Stories
by Stafford, Jean; John Cheever; Daniel Fuchs; William Maxwell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy, slight deterioration of binding at crown of spine, faint staining at base of spine; jacket lightly browned (a bit more at spine) and edgeworn, some minor nicking at spine ends, light staining at base ed at base (almost entirely obscured externally by the patterned jacket design)]. This collection of 15 stories by four authors "is not an anthology," claims the jacket blurb, but rather a selection by each of the four "from their recent work the stories they think most highly of, and they are published together here because the four authors like the idea of appearing in public side by side, and of being read in counterpoint, as it were." Contents are as follows. Jean Stafford: "The Liberation"; "Bad Characters"; "Beatrice Trueblood's Story"; "In the Zoo"; "Maggie Meriwether's Rich Experience." John Cheever: "The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well"; "The Bus to St. James's"; "The Country Husband"; "The National Pastime." Daniel Fuchs: "Man in the Middle of the Ocean"; "The Golden West"; "Twilight in Southern California." William Maxwell: "What Every Boy Should Know"; "The Trojan Women"; "The French Scarecrow." You're welcome. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26924
- Title
- Stories
- Author
- Stafford, Jean; John Cheever; Daniel Fuchs; William Maxwell
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Ronald Clyne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Short Stories, Short Fiction, Anthologies, Collections
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ReadInk
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