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By: Abel, Robert
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Athens, Georgia, USA, University of Georgia Press: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: SCW12102
ISBN: 0820312525
Condition: Good
CG2 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with the usual library stamps and label on the top, right, and bottom outside paper edges and the front free endpaper plus there is a large patch of glue staining on the front free endpaper from a pocket. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A collection of twelve short stories by a noted writer of the form. They are about individuals backed against a wall as they try to free themselves from their own limitations, habits, and destructive desires. This collec... View more info
By: Abrahams, William (editor)
Price: $1.75
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Doubleday: 1984
Book ID: SCW02972
ISBN: 0385188552
Condition: Very Good
BD6 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor overall shelf wear. A collection of outstanding short stories by American authors. The stories chosen for this volume were published in the period from the summer of 1982 to the summer of 1983. 296p. View more info
By: Abrahams, William (editor)
Price: $3.50
Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Doubleday: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: SCW03965
ISBN: 0385481306
Condition: Good
BD6 - A tight, clean, sound copy in red paper covered boards quarter bound in dark red cloth with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library stamp and label on the top outside paper edges and front endpaper plus a section (about 2"x4.5") cut out of the front endpaper as part of the library's withdrawal process plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the the original library mylar sleeve plus there is the usual l... View more info
By: Abrahams, William (editor)
Price: $3.00
Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Doubleday: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: SCW03966
ISBN: 038547671X
Condition: Good
BD6 - A tight, clean, sound copy in red paper covered boards quarter bound in dark red cloth with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library stamp and label on the top outside paper edges and front endpaper plus a section (about 2"x4.5") cut out of the front endpaper as part of the library's withdrawal process plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the the original library mylar sleeve plus there is the usual l... View more info
By: Abrahams, William (editor)
Price: $9.50
Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Doubleday: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed
Book ID: SCW11685
ISBN: 0385421923
Condition: Very Good
BD6 - A first edition trade paperback book in very good condition that has tanning and light shelf wear. Signed by Ann Packer and Antonya Nelson on their respective story page. Edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. The winner and finalist short stories for the O. Henry Award for 1992. The authors include Cynthia Ozick, Lucy Honig, Tom McNeal, Amy Herrick, Murray Pomerance, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Michael Wagner, Yolanda Barnes, David Long, Harriet Doerr, Perri Klass, Daniel Meltzer, Les Myers, Ken Chowder, Alice Adams, Frances Sherwood, Antonya Nelson, Millicent Dillon, Kent Nel... View more info
By: Borofka, David
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa, USA, University of Iowa Press: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: SCW05242
ISBN: 0877455570
Condition: Good
CG5 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in good- condition with a dust jacket in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in black cloth covered boards with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is the usual library stamp on the half-title page plus the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's withdrawal process plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus ther... View more info
By: Brook, Rhidian
Price: $1.75
Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Penguin Books: 2002
Book ID: SCW10099
ISBN: 0142001570
Condition: Very Good
BG5 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy of a movie tie-in edition in color wraps with only very minor overall shelf wear. A novel about a boy living in a small town in Wales. His life has become suddenly confusing what with his mother having run off with her hairdresser, his father having taken to talking to himself, his brother growing mute, a girl classmate blowing smoke rings at him, and another saying their is no God. When the boy begins trying to figure out whether there actually is a God or not, he happens apon an old man with an exceptional and m... View more info
By: Carr, Pat M.
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa, USA, University of Iowa Press: 1978
Book ID: SCW10780
ISBN: 087745082X
Condition: Good
BI5 - A trade paperback book in good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in monochrome illustrated red and white wraps with minor overall shelf wear with some light fading on the spine plus there is some scattered light rubbing plus there is some very, very light edge wear along the covers free edgesplus there is the original owner's name in blue ink on the dedication page. This is a title in the publisher's Iowa Scholl of Letters Award for Short Ficiton. A collection of short stories by a noted writer of the form. The author is a winner of the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction... View more info
By: Doenges, Judy
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, Middlebury College Press/University Press of New England: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: SCW12110
ISBN: 0874519373
Condition: Good
BI2 - A tight, clean, sound coyp in cream paper covered boards quarter bound in dark blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine and a gold graphic on the front with very minor overall shelf wear with the usual library stamps and pocket on the top, bottom, and right outside paper edges, the front free endpaper, and the title page. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some very, very light edge wear along the top and bottom spine edges plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A collection of short stories about marginal, blue-collar people, many of them lesbian... View more info
By: Elkin, Stanley
Price: $1.75
Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Penguin Books: 1992
Book ID: SCW09873
ISBN: 0140172343
Condition: Very Good
BZ5 - A trade paperback book in near fine condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with some very light creasing on the front and back covers plus there is some very light scattered rubbing on the front cover. This is a title in the publisher's Contemporary American Fiction series. A novel about the mysterious events that take place in less than forty hours in the life of a bureaucratically comfortable city commissioner of streets. This book is a National Book Award Finalist plus the author is a winner of the National Book Critics Award. By the au... View more info
