CONNELL, EVAN S., JR.

The Anatomy Lesson and Other Stories

NY: The Viking Press, 1957. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's dark pink cloth over brown boards, darker pink lettering on spine, light pink topstain. This is the first edition of the author's first book. Head and heel of spine are lightly rubbed, front endpaper has a slight shadow, probably from a removed bookplate, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, is lightly rubbed at head and heel of the spine. NEAR FINE/ VERY GOOD.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 214 pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 19712

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: Fiction; Short Stories; Literature; First Edition; Novels, Poetry & Literature Short Stories Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

O'CONNOR, FRANK

Traveller's Samples: Stories and Tales

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First Edition. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's paper-covered boards, black lettering on yellow panel on spine, top edge red, fotre-edge deckle. Frank O'Connor was an Irish author who wrote more than 150 works. He is one of the best loved and most celebrated writers of short stories. This is a completely delightful collection of Irish stories -- warm, witty, and wonderful. They combine a cheerful irreverence and a cheerful approach to sex with sparkling humor and tolerant sympathy for the foibles of numerous all-too-human Gaelic saints and sinners.. Former owner's printed bookplate on fep, former owner's signature and date on fep, edges of covers sunned, otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (xii), 238, (1) pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 24660

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Keywords: Short Stories; Frank o'Connor; Ireland; Novels, Poetry & Literature Short Stories Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

DAUDET, ALPHONSE

Selected Stories of Alphonse Daudet

Emmaus, PA: Story Classics, 1951. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Jacob Getlar Smith. Limited Edition (No. 1,070 of 3,000 copies). Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, portrait of author on orange paste-down in blind-stamped panel on cover, top edge orange. Illustrated with full-page duotone plates by Jacob Getlar Smith. Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée Daudet, and writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet.. Spine sunned, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The blue slipcase is sunned but whole. VERY GOOD. Story Classics Series. Duotone Plates. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 24636

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Keywords: Short Stories; Story Classics; Illistrated Books; Collectible Books; Illustrated Books Short Stories Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

DEL REY, JOSHUA

Banned Book

Chicago: Two Feat Creative LLC, 2022. 166783472X. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 166783472X. Illustrated by Joshua Del Rey. Signed by the author on the title page. Publisher's laminated pictorial boards, white lettering on spine. Illustrated with color head-pieces by the author (latex and acrylic paint on plywood). Printed entirely on glossy stock. This is the first book by the author. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. AS NEW.. Color Photographs. 4to 11" - 13" tall. (viii), 115 pp. Signed by Author. As New with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 28541

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DEL REY, JOSHUA

Banned Book

Chicago: Two Feat Creative LLC, 2022. 166783472X. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 166783472X. Illustrated by Joshua Del Rey. Signed by the author on the title page. Publisher's laminated pictorial boards, white lettering on spine. Illustrated with color head-pieces by the author (latex and acrylic paint on plywood). Printed entirely on glossy stock. This is the first book by the author. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. AS NEW.. Color Photographs. 4to 11" - 13" tall. (viii), 115 pp. Signed by Author. As New with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 28904

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Keywords: 166783472x Short Stories Literature Joshua Del Rey First Edition Illustrated Books Short Stories Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

DOBIE, J. FRANK

Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest

Dallas: The Southwest Press, 1930. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Ben Carlton Mead. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on front cover, lettering and decoration on spine, fore-edge deckle, detailed maps on endpapers in red and B&W plates and drawings throughout are by Ben Carlton Mead. Hinge starting, corners gently bumped, head of spine is slightly frayed, lettering and design of cross on spine faded, small tear to page xv, endpapers and pages slightly yellowed, former owner's name in pencil opposite frontis, else square and unmarked. B&W Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xv, 367 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 20923

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: Fiction; Mythology Short Stories; American Southwest; Illustrated Books; Treasure Hunts; Buried Treasure; Treasure Maps; Illustrated Books History Religion & Mythology Children's Books Fiction

VAN DOREN, MARK

The Witch of Ramoth and Other Tales

York, PA: The Maple Press, 1950. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg. Limited edition (No. 714 of 1700 copies). Quarter bound in brown cloth over printed brown patterned boards, gilt lettering on spine, with matching slipcase. Illustrated with full-page drawings by Fritz Eichenberg. This is the Eighth Annual Keepsake Volume published by the Maple Press, and consists of nine previously unpublished short stories by Mark Van Doren, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, poet, and scholar. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. The slipcase shows only slight shelf-wear. FINE.. Duotone and B&W Illustrations. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 99, (1-Limitation) pp. Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 29156

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Keywords: Limited Edition Short Stories Maple Press Mark Van Doren Illustrated Books Fritz Eichenberg Illustrated Books Short Stories Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

EPSTEIN, JOSEPH

In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage

NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007. 0547085745. First Edition Thus. First Printing. SOFT COVER. ISBN: 0547085745. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Publisher's glossy yellow wraps, brown lettering on spine, black and brown lettering on cover. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. AS NEW. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (xxii), 410 pp. Signed by Author. As New with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 9910

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Keywords: 0547085745 Personal Essays Humor Non-Fiction; 1st Editions Biography & Memoir Humor

ESTLEMAN, LOREN D.

