Search Results: Short Stories from Diversity Books, IOBA

London: Andre Deutsch, 1961. 446pp. Book clean. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Text-block edges flecked, otherwise leaves clean. Black boards noticeably bumped on both head and heel of backstrip, plus front board. Portrait-illustrated dustjacket significantly edgeworn, with jagged open and closed tears on spine, together with colour faded text on same. Otherwise, mild abrading and soiling. This title is a collection of Norman Mailer's penmanship, displaying a broad ability in the fields of stories, essays, articles, short novels, and other forms. He begins with a story he wrote while still at college, and ends with a forecast of the immensely ambitious novel on which he is (was) currently working . . . Listed are two tables of contents, for which he gives an explanation. Born in 1923, Norman Mailer died in 2007. Book weight approx. 740g.. First U.K.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Templestowe, Victoria , Australia: Burgewood Books, 1996. 174pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, Signed on title page by author Don Charlwood. Previous owner's name to half-title page, three small marks to last page, else leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper minimally surface scratched and softly corner creased. From the rear panel: "In these ten lively wrought stories a corner of the Victorian countryside becomes a small timeless world rich with human experience. Partly autobiographical, they are held in unity by the land and people they describe, and by the character of their narrator, a young man who is at once part of the life around him and a detached observer of it . . . " Contents include: Author's Note. 10 short stories. Australian author Donald Ernest Cameron Charlwood AM was born in 1915 and passed away in 2012. Book weight approx. 200g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . Signed by Author. First Thus.… Read More

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: RMIT Professional Writing and Editing/department of Creative Media, 2000. 130pp., b/white illustrations by Peter Christmas Savieri and Dee Rimbaud. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper nominally scuffed only. A stand-alone title in the Visible Ink Anthology series. "Playful, contemplative and macabre, this year's Visible Ink anthology is a powerful text on the nature of relationships:between humans, and between humans and insects, birds and things less benign. Reading, one is transported to new and memorable terrain." Contents include: Foreword, Introduction, 21 contributions, Notes on the Contributors. Book weight approx. 250g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight.. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Mornington, Victoria, Australia: Author (L.M. Stacey) Printed By Morningside Printers, 1998. v, + 139pp. Book clean and square. A soft reading crease on lightly bumped spine. Colour-illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn, with a short, oblique crease on rear upper foredge corner. A short personal inscription, signed and dated by the author on title page, else textblock unmarked. This book is a collection of short stories from the pen of Mornington Peninsula (Victoria)-based author L. (Lili) M. Stacey. The first story is "Alien Rescue", and the last story is "Do-Gooder". Book weight approx. 205g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . Inscribed and Signed By Author. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Nelson, 1973. vi, + 146pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Plain white boards negligibly marked only. Leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket edgeworn, with a short closed tear, mild discolouration, foxing spots to reverse. "When it was announced in early 1972 that Nelson intended to publish a selection of the best unpublished Australian short stories, over one thousand entries were submitted from the length and breadth of Australia . . . Established writers rub shoulders with the relatively unknown and those who have never appeared in print before." Contents include: Introduction (Editors), 19 short stories, Biographical Notes. Authors include Barry Oakley, Elizabeth Jolley, Peter Carey, more. Book weight approx. 355g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight.. First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Belmont, Victoria, Australia: Neptune Press Pty. Ltd., 1976. Unpaginated (70 pages). Saddle-stitched, staple-bound format, with separate, removeable heavy paper dustwrapper. Staples mildly rusted, but holding tightly. Plain card wrapper nominally edgeworn only. Textblock unmarked. Text-printed dustjacket trivially shelfworn only, The entries in this volume constitute the winners in the Geelong and District Autumn Festival 1976 in the Short Story, Poetry, and One-Act Plays categories. The Short Story winners were (First Prize) D.E. (Donald Ernest) Charlwood (b1915-d.2012) for 'Salmacis, London' and Beryl Giles for 'Whatever Happened to Tuesday' in second place. Poetry Prize was won by Shirley Thomas for 'Requiem for a Ringtail Possum'. One-Act Play winner was Russell Beedles for 'Party'. Contents include: Prelims., Foreword. The Entries. The Winners. Item weight approx. 155g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post as a small parcel.. First Edition.… Read More

