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Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970. Two volumes. Both are 4to size trade paperbacks. Volume I Essays: 655 pages. From back of book: "This volume of 31 original essays presents a comprehensive interdisciplinary introduction to African studies. The individual essays, each prepared by a well-know scholar, synthesize current research and delineate the important themes within particular areas of study." Contents include: African Society and Culture Perspectives on the Past Processes of Change Consolidation of Nation-States Africa and the Modern World. Volume II Syllabus: 438 pages. From back of book: The 100 modules in this volume constitute a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of African studies, providing an integrated overview of African economic, political, and social patterns in both the past and the present. The book is designed to be a basic handbook which will aid the teacher in preparing, and the student in taking, a one-year… Read More

New York: Random House, 2011. 8vo size trade paperback; 256 pages Covers are unique to proof with the Random House logo featured in the background design of the covers. Front cover details the specifications of the book. Fep details the book including a photograph of the final cover art, specifications for the book and the marketing campaign. Book description from fep: "A wedge is driven between husband and wife when a mysterious stranger arrives, claiming to have grown up in their home. After agreeing to marry a beautiful, headstrong Russian immigrant in exchange for a promotion, a bus boy turned waiter finds himself entangled in a web or organized crime... These and other mesmerizing works of short fiction in this collection are resonant with the mystery, tension, beauty and insight that distinguish (the author's) novels." Small spot on front cover, bumped bottom corner of cover and last few pages. . Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read More

New York: A Mentor Book, 1964. The United States viewed through foreign eyes in 35 essays. 336 bright pages to this paperback edited and with an introduction by Henry Steele Commager. Some light wear and rubbing to covers. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning. . Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition Charles Scribner's Sons; New York; 1931 "A" 8vo size tan clothbound hardcover with blue title and decorations and dust jacket; 314 toned pages. The back of the dust jacket features a small photograph of the author and his biography. From jacket flap: "His stories concern love in the springtime, courting, jealousy, an accident, a lynching, old age, a death. Some of them are very short, yet the reader finds within their brevity all the flavor and mood of some American incident which, in Caldwell's hands, becomes a story - interesting, individual, authentic." Price sticker on fep. Jacket is separated into two pieces on front spine seam with edgewear and chipping, particularly to head and heel and edges; small abrasion on fep from sticker. Top and bottom of spine are bumped and the bottom of spine is frayed. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1964. 8vo size hardcover; blue boards under red cloth spine; 205 pages. The stories are: Return No More Cake Sweet Man Ex-library with typical treatments; sunned spine is bumped at head and heal and frayed at top. There is some tape and residue at the bottom where a Dewey label was removed. Bumped and worn corners and sunning and fading to boards. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Edinburgh: Canongate, 2006. British Edition 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 199 pages, attached maroon ribbon bookmark, deep brown endpapers with abstract maroon design. From jacket: "(The author) revisits the world of his novel The Crimson Petal and the White, conjuring tantalising glimpses of its characters, their lives before we first met them and their intriguing futures... Enjoy more Sugar... Join Clara at the rat pit... Relax with Mr Bodley as he is lulled to sleep by Mrs Tremain and her girls.. Stumble upon William Rackham, his regrets and his medicinal cures...find out what became of Sophie." Light wear to jacket; bookmark is frayed at bottom. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lincoln, Massachusetts: Penmaen Press Limited, 1998. Short stories by Rosellen Brown, Maxine Kumin, Jean McGarry, Joyce Carol Oates, Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Edited by Joan Norris. 101 ivory laid pages. Back cover has photographs and very brief list of author's other works. Some light soil to covers, bumped back corners. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Tyler, Gillian. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Syracuse, New York: Iroquois Publishing Company, 1940. Green cloth with embossed black titles and illustrations all around the bottom of book. 751 lightly toned pages to this vintage high school textbook with black and white illustrations and color frontispiece. Includes teacher's guide and chapter on Listening to Radio Broadcasts and Enjoying Motion Pictures; contents including a variety of genre and excerpts from classic works. Edgewear, bumped head and heel of spine, small tear on spine and scratch on front cover. Penciled notation on fep crossed out, penciled price on fep. Publisher's blemish: a stray thread was not clipped during production, toned pages. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. 252 lightly toned pages. Tanned inside covers and endpapers. Light colored spot on cover and spine. Dusty top. Folded corner on fep. Probable first edition. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co. Inc., 1941. 516 toned pages with stories by Anatole France; Honore de Balzac; J.L. Perez; Oscar Wilde; Catulle Mendes; Sherwood Anderson; I.L. Caragiale; Maxim Gorki; Leo Tolstoi; Katherine Mansfield; Guy de Maupassant; Leonid Andreyev; Ivan Bunin; Multatuti; Edward D. Dekker; Frank Hariis; Edgar Allen Poe, Anton Chekhov. Some wear, sunning and chipping to jacket. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co. Inc., 1974. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 224 pages with black and white illustrations by Emanuel Schongut From jacket: "Phantoms that are not what they seem, animals that are the ghosts of humans bound to our world, witches familiars, the bewitched and the possessed are the subjects of 11 classic stories of the supernatural." Contents include: The Swap by H F Heard The Rabbit Prince by Davis Grubb Swamp Girl by Prentiss Combs The Familiar by J S LeFanu The Black Lamb by Lady Wilde The Man Who Went too Far by E F Benson The Vampire by Jan Neruda The Compensation House by Charles Collins The Witch Hare by Mr and Mrs S C Hall Lost Hearts by M R James The Ghost of Fear by H G Wells Ex-library with typical treatments, jacket is covered with mylar. Soil in the margin of page 56 and lightly dusty top. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Schongut, Emanuel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: Random House, 2001. 8vo size trade paperback; 209 pages From back: "(The author) casts aside traditional notions of right and wrong and conjures up situations that are at once familiar nd unsettling. Her characters - flawed, brave, disarming, affectionate - inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome." Worn front corners, and bump to top corner of first dozen pages. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1992. edited and with an introduction by Charles E. Modlin 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 359 pages From jacket: "(This book) is the first one-volume edition of ANderson's stories. But what makes this book truly remarkable is that five of Anderson's very best stories appear in print here for the first time... It was Anderson who wrested short fiction from the upbeat conventionality of the popular magazines of the 1920s and '30s and molded it to express the isolation of individual people. (This book) contains 30 stories in all, chosen from previously unpublished manuscripts and from Anderson's three story volumes...Numerous stories have been meticulously restored to Anderson's original version by Professor Modlin. Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) is best known for an early work, the slim story cycle Winesburg, Ohio. But his story-telling art matured considerably after that publication. He published 23 books in his lifetime, and is… Read More

