Edited Joyce Carol Oates (86 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Thus. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Mass Market paperback edition. Berkley NY 1993 259 pages. First thus. Very Good condition with edge wear, light readers creases, tight clean copy . See photos. Sr 2/10.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. San Diego: Harvest / HBJ Harcout Brace Jovanovich Publishers 1986. First Edition. 0156654865 Pictorial wrappers, 227+ pages. Remainder mark else Near Fine copy with a crease along the upper portion of the front cover. clph.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Thus. Very light shelf wear to cover and spine. Used Book.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. In Very Good+ condition. When he died in 1937, destitute and emotionally as well as physically ruined, H. P. Lovecraft had no idea that he would one day be celebrated as the godfather of modern horror. A dark visionary, his work would influence an entire generation of writers, including Stephen King, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, and Anne Rice. Now, the most important tales of this distinctive American storyteller have been collected in a single volume by National Book Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates.In tales that combine the nineteenth-century gothic sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe with a uniquely daring internal vision, Lovecraft fuses the supernatural and mundane into a terrifying, complex, and exquisitely realized vision, foretelling a psychically troubled century to come. Set in a meticulously described New England landscape, here are harrowing stories that explore the total collapse of sanity beneath the weight of chaotic events?stories of myth and madness that release monsters into our world. Lovecraft's universe is a frightening shadow world where reality and nightmare intertwine, and redemption can come only from below.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. New York, NY: Ballantine Books. Ballantine Books, NY, 1990 First thus , 1st printing 357 page Mass Market paperback Edited by Jon Mukand with stories by Margaret Atwood, Raymond Caever, Joyce Carol Oates and others A very good copy with light edge wear, text paper lightly toned, readers creases. See Photos bx 4-6 . Very Good. Soft cover. First Thus. 1st Printing. 1990.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. In addition to the prizewinners and contributors shown above, this also includes stories by Bobbie Ann Mason, Ward Just, Elizabeth Spencer, Stephanie Vaughn and more. Introduction by Abrahams. Walker won first prize for 'Kindred Spirits' and Oates received a special award for continuing achievement for 'Master Race." 274 pp. Near fine.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 768 pp. Clean, unmarked pages; solid binding; smooth cover. Some wear to corners, cover shows edge wear. Stain along bottom page edging.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NF/NF. First edition thus, first printing. 328 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Slight discoloration to pages. Minor wear along the edges. Slight rubbing wear to covers. Book may contain some residual odor from prior storage.

PB. Condition: fine, wraps (softcover). engravings by Gillian Tyler (illustrator). 101pp ISBN 0915778254 Some of the strongest American writers are presented in this collection of stories by women about women. Contents include: North Wind; The Banquet; How Mrs Fox Married Again; The Rainy Season; Mrs Saunders Writes to the World.

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Hardback. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg. First Editiion. some edgewear and a short tear to the dw heel of the spine. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Binding is starting to split at title page but is still holding. There are no marks in the text and no damage to the cover. The dust jacket has been in mylar and is in fine condition. A wonderful selection of short stories, many of which I was not familiar with but are excellent.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine Condition. 1st. Edited by Greg Johnson/.

paperback. Condition: Fine Condition. Advanced Reading Copy. Uncorrected proof, bound in publisher's original wrappers.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN 0380805189. Trade Paperback. Very good condition, with slight dustsoiling and browning to edges of interior pages. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. Later Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. UK1ST.EDIITON.1ST.IMPRESSION.A FINE HARDBACK IN A FINE DUSTWRAPPER.AN UNREAD COPY. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 2nd printing. 768pp. Cover illustration: 'The New Novel' by Winslow Homer. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "'How ironic,' Joyce Carol Oates writes in her introduction to this marvelous collection, 'that in our age of rapid mass-production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be so misrepresented in most anthologies.' Why, she asks, when writers such as Samuel Clemens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, and John Updike have among them written hundreds of short stories, do anthologists settle on the same two or three titles by each author again and again? 'Isn't the implicit promise of an anthology that it will, or aspires to, present something different, unexpected?' In THE OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of fifty-six tales that combines classic works with many 'different, unexpected' gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Some selections simply can't be improved on, Oates admits, and she happily includes such time-honored works as Irving's 'Rip Van Winkle,' Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' and Hemingway's 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.' [] But alongside these classics, Oates introduces such little-known stories as Mark Twain's 'Cannibalism in the Cars,' a story that reveals a darker side to his humor. From Melville come the juxtaposed tales 'The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,' of which Oates says, 'Only Melville could have fashioned out of 'real' events. . . such harrowing and dreamlike allegorical fiction.' From Flannery O'Connor we find 'A Late Encounter with the Enemy,' and from John Cheever, 'The Death of Justina,' one of Cheever's own favorites, though rarely anthologized. The reader will also delight in the range of authors found here, from Charles W. Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, and Sarah Orne Jewett, to William Carlos Williams, Kate Chopin, and Zora Neale Hurston. [] Contemporary artists abound, including Bharati Mukherjee and Amy Tan, Alice Adams and David Leavitt, Bobbie Ann Mason and Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich and John Edgar Wideman. Oates provides fascinating introductions to each writer, blending biographical information with her own trenchant observations about their work, plus a long introductory essay, in which she offers the fruit of years of reflection on a genre in which she herself is a master. [] This then is a book of surprises, a fascinating portrait of American short fiction, as filtered through the sensibility of a major modern writer." [publisher copy] "Joyce Carol Oates, a master fabulist who is also one of our finest critics, has given us a treasury that represents the astonishing range of the American short story. But instead of another showcase of 'greatest hits,' Oates ventures further afield, to uncover a series of neglected but refulgent gems. This is a collection with guts--and brains. Best of all, it's a collection that unfolds, as its editor promises, the larger story of American writing, in all its hues and timbres."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Fine & pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.

Softcover. 296 pp. Softcover. LCC: C910949093 Good condition; on covers: touches of wear on edges, and previous owner's name on cover; occassional pen underlining.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Illustrated with wood engravings by Gillian Tyler. SIGNED by Joyce Carol Oates on the title page. Oates's contribution is "North Wind." Other stories include Kumin's "The Banquet", Brown's "How Mrs Fox Married Again", McGarry's "The Rainy Season", and Schwartz's "Mrs Saunders Writes to the World." 101 pp. Near fine in stiff wrappers (outer edge of text block slightly bumped.).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, simultaneous wrappered issue. Forward by Robert Pack. Octavo. 379pp. Fine. Collection of essay by attendees of the Bread Loaf Writers's Conference with contributions from Wendell Berry, Harold Bloom, William Gass, Stephen Jay Gould, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Cynthia Ozick, and others.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First simultaneous paperback edition. Wood engravings by Gillian Tyler. Light musty odor, light toning on front wrapper, else near fine.