Search Results: Short stories from SmarterRat Books

Bantam, 1966. Paperback. Good. Good. 1966 Bantam. Paperback. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Spine creased. Pages lightly tanned, more so at periphery, but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 214 pages. First published in 1949 under the title "Nineteen Stories". Published in 1962 as "21 Stories" with three stories added and one omitted. A Bantam Seventy-Five Book, # S3263.

University of Texas Press, 1967. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. 1967 University of Texas Press. Second printing of 1954 edition. Trade paperback. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Covers very lightly curled at corners. Spine NOT creased. A few tiny ink pen dots on fore edges of pages. Pages clean and unmarked. 264 pages.

Dover Publications. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good ; Good Slipcase. Dover Publications. Six Dover Thrift Editions trade paperback volumes in a cardboard slipcase. All six appear unread and virtually untouched. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Paisley print thin cardboard slipcase has light surface and edge wear. There is a one-inch tear at the bottom back corner of the slipcase. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. Contents, all unabridged: Edgar Allen Poe, The Gold-Bug and Other Tales; Anton Chekhov, Five Great Short Stories; Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Short Stories; Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat and Other Short Stories; O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories; Mark Twin, The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1933 Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with red spine and cover lettering, and "Young Moderns" logo on spine. Binding tight. Deckle fore edges. Top page edges are colored red. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rounded. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Covers have a few light smudges. Pages clean and unmarked. Introduction by Griffith Ogden Ellis. 390 pages. No dust jacket. Doubleday "Young Moderns Books" series; "Junior Books".

Pantheon Books, 1968. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jacket. 1968 Pantheon Books. NOT ex-library. "Gibraltar Library Binding". Hardcover has white cloth-covered boards with red and brown spine and cover lettering. Front cover has red, green and brown illustration of three women. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Covers lightly soiled. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Endpapers have a few small tanned areas and some light foxing. Pages clean and unmarked. 168 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Bottom Dog Press, 1995. Trade Paperback. Fine. Fine. 1995 Bottom Dog Press, Huron, Ohio. SIGNED by author on title page, dated 1995. Not personalized. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Trade paperback. 156 pages. Binding tight. Appears to be unread. No visible wear to book. Book is gift quality. Pages clean and unmarked. Working Dog Series.

Ballantine Books, 1980. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. 1980 Ballantine Books. Second printing of 1972 edition. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Paperback. 152 pages. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Spine NOT creased. Very small nick on the spine. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked.

Oxford University Press, 1968. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. 1968 Oxford University Press, Toronto. Trade paperback. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Small chip at head of spine. Spine NOT creased. Spine and spine edge of covers is sunned. Pages clean and unmarked. 378 pages. An Oxford in Canada Paperback, OCP 18.

Peter Bedrick Books, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near Fine; Very Good Jacket. 1986 Peter Bedrick Books. First American Edition. No additional printings listed. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue textured paper-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Black and white illustrations by Charles Keeping. 142 pages. Printed in Great Britain. Binding tight. Appears to be unread. Book is in excellent condition with only a hint of shelf wear at the spine ends. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has very light edge and surface wear, with some wrinkling and a small tear at the top edge and creases to the rear inner flap. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. Contents: The Body Snatchers by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe; The Adventures of the German Student by Washington Irving; The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde; Escort by Daphne du Maurier; Wailing Well by M R James; The Sweeper by A M Burrage; The Signalmen by Charles… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1988. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. 1988 Oxford University Press. Trade paperback. 250 pages. Classic English Short Stories, vol. 3. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Covers have very light edge and surface wear. Appears to be unread. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. "This collection contains stories written in the 1950s and 1960s" First published as "English Short Stories of Today. Third Series 1965".

Everyman's Library, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine ; Fine Jacket. 2007 Alfred A. Knopf. Everyman's Pocket Classics. Second printing. Small hardcover, 4.75 x 7.4 inches, has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering on a black spine panel. Red index ribbon. 395 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Appears to be unread. No visible wear to book. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is like new. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. A book ins the Everyman's Library series.

