Library of America, October 2021. Hardcover. Library of America and Connie Willis present 150 years of diverse, ingenious, and uniquely American Christmas stories Christmas took on its modern cast in America, and over the last 150 years the most magical time of the year has inspired scores of astonishingly diverse..... More
Houghton Mifflin, October 2004. Paper Back. Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works..... More
Spring Publications, March 1987. Trade Paperback. Essays by Norman O. Brown, Danilo Dolci, Wolfgang Giegerich, James Hillman, Denise Levertov, Robert Jay Lifton, Joanna Macy, David Miller, Mike Perlam, and Mary Watkins. An extraordinary and prescient conference took place at Salva Regina College in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 1983. The..... More
Everyman's Library, September 2008. Hardcover. A new anthology of classic ghost stories--the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format. The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson's "The..... More
Algonquin Books, January 1994. Trade Paperback. In this ninth volume of "New Stories from the South, " you'll find characters you wish you knew, along with others you'll be glad you don't: a boy who wears his mother's shoes as his father lies dying, a young mother dying of cancer..... More
Southern Illinois University Press, January 2000. Trade Paperback. Poetry today holds mainstream attention as never before. From community workshops to reading groups, from coffee house poetry slams to small press lit mags, from universities to web 'zines, the world of poetry has become part of our everyday lives. Demonstrating the..... More
Liveright, October 2021. Hardcover. "When you look over your own library, who do you see?" Since founding the beloved Well-Read Black Girl book club in 2015, Glory Edim has emerged as a literary tastemaker for a new generation. Continuing her life's work to brighten and enrich American reading lives through..... More
Everyman's Library, September 2021. Hardcover. A beautiful hardcover anthology of stories by a brilliant and surprising mix of classic and contemporary writers who have been inspired by trees Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has..... More
Random House Trade, August 2006. Trade Paperback. Chick lit: A genre of fiction that often recycles the following plot: Girl in big city desperately searches for Mr. Right in between dieting and shopping for shoes. Girl gets dumped (sometimes repeatedly). Girl finds Prince Charming. This Is Not Chick Lit is..... More
Routledge, March 1994. Trade Paperback. Visualizing Theory is a lavishly illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues that first appeared in Visual Anthropology Review between 1990 and 1994. It contains contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Reclaiming visual anthropology as..... More
Finnish Literature Society, January 1992. Paper Back. An anthology of contemporary Finnish poetry and prose, with texts ranging from 1945 to the present. The work, by 86 authors, reflects the social changes that inform the writing; during the half-century covered, Finland developed from a traditional agrarian society to a post-industrial..... More
Roof Books, January 1997. Trade Paperback. More
PROGRESS PUBLISHERS, January 1976. Hardcover. Heavily chipped along top edge of dust jacket. Sunned margins. Clean interiors. Solid binding. More
Prentice Hall, January 1999. Hardcover. Library/School binding. Seemingly unread. More
William Morrow & Company, April 2021. Hardcover. "Perfection in short story form, I am in love with every single word Bolu Babalola has written. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully." --Candice Carty-Williams, international bestselling author of Queenie A vibrant collection of love stories from..... More
William Morrow & Company, April 2021. Hardcover. "Perfection in short story form, I am in love with every single word Bolu Babalola has written. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully." --Candice Carty-Williams, international bestselling author of Queenie A vibrant collection of love stories from..... More
Vintage Books, January 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Tre Tryckare, (1954). Hardcover. Printed boards with worn jacket in somewhat worn printed slipcase. More
Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Books, 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Crease on bottom right corner of front cover; scuff marks on back cover. More
Chaosium, March 1995. First Edition. Paper Back. Paperback original; Complete number string. Stated, First Edition. Ocatavo.. Clean, sound, without interior markings. Mild shelfwear to cover. 235 pages. More
Dover Publications, June 1979. Paper Back. How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes When Holmes wearied of mundane Victorian reality, he reached for the cocaine; his creator Doyle reached beyond reality, to..... More
Peter Pauper Press, January 1952. Hardcover. 12mo. {4 & 1/4' x 7 & 1/4'}; Mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Pictorial paper over boards. (62 pages). More
Doubleday-Anchor Original, 1960. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Paperback original. True first. Very good+overall. Unmarked, bright cover. Foxing/darkening top edge of textblock. (458 pages.). More
Penguin Books, January 1957. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Akashic Books, August 2016. Hardcover. In these stories, from Biloxi to Hattiesburg, from Jackson to Oxford, the various crimes of the heart or doomed deeds of fractured households are carried out in real Mississippi locales . . . Are a devilishly wrought introduction to writers with a feel for Mississippi..... More
