New York: Crown, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of short stories (the first won the American Book Award, and this collection won the Prix de Rome.) Set in the Caribbean, Virginia, New Orleans and elsewhere, these stories are touching, totally original and captivating. Dustjacket praise from Robert Stone, Barry Hannah, Russell Banks, and others. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-517-57067x.

New York: Crown, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of short stories (the first won the American Book Award, and this collection won the Prix de Rome.) Set in the Caribbean, Virginia, New Orleans and elsewhere, these stories are touching, totally original and captivating. Dustjacket praise from Robert Stone, Barry Hannah, Russell Banks, and others. 209 pp. Dust jacket art by Connie Nelson. ISBN: 0-517-57067x.

Chapel Hill, NC: Shannon Ravenel / Algonquin Books, 2002. dj. Hardcover - A collection of 15 short stories, most told in the first person voice, and most set in or around a fictional South Carolina town called Forty Five and featuring Singleton's eccentric characters - flea-market hustlers, a fish aquarium salesman, a bogus "primitive" artist." 287 pp. ISBN: 1-565123549.

Chapel Hill, NC: Shannon Ravenel / Algonquin Books, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 15 short stories, most told in the first person voice, and most set in or around a fictional South Carolina town called Forty Five and featuring Singleton's eccentric characters--flea-market hustlers, a fish aquarium salesman, a bogus "primitive" artist." SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 1-565123549.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine stories, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. 193 pp plus 2 pp list of previous winners. ISBN: 0-820321826.

New York: Penguin, (1989.). A richly nuanced collection of five long short stories by one of the best contemporary Southern writers. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0122524.

New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A richly nuanced collection of five long short stories by one of the best contemporary Southern writers. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0122524.

New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A richly nuanced collection of five long short stories by one of the best contemporary Southern writers. SIGNED on the title page. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0122524.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1968) dj. Hardcover - A collection of ten short stories, most which originally appeared in the New Yorker, with an introductory note by Stafford. vii, 276 pp. Dust jacket by Ellen Raskin.

Amherst, MA: Lynx House Press, (1992). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning mystery writer's second book, a collection of 10 short stories - "stories about family and about place. The family, most often, is an Italian-American family named, ironically, the Johnsons. The place, usually, is the vanishing edge of the California suburbs, where identity, culture, and desire merge in ways that defy easy stereotypes." SIGNED on the title page. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-89924081X.

New York: Norton, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of nine short stories by this author who is also well-known for the mysteries he writes under the name of Michael Innes. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-393-022927.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this often overlooked writer. Although referred to as a regionalist, she said she wrote about "people, situations, and their meaning." Her fiction was often set in Iowa, but she had traveled widely herself and she was not parochial in outlook. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1933. 277 pp.

New York: Fiction Collective, (1996). First edition - Interconnected experimental short stories. 132 pp. ISBN: 0-914590952.

New York: Harper Collins, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second book, like her first a collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0172541.

New York: Collier Books/ Macmillan, 1988. SIGNED - A highly praised collection of short stories, INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second collection of short stories, third book. Four interlinked stories are set in London, another set takes place in New Mexico. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-394-557832.

London: Chatto & Windus, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of shorter pieces by this Pulitzer prize winning author. Includes a novella, 10 stories and three one-act plays. set mostly in early 20th-century Tennessee, St Louis and North Carolina. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-701160020.

Watsonville, CA: Papier-Mache Press, (1997.). First edition - Author's second book, a collection of short stories which Wally Lamb called 'spare, impressionist, and finely crafted' and which 'build a fascinating, sinous path to then final title story - a tale of love and loss that, like the undertow, pulls you under, scares the hell out of you, and tosses you back up again.'. ISBN: 1-57601-0201.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of interlinked stories, which follows four New Yorkers living in a single square block of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Rather than bring these lonely people together in a conventional way, Thomas instead allows them to brush by each other in the street without ever noticing, much as they might in real life. Her characters haunt the same bookstores, the same neighborhood cafs - but as much as these characters want to connect to the world around them, this quietly witty book points out their inability to do so. 199 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-0248.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009). SIGNED first edition - A collection of twelve new stories by this award-winning author, issued as a trade paperback original. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp.

New York: Franklin Watts, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book - and second collection of short stories. Collects twelve stories which probe our deepest fears as her characters struggle to grow up, to manage friendships and to grow old. nclude the John H. McGinnis Memorial Award winning story "Naomi Counting Time." SIGNED on the title page. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-531097609.

New York: Franklin Watts, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book - and second collection of short stories. Collects twelve stories which probe our deepest fears as her characters struggle to grow up, to manage friendships and to grow old. nclude the John H. McGinnis Memorial Award winning story "Naomi Counting Time." SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-531097609.

Boston: Four Seas / Branden Publishing Co, (1989). SIGNED first edition - The author's fiction debut, a collection of short stories, several featuring the title character and others with occult themes. INSCRIBED on the title page. Utah Arts Council Publication Winnr. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-828319286.

New York: Random House, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's third book, a collection of short stories. A 1999 New York Times notable book of 1999. The title story was selected by Robert Stone for the 1992 Best American Short Stories and "Things Left Undone" was chosen by Tobias Wolff to appear in the 1994 Best American Short Stories. SIGNED on the title page. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-67944971X.

New York: Random House, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book, a collection of short stories. A 1999 New York Times notable book of 1999. SIGNED on the title page. The title story was selected by Robert Stone for the 1992 Best American Short Stories and "Things Left Undone" was chosen by Tobias Wolff to appear in the 1994 Best American Short Stories. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-67944971X.

Sag Harbor, NY: The Permanent Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book. In addition to the title novella, this includes five short stories. SIGNED on the title page. 166 pp. ISBN: 1-57962006X.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes 12 stories by this award winning writer - with settings ranging from England to Japan, the United States and Poland - but all with expose the complexity and strangeness of ordinary life. 181 pp. Dust jacket by Honi Werner. ISBN: 0-030436362.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - First collection of short stories by this author, the son of writer John Updike. The settings of these fifteen stories range from New England to New York and Italy; many focus on the passage from youth to adulthood. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-879237287.

Waukeeshka, Wisconsin: Cultural Press, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes eleven love stories linked together by a quotation from Shakespeare, and set in ancient Greece, Judea, and in more modern Europe. Introduction by William Miller and twelve illustrations. 399 pp.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2004). First edition - A collection of eight short stories by this award-winning writer - "each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate." Publisher's letter laid in. 328 pp.