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To See You Again: Stories

By: Adams, Alice

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Seller ID: 2270618

ISBN: 0394523350

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 304 pp. Tells the stories of a woman distraught over the loss of her husband's diaries, a teachers's unexpected attraction towards a student, and an artist's reevaluation of her life and accomplishments.
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Return Trips: Stories

By: Adams, Alice

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1985

Seller ID: 2270620

ISBN: 0394536339

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Top edge and endpapers faintly foxed, jacket lightly toned with faint crease on front flap corner, spine cloth a bit discolored along edges. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 195 pp. The author writes in these stories of people in motion, traveling in search of friends, culture, renewed engagement with life--people seeking the magic of a new place or traveling to places of childhood to put the past to rest.
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Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine, June 1934 (Vol. XCVI, No. 6, [Whole] No. 576)

By: Adams, Franklin P.; Chambers, Robert W.; Lyons, Eugene; Cram, Mildred; Holbrook, Weare; Sabatini, Rafael; Rickenbacker, E.V. [Eddie Vernon]; Knight, Clayton; Ripley, Clements; Swift, J. Otis; Kyne, Peter B.; Barton, Bruce; Abdullah, Achmed; Flagg, James

Price: $60.00

Publisher: International Magazine Company, Inc.: 1934

Seller ID: 2292766

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Edges lightly rubbed and foxed. 1934 Magazine. 200 pp. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2. Harrison Fisher illustration on front wrapper, Life Savers advertisement on rear wrapper. Color and black & white advertisements, photographs, and illustrations throughout. Cosmopolitan Magazine was founded in 1886, and purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1905, who merged it with another smaller publication he owned in 1925. It was called 'Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine' until 1952, the year after Hearst's death. During this period it published the first appearances of many novels and short s...
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Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine, May 1934 (Vol. XCVI, No. 5, [Whole] No. 575)

By: Adams, Franklin P.; Douglas, Lloyd C.; Vance, Louis Joseph; Baron, Walter; Cram, Mildred; Knickerbocker, H.R.; Abdullah, Achmed; Duncan, Gregor; Maugham, W. Somerset; Hambidge, Gove; Sobol, Louis; Kerr, Sophie; Robinson, Elsie; Roe, Vingie E.; Parker, Do

Price: $60.00

Publisher: International Magazine Company, Inc.: 1934

Seller ID: 2292767

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

1/4 inch tear to rear wrapper edge, faint internal crease to portion of front wrapper. 1934 Magazine. 184 pp. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2. Harrison Fisher illustration on front wrapper, Betty Crocker advertisement featuring Sylvia Sidney on rear wrapper. Color and black & white advertisements, photographs, and illustrations throughout. Cosmopolitan Magazine was founded in 1886, and purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1905, who merged it with another smaller publication he owned in 1925. It was called 'Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine' until 1952, the year after Hearst's death....
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The Best of Louisa May Alcott: A Charming Illustrated Collection Including Little Women, Little Men, and the Finest Short Stories.

By: Alcott, Louis May; Booss, Claire

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Gramercy Books: 1994

Seller ID: 2295960

ISBN: 0517100347

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

General light wear to jacket. Spine soiled, purple mark on page base. 1994 Hard Cover. x, 789 pp. Edited by Claire Booss. Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill, Reginald B. Birch, Addie Ledyard and others. A collection of stories from Louisa May Alcott, including Little Women, Little Men and twenty-four short stories.
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My Boys [Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. My Boys, Etc.]

