NY: Random House. (1973). The uncorrected proof copy, inscribed by George Quasha. Light dust soiling; else fine in wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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NY: Avon Books. (1975). Edited and inscribed by Daniel Halpern. With work by Ai, Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Carolyn Forche, Louise Gluck, Jim Harrison, Carol Muske, Stanley Plumly, Charles Simic, James Tate, Diane Wakoski, Alice Walker, James Welch and many others. Fine in wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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NY: B.W. Huebsch. (1922). Edited by Elsie Clews Parsons. An important anthology of pieces about Indian life and cultures, addressed to a lay audience but with contributions by many of the most prominent anthropologists and ethnologists of their time: Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, Paul Radin, Alfred Tozzer, Sylvanus Morley and many others whose work largely defined the parameters of academic inquiry for most of the last century. Thick quarto, with numerous color illustrations by C. Grant LaFarge. Front hinge cra... more information

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NY: Macauley. (1927). "A Yearboook of American Literature," with co-editors Van Wyck Brooks and Lewis Mumford. Contributions by Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill, Hart Crane, Louise Bogan, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Carl Rakosi and many others. Owner name front flyleaf; text block shaken; spine and spine gilt faded; very good, lacking the dust jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. ... more information

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NY: Anchor Books. (2004). The uncorrected proof copy. Stories by Lydia Davis, Rick Bass, David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, Christine Schutt, Mark Richard, Aimee Bender and many others. Fine in wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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[Boston]: [Houghton Mifflin]. [1980]. An advance issue consisting of unbound 8-1/2" x 11" sheets of this collection edited by Stanley Elkin and with stories by John Updike, John Sayles, Donald Barthelme, Frederick Busch, William Gass, Larry Heinemann, I.B. Singer, Grace Paley, Peter Taylor, Mavis Gallant, Elizabeth Hardwick and others. Elkin's introduction bears copyeditor's marks throughout. Minor edge wear to a few pages; else fine. . First Edition. ... more information

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Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin. 1996. Edited by John Edgar Wideman. Advance reading copy in glossy wrappers (marked "Uncorrected Proof"). With stories by Rick Bass, Alice Adams, Robert Olen Butler, Jamaica Kincaid, Melanie Rae Thon, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others. Lower corners of pages bumped, otherwise fine in wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1993. The advance reading copy. With writings by Roger Angell, Mark Kram, Dave Barry, and Donna Tartt, among many others. One slight corner bump; fine in wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1984. The uncorrected proof copy. Edited and with an introduction by John Updike. With stories by Andre Dubus, Paul Bowles, Madison Smartt Bell, Mavis Gallant, Susan Minot, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Lowry Pei, Jonathan Penner, Norman Rush and James Salter, among others. Very near fine in wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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NY: Ticknor & Fields. 1989. The uncorrected proof copy. Contributions by Joan Didion, Robert Stone, Richard Ford, Julian Barnes, Annie Dillard, William Kittredge, Edward Hoagland, David Quammen and others. Fine in wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1986. The uncorrected proof copy. With work by Julian Barnes, Donald Barthelme, William Gass, Cynthia Ozick, Joyce Carol Oates, Joseph Brodsky, and Gore Vidal on Italo Calvino. Near fine in wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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NY: Ticknor & Fields. 1988. The uncorrected proof copy of this selection edited and introduced by Annie Dillard. With work by William Kittredge, Elizabeth Hardwick, Paul Horgan, Charles Simic, Mary Lee Settle, James McConkey, and others. Near fine in wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (1998). The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of pieces that appeared in magazines in 1998. Edited by Bill Littlefield, with pieces by Thomas Boswell and David James Duncan, among others. Fine in wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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NY: Ticknor & Fields. 1989. The uncorrected proof copy. Contributions by Joan Didion, Robert Stone, Richard Ford, Julian Barnes, Annie Dillard, William Kittredge, Edward Hoagland, David Quammen and others. Bump to spine base and scratch to rear cover; near fine in wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1988. The uncorrected proof copy. Includes "Helping" by Robert Stone. Signed by Stone at his contribution. Other contributors include Louise Erdrich, Rick Bass, Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff. "Press Copy" markings on cover and first page, and small stain to front cover; near fine in wrappers. "Helping" was also included in the anthology in this series that selected the best American short stories of the decade. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin. 2000. A review copy of this collection edited and introduced by Tony Hillerman. Fifty-five stories by authors such as Dashiell Hammet, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Joyce Carol Oates, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, Stephen King, James Crumley and Dennis Lehane. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with a dozen pages of promotional information laid in. . First Edition. Hardcover. ... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1988. The uncorrected proof copy. Contributors include Robert Stone, Louise Erdrich, Rick Bass, Raymond Carver, Gish Jen, Lucy Honig, Brian Kiteley, Mavis Gallant and Tobias Wolff. Fine in wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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Palo Alto: Pacific Books. 1960. The Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards of 1959. With work by Sylvia Plath, James Wright, Richard Wilbur, May Sarton, James Merrill, Robert Graves, Marianne Moore, and many others. Fine in a very good dust jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. ... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1939. Edited by Edward J. O'Brien. With contributions by John Cheever, Eudora Welty -- preceding both their first books -- Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Robert M. Coates, and others. Mild fading to spine cloth, offsetting at hinges from binder's glue; still a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to the folds and minor edge wear. One of the more uncommon books in the series, especially in jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. ... more information

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Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin. 1994. The advance reading copy (marked "uncorrected proof") of this collection of twenty essays on the theme of friendship. With contributions by Jill McCorkle, Joyce Carol Oates, Carolyn See, Jane Smiley, and Terry Tempest Williams, among others. Fine in wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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