Short Stories from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

London, 1878. Cardboard covers. Near fine. A Near Fine or better copy of "Kafir Land" written by Anthony Trollope and set in South Africa, apparrently excerpted from Volume 23 of the Fortnightly Review, a monthly periodical of Literature founded by Trollope with others in 1865. Trollope was, as best we cam determine, was the only eminent Victorian to visit all… Read more about this item

New York: Palgrave [Macmillan], 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, Superior, tight, and unread copy of the first edition, first printing, in a like dust jacket.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Very Good copy of the first American edition, first printing, of this collection of twenty-four poems and short stories, in the Publisher's original green cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in black to the front board and spine, with wear to the spine ends and leading board… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Fine. A Fine copy, tight and unread copy of the first wrappered edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original wrappers with contributions by the aforementioned authors.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, unread, copy of the first edition, first printing with a bit of sunning to the upper edges, in a near Fine dust jacket (with sunning to the jacket's spine and upper edge and a shadow from removal of a security sticker from the verso… Read more about this item

University of Georgia Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, sharp, tight, and unread copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket, being a collection of seven (7) the author's short stories, as well as her DEBUT COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. [Prior seller's… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1901. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. A Very Good to Very Good + copy of the first UK Edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original brown cloth -- a variant binding without a catalogue (mildly askew, rubbing to the leading corners, spine ends, and to the front board's bottom edge), in a… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, Tight, Unread copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY CHARLES D'AMBROSIO on the title page and with the Publisher's original promotional booklet loosely laid in. [This promotional "booklet" is printed on both sides of a thin cardboard… Read more about this item

New York: Bretano's; Doubleday; and F. Tennyson Neely, [1898 and 1899]. First Editions. Original Cloth and Original Wrappers. Very good +. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $1,250. NOW $375. A Very Good copy of the TRUE FIRST AMERICAN Separate EDITION (a piracy) [1898] meeting all of the detailed… Read more about this item

Bournemouth, 1900. First Edition. Framed Plans. Very good +. THE RARE: ORIGINAL PLANS FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO MIDDLE ROAD WHICH LEADS TO SKERRYVORE, Robert Louis Stevenson's home in Bournemouth where John Singer Sargent painted Stevenson and his wife and where Stevenson had the famous dream which inspired his great work "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", which… Read more about this item

New York: Broadway Magazine Incorporated, 1911. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Near fine. A Near Fine copy of this issue of Hampton's Magazine for March, 1911, a monthly magazine. This issue contains works by Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Owen Johnson and others, and most importantly, presents the first appearance of Jack London's short story "The Strength of… Read more about this item

Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY CAROL SHIELDS on the title page; a collection of twelve stories by this American-born Canadian Novelist, being her third collection of short stories, signed copies of which are surprisingly uncommon to the… Read more about this item

London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1883. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good copy of the second edition (printed in the same year as was the first edition), in the Publisher's original red cloth with the spines lettered and decorated in gilt and black and the front board of each volume lettered in black. The volumes… Read more about this item

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, No Date Stated [Copyright 1977]. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine. An Fine, tight, and unread copy of the Easton Press Collector's Edition, in the Publisher's red leather with the spine lettered and decorated in gilt and the front and rear board decorated in gilt as well. The leaves are printed on archival paper, the… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1889. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine, Superior, tight (and apparently unread) copy of the first edition, first printing, of this collection of African-American stories by a female author, with illustrations by E. W. Kemble [who also illustrated Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and other books]… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1889. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A not quite Very Good copy, tight (and apparently unread) copy of the first edition, first printing, of this collection of African-American stories by a female author, with illustrations by E. W. Kemble [who also illustrated Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Very Good dust jacket, the third appearance of of any of Lagerkvist's books to appear in English (following "Barabbas" and "The Dwarf"), and being the first appearance of any collection of the author's short stories… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. A Very Good + copy of the scarce first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original orange cloth (no dust jacket") which shows light rubbing to the spine ends and board corners and some modest handling soil. Within, the volume shows a black marker mark to the… Read more about this item

Seattle, Washington: Gateway Printing, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Fine. A virtually Fine copy of Volume 2 Number 2 of this literary anthology in the Publisher's original stapled wrappers (prior owner's name written to th Table of Contents page's upper right corner with a small check mark next to one contribitors's name, some marking to the upper… Read more about this item