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Franny and Zooey
by J D Salinger
Franny and Zooey is J. D. Salinger's third book, published as such in 1961, its two parts having originally appeared as a short story and a novella in The New Yorker in 1955 and 1957, respectively. Franny and Zooey, a sister and brother both in their 20s, are the two youngest members of the Glass family, which was a frequent focus of Salinger's writings. The action of both parts takes place over a long weekend in November 1955.
Interpreter Of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies is a 2000 collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year. The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between the culture they have inherited and the "New World" they now find themselves in.
The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist.
Her novel, The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, won the National Book Award in 1972. This collection of thirty-one short stories is a unique, tangible expression of O’Connor’s projected ideas of the southern United States in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Included in this collection are twelve stories that are only included in this collection and not in her two other compilations, Everything That Rises Must Converge... Read more about this item
Her novel, The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, won the National Book Award in 1972. This collection of thirty-one short stories is a unique, tangible expression of O’Connor’s projected ideas of the southern United States in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Included in this collection are twelve stories that are only included in this collection and not in her two other compilations, Everything That Rises Must Converge... Read more about this item
Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
The delightful tales of whales and cats and kangaroos and crabs – everything from how the camel got in a humph (and got his hump!) to how the alphabet was invented. Enchanting and funny, these fantastical stories continue to delight each and every generation.With an inspiring written, inspiring introduction by Jonathan Stroud, author of the Bartimaeus trilogy, Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling is one of the twelve wonderful classic stories being relaunched in Puffin Classics in March 2008.
Tales Of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination, stories by American author Edgar Allan Poe have been compiled by Padraic Colum into a thrilling collection focused on Poe’s suspenseful stories. The first edition compiled by Padraic Colum was published in 1908 by Geoffrey Newnes Ltd. and includes an introduction by Colum explaining his decision to exclude Poe’s poems, comedies, and essays from the collection. A later 1919 edition, published by George G. Harrap & Co., includes 24 full-page black and white plates...
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Where I'm Calling From
by Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in August of that year, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.About the ReaderPeter Riegert...
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Dubliners
by James Joyce
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.
The Stories Of John Cheever
by John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The Swimmer. " It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979; the paperback version won the American Book Award for Fiction in 1981.
Girl With Curious Hair
by David Foster Wallace
Girl with Curious Hair is a collection of short stories by David Foster Wallace, first published in 1989. Though they are not related, many of the stories share the theme of society's fascination with celebrity, some using real celebrities, including Alex Trebek, David Letterman and Lyndon Johnson, as fictional characters.
Drown
by Junot Diaz
Junot Díaz’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories. His highly-anticipated first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was greeted with rapturous reviews, including Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times calling it “a book that decisively establishes him as one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices.” His debut story collection, Drown, published eleven years prior to Oscar Wao, was also...
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Tales Of the South Pacific
by James A Michener
Tales of the South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize winning collection of sequentially related short stories about World War II, written by James A. Michener in 1946. The stories were based on observations and anecdotes he collected while stationed as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy on the island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides Islands (now known as Vanuatu). The skipper of PT-105 met Michener while stationed at the PT boat base on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway
First published in 1927, Men Without Women is an early Hemingway collection containing fourteen short stories that are beginning to show the normal Hemingway themes: war and it's casualties, the interactions between men and women, sports, and violence.
"Banal Story," "In Another Country," "The Killers," "Ten Indians," "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Undefeated," "Fifty Grand," "In Another Country," "Now I Lay Me," "A Canary for One," and more.
"Banal Story," "In Another Country," "The Killers," "Ten Indians," "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Undefeated," "Fifty Grand," "In Another Country," "Now I Lay Me," "A Canary for One," and more.
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
by Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by American author Flannery O'Connor. The Southern Gothic collection was first published in 1955 by Hartcourt, Brace and Company. The short stories explore O'Connor's grotesque view of life which is often realistic and ultimately hopeful. A Good Man is Hard to Find is her second published work and established O'Connor as a major voice in American literature. Short stories in the collection include "The...
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The Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury that explores the nature of mankind. While none of the stories have a plot or character connection with the next, a recurring theme is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of "the Illustrated Man", a vagrant with a tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets.
In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time is the first published collection of Hemingway's short fiction. The book collects several of the author's short stories about American life in the early 1920's, just after WWI. A few of these stories focus on the character Nick Adams.First published in Paris in 1924 by Three Mountains Press under the title in our time - in all lower case - the first state of this work was a set of 18 vignettes and numbered 32 pages in total. Only 300 copies were printed, but due to a printing...
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Civilwarland In Bad Decline
by George Saunders
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. A New York Times Notable Book "This book is a rare event: a brilliant new satirist bursting out of the gate in full stride, wildly funny, pure, generous—all that a great humorist should be."—Garrison Keillor "An astoundingly tuned voice—graceful, dark, authentic, and funny—telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times."—Thomas...
