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Best Lesbian Erotica 1998 ed. Jenifer Levin & Tristan Taormino (Cleis Press 1573440329, Jan ’98, 200pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.

• Foreword • Tristan Taormino • fw
• Introduction • Jenifer Levin • in
• Making Girls Come • Carellin Brooks • ss
• Juice • Tee Chandler • ss
• Every Boy • Dorian Key • ss
• Cleo’s Gone • Gwendolyn Bikis • ss
• here & fruit song • Renita Martin • ss
• Sherry • Jane Perkins • ss
• Clash of the Titans • Karlyn Lotney • ss
• The Punishment Fits the Crime • Paula K. Clearwater • ss
• Just Drops • Ruth Gifford • ss
• Luck of the Dice • Jamie Gabriel • ss
• The Body in Relation • Deborah L. Repplier • ss
• When He Was Mary • Heather L. Seggel • ss
• Wishbone • Chrystos • ss
• from Box 392 • Jane DeLynn • ss
• Sour • Kathe Izzo • ss
• Unfinished Business • Bonnie J. Morris • ss
• Missing You • Peggy Munson • ss
• Ridin’ Bitch • Toni Amato • ss
• from Fist • Elaine Miller • ss
• Behold the Burning Bush • Maria Helena Dolan • ss
• Honest • Cynthia Greenberg • ss
Commander Story Annual for Boys ed. Eric Leyland (Sampson Low, 195?, 509pp, hc)

9 • Muskum Pete, Backwoodsman • Rowland Walker • na
69 • Totty - The Tale of Ten Exciting Terms • Bertram Smith • ss
129 • Birds of a Feather • W. E. Johns • ss
133 • Get Your Man • Bob Dyker • nv
179 • Kalaan’s Last Flight • F. G. Turnbull • ss
183 • They Flew to Adventure • John Davies • na
239 • Tiger of the Frontier • A. A. Shah • nv
279 • The Propagandist • Murray Leinster • ss Astounding Aug ’47
291 • At the Sign of the Wolf’s Head • Bernard Masters • ss
347 • Gold Rush • Joseph Crad • ss
355 • Tony Beats the Band • Anton Lind • na
431 • Kalang • F. G. Turnbull • ss Zoo Apr ’37
436 • That Bit of Chenille • F. G. Turnbull • vi London Evening News Apr 9 ’42
439 • Forest Patrol • Jim Kjelgaard • na
Beach: Stories by the Sand and Sea ed. Lena Lencek & Gideon Bosker (Marlowe & Co. 1-569-24636-X, Jun 2000, $15.95, 256pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.

• Introduction • Lena Lencek & Gideon Bosker • in
• The Marginal World [from The Edge of the Sea] • Rachel Carson • ex
• The Largest Theme Park in the World • J. G. Ballard • ss The Guardian Jul 7 ’89
• Mexico • T. Coraghessan Boyle • ss New Yorker Oct 19 ’98
• Lifeguard • John Updike • ss
• from American Beach • Russ Rymer • ex
• A Change of Scene • David Malouf • ss
• The Midnight Love Feast • Michel Tournier • ss
• from Autobiography of My Mother • Jamaica Kincaid • ex
• Through the Tunnel • Doris Lessing • ss New Yorker Aug 6 ’55
• Black Boy • Kay Boyle • ss New Yorker
• The Beach Umbrella • Cyrus Colter • ss
• I Read My Nephew Stories • Ethan Mordden • ss New Yorker Aug 29 ’88
• Goodbye, My Brother • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Aug 25 ’51
• A Floor of Flounders • Whitney Balliett • ss
• Learning to Swim • Graham Swift • ss
• from The Stranger • Albert Camus • ex
• The Duel • Kaiko Takeshi • ss
• Great Barrier Reef • Diane Johnson • ss New Yorker Sep 7 ’92
• Perfection • Vladimir Nabokov • ss
• from Turtle Turtle • Monica Wesolowska • ex
• from Cannery Row • John Steinbeck • ex
• The Lady with a Pet Dog • Anton Chekhov • ss
Major American Short Stories ed. A. Walton Litz (Oxford University Press 0-195-07899-3, Feb ’94, $39.95, tp); Third edition. Contents from Amazon.com.