Toronto, Canada: The Ryerson Press, 1959. viii, + 174pp. Book clean. Spine firm, but slightly cocked. Green boards lightly shelfworn, bumped and splayed. Signed by the author on his Foreword page, otherwise leaves clean. No dustjacket. A selection of short stories, anecdotes, and a little literary licence, by the respected Canadian scribe Gregory Clark, borrowed from his 'Weekend Magazine' column.Born in Toronto, Canada, on 25 September, 1892, he died in the same city on 3 February, 1977. Book weight approx. 390g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight.. Signed by Author. 1st Thus. Hardcover [Original Cloth]. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Dublin, Ireland: Prestige Books, 2002. 128pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper (Design: Susan Waine) lightly bumped on foredge corners only. Textblock unmarked, save for one (formerly) dog-eared leaf. This volume of short stories, by Irish writer Eoin Neeson (b.1927-d.2011), some of which have been previously published, include: Bottles and Old Bones. No Greater Love. Prospects. A Dultry. An Angel Dancing. Lizzie. El Conejo. The Bull Calf. Wide Open Spaces. Book weight approx. 155g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post as a small parcel. . First Thus. Softcover. Very Good +. 12mo - (approx. 19.5cm x 13cm).

Victoria, Australia: Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2006. 92pp., montage format colour-art section. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated gloss wrapper slightly splayed and bumped. A compilation of award-winning writers who entered a literary and art competition, over a series of categories open to Australian veterans. The categories of the 44th competition were: True Wartime Experience, True Life Experience, Fiction, Poetry, Reflections of the Vietnam War, Art, Craft, Photography. Book weight approx. 470g.. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2005. 255pp. Book clean and square. In-production, foredge round cornered. Leaves clean. Pictorially-illustrated card wrapper undamaged. A collection of alien-encounter themed short stories by such masters of fright as Stephen King ('I Am The Doorway'), Philip K. Dick ('Project: Earth), J.G. Ballard ('The Venus Hunters'), Damon Knight ('To Serve Man') and other contemporaries. Stories are under themes: Close Encounters, Alien Invasions, and Alien Abductions. Book weight approx. 360g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Thus, 1st Impression.. Softcover. Very Good +.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1989. 267pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Plain tan boards undamaged. Leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket has minor soft edge-creasing, tiny nick to head of rear flap fold. From the jacket flap: "Michael's Moorcock's latest collection includes, as usual, a fascinating variety of fiction and non-fiction. There are six new stories. The title story - subtitled 'An Episode in the Third World War' - is a subtle and exotic political tale set, as the title suggests, in Morocco . . . The non-fiction incorporates profiles of such disparate figures as Angus Wilson, Andrea Dworkin and Mervyn Peake; writings on London which form a fascinating supplement to his acclained novel 'Mother London'; and lively and committed discussion of feminism and pornography. Finally, the book features a novella, 'Gold Diggers of 1977', which is a substantially revised version of 'The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle'." Book weight… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape , 1974. 307pp. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over minimally bumped spine. Plain green boards undamaged. Textblock top-edge tinted green, but faded. Leaves unmarked. Art-illustrated (Desmond Digby) dustjacket price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, and slightly faded on spine. . . . a collection of 'shorter novels and stories' (some of which have been previously published in various forums) by multi-award winning (including the Nobel Prize for Literature 1973) Australian author Patrick Victor Martindale White (1912-1990). Contents include: Prelims., 6 stories, viz: A Woman's Hand; The Full Belly; The Night of The Prowler; Five-Twenty; Sicilian Vespers; The Cockatoos. Book weight approx. 455g. . First Thus. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Michael Joseph, 1982. 341pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, silver title there-on. Plain black boards very good+. Leaves clean and unmarked, very mildly tanned. Illustrated dustjacket negligibly edge-creased, minor sunning to spine, a hint of tanning to inner edges. From the jacket flap: "In this remarkable collection, Peter Haining has brought together for the first time all Charles Dicken's ghost stories, including several long-lost tales. From the blood-curdling story of 'Captain Murderer and the Devil's Bargain' to the extraordinary revelations of 'The Signal-Man', from 'The Haunted Man' to 'The Queer Chair' to 'The Madman's Manuscript' - here are chilling histories of coincidence, insanity, revenge, Handsomely introduced by Peter Haining, and complete with their original illustrations, they illuminate a fascinating side to one of the greatest storytellers in the English language." Book weight approx. 555g. (This book will… Read More

