first edition No Binding
[1980] · [Boston]
by ELKIN, Stanley (ed.)
[Boston]: [Houghton Mifflin]. [1980]. An advance issue consisting of unbound 8-1/2" x 11" sheets of this collection edited by Stanley Elkin and with stories by John Updike, John Sayles, Donald Barthelme, Frederick Busch, William Gass, Larry Heinemann, I.B. Singer, Grace Paley, Peter Taylor, Mavis Gallant, Elizabeth Hardwick and others. Elkin's introduction bears copyeditor's marks throughout. Minor edge wear to a few pages; else fine. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. No Binding. Near Fine. (Inventory #: 000786)