Literature - Anthologies

Toronto: Avon Books - New Avon Library, 1943. 314 pp. First Thus. Light edge and corner wear with a bindery ripple on an otherwise uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Red by W. Somerset Maugham; The Gambler's Road by E. Phillips Oppenheim; The Decree Made Absolute by Mrs Belloc Lowndes; A Day in a Woman's Life by Sheila Kaye-Smith; The Stranger in the Village by Sir Philip Gibbs; Mustard Pot - Matchmaker by Gilbert Frankau; The Five of Swords by G. K. Chesterton; The Brain Drug by Sir Max Pemberton; The Matchmaker by Eden Phillpotts; The Patch on the Quilt by Sapper; The Clock by A. E. W. Mason; Johnson and the Viatique by H. de Vere Stacpoole; Mrs Simmonds' Bit o' Business by Temple Thurston; Plain Jane by H. A. Vachell; The Double Saddle by P. C. Wren; The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H. G. Wells; and Mr Oddy by Hugh Walpole. Scans are available for all books.. First Printing. Paperback. Very Good. collectible; collectable;. more information

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Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1976. (xi) 212 pp. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine and some rubbing on the covers; previous owner's name on the front endpaper; no interior markings. This anthology contains: EARLY BEGINNINGS: The Story as a Letter: The False Accuser - A Tale - Anonymous; Letters of Mephibosheth Stepsure by Thomas McCulloch; The Letters of Patty Pry - Anonymous; The Clockmaker; and Cumberland Oysters Produce Melancholy Forebodings by Thomas Haliburton. THE AGE OF THE GARLAND: Jeremiah Desborough or The Kentuckian by John Richardson; Brian the Still Hunter by Susanna Moodie; Alice Sydenham's First Ball by Mrs Rosanna Leprohon; A Legend of the Lake by Mrs Harriet V. Cheney. COMING OF AGE: Stories of the New Doman: Old Man Savarin by E. W. Thompson; The Pantekalidescopenecropolis Coffee Maker by Jamix; The Chase of the Tide by Norman Duncan; Do Seek Their Meat from God by Charles G. D. Roberts; My Stowaway by Robert Barr; Labrie's Wife by Duncan Campbell Scott; and A B and C by Stephen Leacock; followed by bibliographical notes. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0770513468. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. canadian author;. more information

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Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1986. (xix) 436 pp. Light wear at the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Gail Geltner. This anthology contains: Extradited by Isabella Valancy Crawford; The Idyl of the Island by Susie Frances Harrison; Do Seek Their Meat from God by Charles G. D. Roberts; The Desjardins by Duncan Campbell Scott; The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias by Stephen Leacock; From Flores by Ethel Wilson; Last Spring They Came Over by Morley Callaghan; The Wedding Gift by Thomas H. Raddall; The Lamp at Noon by Sinclair Ross; One Two Three Little Indians by Hugh Garner; The Old Woman by Joyce Marshall; Causation by Helen Weinzweig; The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street by Mavis Gallant; We All Begin in a Little Magazine by Norman Levine; The Loons by Margaret Laurence; The Bully by James Reaney; Flying a Red Kite by Hugh Hood; Dinner Along the Amazon by Timothy Findley; The Peace of Utrecht by Alice Munro; The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die by Mordecai Richler; Slogans by Jane Rule; Griff by Austin C. Clarke; The Day I Sat with Jesus on the Sundeck and a Wind Came Up and Blew My Kimono Open and He Saw My Breasts by Gloria Sawai; Anita's Dance by Marian Engel; The Woman Who Talked to Horses by Leon Rooke; Where Is the Voice Coming From by Rudy Wiebe; A Short Story by George Bowering; The Thrill of the Grass by W. P. Kinsella; Kill Day on the Government Whart by Audrey Thomas; The Black Queen by Barry Callaghan; By the River by Jack Hodgins; The Sin Eater by Margaret Atwood; Bloodflowers by W. D. Valgardson; A Class of New Canadians by Clark Blaise; The Lady from Lucknow by Bharati Mukherjee; Cape Breton is the Thought Control Centre of Canada by Ray Smith; The Eiffel Tower in Three Parts by Matt Cohen; The Wild Plum Tree by Sandra Birdsell; Mid-May's Eldest Child by Edna Alford; Sociology by Katherine Govier; and Dancing Bear by Guy Vanderhaeghe. Scans are available for all books. . ISBN: 0195405978. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Illus. by Gail Geltner;. 8vo. canadian author; governor general's award;. more information

