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Houghton Mifflin Company. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0395713277 . Green hard covers, cloth spine covering. In Near Fine condition, tight, bright & unmarked with light spine end bumping. The DJ is clipped and in Near Fine condition. First Edition, First Printing (number line). "Ferrell's remarkable stories show young people on the verge of being erased from society--but determined to endure. "Each story is a song, the voice tuned to perfection"; 8.10 X 5.20 X 1 inches; 163 pages .

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Turnstone Press. Fine. 1999. Paperback. 0888012381 . Trade Paperback in Fine condition, tight, bright & unmarked. "An unflinching look at modern love. The blend of sex and family saga gives a sharp edge to these family-oriented stories." ; 9 X 5.72 X 0.47 inches; 148 pages .

Mariner Books. Very Good. 1990. Paperback. 0156261405 . A Trade Paperback with a tight binding and a clean, unmarked interior. Very Good++, tanning to the interior page edges. "The twenty stories here, many of which first appeared in the "New Yorker" and have since been anthologized throughout the world, are strikingly beautiful essays on enduring and universal questions: In Rome, in the hour of his death an American priest must choose between his Church and his God. An Israeli scout risks the safety and respect of his comrades in an act of transfiguring gentleness and charity." ; 8.95 X 6.22 X 0.77 inches; 192 pages .

Penguin (Non-Classics). Very Good. 2000. Paperback. 0141001917 . Trade Paperback. Very Good++. Tight, bright, unmarked text with a small black mark to the bottom edge. A bestselling collection of short stories. All over town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife's lace-trimmed night gown and waltzes around his bedroom; Tamara is no longer the dull clerk receptionist when she wears that yellow skirt, she evolves into a stunning creature exuding passion and vitality. "; 0.7 x 7.6 x 5.1 Inches; 210 pages .

New York: Avon Publishing. Very Good. 1948. Paperback. Stapled wraps in Good condition. The pages are tightly bound and the pages are unmarked, there is heavy age tanning to the pages. The cover is stained and has a pencil mark and a small black date stamp on it. 12 short stories set in a tropical location. ; Avon Modern Short Story Monthly, ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 124 pages .

Back Bay Books. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1999. Paperback. 0316287458 . A Trade Paperback in very good++ condition, very little shelfwear with a clean & bright interior with a tight binding. " A novella, a translation, and three short stories, mostly concerned with the lives of artists and the relation between art and life. Stories are 1) Poor Koko, 2) Then Enigma, 3) The Cloud. ; 0.79 x 8.5 x 5.43 Inches; 312 pages .

New Canadian Library. Very Good. 1982. Paperback. 0771091915 . Mass Market Paperback in Very Good condition, tightly bound and unmarked with tanning to the interior page edges. Cover scuffing and edgewear. "The men and women who inhabit the short stories of Gallant fall in love, squabble, grieve, dream and ultimately survive in ways that reflect the human condition with deadly accuracy." ; 6.90 X 4.20 X 0.50 inches; 167 pages .

Toronto, Ont: Ryerson Press. Very Good. 1967. Trade Paperback. B002AY2M6Y . Trade Paperback, tightly bound, unmarked with light wear to the covers. Very good+; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 239 pages .

Penguin. Very Good. 1979. Mass Market. 0140040242 . Mass Market paperback. Squared, tightly bound, unmakred with light tanning to the interior page edges. Light cover wear, overall in very good condition. "This book of twenty stories is Isaac Bashevis Singer's fifth collection and contains such classics as "The Cafeteria" and "On the Way to the Poorhouse."; 0.7 x 6.8 x 4.4 Inches; 288 pages .

McClelland and Stewart, Limited. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. First English Edition. Hardcover. 077107834X . Blue hardcovers with red titles to the spine. Tight, bright & unmarked with light spine end wear and light tanning to the front cover top edge. The DJ is unclipped with spine sunning and light cover wear. "The effortless craft and poetic sensitivity evident in all her writing are here in full abundance as she recounts the stories of a tramp who belongs to no one, a Chinese immigrant struggling to fulfill his dream, Doukhobor settlers fired by a vision of a new land, and a lonely woman who nurtures her small but splendid garden. Imbued with a poignant simplicity, these are stories of sheer artistry." ; 9 X 6.30 X 0.90 inches; 175 pages .

Macmillan. Very Good. 1972. Paperback. 0330029118 . Trade Paperback in Very Good condition, squared, tightly bound with a clean, unmarked text. Cover scuffing and edgewear with spine end and corner bumping. "Private McAuslan demonstrates his unfitness for the service in The General Danced at Dawn, the first in a trilogy that could do for the Scots what P G Wodehouse did for the English." ; 6.93 X 4.33 X 0.55 inches; 192 pages .

