Winter's Tales 15 by MACLEAN, A.D - 1969

Macmillan, 1969. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1969. First Edition. 279 pages. White jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

London: St Martins, 1969 Annual Anthology Of Short Stories, This One Being Published In 1969. It Is Particularly Notable Because It Contains The First Appearance In Book Form Of A Story By Sylvia Plath And Another By Bernard Malamud (Both Of Which Appeared Previously In The Atlantic Monthly). There Are Stories Also By Margaret Laurence And Alan Sillitoe And Others. There Is A Notation By The Editor "Reading The Late Sylvia Plath's "Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams" It Is Impossible Not To Mourn The Loss Of This Young And Brilliant Writer. Other Stories Of Hers Will Be Appearing In Penguin Shortly." This Volume Has No Dust Jacket. There Is Some Slight Soiling To Front Board And A Bookplate Glued To Ffep, But No Writing On It. No Other Marks Or Writing. The Binding And Corners Are In Very Good Condition, Pages Are Clean.

Macmillan. Hardback. 279pp. Short stories. Includes: The Unfinished Soldiers by James Aldridge, Horses of the Night by Margaret Laurence, Man in the Drawer by Bernard Malamud , Girls Together by Olivia Manning, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath, Winter by Kit Reed, An Only Child by Robert Rushmore, Mimic by Alan Sillitoe, Thunderbolt by Frank Tuohy, and The Power of Sergeant Streater by G. E. Green. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine are clean and neat. Some grubbiness to very edges of dust wrapper. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Very good copy in good dust wrapper . Hardback. 1969.

London: Macmillan/ St. Martin's Press, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Collected stories by these wonderful writers. Of particular note is Sylvia Plath's short story, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams which in this anthology precedes the first American publication in a book by 10 years, and Malamud's Man in the Drawer which also has its first appearance. This is the first edition and first British issue of which approximately 400 copies were printed.