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Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1986. (xix) 436 pp. Blue boards decorated with gilt on the spine. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket. Dj art by Gail Geltner. This anthology contains: Extradited by Isabella Valancy Crawford; The Idyl of the Island by Susie Frances Harrison; Do Seek Their Meat from God by Charles G. D. Roberts; The Desjardins by Duncan Campbell Scott; The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias by Stephen Leacock; From Flores by Ethel Wilson; Last Spring They Came Over by Morley Callaghan; The Wedding Gift by Thomas H. Raddall; The Lamp at Noon by Sinclair Ross; One Two Three Little Indians by Hugh Garner; The Old Woman by Joyce Marshall; Causation by Helen Weinzweig; The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street by Mavis Gallant; We All Begin in a Little Magazine by Norman Levine; The Loons by Margaret Laurence; The Bully by James Reaney; Flying a Red Kite by Hugh Hood; Dinner Along the Amazon by Timothy Findley; The Peace of Utrecht by Alice Munro; The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die by Mordecai Richler; Slogans by Jane Rule; Griff by Austin C. Clarke; The Day I Sat with Jesus on the Sundeck and a Wind Came Up and Blew My Kimono Open and He Saw My Breasts by Gloria Sawai; Anita's Dance by Marian Engel; The Woman Who Talked to Horses by Leon Rooke; Where Is the Voice Coming From by Rudy Wiebe; A Short Story by George Bowering; The Thrill of the Grass by W. P. Kinsella; Kill Day on the Government Whart by Audrey Thomas; The Black Queen by Barry Callaghan; By the River by Jack Hodgins; The Sin Eater by Margaret Atwood; Bloodflowers by W. D. Valgardson; A Class of New Canadians by Clark Blaise; The Lady from Lucknow by Bharati Mukherjee; Cape Breton is the Thought Control Centre of Canada by Ray Smith; The Eiffel Tower in Three Parts by Matt Cohen; The Wild Plum Tree by Sandra Birdsell; Mid-May's Eldest Child by Edna Alford; Sociology by Katherine Govier; and Dancing Bear by Guy Vanderhaeghe. Scans are available for all books. . ISBN: 019540565X. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by Gail Geltner;. 8vo. canadian author; governor general's award;. more information

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New York: Dell Books, 1960. 317 pp. Dell Laurel Edition LC149. Light edge and corner wear with some minor creasing on a slightly faded spine; previous owner's name inside; no other interior markings. Cover art by John Alcorn. This anthology contains: The Chaste Lover - Anonymous; The Princess of Montpensier by Marie madeleine - Comtesse de la Fayette; This Is Not a Story by Denis Diderot; Dead Man's Combe by Charles Nodier; La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac; Pandora by Gerard de Nerval; The Generous Gamester by Charles Baudelaire; Hautot and His Son by Guy de Maupassant; Torture Through Hope by Philippe Auguste - Villiers de L'Isle Adam; The White Water Lily by Stephane Mallarme; The Procutor of Judaea by Anatole France; Six Stories in Three Lines by Felix Feneon; The Japanese Family by Max Jacob; The Serial Novel - Again by Max Jacob; The Little Bouilloux Girl by Colette; The Child of the High Seas by Jules Supervielle; The Room by Jean Paul Sartre; The Guest by Albert Camus; The Walker-through-walls by Marcel Ayme; The Animals by Pierre Gascar; and Stories of Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett. Scans are available for all books.. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by John Alcorn;. vintage paperback; french writing;. more information