Collingwood, VIC, Australia: Greenhouse Publications, 1982. 121pp., b/white illustrations by Tony Irving. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper mildly scuffed, very soft corner crease to rear panel. An anthology of stories "about people, and stories in which the disability was part of the many inconveniences some people have to put up with every day. They were ordinary people, doing extraordinary things . . . ." Includes Foreword by Dr. Bruce Ford. Book weight approx. 230g. Postage charge will be reduced as this book will post under 500g. packed weight.. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Tasmania: Artemis Publishing vii, + 112pp., b/white cartoon-style illustrations throughout by Kev Bailey. Book clean. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper slightly sunned on spine and a thin strip of top edge of front panel, soft corner crease. From the back panel: " . . . a humorous, light-hearted and witty collection of short stories put together over many years of travelling and working in rural Australia. It is of life on the land, on the road and on the sheep's back . . . " Book weight approx. 240g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Softcover. Very Good +. Illus. by Cartoons by Kev Bailey.

Singapore: Heinemann Asia, 1992. 184pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, very minor edgewear head and heel. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated card wrapper very good. "A fascinating collection of nine short stories with a mainland China setting, based on the author's experiences with The Friends' Ambulance Unit in China during 1945-51 . . . The stories are all true and they seek to convey what it meant to be a woman in that part of China at that time - the squalor and poverty, the pain and suffering, but above everything else the underlying humanity and the humorous situations which kept breaking in." A stand-alone title in the Heinemann 'Writing in Asia' series. Book weight approx. 150g. (This book will post as a small parcel and postage charge will be reduced accordingly). Reprint. Softcover. Very Good. 12mo - (approx. 17.5cm x 11cm).

United States: Golden Gryphon Press, 2006. xi, + 319pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Plain maroon boards very good+. Leaves clean and unmarked. Colourr-art illustrated (John Picacio) dustjacket has a small surface indentation to front panel, else negligible edgewear. Jeffrey Ford's second short fiction collection, edited by Marty Halpern, and introduced by Jonathan Carroll. Contents include: Acks. Introduction. The Annals of Eelin-Ok. Jupiter's Skull. A Night in The Tropics. The Empire of Ice Cream. The Beautiful Gelreesh. Boatman's Holiday. Botch Town. A Man of Light. The Green Word. Giant Land. Coffins on the River. Summer Afternoon. The Weight of Words. The Trentino Kid. Book weight approx. 538g. . First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - (approx. 21.25cm x 14.5cm).

London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1993. 248pp. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine. Plain red boards nominally bumped. Leaves clean, slight tanning to edges. Art-illustrated ('Portrait of a Young Beauty' - detail - Guillaume Seignac, c. 1900) dustjacket negligibly edgeworn only. " . . . gathers together passionate and explicit writing about sex by writers of the first rank . . . " One of the earliest tales is from the notorious 'Les Liasons Dangereuses' written in 1782 by Chodelos de Laclos, to modern masters such as Philip Roth, and Mary McCarthy, who satirize American society and its sexual obsessions . . . Authors include: Daniel Defoe, John Cleland, Henry Fielding, Marquis de Sade, Emile Zola, Sir Richard Burton, Andrea Newman, Henry Miller, Erica Jong, D.H.Lawrence, and more. Book weight approx. 565g. . First Thus.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Fourth Estate, 2008. 221pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly scuffed. Talented, award-winning author Annie Proulx's third collection of Wyoming stories, with a familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The nine short stories "range over centuries, and capture the voices and lives of the settlers this sagebrushed and weatherworn country has known; from the native Indian tribes to the modern-day ranch owners and politicians, and their cowboy forebears . . . " Book weight approx. 260g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . First Thus.. Softcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Victor Gollancz, 2000. viii, + 216pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Small, thin blue stripe to lower textblock edge. Vivid silver title over nominally bumped spine. Plain blue boards trivially bumped on upper foredge. Illustrated dustjacket mildly edgeworn and nipped. Four novellas by four masters of the fantastic : Leningrad Nights, by Graham Joyce. How the Other Half Lives, by James Lovegrove. Andy Warhol's Dracula, by Kim Newman. The Vaccinator, by Michael Marshall Smith. Edited, and with an Introduction by, Peter Crowther. Book weight approx. 540g. . First Thus.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.