Search Results: Short Stories from Conover Books

New York: The Lotus Society, 1929. Minor edge and corner wear, scuffed and scratched, corners are bumped and rubbed, some shelf wear, spine is faded, overall a clean used first edition! Gold , red and green decorated boards quarter bound by green cloth with a black lettering on gold pastedown on the spine. Very very scarce and hard-to-find! Deckle page edges. This is a numbered limited edition #475 of 550. 200 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Wonderfully well-preserved! Extremely scarce. "This edition is trictly limited to five hundred and fifty copies of which: One to fifty are extra illustrated, hand illuminated, signed by the artist and translator, and bound in three quarters Turkey Morocco. Fifty one to one hundred, are extra illustrated, hand illuminated, signed by the artist and translator, and bound in silk and Oriental boards #475.". First Edition. Decorated Boards. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A. Zaidenberg. 4to - over… Read More

Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1968. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 191 historical and magical pages! "Of the essays collected in this volume, six have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, and three in the Improvement Era. The editors of these magazines have kindly given me permission to reprint these papers, and I am glad to acknowledge their kindness. One has reappeared in the Reader's Digest, and one, in a Spanish version, in Inter-America.........." ------- from the Preface.. Reprint (1932). Blue Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

U.S.A.: Authorhouse, 2003. A very crisp and clean SIGNED FIRST EDITION; almost new and unread condition; gift quality! Inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page! Full-color illustrated wrapper with red and black lettering. 190 very clean unmarked and uncreased humorous and fun-filled pages! "It is probably every journalist's dream to write a book, be it fact or fiction, or a collection of short stories. This is my book and I hope the first of several. This is a collection of some of the columns I wrote during a 20-year career in newspapers. Most of these columns are from my two stints of duty with the 'Hampshire Register News' and the 'Winnebago News.' As a journalist some of my fondest memories and closest firends come from the days I worked on these two newspapers.........." ---------- from About the Book. (SIGNED COPY).. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lincolnwood, IL, U.S.A.: Natl Textbook Co, 1997. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is gently creased; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Full-color illustrated wrapper with red and blue lettering. 296 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and magical pages! "Includes essays on every age in the life cycle beginning with childhood as well as biographical headnotes about each writer, discussion questions, and writing assignments........". First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Minocqua, Wisconsin, U.S.A.: Paper Birch Pr, 1983. Edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, spine is lightly creased as well as the rear of the wrapper, some shelf wear, former owner's name is stamped on the ffep, overall a nice used first edition! Very very scarce and hard-to-find title! Blue and white wrapper with blue lettering. 98 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! Extremely scarce and out-of-print! "I wrote these stories after my retirement in the mid Sixties when I was seventy years old. They are fiction; no person living or dead is portrayed in them. They are not genre stories, nor regional stories, nor historical tales. Only the last story is accurately placed in time. Rather, I call them 'people stories' ---- stories of not-important people facing life in everyday situations which we all encounter." ---- from the Introduction.. First Edition / First Printing. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: J. K. Wellman, 1846. Showing age: shelf worn, front hinge is broken, scuffed and scratched, edge and corner wear, spine is faded, foxing throughout, overall a clean, extremely collectible and rare first edition! Marbled boards with brown leather spine which is gilt lettered. Amazing book, complete and wonderfully well preserved for 160+ years old! Extremely rare and hard-to-find! Very very scarce and out-of-print! 412 unmarked and uncreased historical pages wonderfully illustrated in black and white and color!. First Edition. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc., 1923. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, overall a very clean used copy! Tan cloth with an embossed bust on the front cover and a black on tan title pastedown on The Spine. Deckle page edges. Frontis is a black and white photograph of Elbert Hubbard the speaker. 478 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "So we offer The Selected Writings of elbert Hubbard ---- the choice things from his pen, that have been tested by time and found worthy of perpetuation ---- the nuggets quarried from the rich mine of his experience. These Essays, these Travels, these Biographies, these Stories are 'the message' that carries Elbert hubbard to posterity. They are Elbert Hubbard at his best ---- his satire and his sublimity, the weapons he used to make men think. He expressed his purpose: 'I do not expect you to agree with me, but if I make you think I have done you a… Read More

