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New York: New Directions, 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Later Printing. 8vo. (viii) 275 pp. Gray cloth lettered in white on the spine. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Publisher's Note; Adventures in the Skin Trade; After the Fair; The Enemies; The Tree; The Visitor; The Lemon; The Burning Baby; The Orchards; The Mouse and the Woman; The Horse's Ha; A Prospect of the Sea; The Holy Six; Prologue to an Adventure; The Map of Love; In the Direction of the Beginning; An Adventure from a Work in Progress; The School for Witches; The Dress; The Vest; The True Story; and The Followers..

Houston, Texas: Arte Publico Press - University of Houston, 1995. Book. Illus. by Benito Huerta;. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 168 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Benito Huerta. This story collection contains: Life Insurance; What Miranda Lost; Once in a Lifetime Offering; Bells; The Battery Operated Drummer Bear; Grandmother's Secret; Paloma; and African Passions..

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2009. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. 344 pp. Signed on the title page by Catherine Gildiner. Purple boards decorated in silver on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. The Contents are: Exodus: Expulsion; A Donnybrook; Good Friday; Hit the Dirt; Black Lawn Jockeys; Fried; Scars; Short Order; The Loafers; A Vial in the Sunshine. Eye to Buckeye: Leaving Home; The Straw Homburg; A Fire in the Cellar; The Mirror Room; The Avalanche; Love It or Leave It; The White Rabbit Meets the Blue Elephants; The Hour of the Wolf; Hooke's Law; and A Real Pip..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 316 pp. Blue cloth decorated in silver on the front panel; decorated in silver and gilt on the spine; red upper edge. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Wildlife; Brother Grasshopper; Conjunction; The Journey to the Dead; The Man Who Became a Soprano; Short Easter; A Sandstone Farmhouse; The Other Side of the Street; Tristan and Iseult; George and Vivian: Aperto Chiuso - Bluebeard in Ireland; Farrell's Caddie; The Rumor; Falling Asleep Up North; The Brown Chest; His Mother Inside Him; Baby's First Step; Playing with Dynamite; The Black Room; Cruise; and Grandparenting..

Greenwich, Connecticut: Gold Medal Books, 1959. Book. Illus. by Mitchell Hooks;. Very Good. Soft cover. Second Printing. 142 pp. Gold Medal Book 927. Light edge and corner wear with some creasing at the spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Mitchell Hooks..

New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1911. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. First U.S. Editions. 12mo. 301 pp. Red cloth decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine. Wear at the corners with some fading on the spine; the front hinge is loose, the rear hinge tight; both gutters are splitting but the cheesecloth is holding; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. This collection contains: The Fading Fireworks; On Gargoyles; The Surrender of a Cockney; The Nightmare; The Telegraph Poles; A Drama of Dolls; The Man and His Newspaper; The Appetite of Earth; Simmons and the Social Tie; Cheese; The Red Town; The Furrows; The Philosophy of Sight-Seeing; A Criminal Head; The Wrath of the Roses; The Gold of Glastonbury; The Futurists; Dukes; The Glory of Grey; The Anarchist; How I Found the Superman; The New House; The Wings of Stone; The Three Kinds of Men; The Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds; The Field of Blood; The Strangeness of Luxury; The Triumph of the Donkey; The Wheel; Five Hundred and… Leer más

New York: Penguin Books, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. 317, 282, 227 pp. Trade paperback format. All three books have light edge and corner wear with flat uncreased spines; no interior markings. Legs evokes the flamboyant career of the legendary gangster Jack Legs Diamond, who was finally murdered in Albany. Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, set in Albany, is about a slightly tarnished poker player, pool hustler and small-time bookie who moves through the lurid nightmare glare of a tough Depression-era town. And Ironweed is about Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, who has hit rock bottom. He returns to Albany, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and the present... Directed by Hector Babenco, Ironweed was filmed in 1987, starring Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carroll Baker, Michael O'Keefe, Diane Venora, Fred Gwynne, Tom Waits, Nathan Lane, and a host of others..

