Search Results: Stories from Joe Staats, Bookseller

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L63

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Signet, 1998. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. THE BEST OF THE BEST is an anthology of original short stories written especially for the occasion of Signet Books' Fiftieth Anniversary and previously unpublished elsewhere. The eighteen authors and their stories are: Lisa Alther, 'Stormy Weather'; Laurence Block, 'Headaches and Bad Dreams'; Larry Collins, 'Baby-Sitting Ingrid'; Jeffrey Deaver, 'Wrong Time, Wrong Place'; E.L. Doctorow, 'Untitled'; Joy Fielding, 'Mother's Day'; Stephen Frey, 'Paranoia'; Eileen Goudge, 'The Price of Tea in China'; Joan Hess, 'Six Shades of Black'; Wendy Hornsby, 'The Naked Giant'; Erica Jong, 'Songs in the Key of I'; Stephen King, 'L.T.'s Theory of Pets'; Tabitha King, 'Djinn and Tonic'; Ed McBain, 'Where or When'; Sharyn McCrumb, 'An Autumn Migration';… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 2000. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L62

Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A.: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A43

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jack Benny, Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, Lucille Ball, Walter Winchell, Walter Cronkite--the giants of the airwaves, with all their quips, quotes, foibles, and insights, have now been gathered together in one delightful book. Peter Hay, best-selling author of Broadway Anecdotes and MovieAnecdotes, has collected stories of journalists and jokesters, inventors and investors, sportsmen and sponsors, presidents and producers, providing a riotous ride through the whole history of radio and television. By turns hilarious and insightful, these anecdotes offer revealing portraits of the personalities behind the scenes. Here, for instance, is the origin of Jackie Gleason's nickname (Gleason once was reciting Shakespeare on demand for Orson Welles, then switched with ease to Aeschylus, leading Welles to call him "the Great One"). Hay gives us… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1988. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collects thirty-eight stories of murder and the macabre from the author's four previous collections to date, including the two for which the author won Edgar awards:THE FALLEN CURTAIN and Other Stories (1976), MEANS OF EVIL and Other Stories (1979), THE FEVER TREE and Other Stories (1982), and THE NEW GIRL FRIEND and Other Stories (1985). Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A18

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Soho Press, Inc., 1987. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author of ANTONIA SAW THE ORYX FIRST, and AFRICAN VISAS: A Novella and Stories. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L5

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1991. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A18

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M81

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1986. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Good (some edge soiling) in very good, mylar-protected dust jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2000. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. All over town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife' s lace-trimmed night gown and waltzes around his bedroom; Tamara is no longer the dull clerk receptionist when she wears that yellow skirt, she evolves into a stunning creature exuding passion and vitality. In Weather a couple's life is thrown into utter chaos when The National Association of Meteorologists go on strike - what will they wear? what will they eat? In Soup du Jour a young boy contemplates life, the cracks in the pavement and his mother's soup-making. Each story encapsulates the human spirit, its diversities, complexities and absurdities. Shields observes with compassion the carnival that goes on in each of our lives and the realities that we create for ourselves. Carol Shields' second collection of short stories celebrates the… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1998. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M18

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1998. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. JJ

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 2001. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. A collection of seven short stories by the author of THE READER and HOMEOMING. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A29

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Inc., 1996. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L68

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Seven Stories Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A21

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2004. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L4

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Otto Penzler Books, 1994. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L94/M19

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this award-winning debut. In "When She is Old and I Am Famous" a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty. In "Note to Sixth-Grade Self" a band of popular girls exerts its social power over an awkward outcast. In "Isabel Fish" fourteen-year-old Maddy learns to scuba dive in order to mend her family after a terrible accident. Alive with the victories, humiliations, and tragedies of youth, HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER illuminates this powerful territory with striking grace and intelligence. New, unread, first edition, first printing,, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L59/ L62/L61

Fayetteville, AR, U.S.A.: University of Arkansas Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With an ear tuned to the rhythms of dialect and a remarkable talent for telling details, James B. Hall in these fifteen stories finds the limits of what we can know about the secret lives of those closest to us. As new, unread copy, in grey cloth, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L69