By: Alcott, Louisa M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company: 1900

Seller ID: 2279499

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Reissue of BAL 168 (early 1900s). No jacket, tear along spine head and front hinge, a few light smudges to first few pages. We have more books available by this author!. 215 pp. CONTENTS; My Boys; Tessa's Surprises; Buzz; The Children's Joke; Dandelion; Madam Cluck, and Her Family; A Curious Call; Tilly's Christmas; My Little Gentleman; Back Windows; Little Marie of Lehon; My May-Day Among Curious Birds and Beasts; Our Little Newsboy; Patty's Patchwork.
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Spinning-Wheel Stories

By: Alcott, Louisa M.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Roberts Brothers: 1885

Seller ID: 2279512

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Early printing. No jacket, ink gift note on second blank. 1885 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 276 pp. Engraved ads for Alcott's other books follow text (BAL 206). A collection of 12 short stories. CONTENTS: Grandma's Story; Tabby's Table-Cloth; Eli's Education; Onawandah; Little Things; The Banner of Beaumanoir; Jerseys, or, the Girl's Ghost; The Little House in the Garden; Daisy's Jewel-Box, and How She Filled It; Corny's Catamount; The Cooking-Class; The Hare and the Tortoise.
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The Stories of Eva Luna

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Antheneum: 1991

Seller ID: 2303972

ISBN: 0689121024

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket toned. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 330 pp. The Stories of Eva Luna (Spanish: Cuentos de Eva Luna, 1989) is a collection of Spanish-language short stories by the Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende. It consists of stories told by the title character of Allende's earlier novel Eva Luna. The literary critic Barbara Mujica wrote: The Chilean author presents her stories through the age-old device used by Scheherazade: the narrator tells them to her lover to entertain him. Like the famous Arabic tales, ...
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The Poor Woodcutter, and Other Stories

By: Arthur, T. S.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott & Co.: 1864

Seller ID: 2303249

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Spine lightly toned. 1864 Small Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 151 pp. With illustrations from original designs by Croome. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885) — known as T. S. Arthur — was a popular 19th-century American author. He is famously known for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. His stories, written with compassion and sensitivity articulate and spread values and ideas that were associated with “respectable middle...
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Sails of Gold

By: Asquith, Lady Cynthia

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Charles Scriber's Sons: 1927

Seller ID: 2274311

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, a few light smudges and stains to boards, bookplate on second blank. 1927 Large Hardcover. 166 pp. Includes a story by A.A. Milne about Tigger. Milne had published Winnie-the-Pooh just one year earlier. An anthology of stories edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith. CONTENTS: Ianthe Jerrold: A Lovely Lady; John Buchan: The Magic Walking Stick; Laurence Binyon: In the Aquarium at the Zoo; Denis Mackail: What Happened to Oz; Geoffrey Dearmer: The Giraffe; H. Belloc: Agincourt; Mary Webb: The Secret Joy; A.A. Milne: Tigger Comes to the Forest; Cynthia Asquith: Teddy Bear; Mary Webb: The Cuckoo...
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Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine, January 1935 - All-Star Christmas Issue (No. 583)

By: Baldwin, Faith; Delmar, Vina; La Farge, Oliver; Carrel, Bart; Tuckerman, Arthur; Brown, Royal; Kantor, MacKinlay; Cronin, A.J.; Runyon, Damon; Kyne, Peter B.; Brush, Katharine; Douglas, Lloyd C.; Corcoran, William; Rinehart, Mary Roberts; Hanighen, Frank

Price: $60.00

Publisher: International Magazine Company, Inc.: 1935

Seller ID: 2036634

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

A few faint corner creases, closed tear on rear wrapper along spine base. 1935 Magazine. 170 pp. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2. John LaGatta illustration on front wrapper, Lucky Strike cigarette advertisement on rear wrapper. Color and black & white advertisements, photographs, and illustrations throughout. Cosmopolitan Magazine was founded in 1886, and purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1905, who merged it with another smaller publication he owned in 1925. It was called 'Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine' until 1952, the year after Hearst's death. During this period it publishe...
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Short Stories (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books)

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boni and Liveright: 1918

Seller ID: 2260902

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1918 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 252 pp. Flexible leatherette binding. CONTENTS: Don Juan; Christ in Flanders; In the Time of the Terror; Madame de Dey's Last Reception; A Passion in the Desert; Lost by a Laugh; Gold; Doomed to Live; An Accursed House; The Atheist's Mass; A Tragedy by the Sea. Honore de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, ...
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Mrs. Raffles: Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman