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New York: Gallery Books, 1990. (xvii) 876 pp. Actually a first thus. Glossy pictorial boards with a matching dustjacket; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings. Cover art by Graham Potts. This anthology contains: ANCIENT EGYPT: The Two Brothers: Anpu and Bata - Anonymous; Setna and the Magic Book - Anonymous; ANCIENT GREECE: Eumaeus' Tale by Homer; The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse by Aesop; King Rhampsinitus and the Thief by Herodotus; Phineus and the Harpies by Apollonius of Rhodes; The Robbers of Egypt by Heliodorus; ANCIENT ROME: Horatius at the Bridge by Livy; Orpheus and Eurydice by Ovid; The Shipwreck of Simonides by Phaedrus; The Matron of Ephesus by Petronius; The Haunted House by Pliny the Younger; The Dream by Apuleius; BIBLICAL LITERATURE: The Book of Ruth - Old Testament; The History of Susanna - The Apocrypha; The Prodigal Son - New Testament; Rabbi Akiva - The Talmud; The Jewish Mother - The Talmud; ANCIENT INDIA: The Ass in the Lion's Skin by Jataka; The Dove and the Crow by Panchatantra; The Story of Devadatta - Somadeva; The Jackal by Hitopadesa; PERSIA: Jamshid and Zuhak by Firdawsi; The Sailor and the Pearl Merchant - Anonymous; ARABIA: Khaled and Djaida by Al Asma'I; Abou Hassan the Way - Thousand and One Nights; GREAT BRITAIN: Grendel's Raid - Beowulf; Esyllt and Sabrina by Geoffrey of Monmouth; The Humbling of Jovinian - Gesta Romanorum; Lludd andLlevelys - The Mabinogion; Launcelot's Tourney by Sir Thomas Malory; Roberto's Tale by Robert Greene; True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe; The Soldier of an Heir by Joseph Addison; The Disabled Soldier by Oliver Goldsmith; The Bridal of Janet Dalrymple by Sir Walter Scott; The White Trout by Samuel Lover; The Queer Client by Charles Dickens; A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins; Squire Petrick's Lady by Thomas Hardy; Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde; Julia Cahill's Curse by George Moore; That Brute Simmons by Arthur Morrison; GERMANY: The Lay of Hildebrand - Anonymous; Siegfried and Kriemhild - The Lay of the Nibelungs; The Coming of Gandin by Gottfried von Strassburg; Bruin the Bear and Reynard the Fox - Reynard the Fox; Eulenspiegel and the Merchant - Eulenspiegel; Doctor Faust and the Usurer - The History of Dr. J. Faust; The Sick Wife by Christian Gellert; Little Briar Rose by The Brothers Grimm; The Story of Serapion by E. T. A. Hoffman; A Legend of the Dance by Gottfried Keller; The Fury by Paul Heyse; The Triple Warning by Arthur Schnitzler; A New Year's Eve Confession by Hermann Sudermann; FRANCE: The Divided Horsecloth by Bernier; The Priest and the Mulberries - Anonymous; The Lay of the Two Lovers by Marie de France; The Pios Lady and the Gray Friar by Marguerite de Navarre; He Who Married a Dumb Wife by Francois Rabelais; The Roast Meat Seller by Charles Perrault; The Four Friends by Jean de La Fontaine; Memnon the Philosopher by Voltaire; Lausus and Lydia by J. F. Marmontel; The Mysterious Mansion by Honore de Balzac; Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee; The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier; The Torture of Hope by Villiers de L'Isle Adam; The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet; The Fairy Amoureuse by Emile Zola; The Substitute by Francois Coppee; Our Lady's Juggler by Anatole France; The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant; ITALY: The Bell of Atri - The Hundred Ancient Tales; The Galcon by Giovanni Boccaccio; Galgano by Ser Giovanni; The Two Ambassadors by Franco Sacchetti; The Cavalier of Toledo by Masuccio (Guardato;) Belphagor by Niccolo Macciavelli; A King in Disguise by Matteo Bandello; The Friar of Novara by Agnolo Firenzuola; The Greek Merchant by Giovanbattista Giraldi Cinthio; The Venetian Silk Mercer by Carlo Gozzi; Cavalleria Rusticana by Giovanni Verga; The Peasant's Will by Antonio Fogazzaro; Medicant Melody by Edmondo de Amicis; Lulu's Triumph by Matilde Serao; The Hero by Gabriele d'Annuzio; Two Miracles by Grazia Deledda; SPAIN: The Miracle of the Jew - Chronicle of the Cid; The Son and His Friends by Juan Manuel; How Lazaro Served a Bulero by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza; Guzman and My Lord Cardinal by Mateo Aleman; Rinconete and Cortadillo by Miguel Cervantes; The Tall Woman by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon; Maese Perez the Organist by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer; Adios Cordera by Leopoldo Alas; CHINA: The Story of Ming-y - Marvelous Tales; A Fickle Widow - Marvelous Tales; JAPAN: The Forty Seven Ronins - Anonymous; The Pier by Mori Ogwai; HUNGARY: The Invisible Wound by Karoly Kisfaludi; A Ball by Maurus Jokai; RUSSIA: The Snow Storm by Alexander Pushkin; St. John's Eve by Nikolai Gogol; The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev; The Christmas Tree and the Wedding by Feodor Dostoievsky; The Long Exile by Leo Tolstoy; The Old Bell Ringer by Vladimir Korolenko; The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin; The Bet by Anton Chekhov; One Autumn Night by Maxim Gorky; Silence by Leonid Adreyev; POLAND: The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall by Henryk Sienkiewicz; The Human Telegraph by Boleslav Prus; Forebodings by Stefan Zeromski; ICELAND: Baldr's Bale by Snorri Sturluson; Regin's Tale - Volsunga Saga; DENMARK: The Shepherdess and the Sweep by Hans Christian Andersen; Henrik and Rosalie by Meyer Aron Goldschmidt; Two Worlds by Jens Peter Jacobsen; NORWAY: The Smith Who Could Not Get Into Hell by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe; The Father by Bjornstjerne Bjornson; Skobelef by Johan Bojer; SWEDEN: Love and Bread by August Strindberg; The Eclipse by Selma Lagerlof; BELGIUM: The Mysterious Picture by Charles de Coster; The Massacre of the Innocents by Maurice Maeterlinck; The Soul of Veere by Camille Lemonnier; One Night by Emile Verhaeren; CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Vampire by Jan Neruda; Foltyn's Drum by Svatopluk Cech; COSTA RICA: Chivalry by Ricardo Fernandez Garcia; BRAZIL: The Attendant's Confession by J. M Machado de Assis; PERU: The Legend of Pygmalion by Ventura Garcia Calderon; UNITED STATES: Mrs Bullfrog by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe; Journalism in Tennessee by Mark Twain; The Man and the Snake by Ambrose Bierce; The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte; The Story In It by Henry James; Supply and Demand by O. Henry; The Lost Phoebe by Theodore Dreiser; Sophistication by Sherwood Anderson; A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather; and A Brown Woman by James Branch Cabell. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0831739800. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by Graham Potts;. 8vo. interntional literature;. more information

