William Abrahams Edited (48 results)

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Some rubbing and fading to boards. Spine creases. Fore edges are muffed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good clean copy. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges. Bumping along edges of boards. Rubbing and fading to boards. Spine creases.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition. Ex-library with associated stickers, stamps, markings and myler cover.

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

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.

Condition: Interior is excellent. very good cover, spine is lightly faded, gilt is too.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 309pp. A few pages with slight offsetting, board edges lightly sunned, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a faint paperclip impression on the front panel, a slightly faded spine and light edgewear. First prize was won by Cynthia Ozick for "The Shawl". Other contributors include John Irving ("Interior Space"), Tobias Wolff ("In the Garden of the North American Martyrs"), Alice Adams, Lee Smith, Alice Walker, W.D.Wetherell, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Theroux and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 312pp. Front endpapers with light offsetting from a newspaper clipping laid in, page edges with a few light stains, top of boards chipped near crown with ĵ" of spine end lacking, about very good in a slightly spine-sunned very good dust jacket with tanning to the flaps and light edgewear. Contains stories from Harold Brodkey, John Sayles, Alice Adams, Guy Davenport, Josephine Jacobsen, John William Corrington, William Goyen, Ira Sadoff, Mark Helprin, Joyce Carol Oates, Jerry Bumpus, Tim O'Brien, Anita Shreve, John Berryman, Rosellen Brown, John Updike and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by William Abrahams. Age-toning on topedges of boards, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with short tear on front panel topedge. Containing stories by Alice Walker, Stuart Dybek, Greg Johnson, John L'Heureux, Joyce R. Kornblatt, Ward Just, Peter Meinke, Bobbie Ann Mason, Merrill Joan Gerber, Gordon Lish, Peter Cameron, Alice Adams, Deborah Eisenberg, Anthony DiFranco, Jeanne Wilmot, Elizabeth Spencer, Irvin Faust, Stephanie Vaughn, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First simultaneous paperback edition. xii, 387pp. Glossy wrappers. Fine. Contributions by Ernest J. Finney, Joyce Carol Oates, Harriet Doerr, Jean Ross, Starkey Flythe, Jr., Alice Adams, Frances Sherwood, Banning K. Lary, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Catherine Petroski, James Salter, David Foster Wallace, Susan Minot, Millicent Dillon, Charles Simmons, John Casey, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Rick Bass, Ellen Herman, and Charles Dickinson.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Chipping at the crown, thus very good in a clipped (price intact), very good or better dust jacket with a sunned spine, and slight rubbing. Authors include Eudora Welty, E.M. Broner, Shlomo Katz, Calvin Kentfield, Nancy Hale, Gwen Gration, and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. xii, 366pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light toning along extremities. Contributors include: Raymond Carver, Alice Adams, Andre Dubus, Elizabeth Spencer, Richard Currey, Shirley Hazzard, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter LaSalle, Joy Williams, Salvatore La Puma, Bobbie Ann Mason, Richard Plant, Ann Bewattie, Jay Neugeboren, John Sayles, Sheila Kohler, Jane Smiley, Philip F. Deaver, Jonathan Baumbach, and John Updike.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Blue wrappers. Toning and some creasing thus very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later printing. Remainder spray on bottom page edges, offsetting to a couple of pages, else very good in a very good dust jacket with short tears on spine ends and corners. Authors are: Jane Mayhall, Raymond Carver, Judith Rascoe, Randall Reid, Henry Bromell, Curt Johnson and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later printing. Remainder spray on bottom page edges, else very good in a very good dust jacket with light edgewear. Authors are: Bernard Malamud, Rosellen Brown, Patricia Brown, James Alan McPherson, John Malone, Alice Adams and many more.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with owner's gift inscription on front fly in near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Includes stories by Raymond Carver and John Gardner.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 264pp. Top of the boards with a few tiny nicks, near fine in a slightly spine tanned very good dust jacket with a bit of rubbing. Contains stories by Renata Adler, Alice Adams, John Gardner, James Salter, Norma Klein, Guy Davenport, Raymond Carver, William Eastlake and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 308pp. Boards lightly tanned at edges, near fine in a modestly edgeworn very good dust jacket with two tiny holes on the front panel and slight tanning to the spine and extremities. