Spark Robin (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Printing - First Thus. 292 pp. Trade paperback format. Printed in England, still with the UK publisher's name (Constable) on the title page; released in a McClelland and Stewart cover. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Moment of Truth by Graham Greene; In Love with Ariadne by William Trevor; Lavee Lagair Lemaore Lamaird by Laura Kalpakian; Open to the Public by Muriel Spark; Beyond Good and Evil by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-Casares; A Fairly Close Encounter by A. L. Barker; Chameleon by Lawrence Scott; Othello's Shadow by Paul Sayer; Cloete's Revenge by Damon Galgut; Dream Kitchen by Paul Pickering; Geranium by David Updike; and The American Dream by Georgina Hammick. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. (xiii) 269 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The cover features Restaurant by the Sea, painted by John Register, courtesy of the Modernism Gallery, San Francisco. This anthology contains: Judgment by Kate Wheeler; Shoe by Heidi Jon Schmidt; The Gittel by Marjorie Sandor; The Raising by Leigh Allison Wilson; A Model Family by Ron Tanner; This Plumber by Bret Lott; Aliens by David Leavitt; The Stone Inscription of Caleb Pellor by Rand Burkert; Riding the Whip by Robin Hemley; Teacher by Michelle Carter; Underground Women by Jesse Lee Kercheval; Summer by David Updike; Amahl and the Night Vistors: A Guide to the Tenor of Love by Lorrie Moore; Approximations by Mona Simpson; Natalie Wood's Amazing Eyes by Ehud Havazelet; Honeymoon by Dean Albarelli; Auslander by Michelle Herman; All Little Colored Children Should Play the Harmonica by Ann Patchett; Porcupines and Other Travesties by Emily Listfield; and Thanksgiving Day by Susan Minot. Size: 8vo. John Register; (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: FINE. First US printing. A collection of mostly original stories including contributions by Angela Huth, Muriel Spark, Chaim Potok, Laura Kalpakian, Will Self, Richard Austin and others. Biographical notes. 190 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 104 pages. Jon Corelis controversial essay, From Scotland to Suburbia: A Landscape of Current British Poetry looks at trends in British poetry, dividing it into schools, with explosive results. G A Pickin ponders Scottish identity: Just anti-Englishness? Alec Finlay reviews the Carmina Gadelica in a homage with Robert Alan Jamieson. New work by Sally Evans, Maurice Lindsay, aonghas macneacail, Colin Mackay, W S Milne, William Neill . Bill Duncan gives a witty taste of Dundonian folk traditions. Neil Henderson satirises the search for originality in writing. (U.P.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing hardback no dustjacket issued by the publisher. Book in near fine condition with no inscriptions. Not a book club edition or ex library. Scans available on request. (HS).