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Nightmares and Dreamscapes
by Stephen King
New to Pocket BooksâÈç Stephen King backlistâÈ'the short story collection containing the story "DolanâÈçs Cadillac," soon to be released as a feature film starring Christian Slater and Wes Bentley.With numerous unforgettable movies based on his short storiesâÈ'including Shawshank Redemption, 1408, and The Green MileâÈ'readers will be delighted to rediscover this classic collection, also released as a television mini-series and on DVD. Featuring twenty short horror stories, a television...
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The Golden Age
by Kenneth Grahame
Looking back to those days of old, ere the gate shut behind me, I can see now that to children with a proper equipment of parents these things would have worn a different aspect. But to those whose nearest were aunts and uncles, a special attitude of mind may be allowed. They treated us, indeed, with kindness enough as to the needs of the flesh, but after that with indifference (an indifference, as I recognise, the result of a certain stupidity), and therewith the commonplace conviction that your child...
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Short Stories Books & Ephemera
In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. In Our Time" by Ernest Hemingway. First Edition, First Printing, with 1925 date on the title page, and no additional printings listed on the copyright page. The book measures approximately 7.75" x 5.5", and is 214 pages long. The first printing consisted of 1335 copies, making this one of the scarcest Hemingway titles. The book is in very good condition. Gilt lettering and geometric design on the front board is well preserved with...
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$1850.00
Pricksongs & Descants
by COOVER, Robert
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slightly toning on the top board edge else about fine in a very good spine darkened dustwrapper with toning.
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$60.00
The Watch; Stories
by Bass, Rick
New York: W W Norton & Company [1989], 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [12], 13-190, [2] pp. Half teal cloth over dark blue paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $16.95 on front flap of jacket.
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$22.00
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
by MISHIMA, Yukio
(New York): New Directions, 1966. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. 181pp. Top corner creased on front wrapper, pen and ink on rear wrapper over author's image and price, very good.
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$20.00
Pictorial Narratives
by None Stated
American Tract Society, 1870. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. American Tract Society, circa 1870, no date stated. Hard Cover. Cover has moderate shelfwear, corners very worn, split in cloth along back spine edge. Pages have moderate foxing throughout, text is very legible. Last two flyleaf pages have small tears. Binding is tight. Good reading/research copy.
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$23.00
Music for chameleons : New writing
by Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
New York : Random House, 1980, 1980. Good. [BOMC] ; xix, 262 p. ; 22 cm. ; black cloth and silver lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Music for chameleons: Music for chameleons -- Mr. Jones -- A lamp in a window -- Mojave -- Hospitality -- Dazzle. Handcarved coffins -- Conversational portraits: A day's work -- Hello, stranger -- Hidden gardens -- Derring-do -- Then it all came down -- A beautiful child -- Nocturnal turnings. ; ISBN: 0394508262; 9780394508269; 0394514645; 9780394514642 LCCN: 79-5532...
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$29.00
ELLERY QUEEN'S Mystery Magazine: August, Aug. 1949
by Ellery Queen (Ben Hecht; Fredric Brown; Katherine Mansfield; Harl Cook; "Seamark"; Anthony Boucher; Meredith Nicholson; W. S. Gilbert; Talbot C. Hatch; Ellery Queen; M. McDonnell Bodkin; Q. Patrick; Percival Wilde)
NY: Mercury Publications, 1949. Vol. 14, no. 69. Photo cover. Includes "Double Exposure" by Ben Hecht; "Crisis, 1999" by Fredric Brown; "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped" by Katherine Mansfield; "Riding the Ghost" by Harl Cook; "Query" by "Seamark"; "The Smiling Englishman" by Anthony Boucher; "The Third Man" by Meredith Nicholson; "The Burglar's Story" by W. S. Gilbert; "Guess Who?" by Talbot C. Hatch;...
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$15.00
Hellbox
by O'HARA, John
New York: Random House, 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slight toning on the endpapers else fine in a very good dust jacket with shallow chips, tiny tears, and rubbing on the rear panel.
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$40.00
Women With Men
by FORD, Richard
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Small stain on page 77, spine tail bumped, else near fine in fine dustwrapper.
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$20.00
A Model World & Other Stories
by CHABON, Michael
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second printing. Rusted paperclip impression left on front fly, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife from the author on the title page.
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$45.00
Fire
by Junger, Sebastian
Fourth Estate, London, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 224 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. The millions of readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm have...
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A$12.95
Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection
by Dozois, Gardner (Editor)
New York, New York, U. S. A.: St. Martin's Press, 2002. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No Edition Or Printing Stated. No Ownership Information Present And The Text Appears To Be Clean And Without Marks. Smooth Spine. Some Scuffing To The Cover.