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Eighteen stories with contributions by Woody Allen, Mark Schorer, Robert Henson, Alice Adams, Max Apple, Susan Engberg, Blair Fuller, Joyce Carol Oates, Josephine Jacobsen, Tim O'Brien, John J. Clayton, Harold Brodkey, Edith Pearlman and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 456pp. Topedge faintly soiled, boards with light toning, very good in a slightly spine-sunned very good dust jacket with light rubbing and mild edgewear. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Includes 22 short stories with contributions by Saul Bellow, Nancy Hallinan, Leonard Michaels, Shirley Ann Taggert, Peter Taylor, Marilyn Krysl, Daniel Asa Rose, Jayne Anne Phillips, Robert Dunn, Ann Arensberg, Gail Godwin, Alice Adams, Andre Dubus, Ann Beattie, Millicent G. Dillon, Jean Stafford and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 384pp. Crown lightly bumped, near fine in a lightly spine-tanned very good dust jacket with slight rubbing and modest edgewear. Contains stories by Harold Brodkey, Cynthia Ozick, Alice Adams, Raymond Carver, Ann Arensberg, E.L. Doctorow, William Maxwell, James Alan McPherson, Russell Banks, John Updike, William Kotzwinkle and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 274pp. Slight offsetting on endpapers and boards, very good in a very good dust jacket with slight tanning to the flaps and modest edgewear. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Containing stories by Alice Walker, Stuart Dybek, Greg Johnson, John L'Heureux, Joyce R. Kornblatt, Ward Just, Peter Meinke, Bobbie Ann Mason, Merrill Joan Gerber, Gordon Lish, Peter Cameron, Alice Adams, Deborah Eisenberg, Anthony DiFranco, Jeanne Wilmot, Elizabeth Spencer, Irvin Faust, Stephanie Vaughn and Joyce Carol Oates.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine age-toned dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear at the flap folds. Features stories by Peter Matthiessen, Joyce Carol Oates, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and many others. The winning story was "The Eleventh Edition" by Leo E. Litwak.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Blue wrappers. Toning and abrasions on the front cover thus very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Includes "Are you a Doctor?" by Raymond Carter.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 294pp. A bit of offsetting on the endpapers due to printer's glue, faint stain on topedge, a few tiny nicks on crown and top of boards, very good in a very good dust jacket with some tanning, spine slightly sunned and modest wear to the extremities. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Contributions by Joyce Carol Oates, Bernard Malamud, Rosellen Brown, Patricia Zelver, James Alan McPherson, Alice Adams, Judith Rascoe, Raymond Carver, Diane Johnson, John Cheever, Josephine Jacobsen and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 312pp. Crown and topedge with some chipping, very good in a lightly spine-tanned about very good dust jacket with tears and creasing at the front panel folds, slight rubbing and front flap clipped ($8.95 price remains). Contributions by Ella Leffland, Shirley Hazzard, Andrew Fetler, Sheila Ballantyne, Stephen Minot, Paul Theroux, Hollis Summers, Patricia Zelver, Charles Simmons, Mary Hedin, Alice Adams, Joanna Russ, Emily Arnold McCully, Laurie Colwin, John Sayles, Stephen Dixon, Susan Engberg and John Cheever.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 319pp. Faint stain on topedge, binding slightly cocked, very good in a very good dust jacket with a short tear at the top of the front panel, light rubbing and a slightly sunned spine. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Sixty-fifth anniversary edition with contributions by Jane Smiley, Stuart Dybek, Ann Beattie, Helen Norris, Susan Minot, Wright Morris, Louise Erdrich, Joseph McElroy, Ward Just, Peter Cameron, Joyce Carol Oates, Rolaine Hochstein, Josephine Jacobson, John Updike and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 272pp. Boards very slightly bowed with a few chips to crown and topedge, very good in a very good dust jacket with light soil and slight tanning to the spine and extremities. Contributions by John Batki, Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Rascoe, Mary Clearman, Starkey Flythe, Jr., Brendan Gill, Anne Tyler, James Salter, Patricia Zelver, Elaine Gottlieb, Jack Matthews, Alice Adams, Rosellen Brown, Charles Edward Eaton, Margery Finn Brown, J.D. McClatchy, Herbert Gold and Donald Barthelme.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 321pp. Edges lightly sunned, near fine in a slightly spine-sunned near fine dust jacket with flaps lightly tanned. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Contributions by: Susan Kenney, Joseph McElroy, Ben Brooks, Jane Smiley, T.E. Holt, Nora Johnson, Kenneth Gewertz, Kate Wheeler, Stephen Dixon, Peter Taylor, Ivy Goodman, Michael Malone, Tim O'Brien, Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, Florence Trefethen, David Carkeet and Alice Adams.