Search Results: the best short stories of 1923

Small Maynard, 1926. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Second printing. Ex-university library book, moderate wear and discoloring; a good solid book. Rubbed cover and writing on the spine. No jacket. Authors include Valma Clark; Theodore Dreiser; Ernest Hemenway (My Old Man by Ernest Hemingway, misspelled name); many others. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 210534. .

Small, Maynard & Company, 1924. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Gift inscription on front endpaper; interior pages with text without any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Jonathan Cape, 1924. Hardcover. Good. 1924. First Edition. 352 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Prominent clipping to front free endpaper. Light thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light creasing to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, Inc, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Red cloth with gilt stamped lettering to front board and spine. Tips of corners very lightly rubbed, book overall a very clean and tight copy. Dust jacket present but in 4 pieces with heavy wear and several chips around corners and edges.

PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FOR THE DETAILS. This book does not have the "Hemenway" error but is paired with one that does. Reason for separate listings is to show condition of each book. The price here is for both books.

PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FOR THE DETAILS. This has two books this one has the "Hemenway" errors in the book, the 2nd better copy does not. This book is ex-library with most of the markings and has enforced front cover inside. Has wear top/bottom of the spine. etc,,see the photos, the price is for both books, listed separately to allow more photos of each.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Co. , 1924. Edited by Edward J. O'Brien. Very good (spine is quite sunned and faded so that the gilt print has disappeared; gilt title on front cover mostly intact -- see scans; ffep has crease and previous owner's name in pen; interior otherwise near fine with the kind of slight page-browning you would expect in a book this age) without dust jacket. Hanneman B1. 544 pages including Ernest Hemingway's "My Old Man," which had been published in a small printing in Paris in 1923 and was later included -- after its appearance here -- in his "In Our Time," of 1925. HEMINGWAY'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN A BOOK IN THE U.S. Note that Hemingway's name is here spelled "Hemenway," includiing in the book's dedication to him, but this is indeed THE Ernest Hemingway. A chance to own a very early appearance of a Hemingway short story, written and published before his reputation had spread much beyond Paris. Includes stories from Sherwood… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts: Small, Maynard & Company, Publishers, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Thick 12mo. xviii + 544 pp, contains stories by Dreiser, Ferber, Sherwood Anderson, Fannie Hurst, Jean Toomer, and Hemingway, to whom the book is dedicated, with the spelling "Ernest Hemenway" on the dedication page, the table of contents, and in "My Old Man". with additional authors' stories, and, for the librarian or the bibliophile, a list of capsule author biographies with stories that made the honor roll. 5.5" x 7.7" black cloth boards, gilt spine (dimmed) & fr cover letters (bright). Binding tight and square. pages clean, top text block darkened with age, rear gutter hinge paper split 2" from bottom, with hinge holding firm. In glassine mylar wrapper. .

"The Best Short Stories of 1923 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story" - edited by Edward J. O'Brien. 1924 1st edition, 2nd printing (stated); Small, Maynard & Company; Boston. This is the first book published in the United States to contain a work by ERNEST HEMINGWAY (the short story "My Old Man"). Curiously, Hemingway's name was misspelled as "Hemenway" on the contents page, and on the 1st page of his story. The book is dedicated to Hemingway - the 1st printing also had the misspelling on the dedication page, though it has been corrected here in this 2nd printing.At the back of the book is a section titled "The Yearbook" that contains various literary categories - five of these categories list F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, as follows: Articles on the Short Story (x2); Index of Short Stories in Books (x2); Index of Short Stories.Condition:Clean front and back covers. Both the cloth and the lettering on the spine have partially faded. Tiny cloth tear at the bottom 2 cover corners. Tight binding with no… Read More

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers, 1924. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing. Measuring approximately 7.5" x 5.25" with 544 numbered pages. This collection includes "My Old Man" by Hemingway, his first appearance in America. His name is famously misspelled "Hemenway" even though the book is dedicated to him. This book is in very good condition. Moderate bumping and sunning to spine. Gilt lettering on spine is faded. Gilt lettering on front board is still full. Moderate scuffing and staining to all edges of textblock. Interior pages are lightly foxed. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (M10-17).

Small, Maynard & Company: Boston. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1924. First Edition; Second Printing. Includes Hemingway's story "My Old Man." This is the first American book appearance of a short story by Ernest Hemingway (reprinted from Three stories and ten poems, Paris in 1923. O'Brien dedicated this book to Hemingway, whose name is misspelled in the printed dedication and the contents page; in fact, throughout the book. Very good first edition, stated second printing, Jan. , 1924. What appears to be the original sales receipt for this book has been laid inside. It's dated Sep 2, 1924, $2.50 which matches publisher's price on DJ spine.. A couple of pages have offset where it appears paper has been laid inside for decades, including receipt which now is laid inside the front of book. Modest rub to gilt title lettering and moderate tone to contents. Very good, scarce original dust jacket with small wear/tear to edges, no stand out issues just about a… Read More

Boston:: Small, Maynard and Co.,, [1924].. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Bookplate to front free endpaper; some effacement to gold on spine; otherwise a very good copy in a chipped example of the scarce jacket, lacking about 1/4 of the spine. Some tiny internal scotch tape repairs.. 8vo,. Includes Hemingway's story "My Old Man." This is the first book appearance of a short story by Ernest Hemingway. O'Brien dedicated this book to Hemingway, whose name is misspelled in the printed dedication and the contents page; in fact, throughout the book.

Boston:: Small, Maynard,, [1924].. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. A fine copy in a bright, fresh jacket with one tiny chip and a light stain to the verso of the front panel, which does not show through. Quite uncommon in dust jacket.. 8vo,. This volume contains Hemingway's first commercially published short story. O'Brian dedicated the volume to him, but his name is misspelled "Hemenway" throughout.

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1924. First Edition. Hemingway’s first appearance in an anthology and his first published book appearance in America as a professional writer. His name is misspelled “Hemenway” in the book, even on the dedication page as O’Brien dedicated the volume to him. Small spot on front board else near fine in dust jacket with a few minor mends by an expert paper conservationist. Rare in dust jacket.