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The Bedside Tales - a Gay Collection

By: Arno, Peter (Introduction by)

Price: $5.75

Publisher: New York, Wm. Penn Publishing Corp.: 1945

Seller ID: 000129

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

An interesting selection of short stories and other writings of such authors as Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Robert Benchley, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Dorothy L. Sayers. The spine is tight; the binding has some wear, with slightly bent and worn corners, bottom edges have slight wear, the bottom and top spine ends are worn. The dark green cover has a few light spots on it, as well as wear on the vertical spine edges. 569 pages, clean and bright; one page has a small piece of red tape on it (probably a bookmark) that will not come off. No tears or marks noted. 8vo - over 7Â¾"...
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Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $13.80

Publisher: New York, Linden Press: 1986

Seller ID: 001269

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

This is a collection of the author's short stories, including the title story.. Some have been previously printed in the New Yorker, some have never been printed. Included are fifteen stories. "Ann Beattie has been telling our stories for over a decade, but Where You'll Find Me takes us by surprise again and again. In these narratives familiar surfaces suddenly give way to breathtaking inner landscapes. Lyrical and compact, heartbreaking and wise, this is the music of our spheres, etched on microchips. " Review by Jay McInerney.; Octavo (standard book size); 191 pages
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The Hot Spots: the Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction

By: Blair, J. H. (edited by)

Price: $7.36

Publisher: New York, Berkley Pub Group: 2001

Seller ID: 002149

ISBN: 0425178374

Condition: New with no dust jacket

Drawn from the works of America's greatest contemporary writers, The Hot Spots is an erotic anthology as richly diverse as it is original. From the warmly sensual to the explosively cutting-edge, from the playfully amoral to the profoundly moving, this unabashadly carnal collection delivers the good stuff, and more. Nathan Englander enlists the services of a prostitute to release an Orthodox Jew from his oppressive sexual urges; Lydia Lunch tailgates two violent lovers on the run, living out their pulp-fiction fantasies; Aimee Bender takes a normally sedate librarian through a licentious after...
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I Know Your Heart, Marco Polo (Stories)

By: Bromell, Henry

Price: $13.84

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1979

Seller ID: CH-01175

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Bottom outside of pages has two stamped marks. 132 pages, all fine. DJ is fine, a few minor scuffs at the edges. Binding is fine, dark grey and navy blue. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall.
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The Man That Corrupated Hadleyburg and Other Essays and Stories

By: Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain)

Price: $9.20

Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers:

Seller ID: LI-20009

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Copyright 1899, likely a later edition. Author's National Edition. Vol. XXIII. Dark red binding, slight bends at spines. Inside cover prior owners name is written. Cover is fine. ; 12mo - over 6Â¾ - 7Â¾" tall
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The Jules Verne Steam Balloon

By: Davenport, Guy

Price: $8.28

Publisher: Gordonsville, Virginia, U. S. A., North Point Pr: 1987

Seller ID: 001466

ISBN: 0865472963

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

This is a collection of nine stories written by the author. Including the title story, others include The Meadow, We Often Think of Lenin at the Clothespin Factory, The Bicycle Rider, The Ringdove Sign, and others. The New York Times called Davenport "on of our most givted and versatile man of letters. " This latest collection of his stories are a harmonious synthesis of subjects and forms. He creates fiction that is complex but unified, mature, balanced and resolved. 150 pages with a sewn binding and acid-free paper, the cover has several scuffs on front and back. The original price i...
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Land of Nod and Other Stories

By: Green, Paul

Price: $13.80

Publisher: Chapel Hill, Nc, U. S. A., University Of North Carolina Press: 1978

Seller ID: 000100

ISBN: 0807812692

Condition: Fine in Good dust jacket

These 13 stories, focusing principally on black characters in rural N. Carolina in the early 1900's, are as affecting as they are earthy. They follow the authors favorite themes: the white man's injustice to his black neighbor, the horror of capital punishment, the power of poverty to negate hard work and good intentions. The jacket is quite scuffed but sound. It also has two tiny closed tears near the spine, as though two fingernails went through at that point. ; Octavo (standard book size); 153 pages
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Great Irish Tales of Horror

