Editor William Abrahams (85 results)

Condition: Fair. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] Publisher: Doubleday; Pub Date: 1/1/1980 Binding: hardcover Pages: 456 First edition.

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

Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. BD6 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor overall shelf wear. A collection of outstanding short stories by American authors. The stories chosen for this volume were published in the period from the summer of 1982 to the summer of 1983. 296p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Printing. Would be in fine shape - but has a small price sticker removal scar on front wrapper.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. BD6 - A tight, clean, sound copy in red paper covered boards quarter bound in dark red cloth with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library stamp and label on the top outside paper edges and front endpaper plus a section (about 2"x4.5") cut out of the front endpaper as part of the library's withdrawal process plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the the original library mylar sleeve plus there is the usual library label on the spine plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. With an introduction by William Abrahams. The 1996 edition of one of America's most respected annual collections of short stories. This collection is of 21 short stories. Author biographies, magazines consulted, 382p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Stated: First edition. Page edges starting to brown.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing of this trade paperback edition. Page edges toned with age. Front corners starting to curl. Smooth spine. No writing to the text.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing (First Thus) Crease To The Back Cover. The Page Edges Are Tanned.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated: First edition. This volume is the sixty-ninth in the O. Henry Memorial Award series.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good +. First Edition. Stated: First edition. Light over-all wear. Faint reading creases.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's cover design . Covers clean, colors bright, minor edge and handling wear, no reading creases at spine. Pages [296] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square; dust spotting at bottom page edges. All books are in my smoke free & climate controlled shop and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Domestic & international shipping includes tracking information. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. BD6 - A first edition trade paperback book in very good condition that has tanning and light shelf wear. Signed by Ann Packer and Antonya Nelson on their respective story page. Edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. The winner and finalist short stories for the O. Henry Award for 1992. The authors include Cynthia Ozick, Lucy Honig, Tom McNeal, Amy Herrick, Murray Pomerance, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Michael Wagner, Yolanda Barnes, David Long, Harriet Doerr, Perri Klass, Daniel Meltzer, Les Myers, Ken Chowder, Alice Adams, Frances Sherwood, Antonya Nelson, Millicent Dillon, Kent Nelson, Ann Packer, and Kate Braverman. Biographies and some comments by the authors, magazines consulted. 8.25"x5.5", 382 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition softbound. SIGNED and inscribed by editor William Abrahams on a plain white bookplate decal on title page. Also SIGNED by ALICE ADAMS at title of her story "Alaska". Ghosting on rear inside cover from laid-in review articles. Other stories in volume by Cynthia Ozick; Bernard Malamud; James Salter; Donald Justice etc. Nice item for the Alice Adams fan or collector. SIGNED.…

Condition: GOOD. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. The winning and finalist short stories for the O. Henry Award for 1992, .edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. Includes 21 stories: Alison Baker's Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight; John Rolfe Gardiner's The Voyage Out; Lorrie Moore's Terrific Mother; Stuart Dybek's We Didn't; Marlin Barton's Jeremiah's Road; Kelly Cherry's Not The Phil Donahue Show; Elizabeth Cox's The Third Of July; Terry Bain's Games; Amy Bloom's Semper Fidelis; Michael Fox's Rise And Shine; David McLean's Marine Corps Issue; Elizabeth Graver's The Boy Who Fell Forty Feet; Susan Starr Richards' The Hanging In The Foaling Barn; Janice Eidus' Pandora's Box; Judith Ortiz Cofer's Nada; Mary Tannen's Elaine's House; Dennis Trudell's Gook; Helen Fremont's Where She Was; Elizabeth Oness' The Oracle; Katherine L. Hester's Labor; and Thomas E. Kennedy's Landing Zone X-Ray. Biographies of the authors. 382 pp. Good only (some crinkling from dampness to upper corner.).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. New Fine Hardcover book & near fine DJ.(two chips about quarter inch, slight wear to corners and spine top). We ship within one business day of receiving your order.Book & DJ are bright clean tight. Shelf336 Boards and spine are straight // Binding is tight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright //No previous owner names//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No underlining. No highlighting// No foxing// Not remainder marked // Not price clipped// Not Ex Library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover, in plastic cover. Ex-Library (college) with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Condition: FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. The winning and finalist short stories for the O. Henry Award for 1992, .edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. Includes 21 stories: Alison Baker's Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight; John Rolfe Gardiner's The Voyage Out; Lorrie Moore's Terrific Mother; Stuart Dybek's We Didn't; Marlin Barton's Jeremiah's Road; Kelly Cherry's Not The Phil Donahue Show; Elizabeth Cox's The Third Of July; Terry Bain's Games; Amy Bloom's Semper Fidelis; Michael Fox's Rise And Shine; David McLean's Marine Corps Issue; Elizabeth Graver's The Boy Who Fell Forty Feet; Susan Starr Richards' The Hanging In The Foaling Barn; Janice Eidus' Pandora's Box; Judith Ortiz Cofer's Nada; Mary Tannen's Elaine's House; Dennis Trudell's Gook; Helen Fremont's Where She Was; Elizabeth Oness' The Oracle; Katherine L. Hester's Labor; and Thomas E. Kennedy's Landing Zone X-Ray. Biographies of the authors. 382 pp. Very near fine (usual toning to the pages, but otherwise appears unread).…