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Vancouver, British Columbia: Douglas and McIntyre - Greystone Books, 1991. (viii) 184 pp. Black boards lettered with gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a crease on the front flap; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Why My Mother Can't Speak English by Garry Engkent; How Feel I Do; Hippo Luck; and Merritt B.C. Revisited 1965 by Jim Wong-Chu; Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown by Anna Jew; And Then Something Went by Sean Gunn; The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy; The Dream Ariel; and Snow Ariel by Grue Lee; Port Moody by Paul Ching Lee; Glass by Evelyn Lau; Eighty Years Bathing by Larissa Lai; Prarie Night 1939 by Paul Yee; Friend 1 by Weman Chan; The Imperialism of Syntax by Laiwan; The Concubine's Children by Denise Chong; Hardhats and Safety Boots Must Be Worn on this Project; Orchid Riddles; and Still Life with Frangipani by Lydia Kwa; The Water Story; Prentiss and the Island; and The All Edges Band - Estuary Side Two - Lizards by Ben Soo; Disappearing Moon Cafe (excerpt) by Sky Lee; Scared Texts (excerpt) by Jam. Ismail; Mabel's Hockey Game by Winston Christopher Kam; The Sullen Shapes of Poems (excerpt) by Lucy Ng; Elite by Fred Wah; and Last Words II by Paul Yee. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0888947119. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo. collectible; collectable; canadian author; authors;. more information

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London: Phoenix Giants, 1995. (xiv) 562 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. The cover features The Blue Hat by Sir William Orpen, courtesy of Christie's Images. This anthology contains: The Daughters of the Late Colonel by Katherine Mansfield; The Storm by Kate Chopin; Paul's Case: A Study in Temperament by Willa Cather; Solid Objects by Virginia Woolf; Souls Belated by Edith Wharton; Her Table Spread by Elizabeth Bowen; The Man Without a Temperament by Katherine Mansfield; The Sisters by Pauline Smith; Here We Are by Dorothy Parker; Two Hanged Women by Henry Handel Richardson; Let Them Call It Jazz by Jean Rhys; Why I Live at the PO by Eudora Welty; The Happy Autumn Fields by Elizabeth Bowen; The House of Clouds by Antonia White; Rope by Katherine Anne Porter; The Lottery by Marjorie Barnard; An Unpleasant Reminder by Anna Kavan; Sunday at Home by Stevie Smith; The De Wets Come to Kloof Grange by Doris Lessing; The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street by Mavis Gallant; Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor; Looking for a Rain God by Bessie Head; Mr Wharton by Elizabeth Taylor; A Summer Day by Jean Stafford; Six Feet of the Country by Nadine Gordimer; The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley; Everyday Use by Alice Walker; The First Year of My Life by Muriel Spark; The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara; Private Tuition by Mr Bose by Anita Desai; The Weeping Child by Jane Gardam; Swans by Janet Frame; Peter and the Wolf by Angela Carter; Miles City Montana by Alice Munro; Revenge by Ellen Gilchrist; The Wedding of Zeina by Ahdaf Soueif; Mamasita by Jayne Anne Phillips; Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason; Weekend by Fay Weldon; Three Feminist Fables by Suniti Namjoshi; Third Time Lucky by Rachel Ingalls; The July Ghost by A. S. Byatt; What I Have Been Doing Lately by Jamaica Kincaid; Places to Look for Your Mind by Lorrie Moore; Friday Payday by A. L. Kennedy; Sleepwalking by Amy Bloom; The Dying Room by Georgina Hammick; The Candle Maker by Rose Tremain; Cloud-Cuckoo-Land by Shena MacKay; Ariadne after Naxos by Marina Warner; Labour by Helen Simpson; and Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 1857993519. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Illus. by Sir William Orpen;. 8vo. women's issues;. more information

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Toronto: Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1986. (xv) 222 pp. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; no interior markings. The cover features The Gypsy by George Tooker. This anthology contains: Foreword by Isabel Allende; The Fall by Armonia Somers; Metonymy or The Husband's Revenge by Rachel de Queiroz; Latin Lover by Marta Lynch; The Imitation of the Rose by Clarice Lispector; Guidance by Dinah Silveira de Queiroz; The Bloody Countess by Alejandra Pizarnik; Man's Dwelling Place by Angelica Gorodischer; Knight Death and the Devil by Vlady Kociancich; The Shunammite by Ines Arredondo; The Guerrillero by Albalucia Angel; Haute Cuisine by Amparo Davila; The Night Visitor by Elena Poniatowska; Two Reports by Silvana Ocampo; The Stolen Party by Liliana Heker; It's the Fault of the Tlaxcaltecas by Elena Garro; Tigrela by Lygia Fagundes Telles; The Usurper by Beatriz Guido; How the Monkey Lost the Fruit of His Labor by Lydia Cabrera; and Death of the Tiger by Rosario Castellanos. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0886190657. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by George Tooker;. 8vo. latin american literature; collectible; collectable;. more information

