New York: Vintage Books, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op. In his novels and stories, Dashiell Hammett created some of the most memorable characters--detectives, dames, and assorted miscreants--in twentieth-century fiction. It is nearly impossible to imagine modern American literature without Hammett. Vintage..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. Paperback Edition. Paperback. More
Random House, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: The New American Library / Signet, 1967. Reprint. First Printing. Paperback. # T3255. A posthumous collection of 15 short stories of War, Postwar, Peace, and Adventure. Formerly titled A Role in Manila. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. Paperback. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Henry Schmidt (tr.), Matthew Wilson Smith (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. Few writers have transformed literature and theater so dramatically. Based on Henry J. Schmidt’s translations of The Hessian Messenger, Danton’s Death, Lenz, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck. The Georg Büchner Prize is..... More
New York: Metropolitan Books, 1997. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. The final short story collection that completes the extraordinary literary voyage of Harold Brodkey, a modern master of short fiction; his most forceful and incisive collection of all. In this collection, Harold Brodkey displays all his remarkable gifts..... More
New York: Random House, 1996. Paul Szep. First Large Print Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover (cloth). Stories "translated from an imaginary work, Azulejos, by an imaginary author, Fernandes de Briao" More
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc, 1987. First mass market printing. Paperback. A TOR Book. More
London: Faber and Faber, 2015. Third Printing. Paperback. Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. These stories are modern America at its most real, with characters sharing thoughts and experiences they..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. An evocative and elegant collection of 12 new stories from an American master. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren’s lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world, and includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico..... More
Honolulu: Lo'ihi Press, 2009. First Edition (stated). More
New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1981. Ron Walotsky (jacket). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: Plume / The New American Library Inc., 1988. Michael Whelan. Paperback. With color illustrations by Michael Whelan. More
New York: Black Cat, 2017. Fang Lijun (cover artwork). First Printing. Paperback. Yan Lianke—“China’s most feted and most banned author” (Financial Times)—is a master of imaginative satire, and his prize-winning works have been published around the world to the highest honors. Now, his two most acclaimed novellas are collected here..... More
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