• The Search for Form: Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville and James
• Rip Van Winkle • Washington Irving • nv The Sketch Book, 1819
• The Adventure of the German Student • Washington Irving • ss Tales of a Traveller, John Murray, 1824
• Young Goodman Brown • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss New England Magazine Apr, 1835
• Wakefield • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss New England Magazine Jun, 1835
• Rappaccini’s Daughter • Nathaniel Hawthorne • nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review Dec, 1844
• Ligeia • Edgar Allan Poe • ss American Museum Sep, 1838
• The Fall of the House of Usher • Edgar Allan Poe • ss Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine Sep, 1839
• The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] • Edgar Allan Poe • nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, 1844, 1844
• Bartleby the Scrivener • Herman Melville • nv Putnam’s Monthly, 1853
• The Real Thing • Henry James • ss Black and White Apr 16, 1892
• The Jolly Corner • Henry James • nv The English Review Dec ’08
• Regionalism and Realism
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • Mark Twain • ss, 1867
• How to Tell a Story • Mark Twain • ss
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat • Bret Harte • ss Overland Monthly Jan, 1869
• Editha • William Dean Howells • ss Harper’s Jan ’05
• The Courting of Sister Wisby • Sarah Orne Jewett • ss Atlantic Monthly May, 1887
• Désirée’s Baby • Kate Chopin • ss, 1893
• The Yellow Wallpaper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
• Neighbor Rosicky • Willa Cather • nv
• A National Art Form
• The Open Boat • Stephen Crane • nv Scribner’s Jun, 1897
• Stephen Crane’s Own Story • Stephen Crane • ar
• I Want to Know Why • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Smart Set Nov ’19
• Babylon Revisited • F. Scott Fitzgerald • nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 ’31
• Big Two-Hearted River • Ernest Hemingway • ss This Quarter Spr ’25
• The Gilded Six-Bits • Zora Neale Hurston • ss
• Red Leaves • William Faulkner • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 25 ’30
• That Evening Sun • William Faulkner • ss The American Mercury Mar ’31
• Flowering Judas • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
• Petrified Man • Eudora Welty • ss The Southern Review, 1939
• Blackberry Winter • Robert Penn Warren • ss, 1931
• The Man Who Was Almost a Man • Richard Wright • ss
• Looking for Mr. Green • Saul Bellow • ss
• A Good Man Is Hard to Find • Flannery O’Connor • ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing, ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
• The Magic Barrel • Bernard Malamud • ss The Paris Review Nov-Dec ’54
• Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time • Peter Taylor • nv The Kenyon Review Spr ’58
• Sonny’s Blues • James Baldwin • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
• Defender of the Faith • Philip Roth • nv New Yorker Mar 14 ’59
• The Doctor’s Wife • John Updike • ss New Yorker Feb 11 ’61
• The World of Apples • John Cheever • ss Esquire Dec ’66
• The Short Story Today
• Lost in the Funhouse • John Barth • ss Atlantic Monthly Nov ’67
• The Indian Uprising • Donald Barthelme • ss New Yorker Mar 6 ’65
• The Magic Poker • Robert Coover • ss Esquire Jul ’69
• The Long-Distance Runner • Grace Paley • ss Esquire Mar ’74
• Daisy • Joyce Carol Oates • ss
• Helping • Robert Stone • ss New Yorker Jun 8 ’87
• Errand • Raymond Carver • ss New Yorker Jun 1 ’87
• Everyday Use • Alice Walker • ss
• Storyteller • Leslie Marmon Silko • ss
• Snares • Louise Erdrich • ss Harper’s May ’87
• Biographical and Bibliographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
• The American Short Story: A General Bibliography • Misc. Material • bi
The Tribute ed. D. Mackenzie (John Horn Limited, 1930, no price, 208pp, hc); Anthology of pieces tendered by artists, authors and advertisers of the empire on the anniversary of His Majesty’s recovery. [PSP]