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Toronto: Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1986. (xv) 222 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. The cover features The Gypsy by George Tooker. This anthology contains: Foreword by Isabel Allende; The Fall by Armonia Somers; Metonymy or The Husband's Revenge by Rachel de Queiroz; Latin Lover by Marta Lynch; The Imitation of the Rose by Clarice Lispector; Guidance by Dinah Silveira de Queiroz; The Bloody Countess by Alejandra Pizarnik; Man's Dwelling Place by Angelica Gorodischer; Knight Death and the Devil by Vlady Kociancich; The Shunammite by Ines Arredondo; The Guerrillero by Albalucia Angel; Haute Cuisine by Amparo Davila; The Night Visitor by Elena Poniatowska; Two Reports by Silvana Ocampo; The Stolen Party by Liliana Heker; It's the Fault of the Tlaxcaltecas by Elena Garro; Tigrela by Lygia Fagundes Telles; The Usurper by Beatriz Guido; How the Monkey Lost the Fruit of His Labor by Lydia Cabrera; and Death of the Tiger by Rosario Castellanos. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0886190657. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by George Tooker;. 8vo. latin american literature; collectible; collectable;. more information

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London: Phoenix - Orion Publishing, 2001. (x) 210 pp. First Soft Cover Edition. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Time by Sean MacMathuna; Pane Barrier by Brian McKillop; Hatteras by Molly McCloskey; Roles by Gillman Noonan; An Evening Out by William Trevor; Miami Vice by Kevin Barry; The Destruction Test by John Fleming; The Maistir by William Hodder; Linguini by Cormac James; The Bestiary by William Wall; The Grandfathers by Augustus Young; The Purple Dahlia by Mary Leland; Vodka on Sunday by Fiona Gartland; Weir Way by Michael Carragher; Pale Hands I loved Beside the Shalimar by Anne Enright; and Halcyon Day by Jane S. Flynn. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0753813041. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 12mo. literature; ireland;. more information

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New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2000. (xvii) 470 pp. Personalised inscription to a previous owner on the front free endpaper by Kevin Powell. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; aside from editor's writing, no interior markings. The dustjacket features Blue Boy by Radcliffe Bailey. This collection contains: ESSAYS: The Word Movement by Kevin Powell; Are Black People Cooler Than White People by Donnell Alexander; Race Natters - The Chattering Classes Convene on Martha's Vineyard by Angela Ards; GWTW by Hilton Als; In Search of Alice Walker by Valerie Boyd; Mama's Girl by Veronica Chambers; The Visible Man by Trey Ellis; Return to the Planet of the Apes by Ekow Eshun; The Sports Taboo: Why Blacks are Like Boys and Whites are Like Girls by Malcolm Gladwell; Are We Tiger Woods Yet by Lisa Jones; On the Disappearance of Joe Wood Jr by Robin D. G. Kelley; She and I by Bruce Morrow; White Girl by Lonnai O'Neal Parker; What Happens When Your 'Hood Is the Last Stop on the White Flight Express by Taigi Smith; Texaco by Natasha Tarpley; Speaking in Tongues by Toure; Your Friendly Neighborhood Jungle by Daniel J. Wideman. HIP HOP JOURNALISM: Hip Hop Hi Tech by Harry Allen; Homophobia - Hip Hop's Black Eye by Farai Chideya; The Death of Rock and Roll by Cho Hodari Coker; Confessions of a Hip Hop Critic by Dream Hampton; Hip Hop Feminist by Joan Morgan; This Is Not a Puff Piece by Scott Poulson-Bryant; Live from Death Row by Kevin Powell; Hit 'em Up: On the Life and Death of Tupac Shakur. CRITICISM: Angles of Vision by Jabari Asim; The Soul of Black Talk by Erin Aubry; Do Books Matter by Kevin Baldeosingh; The Other Side of Paradise: Feminist Pedagogy - Toni Morrison Iconography - and Oprah's Book Club Phenomenon by Daphne A. Brooks; She's Gotta Have It by Debra Dickerson; No Entry by Lynell George; What About Black Romance by Esther Iverem; It Be's That Way Sometimes 'Cause I Can't Control the Rhyme - Notes from the Post-Soul Intelligentsia by Mark Anthony Neal; Facing Unknown Possibilities: Lance Jeffers and the Black Aesthetic by Howard Rambsy II. FICTION: The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty; Interpolation: Peace to My Nine by Ricardo Cortez Cruz; Epilogue: Women Like Us by Edwidge Danticat; The Sun the Moon the Stars by Junot Diaz; Prologue 1963 by Tananarive Due; The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo; The Missionary Position by Christopher John Farley; My Son My Heart My Life by John R. Keene; The Last Integrationist by Jake Lamar; Slave by Victor D. LaValle; The Famished Road by Ben Okri; Stigmata by Phyllis Alesia Perry; The Pagoda by Patricia Powell; Face by Danzy Senna; The Peculiar Second Marriage of Archie Jones by Zadie Smith; Baker by Lisa Teasley; Rika by Jervey Tervalon; Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera; The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead. DIALOGUE: Black Youth Black Art Black Face - An Address by Ras Baraka; Leaving a Feminist Organization: A Personal/Poetics by Stefani Barber; We Are Trying to Conceive by Tisa Bryant; If We've Gotta Live Underground and Everybody's Got Cancer/Will Poetry Be Enuf - A Letter to Ntozake Shange by Eisa Davis; Binga - Diary Entry by Cege Githiora; The Six Hour Difference - A Dutch Perspective on the New World by Scotty Gravenberch; Just Beneath the Surface - An Email by Sarah Jones; By Invitation - An Open Letter to the President of South Africa by Itumeleng oa Mahabane; What Happened to Your Generation's Promise of Love and Revolution - A Letter to Angela Davis by Eisa Nefertari Ulen; An Atlantic Away - A Letter from Africa by Teresa N. Washington. Also included is a selection of poetry by the following: Toyin Adewale; Jane Alberdeston-Croalin; Elizabeth Alexander; Jeffery Renard Allen; Charlie Braxton; Shonda Buchanan; Paul Calderon; Adrian Castro; Wayde Compton; Kwame Dawes; Jarvis Q. DeBerry; Nikki Finney; Ruth Forman; Danielle Legros Georges; Brian Gilmore; Duriel E. Harris; Yona Harvey; Terrance Hayes; Ogaga Ifowodo; Allison Joseph; Arnold J. Kemp; Shara McCallum; Tony Medina; Jessica Care Moore; Lenard D. Moore; Samwiri Mukuru; Letta Neely; Mukoma Wa Ngugi; G. E. Patterson; Willie Perdomo; Carl Phillips; Rohan Preston; Claudia Rankine; Vanessa Richards; Kristina Rungano; Tijan Sallah; Angela Shannon; Renee Simms; Patrick Sylvain; Imani Tolliver; Natash Tretheway; Marco Villalobos; and Kevin Young. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0471380601. Signed by Editor. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Radcliffe Bailey;. 8vo. black studies; african american;. more information

