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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First edition - A collection of eight short stories. 160 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York: Random House, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve new stories. 336 pp. Dust jacket design by Muriel Nasser.

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.

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.