Penguin Press, May 2021. Hardcover. A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman In the past fifty..... More
Dover Pubns, January 1973. Trade Paperback. As is. Spine tender. More
Mentor / The New American Library, October 1954. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild wear and darkening/foxing. Some curling to cover. Foxing to interiors, especially verso of cover pages. (307 pages plus twelve page list Mentor and NAL/Signet titles.). More
Arcadia Publishing, December 1999. Trade Paperback. More than Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit, Gullahfolklore claims a rich cultural heritage, yet few beyond the Carolina coastknow much about it. However, it is growing in both popularity and interest, asattested by recent scholarly and entertaining examinations of the dialect andstories.The author, Ambrose..... More
Black Lizard Books, May 1987. Trade Paperback. More
E P Dutton, January 1973. Trade Paperback. Covers creased and a bit toned; else, very good. More
Penguin Classics, November 2020. Cloth. The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world A Penguin Classics Hardcover This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods..... More
Penguin, January 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. Small dent on back cover corner, horizontal marks on back cover. More
Vagabond Press, 1983. Stapled Soft Cover. More
1962. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Some creasing along the spine. Very lightly bumped corners. Light toning on the pages. More
Pantheon Books, January 1976. First American. Hardcover. First/first in very good jacket. NOT price clipped. Original price of $8.75 on flap. Red cloth spine & tan paper covered boards with blue lettering. Clean, sound, very good+ reading copy. More
The Vanguard Press, Inc., January 1949. Cloth. Octavo; {9 & 1/2' x 6'}; Dustjacket is missing. Edgeworn cloth covered pictorial boards with edgewear. Black end pages front & rear. Previous owner's name and I presume date of purchase is inked on patterned printed leaf following the front free end page..... More
Prentice-Hall, 1965. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin, 1965, January 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. Minor chips along spine and covers; dampstains on front cover. More
Macfadden-Bartell Book, January 1967. Mass Market PaperBack. 16mo. Mass market edition of Knight's excellent anthology including classic science fiction stories from J.G. Ballard, E.M. Forster,BrianAldiss,Stehphen Vincent Benet, C.M. Kornbluth and others. Mild user wear. Raspberry stained textblock top, bottom and fore-edge. 253 pages. More
Doubleday, Garden City, January 1957. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. 16mo. (Four & 1/8th-inches x Seven & 1/8th-inches); Darkening of spine & margins.Dark stain back cover panel and small surface tear bottom edge of same panel. Rubbing and another small stain front cover panel. Includes 'A long excerpt from: Lolita.'..... More
Doubleday & Company / Anchor Books, January 1957. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkening & foxing to spine & margins. Dust stained textblock edges. Clean, unmarked interior pages. (308 pages & four page list of available Anchor titles.). More
Hungarian Centre of International P.E.N., 1978. Paper Back. Sunned spine. More
Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2003. Trade Paperback. The publishing world has just received its bill of health, and the prognosis isn't pretty. Literary marauders are rising up from the hazardous material bins labeled Horror, Surrealism, and Science Fiction. Here the pen is not merely mightier than the sword; it..... More
Raw Dog Screaming Press, March 2005. Trade Paperback. This anthology from the fringe examines our culture's obsession with taboos and the added temptation that forbidden pleasures bring. Warnings of danger and peril only heighten our desire for those things we have been told are bad, wrong and have been warned..... More
NYRB Classics, October 2015. Trade Paperback. From the fictional land of Carcosa that inspired the HBO show True Detective to H. P. Lovecraft's accursed New England hills, this collection features some of the most legendary landscapes of the cosmic horror genre. The collection includes the following twelve stories: Edgar Allan..... More
Poetry@tech, September 2016. Paper Back. More
N/A, January 0001. Trade Paperback. Foxing; cover wear. More
La Fabrica, January 2006. Paper Back. Small quarto. More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1959. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened & creased spine. Spine is a bit tender at crease, but remains intact. Extremely heavy underlining through much of the text in pencil & ink (red!). Passable reading copy for those who are not distracted by large amounts of underlining. Excellent..... More
California State College, 1972. Stapled Soft Cover. Quarto. Clean & solid. More
ANCHOR BOOKS, 1956. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Sun-bleached spine. Dust stains & streaks and grey splotches to cover. Tiny (1/2-inch x 1/4-inch ) price sticker with cracked edges affixed to front cover top right corner. Mild dust stains/foxing to textblock top & fore-edges. (346 pages.). More
Titan Books (UK), September 2021. Hardcover. A chilling anthology in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today's best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more. A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and..... More
Penguin Books Ltd, January 1962. Mass Market PaperBack. Minor bumps along spine and front cover. More
McSweeney's, September 2014. Trade Paperback. This volume collects the finest essays from the second half of the Believer's decade-long (and counting) run. The Believer, the McSweeney's-published four-time nominee for the National Magazine Award, is beloved for tackling everything from pop culture to ancient literature with the same sagacity and wit..... More
