[nice solid copy, half-title page corner-clipped; jacket moderately edgeworn, small closed tear at bottom of front panel, chipping at base of spine, a bit of nibbling(?) at top edge of both jacket flaps]. Thirteen short stories. "Strange husbands, managing mothers, lady novelists, liars, neurotics, and precocious children, with other varieties of human life provide full scope for Miss Ertz's calm irony and humor." Not a novel; not non-fiction; some of us actually look at the books when we catalog them. Scarce in dust jacket. View More...
[lovely tight clean book, a review copy with publisher's slip and "compliments of the author" card laid in, appears unread; jacket similarly nice but for a couple of teensy nicks at the bottom edge of the rear panel, and a slight sunning to the spine]. "In these nine short stories, many of them actually of novella length, [the author] shows to advantage the wide scope of his considerable talents. Most of the stories are contemporary, many of them portraying a segment of Mid-western life that Mr. Manfred has written little about, the younger marrieds of the smaller cities." View More...
(price-clipped) [light shelfwear, a good sound book slightly blemished by some spotting on the top edge of the text block; jacket shows some wear and very shallow chipping along bottom edge, minor paper loss at a few corners and at spine ends]. Short humorous stories, reprinted from The New Yorker, concerning the denizens of a venerable (and entirely fictional) New York law firm. View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) in Good+ slipcase [book is solid and clean, moderate soiling/darkening to spine, a couple of light blue ink stains (bleeding from slipcase, looks like) along rear hinge; slipcase worn at edges/corners, but intact (no splitting), with paper label on front indicating "Limited Edition" with $8.50 price]. View More...
[good solid copy, with light deterioration to bottom edges of both covers; jacket has small chip at top right corner of front panel, spine slightly browned, a few tiny holes near top of rear panel]. A collection of 21 of the author's popular Saturday Evening Post stories (all selected from previous published collections) about the adventures of two dedicated Florida fishermen. The C&D tales, of which there were a grand total of 69, have been cited as an influence on John D. MacDonald's "Travis McGee" novels, also set in Florida. In any case, Wylie knew his milieu, having at one time... View More...
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