Archetypal Themes in the Modern Story by Jack Matthews, ed - 1973

First Edition, First Printing of this Collection of 8 Short Stories. Featured are: Danger - Mike Shayne at Work by Brett Halliday, With Dishonorable Intent by Jerry Jacobson, Eaglehawk by Reuben F Vigil, The Duel by Jack Foxx, Gregory by PA Brisco, Return Home by Clayton Matthews, Ashes to Ashes by Gerald Franklyn and The Hidden Number by Joann S Scheb. Rubbing to front cover. Light creasing to spine (possibly printing defect). In Very Good Condition.

Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College, 1974. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wraps lightly soiled with age-darkening. ; Contents: Boyers, "The Family Novel"; Sedgwick, "Goffman's Anti-Psychiatry"; Karlen, "Four Poems"; Neruda, "Oliverio Girondo"; Girondo, "Two Poems"; Wheatcroft, "Yorkshire Fir"; Burden, "Poem for Eric Barker"; Molesworth, "Saturday Afternoons"; Moore, "Two Poems"; Ballowe, "C's Song"; Pinsker, "Penelope's Reply"; Kavolis, "Paradigms of Order: Nature, The Factory, Art"; Matthews, "Questionnaire for T. M. Connolly. ; Lasch, "The Suppression of Clandestine Marriage in England."; 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall; 109 pages.

Bottom Dog Press, Huron, OH, 1993. 1st edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Signed by Author. Signed by Matthews, O'Connor, Thomas, and Smith a trifle sunned. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ohio; Literature & Literary. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0933087276. ISBN/EAN: 9780933087279. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 12826. . 9780933087279

Vancouver: The University of British Columbia, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Includes two early poems by Michael Ondaatje. Unmarked copy, light cover crease and bump to one corner.

Ohio University Press, 1992 Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor shelf wear to red cloth hardcover. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. xxv, 253 pp. .

Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, (1974). Signed on title page by Jack Matthews, who wrote the introduction. Facsimile reprint of the 1870 Cincinnati edition. Octavo. Cloth-backe boards (hardcover); dustjacket; xxvi,513pp; illus. Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, else Fine.

New York: Columbia, 1983. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, [vi]+226pp, printed wrappers. This rare literary magazine contains a special section of "The Lost Fiction of Weldon Kees," with 8 stories by the author. Also writing by and an interview with Jack Gilbert. Unmarked copy, a little rubbing to covers, light ripple to lower half of textblock.

Western Springs, IL: December / C. L. Johnson, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 304pp, printed wrappers. This scarce double issue includes the poem The Big Bulls in the Pisspot by Charles Bukowski, plus work by a range of important contributors. Unmarked copy, light wear and spotting, reading wear to spine.

London, England: London, Uk: Selwyn and Blount [1928] Ltd, 1928, 1st Edition, First Printing ( no indication of later printings so I have assumed this is a 1st printing), 1928. ------------( 1st printing of the First Edition -assumed ) --- hardcover, a solid Good example, light edge wear and rubbing, age toning to paper, short tears at spine tips, tear along rear spine fold but still quite solid, small hole on spine along front panel fold ---this contains: The Curse of Yig by Zealia Bishop and H P Lovecraft [as by Zealia Brown Reed]; Murder by Proxy by Richard Stone; Haunted Hands by Jack Bradley; The Flame Fiend by N J O'Neail; Boomerang by Oscar Cook; The Tapping by J Dyott Matthews; The Red Fetish by Frank Belknap Long; The Pacer by August Derleth and Mark Schorer [as by August W. Derleth and Marc R. Schorer]; Flower Valley by J S Whittaker; The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft; Suzanne by J Joseph-Renaud; The Thought Monster by Amelia Reynolds Long; The Red Turret by Christine Campbell… Read More