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book-bump to lower corner front board and upper corner of back. Owner signature on fly leaf. Several red check marks beside titles on the contents page. DJ-slight rubbing on the rear. Dust jacket protected by removable Brodart cover.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Garden City. 1981. Doubleday. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0385159773. 309 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Tony Pallandino. keywords: Literature Anthology America. DESCRIPTION - CONTENTS: CYNTHIA OZICK/'The Shawl'; JOHN IRVING/'Interior Space'; JAMES TABOR/'The Runner; KAY BOYLE/'St. Stephen's Green'; NANCY HUDDLESTON PACKER/'The Women Who Walk'; LEE SMITH/'Between the Lines'; ALICE ADAMS/'Snow'; TOBIAS WOLF/'In the Garden of the North American Martyrs'; SANDRA HOLLIN FLOWERS/'Hope of Zion'; ALICE WALKER/'The Abortion'; JACK MATTHEWS/'The Last Abandonment'; MARIAN NOVICK/'Advent'; W. D. WETHERELL/'The Man Who Loved Levittown'; JOYCE CAROL OATES/'Mutilated Woman'; IVY GOODMAN/'Baby'; BARBARA REID/'The Waltz Dream'; ANNABEL THOMAS/'The Phototropic Woman'; JOHN L'HEUREUX/'Brief Lives in California'; STEVE STERN/'Isaac and the Undertaker's Daughter'; ANNETTE T. ROTTENBERG/'The Separation'; PAUL THEROUX/'World's End' inventory #778. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Book Club Edition. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 344 pages; DJ with slight rubbing overall and at edges. Mylar cover. Text clean and tight. Book solid with little notable wear. Gift inscription at FFEP in red ink, dated 1983.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition April 1989. 387 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Copyright © 1986. 274 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased spine. Bottom right corner of front cover is creased. From The tellers of these 19 tales constitute a pantheon of rising or already established young writers, including first-prize winner Alice Walker, with "Kindred Spirits," a vignette about a young black woman returning home after divorcing her white husband, and special-award winner Joyce Carol Oates, whose "Master Race" recounts in spare and elegant prose the sexual assault in Germany of a youngish American academic by a black G.I. In many ways more compelling, however, are Bobbie Ann Mason's "Big Bertha Stories," a blinding insight into the mind of a man hounded by memories of Vietnam; John L'Heureux's "The Comedian," a metaphysical tour de force about a standup comic who becomes pregnant with a baby whose blithe in utero singing drowns out the arguments for abortion; Stephanie Vaughn's "Kid MacArthur," a boy growing up in an army family, learning to use guns before pencils, reluctantly going off to war and returning a militant vegetarian, shrinking from any violation of flesh. These and several other stories capture and involve the reader: they are written with grace, authority and bitter knowledge, and despite their verbal brevity cast a long shadow that is deeply etched and hard to dispel. BOMC selection. 1986 This 66th volume in the O. Henry-award series gives first prize to "Kindred Spirits," a personal, subtle story of family perceptions by Alice Walker. The collection also contains solid entries by such well-known authors as Alice Adams, Bobbie Ann Mason, Gordon Lish, and Joyce Carol Oates (who is honored with a Special Award for Continuing Achievement for her haunting story "Master Race"). There are also some gems from newcomers: for example, Deborah Eisenberg's "Transactions in a Foreign Currency," set in chilly Montreal, follows a woman's poignant realization of her lover's inability to commit himself to her. So: nothing sizzling, but many finely crafted pieces forming a most worthwhile whole. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va. 1986.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. xiii,320pp. Hardcover. Fine condition in near fine dj (trivial wear to edge). Stories by Louise Erdrich, Joyce Johnson, Alice Adams, Donald Barthelme, Grace Paley, Joyce Carol Oates, others. ISBN 0385235941; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. New York: Doubleday, (1995). First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. xiii,382pp. Hardcover. Fine condition in fine dj. Stories by Alice Adams, Ellen Gilchrist, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Cornelian Nixon, others. ISBN 038547671X; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 382 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. 309pp. Hardcover. Book in fine condition, dj very good (mild soiling and rubbing to rear cover). Stories by Cynthia Ozick, Kay Boyle, Alice Adams, Alice Walker, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Thoreau, others. ISBN 0385159773; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 309 pages. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. pp.430 clean tight copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall tanning to text pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition April 1989. 387 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Creased spine. Some dog-eared pages. Creased cover corners.