Doubleday & Company, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good ; Good Slipcase. 1952 Doubleday & Company. Book Club Edition. Complete in two volumes, in slipcase. Hardcovers have grey cloth-covered boards with green and gold spine lettering; front cover has gold symbol that commonly appears on Maugham's books on a green background. Vol. 1 East & West, 955 pages; Vol. 2 The World Over, 681 pages. Black textured paper-covered slipcase has green paper paste-on paper panel with black and white lettering on the front. Bindings tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Books are in excellent condition with only a hint of shelf wear at the spine ends. Vol. 1 has a single dog-eared page and some bent corners on a few pages from when someone put the book back in the slipcase and caught them on the edge. Volume 2 also has one dog eared page. Pages clean and unmarked. No dust jackets. Slipcase has bumped and chipped corners with cardboard visible in a few spots. Paper covering has light surface and edge wear; top and… Read More

Washington Square Press, Inc., 1961. Paperback. Good. Good. 1961 Washington Square Press, Inc. Paperback. NOT ex-library. Text in Spanish. Binding tight. Covers have moderate edge and surface wear. Small tear at the top of the front cover. Pages tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 304 pages. Selected and introduced by Harriet de Onis. A Washington Square Press Book, No. W 593.

Rosekeer Press, 1987. Paperback. Good. Good. 1987 Rosekeer Press. SIGNED by author on half-title page, with a personal inscription dated 1988. Paperback. 118 pages. Binding tight. Covers have moderate edge and surface wear, with light soiling and smudges. Spine is creased and has a small chip at the head. Pages clean and unmarked.

Laurel - Dell Publishing, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. 1984 Laurel - Dell Publishing. Paperback. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. 219 pages. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Appears to be unread. Covers have very light edge and surface wear. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Title: A Dove of the East And Other Stories

Oxford University Press, 1988. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. 1988 Oxford University Press. Trade paperback. 253 pages. Classic English Short Stories, vol. 1. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Covers have very light edge and surface wear. Appears to be unread. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. "This collection contains stories written in the years between the turn of the century and the daybreak of the Second World War." First published as "English Short Stories of Today 1939".

Ministerio de Cultura Departmento Editorial, 1958. Paperback. Good. Good. 1958 Ministerio de Cultura Departmento Editorial, San Salvador, El Salvador. Eighth edition. Softcover with folded-in flaps. Deckle edges. Text in Spanish. Covers have moderate edge and surface wear. Binding intact, but lightly pulled at front hinge. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Blue ink stamp on first page "Obsequio del Ministerio de Cultura" (Gift of the Ministry of Culture). Pages clean and unmarked. 193 pages. Coleccion Contemporaneos, 10.

Quality Paperback Book Club, 1995. Trade Paperback. Fine. Fine. 1995 Quality Paperback Book Club. Trade paperback. 213 pages. Six short stories. Translated from the French by Justin O'Brien. Black & white cover illustration of a man in a trench coat; title in pink. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Appears to be unread. No visible wear to book. Pages clean and unmarked.

Walter J. Black, Inc., 1928. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1928 Walter J. Black, Inc. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with rectangular border design surrounding floral decorations in black and gold on front and spine. Spine has simulated raised panels and gold lettering on black. Top pages edges colored red. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some fraying at tips and spine ends. Covers have moderate edge wear and surface rubbing. Covers very lightly soiled. Endpapers tanned and darkened at edges. Name in pencil on front free endpaper. Small moisture stain on top page edges had caused a the top page edge coloring to bleed into the top margin on a few pages. Pages only slightly tanned. Pages clean and unmarked. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Contains stories by Poe, Twain, Doyle, Dumas, Hugo, Kipling, and Hawthorne, among others. 28 stories in all. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

The Modern Library, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1960 The Modern Library. Modern Library No. 284. Small hardcover has grey cloth-covered boards. Title on spine and cover in gold on red panel with gold torchbearer inside gold outline. Gray & white Rockwell Kent ML logo endpapers. Top page edges are red. 285 pages plus Modern Library lists at rear. Foreword by the author. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped. Pages very lightly tanned at periphery but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light surface rubbing, chipped and nicked edges, and small tears. Color is flaking off of jacket along some edges. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped, showing original price of $1.95. Date determined by Modern Library lists of books in rear of book and inside of dust jacket which date from Spring of 1960: 251 Colette, Six Novels is listed, but Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, is not listed. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.