COLLECTED STORIES

New York: Harvest Books - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (ix) 480 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; previous owner's name on the front endpaper; no other interior markings. West was one of the founders of the Palmer Society, which, in 1921, was the first female society founded at Whittier College. This story collection contains: Probably Shakespeare; A Time of Learning; The Mysteries of Life in an Orderly Manner; Love, Death and the Ladies' Drill Team; Homecoming; The Battle of the Suits; Tom Wolfe's My Name; Learn to Say Good-Bye; A Little Collar for the Monkey; Public Address System; Foot Shaped Shoes; Horace Chooney M.D.; The Linden Trees; Breach of Promise; The Singing Lesson; The Calla Lilly Cleaners and Dyers; The Wake; Grand Opening; Aloha Farewell to Thee; Reverdy; Up a Tree; There Ought to Be a Judge; Gallup Poll; Alive and Real; I'll Ask Him to Come Sooner; Hunting for Hoot Owls; Crimson Ramblers of the World Farewell; Night Piece for Julia; Live Life Deeply; Mother's Day; The Heavy Stone; 99.6 (her first published story); The Day of the Hawk; Like Visitant of Air; The Condemned Librarian; Child of the Century; Flow Gently Sweet Aspirin; and The Second (or Perhaps Third) Time Round..