Library of America, October 2009. First Thus. Hardcover. From early on, American literature has teemed with tales of horror, of hauntings, of terrifying obsessions and gruesome incursions, of the uncanny ways in which ordinary reality can be breached and subverted by the unknown and the irrational. As this pathbreaking two-volume..... More
Everyman's Library, January 1996. Hardcover. Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly selected, beautifully printed, conveniently portable, to have with you wherever and whenever you're in the mood..... More
N/A, January 0001. Trade Paperback. Foxing; cover wear. 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
W. W. Norton & Company, March 1993. Trade Paperback. "The literature of the classical world that has survived is a pitiful remnant of what once existed...." So begins Bernard Knox's preface to an anthology that introduces the modern reader to the enormous breadth and rich variety of that "pitiful remnant"..... 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
Tre Tryckare, (1954). Hardcover. Printed boards with worn jacket in somewhat worn printed slipcase. More
Mariner Books, November 2020. Paper Back. A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. "An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write..... More
PROGRESS PUBLISHERS, January 1976. Hardcover. Heavily chipped along top edge of dust jacket. Sunned margins. Clean interiors. Solid binding. 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 high-born Nigerian goddess, who has..... 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 high-born Nigerian goddess, who has..... 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 high-born Nigerian goddess, who has..... 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 high-born Nigerian goddess, who has..... More
Vintage Books, January 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Trade Paperback. More
University of Chicago, January 1958. First Thus. Paper Back. Sunned spine. Soiling to cover. Wear to exteriors. Pencil underlining on a few pages. First excerpt of Beckett's 'The Unnamable'. More
Anchor, August 1984. Trade Paperback. This unique volume provides each writers reflection on her work, an evaluation of that writer by two perceptive critics, and detailed biographical and bibliographical data.Included are Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and ten other outstanding writers." Just trace signs..... 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
DOUBLEDAY ANCHOR, January 1958. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Original'; paperback original. Stated, 'First Edition'. Darkening to spine & cover margins. Back cover creased corner top left. Two stray gray marks back panel. Else clean & sound, without internal markings. Cover painting by Gen Inokuma. (190 pages)..... More
Vagabond Press, 1983. Stapled Soft Cover. 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
Simon & Schuster, February 2021. Paper Back. A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 2021. Paper Back. A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane..... More
Hungarian Centre of International P.E.N., 1978. Paper Back. Sunned spine. More
Poetry@tech, September 2016. Paper Back. More
The Oxford American, 1992. Stapled Soft Cover. 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
Doubleday Anchor, January 1957. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Original', paperback original. Spine is tender but so far remains intact. Mild darkening to spine and margins of cover. Edgewear. Textblock top edge dakened with foxing. Cover art by Edward Gorey. (388 pages). 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
Penguin, March 1981. Trade Paperback. More
The Paris Review, January 1968. Paper Back. Mild discoloration to cover; textblock curled. Darkening/foxing textblock edges. Dark staining fore-edge. Includes Jack Kerouac intervew The Art of Fiction, fiction by Donald Barthelme, Marge Piercy, James Schuyler & John Asnberyy, poetry by Jim Carroll, Kenneth Koch, Vito Hannibal Acconci, Aram Saroyan, Anne..... More
Southern Fried Karma LLC, November 2020. Paper Back. Viral Literature: Alone Together in Georgia assembled 32 writers from Georgia's creative community to encounter the COVID-19 pandemic with the best of their art. Inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, a collection of 100 stories told by ten young friends in seclusion..... More
Vice Media Inc., 2012. Soft Cover. Quarto; clean, solid, unread. 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
William Morrow & Company, July 2012. Trade Paperback. "Ray Bradbury is without a doubt, one of this, or any century's greatest and most imaginative writers. Shadow Show, a book of truly great stories, is the perfect tribute to America's master storyteller."--Stan Lee, legendary comic book writer and former president and..... 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
Graywolf Press, November 1987. Paper Back. Clean, sound, without markings. 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
Mariner Books, November 2020. Paper Back. "To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time," recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. "They were windows into emotions I had and hadn't had..... 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
Scribner, November 2020. Hardcover. A stunning collection of short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, this year's National Book Award winner Charles Yu, and more. When reality is surreal, only..... 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