Dell. Fine+. 1975. Mass Market Paperback. 0440204321 . Mass Market in Fine+ condition. Tight, bright & unmarked with an uncreased spine. "These stories, inspired by Bach's lifelong passion for flight, filled with memories of friends from the past and friends not yet met, are woven together with warmth, honesty and courage. With signs and signals, coincidences and tangents turning up at every juncture, Bach shows how truly complex and beautiful life can be, and also how its troubles can in fact knock us onto better paths or teach us lessons we benefit from in other situations. Drawing on the allegorical power of flight, each a mini-parable, these stories will inspire you with their simple experiences made technicolour by the prism of Bach's extraordinary imagination. Celebrating Richard Bach's unique vision, these transcend their pages to touch the real drama of life with magic that reaches out to us all across its limitless horizons." ; 6.70 X 4.10 X 0.80 inches;… Leer más

New York: Dell Laurel Edition No. 3084. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1964. Mass Market. Mass Market Paperback in very good condition. Nicely bound with a bright & clean interior. Squared with light rubbing to the cover edges and spine hinges, the cover has light scuffing to it. "Includes stories by D. H. Lawrence, George Moore, Joseph Conrad, William Plomer, Ethel Colburn Mayne, E. M. Forster, V. S. Pritchett, Robert Graves, G. K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, Katherine Mansfield and W. Somerset Maugham." ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 416 pages .

Penguin Paperbacks. Very Good. 1990. Paperback. 0140133461 . Trade Paperback in Very Good+ condition, pages are tight and unmarked with a black remainder mark to the bottom page edges. "The theme of Alice Mattison's wonderful collection of short stories is the intense bonds people form as they make their way through life: bonds among family, between people married for years, and lovers new to one another, between life-long friends. Readers will see themselves in these finely etched portraits." ; 7.56 X 4.96 X 0.39 inches; 222 pages .

Talonbooks. Very Good. 1989. Paperback. 088922269X . Trade Paperback in Very Good+ condition, a tightly bound copy with an unmarked text, **signed** by the author on the title page. Light cover scuffing and edgewear. "A hilarious yet compassionate look at the new male consciousness taking shape in a "post-feminist" world. "; 8.41 X 5.52 X 0.46 inches; 164 pages; Signed by Author .

Anansi. Near Fine. 2013. Paperback. 1770893083 . A Trade Paperback in Near Fine with very moderate cover wear. "With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Lynn Coady gives us eight unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last. A young nun charged with talking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blasphemy. A strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl takes on ever deeper, and stranger, shapes as the years progress. A bride-to-be with a penchant for nocturnal bondage can't seem to stop bashing herself up in the light of day." ; 7.95 X 5.28 X 0.71 inches; 240 pages .

Penguin Canada. Very Good. 1989. Paperback. 014010917X . Trade Paperback in Very Good condition. A solid binding with a clean, unmarked text, tanning to the interior page edges. Small scrape to the front cover and cover wear." Collected here for the first time, these nineteen stories originally appeared in The New Yorker during the 1950s and 60s. " ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 263 pages .

Emblem Editions. Very Good+. 2001. Paperback. 0771055714 . Trade Paperback in Very Good++ condition, a tightly bound and unmarked book with light cover scuffing and edgewear. "These sixteen superbly crafted stories, most of them firmly based in Cape Breton even if its people stray elsewhere, depict men and women living out their lives against the haunting landscape that surrounds them." ; 8.20 X 5.30 X 1.30 inches; 448 pages .

Toronto, Ont: M & S. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Paperback. 077104223X . Trade Paperback with French Flaps, in very good condition. Deckled fore edges with light tanning to the interior page edges, unmarked and tightly bound. "Themes of desire, memory, loss and the various guises of damage, are woven into stories that cross time and continents, like isobars of the psyche, presenting a variety of characters, each caught in moments of crisis and illumination." ; SIGNED; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 209 pages .

WW Norton. Very Good. 2001. Paperback. 039332253X . A Near Fine Trade Paperback, tight, bright & unmarked with very moderate cover edgewear. " Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. In an act of literary appropriation, Lethem and Scholz seize a helpless Kafka by the lapels and thrust him into the cultural wreckage of twentieth-century America. In the collaboratively written "Receding Horizon," Hollywood welcomes Kafka as scriptwriter for Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, with appropriately morbid results. Scholz's "The Amount to Carry" transports "the legal secretary of the Workman's Accident Insurance Institute" to a conference with fellow insurance executives Wallace Stevens and Charles Ives, to muse on what can and can't be insured. And Lethem's "K for Fake" brings together Orson Welles, Jerry Lewis, and Rod Serling in a… Leer más