william abrahams introduction (34 resultados)

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

Trade Paperback. Condición: 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.

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

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Doubleday, Garden City/New York, 1979. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($10.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has a chip on rear panel top edge, and is otherwise fine. Contributions from Gordon Weaver, Henry Bromell, Julie Hecht (first-, second-, and third-prize winners, respectively), Lester Goldberg, Steve Heller, Fred Pfeil, Anne Leaton, Annabel Thomas, Thomas W. Molyneux, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Baumbach, Patricia Zelver, Herbert Gold, Henry Van Dyke, Lee Smith, Anthony Caputi, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Richard Yates, Mary Peterson, Thomas M. Disch, and Alice Adams. Anthologies.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Doubleday (1979). First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop. Price-clipped; some wear at head and heel of spine. Includes a Richard Yates story. 0.0.

hardback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, tow tone brown cloth blocked with a design in gilt and red, lettered gilt to spine, dust wrapper not called for in this edition but lacking the slipcase that is called for, the binding remains tight, the text clean and unmarked, xvii + 436 pp.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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 ¼" 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.

Softcover. Condición: 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. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Condición: Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Blue wrappers. Toning and some creasing thus very good.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Doubleday, Garden City/New York, 1986. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($17.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Contributions from Alice Walker (the first-prize winner, with "Kindred Spirits"), Joyce Carol Oates ("Master Race," with Special Award for Continuing Achievement), 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, and Stephanie Vaughn. Anthologies.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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.

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

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. xii, 387pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light age-toning on edges. 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. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First edition. 293pp. Chipping at top edges of boards and crown, very good in a very good dust jacket with a tear on the spine and small chips at the crown. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. First prize, Bernard Malamud, second prize, Joyce Carol Oates, and third prize, John Barth.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Toning on the spine and slight edgewear thus very good.

Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Printed blue wrappers. Some creasing on the wraps, a bit of toning along the edges and spine, near fine.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. The front free end page has been removed. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. There are scuffed marks on the front inner boards. There are black Koki marks on the title page, back inner board and on pages 101/102, as well as on the top edge of the block of the book. No text has been affected. All pages are accessible. Presented in cellophane. The binding is secure. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. First. Signed by Beat Generation Author, Michael Rumaker, on ffep. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover with Unclipped Dust Jacket; Book in Fine Condition, DJ in Very Good- Condition. Quarter bound in black cloth with forest green boards; titles in gilt on spine. Light foxing on top edge. DJ has a chip and edge wear on bottom spin edge. Edge wear on top spine edge; corners bumped. Signed by Author(s).