Search Results: Short Stories from Charles Agvent

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name dated 1993 on front endpaper. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. First book by this acclaimed author, a collection of stories, reportedly done in a print run of only 1500 copies.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. The final collection of short stories from an author who has had several of his stories made into critically acclaimed films.

Boston: Little, Brown, (1979). First Edition. hardcover. Superb copy in dustwrapper of author's first book. Possible review copy with promotional leaflet, lightly tanned at edges, laid in.

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Number Two of the Woburn Books, a short story. Copy #24 of 530 copies SIGNED by the author.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Mild soiling to covers and slight foxing to bulked edges of text. Near Fine in an about Fine dustwrapper with two miniscule nicks. Helprin's first book, a collection of stories. He later went on to write A WINTER'S TALE and to serve as a foreign policy advisor and speechwriter to presidential candidate Bob Dole.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, crisp copy in an about Fine dustwrapper with very mild sunning to the spine. His second book and first collection of stories, which along with his first novel, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, established Yates as one of the most important writers of fiction of the latter twentieth century.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner stamp on the front free endpaper. Near Fine in a price-clipped, Very Good first issue dustwrapper with light chipping at the spine tips and corners. His uncommon second book.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name on front pastedown; dustspotting to top bulked edge of text. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Author's second collection of stories, nominated for the National Book Award.

(New York): Random House, (1960). First Edition. Hardcover. Light edgewear to book; very small chip to head of somewhat faded spine of the dustwrapper. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper. Second collection of short stories by this chronicler of East Texas. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to a close friend at the time of publication: "To Florence--/With affection and/my wishes for her happiness./Bill/New York City/July, 1960."

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. The standard trade issue in paperback. There were also a small number of copies bound in boards, similar to the limited edition and likely meant for libraries. A superb collection containing the title essay as well as his essay "On Writing," along with 50 poems and 7 stories, including "So Much Water So Close to Home," which figured prominently in Robert Altman's film SHORT CUTS. This copy is SIGNED by the author on the title page and rather uncommon as such.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Small bookstore label on inside of front cover. Near Fine. The standard trade issue in paperback. There were also a small number of copies bound in boards, similar to the limited edition and likely meant for libraries. A superb collection containing the title essay as well as his essay "On Writing," along with 50 poems and 7 stories, including "So Much Water So Close to Home," which figured prominently in Robert Altman's film SHORT CUTS. This copy belonged to poet William Heyen and is SIGNED by him on the front endpaper.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Carver's second collection of stories, one of 1200 copies of the issue in pictorial wraps of a total edition of 1300.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Carver's second collection of stories, one of 1200 copies of the issue in pictorial wraps of a total edition of 1300. This is a Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid in.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Some discoloration to the purple boards. Very Good in a price-clipped, Very Good dustwrapper with internal foxing. First book, a collection of stories, by the author of THE MEN'S CLUB.

New York: The Viking Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Dustspotting to top bulked edge and slight foxing to endpapers. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with trivial wear to the head of the spine. Cloth-backed boards. Boyle's second collection of stories.

(New York): New Directions, (1959). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine dustwrapper with a very small chip at the head of the spine. Crandell A13.I.c. The limited edition was issued five years previously. Dustwrapper designed by Elaine Lustig.

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Paperback Original in pictorial wraps of this first collection of stories by Baxter who had previously published two books of poetry. This book was the winner of the sixth annual AWP Award Series in Short Fiction. Uncommon in the first printing.

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Paperback Original in pictorial wraps of his first collection of stories. Baxter had previously published two books of poetry.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper, essentially new. Cloth-backed boards. Author's first book, an impressive collection of stories.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1917). First American Edition. Hardcover. Owner information in pencil from date of publication on the front endpaper. Some rubbing along spine and edges. Gilt is bright. Verty Good to Near Fine, lacking a dustwrapper if it ever had one. Dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Translated from the Russian by S. S. Koteliansky and Gilbert Cannan. Seven stories by the master: "The House with the Mezzanine;" "Typhus;" "Gooseberries;" "In Exile;" "The Lady with the Toy Dog;" "Goussiev;" and "My Life."