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Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1976. 358 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; not store stamped. This anthology contains: The Fashion Plate by Rhys Davies; The Golden Pony by Glyn Jones; Acting Captain by Alun Lewis; Saturday Night by Geraint Goodwin; The Loss (translated by Walter Dowding) by Kate Roberts; The Brute Creation by Gwyn Jones; Extraordinary Little Cough by Dylan Thomas; A Successful Year (translated by Glyn Jones) by D. J. Williams; The Teacher by Gwyn Thomas; The Strange Apeman (translated by Wyn Griffith) by E. Tegla Davies; Be This Her Memorial by Caradoc Evans; The Return by Brenda Chamberlain; Twenty Tons of Coal by B. J. Coombes; The Squire of Havilah (translated by T. Glynne Davies) by T. Hughes Jones; An Overdose of Sun by Eigra Lewis Roberts; The House in Builth Crescent by Moira Dearnley; Blind Date (translated by D. Llwyd Morgan) by Jane Edwards; Morfydd's Celebration (translated by Harri Webb) by Harri Pritchard Jones; A Writer Came to Our Place by John Morgan; A Roman Spring by Leslie Norris; Before Forever After by Ron Berry; Hon. Sec. (R.F.C.) by Alun Richards; Black Barren by Islwyn Ffowc Elis; and Mel's Secret Love by Emyr Humphreys. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0140040617. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. welsh; wales; literature; collectible; collectable;. more information

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Kingston, Jamaica: The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission, 1987. (viii) 196 pp. Edge and corner wear with creasing and rubbing on the covers and an uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Delinquents by Arthur Scott; Less Than a Man by Hugh Martin; The Young Trumpeter by Ransford Smith; The Exister by Tessa Dow; The Long Distance Swimmer Who Ran by Noel D. Williams; Judah Come by Phoebe Chang; The Call of Soul by Michael Reckford; Pole by Dennis Scott; Journey to the Exterior by Charles W. Mills; See Dem Come by Hazel Campbell; Birthday Drive by Norma Hamilton; Moonrise by Charles W. Mills; The Man with the Red Shoes by Charles W. Mills; Child of Darkening Humour by Noel D. Williams; Love Orange by Olive Senior; A Bargain by Dorothy Bingham; Ascot by Olive Senior; The Art of Kite Flying by Michael Reckford; The Horse Doctor by Nova Gordon; In These Our Sunshine Years by Trevor Fearon; Maria by D. Maria Corwill; and Land of the Purple Evening by Diane Browne. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 9766250146. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Good Only. 8vo. prizewinning short stories; jamaica;. more information

