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To See You Again: Stories

By: Adams, Alice

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, 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: New York, 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: New York, 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: New York, 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 Poor Woodcutter, and Other Stories

By: Arthur, T. S.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, 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 class life...
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Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon (Penguin Classics)

By: Austen, Jane; Drabble, Margaret - Edited, with Introduction

Price: $6.00

Publisher: London, Penguin Books: 2003

Seller ID: 2309587

ISBN: 0140431020

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine and rear wrapper creased. 2003 Trade Paperback. 224 pp. A Penguin Classics edition of three lesser-known Austen works, including Lady Susan, the basis for Whit Stillman's feature film Love and Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale and Chlo Sevigny. These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. The early epistolary novel Lady Susan depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with the affections of several men. In contrast, The Watsons is a delightful fragment, whose ...
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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: New York, 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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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: New York, 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. 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 more accessible by his use of illustrations -co...
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Distortions

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, 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. Acollection 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. Ann ...
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Jacklighting

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Worcester, Massachusetts, 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 Nicholass birthday with him, have come inste...
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Perfect Recall: New Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, 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: New York, 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: New York, 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: New York, 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: New York, 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: New York, 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: New York, 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: New York, 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 Benders 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 womans 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: New York, 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 womens 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 isnt contemplating getting a divorceshe just needs some time to think, to take stock of her life, and she c...
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Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories

By: Berriault, Gina

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., 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: New York, 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: New York, 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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Without a Hero and Other Stories

By: Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1994

Seller ID: 2274266

ISBN: 0670849634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 238 pp. Fifteen darkly satirical stories by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of If the River Was Whiskey feature a couple in search of the last toads on earth, and a real-estate wonder boy on safari.
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After the Plague, and Other Stories

By: Boyle, T.C. [Coraghessan]

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2001

Seller ID: 2199485

ISBN: 0670030058

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Signed by author without inscription. First edition. Faint smell of smoke, top page edges lightly foxed. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 303 pp. Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T. C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. InAfter the Plague, his sixth collection of stories, Boyle exhibits his maturing themes, speaking to contemporary social issues in a range of emotional keys. The sixteen stories gathered here, nine of which h...
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The Best American Short Stories 2015

By: Boyle, T.C. [Coraghessan]

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Mariner: 2015

Seller ID: 2307797

ISBN: 0547939418

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

1st printing. An exceptional copy. 2015 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Boyles choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab hold and surprise, which according to Boyle is what the best fiction offers, and there was no shortage of such in this years selections.
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Copy: Today's Better Fiction, Volume 1, No. 1, Spring 1950

By: Bradbury, Ray; Crossen, Ken; Moholy-Nagy, Sybil; Alan, Louis; Siry, Peter; Boutell, Cleve; Toron, Steve; Rider, Ernest; Spaulding, Leonard; Longstreet, Stephen; Stebel, Sid L.; Edwards, Harvey L.; Burton, Russ J.; Garfinkle, Louis A.; Lubin, Edward; Mori

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Beverly Hills, The Bards: 1950

Seller ID: 2262789

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Edges lightly rubbed. 1950 Stapled Binding. 92 pp. Stapled binding. Ads precede and follow text. A mid-twentieth century collection of stories, including an early appearance by Ray Bradbury: he published stories in various magazines and journals beginning in 1938; but Fahrenheit 451, his first book not compiled from previously published stories, was not released until 1953 (The Martian Chronicles was a fix-up novel cobbled together from earlier stories, while Fahrenheit 451 was an expansion upon one story, The Fireman). Includes: Raison d'etre; The Disenchanted; The American Screenwriter, by a...
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Abraham Ulysses. and Other Stories

By: Branch, Mary L.B.; Eytinge, Margaret

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and Company: 1882

Seller ID: 2304563

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

None located in OCLC. No publisher date (ink gift note dated 1882). Board corners bumped, spine ends rubbed. Unpaginated. Green cloth boards with decor. Includes 12 plates. Stories, some in dialect with now-inappropriate racial language. Advertised by publisher as An entertaining story of a colored boy!
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Small Craft Warnings: Stories

By: Braverman, Kate

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Reno/Las Vegas, University of Nevada Press: 1998

Seller ID: 2201015

ISBN: 0874173213

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. 1998 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 180 pp. The indigo skies and lush vegetation of the contemporary West Coast belie the damaged souls and desperate alienation that lurk behind fading stucco walls and off the endless highways. The lives of women on the edge and beyond the margins have seldom been explored with as much power or insight as in these brilliant stories by award-winning novelist and poet Kate Braverman. In a world without succor, Bravermans characters grope for meaning and so...
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