Ocean of Words Ha Jin Vintage International, New York, 1998 Ocean of Words was originally published in 1996 by the American company Zoland Press. The true first edition is the Zoland paperback original. They did put out a hardcover edition, but only after the collection of short stories won the 1997 Pen/Hemingway Award. Many people [...]
Life Shrinkage + The New Guy James P. Reynolds Crack the Spine Literary Journal, U.S.A. April and August, 2012 Having so far written about 300 posts about other people’s writing, now I am going to showcase my own fiction. Last year, Crack the Spine, an on-line literary journal, published 2 of my short stories. Life [...]
The Empty Family Colm Toibin Penguin, London, 2011 The Empty Family, Toibin’s latest collection of short stories, recently won the Lambda Literary Award for best gay fiction. It was an Amazon Book of the Month and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short story Award. It garnered starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, [...]
Nine Stories J.D. Salinger Signet, U.S.A. 1954 Here is the first paperback edition of Salinger’s brilliant and timeless Nine Stories, arguably his most popular book after The Catcher in the Rye. The Little, Brown and Company hardcover is true first edition of this collection. It was published in 1953 and first printings are very rare [...]
J.D. Salinger J.D. Salinger Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1982 This is a rare pirated collection of all of Salinger’s stories that were published in book format, except The Catcher in the Rye. Progress Publishing of Moscow produced this book for Russian English literature classes. It is written in English, with a Russian introduction and a glossary [...]
Christmas Stories Charles Dickens Thomas Nelson, London, 1906 This book is part of a complete set of Dickens works which were put out between 1898 and 1913. They are beautifully bound in soft burgundy leather. Each book has an engraving of a scene from the story protected by a leaf of tissue. They also have [...]
Goodbye, Columbus Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959 Goodbye, Columbus is Philip Roth’s first work of fiction. It consists of the title work — a short novel — and five short stories. Roth was awarded a Literary Fellowship before this book was published, and it won the National Book Award in 1960. Many reviewers [...]
The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories Roch Carrier House of Anansi, Canada, 1979 Carrier is one of the most renowned French Canadian writers, and The Hockey Sweater his most famous story. About a young French Canadian boy who orders a Montreal Canadiens hockey sweater from the Eaton’s catalogue and gets a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater [...]
The Return — ARC Roberto Bolano New Directions, New York, 2000 Here is the advance review copy of The Return, Bolano’s second book of short stories and his 11th book to be translated into English. From Publishers Weekly: ”The stories have a subdued quality, from underworld confessionals like ‘Snow’ and ‘Joanna Silvestri’ to tender reminiscences like [...]
You Are Not a Stranger Here Adam Haslett Nan A. Talese, U.S.A. 2002 This awesome collection of nine short stories by Yale law student Adam Haslett was a 2002 finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Check the copyright page to see in which magazines some of these stories were first [...]