abrahams, William, editor. Ann Packer, signed.
    Abrahams, William, editor. Ann Packer, signed.
    PRIZE STORIES 1992: The O. Henry Awards.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    New York: Doubleday, (1992.). SIGNED - The winning and finalist short stories for the O. Henry Award for 1992, .edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. Include stories by Cynthia Ozick, Lucy Honig, Tom McNeal, Amy Herrick, Murray Pomerance, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Michael Wagner, Yolanda Barnes, David Long, Harriet Doerr, Perri Klass, Daniel Meltzer, Les Myers, Ken Chowder, Alice Adams, Frances Sherwood, Antonya Nelson, Millicent Dillon, Kent Nelson, Ann Packer, and Kate Braverman. SIGNED by Ann Packer at her story "Babies." Biographies of the authors. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-385-421923.

    Condition: Good only (some crinkling from dampness to upper corner.)

    Book ID: 52277
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  • THE LAST LOVELY CITY: Stories. by Adams, Alice.
    Adams, Alice.
    THE LAST LOVELY CITY: Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories with settings ranging from San Francisco to a North Carolina college town to a rundown Mexican resort. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454411.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 39894
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  • WASTELANDS: Stories of the Apocalypse. by Adams, John Joseph, editor. Cory Doctorow, inscribed; Nancy Kress and James Van Pelt, signed.
    Adams, John Joseph, editor. Cory Doctorow, inscribed; Nancy Kress and James Van Pelt, signed.
    WASTELANDS: Stories of the Apocalypse.

    Edition: Third printing, a trade paperback original.

    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,…

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    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.

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    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (usual light toning to the pages and darker toning to fore-edge of textblock) Uncommon signed.

    Book ID: 81792
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  • WASTELANDS: Stories of the Apocalypse. by Adams, John Joseph, editor. Nancy Kress, Cory Doctorow and James Van Pelt, signed.
    Adams, John Joseph, editor. Nancy Kress, Cory Doctorow and James Van Pelt, signed.
    WASTELANDS: Stories of the Apocalypse.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    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,…

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    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.

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    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (usual light toning to the pages) Uncommon signed.

    Book ID: 81791
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  • STORY [Magazine] Summer 1997. by (Adrian, Chris, signed; Moore, Alison; Ida Fink, Richard Bausch, et als) Rosenthal, Lois, editor.
    (Adrian, Chris, signed; Moore, Alison; Ida Fink, Richard Bausch, et als) Rosenthal, Lois, editor.
    STORY [Magazine] Summer 1997.

    Edition: First printing.

    Cincinnati: F & W Publications, 1997. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Chris Adrian at his story 'Grief.' This issue includes works by Genni Gunn, Chris Adrian, Joseph Monnige, Allison Moore, Richard Bausch and others. 124 pp. .We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

    Condition: Near fine in wrappers.

    Book ID: 36264
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  • SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM. by Akpan, Uwem.
    Akpan, Uwem.
    SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM.

    Edition: First printing.

    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…

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    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.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82738
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  • SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM. by Akpan, Uwem.
    Akpan, Uwem.
    SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    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…

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    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.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps. .

    Book ID: 82739
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  • AN UNTHYMELY DEATH and Other Garden Mysteries. by Albert, Susan Wittig.
    Albert, Susan Wittig.
    AN UNTHYMELY DEATH and Other Garden Mysteries.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: Berkley, (2003). First edition - "A Treasury of Stories, Herbal Lore, Recipes and Crafts." Ten stories, including four written especially for this book, set in the small Texas town of Pecan Springs, featuring lawyer turned herbalist, China Bayles. SIGNED on the title page. Includes introductory notes, and boxed recipes, gardening tips and herbal lore scattered throughout. xiii, 254 pp. ISBN: 0-425190021.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 87306
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  • MAN IN HIS TIME: The Best Science Fiction Stories by Aldiss, Brian W.
    Aldiss, Brian W.
    MAN IN HIS TIME: The Best Science Fiction Stories

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Atheneum, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 22 stories written between 1955 and 1986, with a foreword by Aldiss. ISBN: 0-689-120524.

    Condition: Ex-library with usual tape marks, pocket, stamps, but otherwise a tight & clean copy in a very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 6952
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  • MAN IN HIS TIME: The Best Science Fiction Stories by Aldiss, Brian W.
    Aldiss, Brian W.
    MAN IN HIS TIME: The Best Science Fiction Stories

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Atheneum, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 22 stories written between 1955 and 1986, with a foreword by Aldiss. xii, 328 pp. ISBN: 0-689-120524.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 65108
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  • Aldiss, Brian W.
    A ROMANCE OF THE EQUATOR: The Best Fantasy Stories of Brian W. Aldiss.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Atheneum, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 26 fantasy stories written between 1960 and 1989 , the companion volume to his selected science fiction stories "Man in His Time." 345 pp. ISBN: 0-689-120532.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 6950
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  • Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem: TEVYE'S DAUGHTERS. by Aleichem, Sholom.
    Aleichem, Sholom.
    Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem: TEVYE'S DAUGHTERS.

    Edition: Illustrated edition.

    New York: Crown, (c 1949). Hardcover - Collects 27 stories translated and with a preface by Frances Butwin, Deluxe illustrated edition with drawings by Ben Shahn. Glossary. xvii, 302 pp.