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New York: Viking Press, 1956. (xxx) 670 pp. Viking Press book P19. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the front cover and some minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Ireland by Dora Sigerson Shorter; Letter to Robert Bryanton by Oliver Goldsmith; Good Manners: A Letter by Jonathan Swift; Adventures in Connemara: A Letter by Maria Edgeworth; On Bicycles: A Speech; and On the Boer War: A Speech by T. M. Healy; The Beginnings of Joyce by John Eglinton; On Never Going to the British Museum by Robert Lynd; Spreading the News by Lady Gregory; A Night at an Inn by Lord Dunsany; Riders to the Sea by John M. Synge; Questions from the Querist by George Berkeley; The House at Work by James Bryce; Thoughts from The National Being by A. E.; Another Temple Gone by C. E. Montague; Trinket's Colt by E. E. Somerville and Martin Ross; The Priest's Supper (from Harry Lorrequer) by Charles Lever; The Tramp by Liam O'Flaherty; Lilacs by Mary Lavin; A Born Genius by Sean O'Faolain; The Weaver's Grave by Seumas O'Kelly; Song without Words by Frank O'Connor; Mr Bloom Takes a Walk (from Ulysses) by James Joyce; Mrs Johnson by Norah Hoult; Schoolfellows by James Stephens; Look At All Those Roses by Elizabeth Bowen; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde; Mount Venus (from Hail and Farewell) by George Moore; Bricriu's Feast - Anonymous - translated from the Irish by George Henderson; The Cattle Raid of Cooley - Anonymous - translated from the Irish by Dr Joseph Dunn; The Outlawed Chieftain by Standish O'Grady; followed by a selection of poetry by: James Clarence Mangan; W. B. Yeats; John Kells Ingram; John Todhunter; Jeremiah Joseph Callanan; Thomas Osborne Davis; T. W. Rolleston; James Stephens; William Allingham; Moira O'Neill; William Larminie; Oliver St. John Gogarty; Robin Flower; Padraic Colum; Oliver Goldsmith; Jonathan Swift; Douglas Hyde; William Congreve; Thomas Boyd; Sir Samuel Ferguson; Edward Walsh; Seuma O'Sullivan; Arthur O'Shaughnessy; Thomas Moore; A. E.; Herbert Trench; and Joseph Campbell. Scans are available for all books.. Third Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good-. 12mo. irish literature; ireland;. more information

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New York: Simon and Schuster - Touchstone Books, 1971. 256 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: Mawrdew Czgowchwz by James McCourt; The Arc Inside and Out by A. R. Ammons; Down in the Village: A Discourse on Hip by Milton Klonsky; The Rabbit Fights for His Life - The Leopard Eats Lunch; and Yours by C. K. Williams; Stone by William Keens; Storytellers Liars and Bores by Leonard Michaels; Harry Truman Breakfasts at Eighty-six by Michael McMahon; Influences by Tom Wayman; A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Sum by James Nolan; Seven Sketches by F. G. Tremallo; War Summer by James Applewhite; Antecedentes by Edward Rivera; Iowa Deja Vu; and In Your Good Dream by Richard Hugo; A View by Mona Van Duyn; On the Perimeter by Robert Chatain; Three Hard Sonnets by Sandra McPherson; Crimes of Passion: The Slasher by Terry Stokes; Authors and Writers by Roland Barthes; Sleeping on the Roof by Thomas Lux; Sisterhood by Marilyn Hacker; A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley; Lines for Leibniz by John Peck; The Moon in Its Flight by Gilbert Sorrentino; Arrival by Dabney Stuart; On Meeting Keats and Shelly in Rome - 1952 by Alan Feldman; Notes for a Dictionary of Dramatic Terms by Donald Pearce; House Burning by Robert Morgan; Instructions; and Winter by Michael Berryhill; Guayaquil by Jorge Luis Borges; Solo Crossings by Leonard S. Marcus; Report from a Pedestrian by Mark Halliday; Fairview by Richard A. Selzer; Treasure Map; Possibilities; and Friends by James Richardson; Others' Dreams by Joyce Carol Oates; Temporaries by Sara S. Mitter; Staff of Life by Gail Arkley; Fever by Edward Bonetti; Atlantis on $5.00 a Day by John Haag; and The World as Breughel Imagined It by Howard Nemerov. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0671211110. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo. literary magazines; american literature;. more information

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London: Oxford Paperbacks - Oxford University Press, 1991. (xvi) 567 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. The cover features a detail from Galway Harbour by Tristram Hillier. This anthology contains: Adventures of a Strolling Player by Oliver Goldsmith; The Limerick Gloves by Maria Edgeworth; The Death of a Devotee by William Carleton; The Brown Man by Gerald Griffin; Green Tea by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; Albert Nobbs by George Moore; The Sphinx without a Secret by Oscar Wilde; Philippa's Fox Hunt by E. Somerville and Martin Ross; The Priest by Daniel Corkery; The Weaver's Grave by Seumas O'Kelly; The Dead by James Joyce; My Little Black Ass by Padraic O Conaire; The Triangle by James Stephens; Bush River by Joyce Cary; The Pedlar's Revenge; and The Fanatic by Liam O'Flaherty; Her Table Spread by Elizabeth Bowen; The Faithless Wife; and The Sugawn Chair by Sean O'Faolain; Guests of the Nation; and The Majesty of the Law by Frank O'Connor; Pastorale by Patrick Boyle; The Hare Lip by Mairtin O Cadhain; The Poteen Maker by Michael Mclaverty; The Ring by Bryan MacMahon; Sarah by Mary Lavin; Desert Island by Terence de Vere White; The Pilgrims by Benedict Kelly; Weep for our Pride by James Plunkett; Loser by Val Mulkerns; The Bird I Fancied by Aidan Higgins; Death in Jerusalem by William Trevor; The Diviner by Brian Friel; An Occasion of Sin by John Montague; Irish Revel by Edna O'Brien; First Conjugation by Julia O'Faolain; The Beginning of an Idea by John McGahern; Life Drawing by Bernard Mac Laverty; and The Airedale by Desmond Hogan; along with the following folk tales: The Hour of Death; Fionn in Search of His Youth; Cromwell and the Friar; The Girl and the Sailor; The Four-leafed Shamrock and the Cock; The Cow that Ate the Piper; and Conal and Donal and Taig. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0192828452. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Illus. by Tristram Hillier;. 8vo. irish; ireland;. more information

