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Ghost Traps

By: Abel, Robert

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Athens, Georgia, USA, University of Georgia Press: 1991

Seller ID: SCW12102

ISBN: 0820312525

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Prize Stories 1984: The O. Henry Awards

By: Abrahams, William (editor)

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Doubleday: 1984

Seller ID: SCW02972

ISBN: 0385188552

Binding: Trade Paperback

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.
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Prize Stories 1995: The O. Henry Awards

By: Abrahams, William (editor)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Doubleday: 1995

Seller ID: SCW03966

ISBN: 038547671X

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Prize Stories 1992: The O. Henry Awards

By: Abrahams, William (editor)

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Doubleday: 1996

Seller ID: SCW11685

ISBN: 0385421923

Binding: Trade Paperback

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...
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Hints of His Mortality

By: Borofka, David

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa, USA, University of Iowa Press: 1996

Seller ID: SCW05242

ISBN: 0877455570

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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The Testimony of Taliesin Jones

By: Brook, Rhidian

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Penguin Books: 2002

Seller ID: SCW10099

ISBN: 0142001570

Binding: Trade Paperback

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...
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The Women in the Mirror

By: Carr, Pat M.

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa, USA, University of Iowa Press: 1978

Seller ID: SCW10780

ISBN: 087745082X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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...
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What She Left Me

By: Doenges, Judy

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, Middlebury College Press/University Press of New England: 1999

Seller ID: SCW12110

ISBN: 0874519373

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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The MacGuffin

By: Elkin, Stanley

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Penguin Books: 1992

Seller ID: SCW09873

ISBN: 0140172343

Binding: Trade Paperback

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...
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Bloodroot

By: Even, Aaron Roy

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press: 2000

Seller ID: SCW11705

ISBN: 0312265611

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Life in the Air Ocean: Stories

By: Foley, Sylvia

Price: $2.50

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Alfred A. Knopf: 1999

Seller ID: SCW10114

ISBN: 037540063X

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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The Beverly Malibu

By: Forrest, Katherine V.

Price: $1.75

Publisher: Tallahassee, Florida, USA, Naiad Press, Incorporated: 1991

Seller ID: SCW12141

ISBN: 0941483487

Binding: Trade Paperback

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...
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Victory over Japan

By: Gilchrist, Ellen

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Little, Brown & Company: 2003

Seller ID: SCW05443

ISBN: 0316313076

Binding: Trade Paperback

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.
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Dislocations: Stories

By: Hospital, Janette Turner

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisana, USA, Louisiana State University Press: 1988

Seller ID: SCW10129

ISBN: 0807115088

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light

By: Jones, Madison

Price: $2.00

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Penguin Books: 1999

Seller ID: SCW09754

ISBN: 014027880X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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....
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The Further Adventures of Brunhild: Stories

By: Kavaler, Rebecca

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Columbia, Missouri, USA, University of Missouri Press: 1979

Seller ID: SCW07003

ISBN: 0826202497

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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The House on Eccles Road

By: Kitchen, Judith

Price: $1.75

Publisher: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, Graywolf Press: 2002

Seller ID: SCW09902

ISBN: 155597368X

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Gambusino

By: Montemayor, Carlos

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Kailua, Hawaii, USA, Plover Press: 1997

Seller ID: SCW07299

ISBN: 0917635213

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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The Alphonse Courrier Affair

By: Morazzoni, Marta

Price: $2.00

Publisher: London, East Sussex, United Kingdom, Harvill Press: 2000

Seller ID: SCW09849

ISBN: 1860465749

Binding: Trade Paperback

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 ...
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The Bathhouse

By: Moshiri, Farnoosh

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Seattle, Washington, USA, Black Heron Press: 2001

Seller ID: SCW07339

ISBN: 0930773624

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

BX6 - A hard cover withdrawn ex-library book in very good- condition. No additional printings are indicated on the back of the title page. A tight, clean, sound copy in black paper covered boards with silver lettering on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, front endpaper, and title page plus the book is very slighty shelf cocked. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus there is the usual library label on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. This is a title in ...
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Category: Other Literary Awards