Search Results: Short Fiction from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Philadelphia: Blakiston. 1944. 378pp. green cloth 8vo: Good+/no dj. A great anthology of articles from H. L. Mencken’s "American Mercury" by celebrated writers ranging from Sinclair Lewis to Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Carl Sandburg, Zora Neale Hurston, Eugene O’Neill, Vachel Lindsay, William Saroyan and even Mencken (1880-1956) himself (and many, many other famous literary figures). American journalist and publisher Lawrence Spivak (1900-94) was publisher of The American Mercury but is best known for his later association with NBC’s "Meet the Press." Charles Angoff (1902-79), a Mencken protege, was managing editor of The American Mercury.

New York: Olympic Press, 1965 1st ed. INSCRIBED on ffep by author. 106pp. cloth tall 8vo: Good in an edge-tattered dj in Brodart poly cover [front hinge is cracked but very firm; else G] Short fictional pieces and poems by an Atlanta writer.

New York: Barnes & Noble Books. 1998 1st ed. thus. 298pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Fine. Over 80 stories, poems, essays and illustrations by some 70 booksellers.

New York: Longmans, Green, 1958. 44pp. pamphlet bound 8vo: about Good [several pp. near end of text are beginning to separate from card covers; else a clean & complete copy] An imagined account of the first Christmas after Appomattox for the Lee family by the prolific novelist Miller (1884-1960).

London: Serpent's Tail, 1996 1st ed. 241pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; top edge foxing; else a clean, complete & tight copy] An anthology of short stories about death featuring over 20 writers ranging from A. S. Byatt to William Trevor.

New York: New Directions/Bibelot, 1993 2nd ptg. 92pp. paperback: near Fine [some light fore edge foxing; else a nice clean and crisp copy] Classic short stories by the Welsh poet Thomas (1914-53).

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1973 reprint. 190pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; spine is sunned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] The title story and nine others by the English writer David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930).

Atlanta: Longstreet, 1994 1st ed. 301pp. hardback 8vo in laminated pictorial boards w/publisher's glassine cover: Fine in a Fine dj. Three stories, amounting to novellas, by the popular Georgia physician writer Sams (1922-2013), his eighth book.

Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1994 early reader's copy. 301pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. A nice ARC copy of the Fayetteville, Georgia, author physician Sams's (1922-2013) eighth book.

Yellow Springs, OH: The Antioch Press, 1951 1st ed. INSCRIBED on ffep by author. 224pp. burgundy cloth tall 8vo w/paper labels: Very Good+/no dj. A baker's dozen accomplished short stories by the American scholar and writer Beck (1896-1985/6?).

London: Methuen. 1986 1st ed. 126pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. A sequel to English playwright Henry Livings’s (1929-98) "Pennine Tales," featuring more stories about the characters who people the imagined village of Ravensgill in England’s Pennine hills.

London: Methuen, 1987 1st ed. thus. 126pp. illus. paperback: Very Good [text is age browned; else VG] A sequel to English playwright Henry Livings’s (1929-98) "Pennine Tales," featuring more stories about the characters who people the imagined village of Ravensgill in England’s Pennine hills.

INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 239pp. paperback tall 8vo: near Very Good [some foxing inside front cover; old damp stain outline in bottom blank margins of early pages turning to a moisture ripple only as the text progresses; text is untroubled; a generally crisp copy with a nice author signature under a very brief inscription] San Francisco stories made into a TV miniseries.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1892. 236pp. + ads. olive cloth sm 8vo w/gilt decorations: Good/no dj [antique ink name (dated 1892) ffep; else G] Ten short stories by the influential American writer, journalist and later war correspondent Davis (1864-1916).

London: Arthur Barker, 1953 3rd ptg. 308pp. illus. red cloth tall 8vo: Very Good/no dj. Some three dozen short pieces by writers ranging from John Steinbeck and Scott Fitzgerald to Langston Hughes and Paul Gallico. Includes cartoons that appeared in Esquire Magazine.

New York: Atheneum, 1982 reprint. 210pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good+ in a near Very Good dj [ink date on ffep; else VG+] Garrison Keillor's first book, a collection of weirdly humorous New Yorker Magazine pieces. Jacket praise from Fran Lebowitz, Jean Shepherd, et al.

London: Onlywomen Press, 1986 1st ed. INSCRIBED by author on title p. 172pp. paperback: Very Good [text is age browned; else VG] Fourteen short stories by the Dublin born lesbian feminist academic and writer Anna Livia Julian Brawn (1955-2007), who wrote under the pen name Anna Livia.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1960 1st ed. thus. 251pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned; spine strip is foxed; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] Three stories w/cover device of a phoenix rising by Stephen Russ adapted from David Herbert Lawrence’s (1885-1930) own drawing.

New York: Penguin, 1980 reprint. 557pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned; top edge is foxed; else a complete & tight copy] The Journal of Irish Literature: "The features of this volume which separate it from [other] anthologies are the quality and breadth of its selections and the fine introduction by the editor." Anthony Burgess says that "You will keep this book and read parts of it again and again. Each time you enter it you will be in the presence of Ireland."

INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 246pp. paperback tall 8vo: fair [edges show some age darkening; unfortunate old damp stain outline in bottom blank margins of pages throughout; covers and reading text are untroubled] A complete & tight copy with these flaws but interesting for it author signature under a very brief inscription.