Ethan Coen

Never read. Has a small black dot on the bottom of the book (see photo).

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Stories

In Gates of Eden, Ethan Coen exhibits on the printed page the striking, twisted, yet devastatingly on-target vision of modern American life familiar from his movies. The world within the world we live in comes alive in fourteen brazenly original tragicomic short stories—from the Midwest mob war that fizzles due to the principals' ineptness to the trials of a deaf private eye with a blind client to a fugitive's heartbreaking explanation for having beheaded his wife, alarming in that it almost makes sense.

Gates of Eden

c8211b80-304f-475b-8756-b316b9b1bcb3-1

Elliott Hester

California

A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet

Make sure your seatbacks and tray tables are in their full upright and locked position for these shocking, bizarre, hilarious, and outrageous stories of airplane travel.

You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's ninety-two degrees in the cabin and someone forgot to use deodorant. A baby screams. A kid kicks the back of your seat. After two hours you haven't even left the taxiway. Welcome to modern airline travel! In Plane Insanity, Elliott Hester delivers stories that could only come from someone who "rides tin" for a living---a flight attendant.

You'll hear about:
* the passenger from hell
* a smuggled python
* prostitutes working the lavatories
* a riot in coachclass
* a $500,000 heist
* the anatomy of a carry-on bag
* a malodorous couple
* the Mile-High Club
* and much more!

Fasten your seatbelts. After Plane Insanity, you'll never think of air travel the same way again.

Plane Insanity

08b68ac1-b830-44cb-8c7a-34d95ce3b6ce-1

Kansas

Sleepy Hollow and other short stories - OwlCrate Edition

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Finca Vigia Edition 

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway 

Lara Williams

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

“A dark wonder. An often harrowing (and in parts, very, very funny) debut, it targets the unfathomable nonsense of relationships, work and modern living with a keen eye, head-spinning wordplay and enough compassion to crush your heart. Buy it for everyone you know." —The Skinny She finds herself single, twenty-nine, partially-employed, and about a half a stone overweight. Roller dexter of eligible friends rattling thin. Thirties breathing down her neck like an inappropriate uncle. She jogs. Looks good in turquoise. Finds herself punctuating gas “better out than in!” patting her stomach like a department store Santa. This is who I am, she thinks. The women in Lara Williams’ debut story collection, A Selfie as Big as the Ritz, navigate the tumultuous interval between early twenties and middle age. In the title story, a relationship implodes against the romantic backdrop of Paris. In “One of Those Life Things,” a young woman struggles to say the right thing at her best friend’s abortion. In “Penguins,” a girlfriend tries to accept her boyfriend’s bizarre sexual fantasy. In “Treats,” a single woman comes to terms with her loneliness. As Williams’ characters attempt to lean in, fall in love, hold together a family, fend off loneliness, and build a meaningful life, we see them alternating between expectation and resignation, giddiness and melancholy, the rollercoaster we all find ourselves on.

A Selfie As Big As the Ritz

79d63329-1178-41ee-8e76-90d1e2e14ded-1

Valerie Vogrin

Got this anthology at a writers conference before realizing I was impulse buying and had no intention of reading it… give it a good home! It’s never been opened, just sat on a shelf untouched. 

"Valerie Vogrin's first full-length story collection is populated with characters who are lost, characters who are wounded, characters rendered with precision and the unflinching eye of an expert storyteller at the top of her craft. . . . Like us, they are deeply human and, in that way, utterly recognizable. . . . Vogrin's prose is clear and confident and often grimly humorous, but in the end she is an artist of the unstated, deftly seeding clues that blossom into stories rich in detail and imagination."--Dorene O'Brien, award-winning author of What It Might Feel Like to Hope

Things We'll Need for the Coming Difficulties

0b6665fc-7059-444f-9be7-92d06c602dff-0

Christ at the Coffee Shop's message speaks to the hearts of common people because it magnifies a God of the common places, the omnipotent Deity who happens to choose to make Himself known in the course of everyday events. Many of us would like to see God but can't find Him, believing that He only expresses Himself through blinding insights of peak experiences of some sort. If we must travel to the mountaintops to see God most of us will miss Him. This book brings Him near.

