A Treasury of Short Stories: Containing Favorites from the Past Hundred Years from Turgenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemingway, with Biographical Sketches of the Authors
by KIELTY, Bernardine (editor)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. A collection of 70 notable short stories by a wide variety of authors. Divided into 19th Century and 20th Century works, the stories were written by such notables as Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter and many others. Stories selected, edited and with a foreword by Bernardine Kielty. Each story with biographical sketch of the author. --- In full rust cloth-covered boards with titling in gilt to cover and spine. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- The spine titling is dulled to the point where it isn't readable, and with minor sunning to spine, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound, unmarked copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiii, 850 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85517
- Title
- A Treasury of Short Stories: Containing Favorites from the Past Hundred Years from Turgenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemingway, with Biographical Sketches of the Authors
- Author
- KIELTY, Bernardine (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- SHORT
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