The Best American Short Stories 1980
by ELKIN, Stanley (ed.)
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine /No Jacket
- Seller
-
Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
[Boston]: [Houghton Mifflin]. [1980]. An advance issue consisting of unbound 8-1/2" x 11" sheets of this collection edited by Stanley Elkin and with stories by John Updike, John Sayles, Donald Barthelme, Frederick Busch, William Gass, Larry Heinemann, I.B. Singer, Grace Paley, Peter Taylor, Mavis Gallant, Elizabeth Hardwick and others. Elkin's introduction bears copyeditor's marks throughout. Minor edge wear to a few pages; else fine. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. No Binding. Near Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000786
- Title
- The Best American Short Stories 1980
- Author
- ELKIN, Stanley (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- No Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- [Houghton Mifflin]
- Place of Publication
- [Boston]
- Date Published
- [1980]
Terms of Sale
Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
All books are First Editions or First American Editions in dust jackets unless otherwise noted and are returnable within 30 days.
About the Seller
Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Hadley, Massachusetts
About Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
We deal in rare books, specializing in modern literary first editions. We regularly issue catalogs of Modern Literature and less regularly issue catalogs of Native American Literature, the Literature of the Vietnam War and the 1960s, and Nature Writing. Ken is a former President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. We maintain an office in Hadley, Massachusetts and welcome visitors by appointment. We are always interested in buying rare books, manuscripts, or related material in any of our areas of specialty and are happy to hear from anyone offering such items to us.
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