Short Stories from Ghost River Books

Warsaw: Polonia Publishing House, 1960. 339 pp. B/w photos of writers. Stories by Jerzy Andrzejewski, Tadeusz Borowski, Kazimierz Brandys, Bohdan Czeszko, Maria Dabrowska, Kornel Filipowicz, Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Zofia Nalkowska, Ksawery Pruszynski, Jerzy Putrament, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Adolf rudnicki, Jerzy Zawieyski, Stanislaw Aielinshi, Wojciech Zukrowdki. Dustjacket has some edge wear, rubbed chips to corners and head and foot of spine, tear at… Read more about this item

Macmillan of Canada, 1974. 284 pp includes biographical notes. Stories from Malcolm Lowry, Veberley Mitchell, Ethel Wilson, Anne Marriott, Audrey Thomas, Jack Hodgins, Jane Rule, J. Michael Yates, Robert Harlow, George McWhirter, Gladys Hindmarch, Sean Virgo, paul St. Pierre, E. B. Perrault, M. Allerdale Grainger, George Payerle, Thierry Mallet, Anthony Dienheim, James Houston, Harold Horwood, R. J. Brunt, Jack London,… Read more about this item

Nelson Canada, 1974. 220 pp. A collection of short stories by such greats as Roald Dahl/ Guy de Maupassant/ Graham Greene/ E. B. White/ Alice Munro/Ambrose Bierce/ W. Somerset Maugham/ Andreas Schroeder. Softcover has a wee bit of a stain to top edge, no major creases, except along spine from opening. School text stamp on first page. No names are… Read more about this item

Toronto, ON, Canada: Turnerbooks, 1995. 132 pp. 8 traditional fairy tales told in very untraditional interprettions in this "singular and macabre collection of short stories." Read Little Red Riding Hood in its futuristic rendition and others. Softcover is in bright, clean condition, tiny bumps to top corners and a crease at back at spine bottom . Front free endpaper has… Read more about this item

Cassell, 1934. Hard Cover. Cheap Edition. 6 6/8 x 4 1/2. 315 pp. A very interesting collection of five short stories set for the most part, in Phodesia: Far From the Limelight; There is Nothing of Any Importance; Th e falling Gods; His Job; Some Chronicles of the Honourable Dicky Baird and Other Rhodesian colonists. Stories concerned with Rhodesian colonists,… Read more about this item

N.Y.: Dell, 1955. 160 pp. "14 stories-some hilarious, some frankly sexy, some grim and macabre - but all establishing Steve Allen, in one giant step, in the first rank of American writers." Original price $.35. Softcover has some edge rubbing and faint creasing. No former owner's name. Text is clean and unmarked.. Mass Market Paperback. Good.

London: Oxford University Press, 1967 HC and DJ. 6 x 4. 468 pp. Nineteenth Century (First Series) An introduction by Hugh Walker. Authors such as Scott, Lamb, Irving, Hawthorne, Disraeli, Poe, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope and others. Yellow DJ has a small chip to bottom edge and min rubbing to corners. May be price clipped but there is a price sticker… Read more about this item

N.Y.: Dell, 1967. 160 pp. From the author of the bestselling The Blackboard Jungle and The Paper Dragon. A collection of stories, many based on talks with policemen amd detectives, lawyers, parents, criminals, addicts, teenage gang members in some of New York's worst slum areas. "All of these stories deal with violence. Softcover has some wear to the top and… Read more about this item

N.Y.: Avon, 1986, 1986. Trade Paperback. 7 x 4 1/4. ISBN:0-380-69996-6. 178 pp. Six stories and a novella. In very good condition. Slight rubbing to edges of spine. Very gently read. Overall cond: v. good - near fine..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1996. 228 pp. A collection of 10 stories . "By superimposing the past on the present, Atwood paints interior landscapes shaped by time, regret, and life's lost chances, endowing even the banal with a sense of mystery." Book has very tiny bumps to corners. No former owner's name. In near new condition.. Soft Cover.… Read more about this item