Short Stories & Story Collections from Louise Aird

This is a first edition (1968) of the International Collectors Library printing of the Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant. It is about 75 stories by the French master of the short story. Bound in green/dark turquoise leather with a gold design on the cover and spine. Bound-in silk bookmark. Rough-edged pages. The paper has darkened a little but there is no… Read more about this item

This is the collected novels of the great British author E.M. Forster (1879-1970). All of them were made into films. They are Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room With a View (1908), Howard's End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). This book was a school award and has been inscribed on the front endpaper--you can… Read more about this item

This is a first edition, stated eighth printing, of Soul on Ice, the brilliant memoir and collection of essays written by the American activist Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998). At the time of its writing, Cleaver was serving time in Folsom Prison. He would go on to become a highly influential member of the Black Panthers, as well as a Muslim, a… Read more about this item

This is the Advance Uncorrected Proofs of Without a Hero, the fourth collection of short stories by the American author T. Coraghessan Boyle. The book would be published in 1994; this proof is from 1993. It is covered by a plastic printing of the cover which would be used on the final book. This plastic wrap is not attached to the… Read more about this item

This is an unread, pristine copy of Winesburg, Ohio, by the American author Sherwood Anderson. This collection of short stories is considered the most influential portrait of pre-industrial small-town life in the United States. It was originally published in 1919; this is the first Modern Library printing of it; it is dated 1947. There's no dust jacket, but this book appears to… Read more about this item

This is a first edition copy of The Penguin Century of Australian Writers, an anthology of the best short stories written in the 20th century by 100 Australian authors. It is 733 pages of short stories, plus a biographical timeline and a publication timeline. No adornment. It also has a biographical timeline and a publication timeline. As you can see, the cover… Read more about this item

This is a leather-bound mint-condition copy of Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, published in 2011. It is the 201 fairy tales and 10 legends written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the German academics and folklore collectors who, from 1812 to 1857, published the world's most famous fairy tales. Bound in burgundy leather with an inlaid foil design. Bound-in silk bookmark, gold-trimmed pages. 652 pages,… Read more about this item

This is a near-perfect copy of Charles Dickens: Four Novels, published in 2011. The novels are Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. Bound in black leather with a bound-in silk bookmark and a modern, very colorful design. Gold-trimmed pages. 899 pages, with no adornment, other than one image of Dickens and an image of Victorian London… Read more about this item

This is a well-preserved Modern Library copy of Flowering Judas & Other Stories, the 1935 collection that cemented the reputation of the great American author Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980). It is 10 stories, 5" x 7 1/4", 295 double-spaced pages with no embellishment. This copy was published in 1940 and the original owner had it preserved; the cover is professionally wrapped… Read more about this item

This is a near-perfect copy of Collected Stories of O Henry (115 stories). It was published in the US in 1979 and has evidently not been read. It's a thick heavy book, with a photo of O Henry and many black and white illustrations. The jacket has a 1/4" tear at the top right; it has been taped from behind. The spine of… Read more about this item

This is a near-perfect first edition of Tales of O. Henry, collected and published by Barnes & Noble in 1993. O. Henry (William Porter, 1862-1910) was the father of American short fiction; this book is 62 stories that cover the humor, irony and tragedy of his work. This copy is in near-perfect condition. Its only flaw is that the spine of… Read more about this item

This is edition 108 (2009) of Granta: The Magazine of New Writing (it was originally a magazine). This is a special edition, titled Chicago, and contains short stories, essays and poetry relating to Chicago and contains works by Peter Carey, Don Delillo, George Saunders, Elaine Showalter et al (see contents photo). 288 pages, trade paperback with laminated covers. Heavily… Read more about this item

This is a stated first edition of Dressing Up for the Carnival, written by the Pulitzer Prizing-winning Canadian author Carol Shields (1935-2003). It is a collection of connected short stories, about people who live their lives through illusions. This book has not been read, or even opened. The original book mark from the book store is still in it. It is in… Read more about this item

This is a first (and likely only) edition of Washington Irving's Sketch Book, published by Avenel in 1985. It is a facsimile reproduction of the The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., first published in 1819 and 1820. Geoffrey Crayon was the pseudonym of the American writer Washington Irving, who is most famous for the stories Rip Van Winkle and… Read more about this item

This is an unread copy of The New Morningside Papers, the second volume of letters, opinion and stories by the famed Canadian journalist and broadcaster Peter Gzowski (1934-2002). Gzowski hosted various shows on CBC Radio for 30 years; his pieces are funny, sad, entertaining and informative. I say that this is a first edition because I don't believe that his books… Read more about this item

This is a stated first printing of The Invisible Enemy: Alcoholism and the Modern Short Story, published in 1989. It's a trade paperback--it was not published in hardcover. It is 15 short stories, by famous authors, about or involving alcoholism. It is broken down into sections: Family, Children, Progressions, Delusions and Trying to Stop. See contents photos. This copy is in… Read more about this item

This is a first US edition of five complete novels of the British writer Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). The title of one of the books is considered offensive; it was published in 1897 and is now commonly referred to as 'The Narcissus'. The other novels in this book are Lord Jim (1900), Typhoon (1902), Nostromo (1904) and… Read more about this item

This is a first edition of The Collected Rudyard Kipling, Illustrated, published by Avenel in 1982. It is 1000 pages, and includes his best-known works: Captains Courageous, Kim, The Jungle Books, Just So Stories for Little Children, Puck of Pook's Hill, Stalky & Co., and Plain Tales from the Hills. It then adds 11 short stories. See photo of that… Read more about this item

This is the stated second printing of The Purple Decades, a Reader, by the American author and journalist Tom Wolfe (1930-2018). It is a collection of 21 essays selected by Wolfe; they are from the '60s and '70s and are accompanied by his own black-and-white illustrations. Included are his famous profiles of Baby Jane Holzer and racecar driver Junior Johnson,… Read more about this item

This is a very nice copy, published in 1961, of Edgar Allan Poe Stories: Twenty-Seven Thrilling Tales by the Master of Suspense, with an Added Selection of His Best Poems. See photo of contents. As you can see, there is quite a bit of wear to the dust jacket, which is unclipped. The book itself is perfect. It does not appear to… Read more about this item