Mexico: Punto De Lectura, 2008. Cuentos sobre la opresion a las culturas indigenas 12mo size trade paperback; 219 pages From back: "Ciudad Real fue el antiguo nombre de San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, y es el escenario de este libro en el cual una cultura sojuzgada y oprimida durante siglos clama por su derecho a existir. Al mostrar la otra cara de la historia, estos cuentos denuncian las condiciones miserables en que han sobrevivido los tzotziles, tzeltales, lacandones y chamulas, desde el dia en que el pie de los caxlanes, los hombres blancos, piso sus tierras." Lightly creased corners of covers. . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1986. 8vo size trade paperback; 463 pages With new introduction by Ian Hamilton From back cover: "Jean Stafford has long been hailed as one of the the finest short-story writers of the century - The Collected Stories won her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her vivid tales, like jeweled miniatures, glow with extravagance, wit and colour... Beneath the warmth Stafford can touch the darkness and violence of life. The 30 stories in this collection, span 25 years of dazzling story telling." Very light crease on spine, several pencilled checkmarks on Contents page. Pages are toned with tanned margins. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge: Apple-wood Press, 1979. Wink of Eternity by John Marvin From back: "...begins with a culture untouched by outsiders into which a Western doctor comes and undoes years of traditional cures..." The Axing of Leo White Hat by Raymond Abbott From back: "...takes place in Cut Meat, a reservation town where violent death is commonplace..." 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 118 pages. From back - on both novellas: "The Native American, a panopoly of culture and belief, has been almost completely destroyed. What was once a full, proud mixture jof cultures and traditions has been emptied, ridiculed and cut from its roots. These two novellas, though sometimes crude and harsh, sing praise to a heritage, of a people lost in living, and of a people lost in death." Ex-library book with typical treatments. Jacket covered in mylar. Rough area on rear end page where pocket was removed; tape transfer marks on endpapers; tape is a bit tacky and clings to endpapers.… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, 1978. Selected and introduced by E.F. Bleiler 8vo size trade paperback; 277 pages From back cover: "The Department of Dead Ends - this special department of (Scotland) Yard collects and store the detritus of unsolved crimes until some future time when the material may be utilized or discarded... In creating this special department, the English writer Roy Vickers (1889-1965) wrote a series of short stories that almost all critics have rated as the best inverted detective stories since the work of R. Austin Freeman... Constructed in a sparse, direct narrative style reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett's in its avoidance of involvement, each story is a personality study, a life history of ordinary people falling or pushed into crime..." Creased back bottom corner, bumped top corner of covers and pages, one page has a quarter inch tear the bottom margin. Spine may be sunned (please see our last photograph.) . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. 8vo size trade paperback; 250 pages Authors include: Richard Connell William Saroyan Borden Deal Liam O'Flaherty Pearl Buck Ernest Hemingway Jack London Saki Dorothy Canfield Fisher James Thurber Ray Bradbury Edgar Allen Poe Guy de Maupassant Jessamyn West Max Shulman Walter D. Edmunds William Melvin Kelley Covers have edgewear and creased top corner of front cover and first few pages. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 260 toned deckle edged pages From jacket: "Here are 15 stories ... all are wonderful evocations of breezy irreverence in the face of Puritanism. All deal with the lives of raffish, gentle, lickerish, and often bewildered small-town Irish people. They are out of O'Connor's top drawer... These touching and often hilarious tales make clear again why William Butler Yeats said of the author: 'O'Connor is doing for Ireland what Chekhov did for Russia.' " A 1969 review of O'Connor is tucked into the book and has caused transfer tanning to pages. Address label inside back cover; owner's name on fep. Edgewear and wear to jacket with minor chipping and several small tears and some light foxing to jacket; bumped head and heel of spine. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Pantheon Books, 1974. Stated First Edition 8vo sized green clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 294 deckle edged pages. From jacket: "This collection ranges from Eleanor Clark's earliest fiction in 1937 to her new novella, 'Dr. Heart.' "But it is all one voice," she has said, "mine - and I don't disown it. That voice, which varies in tone and intent, belongs to a superb and perceptive writer and a fine storyteller. With a combination of compassion and irony, Eleanor Clark explores the oddities by which human beings reveal themselves." Light wear to jacket, bumped head and heel of spine, bumped top and bottom corners, small crease and quarter inch tear on back cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. First. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.