Book jacket and pages yellowing with age Book jacket small tears and marks Houghton Mifflin Company, 2960 First Edition, 392 pages The Best American Short Stories anthology was established in an era when best was a word used more sparingly than it is today. It has survived the literary storms and cross currents of forty-five years in America and through changing tastes and mores it has maintained its tradition. In the 1960 volume you will find many writers accustomed to the word best. Among them are Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud, both winners of National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Arthur Miller. Sanora Babb, Stanley Ellin, George P. Elliott, Howard Fast, Mavis Gallant, George Garrett, Elizabeth Hardwick, Howard Nemerov, Theodore Sturgeon, Harvey Swados, and Peter Taylor swell the list of contributing authors with books already published.