Search Results: Short Stories from Elk Creek Heritage Books

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Twain, Mark. Edited and with an Introduction by Charles Neider. Drawings by Mark Twain. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards, gray spine with blank panels containing silver gilt lettering. A;uthor's signature stamped in silver gilt on front board. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Former owner's name on verso of front board. Top text block stained green. Side edges deckled. Overall light age toning to the papers. Dust jacket very good showing light shelf & edge wear; slightly chipped at head & heel of spine; small chip at center top of back panel. Front jacket flap indicates ""Book Club Edition"" at bottom. * From the Editor's Note, ""The present volume contains sixty-eight essays. With two exceptions the text is that of the Stormfield Edition of Mark Twain's works, published in 1929 by Harper &… Read More

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Twain, Mark. Edited and with an Introduction by Charles Neider. Drawings by Mark Twain. Hard cover in very good condition with red boards and tan spine cloth containing red lettering. Author's facsimile signature blind stamped on front board. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Side edges deckled. Former owner's small address label on verso of front board; small sticker (approx 1 1/2"" x 1 1/4"") of US flag & soldier on verso of rear board. Overall light age toning to the papers. No dust jacket * From the Editor's Note, ""The present volume contains all of Mark Twain's humorous sketches which the author saw fit to issue in book form, also a number published in such form by his literary executor, A.B. Paine. Mark Twain changed his mind about the worth of certain of these sketches and did not include them in later editions of his books. For this… Read More

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Twain, Mark. First Edition per no other printings noted. Edited and with an Introduction by Charles Neider. Drawings by Mark Twain. Hard cover in very good condition with red boards and tan spine cloth containing silver gilt lettering in red panels on spine; A;uthor's facsimile signature stamped in silver gilt on front board. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Side edges deckled. Overall light age toning to the papers. Dust jacket very good with only ghost of shelf wear; light age toning; not price clipped. * From the Editor's Note, ""The present volume contains all of Mark Twain's humorous sketches which the author saw fit to issue in book form, also a number published in such form by his literary executor, A.B. Paine. Mark Twain changed his mind about the worth of certain of these sketches and did not include them in later editions of his books. For this… Read More

New York: Bonaza Books, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in very good condition with navy blue boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Internal text block tight with mellow age toning to the papers. Gift inscription on front free end paper and ink notation at top of first page of Forward (as if someone took down a phone message.) Internal pages clean; no other writing, markings. Dust jacket very good with only ghost of shelf & edge wear. 641 numbered pages. * From the book, ""A corpse is a corpse, but brilliant detective work comes in many forms."" From A to Z, with a sleuth for every letter, the many forms are covered!

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A Knopf Publisher, 2003. Advanced Reading Copy. Soft cover. Very Good. Pre-Publication Uncorrected proof copy prior to publication date of November 2, 2003. Softcover in very good condition. Light orange heavy paper wraps. Shows shelf & edge wear and a deep bump to back top corner which resulted in indent / wrinkles to top corner of last one hundred pages. First page is reproduction of final jacket cover in black & white on paper stock. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted except bump as noted above.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harcourt, Inc., 2004. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Copyright 1993. Stated First American Edition. Hardcover in very good condition with off-white boards and black spine cloth with gold spine lettering. Red front and back endpapers. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Dust jacket very good and not price clipped. 208 pages. * From the jacket flap, 'Here are four unforgettable stories from the author of 'Life of Pi.'

Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. Bibliographical Note from the Copyright Page: This Dover edition, first published in 2001, is a new selection of stories from a standard edition of ""The Arabian Knights"" first published 1885-1888. Soft cover in very good condition. Internal text block clean & tight; no writing; no markings to note. Mellow age toning to the papers. 218 numbered pages. Wraps crisp & shiny with only light shelf & edge wear.

New Yoirk: Dover Publications, Inc., 1960. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition. Exterior wraps show shelf & edge wear, rubbing to edges, and ghost of a removed sticker at top of front; however made of sturdy stock, no spine creases. Interior text block clean and tight; no writing, no markings noted. * From the book, ""Unlike most anthologies of French stories in English, which tend to include ""realistic"" stories by well-known authors, the present grouping offers 17 imaginative and brilliantly executed selections by lesser-known, but often influential, writers. Instead of naturalism, these tales approach the fantastic and macabre, and move toward expressionism and surrealism.""

