Foley Martha Editor (38 results)

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

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 968 pp. Gray boards are scuffed, moderate staining with red ink. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Classic works by the Masters. Clean, tight, very fine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: VG-. used mass market paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners a bit bumped, some scuffing/wear to covers. light creasing to spine is noticable but does not compromise binding, which is straight and tight with no marks to text or other serious flaws.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (7) + x - xii + (2) + 2 - 968 PAGES THERE IS A SMALL 1/4" CLOSED TEAR OF THE TOP OF THE DUST JACKET AT THE SPINE. THERE IS NO PRICE ON THE DUST JACKET. THE JACKET IS NOT PRICE CLIPPED AND APPEARS TO BE COMPLETELY INTACT. THE DUST JACKET IS IN A PROTECTIVE MYLAR WRAPPER. THERE IS MINIMAL WEAR OF THE BOOK'S EDGES.THERE ARE 54 SHORT STORIES DATING FRON 1774 UNTIL 1975. JAMES T. FARRELL PROVIDES A SHORT STORY WITH THE TITLE "SPRING EVENING." THE TALE IS ABOUT TWO YOUNG MEN IN SOUTH CHICAGO SPENDING A WARM SUMMER EVENING TOGETHER REMINISCING ABOUT THEIR HAPPY DAYS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND THEIR CURRENT UNHAPPY AND BORING LIVES. THE STORY WAS PUBLISHED IN FARRELL'S BOOK "THE SHORT STORIES OF JAMES T. FARRELL" BY THE VANGUARD PRESS IN 1932. MARTHA FOLEY, THE EDITOR, PROVIDES AN INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF THE SHORT STORY IN THE LITERATURE OF AMERICA FROM COLONIAL TIMES UNTIL 1974. HER 23 PAGE INTRODUCTION SELECTS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS, THEIR BANNED BOOKS AND SEXUAL STORIES. HER INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY EVOLUTION IS INCITEFUL, THOROUGH AND WORTHWHILE READING.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. In a Mylar dj cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 428 pages. Corners and edges of backstrip bumped and rubbed. A few scuff marks. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: VG-. somewhat worn mass market paperback edtion. light shelfwear, a bit of scuffing and light creasing to the covers. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight otherwise. no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Stated First Printing on copyright page. Book is solid, square, clean readable copy. No writing or marks throughout. Slight shelf marks on edges.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Mass market paperback, stiff color illus. wraps. Ballantine F204 (1957). Modest handling wear, light diagonal crease to bottom front cover corner, typical stress creasing to firm, square binding. 376 pp. Former owner's signature stamp on front flyleaf, contents typically tanned. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. 8vo. Includes stories by Irwin Shaw, Peter Taylor, Robert Penn Warren. Decorations by Agna Enters. Very Good lacking the dust jacket.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. G-206 in this important series, foreword by Foley, includes Wallace Stegner's Chip Off the Old Block, also includes John Cheever, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, James Thurber, Eudora Welty, etc., issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus.…

London, Macgibbon & Kee, 1966, first British edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums, introduction and text pages 203-213, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Ernezst Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, F. Scottt Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Shirley Jackson, and many others. Fine.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Frayed DJ. First Edition. Some of the very best writers were active during this period, with some of the stories no longer available except in this format. 25 stories in all. A variety of subject matter and mood. For anyone who loves to read. 369pp. (loc X74/3).

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. G-206 in this important series, foreword by Foley, includes Wallace Stegner's Chip Off the Old Block, also includes John Cheever, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, James Thurber, Eudora Welty, etc., issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good.…

Condition: Very Good. Vg in orange wraps Periodicals. PER310151.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The book is bound in tan boards with bright brown letters on the front cover & spine. There is very, very light wear on the spine tips & cover corners. The top edge is very lightly speckled. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. States: "First Printing". The dust jacket is price clipped with a small 1 cm. chip off the top of the front cover near the spine, & there is wear on the spine tips, cover corners & along the edges. There is a closed tear on the back cover, taped on the inside. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Not Ex-Library - book cover shows minor wear to lower spine - dj is clipped, shows some wear with chipping and small closed tears - nevertheless free of all markings, clean, clear and square, 368 pg Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. dj. 1st. Publishers original hardcover bound in green cloth with cover and spine stamped in red and black. Normal shelfweaf to cover. Includes stories by Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Andre Dubus, Jesse Hill Ford, Reynolds Price, and more. Fine condition / Near fine condition dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Jacket. First Edition. Includes stories by Paul Bowles, Ray Bradbury, John Cheever, E. B. White, etc. A tightly bound, internally bright and clean very good or better copy, better but for very slightly bowed front cover,and dampstaining to the cloth--not effecting the contents--in a poor, though complete, worn and dampstained dust jacket, now in acetate protector. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition/printing. Edited and with a foreword by Martha Foley.Stories by John Cheever, Evan S. Connell, Jr, William Eastlake, Caroline Gordon, Judith Merril, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Wallace Stegner, Mark Van Doren, Eudora Welty et al. A FINE crisp book in NEAR FINE ( one small chip to top of front panel) bright jacket with $4.00 price intact.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. F. Houghton Mifflin (Boston), 1974. First edition. Hardbound. Fine in price clipped dust jacket (one tiny closed tear front cover). A tight unread copy. Stories by Alice Walker, John Updike, A. Vivante, Barry Targan, Stephen Minot, Eleanor Clark and others. 0.0.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

Condition: good. A former university library book with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. Missing dustjacket. The pages appear unmarked. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Scott. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller.…