By: Bangs, John Kendrick

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1905

Seller ID: 2171959

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Front hinge starting, light stain to top margin, spine toned, boards lightly soiled. 1905 Hard Cover. v, [3], 179, [1] pp. 16mo. One of two story collections written by Bangs as follow-ups to E.W. Hornung's popular series featuring anti-hero Arthur J. Raffles, a safe cracker. Hornung was the brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Raffles series was second only to Sherlock Holmes in popularity during his lifetime.
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City Life

By: Barthelme, Donald

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Bantam Books: 1971

Seller ID: 2277343

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing. Spine and front wrapper lightly creased, ink name on blurb page, pages lightly toned. 1971 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 180 pp. Barthelmes latest collection of fiction is the most successfull example of a new strand of American writing that draws on surrealism, Kafka and Borges. Barthelme uses exact and simple language to describe dreamlike rearrangements of private, literary and public situations, in a play of elegant anachronisms and ambiguities. City Life seems notable less formalistic than Barthelme's previous works and is made even m...
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Distortions

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1976

Seller ID: 2200708

ISBN: 0385116594

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages toned. Jacket toned. 1976 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 283 pp. A collection of 19 short stories, many of which previously appeared in print, mostly in The New Yorker. The author's list of characters is diverse: a lifeguard who wants to introspect, a suburban couple and a spaceman, a wife who stops talking to her husband but gets up in the middle of the night to mail letters to him. These people, so different on the surface, all lead lives distorted by dreams, devoid of passion, imagination and vitality. An...
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Jacklighting

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Metacom Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2200924

ISBN: 0911381023

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author without inscription. #34 of 250. Prospectus laid in. Near fine. 1981 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 20 pp. Nicholas has died sometime during the past year from injuries incurred while he was taking a midnight ride on his Harley and a drunk, driving a van, hit him head-on. Last year, on his birthday, he was alive but in the hospital, brain-damaged from the accident. This year, on his birthday, he is dead, and the narrator and her boyfriend, Wynn, both of whom used to drive from New York to Virginia to spend Nicholas’s birthday with him, have come in...
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Perfect Recall: New Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Scribner: 2001

Seller ID: 2271515

ISBN: 0743211693

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 347 pp. Presents a new collection of short stories involving characters who are coming to terms with the legacies of long-believed family myths, describing how they confront new circumstances such as weakness or sudden success.
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The Burning House: Short Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 1982

Seller ID: 2271516

ISBN: 0394524942

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket faintly toned, front jacket flap creased. Jacket ghosting on front board. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 256 pp. A collection of the author's most recent stories features their unnervingly sophisticated young people and older folks striving for wisdom and grace, all of whom are rendered by an acclaimed stylist.
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Secrets and Surprises: Short Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Random House: 1978

Seller ID: 2271517

ISBN: 0394503147

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Minor pencil marginalia. 1978 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 307 pp. These fifteen stories by Ann Beattie garnered universal critical acclaim on their first publication, earning Beattie the reputation as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction.
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Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Linden Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2271518

ISBN: 067162220X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1986 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 191 pp. A collection of short fiction reflects on coping with life's inevitable sadness.
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What Was Mine: Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 1991

Seller ID: 2271577

ISBN: 067940077X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 237 pp. A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary lives.
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Follies: New Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Scribner: 2005

Seller ID: 2271583

ISBN: 0743269616

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305 pp. Ann Beattie's Follies is a superb novella and collection of stories about adult children, aging parents, and the chance encounters that irrevocably alter lives. Beattie, winner of four O. Henry prizes, has been called one of our era's most vital masters of the short form (The Washington Post Book World). She is a masterful observer of domestic relations and the idiosyncratic logic that governs human lives. In Follies, her most resonant collection, she lo...
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Park City: New and Selected Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1998

