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By: N/A
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Cafe Crashers: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201717
First edition. Fine. 2013 Trade Paperback. 177 pp. Volume 1: This collection of eighteen reimagined fairytales features new takes on such classic stories as Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin, and runs the genre spectrum from comedy and romance to horror and steampunk. Authors and artists include: Matt Anderson (aka Remi Anderson), Caleb Bouchard, Kathryn Ann Metzger, Laura Metzger, Ethan Monsour, Christina Lynn Pieretti, Sarh Wellman.Keywords: TWICE-TOLD TALES ANTHOLOGY SHO... View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $75.00
Publisher: William B. Ewert: 1983
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201045
Signed by author without inscription. Numbered 49 of 64. Near fine. 1983 Soft Cover. 22 pp. A short story about Molly and a dog.Alice Adams (August 14, 1926 – May 27, 1999) was an American novelist, short story writer, and university professor.Keywords: ALICE ADAMS AMERICAN LITERATURE MOLLY'S DOG SHORT STORIES CONTEMPORARY FICTION View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $125.00
Publisher: William B. Ewert: 1983
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201046
Limited edition - copy H of 26 lettered copies. Signed by author without inscription. 1983 Hard Cover. 22 pp. A short story about Molly and a dog.Alice Adams (August 14, 1926 – May 27, 1999) was an American novelist, short story writer, and university professor.Keywords: ALICE ADAMS AMERICAN LITERATURE MOLLY'S DOG SHORT STORIES CONTEMPORARY FICTION View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2270609
First edition. A fine copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vii, 621 pp. Twenty-five of her stories appeared regularly in The New Yorker within a ten-year period. Others were published in The Paris Review, Atlantic Monthly, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and McCall's. Her work was included in twenty-three O. Henry Award collections, and she received first prize six times; she was represented in numerous collections of Martha Foley's Best American S... View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270617
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps faintly toned. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 229 pp. A new selection of short stories explores the impact and adjustment of individuals dealing with separation and the loss of lovers, spouses, parents, and friends. View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270618
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. View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270619
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1979 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 242 pp. Author's third novel. “Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams. . . . How can one person know so much?” --The New York Times Book Review. With appearances in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Redbook, as well as in the O. Henry Award collections for eight consecutive years, Alice Adams had establish... View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270620
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 ... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1908
Seller ID: 2262049
Jacket flap crease torn three-quarters of the way along length, jacket edges rubbed with a few small tears and chip. A few light spots on boards, bottom corners of boards bumped, pages lightly toned. 1908 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 304 pp. A collection of 12 short stories. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1908
Seller ID: 2262052
Jacket edges lightly rubbed, jacket spine lightly foxed, ink marks on front jacket flap. Ink note on front endpaper, pages lightly toned. 1908 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 334 pp. A collection of short stories, including Kitty's Class Day, Aunt Kipp and Psyche's Art. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1908
Seller ID: 2262053
Jacket spine-head and spine-base lightly rubbed, jacket faintly foxed. A few light spots on rear board, pages lightly toned. 1908 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 286 pp. A collection of seven stories. View more info
By: Algren, Nelson
Price: $30.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2206152
First edition. A nice copy. Near fine.Jacket lightly rubbed, jacket lightly toned. 1973 Hard Cover. 435 pp. The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren's lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world, and includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico, stories of the boxing ring, and reminiscences of Algren's beloved Chicago White Sox, among other subjects. In this collec... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Antheneum: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200690
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine.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... View more info
By: Allison, Dorothy
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Firebrand: 1988
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1538310
First printing. 1988 Trade Paperback. 174 pp. Trash, Allison's landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as simply stunning... a wonderful work of fiction by a major talent. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Charles Scriber's Sons: 1927
Seller ID: 2274311
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: Agi... View more info
By: Atwood, Margaret
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Hay Festival Press: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200662
First edition. One of 1000 copies. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. 2004 Small Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 54 pp. From the author of The Handmaid's Tale, inspiration for the Hulu original television adaptation.CONTENTS: Bottle -- It's not easy being half-divine -- King Log in exile -- Take charge -- Thylacine ragout -- Post-colonial -- Faster -- Nightingale -- Bottle II.Keywords: MARGARET ATWOOD BOTTLE CANADIAN LITERATURE SHO... View more info
By: Atwood, Margaret
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Quid: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200664
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. 1996 Small Softcover. We have more books available by this author!. 41 pp. From the author of The Handmaid's Tale, inspiration for the Hulu original television adaptation. ...incorporates two of Atwood's longstanding interests of Canadian history and the Canadian wilderness. Labrador refers to the Canadian place rather than the breed of dog. The story contains two stories, one within another. This poses... View more info
By: Atwood, Margaret
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury: 2006
Edition: First UK Edition
Seller ID: 2274385
First UK edition. A few light smudges to jacket. Ink stamp on half-title page. 2006 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 155 pp. From the author of The Handmaid's Tale, inspiration for the Hulu original television adaptation. A new collection of dazzling short fiction. One of the world’s most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Mu... View more info
By: Baker, Will
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Touchstone / Simon and Schuster: 1988
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1529953
First printing. Remainder mark on page base. 1988 Trade Paperback. 174 pp. Includes several photographs. In his introduction, the author wrestles with the distinction between fact and fiction, the real and the imaginary. Baker, an English professor at the University of California, is the first winner of the Associated Writing Program Award for Creative Non-Fiction, an award administered by a national union of universities. His seven pieces encompass reminiscence, persona... View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: International Magazine Company, Inc.: 1935
Seller ID: 2036634
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... View more info
By: Ballard, J.G.
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux: 1991
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2197540
Book club edition. 1991 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 176 pp. A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader o... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Boni and Liveright: 1918
Seller ID: 2260902
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 lif... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1905
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2171959
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. View more info
By: Barker, Nicola
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Faber and Faber: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1539546
First edition. Includes original jacket.Very Good. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 184 pp. These dozen stories are part fantasy, part gritty realism. View more info
By: Barrett, Andrea
Price: $25.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200707
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine.Top edge of jacket spine very lightly bumped. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 270 pp. Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession. A young woman afire with scien... View more info
By: Barrett, Andrea
Price: $25.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1996
Edition: 2nd Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270877
Second printing. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 254 pp. The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dre... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus Giroux: 1979
Seller ID: 2202547
A very nice copy.Near Fine. 1979 Hard Cover. 172 pp. Barthelme's new book of stories is perhaps most notable for the presence of seven formally related dialogues, which introduce a new aspect of his work.CONTENTS: The Crisis; The Apology; The New Music; Cortes and Montezuma; The King of Jazz; The Question Party; Belief: Tales of the Swedish Army; The Abduction from the Seraglio; The Death of Edward Lear; Concerning the Bodyguard; The Zombies; Morning; On the Steps of the... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: 1971
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2277343
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 eleg... View more info
By: Bausch, Richard
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Norton: 1991
Seller ID: 1295701
Remainder mark on page base, pages lightly toned. 1991 Trade Paperback. 224 pp. The epigraph for this collection of ten stories is a brief quotation from Keats -- 'Happy love, more happy, happy love.' Bausch does indeed portray the joys of marriage and family life, but he also reveals the pain lurking just below the surface. In 'Wedlock' the levity of a honeymoon night suddenly turns mean. In 'Equity' three adult daughters must cope with a senile mother who previously su... View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200708
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.The... View more info