By: Haining, Peter (edited and Introduced by)

Price: $10.12

Publisher: London, England, Souvenir Press: 1995

Seller ID: 001226

ISBN: 0285632809

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

A Treasury of Fear" accosts you when first you hold this book. Full of Irish tales, Satanic figures grope in the shadows, people long dead return to haunt the scenes of their lifetime, and victims fly shrieking from a doom they cannot escape. These chilling Irish takes are drawn from 200 years of short story writing and include some of the most powerful examples of horror ever conceived, more terrifying because the looming dread is felt, but understated or unseen, food for the imagination. The binding shows no wear but is a bit cocked. The jacket has minor wear at the top corners. 301 page...
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Treasures of the Kingdom: Stories of Faith, Hope and Love

By: Harre, T. Everett (edited by)

Price: $8.28

Publisher: New York, Rinehart & Company, Inc.: 1947

Seller ID: 001986

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

This is a wonderful collection of stories based on love, hope and faith. Twenty-nine stories are included in this volume, such as: The Story of the Other Wise Man, A Great Rushing of Wings, Passing of the Third Floor Back, The Woodcarver of Tyrol, Secret Saint, Brother Leo, Black Rock, The Stranger's Pew, Our Lady's Juggler, Jesus Christ in Flanders, The Resurrection (from Barabbas) and so forth. And although the introduction was written over 50 years ago, it is still relevant today. "In such troubled times as now overshadow the world with international confusions, antagonisms and hatreds,...
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Dancing with the Witchdoctor: One Woman's Stories of Mystery and Adventure in Africa

By: James, Kelly

Price: $12.88

Publisher: Scranton, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., William Morrow & Company: 2001

Seller ID: 001322

ISBN: 0060186275

Condition: New in New dust jacket

In this autobiographical series of seven moving short stories based on her experiences in Africa, Kelly James draws us into the mystery and adventure that she experienced. She navigates among warring political factions, poachers, tribesmen, witchdoctors, prostitutes, the poverty stricken, and the sick. In these pages she exposes us to a world where truth is ephemeral, where compassion, though frail, still seeps through the grit and dust. "Witchdoctor" captures a journey into the author's own heart of darkness. This is the author's debut book. ; 8vo - over 7Â¾ - 9Â¾" tall
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The Chinese Storyteller's Book: Supernatural Tales

By: Kwan, Michael David

Price: $7.36

Publisher: Boston, MA, Tuttle Pub: 2001

Seller ID: 002333

ISBN: 0804834180

Condition: New with no dust jacket

Imagine a universe constructed in layers: At the top is Heaven - where the gods live. Beneath is the Earth, where people dwell. And beneath the Earth lies a magical realm of witches, vampires, ghosts and immortal foxes capable of assuming human form. This is the universe of Chinese folktales. The nine tales in this book show what happens when the worlds of earth and the supernatural collide. The cast of characters, both humble and fantastic, include: A young man willing to spend a night in a haunted mansion to prove the spirit world does not exist; fox faeries wearying of their immortality and...
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Off the Mangrove Coast

By: L'Amour, Louis

Price: $6.46

Publisher: New York, Ny, U. S. A., Bantam Books: 2000

Seller ID: 000941

ISBN: 0553801600

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

This volme collects for the first time in one volume nine of the writer's extraordinary stories - some long out of print and unavailable anywhere else, some never before published. From the jungles of Borneo to the hidden canyons of the American West, from small-town fight clubs to a Parisian cafe at the end of World War II, these are tales of betrayal and revenge, courage and cowardice, glory and greed, as only Louis l'Amour can tell them. Nine stories are incuded: The Diamond of Jeru, The Unexpected Corpse, Secret of Silver Springs, Time of Terror, and five others. The heavy dust jacket has,...
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The Mystic Adventures of Roxie Stoner

