Southwest: Towards the Twenty-First Century, Tales of Terror, Mystery, and Mercy
Red Earth Press, 1981. Trade Paperback. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Fiction-Anthologies
New Masses: An Anthology of the Rebel Thirties
International Publishing Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 317 pages. Collected from the New Masses magazine. With contributions from Hemingway, Agee, Lorca, Richard Wright, Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes ando others. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a somewhat grubby dust jacket with light fading to the spine.
Dial: Souvenir Sampler 1964
The Dial Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket.
Wagner Literary Magazine / Formerly Nimbus / Spring 1959 Symposium
Wagner College, 1959. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 73 pages. 5-1/2 by 8 inches. With contributions from Marianne Moore, Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer and others. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback). With a typed letter signed by poet and filmmaker Willard Maas, faculty.....
The Ladies' Home Journal Treasury Selected From The Complete Files
Simon and Schuster, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 580 pages. 7-1/2 by 10-1/4 inches. Text printed in two colums. With a long list of contributors including Pearl Buck, Isak Dinesen, H. G. Wells, Frank Stockton, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in.....
100 Malicious Little Mysteries
Dorset Press, 1993. Hardcover. 430 pages. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Evergreen Review (Volume 6, Number 26)
Evergreen Review, Inc., 1962. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Contributions from Norman Mailer, John Rechy, others. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
New Short Novels 2
Ballantine Books, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 147 pages. 4-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches. An original collection of short novels by Mailer (The Man Who Studied Yoga), Wallace Stegner (Field Guide to the Western Birds), John Phillips (The Engines of Hygeia) and Dachine Rainer (A Room at the Inn). First edition (first.....
Mars (No. 2)
Kristina Dusseldorp, (n.d. but ca. 1986). First Edition. Trade Paperback. 40 pages. 8-1/4 by 11-3/4 inches. Short stories and poems. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Light spotting to cover.
Story: The Magazine of the Short Story (Volume IX, No. 53, December 1936)
The Story Magazine, 1936. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 116 pages. With contributions by Rachel Maddux, John R. Morley, August Derleth and others. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Story: The Magazine of the Short Story (Volume VII, No. 41, December 1935)
Story Magazine, Inc., 1935. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 112 pages. With contributions from John Cheever, Frances Frost, and others. First edition (first printing). Front hinge weak else very good in wrappers (paperback).
Story: The Magazine of the Short Story (Volume X, No. 59, June 1937)
Story Magazine Inc., 1937. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 112 pages. With contributions from Katherine Anne Porter, Ludwig Bemelmans and others. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Former owner's stamp on title page.
Story: The Magazine of the Short Story (Volume XIV, No. 75, January - February 1939)
Story Magazine, Inc., 1939. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 104 pages. 'A Love Story Issue' -- from the cover. With contributions from Sherwood Anderson, Irwin Shaw, Emily Hahn, Lawrence E. Watkin and others. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Light fading to spine.
Klanak Islands: A Collection of Short Stories
Klanak Press, 1959. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 79 pages. First edition (first printing). Light edge wear else a fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Winter's Tales 4
St. Martin's Press Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 247 pages. Stories by Muriel Spark, V. S. Pritchett, William Cooper and others. First edition (first printing). Three-inch stain to fore-edge; a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Playboy's Ribald Classics
Waldorf Publishing Co. Inc., 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 189 pages. Classic stories retold for a modern audience. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with a 1-inch tear to the rear flap fold.
World's Shortest Stories
Running Press Adult, February 1998. Trade Paperback. This is a quintessential short story book for r everyone who thinks they don't have any time to read. Each story is less than 55 words long - ideal for the beach, bus, train, anywhere.
Beat Generation Writers
Pluto Press, December 1996. Trade Paperback. This collection focuses on icons of the Beat generation as well as lesser known figures, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert Huncke, LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman. It also.....
The Best American Short Stories of the Century
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 1999. Hardcover. Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of "The Best American Short Stories" have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature.
Hold Your Breath: Alfred Hitchcock's stories to turn in your grave by
Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1963. Trade Paperback. 192 pages. Collection of nine stories with contributions by Agatha Christie, H. G. Wells, and Norman Mailer. First publshed in 1947. New Dell edition. Near fine; 1-inch creased tear on rear cover.
Hold Your Breath: Stories of Suspense
Dell Publishing Company, 1947. Mass Market Paperback. 192 pages. 4-1/4 by 6-3/8 inches. Collection of nine stories with contributions by Agatha Christie, H. G. Wells, and the first appearance in book form of Norman Mailer's The Greatest Thing in the World. Dell no. 206. First edition (first printing). A near.....
Chapel Hill Carousel
University of North Carolina Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 215 pages. An anthology of previously published fiction, poetry and articles. With contributions by Reynolds Price, John Knowles, Betty Smith and others. First edition (first printing). Cloth edges and bit faded and spotting to the page block thus a near fine.....
Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State (Western Literature Series)
Univ of Nevada Pr, May 1992. Trade Paperback. Somewhere between expectation and experience exists a place, or series of places, called California. People pass their lives there with passion or ennui, with hope or despair, each perhaps affected by where they are because California has never been allowed to be.....
Roger Caras' Treasury of Classic Nature Tales
Bbs Pub Corp, November 1997. Hardcover. The Chicago spider that replaces its sooty web daily.
Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories
Fondo de Cultura Economica, January 2008. Trade Paperback.