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Great Short Stories
by Various Authors
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: The Folio Society, 2007. Very Good. Second printing. The book has good tips and clean black cloth boards with gilt lettering. The hinges are very slightly loose. The textblock has a faint erased price indentation on the half-title page corner, else clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. 26 pages of black and white illustrations. The slipcase is very good with mild rubbing and shelf wear. 572 pages. 6 1/2" X 9 1/2" tall.
This collection of 43 short stories from six different countries (Russia, Japan, America, Ireland, France, and England) includes such celebrated examples as Samuel Beckett's surreal "Dante and the Lobster", Alexander Pushkin's ghostly "The Queen of Spades" and Colette's witty and sensual "Green Sealing Wax". Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Poe, Cather, Hemmingway, Steinbeck, Wilde, Joyce, Camus, Proust, and Balzac are among the featured writers along with newer triumphs from contemporary writers such as Banana Yoshimoto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4215
- Title
- Great Short Stories
- Author
- Various Authors
- Illustrator
- Various Artists
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover / Slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Folio Society
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 572
- Size
- 6.5 x 9.5
- Weight
- 5.00 lbs
- Keywords
- folio society, slipcase, Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Poe, Cather, Hemmingway, Steinbeck, Wilde, Joyce, Camus, Proust
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collector's Editions; The Folio Society;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
Biblio member since 2020
Carrollton, Texas
About Armadillo Alley Books
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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