The Plated Spoon and Other Tales of Sherlock Holmes

Avon, Massachusetts: Tyrus Books, 2014. -. 1. Soft Cover. Publisher's glossy wraps.. Volume shows only light shelf-wear, else fine. FINE.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 270 pp. Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 24989

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Keywords: Short Stories Essays Novels, Poetry & Literature Short Stories Essays

FERBER, EDNA

One Basket Thirty-One Short Stories

Chicago: Peoples Book Club, 1947. Reprint. 1. Hard Cover. Book Club Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xiii, 581 pp. Fine+ in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 18747

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: American Literature Short Stories Women Writers Edna Ferber Novels, Poetry & Literature

FIELD, EUGENE

A Little Book of Profitable Tales

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, t.e.g, fore-edge deckle.. Head and heel mildly worn, former owner's stamp on ffep, otherwise unmarked, tight, and clean. VERY GOOD. The Writings In Prose and Verse Of Eugene Field Series. Vol. 2. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 286 pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 27079

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Keywords: Short Stories; Literature; Fiction; Eugene Field; Humor Short Stories Fiction

FIELD, EUGENE

Second Book of Tales

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth gilt lettering on spine and cover, t.e.g, fore-edge deckle. Head and heel mildly worn, former owner's stamp on ffep, otherwise unmarked, tight, and clean. VERY GOOD. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field Series. Vol. 10. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 314 pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 27077

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Keywords: Short Stories; Eugene Field; Novels, Poetry & Literature Humor Fiction

FRANKLIN, TOM

Poachers

New York: Harper Perennial, 2000. 0688177719. First Edition Thus. 1. Soft Cover. ISBN: 0688177719. Publisher's glossy wraps.. Volume shows only light shelf-wear, else fine. NEAR FINE. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xiii), 192 pp. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 13287

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: 0688177719 Fiction; Literature; Short Stories Novels, Poetry & Literature Children's Books Short Stories

GARDNER, JOHN

The King's Indian: Stories and Tales

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. 0394492218. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0394492218. Illustrated by Herbert L. Fink. Inscribed by John Gardner on the front endpaper. Publisher's full light gray cloth, embossed with a darker gray on the front cover and spine, silver lettering on spine, dark gray pictorial endpapers, fore-edge deckle, top edge dark gray. Illustrated with B&W drawings by Herbert L. Fink.. Head and heel of spine have just a hint of shelf-wear, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, is in virtually perfect condition. FINE/ FINE.. B&W Drawings. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 323 pp. Signed by Author. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 19698

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Keywords: 0394492218 Fiction; Signed Books; Short Stories; Literature; John Gardner; Novels, Poetry & Literature Short Stories Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

GILLIAM, RICHARD; MARTIN H. GREENBERG; EDWARD E. KRAMER (EDS)

Grails: Quests of the Dawn

NY: Penguin / Dutton Signet / ROC, 1993. 0451453034. First Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. ISBN: 0451453034. Publisher's glossy wraps. Afterword by Fritz Leiber. The stories include: "That Which Overfloweth" by Andre Norton; "The Feast of the Fisher King" by Diana L. Paxson; "That Way Lies Camelot" by Janny Wurts; "The Question of the Grail" by Jane Yolen; "The Cup and the Cauldron" by Mercedes Lackey; "Chalice of Tears, or, I Didn't Want that Damn Grail Anyway" by Marion Zimmer Bradley; "Hitchhiking Across an Ancient Sea" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; "The Gift of Gilthaliad" by Brad Strickland; "Curse of the Romany" by Ilona Ouspenskaya; "Dagda" by James S. Dorr; "The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun" by Gene Wolfe; "Water" by Lee Hoffman; "What You See" by Alan Dean Foster; "Somewhere in Her Dying Heart" by Lisa Lepovetsky; "Hell Bent for Leather" by Jeremiah E. Phipps; "Atlantis" by Orson Scott Card; "Invisible Bars" by Dean Wesley Smith; "Visions" by Lawrence Watt-Evans; "The Awful Truth in Arthur's Barrow" by Lionel Fenn (Charles L. Grant); "Reunion" by Brian M. Thomsen; "Quest Now" by Margo Skinner; "Chivalry" by Neil Gaiman; "Falling to the Edge of the End of the World" by Bruce D. Arthurs; "Greggie's Cup" by Rick Wilber; and "Storyville Tennessee" by Richard Gilliam. Very lightly shelf-worn, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. x, (ii), 387 pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 28593

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Keywords: 0451453034 King Arthur Holy Grail Grail Quests Fantasy Anthology Short Stories Novels, Poetry & Literature King Arthur Short Stories