SHORT STORIES from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: Macmillan, 1914. Very good first edition of this collection of short stories, all told by the redoubtable Calliope Marsh. Very good condition (giver's inscription on first free endpaper dated 1914--NOT by the author but rather sweet in its wording, sticker remnants on front and back pastedowns, soiled and worn spine although cover is quite attractive and bright). Eleven… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. Advance Uncorrected Proofs of this collection of short stories, previously published in literary magazines and collected here for the first time. First edition. Soft covers. SIGNED by author on title page. Fine condition. 242 pages.. Signed by Author. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Soft Cover.

New York: Macmillan, 1972. Very good (spotted page edges, sunned cover edges, interior clean and tight) in near fine dust jacket (tiny bit of edgewear, otherwise fine). Ten short stories by Soviet writers, written for younger Russian readers, all in the 1960s and early 1970s. Stories by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Vasily Aksyenov, Irina Grekova, Yuri Kazakov, Yuri Nagibin, Arkady Arkanov, Irena… Read more about this item

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1980. Very good (nice clean and tight book with light foxing blemishes on page edges and one small dent on top cover edge) in very good minus (VG-) dust jacket (sunned and edgeworn, lightlysoiled, and on the inside some foxing and one small stain from the book'scover; now in Brodart cover for protection). Fine… Read more about this item

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1991. Fine in fine dust jacket. A selection of six of Spencer's short stories, all with a Mississippi gulf coast setting, along with an introduction by the author and art work by Walter Anderson, published here posthumously and selected from a "visual diary" he made in 1941-1943. Decorative border also is from Anderson's work,… Read more about this item

Muscatine, Iowa: Prairie Press, 1938. Near fine (very slight edgewear, two or three tiny soil spots on the covers, previous owner's bookplate and giver's inscription on front pastedown) limited edition. This is a beautifully printed special edition, limited to 490 copies. Gray cloth over boards with gilt wording on spine. Rare. Beautiful copy, NOT ex-library.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. Very good minus (VG-) first edition (sunned, faded spine; back cover has wrinkle or crease; edgewear especially at spine and corners; separation beginning at first and last signatures; previous owner's small nameplate on front pastedown. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Doubleday, 2004. SIGNED by author on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. A collection of nine short stories, 160 pages. You'll love the back panel of the dust jacket--a jumble of fake ads for doggie doo, fun-loving aqua chimps (just add water), etc. alongside real leads to the short stories, all looking like an old-time comic book's… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1972. Good ++ hard cover (spotted and dusty top page and cover edges, sunned edges, clean and bright and firm interior) in very good dust jacket (edgeworn, especially at top of spine, one small thined spot on front panel). Great stuff from one of America's most prolific writers.. 1st trade edition. Hard Cover.

Portland, OR: Glimmer Train Press, 1993. Very good+ (lightly edgeworn covers, otherwise clean and unmarked and near fine) in soft covers. A highly readable literary magazine. Short stories by Peter Gordon, Joyce Thompson, Stephen Dixon, Louis Gallo, and others. Interview with Anne Rice. Also an article about Mansur Muhammad Ahmad Rajih, one of Glimmer Train's regular series on "Writers… Read more about this item

Portland, OR: Glimmer Train Press, 1993. Very good+ (lightly edgeworn covers, otherwise clean and unmarked and near fine) in soft covers. A highly readable literary magazine. Short stories by Gary D. Wilson, Lawson Fusao Inada, and others. Interviews with William Styron and Joyce Thompson. Also an article about Gustavo Guzman, a "disappeared" Ecuadorian writer.. Soft Cover.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Very good+ (very slight edgewear at corners and spine top and bottom, otherwise fine; sparkling front cover with M.A. initials of the artist in the lower right corner). No dust jacket. Illustrated--one color plate and four black and white--by Dalton Stevens. A beautifully printed collection of short stories--in the Victorian sensibilities of the… Read more about this item

La Grande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon, 1993. Near fine (small white streak on edge of front cover, otherwise fine) paperback book. 91 page collection of nightmarish short stories. The sixth in the Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series, printed in a limited edition of 250 copies (not numbered). . 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Illus. by Helen Shoenfeld.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1978. Very good+ (edges are slightly soiled) in very good dust jacket (edgewear and rubbing at flap folds and spine creases and spine top and bottom; looks good in Brodart protector). The 58th in the O'Henry Memorial Award series. First prize is Woody Allen's "The Kugelmass Episode." For the Tim O'Brien fan and collector,… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979. Near fine (lightly sunned top cover edges) in very good dust jacket (light edgewear, a couple of closed tears). Lynne Sharon Schwartz's short story "Rough Strife" published here precedes the novel by the same name.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Very good copy without dust jacket (small amount of edgewear; worst defect is some quarter-size stains on the front cover, probably water drops; pages lightly tanned, not bad for a book this old). Not a first edition (no "A" on the copyright page). 14 short stories, 266 pages, from the American poet. Book is… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1985. Near fine (slightly sunned edges, light edgewear, light soil on top page edges) in near fine dust jacket (slight edgewear at top and bottom of spine, now in Brodart cover). 15 short stories. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1996. Fine in near fine dust jacket (light edgewear at bottom of spine). That the author quotes from John Fowles, Dylan Thomas, and Monty Python on a page of epigrams at the beginning of the book, gives one an idea of the feeling of what follows!. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Atlanta GA: Peachtree Pub, 1984. Near fine in good only dust jacket (considerable edgewear especially along top edge and at spine top and bottom). Stories selected by Ray McIver, an African-American friend of the author who has also adapted several of the writer's short stories for the stage. Twenty-two short stories written between 1930 and 1941, the same era during… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1978. Very good (a few very light foxing spots on page edges) in very good dust jacket (edgewear at the top of the spine, including one little nick). Fourteen short stories selected from four previously published collections, some stories having appeared in Playboy or The New Yorker. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.