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$3.99
The Couple Next Door: Collected Short Mysteries
by Millar, Margaret
Norfolk VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2004. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 249 pages. Best-known for her novels, Margaret Millar also wrote a handful of short stories, tales much admired by peers (including her husband Kenneth Millar, who used the pseudonym Ross Macdonald) but never collected in book form. Now Macdonald’s biographer Tom Nolan has gathered and introduced those stories in this volume, which includes two all-but-unknown novellas from the 1940s. Here are half-a-dozen...
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$15.00
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Flowering Judas and Other Stories [Modern Library No. 88.4]
by PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE
New York: Modern Library, 1940. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate to front pastedown & previous ownership signature to front free endpaper, else very near fine in very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Moderate toning to spine panel. Attractive 2006 Katherine Anne Porter stamp affixed to title page. Binding square & tight, text otherwise unmarked & bright.. 12mo. 5 x 7.125 in. [x], 285 pp. + adverts ML Binding Style 8, vivid green cloth, top edge sumikuro, with Kent endpapers; in...
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$47.00
TWICE-TOLD TALES
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
New York: The Heritage Press, 1966. Hardcover. Good. 411p. Ex-library. A 1/4 yellow cloth hardcover book in good condition. Corners rubbed through. No library marks on exterior, but there is some sticker residue and a few stamps inside. The text is clean and the binding secure. A good reading copy. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo.
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$15.00
THE WORLD OF THE SHORT STORY: A TWENTIETH CENTURY COLLECTION
by Fadiman, Clifton (Selected and edited by)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 0395368057 . Book is Very Good + (plus). Clean and unmarked text. Tight and sturdy binding with a very light wave to spine surface - no damage. Top page ends of pages 409-412 very slight 1 inch bump. DJ is very good. Very light bumping and slight wear to cover corners and edges. DJ back bottom corner has a small 1/4 inch closed tear. Very light surface shelf wear to DJ cover. ; Book Club Edition; 847...
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$4.25
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
New York.: Barnes & Noble., 1995.. Reprint.. Hardcover.. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).. Octavo.. Very scarce in this condition. .
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$22.00
Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
by Williams, Joy
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition. The Book Is Bound Within Boards With Light Tan Over One Quarter Blue Paper. Gilt Lettering On The Spine. The Book Has Two Small Bumps To The Lower Front Board Edge And A Hint Of Bumping To The Upper Corners.
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$24.99
HOMAGE TO THE EIGHTH DISTRICT. Tales from Budapest (English Edition)
by Pressburger, Giorgio & Nicola
Louisiana, U.S.A. and London: Readers International, 1990. 134pp. English edition, translated from the Italian ("Storie dell'Ottavo Distretto", Casa Editrice Marietti, Genoa) by Gerald Moore. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over firm spine. Plain burgundy boards undamaged. Textblock unmarked. Art-illustrated ("Father and Uncle Piacske Drinking Red Wine", 1907, Jozsef Rippl-Ronai) dustjacket lightly edgeworn, plus a minor crease on rear flap. A series of short stories from...
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A$18.00
Museums and Women and Other Stories
by Updike, John
Fawcett, 1973. paperback. VG+ mass market paperback. Fawcett P2007, 1st printing November 1973.
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$8.00
Florida
by Groff, Lauren
New York: Riverhead Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2018. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1594634513 . Full number line. ; 288 pages .
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$13.95
Chamber's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts : New and Revised Edition
by Unknown
Edinburgh: Chambers , 1872. hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 17 to 19 cm tall (12mo). Published in 1872. Previous owner's ink inscription. Scattered foxing. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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£7.99
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The Deliberation of Mr. Dunkin [SCARCE FIRST APPEARANCE]
by Dunbar, Paul Laurence [TOGETHER WITH: Dreiser, Theodore; Johnston, Charles; Bell, Robert Mowry; Reed, Thomas B.; and Others
Irvington, New York, 1898. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Very good. A Very Good or better copy of The Cosmopolitan for April 1998, containing the work of a number of Authors, including the first appearance in print of "The Deliberation of Mr. Dunkin", Dunbar's humorous narration of Mr. Dunkin's courting of his town's new schoolteacher. Promptly after this appearance, the story appeared in Paul Laurence's debut book of short stories "Folks from Dixie" (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company,...
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$125.00
Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
by Taylor, Kate
Canada: Doubleday Canada [0-385-65834-6] 2003, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 414pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. (Fiction, Canadian).
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$34.13
EXILE AND THE KINGDOM
by Camus, Albert
Quality Paperback Book Club, 1995. Trade paperback. As new. Translated Justin O'Brien. Quality Paperback Book Club, c1995. 213pp. 8vo. Uncreased spine, as new unread trade paperback.
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$11.00