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc., 1922. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, overall a very clean used copy! Tan cloth with an embossed bust on the front cover and a black on tan title pastedown on the spine. Deckle page edges. Frontis is a black and white photograph of Elbert Hubbard, The Publicist. 412 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "So we offer The Selected Writings of elbert Hubbard ---- the choice things from his pen, that have been tested by time and found worthy of perpetuation ---- the nuggets quarried from the rich mine of his experience. These Essays, these Travels, these Biographies, these Stories are 'the message' that carries Elbert hubbard to posterity. They are Elbert Hubbard at his best ---- his satire and his sublimity, the weapons he used to make men think. He expressed his purpose: 'I do not expect you to agree with me, but if I make you think I have done you a… Read More

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc., 1922. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, overall a very clean used copy! Tan cloth with an embossed bust on the front cover and a black on tan title pastedown on the spine. Deckle page edges. Frontis is a black and white photograph of Elbert Hubbard in Vaudeville. 408 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "So we offer The Selected Writings of elbert Hubbard ---- the choice things from his pen, that have been tested by time and found worthy of perpetuation ---- the nuggets quarried from the rich mine of his experience. These Essays, these Travels, these Biographies, these Stories are 'the message' that carries Elbert hubbard to posterity. They are Elbert Hubbard at his best ---- his satire and his sublimity, the weapons he used to make men think. He expressed his purpose: 'I do not expect you to agree with me, but if I make you think I have done you a… Read More

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc., 1922. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, overall a very clean used copy! Tan cloth with an embossed bust on the front cover and a black on tan title pastedown on the spine. Deckle page edges. Frontis is a black and white photograph of Elbert Hubbard and Elbert Hubbard II. 412 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "So we offer The Selected Writings of elbert Hubbard ---- the choice things from his pen, that have been tested by time and found worthy of perpetuation ---- the nuggets quarried from the rich mine of his experience. These Essays, these Travels, these Biographies, these Stories are 'the message' that carries Elbert hubbard to posterity. They are Elbert Hubbard at his best ---- his satire and his sublimity, the weapons he used to make men think. He expressed his purpose: 'I do not expect you to agree with me, but if I make you think I have done… Read More

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc., 1922. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, overall a very clean used copy! Tan cloth with an embossed bust on the front cover and a black on tan title pastedown on the spine. Deckle page edges. Frontis is a black and white photograph of Elbert Hubbard and Garnet. 412 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "So we offer The Selected Writings of elbert Hubbard ---- the choice things from his pen, that have been tested by time and found worthy of perpetuation ---- the nuggets quarried from the rich mine of his experience. These Essays, these Travels, these Biographies, these Stories are 'the message' that carries Elbert hubbard to posterity. They are Elbert Hubbard at his best ---- his satire and his sublimity, the weapons he used to make men think. He expressed his purpose: 'I do not expect you to agree with me, but if I make you think I have done you a… Read More

