FICTION / Short Stories (single Author) from Barbara Bilson Books

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1953. Very good (spotted top edge of binding, edgewear at top and bottom of spine) in poor dust jacket (vertical tear across the entire back panel, poorly repaired with tape; some additional edgewear. See scans) 253 pages, ten short stories--some previously published in Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, or Esquire--all focused on the difficulty of managing the… Read more about this item

New York: Liveright, 1970. Near fine (lightly sunner cover edges, ink price on front pastedown) in very good-- dust jacket (missing chip at bottom corner, heavily rubbed edges. See scan). Nice picture of Maltz on the back panel. A few of Maltz's short stories re-published here years after his release from prison for refusing to answer the questions of the… Read more about this item

New York: Dutton, 1987. Fine in near fine dust jacket (light rubbing). A collection of 11 short stories by this Indian man of many accomplishments--film director, illustrator, writer. 190 pages, including short glossary and the author's introduction.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Frontispiece by author.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. Very good (edgewear at top of spine and mildly bumped corners, very light small foxing spots on top page edges, binding secure and interior clean and unmarked) in good+ dust jacket (small thin and long crease on rear panel, edgewear especially at spine, 1/4" closed tear on top edge; improved appearance and protected… Read more about this item

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Very good (pristine copy marred by a few faint foxing spots on page edges, otherwise fine) in very good dust jacket (sunned spine, otherwise fine). Another volume in the prestigious Illinois Short Fiction series. Potter's stories focus on women trying to break free from traditional roles at the same time that they struggle with… Read more about this item

Van Nuys, California: Perivale Press, 1977. Very good paperback book (a few faint scratches on front cover, light edgewear). A collection of five short stories, previously published in literary magazines. 60 pages.. 1st Edition thus. Paperback.

New York: Random House, 1964. Very good (slight wear at top of spine; a few small spots on top cover edge, one inch stain on rough-cut side page edges) in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, edgewear especially at spine, a bit of soil on white back panel). The dust jacket sub-title reads, "A Collection of 28 New Stories . .… Read more about this item

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992. Very fine in near fine dust jacket (1 tiny slit in back panel; o/w VF). 15 fine short stories, 179 pages. The first story is based on a real 1939 tragedy, the flooding and sinking of the "Squalus," a new US Navy submarine. Twenty-six men were immediately drowned, and the rest of the crew… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. Stories set in England and Africa by this significant 20th century writer. Near fine (owner's name and date in ink on ffep) in very good dust jacket (1 closed tear almost invisible at top of front panel--check the scan; sunning and light edgewear especially at top of spine). 316 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1991. INSCRIBED by author in 1991. Issued only in softcover. Near fine (light edgewear, 1 bent front cover corner), without dust jacket as issued. Divided into two parts, the first part preceded Ehrlich's novel "Heart Mountain" which was inspired by the stories and charcters in the first part of this softcover book. The second… Read more about this item

Pt. Townsend, WA: Gray Wolf Press, 1984. First Printing of First American Edition, a volume in the Gray Wolf Short Fiction Series. Near fine (a few faint foxing spots on top page edges, otherwise fine) in fine dust jacket (tiny wrinkle at corner of spine -- see scan). Beautifully bound and printed by Gray Wolf Press. First publication in English… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1977. Very good+ (1 small spot on front cover, light edgewear at top and bottom of spine) in very good dust jacket (price clipped, general light edge wear with one 1/4 inch missing chip at bottom right corner, dusting of foxing on the inside of the jacket spine, not transferred to book spine). 5 short stories, 156… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, 1970. Near fine (slight sunning or browning to rough-cut side edges) in Very Good+ dust jacket (lightly edgeworn at folds and corners). 279 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Random House, 1966. Very good+ in good dust jacket (faded spine, heavily edgeworn top, price-clipped). A collection of 21 short stories. 466 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Grove Press, 1967. Near fine (light tanning to pages) in near fine dust jacket (light soil to back panel, a bit of edgewear). . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. Fine (offsetting, probably from newspaper clipping, on front pastedown and first free endpaper) in near fine dust jacket (very lightly soiled and edgeworn).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. Near fine (slightly cocked) in near fine dj (a little edgewear). (Our scan does not show the brightness of the author's name on the front of the dust jacket--very bright, clean.) 219 pages. A collection of short stories by the author of "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.". 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight hint of wear on jacket and book). Wongar writes out of concern for the endangered Aborigine culture. Foreword by Alan Paton. 111 pages including glossary.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Montrose, AL: Texas Center for Writer's Press, 1985. INSCRIBED by author to Norman Cousins in year of publication on half title page. Fine in very good+ dust jacket (check out the scans of other copies for sale: this particular black jacket is very susceptible to rubbing; compare, for example, the back of our other, unsigned, copy listed). . Inscribed… Read more about this item

Boston: David Godine, 1979. Very good+ (slight foxing on page edges and on a few pages) in NF dust jacket (slightly sunned on spine, 1 small wrinkle at front corner). Significant because it is this writer's first book. 176 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Abigail Rorer.