The Realm of the Unreal and Other Stories

By: Ambrose Bierce; Introduction-Will Self; Illustrations-Nathan Sissons

Price: $55.95

Publisher: The Folio Society: 2009

Seller ID: 75363

ISBN: B003VF0GQ4

Condition: New

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NEW - Factory Sealed. 89 short stories: INTRODUCTION by Will Self -- 1.) In the mids of life: Tales of soldiers and civilians: Soldiers. A horseman in the sky -- 2.) An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -- 3.) Chiackamauga -- 4.) A son of the gods -- 5.) One of the missing -- 6.) Killed at Resaca -- 7.) the affair at Coulter's notch -- 8.) The coup de grace -- 9.) Parker Adderson, Philosopher -- 10.) An affair of outposts -- 11.) The story of a conscience -- 12.) One kind of officer -- 13.) One officer, one man -- 14.) George Thruston -- 15.) The mocking-bird -- 16... View more info

Favorites (Tower Books Edition)

By: Damon Runyon

Price: $5.95

Publisher: World Publishing Co.: 1946

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 64691

ISBN: B002B0QDTY

Condition: Used - Good

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1st Edition THUS (World Publishing - 1946). Tower Books Edition. No marks or writing observed in text. Pages age toned. Binding tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . TOC: 1.) Butch minds the baby -- 2.) Lillian -- 3.) A very honorable guy -- 4.) Madame La Gimp -- 5.) The hottest guy in the world -- 6.) Bred for battle -- 7.) A story goes with it -- 8.) Sense of humor -- 9.) Undertaker song -- 10.) That ever-loving wife of Hymie's -- 11.) The brakeman's daughter -- 12.) Little Miss Marker -- 13.) Dancing Dan's Christmas -- 14.) Princess O'Hara. View more info

Dream Street (Stories by Damon Runyon)

By: Damon Runyon; Editor-Sue Bradbury, Illustrators-Nicolas Bentley, David Eccles

Price: $4.95

Publisher: The Folio Society: 1989

Seller ID: 74759

ISBN: B001OUYQ50

Condition: Used - Very Good

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In slipcase - CLEAN!! No marks. Might as well be new. Appears unread. . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Romance in the Roaring Forties -- 2.) The Lily of St. Peter -- 3.) Dream Street Rose -- 4.) Tobias the terrible -- 5.) The old doll's house -- 6.) Gentlemen, the king! -- 7.) The brain goes home -- 8.) Lady Gimp -- 9.) Sense of humor -- 10.) Undertaker song -- 11.) Butch minds the baby -- 12.) The lemon drop kid -- 13.) Lonely heart -- 14.) Neat strip -- 15.) A piece of pie -- 16.) All horse players die broke. . . . . .. . . . Dream Street was the s... View more info

The Bedside Esquire

By: Editor-Arnold Gingrich

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Tudor Publishing Co.: 1940

Seller ID: 71944

ISBN: B000AN47WY

Condition: Used - Very Good

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No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. DJ is good. . . . . Here are gathered, in one pleasure-laden volume, some of the best and most diverting writing of our time, taken from the magazine ESQUIRE. . . . . . . Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION: Arnold Gingrich -- PART I: 1.) Sweet faces and foul minds by G.J. Nathan-- 2.) Washing the hands by A.A. Dehan -- 3.) Latins are lousy lovers by H.B. Norden -- 4.) The wench is not amused by Anonymous -- 5.) Essay on jiggling by G.A. McNamara -- 6.) A report on man's best friend by L. Martin -- 7.) Chr... View more info

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

By: Editor-Joyce Carol Oats

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: September 1994

Seller ID: 75881

ISBN: 0195092627

Condition: Used - Very Good

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No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read if at all. . . . . . STORIES INCLUDE: 1.) Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle -- 2.) Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Wives of the Dead -- 3.) Herman Melville: The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids -- 4.) Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart -- 5.) Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Ghost in the Mill -- 6.) Mark Twain: Cannibalism in the Cars -- 7.) Kate Chopin: The Storm -- 8.) Charlotte Gilman Perkins: The Yellow Wallpaper -- 9.) Henry James: The Middle Years -- 10.) Jack London: In a Far Country -- 11.) Stephe... View more info

Pilgrims All (28 short stories by Contempory Catholic Writers)

By: Editor-Mary McKenna Curtin

Price: $14.95

Publisher: The Bruce Publishing Co.: 1943

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 53186

ISBN: B0021VRCIE

Condition: Collectible - Very Good

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1st Edition (1943). No marks or writing observed in text. Date on 1st ilnside page. Binding tight and square. DJ has wear and poorly repaired tear. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . TOC: xxi, 295 pages 23 cm . . . . . . Table of Contents: * INTRODUCTION -- 1.) To the mountains by Paul Horgan -- 2.) The farewell party by Albert Eisele -- 3.) The hammer of God by GK Chesterton -- 4.) Black bread by Teresa Brom -- 5.) The mockbeggar by Sheila Kaye-Smith -- 6.) A little beaded bag by Morley Callaghan -- 7.) The peacemaker by Enid Dennis -- 8.) The hand who lashed out by Hilaire B... View more info

Reading the Short Story

By: Editors-Harry Shaw, Douglas Bement

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1941

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 72975

ISBN: B0010X6QEK

Condition: Used - Very Good

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No marks or writing observed in text. Previous owners name and info on 1st inside page. Binding tight and square. No DJ, Light wear on covers. Gently read. . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Arrival by Mary Porter Russell -- 2.) The little him by Ernestine Magagna -- 3.) Niggers are such liars by Richard Paulett Creyke -- 4.) I want to know why by Sherwood Anderson -- 5.) The yellow cat by Wilbur Daniel Steele -- 6.) Miss Hinch by Henry Sydnor Harrison -- 7.) Salesmanship by Mary Ellen Chase -- 8.) A sum in addition by William March -- 9.) Good Wednesday by Katharine Brush -- 10.)... View more info

30 Stories to Remember

By: Editors-Thomas B. Costain, John Beecroft

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Doubleday: 1962

Seller ID: 59230

ISBN: B001428H1C

Condition: Used - Very Good

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No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. No DJ. . . . . . . . . . . 1.) Stories are: The Split Second by Daphne De Maurier, -- 2.) The Theft of The Mona Lisa by Karl Decker, -- 3.) The Soldier's Peaches by Stuart Cloete, -- 4.) extract from A Night To Remember by Walter Lord, -- 5.) Aerial Football - The New Game by George Bernard Shaw, -- 6.) Courtship of My Cousin Doone by Walter D. Edmonds, 7.) Hotel Room by Cornell Woolrich, -- 8.) Two Soldiers by William Faulkner, -- 9.) How We Kept Mother's Day by Stephen Leacock, -- 10.) The... View more info