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Description: Burmeister-Brown, Susan & Linda Davies (editors)., Glimmer Train Press, Spring 1995, c1995, illus. soft cover, vg-fine with bookmark laid in, 160 pp, B&W photographic & other illus., tall 8vo, "Stories by Paul Brownfield, Michael Frank, Lucy Honig & others, Interviews with Peter Carey & Kevin Canty" Read More
Description: Burmeister-Brown, Susan & Linda Davies (editors)., Glimmer Train Press, Fall 1994, c1994, illus. soft cover, vg+, 160 pp, B&W photographic & other illus., tall 8vo, "Stories by Steve Adams, Monica Wood, Frank Ronan & others, Interview with Paul Theroux" Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Date published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780394508269ISBN:0394508262
Description: Capote, Truman., Random House, c1980, 4th printing, cloth (hard cover), near fine with very good+ dj (price clipped, light edgewear), 262 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 0394508262, 'New writing by Truman Capote Including Handcarved Coffins', Literary Fiction; Short Stories; Journalism. Read More
Description: Bunker, Edward., No Exit Press (UK), 2010, c2010, 1st printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback with French flaps), very near fine, 190 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 9781842432952, 'Criminal classics; about criminals, written by an ex-criminal', Hardboiled Crime Fiction; Noir; Short Stories. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780395927205ISBN:039592720X
Description: Lahiri, Jhumpa., Houghton Mifflin Co. 'A Mariner Original', 1999, c1999, later printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), PO's name o/w near fine, 198 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 039592720X, 'Unerringly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations', Author's first book; Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780393313802ISBN:0393313808
Description: O'Brian, Patrick., W.W. Norton & Co., 1995, c1994, 1st trade pb printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), PO's name on half-title page o/w very near fine, 250 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 0393313808, 'Two hours, he had said. Surely they had been walking more than two hours? The night seemed a hundred years old' Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Date published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780815625926ISBN:0815625928
Description: Gillespie, Diane F. & Elizabeth Steele (Editors)., Syracuse University Press, 1987, c1987, 1st Edition, 1st printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), very near fine, 277 pp with chronology, notes, bibliography & index, B&W photographic & other illus., 8vo, ISBN: 0815625928, 'An illustrated critical edition of the stories and essays of Julia Stephen, the mother of the novelist Virginia Woolf. Includes biographical information, notes, and some drawings by her husband', Literary History; ... Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Date published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780345302298ISBN:034530229X
Description: Lovecraft, H.P., Ballantine Books 'A Del Rey Book', 1982, c1971, 7th printing, illus. soft cover (mass market paperback), very good++, 182 pp, 16mo, ISBN: 034530229X, 'Bone-chilling Tales of Horror and the Macabre', includes 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' and eleven others. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780061139673ISBN:006113967X
Description: Lehane, Dennis., William Morrow (Harper Collins), 2006, c2006, 1st Edition, 1st printing, boards & cloth (hard cover), fine with fine dj (as new), 8vo, ISBN: 9780061139673, 'A striking collection of five short stories and a play' Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780393036855ISBN:0393036855
Description: O'Brian, Patrick., W.W. Norton & Co., 1994, c1994, 1st U.S. Edition, 1st printing, fine with very near fine dj, 250 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 0393036855, 'Two hours, he had said. Surely they had been walking more than two hours? The night seemed a hundred years old' Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780316592109ISBN:0316592102
Description: Moody, Rick., Little, Brown & Co. 'Back Bay Books', 2001, c2001, 3rd trade pb printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), near fine, 306 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 0316592102, 'This exuberantly praised collection, full of deep feeling and stunningly beautiful language, firmly established Rick Moody as one of the leading literary voices of his generation' Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Date published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781570030574ISBN:157003057X
Description: Koon, George William (Editor)., University of South Carolina Press, 1995, c1995, 1st printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), very good+, 228 pp with notes on the authors, 8vo, ISBN: 157003057X, 'The American Civil War has produced a flood of storytelling that runs nearly as deep and strong today as it did a century ago', 'What sets this volume apart is its mix of familiar and relatively new authors, mosaic of perspectives, and inclusion of female and African-American voices' Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Date published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780517570678ISBN:051757067X
Description: Shacochis, Bob., Crown Publishers, 1989, c1989, 1st Edition, cloth (hard cover), small remainder dot on bottom edge o/w vg++ with vg++ dj, 209 pp, tall 8vo, ISBN: 051757067X, "Two elderly sisters rediscover their sexuality in a phantom lover who becomes flesh, a caretaker at work on a summer cottage invests its absent owners with the passion missing from his own life, these are the characters and the circumstances of Shacochis's second collection of short stories" Read More
Description: Ellroy, James (Editor)., Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002, c2002, 1st trade pb edition, illus. soft cover (trade paperback), very near fine, 405 pp with contributors' notes, 8vo, ISBN: 0618124934, "Michael Connelly, Joe Gores, James Grady, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert B. Parker & many others" Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New American Library
Date published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780452255852ISBN:0452255856
Description: Malamud, Bernard., A Plume book (New American Library), 1984, c1983, 1st Plume printing, illus. soft cover (trade paperback), vg++, 350 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 0452255856, "...stories that will be read as long as anyone continues to care about American fiction written in the 20th century" Read More
Language: Chinese
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780253124753ISBN:0253124751
Description: Jo-hsi, Chen., Indiana University Press, 1978, c1978, 1st Edition, red cloth (hard cover), some underlining in text, a few markings on reps o/w vg+ with vg+ dj (price-clipped), 220 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 0253124751, "This collection of eight stories-most of them melancholy, many satiric, some openly angry-vividly reveal what life was really like in China during and after the Cultural Revolution" Read More