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Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 1989. (xiv) 172 pp. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; slight discolouration on the inside of the front cover; no other interior markings. This anthology contains: The Silent Traders by Yuko Tsushima - translated by Geraldine Harcourt; Two Bedtime Stories: Be It Ever So Humble; and Spring Storm by Mori Yoko - translated by Makoto Ueda; What Should I Do by Chen Goukai - translated by Kenneth Jarrett; Seeds by Mahasveta Devi - translated by the author; Yearning for the Fiords by Teet Kallas - translated by Aino Jogi; From Behind the Veil by Dhu'l Nun Ayyoub - translated by S. Al-Bazzazz; The Slave Fort by Ghassan Kanafani - translated by S. Al-Bazzazz; The Drumming Sands by Ibrahim Al-Kouni - translated by Denys Johnson-Davies;; Small Sun by Zakaria Tamer - translated by Denys Johnson-Davies; Clocks Like Horses by Mohammed Khudayyir - translated by Denys Johnson-Davies; Another Evening at the Club by Alifa Rifaat - translated by Denys Johnson-Davies; The Veteran by Henri Lopes - translated by Andrea Leskes; and The Rain Came by Grace Ogot. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 1555971229. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. literature;. more information

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Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1966. (xiii) 420 pp. Edge and corner wear with creasing on the spine; previous owner's name inside; not store stamped. Cover art by Barry Zaid. This anthology contains: Ancient Lineage by Morley Callaghan; Happily the Soul of My Grandmother by Ethel Wilson; Hunky; Equals MC Squared by Hugh Garner; Bernadette; My Heart is Broken by Mavis Gallant; The Voices of Adamo; A Gourdful of Glory by Margaret Laurence; Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill; This Year at the Arabian Nights Hotel by Mordecai Richler; Flying a Red Kite; Getting to Williamstown by Hugh Hood; A Woman of Her Age by jack Ludwig; The Peace of Utrecht; The Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro; River Two Blink Jacks; Newfoundland Night by Dave Godrey; Maybe Later It Will Come Back to My Mind by Whirley Faessler; and Something for Olivia's Scarpbook I Guess by David Helwig. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 019540131X. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Barry Zaid;. 12mo. canadian author authors;. more information

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New York: Abbeville Press, 1989. 396 pp. Quarter-bound in cream cloth with biege boards; gilt lettering on the spine; headband. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and short tears around the edges; creasing at the foot of the spine; small ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; price clipped. This anthology contains: Pushkin's Photograph (1799 - 2099) by Andrei Bitov - translated by Priscilla Meyer; Auto Accident in Paris by Elchin - translated by Stefani Hoffman; No Smiles by I. Grekova - translated by Dobrochna Dyrcz-Freeman; The Sleeper by Valentin Kataev - translated by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy; Cat Strangler Silver by Viktor Konetsky - translated by Steven W. Nielsen; Antileader by Vladimir Makanin - translated by Jamey Gambrell; A Question Mark and an Exclamation Point by Revaz Mishveladze - translated by Edythe C. Haber; The Art of Needles and Sins by Bulat Okudzhava - translated by Michele A. Berdy; Through the Fields by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya - translated by Stefani Hoffman; What Should I Tell the Crow by Valentin Rasputin - translated by Gerald Mikkelson and Margaret Winchell; The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti by Mikhail Roshchin - translated by Michele A. Berdy; Stepanida Ivanovna's Funeral by Vladimir Soloukhin - translated by Diane Nemec Ignashev; Fire and Dust by Tatyana Tolstaya - translated by Jamey Gambrell; Love in Mustamagi by Arvo Valton - translated by Ritva Poom; The Details of Nikita Vorontsov's Life by S. Yaroslavtsev - translated by Gerald Mikkelson and Margaret Winchell; and Prose by Sergei Zalygin - translated by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy. Illustrated with line drawings. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0896598810. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. Illus. by Leonid Tishcov; Andrei Kostin; Yuri Vashchenko;. 8vo. russian literature; speculative science fiction; collectible; collectable;. more information

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