Short Fiction from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: Doubleday, 2023 1st Am. ed. 206pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [couple of turned page corners mid-text; else nrF] Eleven wild stories by the acclaimed British novelist.

Atlanta: Longstreet, 1994 1st ed. 301pp. hardback 8vo in laminated pictorial boards w/publisher's glassine cover: Fine in a Fine dj. Three stories, amounting to novellas, by the popular Georgia physician writer Sams (1922-2013), his eighth book.

INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 246pp. paperback tall 8vo: fair [edges show some age darkening; unfortunate old damp stain outline in bottom blank margins of pages throughout; covers and reading text are untroubled] A complete & tight copy with these flaws but interesting for it author signature under a very brief inscription.

INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 239pp. paperback tall 8vo: near Very Good [some foxing inside front cover; old damp stain outline in bottom blank margins of early pages turning to a moisture ripple only as the text progresses; text is untroubled; a generally crisp copy with a nice author signature under a very brief inscription] San Francisco… Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 1982 reprint. 210pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good+ in a near Very Good dj [ink date on ffep; else VG+] Garrison Keillor's first book, a collection of weirdly humorous New Yorker Magazine pieces. Jacket praise from Fran Lebowitz, Jean Shepherd, et al.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, reprint of c1931 ed. 351pp. blue cloth 8vo w/pictorial label: Good+/no dj. A nice copy of these stories by the Swiss writer Spryi (1827-1901), best known for "Heidi."

Yellow Springs, OH: The Antioch Press, 1951 1st ed. INSCRIBED on ffep by author. 224pp. burgundy cloth tall 8vo w/paper labels: Very Good+/no dj. A baker's dozen accomplished short stories by the American scholar and writer Beck (1896-1985/6?).

New York: Penguin, 1993 unrev. & unpub. proofs. 217pp. paperback sm 8vo: near Fine.

Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1994 early reader's copy. 301pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. A nice ARC copy of the Fayetteville, Georgia, author physician Sams's (1922-2013) eighth book.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1985 reprint. 188pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned in the usual Penguin manner; else a nice crisp copy] A baker’s dozen short stories by the prolific British writer.

New York: Longmans, Green, 1958. 44pp. pamphlet bound 8vo: about Good [several pp. near end of text are beginning to separate from card covers; else a clean & complete copy] An imagined account of the first Christmas after Appomattox for the Lee family by the prolific novelist Miller (1884-1960).

London: Methuen. 1986 1st ed. 126pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. A sequel to English playwright Henry Livings’s (1929-98) "Pennine Tales," featuring more stories about the characters who people the imagined village of Ravensgill in England’s Pennine hills.

London: Methuen, 1987 1st ed. thus. 126pp. illus. paperback: Very Good [text is age browned; else VG] A sequel to English playwright Henry Livings’s (1929-98) "Pennine Tales," featuring more stories about the characters who people the imagined village of Ravensgill in England’s Pennine hills.

New York: Barnes & Noble Books. 1998 1st ed. thus. 298pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Fine. Over 80 stories, poems, essays and illustrations by some 70 booksellers.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1973 reprint. 190pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; spine is sunned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] The title story and nine others by the English writer David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930).

New York: New Directions/Bibelot, 1993 2nd ptg. 92pp. paperback: near Fine [some light fore edge foxing; else a nice clean and crisp copy] Classic short stories by the Welsh poet Thomas (1914-53).

London: Arthur Barker, 1953 3rd ptg. 308pp. illus. red cloth tall 8vo: Very Good/no dj. Some three dozen short pieces by writers ranging from John Steinbeck and Scott Fitzgerald to Langston Hughes and Paul Gallico. Includes cartoons that appeared in Esquire Magazine.

London: Cape, 1986 1st ed. 187pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a Fine dj in poly cover [text is completely age browned owing to paper quality; else VG] A review copy from the William Morris Agency, U.K. with sticker on ffep & laid-in letter. Seventeen short stories by the Chicago- born writer associated with England.

London: Onlywomen Press, 1986 1st ed. INSCRIBED by author on title p. 172pp. paperback: Very Good [text is age browned; else VG] Fourteen short stories by the Dublin born lesbian feminist academic and writer Anna Livia Julian Brawn (1955-2007), who wrote under the pen name Anna Livia.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1971 1st ed. 292pp. red cloth 8vo: Good/no dj [some age browning of edges; a line or two underlined in pencil; else a nice clean complete & tight copy] A posthumous collection of previously uncollected work of Georgia writer Lula Carson Smith (1917-67), short stories, essays, poetry, edited by her magazine editor sister.