Seller ID: 2271584

ISBN: 067945506X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 477 pp. Thirty-six stories--eight appearing in a book for the first time and a generous selection from her earlier collections--give us Ann Beattie at stunning mid-career. Emotionally complex, edgy, and funny, the stories encompass a huge range of tone and feeling. The wife of a couple who have lost a child comforts her husband with an amazing act of tenderness. A man who's been shifting from place to place, always finding the same kind of people--sometimes the ...
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Willful Creatures: Stories

By: Bender, Aimee

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 2005

Seller ID: 2270999

ISBN: 0385501137

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2005 Hard Cover. 208 pp. Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotion, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition.
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Ordinary Life: Stories

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 2002

Seller ID: 2271022

ISBN: 0679437460

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Author trading card laid in. A very nice copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 192 pp. In this superb collection of short stories, the bestselling author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep takes us into the times in women’s lives when memories and events cohere to create a sense of wholeness, understanding, and change. In Ordinary Life, Mavis McPherson locks herself in the bathroom for a week, and no, she isn’t contemplating getting a divorce—she just needs some time to think, to take stock of her life, ...
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Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories

By: Berriault, Gina

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Counterpoint: 1996

Seller ID: 2281558

ISBN: 1887178104

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine head and spine base lightly bumped. Very faint odor of smoke. 1996 Hard Cover. viii, 342 pp. What moves us? What dictates our behavior? What alters us? A collection of thirty-five stories examining people's behavior and what motivates them. Nine new stories are included in this collection of thirty-five.
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No Man Tells Everything: Stories of Character and Surprise

By: Block, Libbie; Duggan, Pat

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company: 1959

Seller ID: 2304462

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A few small tears to jacket edges, jacket lightly toned. 1959 Hard Cover. 360 pp. Here, for the first time, is an anthology of the remarkable works of Libbie Block. Within this book are the characters, the places, and the incidents which typify this exciting talent--the little girl who ran a bawdyhouse out of town; Mr. Sweetree, a fantastic man who practiced fascism, communism, and perfect democracy, all at the same time; the marriage that didn't work out, for reasons that prove a mystery to the husband's mother.
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Come to Me: Stories

By: Bloom, Amy

Price: $12.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: 1993

Seller ID: 2271003

ISBN: 0060182369

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 177 pp. A first collection of short stories features tales of psychiatrists crossing professional boundaries, a small girl in need of love, a frightened father in need of redemption, and wives who become mistresses.
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A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories

By: Bloom, Amy

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Random House: 2000

Seller ID: 2271002

ISBN: 0375502688

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 163 pp. A great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short stories. Her first collection, Come to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and here she deepens and extends her mastery of the form. Real people inhabit these pages, the people we know and are, the people we long to be and are afraid to be: a mother and her brave, smart little girl, each coming to terms wi...
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Image for Collected Stories and Later Writings: The Delicate Prey and Other Stories; A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard; The Time of Friendship; Things Gone and Things Still Here; Midnight Mass; Selected Later Stories; Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue; Up Above the World (The Library of America, 135)

Collected Stories and Later Writings: The Delicate Prey and Other Stories; A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard; The Time of Friendship; Things Gone and Things Still Here; Midnight Mass; Selected Later Stories; Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue; Up Above the World (The Library of America, 135)

By: Bowles, Paul

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Library of America: 2002

Seller ID: 2297783

ISBN: 1931082200

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A few faint smudges on slipcase. Top page ridge lightly foxed. A very good copy in a very good slipcase. 2002 Hard Cover. xi, 1062 pp. “All the tales are a variety of detective story,” wrote Bowles of his first collection, The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950), “in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is the motivation for the characters’ behavior.” In such stories as “A Distant Episode” and “How Many Midnights,” Bowles pushes human character beyond socially defined limits and maps a transformed (often horribly transformed) reality. A master of gothic terror an...
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