Author: (McCullers, Carson; Bellow, Saul; Jackson, Shirley; Nabokov, Vladimir; Canfield, Dorothy; Shaw, Irwin; Trilling, Lionel; et al). Foley, Martha (editor).
Title: The Best American Short Stories 1944; and the Yearbook of the American Short Story.
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944. 1944. - Octavo, 7-7/8 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. Light brown cloth titled in black on the front cover and the spine, in the original printed dust wrapper. The covers are slightly soiled, rubbed & bumped. The dust jacket is soiled and chipped along the edges with a long tear along the bottom of the jacket's front spinal fold. The number "9/12" has been boldly penciled at the top of the jacket's front panel. xi, [i] & 468 pages. There is minor offsetting to the endpapers and pastedowns. Good.

First edition.

Includes the first publication in a book of Carson McCullers' "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe", which was originally published in Harper's Bazaar Magazine. Also includes the first book publications of Saul Bellow's "Notes on a Dangling Man", Shirley Jackson's "Come Dance With Me in Ireland", and Vladimir Nabokov's " 'That in Aleppo Once..' " as well stories by Dorothy Canfield, Irwin Shaw, Lionel Trilling, etc. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; SHORT STORIES; CARSON MCCULLERS; SAUL BELLOW; SHIRLEY JACKSON; VLADIMIR NABOKOV; MARTHA FOLEU; THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1944; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; FIRST BOOK APPEARANCES; YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 2

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