Short Story Collections from Lightholder Books

Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector. Translated by Katrina Dodson. 2015 New Directions, second printing, 645 pages. Cult favorite Ukrainian-born Lispector was a celebrated Brazilian writer who wrote in a stream-of-consciousness style. She notoriously was in a near-fatal apartment fire, which she never mentally recovered from. As recounted in a retrospective in the New York Times "'When I don't write,' Lispector… Read more about this item

Cliffs of Fall and other stories by Shirley Hazzard. 1963 first U.S. edition, 192 pages. Hazzard was an Australian-American author and essayist best known for her novels Transit of Venus and the Great Fire. Cliffs was her debut, a short-story collection in which all but one of the stories was published in the New Yorker (she was one of the… Read more about this item

New Directions in Prose & Poetry. Edited by James Laughlin IV, 1966 New Directions. This was the first publication by the legendary publisher, and includes work by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Henry Miller, Kay Boyle, Elizabeth Bishop, and more. According to Triolet Rare Books: "Gallup states that 513 copies total were printed, of which 204 were in boards." Condition: Book in… Read more about this item

Nocturnes by Thomas Mann. With Lithographs by Lynd Ward. 1934 Equinox Cooperative Press, #298 of 1000 copies, signed by Mann, 61 pages. Mann was a German Nobel-winning author well known for Death in Venice and Magic Mountain. He was an exiled writer for his opposition to Hitler. Nocturnes consists of three short stories A Gleam, Railway Accident, and A Weary… Read more about this item

Tranquility Base and Other Stories by Asa Baber. 1979 Fiction International, unstated printing, 140 pages. Baber was a columnist for Playboy magazine, often arguing for men's rights and virtues while writing on divorce and depression. His style was sometimes referred to as "macho journalism." Most of the stories in this collection preceded his column. Condition: VG with shelf wear to the… Read more about this item

Clara: Thirteen Short Stories and a Novel by Luisa Valenzuela. 1976 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, first U.S. edition, 233 pages. An award-winning author from Argentina, Valenzuela's work challenged power structures from a feminist perspective. Condition: VG. Some shelf wear to boards. "As you can imagine, I'm seeking total absolution of my sins."

The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley. 1959 Doubleday, first edition, 189 pages. This was Paley's debut collection, the first of a remarkable career has a master short-story writer. Condition: Acceptable/Good. Jacket quite browned, chipped, pages browned, shelf wear to boards. "My husband gave me a broom one Christmas. This wasn't right."

Cast a Cold Eye by Mary McCarthy. 1950 Harcourt Brace, first edition, 212 pages. Collection of seven short stories, some having appeared in the New Yorker and Mademoiselle, including "The Old Men" and "The Blackguard." Condition: Good/VG. Jacket has many chips and and tear on front cover, see photos. Boards shelf worn, pages clean. "She would leave him, she thought, as soon… Read more about this item

When Things of the Spirit Come First by Simone De Beauvoir. 1982 Pantheon, first U.S. edition, 213 pages. Includes five early semi-autobiographical short stories of the life of an intellectual French woman. Condition: VG. Some smudging to back cover, bumps on spine. "She liked crying in churches best..."

Three Lives by Gertrude Stein. 1909 Grafton Press, first edition, 279 pages. A thousand copies were printed of the first edition, 300 of which were used for the British edition. Stein's debut tells three unlinked stories of working class women in a fictional Baltimore. These stories are more accessible than Stein's later work, yet still new in style. No publisher… Read more about this item

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford. 1969 FSG, first edition/printing. Some wear and chips to jacket, owner name on end paper, pages in very good condition. This volume includes thirty stories that spanned her career, including those that appeared in the New Yorker. "When I woke up that morning, in the fallow light before the sunrise, and remembered that the night… Read more about this item