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc., 1923. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, overall a very clean used copy! Tan cloth with an embossed bust on the front cover and a black on tan title pastedown on the spine. Deckle page edges. Frontis is a black and white photograph of Elbert Hubbard ---- The Fra. 426 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "So we offer The Selected Writings of elbert Hubbard ---- the choice things from his pen, that have been tested by time and found worthy of perpetuation ---- the nuggets quarried from the rich mine of his experience. These Essays, these Travels, these Biographies, these Stories are 'the message' that carries Elbert hubbard to posterity. They are Elbert Hubbard at his best ---- his satire and his sublimity, the weapons he used to make men think. He expressed his purpose: 'I do not expect you to agree with me, but if I make you think I have done you a… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; rear board is discolored especially toward the outer edge; spine is faded; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; overall a still a nice clean used copy! Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and a color illustrated gilt lettered pastedown on the front board. 343 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages of text and 4 (including the frontis) wonderful pages of black and white illustrations! "If these simple tales serve to deepen in the slightest degree the rapidly growing conviction that the college girl is very much like any other girl ---- that this likeness is, indeed, one of her most striking characteristics ---- the author will consider their existence abundantly justified." ---- from the Preface.. Reprint. Blue Cloth. Good-/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, front hinge is cracked, former owner's name is on the ffep, some light shelf wear, overall a clean used well-preserved first edition! Blue cloth with red lettering and design on the front board and red lettering on the spine. 309 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "All modern literatures contain numerous examples of that shorter form of prose fiction known in English as the Short Story, although none with the possible exception of the Russian has so fully developed it into a distinct species, admirably fitted to express a racial temperament as have the French. The English experiments in this form as late as Maria Edgeworth and George Eliot were merely clumsy abbreviations of the novel, novelettes rather than true short stories, with the elaborate analyses of charcter, extended descriptions, and ponderous plots of the larger form."… Read More

Franklin, Ohio : Eldridge Entertainment House , 1918. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, no dj, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, some light shelf wear, fraying at the head and tail of the spine, former owner's name in pencil on the ffep, overall a clean used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find title! Green cloth with gilt lettering on the front board. Decorative endpapers. 82 very clean unmarked and uncreased humorous and historical pages! Extremely scarce and out-of-print! "'Dis heah presen' gingeration," said Viney as she sprinkled down the clothes preparatory to ironing and ket, 'lays too much sto' by books.' 'Folks says,' observed Uncle Peter, 'dat hit's books what mek de young people smahter'n de ol' uns nowadays.'......" ----- from Book-Raisin'. First Edition / First Printing. Green Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. Edge and corner wear, corners are bumped and rubbed, scuffed and scratched with some of the gilt design on the front board flecking away, no dj, shelf worn, spine is faded, missing the ffep, rear board is stained, color illustrations have been taped to the front and rear endpapers, front hinge is weak, overall a nice readable used first edition! Very rare edition! Blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration on the front board and faded gilt lettering on the spine. 315 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages of text and 12 wonderful pages (including the frontis) of historic black and white illustrations! "As soon as we heard the pleasant news --- I suppose the news of an engagement ought always to be called pleasant ---- it was decided that I ought to speak first about it, and speak to the father. We had not been a great while in the neighborhood, and it would look less like a bid for the familiar acquaintance of people living on a… Read More

Beloit, Wisconsin: Beloit College Press , 2002. Former owner's inscription and a date in ink on the ffep, overall a very crisp and clean first edition, almost new and unread condition, gift quality! Extremely rare and hard-to-find! 108 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs! Very scarce and out-of-print! "The writers represented here have all been Lois Wilson Mackey'45 Distinguished Professors at Beloit College. Over the past decade or so this program has consisted of writers, each of them distinguished and all of them winners of important prizes, including the Pulitzer and the National Book Award. The Mackey series of visiting writers began in 1989 and continues to this day. Mackey writers teach an advanced course in writing and give a public reading of their work. These writers ---- from RAymond Carver to Patricia Hampl ---- are the first fourteen Lois Mackey writers. Their position as such was made possible by Willard C.… Read More

U.S.A.: Innovative Futures Press, 2008. A very crisp and clean SIGNED copy; almost new and unread condition; gift quality! Color illustrated wrapper with gold and black lettering. Flatsigned by the author on the half-title page! 120 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages! "Worth Remembering is a book about looking back before we look forward. It's based on the notion that real progress doesn't come from change, it comes from knowing how to make good choices between tradition and change. There's value in looking back to find the lessons of history, to read old ideas that stand the test of time. This book presents 324 timeless old ideas that can help us understand and explore the new ones........" (SIGNED COPY).. Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.