    Condition: Good condition in turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover (previous owner's name). No dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82200
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  • BLASPHEMY: New and Selected Stories. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    BLASPHEMY: New and Selected Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Grove Press, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects fifteen of his best stories along with sixteen new stories. A fantastic collection by this award-winning (National Book Award, Pen-Faulkner and more) Native American author. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 464 pp. ISBN: 978-0802120397.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 82775
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  • BLASPHEMY: New and Selected Stories. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    BLASPHEMY: New and Selected Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Grove Press, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects fifteen of his best stories along with sixteen new stories. A fantastic collection by this award-winning (National Book Award, Pen-Faulkner and more) Native American author. SIGNED on the title page. 464 pp. ISBN: 978-0802120397.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 63350
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  • WAR DANCES. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    WAR DANCES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Grove Press, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories and poems, both humorous and passionate, by this National Book Award winning author. This book won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 209 pp. ISBN: 978-0802119193.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 63160
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  • BLASPHEMY: New and Selected Stories. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    BLASPHEMY: New and Selected Stories.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Grove Press, (2012.). SIGNED first edition - Collects fifteen of his best stories along with sixteen new stories. A fantastic collection by this award-winning (National Book Award, Pen-Faulkner and more) Native American author.SIGNED on the title page. 464 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 55193
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  • HANGING LOOSE 74. by [Alexie, Sherman, signed] Robert Hershon and Dick Lourie, Editors.
    [Alexie, Sherman, signed] Robert Hershon and Dick Lourie, Editors.
    HANGING LOOSE 74.

    Edition: First printing.

    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…

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    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.

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    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 46160
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  • DESPAIR and Other Stories of Ottowa. by Alexis, Andre.
    Alexis, Andre.
    DESPAIR and Other Stories of Ottowa.

    Edition: First printing.

    Toronto: Coach House Press, (1994). SIGNED first edition - First book by this Afro-Canadian author, who was born in Trinidad, a collection of "eight exquisitely crafted short stories shimmering with malevolence and longing." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Books in Canada First Book and Trillium awards, shortlisted for the Giller Prize. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-805059814.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.

    Book ID: 88526
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  • BETTER GET YOUR ANGEL ON by Allen, Jennifer
    Allen, Jennifer
    BETTER GET YOUR ANGEL ON

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of short stories, set mostly in Southern California. 112 pp

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj)

    Book ID: 41371
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  • GRANTA 21: THE STORY-TELLER, SPRING 1987. by Allende, Isabel; Ford, Richard; Carver, Raymond; Chatwin, Bruce; Berger, John, Suskind, Patrick and others.
    Allende, Isabel; Ford, Richard; Carver, Raymond; Chatwin, Bruce; Berger, John, Suskind, Patrick and others.
    GRANTA 21: THE STORY-TELLER, SPRING 1987.

    Edition: First printing.

    Cambridge:
    Granta, Spring 1987
    . First edition - New stories by Isabel Allende, Bruce Chatwin, Richard Ford, Primo Levi, Oliver Sacks. and more, Illustrated. Ads. 256 pp. ISBN: 014-0086021.

    Condition: Good condition in glossy illustrated wraps(lower corner bumped, some rubbing to the covers).

    Book ID: 86847
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  • TRASH. by Allison, Dorothy.
    Allison, Dorothy.
    TRASH.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    Ithaca, New York: Firebrand Press, nd (c1988.). Author's second book, a collection of short stories. Later printing. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-932379-516.

    Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 47937
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  • ALL CREATURES DARK AND DANGEROUS. by Allyn, Doug.
    Allyn, Doug.
    ALL CREATURES DARK AND DANGEROUS.

    Edition: Limited, signed edition.

    Norfolk, Virginia: Crippen and Landru, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects seven stories - including the award winning "Franken Kat" and "Roadkill" - in which veterinarian David Westbrook tends to the ailing animals of his rural Michigan town, and comes up against the dark side of their human owners. One of 200 copies, individually numbered and SIGNED by the author. Includes a separately printed pamphlet, with his short story "Saint Margaret's Kitten." Checklist of Allyn's novels and short stories. 194 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 1-885941315.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new) Pamphlet is fine in dark green wrappers.

    Book ID: 86582
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  • HEAVY WATER and Other Stories. by Amis, Martin.
    Amis, Martin.
    HEAVY WATER and Other Stories.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harmony, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of nine satirical short stories originally published between 1979 and 1997. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-609-601296.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80715
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  • HEAVY WATER and Other Stories. by Amis, Martin (1949-2023)
    Amis, Martin (1949-2023)
    HEAVY WATER and Other Stories.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harmony, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of nine satirical short storiesby this award-winning writer praised for his bleakly comic vision, and originally published between 1979 and 1997. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-609-601296.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 52178
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  • BLUE MESA REVIEW: Number Four (4): Spring 1992. by Anaya, Rudolfo A., editor; Luis Urrea Dashiell and Floyd Salas, signed.
    Anaya, Rudolfo A., editor; Luis Urrea Dashiell and Floyd Salas, signed.
    BLUE MESA REVIEW: Number Four (4): Spring 1992.

    Edition: First printing.

    Albuquerque: Creative Writing Center at the University of New Mexico, 1992. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by TWO contributors - Luis Urrea at "Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses" (an early publication, preceding his first book) and by Floyd Salas as his poem "Wedo." Also includes works by Paula Gunn Allen, Sherman Alexie, Peter Wild, Gerald Burns, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Ray Gonzalez, Reuben Sanchez, Rebecca Seiferle, Joy Harjo. Leslie Marmon Silko and many others. Notes on contributors. 221 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 70188
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