Penguin, March 1981. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), December 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Chaosium, June 1994. First Edition. Paper Back. Octavo. Stated, First Edition. Complete number string. Clean, unmarked internally. No underlining. Pages 227 pages plus 9 pages of advertisements for Chaosium titles. More
Del Rey Books, October 2002. Trade Paperback. When H. P. Lovecraft first introduced his macabre universe in the pages of Weird Tales magazine, the response was electrifying. Gifted writers--among them his closest peers--added sinister new elements to the fear-drenched landscape. Here are some of the most famous original stories from..... More
Mariner Books, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada. In the only short fiction anthology that annually offers the finest works chosen by a distinguished bestselling guest editor, this year's editor, E. Annie Proulx, has selected dazzling stories by..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2018. Trade Paperback. The Fourth Edition of the most trusted and widely used anthology of world literature retains and expands the most popular works from the last edition, while refreshing the anthology with NEW selections and NEW translations of major works. As always, the..... More
Penguin Books, 1986. Mass Market PaperBack. Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Dürer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin. (Four & 1/4' x 7') -- 7th reprint of 1977 Penguin mass..... More
Evergreen, 1973. Trade Paperback. Excellent anthology journal with two contribution in this issue that stand above the rest, the complete text of Beckett's The Lost One, the English translation of Le Dépeupleur. The first edition in book format was published in the UK, 1972 by Calder & Boyars and shortly..... More
University of Georgia Press, September 2003. Trade Paperback. Gently read. No markings. (375 pages). More
University of Georgia Press, September 2003. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, January 1997. Trade Paperback. An anthology of the work of the most important and influential Indian writers of the last 50 years. This volume is published to coincide with the anniversary of India's independence. More
Chronicle Books Llc, November 1997. Trade Paperback. Drinking, Smoking & Screwing made quite an impression, but it didn't tell the whole story. This deviously inspiring plunge mto the netherworld of grifters, fibbers, shysters, and scam artists finally settles the score. With over twenty-five page-turning excerpts from this century's wildest and..... More
Da Capo Press, February 2013. Trade Paperback. Fire and Forget includes the title story from Redeployment by Phil Klay, 2014 National Book Award Winner in Fiction These stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television..... More
MENTOR / New American Library, December 1969. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild wear to cover. Dust stained edges. Clean interiors. (448 pages.). More
The Oxford American, 1992. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Signet / New American Library, January 1969. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. True first, mass market paperback original. Worn & chipped top and bottom of spine with 1/24 inch tear at bottom of front cover along the spine. Some mild soiling to cover. Top corner of last few pages damp..... More
Houghton Mifflin, October 1999. Trade Paperback. In choosing this year's best American short stories, guest editor Amy Tan found herself drawn to fiction that satisfied her appetite for the magic and mystery she once loved as a child, when she was addicted to fairy tales. The result is a vibrant..... More
Schocken, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition in dustjacket with thin margin of darkening top edge. Not clipped. Navy blue textured paper with gold lettering on spine. Black remainder mark bottom textblock edge. Dust staining top textblock edge. In red and purple ink someone has written a date and..... More
Alyson Books, February 2004. Trade Paperback. Thirty-seven writers. One rule. Each story must be told in the first person. Clint Catalyst ("Cottonmouth Kisses") and Michelle Tea ("The Chelsea Whistle") bring together what can only be described as a dream cast of literature's new avant-garde, sandwiched with a few writers appearing..... More
Crooked Lane Books, November 2021. Paper Back. From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color. Edited by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Abby L. Vandiver, this..... More
Imprint Twenty Seven, October 2021. Hardcover. - A sex worker on a journey to break free. - A young woman stuck in a love triangle and meditating on what it means to live with mental illness, in a society that vilifies it. - A curious boy living in The United..... More
Stuart David Schiff, January 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gold (drip design) lettering. Signed/limited; 347/350. Signed by Strieber & (publisher) Stuart David Schiff on front paste down/limitation page. There is an unfortunate previous owner's bookplate affixed to light blue frontpage (page #3). Solid copy without jacket as issued..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1960. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Original'. Slight darkening of spine with superficial crinkling toward top. Bottom textblock edge slightly duststained at fore-edge lip. Top edge mild darkening. (301 pages with seven pages of available Anchor and Dolphin titles.). More
Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, August 1983. Trade Paperback. More