Growing up on a small farm in Tennessee before earning degrees from Harding University and Tennessee Technological University, Nathan has spent a lot of time with simple living, hard work, and everyday people. In Houston, Texas, where he does most of his work nowadays, Nathan sees a different side of the world where life is a little more complicated and the labor is not with his hands, but the people themselves are not much different. Nathan lives his life among the commonplace and sees a tremendous need for a God who is comfortable there.
Second printing. 

Texas

Signed! - Christ at the Coffee Shop

Louis L'Amour

Very good dust jacket, very good clean tight copy .2006 ed. 1st printing.

New York

The Adventure Stories 

Presents a collection of tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West.

The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 4

c05ba802-9c88-42e6-b9ba-f269e78f3da6-1

Stephen King

Rare hardcover edition in good condition. Minor tears in dust jacket back. Collectible. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Night Shift

c812997e-c920-4154-8de5-9707f9333c08-1

1973 collectible edition of editor Philip Stratford’s collection of Graham Greene’s essays, short stories and excerpts. A great place to start your journey of reading Graham Greenery who “explored a territory somewhere between despair and faith, treachery and love.”  International Collector’s Library collectible edition with navy blue leather like binding with gold gilt “Tree of Life” design. Gilt in very good condition. Some bumping to corners and edges along with top and bottom of spine consistent with shelf wear for the age of the edition. Binding tight. Minor toning to pages. Otherwise pages are clean. Good vintage condition. A lovely copy for a collector or someone wanting to delve into the classics. Be sure to see our other listings in this collection. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Georgia

International Collector’s Library

The Portable Graham Greene

North Carolina

One More Step (An Anthology)

#Classics #ShortStories #LeatherBound #Collectors

Montana

Leather Bound Collectors Edition. Gold sprayed edges, decorative end papers

Adam Penn Gilders

First Edition Hardcover 
The cover has minor creasing. Some of pages have dog- ears. Otherwise clean and white pages. 

Adam Penn Gilders was a virtuoso of the deadpan prose miniature. He published his stories in Paris Review, The Walrus and J&L Illustrated, before passing away in 2007, at the age of 36, of a brain tumor. Another Ventriloquist collects Gilders' charming vignettes, which fall somewhere between Aesop's fable and bitch session: "My friend Geoffrey, to my constant dismay, seems compelled to enjoy life's little pleasures, such as coffee or perfectly cooked eggs, all at once, without delay or hesitation. With coffee, for example, which he particularly loves, he drains his cup with almost demented eagerness, often before his companions have taken a single sip. It was as though the best experiences, like hot liquids, were liable to evaporate if measured out in teaspoons. He had what I considered a 'Now or Never' attitude which made me want to proclaim 'Never '" With this posthumous collection, Gilders bequeaths a gem of concision and wit.

Another Ventriloquist (First Edition) 

861d7033-f4a5-4471-abe9-565ac9f77f5d-0


Published by Random House New York, NY in 1961. 

Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (1885–1962) was a Danish author who wrote under a number of pseudonyms, namely: Isak Dinesen, Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrezel. “Out of Africa” (1937) is perhaps Blixen-Finecke’s most well known work (a memoir that recounts the seventeen years Blixen lived on her coffee-plantation in Kenya) and was widely acclaimed.  

Shadows on the Grass” (1960) is considered a sequel to “Out of Africa”; it is a short compendium of further recollections about her days in Africa. Many of the people and the events from “Out of Africa” appear again on these pages. Due to its brevity and its closely related content. 

These four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. The first three were written in the 1950s. “Echoes from the Hills', was written especially for this volume in the summer of 1960 when the author was in her seventies. 

First American Book Club Edition, identifiable by the tiny square indent to blue cloth area at lower right back cover; copyright 1960, "First published in the United States, 1961," as stated as copyright page, presumed first printing though unstated. 

Good condition except tape marks on front and back covers. See photos. 

Shadows On The Grass

Published in 1961 by Little, Brown and Company of Boston and Toronto.