By: Morgan, Berry

Price: $7.38

Publisher: New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1974

Seller ID: 001076

ISBN: 0395194245

Binding: Hard Bound, Cloth

Condition: Good

Winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. This book contains all of the stories of Roxie Stoner that have previously, for the most part, been printed in the New Yorker for several years. Through a unique use of language and extraordinary insight, Berry Morgan succeeds in illuminating the small world of an old, near saintly colored woman (the word "black" had not entered Roxie's vocabulary) and in making that world fascinating and significant. It is Roxie herself who narrates her story, telling it in her own way with a blend of gravity, wonderment, and humor. An ex-library...
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Donald Has a Difficulty

By: Neumeyer, Peter F. ; Gorey, Edward

Price: $12.88

Publisher: Lebanon, Indiana, U. S. A., Harry N Abrams Inc: 2004

Seller ID: 001576

ISBN: 0810948354

Condition: New in New dust jacket

Donald has a mother who is both kind and resourceful. When Donald has a painful encounter with a tree, his mother knows just what to do. This is #1 of a planned series of Donald books. At the end Petere Neumeyer talks of the creative process undertaken with Gorey, and their friendship. Unpaginated, this book has a reinforced binding. Fully illustrated in black & white. 16mo - over 5Â¾" - 6Â¾" tall.
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A Glimpse of Scarlet : and Other Stories

By: Robinson, Roxana

Price: $13.84

Publisher: New York, Ny, U. S. A., Harpercollins: 1991

Seller ID: 000861

ISBN: 0060163313

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

In this collection of short stories, the author probes the pain and joy of raising children, the allure of illicit love, the ordeal of divore, as well as more subtle events - the small but often exquisitely painful betrayals that litter the course of a life. But in her world, grace too can be near at hand, and Robinson balances harrowing portraits with stories that discover the possibility of reunion and renewel, and moments of transcendent loveliness that promise, and deliver, "merely great delight. " 200 pages, no marks or tears; jacket unclipped. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" t...
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Sixteen Short Novels

By: Sheed, Wilfrid (Selected and Introduced by)

Price: $6.46

Publisher: New York, Ny, U. S. A., Dutton Books: 1986

Seller ID: 000173

ISBN: 0525243704

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Beautiful anthology of novels by great writers, such as John Steinbeck, Anton Chekhov, Albert Camus, Willa Cather and many more. This book appears never to have been read; there is no blemish or tear on the jacket or binding. ; 8vo - over 7Â¾ - 9Â¾" tall
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Mandala - Spring 1979

By: Various

Price: $13.80

Publisher: New England, Scholastic Press: 1979

Seller ID: 001371

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

This issue of Mandala was winner of the 1979 Scholastic Press Forum's Pegasus Award for Best Magazine. Twenty schools from the New England-New York-New Jersey region competed for the top prize at American International College, Springfield, Massachusetts on March 12, 1979. They also won the small schools division for Poetry, Layout and Design, and Best Magazine. 152 pages of short stories, poetry, artwork, and other literary work are presented in this magazine. An interesting and compelling read. There is minor wear at the vertical side and the bottom front corner. A few lines from one of the ...
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Nesting: Tales of Love, Life, and Real Estate

By: Wyse, Lois

Price: $11.04

Publisher: New York, Ny, U. S. A., Simon And Schuster: 1999

Seller ID: 000571

ISBN: 068484494X

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

With her trademark humor and insight, the author has written a moving collection of stories, anecdotes, and poems that remind us of the life lessons we learn as we repaint, refurnish, and redecorate in search of a place to settle down. Here are all the paths to our dream houses. And to the lives and loves we make there. It's been said that no woman ever met a man or a house she couldn't make over, but this wise little book shows us that what we are really making over is ourselves. The back of the dust jacket has very light rubbing. 190 pages, no marks or tears. 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾&#...
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