New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2014. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. 182 pp. Trade paperback with French flaps. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's writing on the front endpaper. Santiago is an Andalusian shepherd boy who dreams of travelling the world in search of a worldly treasure as fabulous as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers, and from there into the Egyptian desert, where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him..

London: Lynx Books, 1988. Book. Illus. by Justin Todd;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 4to. 158 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased but slightly faded spine; no interior markings. Illustrated in full colour by Justin Todd. The back cover features a photograph of Alice Liddell, taken by Chalres Dodgson..

Limpsfield, Surrey, England: Dragon's World, 1990. Book. Illus. by Malcolm Ashman;. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 95 pp. Blue boards lettered in white on the spine. Illustrated in colour throughout by Malcolm Ashman. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; unsigned bookplate on the front free endpaper..

London: Pan Books, 1947. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 239 pp. Pan Book 19. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. The stories here were selected from the author's first two books of short stories. This collection contains: Author's Note to This Edition; Charles and Charlemagne; The Greeting; Low Tide; That Flesh is Heir to...; and Alive - Alive Oh!.

London: Pan Books, 1947. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 239 pp. Pan Book 19. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. The stories here were selected from the author's first two books of short stories. This collection contains: Author's Note to This Edition; Charles and Charlemagne; The Greeting; Low Tide; That Flesh is Heir to...; and Alive - Alive Oh!.

New York: D. Appleton Century and Company, 1934. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo. 250 pp. Brown cloth decorated in black on the front panel and spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with some darkening on the spine; price intact; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Treachery; The Master of Raymond Lully; Executive Session; Towers of Silence; The Happy Townland; Hail and Farewell; Green Isle; A Sister of Shining Swords; and An Alley of Flashing Spears..

New York: Ives Washburn Inc, 1961. Book. Illus. by Bernard Case;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 147 pp. Blue cloth lettered in black on the spine. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few small nicks around the edges; price intact; no interior markings. Dj art and interior line drawings by Bernard Case..

Toronto: Popular Library, 1978. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 318 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates..

New York: Ballantine Books, 1954. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. (x) 194 pp. Ballantine Book 75. Light edgewear with some creasing on the corners of the front cover and a crease on the spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Introduction by Theodore Morrison; The Blue Winged Teal by Wallace Stegner; Breach of Promise by Jessamyn West; The Return of Corporal Greene by May Sarton; Shadow of Turning by Warren Beck; A Game of Catch by Richard Wilbur; Ebbie by A. B. Guthrie Jr; A Domestic Dilemma by Carson McCullers; The Sorceror's Son by Josephine Johnson; A Ride on the Short Dog by James Still; Bontemps by Stanford Whitmore; Sally by Isaac Asimov; The Flower by Miriam Rugel; The Hungry Sister by Josephine Winn; and Going Home by ruth V. Goodwin..

New York: Signet Books, 1949. Book. Illus. by James Avati;. Very Good-. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 222 pp. Signet Book 755. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the back cover and a crease on the spine; no interior markings..

Toronto: William Briggs, 1912. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 12mo. 132 pp. Signed by Clyde Smith on the front free endpaper. Brown cloth decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; gilt upper edge; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings..

New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2019. Book. Illus. by Will Staehle; Alexis Seabrook;. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xiv) 366 pp. Trade paperback with French flaps. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Will Staehle; interiors by Alexis Seabrook. In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle - designated The Andromeda Strain - killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a catastrophic nuclear detonation, they succeeded. In the ensuing decades, research on the microparticle continued. And the world thought it was safe... And the deadly microparticle seemed to reappear. With this shocking… Leer más

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1908. Book. Illus. by Cyrus Cuneo;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. 63 pp. Green cloth decorated in black and pink on the front panel; lettered in black on the spine. Light edge and corner wear with a bit of aging; no interior markings; as issued, no dustjacket. Illustrated with colour plates by Cyrus Cuneo..