Binding is tight, and copy clean with the exception of a black line on page across from the Franny title page. Back inside cover and back of dust jacket have yellow spots. Previous owner’s name and the date, Dec. 1961 are written in ink on inside cover. Otherwise the book is clean and well preserved with light toning. The dust jacket has slight chipping and small tears. See photos for condition. 

Written in Salinger’s typically irreverent style, these two stories offer a straightforward look into the troubled mindset of early adulthood. Salinger’s characterizations always provide insightful emotional observations making his works classic and well-received, even today. 

Franny & Zoey

Marissa Walsh

Like new except for lettering along the top (see pic)

Illinois

Stories about loving - and loathing - your body

How often do you find yourself looking in the mirror? And smiling at what you see? More likely, you're thinking what you see is: Fat, Ugly, Skinny, Round, Stacked or Flat, Bad or Good. From reality television to tabloid headlines, we're all surrounded by weight and discussion of weight. In this collection, a stellar lineup of YA writers sound off on body image., self-esteem, diets, eating disorders, boys, fashion magazines, and why trying on jeans is a bad experience for everyone. There are eight powerful short stories and six moving personal essays from authors whose works include two New York Times bestsellers, a Los Angeles TImes Book Prize, and a Printz Honor; an appendix offers book, movie, and music recommendations. (And in case you're still wondering, No this book does not make you look fat.)

Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?

d6335d99-c076-4613-9e0a-6c906c499534-1

Venetian Alberto Tozo Fei's book is a guide to Venice of myths and mysteries. It is made up of seven routes through all six historical districts-sisters of Venice, with the indication of streets and the application of detailed maps. However, the "rod" on which walks are strung is not the history of architectural monuments and painting styles, as in ordinary guidebooks, but urban legends. But since almost all these legends feature historical characters, and ghosts appear in historical places, the author - always to the place - also gives "ordinary" educational information: tells about the history of Venice and describes its most famous architectural monuments. Alberto Tozo Fei (b. 1966) comes from a family of hereditary glassblowers, and before the release of this book he was known as a specialist and enthusiast of the history of Murano glass. It is his first book to go beyond his direct specialty, and has been followed by many others.


Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Colorado

Seven nights of history and myth, legends, ghosts, enigmas and curiosities 

Mysteries of Venice 

William Trevor

Cover has a crease but pages are clean. No markings or folded pages of any kind.

After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor
'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal
In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas; and a heartbroken woman traveling alone in Italy who experiences an epiphany while studying a forgotten artist's Annunciation.
Trevor is, in his own words, 'a storyteller. My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so.' Conscious or not, he touches us in ways that few writers even dare to try.
%%%After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor
'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal
In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas; and a heartbroken woman traveling alone in Italy who experiences an epiphany while studying a forgotten artist's Annunciation.
Trevor is, in his own words, 'a storyteller. My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so.' Conscious or not, he touches us in ways that few writers even dare to try.
If you enjoyed The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer, you will love this book. It will also be adored by readers of Colm Toibin, George Saunders and James Joyce.
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. His books in Penguin are- After Rain; A Bit on the Side; Bodily Secrets; Cheating at Canasta; The Children of Dynmouth; The Collected Stories (Volumes One and Two); Death in Summer; Felicia's Journey; Fools of Fortune; The Hill Bachelors; Love and Summer; The Mark-2 Wife; Selected Stories; The Story of Lucy Gault and Two Lives.


After Rain

f28babb9-2df1-4a1d-af46-d2b63fe9ce50-1

Neil Gaiman

Marlon James

Ohio

Selected Fiction

An outstanding array--52 pieces in all--of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, curated by his readers around the world, and introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James Spanning Gaiman's career to date, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a captivating collection from one of the world's most beloved writers, chosen by those who know his work best: his devoted readers. A brilliant representation of Gaiman's groundbreaking, entrancing, endlessly imaginative fiction, this captivating volume includes excerpts from each of his five novels for adults --Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane--and nearly fifty of his short stories. Impressive in its depth and range, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is both an entryway to Gaiman's oeuvre and a literary trove Gaiman fans old and new will return to many times over.

