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Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Dover Publications, 2002. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Light crease to upper front corner of clean, unmarked, glossy cover. Underlined on pages 1, 2 and 3, otherwise pages clean, no other marks. Binding tight and sold and square. Short stories by 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, beginning with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale, "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century concluding with Ernest Hemingway's 1927 classic, "The Killers". Other authors included are Willa Cather, Herman Melville, Jack London, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, F Scott Fitzgerald, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Bret Harte, Charles Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 248 pages 5.25 x 8.25 inches. 2002, Dover… Read More

Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2002. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Dover Publications, 2002. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean, glossy, unmarked cover with a crease down the front near the spine. Pages toned, clean, no marks of any kind. Binding tight and sold and square. Short stories by 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, beginning with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale, "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century concluding with Ernest Hemingway's 1927 classic, "The Killers". Other authors included are Willa Cather, Herman Melville, Jack London, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Bret Harte, Charles Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 248 pages 5.25 x 8.25 inches. 2002, Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, U.S.A.

Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2002. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Dover Publications, 2002. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Cover is clean with light corner and edge wear. Tight glued binding. Pages clean and free of any markings, toned. Short stories by 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, beginning with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale, "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century concluding with Ernest hemingway's 1927 classic, "The Killers", Other authors included are Willa Cather, Herman Melville, Jack London, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, F Scott Fitzgerald, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Bret Harte, Charles Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 248 pages 5.25 x 8.25 inches. 2002, Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, U.S.A.

New York, New York, USA: Dell Publishing, 1959. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Paperback in Good Condition. Clean green cover with illustration of a man on horseback in the Middle- Ages, designed by John Alcorn. . Cover has three light wrinkles on front and one down spine hinge; light web-like wrinkles near upper edge; light edgewear. All edges of text block evenly tinted green. Internals clean,unmarked, no creasses, pages toned, more so on edges. Paper supple. Stories selected and Introduced by P. M. Pasinetti. Six hundred years of Italian civilization in stories which reveal "the extremes of spirituality and crookedness, of loftiness and ribaldry." Includes authors such as Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Vittorini, Gozzi, Verga, and many more. 412 pages. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. 1959, Dell Publishing, New York, New York, USA

USA: Anchor Books/Random House, 2002. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good+ Condition. Clean and unmarked card cover, crease on bottom corner, no spine creasing, tight glued binding. Prev owner name on inside of front cover. Pages clean and free of any markings. Edited and with an Introduction by Series editor Larry Dark. The O. Henry Awards are considered the most prestigious American awards for short fiction. Twenty or so short fiction stories selected each year. Prize Jurors for the Award selections for 2002: Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colson Whitehead.: First Prize for 2002 was The Ceiling by Kevin Brockmeier; 2nd for Scordatura by Mark Ray Lewis. Many excellent works of short fiction for the reader's enjoyment. 476 pages. 5.2 x 8 inches. Anchor Books/Random House, New York, 2001. 476 pages. 8 x 5.25 inches. Anchor Books, New York, 2002.

Dublin, Ireland: Poolbeg Press, 1995. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked cover with slight Tight and solid glued binding. Prev owner inscription on half title page. Internals are clean and free from any markings, pages lightly toned. Nineteen thrilling ghost stories by the celebrated Victorian, J.Sheridan le Fanu, to contemporary masters of the short story such as John McGahern and William Trevor. Chilling, thrilling ghosts--and all guaranteed Irish. 302 pages including Bibgraphical Notes on the authors. 7.75 x 5 inches. Poolbeg Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1995.

U.S.A: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket AS NEW. Mylar jacket cover. Handsome, clean tan half-cloth with gilt titles and decoration, tan boards, free of any markings, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Internals immaculate. Fine jacket unclipped. The title story, "Servants of the Map", was selected for Best American Short Stories 2001 and Prize Stories: The O'Henry Awards 2001. The stories range across two centuries and from the Himalayas to an Adirondack village, stories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. 267 pages. 9.5 x 6.3 inches. Norton & Co, New York, 2002.