By: Even, Aaron Roy
Price: $1.75
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: SCW11705
ISBN: 0312265611
Condition: Good
BZ2 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in good+ to very good- condition with a dust jacket in very good+ condition. Stated first edition with a sequence of numbers with the "1" present and with no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in textured dark blue paper covered boards with silver lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear with the dust jacket mylar sleeve endflaps glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps and marks on the top outside paper edges, the front and back f... View more info
By: Foley, Sylvia
Price: $2.50
Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Alfred A. Knopf: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: SCW10114
ISBN: 037540063X
Condition: Very Good
BY3 - A hard cover first edition book in near fine condition with a dust jacket in very good condition. Stated first edition with no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in light gray paper covered boards with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear with the letter "R" in black ink at the top right of the front free endpaper. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some light creasing and water wrinkling on the back. A collection of nine short stories that tell about people and events in two generations of a fa... View more info
Price: $1.75
Publisher: Tallahassee, Florida, USA, Naiad Press, Incorporated: 1991
Book ID: SCW12141
ISBN: 0941483487
Condition: Good
BZ1 - A trade paperback book in good+ to very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wer with a small closed tear (about 0.25") at the top right corner of the back covers plus there is some scattered light rubbing along the spine edges, primarily near the top and bottom plus there is some very, very light surface edge wear along the top and bottom spine edges. This is one of the author's Kate Delafield mystery series. This book is a winner of the Lambda Book Award. A mystery in which LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield and her partner in... View more info
By: Gilchrist, Ellen
Price: $1.75
Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Little, Brown & Company: 2003
Book ID: SCW05443
ISBN: 0316313076
Condition: Very Good
BH5 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear. This book is a winner of the American Book Award for Fiction. By the author of "Net of Jewels," "Starcarbon," and "Drunk with Love." 277p. View more info
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisana, USA, Louisiana State University Press: 1988
Book ID: SCW10129
ISBN: 0807115088
Condition: Good
CC5 - A tight, clean, sound copy in tan cloth covered boards with black lettering and a graphic on the spine with minor overall shelf wear with some light glue staining on the front and back fixed endpapers from where the dust jacket was glued to the boards plus there is a patch of glued staining on the front free endpaper from a library pocket plus there are the usual library marks, stamps, and labels on the top and bottom outside paper edges, the front fixed and free endpaper, and the copyright page. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some very light glue staining on th... View more info
By: Jones, Madison
Price: $2.00
Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Penguin Books: 1999
Book ID: SCW09754
ISBN: 014027880X
Condition: Very Good
BC4 - A mass market paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with only very minor overall shelf wear. A novel about a twelve year old confederate and his slave companion living in Federal occupied Nashville, Tennessee during the American Civil War. They slip through Union lines looking for the young white man's father. The boys are trapped behind enemy lines as the battle at nashville begins. The story is told by the young man, but from his perspective as a grown man looking back from almost forty years later. This book is a winner of the T. S.... View more info
By: Kavaler, Rebecca
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Columbia, Missouri, USA, University of Missouri Press: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: SCW07003
ISBN: 0826202497
Condition: Good
CF4 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in good condition with no dust jacket. A tight, clean, sound copy in brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on the spine with moderate overall shelf wear plus there is heavy fading/sunning on the spine and along the spine and top edges of the front and back boards plus there are the usual library labels, stamps, marks, and pocket on the front board, top, bottom, and right outside paper edges, preface page, back endpaper, and inside surface of the back board. This is a title in the publisher's Associated Writing Program Award Wi... View more info
By: Kitchen, Judith
Price: $3.50
Publisher: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, Graywolf Press: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: SCW09902
ISBN: 155597368X
Condition: Very Good
CG4 - A ifrst edition ex-library hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Book has library markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc.), dust jacket and book have some light discoloration and shelf wear. A novel about one day in Dublin, Ohio, an ordinary day in the lives of ordinary people centered on a couple on their anniversary day and sharing the los of their four-year-old son eight years earlier. This novel is a winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize. The author is a winner of a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, a Pushcart P... View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Kailua, Hawaii, USA, Plover Press: 1997
Book ID: SCW07299
ISBN: 0917635213
Condition: Good
CF4 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library labels and stamps on the top outside paper edges and front endpaper plus there is some tape residue on the inside surfaces of the boards from where the endflaps were taped down to the boards. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library labels on the spine and on the front plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. Translated from the Spanish by John Copeland. A novel about a gambusino or scavenger of mines. He roams the hills, eking out a liv... View more info
By: Morazzoni, Marta
Price: $2.00
Publisher: London, East Sussex, United Kingdom, Harvill Press: 2000
Book ID: SCW09849
ISBN: 1860465749
Condition: Good
BX2 - A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in good+ to very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with heavy clear plastic lamination applied to the covers plus there are the usual library labels and stamps on the back cover, the top outside paper edges, the front endpaper, and the title page. Translated from the Italian by Emma Rose. A novel about a modestly ambitious man who establishes a prosperous ironmonger's shop, has a beautiful wife, and a household with two sons. But there are still well-guarded secrets tied to his wife's ... View more info
