Collected Stories

First edition. Large 8vo. Pp. x, 563, [2]. Quarter-bound blue cloth over cream paper-covered boards, lettered in silver to spine. Plain blue and cream dustwrapper printed in black and white (priced $27.95 to front flap).

By the 1984 National Book Award-winning author of Victory Over Japan [anthologised here]. A compilation of Ellen Gilchrist's best and best-loved short stories, selected by the author herself from her fifteen previous works of fiction. With an uncanny insight into human nature and its foibles, her short fiction is at once comic and searing. Some of the stories in this collection were first published in The Atlantic and Story. "Few pleasures can match the satisfaction of a collection of short stories by Ellen Gilchrist." –Chicago Tribune