The Neil Gaiman Reader

14f9e0dd-5796-465d-b759-47a429f1a44e-1

Aoko Matsuda

Polly Barton

In this "delightfully uncanny" collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales (The New York Times Book Review), humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services—from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime. A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every night to take a luxurious bath; a silent house-caller who babysits and cleans while a single mother is out working. Where the Wild Ladies Are is populated by these and many other spirited women—who also happen to be ghosts. This is a realm in which jealousy, stubbornness, and other excessive “feminine” passions are not to be feared or suppressed, but rather cultivated; and, chances are, a man named Mr. Tei will notice your talents and recruit you, dead or alive (preferably dead), to join his mysterious company. With Where the Wild Ladies Are, Aoko Matsuda takes the rich, millenia-old tradition of Japanese folktales—shapeshifting wives and foxes, magical trees and wells—and wholly reinvents them, presenting a world in which humans are consoled, guided, challenged, and transformed by the only sometimes visible forces that surround them.

Where the Wild Ladies Are

271b397c-266c-4bbb-8862-5b30230d2356-1

Kurt Vonnegut

Sidney Offit

Florida

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post World War II America - a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. Here are tales both cautionary and hopeful, each brimming with Vonnegut's trademark humor and profound humanism. A family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. A man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. A quack psychiatrist turned "murder counselor" concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. While these stories reflect the anxieties of the postwar era that Vonnegut was so adept at capturing--and provide insight into the development of his early style--collectively, they have a timeless quality that makes them just as relevant today as when they were written. It's impossible to imagine any of these pieces flowing from the pen of another writer; each in its own way is unmistakably, quintessentially Vonnegut. Featuring a Foreword by author and longtime Vonnegut confidant Sidney Offit and illustrated with Vonnegut's characteristically insouciant line drawings, Look at the Birdie is an unexpected gift for readers who thought his unique voice had been stilled forever - and serves as a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius.

Look at the Birdie

20682f60-7946-4719-8f90-d31426452767-1

A collection of twenty stories dealing with morality, the afterlife, guilt and more, with autobiographical comments on when, why and how Stephen King came to write each story.

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

c61b254f-5620-4fa9-990e-3d447ee5d0a3-1

Alice Wong

West Virginia

First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden--but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together an urgent, galvanizing collection of personal essays by contemporary disabled writers. There is Harriet McBryde Johnson's "Unspeakable Conversations," which describes her famous debate with Princeton philosopher Peter Singer over her own personhood. There is columnist s. e. smith's celebratory review of a work of theater by disabled performers. There are original pieces by up-and-coming authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma. There are blog posts, manifestos, eulogies, and testimonies to Congress. Taken together, this anthology gives a glimpse of the vast richness and complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own assumptions and understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and past with hope and love.

Disability Visibility

f08a7a6d-1978-407c-94e0-5de427da3709

Haruki Murakami

Philip Gabriel

Very good clean tight copy, very good dust jacket. First edition.

A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist.

Browse by categories

Save this search

Ethan Coen

Gates of Eden

Elliott Hester

Plane Insanity

Washington Irving

Sleepy Hollow and other short stories - OwlCrate Edition

Ernest Hemingway

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Lara Williams

A Selfie As Big As the Ritz

Valerie Vogrin

Things We'll Need for the Coming Difficulties

Nathan Ingram

Signed! - Christ at the Coffee Shop

Louis L'Amour

The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 4

Stephen King

Night Shift

Graham Greene; editor Philip Stratford

The Portable Graham Greene

Colleen Hoover and others

One More Step (An Anthology)

Various

Leather Bound Collectors Edition. Gold sprayed edges, decorative end papers

Adam Penn Gilders

Another Ventriloquist (First Edition)

Isak Dinesen

Shadows On The Grass

J. D. Salinger

Franny & Zoey

Marissa Walsh

Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?

Alberto Toso Fei

Mysteries of Venice

William Trevor

After Rain

Neil Gaiman; Marlon James

The Neil Gaiman Reader

Aoko Matsuda; Polly Barton

Where the Wild Ladies Are

Kurt Vonnegut; Sidney Offit

Look at the Birdie

Stephen King

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

Alice Wong

Disability Visibility

Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel

First edition * First Person Singular