Galahad Books, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hurd, Peter :Iillustrator. Original copyright 1940 by David McKay and Company. This edition published by Galahad Books and distributed by Barnes and Noble. Hard cover in fine condition with dark gray boards, black spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Full page black and white illustrations throughout. 431 numbered pages; page 431 has crease at top corner where page was dog-earred folded. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition. * From the flap, ""This collecton of sea stories contains classics from all ages and nations from Homer's description of the raft of Odsseus to a vivid report by Jack London of a ferry-boat collision in San Francisco harbor. . . . . [See photo of back jacket where the author's of the stories are listed.] N.C. Wyeth concludes in his Foreword, ""I feel secure in asserting that there is hardly a page in the present volume but what… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2nd Printing First Edition, Second Printing. Hard cover in very good condition with sky blue boards, navy spine cloth, and gold spine lettering. Front free end paper has a three inch circle sticker with type gift inscription. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket likewise very good; no defects to note; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""When Paul Auster and NPR's 'Weekend All Things Considered' introduced the National Story Project, the response was overwhelming. . . . Everyone, it seemed, had a story to tell. . . "" This book ""gathers 180 of these personal, true-life accounts in a single, powerful volume. . . . hilarious blunders, wrenching coincidences, brushes with death, miraculous encounters, improbable ironies, premonitions, sorrows, pains, dreams . . . A testament to the important role story-telling plays in all our lives.… Read More

New York: Bonanza Books, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Copyright 1979. Stated: This book was previously published as two separate works entitled ""Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories, I, 1939"" and ""Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories,II, 1940."" This 1983 Bonanza edition combines the two volumes in one. Volume I is 432 numbered pages; Volume II begins with again with page one and continues through 350 numbered pages. Hard cover in very good condition with bright orange boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Mellow age toning to the papers and to the white of the dust jacket; see photo of jacket back. Dust jacket otherwise in very good condition with just ghost of shelf wear. Not price clipped: no price. * From the Foreword by JHR, ""It is rare when we can say that in a single volume can be found virtually many of the foundation stones of a branch of… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Penguin Books, Limited, 1965. Soft cover. Very Good. Stated First Published in 1965. ISBN and barcodes on back indicate a more recent printing. Printed in England. Softcover wraps glossy and crisp in very good condition. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Parallel text - left page in Italian, right page in English. 183 pages.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1997. Soft cover. Good. Stated ""First Owl Book Edition 1997."" Five or six pages have ink underlining. Rest of the 553 pages are unmarked. Wraps are still bright and crisp with only ghost of shelf wear. * Contributors include Gita Mehta, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Shashi Tharoor, R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Githa Hariharan, Ved Mehta, Salman Rushdie, Satyajit Ray, Mulk Raj Anand, Jawaharlal Nehru, G.V. Desani, Kamala Markandaya, Anjana Appachana, ara Suleri, Arundhati Roy, Bapsi Sidhwa, Firdaus Kanga.

Wings Books, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 3rd Printing Stated 1996 Edition. Third Printing per number line. Hard cover in fine condition with cream colored boards and green gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no markings, no writings noted. Beginnings of gentle age toning to the papers. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; no price on flap; no clipping. * From the book, ""Certain to delight everyone who loves Irish history, lore, and indeed all things Irish . . . a delicious treasury of classics you will want to savor again and again. . . . "" Translated directly from the original Gaelic. See photo of back of book for a sample of those tales included.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition; wraps show light shelf wear; front corners slightly bumped. Text block clean and tight; no writing, no markings noted. * From the book, ""The South is both as it always was, and a profoundly different place than it used to be. But it still seems to be true, as Lee Smith says, that ""narrative is as necessary to us as air."" Maybe narrative is in the air. This year's collection ranges from decaying farms to department stores, from small towns to thriving cities, tracking the likes of a violent paperhanger, a boy who kidnaps his school bus driver, and an ambitious fiddler, and a failed adman.""

Bonanza Books, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This is a 1991 reprint of the 1985 edition. Hard cover in very good condition with navy blue boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Age toning to the papers. 755 numbered pages. Dust jacket very good; vertical crease line on back flap. * Includes works by James A. Michener, Norman Mailer, James Jones, Irwin Shaw, Pearl S. Buck, Paul Gallico, Wallace Stegner, and many more. Sorted into three groups: ON LAND ( 20 stories), AT SEA ( 6 stories), IN THE AIR ( 8 stories.) Per the Introduction, ""This book is the largest and most comprehensive collection of World War II stories ever published.""

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Press Book Publishers, 1983. Soft cover. Very Good. Clee, Suzanne. First Printing of this edition per complete number line including number one. Soft cover in very good condition; wraps show only ghost of shelf wear; shiny and bright; spine not cracked. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Text block edges show light age toning with several small spots. A hefty volume of 1,178 numbered pages; 5 1/4"" wide x 8 3/8"" tall and 2 1/2"" thick. * From the back of book, "". . .contains all of Poe's classic tales and most haunting poems - presented, for the first time, in the order he originally wrote them. . . . Not a word has been deleted!""