Sixty Stories

New York: G. P. Putnan's Sons, 1981. First edition, one of 500 signed and numbered copies, specially bound (this is no. 12). 1 vols. 8vo. Maroon cloth, titled in silver, boards stamped in blind, silver endsheets. Original matching maroon cloth slipcase. Fine copy lacking clear acetate jacket. First edition, one of 500 signed and numbered copies, specially bound (this is no. 12). 1 vols. 8vo. This collection includes works from Barthelme's first six short-story collections, several of which had appeared in the New Yorker. A special limited issue of this first edition, hand-numbered and boldly signed by the author on the colophon page.