Category: Anthologies and Short Stories

War of the Worlds Global Dispatches

By: Andersom, Kevin (ed.) and Howard Waldrop, & Dave Wolverton & Connie Willis & George Alec Effinger & Robert Silverberg & Mike Resnick & Kevin J. Anderson & Janet Berliner & Barbara Hambly

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Bantam Books : 1996

Seller ID: 32537

ISBN-13: 9780553103533

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

In this one-of-a-kind science fiction anthology H. G. Wells's classic tale of Martian invasion serves as a takeoff point for a rare flight of the imagination. Here some of today's leading science fiction authors relive Earth's greatest disaster through the eyes of major historical personages from all over the world. The Martian Invasion of Earth as if witnessed by Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, et al. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 274 pages; 32537
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Family Reader

By: Barrows, Marjorie (Compiled By)

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Chicago, Consolidated Book Publishers : 1946

Seller ID: 15964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good Dust Jacket

42 short stories by such authors as Stephen Vincent Benet, Faith Baldwin, Clarence Day, Hilda Cole Espy, Valeria Winkler Griffith, James Hilton, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Booth Tarkington, et al. General age wear, spine title lightly faded. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 506 pages; 15964
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Kipling: A Selection Of His Stories And Poems

By: Beecroft , John

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday : 1956

Seller ID: 27647

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

DJ in new mylar. Foxed front and rear endpapers. ; Book Club Edition; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 505 pages; 27647
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Mainly On The Air

By: Beerbohm, Max

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Knopf : 1958

Seller ID: 22081

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

DJ rubbed, edgeworn, chipped, in mylar book jacket cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages; 22081
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Oroonoko And Other Stories

By: Behn, Aphra

Price: $13.99

Publisher: Hungary, Konemann : 1999

Seller ID: 18305

ISBN-13: 9783829009027

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine Dust Jacket

16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 272 pages; 18305
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The House Of Moreys, Mexico, Return In August, The Small Miracle, The Bold Women, Far, Far From Home, Through History And Through More History, Typhoon

By: Bentley, Runyon, Stong, Gallico, Woodward, McKenney, Shafer, Conrad

Price: $28.20

Publisher: Nelson Doubleday : 1954

Seller ID: 15830

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good Dust Jacket

Chipped and torn DJ in mylar book jacket cover. ; 15830
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What We Save For Last

By: Bliss, Corinne Demas

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Minneapolis, MN, Milkweed Editions : 1992

Seller ID: 22241

ISBN-13: 9780915943692

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 115 pages; 22241
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Life Of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

By: Boswell, James

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Encyclopedia Britannica : 1971

Seller ID: 22875

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Blue cloth, blue and brown spine with gilt lettering. ; Great Books of the Western World Series; Vol. 44; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 22875
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A Treasury Of American Folklore

By: Botkin, B. A. & Carl Sandburg

Price: $10.80

Publisher: Crown Publishers : 1944

Seller ID: 27838

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

Front gutter beginning to crack; light edgewear. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 932 pages; 27838Nss
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Seeds In The Wind Early Signs of Genius, Virginia Woolf to Graham Greene

By: Braybrooke, Neville, Ed.

Price: $23.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Mercury House : 1990

Seller ID: 16664

ISBN-13: 9780916515799

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket

Contents: George Orwell as an imperialist patriot, Virginia Woolf making fun of feminism and T. S. Eliot as the author of an adventure story set in the South Seas are among the prize items to be found in this collection of 20th-century juvenilia. Age 16 and under. The author has been collecting material for this book for over 30 years, encouraging friends like Francis King, David Gascoyne and Elizabeth Jennings to search through their old papers. This collection should appeal to those interested in 20th-century literature, poetry and writers, as well as collectors of anthologies and miscellani...
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Bertolt Brecht Short Stories 1921-1946

By: Brecht, Bertolt (edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim, translated by Kapp, Rorrison, Tatlow)

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Methuen & Company : 1983

Seller ID: 12288

ISBN-13: 9780413370501

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket

Stamp on bottom edge. Gray cloth boards lightly soiled. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; 12288
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Stories From A Moron

By: Broth, Ed; (Foreword by Jerry Seinfeld)

Price: $16.50

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : 2005

Seller ID: 26763

ISBN-13: 9780312326760

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 250 pages; 26763Nss
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A Quarto Of Modern Literature

By: Brown, Leonard, and Porter G. Perrin (Ed. 's)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1935

Seller ID: 15616

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Brown paper covers simulating the look of leather, gilt lettering. Edgeworn. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 436 pages; 15616
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This Is My Best

By: Burnett, Whit (Ed.)

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Dail Press : 1942

Seller ID: 22641

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Poor Dust Jacket

Authors include: Hemingway, Steinbeck, Mencken, Aiken, Benet, Van Wyck Brooks, Rawlings, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Untermeyer, Christopher Morley, Wilder, Skinner, Bromfield, Ferber, Hergesheimer, and many others. DJ is edgeworn, chipped, torn, taped. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 1180 pages; 22641
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Famous & Curious Animal Stories

By: Burnford, Doyle, Hardy, Haggard, Kipling, Maxwell, Melville, Mitford, Tolstoy, Twain, Wodehouse

Price: $16.50

Publisher: NY, Gallery Books : 1989

Seller ID: 24697

ISBN-13: 9780831703752

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket

Other authors include James Herriot, Jack London, Virginia Woolf, James Thurber, Jonathan Swift, Washington Irving, and Gerald Durrell. Bottom edge of rear board lightly bumped; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 377 pages; 24697
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RAW MATERIAL

By: Canfield, Dorothy

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company : 1923

Seller ID: 26982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no Dust Jacket

A series of essays about the "raw material" of the author's family. Foxing, age discoloration, dampstain to rear board, scuff on backstrip. Previous owner's name. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 302 pages; 26982Nss
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Willa Cather Three Complete Novels: O Pioneers! / The Song Of The Lark / Alexander's Bridge

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Gramercy : 1992

Seller ID: 30615

ISBN-13: 9780517064931

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

One of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. , Willa Cather took as her primary theme the sensitive heart struggling to find its place in an unfeeling environment. Her strong sense of character and her simple, powerful style have made her books as relevant today as they were when they were written. In her first three novels -- never before colledted in one volume -- her characters are deeply involved with life, with the demands of work as well as the conflicts of love. Marginalia and underlining. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 523 pages; 30615
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The Story and its Writer An Introduction to Short Fiction

By: Charters, Ann

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Bedford/St Martins : 1995

Seller ID: 32086

ISBN-13: 9780312111700

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

60 stories by 53 major writers together with 34 critical commentaries by many of the same writers. The extensive editorial material includes biographical and critical headnotes for each writer and 5 appendices: a history of the short story, an introduction to the elements of the short story, advice on writing about the short story, a glossary of literary terms, and a chronological listing of authors and stories; 9.1 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 926 pages; 32086
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The Best Of Gregory Clark

By: Clark, Gregory

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Toronto, The Ryerson Press : 1962

Seller ID: 30215

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

A collection of 48 humorous articles by Gregory Clark from the Weekend Magazine in Toronto. He proves laughter is the best medicine. DJ is edgeworn, particularly at top and one tiny closed tear on bottom of rear panel beneath author's signature. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 174 pages; 30215; Signed by Author
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The Rinehart Book Of Short Stories

By: Cline, C. L. (Ed. ) ; Joyce, Ayme, Greene, Hemingway, De Maupassant, Chekhov, Faulkner, Et Al.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston : 1964

Seller ID: 25277

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Page edges tanned. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 307 pages; 25277
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Category: Anthologies and Short Stories