Good condition; review of stories, anecdotes, cartoons by James Thurber that originally appeared in New Yorker Magazine.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Thurber Carnival

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

There is a Graveyard That Dwells In Man

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Walter B. Gibson

This book has never been read spine never cracked.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Twenty-Six Unforgettable Explorations into the Realm of the Supernatural

Rod Serling's Twilight Zone

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Ottessa Moshfegh

excellent condition! short story collection!

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Stories

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time "I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories. Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author's short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel. And for good reason. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. Homesick for Another World is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition. But part of the unique quality of her voice, the echt Moshfeghian experience, is the way the grotesque and the outrageous are infused with tenderness and compassion. Moshfegh is our Flannery O'Connor, and Homesick for Another World is her Everything That Rises Must Converge or A Good Man is Hard to Find. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful. But beauty comes from strange sources. And the dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating. We're in the hands of an author with a big mind, a big heart, blazing chops, and a political acuity that is needle-sharp. The needle hits the vein before we even feel the prick.

Homesick for Another World

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#paperback #pulitzerprizewinner #pulitzerprize #awardwinning #fiction #jhumpalahiri #shortstories #america 

Florida

With a new Introduction Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection unerring charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. In stories that travel from India to America and back again, Lahiri speaks with universal eloquence to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner.

Interpreter of Maladies

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Gwen E. Kirby

Like new! Such a fun cover to add to your collection!!

Colorado

Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today. Cassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers. Gwen E. Kirby experiments with found structures--a Yelp review, a WikiHow article--which her fierce, irreverent narrators push against, showing how creativity within an enclosed space undermines and deconstructs the constraints themselves. When these women tell the stories of their triumphs as well as their pain, they emerge as funny, angry, loud, horny, lonely, strong protagonists who refuse to be secondary characters a moment longer. From "The Best and Only Whore of Cym Hyfryd, 1886" to the "Midwestern Girl Is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories," Kirby is playing and laughing with the women who have come before her and they are telling her, we have always been this way. You just had to know where to look.

Shit Cassandra Saw

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A collection of stories, most of them true, by the co-founder and manager of a healthcare provider specializing in the treatment for those with severe and persistent mental illness. The stories have a central theme of God drawing near and dwelling among us. Book includes dust jacket and is signed by the author. It would make a great gift or a welcome addition to your collection. #authorsigned #hardcopy #inspirational #shortstories #gift 

Texas

Christ at the Coffee Shop-signed

Haruki Murakami

Philip Gabriel

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.

First Person Singular - 1st Edition, 1st Print

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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

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Replete with the emotional intensity and pathos for which Joyce Carol Oates is lauded, these fourteen stories explore the intimate lives of contemporary American families: the tangled relationship between generations, the desperation of loving more than one is loved in return. In "Cutty Sark" and "Landfill," the bond between adolescent son and mother reverberates with the force of an unspoken passion. The gripping title story finds Oates boldly reimagining the true-crime story of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her children in 2001. Several stories offer a more lighthearted reprieve, examining with dark humor the shadowy intersection between self-awareness and delusion.#hardcover #hardcover #fiction #firstedition #joycecaroloates #shortstories #contemporary #adultfiction #literaryfiction

New York

"[Oates] has once again held a haunting mirror up to America, revealing who we are."

--Boston Globe

 

The inimitable Joyce Carol Oates returns with Dear Husband--a gripping and moving story collection that powerfully re-imagines the meaning of family in America, often through violent means. Oates, a former recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction--as well as the National Book Award, Prix Femina, and numerous other literary honors--dazzles and disturbs with an outstanding compilation the Washington Post calls, "Savage, poetic and ruthless...among the best things she's ever done." Dear Husband is another triumph for the author of The Gravedigger's Daughter, We Were the Mulvaneys, and Blonde.

Dear Husband,

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#paperback #romance #shortstories #fiction 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

Bonus Scenes Collection

Together with Love

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Peter Straub

#peterstraub #houseswithoutdoors #shortstories #horror

A selection of short fiction--including outstanding early stories, new pieces, and two never-before-published novellas--features "Mrs. God," "The Buffalo Hunter," and other works

Houses Without Doors

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Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg delivers a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love--the best and worst thing in the universe.

Featuring:
 
* A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding.
 
* A pair of lonely commuters who ride the subway in silence, forever, eternally failing to make that longed-for contact.
 
* A struggling employee at a theme park of U.S. presidents who discovers that love can't be genetically modified.
 
And fifteen more tales of humor, romance, whimsy, cultural commentary, and crushing emotional vulnerability.

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

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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

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Short Stories by Alexandre Dumas

Louis L'Amour

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

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

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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

Sylvia Plath

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. . . . If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; The poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine." -- Sylvia Plath, "Cambridge Notes" (From Notebooks, February 1956) Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her imagination. Featuring an introduction by Plath's husband, the late British poet Ted Hughes, these writings also reflect themes and images she would fully realize in her poetry. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams truly showcases the talent and genius of Sylvia Plath.

Harper Perennial Classics Limited Edition 

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Dave Eggers

Issue 12 is made up of three parts. The first and largest section consists entirely of new writers -- new to us, probably new to you, and not even well-known by their own families.Part two is a new story from Roddy Doyle, featuring Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments.Part three is a collection of twenty-minute stories, by which we mean stories written in twenty minutes, from all sorts of people that you know and do not know.

Quarterly Concern

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Name written on inner cover, otherwise perfect addition. Rare, hard to find book. 1984 first edition 

Maryland

All Aboard the Goodnight Train *rare, 1984 first edition

Published 1965, Heritage Press Collector's Edition, illustrated with Sandglass notes laid-in. No slipcase.

New Jersey

The Stories of O. Henry

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

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Ernest Hemingway

Offers fifteen vignettes concerning the conflicts, situations, problems, and personalities characteristic of society in Hemingway's day.

In Our Time

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#hardcover #fiction #georgesanders #shortstories #firstedition #bestseller 

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