The Short Story O'Faolain, Sean -

Paperback. Mercier Press (Dublin), 1972. 269 pages. Condition: Fine. Binding is perfectly tight. No marks to text. Spine uncreased. Price sticker to rear card.
Scarce study of the short story form by a true master of the medium.
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Collins., 1948. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1948. 320 pages. Pink pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

collins 1948. first edition octavo red cloth boards, 320pp VG in G+ d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

London: Collins, 1948. Book. Very Good. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. VG, Shelfwear, bumping, dealer stamp, browning/G, Edgewear, chips, tears, associated creasing, abrasion, soiling, browning. "Considers and analyses the short story as a specialised form of the fiction writer's craft". 320 pages. Photo on request..

Devin-Adair Pub, June 1983. Trade Paperback. Used - Good. Child's doodle in ink insid front cover otherwise pages unmarked, light reading wear.

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First American edition. 370pp. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, edges lightly age-toned, near fine in a good only edgeworn and torn dust jacket with faint dampstain on spine, chipped edges. The art of the short story with examples by Chekov, Maupassant, Henry James, Hemingway, and more.

New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1951. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1951. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in green decorative dust jacket; xi,[1],370pp. Small chips and short closed tears along jacket extremities, shallow loss at spine crown touching text without loss of meaning, brief soil to rear jacket panel, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound, uncommon in dust jacket. Study of the short story by one of Ireland's leading critics. The latter half of the volume devoted to eight short stories by various authors including Anton Chekhov, Elizabeth Bowen, and Ernest Hemingway.

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. 370pp. Small bookstore label and creased on front fly, spine ends bumped, near fine in a very good edgeworn and torn dust jacket. The art of the short story with examples by Chekov, Maupassant, Henry James, Hemingway, and more.

Shambhala Publications, 1983-06. Paperback. Used: Good.