Search Results: Short Stories from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Fine. A Fine copy, tight and unread copy of the first wrappered edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original wrappers with contributions by the aforementioned authors.

London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1883. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good copy of the second edition (printed in the same year as was the first edition), in the Publisher's original red cloth with the spines lettered and decorated in gilt and black and the front board of each volume lettered in black. The volumes are askew and each shows sunning to the spine, some cracking to the hinges, general wear, and a prior owner's signature to the half-title's recto. Volume I hosts a Preface by Trollope's son Henry where in the son explains the Autobiography's publication and his father's letter regarding the same, which letter the father gave to the son with instructions that it was not to be opened until after the father's death. The Chicago Tribune, after describing Trollope's miserable childhood and youth, and his early failures as a Post Office employee (a career at which he ultimately had remarkable success and in which he became an important and notable figure), described this… Read More

New York: Bretano's; Doubleday; and F. Tennyson Neely, [1898 and 1899]. First Editions. Original Cloth and Original Wrappers. Very good +. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $1,250. NOW $375. A Very Good copy of the TRUE FIRST AMERICAN Separate EDITION (a piracy) [1898] meeting all of the detailed bibliographic requirements of that edition, together with a Near Fine copy of the slightly later First Authorized American separate edition, the first having been published by Bretano's and the first Authorized separate edition published by Dana Estes and Company in 1898. The true first separate edition (which shows a closed tear to the outer margin of one page) precedes the first authorized one and is, in our experience, is -- by quite a bit -- the scarcer of the two. This copy is the first of multiple undated editions of the tale published by Bretano's (of which we have seen several for sale with the same outer appearance but which are not the true first separate American edition), -- with this… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1901. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. A Very Good to Very Good + copy of the first UK Edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original brown cloth -- a variant binding without a catalogue (mildly askew, rubbing to the leading corners, spine ends, and to the front board's bottom edge), in a Good dust jacket with fading to the spine and to the panel extremities, moderate wear, and significant tape repairs to the verso; being a collection of nine (9) short stories. A (presumed) prior owner's pencil signature appears on front free endpaper, there are spots to the closed page block's outer edges, some toning to the free endpapers and to the title pages as well as to a number of the leaves. Per Wikipedia: "Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization… Read More

Seattle, Washington: Gateway Printing, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Fine. A virtually Fine copy of Volume 2 Number 2 of this literary anthology in the Publisher's original stapled wrappers (prior owner's name written to th Table of Contents page's upper right corner with a small check mark next to one contribitors's name, some marking to the upper outer corner of the rear wrapper. This issue includes a short story by Grant H. Redford and Poetry contributions by Grant Redford, Clifford Wright, David Lowenthal, James Boyer May, Mark Tobey, Jess H. Cloud, and others.

London, 1878. Cardboard covers. Near fine. A Near Fine or better copy of "Kafir Land" written by Anthony Trollope and set in South Africa, apparrently excerpted from Volume 23 of the Fortnightly Review, a monthly periodical of Literature founded by Trollope with others in 1865. Trollope was, as best we cam determine, was the only eminent Victorian to visit all of England's Colonies existing when he was alive.

New York: Palgrave [Macmillan], 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, Superior, tight, and unread copy of the first edition, first printing, in a like dust jacket.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Very Good dust jacket, the third appearance of of any of Lagerkvist's books to appear in English (following "Barabbas" and "The Dwarf"), and being the first appearance of any collection of the author's short stories in English in book form. [The first American edition of this volume was not issued until 1973, a surprising delay given that Lagerkvist won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.] The volume is bound in deep blue cloth and shows a thin line of sunning to top edge. The dust jacket shows general wear and a few tiny tears and chips, along with some differential toning to the rear wrapper, three small tape repairs to he verso, as well as a tide mark affecting the rear panel's spine edge and a small portion of the rear panel. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this copy is the nicest we ever have seen. No comparable Swedish edition was issued. SCARCE.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, unread, copy of the first edition, first printing with a bit of sunning to the upper edges, in a near Fine dust jacket (with sunning to the jacket's spine and upper edge and a shadow from removal of a security sticker from the verso but otherwise Fine). The book was published soon after the author's death and is her DEBUT COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES.

University of Georgia Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, sharp, tight, and unread copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket, being a collection of seven (7) the author's short stories, as well as her DEBUT COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. [Prior seller's price in pencil to the half-title.] The collection won the 2002 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY RITA CIRESI.

Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY CAROL SHIELDS on the title page; a collection of twelve stories by this American-born Canadian Novelist, being her third collection of short stories, signed copies of which are surprisingly uncommon to the market. Of this collection, Publisher's Weekly stated: "Although a variety of well-realized voices animate the 12 stories in Shields' fine collection, they are all plainspoken and direct--the hallmarks of her sturdy prose. All stories except three are set in her native Canada; most have as protagonists people locked into themselves, suffused with nostalgia, regret, incommunicable longing--and sometimes fulfilled by flashes of communication and tentative hope." A Fine, tight and unread, copy, SIGNED BY CAROL SHIELDS.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1889. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A not quite Very Good copy, tight (and apparently unread) copy of the first edition, first printing, of this collection of African-American stories by a female author, with illustrations by E. W. Kemble [who also illustrated Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and other books] in a Good example of the elusive and Rare Dust Jacket. During her life and in her social circle, a woman working as a writer was seen as inappropriate. Consequently, Dana published under the pen name Olive A. Wadsworth which stood for "Only A. Woman". As this work was published posthumously, it was published under her given name, making it the first of her works so published. [The story "Our Phil" and the "Other Stories" in this book first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly under her pen name.] The book is in somewhat less than Very Good condition with the front board lettered and… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1889. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine, Superior, tight (and apparently unread) copy of the first edition, first printing, of this collection of African-American stories by a female author, with illustrations by E. W. Kemble [who also illustrated Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and other books] in a Fine example of the Rare Dust Jacket. During her life and in her social circle, a woman working as a writer was seen as inappropriate. Consequently, Dana published under the pen name Olive A. Wadsworth which stood for "Only A. Woman". As this work was published posthumously, it was published under her given name, making it the first of her works so published. [The story "Our Phil" and the "Other Stories" in this book first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly under her pen name.] The book is in Fine, Superior, condition with hardly any wear, and comes in an excellent example of the RARE DUST… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, Tight, Unread copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY CHARLES D'AMBROSIO on the title page and with the Publisher's original promotional booklet loosely laid in. [This promotional "booklet" is printed on both sides of a thin cardboard sheet folded to create eight.] This highly-regarded collection contains seven (7) short stories, is the AUTHOR'S DEBUT BOOK, was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A Fine, tight, and unread copy.

Bournemouth, 1900. First Edition. Framed Plans. Very good +. THE RARE: ORIGINAL PLANS FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO MIDDLE ROAD WHICH LEADS TO SKERRYVORE, Robert Louis Stevenson's home in Bournemouth where John Singer Sargent painted Stevenson and his wife and where Stevenson had the famous dream which inspired his great work "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", which tale, among other great works, he wrote at Skerryvore, a property later owned by Heywood Sumner, Esq., a successor in ownership to the home, who was closely involved with the Arts and Crafts movement and the late-Victorian London art world. Sumner, who was qualified as a Barrister, also employed much of his time as an amateur archaeologist, geologist, naturalist, and folklorist.] Skerryvore, whose lawns ran down from the house to Alum Chine Road, is where Stevenson lived from 1885 until his departure for Samoa (where he died in 1894). Thus, the Plans for Middle Road improvements were prepared soon after his departure from that house and… Read More

New York: Broadway Magazine Incorporated, 1911. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Near fine. A Near Fine copy of this issue of Hampton's Magazine for March, 1911, a monthly magazine. This issue contains works by Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Owen Johnson and others, and most importantly, presents the first appearance of Jack London's short story "The Strength of the Strong" (illustrated by Dan Sayre Groesbeck). The magazine is in excellent condition and is quite clean and bright within. The covers extend beyond the page block and consequently show small tears, and the spine panel shows only a touch of damage. London's "The Strength of the Strong" did not appear in book form until May, 1914, more than three years after this first appearance of this story (which became the title story of a 1914 collection of Jack London's short stories, a grouping of seven socialistic tales). The story is about cavemen who discover the benefits of group solidarity and reject the lies of their "Lip-King", thus… Read More

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, No Date Stated [Copyright 1977]. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine. An Fine, tight, and unread copy of the Easton Press Collector's Edition, in the Publisher's red leather with the spine lettered and decorated in gilt and the front and rear board decorated in gilt as well. The leaves are printed on archival paper, the pastedowns and the facing side of each free endpaper is moire fabric, the edges of the closed page block are in gilt, and the volume contains an elegant ribbon page marker; part of the Easton Press's Collector's Edition of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, with a frontispiece and also with and multiple additional illustrations by Gunter Bohmer. The half title's recto hosts the standard Easton Press bookplate with the prior owner's name obscured by black marker covered with white tape. A Fine, tight and unread copy in an elegant binding.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. A Very Good + copy of the scarce first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original orange cloth (no dust jacket") which shows light rubbing to the spine ends and board corners and some modest handling soil. Within, the volume shows a black marker mark to the Contents leaf. Published in 1932, the volume provides a Preface by John Galsworthy (who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year of this book's first publication), as well as works by Susan Glaspel, Stella Benson, David Stewart, Katherine Anne Porter, Winifred Holtby, Karl Capek, Martin Armstrong, W. H. Goddard, George Bernard Shaw (winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature), and many others. The Katherine Anne Porter story, "Virgin Violeta" (1924), which, like her "Flowering Judas and Other Stories" (1934 -- a volume which includes "Virgin Violeta") and "Old Mortality" (1937), deals with the intersection of Catholic Morality and female sexuality, is the… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Very Good copy of the first American edition, first printing, of this collection of twenty-four poems and short stories, in the Publisher's original green cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in black to the front board and spine, with wear to the spine ends and leading board corners. Rudyard Kipling won the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature, making him the first author writing in English to win the Prize and he remains the youngest author ever to win the Prize. Of him Henry James stated: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known."