19 • The Reason Why • D. Mackenzie • ed *
23 • The Bravest of the Brave • James Douglas • ar *
26 • Rings on her Fingers • René Bull • il *
27 • She shall have Music • René Bull • il *
29 • Empire • Harry Rowntree • il *
30 • Mermaids • Roland M. Chandler • il *
31 • Venice • Fred Taylor • il *
33 • Foundation of Faith • John Drinkwater • pm *
35 • Here’s a Health unto His Majesty • John Hassall • il *
37 • The King’s River • Sir Max Pemberton • ar *
39 • Chant du Cygne • John Oxenham • ss *; illus. F. Stock May
42 • God Made a Garden • Annie S. Laycock • pm *
43 • Days of Adventure • Arthur Applin • ss *
50 • When Julie blushes • Jaxon • il *
51 • “Did she really?” • Lawson Wood • il *
52 • Joy of Life • G. L. Stampa • il *
53 • Meditation • Wallis Mills • il *
54 • The Mannequin • Thos. Downey • il *
55 • Carmen • Gordon Nicoll • il *
57 • The Pilgrim’s Way • Mrs. Maud Diver • ss *
63 • A Study • E. H. Shepard • il *
65 • The Borough Organist • Silas K. Hocking • ss *
71 • Dolly Mine • Hilda Cowham • il *
72 • Worthy of a Better Object • W. Gale • il *
73 • The Golliwog • Leonard Potts • il *
74 • Le Penseur • Alfred Leete • il *
75 • These things are only sent to try us • Harry May Hemsley • il *
76 • That ’faux-pas’ feeling • Alick Ritchie • il *
77 • Dordrecht • Hesketh Hubbard • il *
78 • C’est La Vie Moderne • Alick • il *
79 • Home Again • Frank Hart • il *
80 • The Eyrie • A. E. Bestall • il *
81 • This Throne of Kings, This Scepter’d Isle…This Ceylon • J. P. de Fonseka • ar *
86 • Two Beaux on a string • Edgar Spenceley • il *
87 • When knighthood was in ‘flour’ • Fouet • il *
88 • Along the Street • Dronsfield • il *
89 • Why People Collect Stamps • Alexander J. Sefi • ar *
93 • Afternoon Tea at the Hôtel Oriental • G. Alan Keen • il *
94 • Brethren of the Coast • H. de Vere Stacpoole • ar *
98 • Mounsier Mingo • Thorpe • il *
99 • The Sun and the Moon • Anna Zinkeisen • il *
100 • Big Boys • Inder • il *
101 • In Nelson’s Time • S. Drigin • il *
102 • Land of happy hours • Helen Jacobs • il *
104 • The Apple Stall • S. Gooderham • il *
105 • The Bolshevik: A Study in Delicacy • Kennedy Williamson • ss *
106 • Why Not Employ Modern Methods ? • G. N. Allinson • il *
107 • Hard Luck • F. Morton Howard • ss *
110 • Bonzo’s Accident Trick • G. E. Studdy • ct *
111 • The Gift • Kobold Knight • ss *
114 • Bubblin’ • T. Gilfillan • il *
117 • The Procession • Reg. E. Higgins • il *
118 • The Sheik Goes West • A. K. Macdonald • il *
121 • A street in Nicosia • Gladys Peto • il *
123 • When God made the World • Mabel Lucie Attwell • il *
124 • The Sooth-sayer • Millar (Pop) Watt • il *
125 • Gates of Old London: Their Origin and Associations • D. Mackenzie • ar *
127 • Bridgegate • D. Mackenzie • il *
128 • Aldgate • D. Mackenzie • il *
129 • Bishopsgate • D. Mackenzie • il *
131 • Moorgate • D. Mackenzie • il *
132 • Cripplegate • D. Mackenzie • il *
134 • Aldersgate • D. Mackenzie • il *
135 • Newgate • D. Mackenzie • il *
137 • Ludgate • D. Mackenzie • il *
138 • Temple Bar Gate • D. Mackenzie • il *
140 • St. John’s Gate • D. Mackenzie • il *
142 • Casting • W. Heath Robinson • il *
143 • Variety • E. Hubbard • il *
144 • The Love Scene • Arthur Watts • il *
145 • Realities • Eric D. Brand • pl *
151 • Actor and Manager • Inder Burns • ct *
151 • The Comedian • Fred Buchanan • ct *
152 • The Opportunist • Tom Cottrell • ct *
152 • Burglar in Library • Inder Burns • ct *
153 • The Heart-breaker • H. C. Bevan Petman • il *
154 • Herm • Compton Mackenzie • ar *
158 • A Frog he would a-wooing go • Charles Folkard • il *
159 • Against Kings’ Regulations • Ernest Noble • il *
161 • Advice to Literary Murderers • G. K. Chesterton • ar *
163 • A Butterfly on the Wheel • D. L. Ghilchik • il *
164 • The River Girl • Arthur Ferrier • il *
165 • When Honour Died • Horace Annesley Vachell • ss *
168 • The Gentle Reader’s Complaint • Harold Ohlson • pm *
169 • The Hidalgo • Leo Bates • il *
170 • The Last Gun • T. Cuneo • il *
171 • The Frontier • Irania Ritchie • ss *
175 • Little Street, Mousehole • Cicely Andrews • il *
176 • Why Girls go Wrong • Gilbert Wilkinson • il *
177 • Bunny in Trouble • F. W. Thomas • vi The London Star
178 • When Edgar Wallace becomes Prime Minister • S. Strube • il *
180 • The Mermaid Inn, Rye • Albert Chanler • il *
181 • A Devil of a Tale • J. Russell Warren • ss *
184 • The Reveller • Macmichael • il *
185 • The Wayside • K. M. Stooke • pl *
186 • Laziness • Frank Fleetwood • pm *
187 • Royal and Ancient Game • James Affleck • il *
188 • The Ponte Vecchio, Florence • Adeline S. Illingworth • il *
189 • A Variety Turn • Harold Ohlson • ss *
193 • Gentlemen prefer blondes • Chloe Preston • il *
194 • The ‘Lighter’ Side of Smoking • Alick Ritchie • ct *
195 • The Oldest Inhabitants • Gracie Fields • vi *
195 • Love’s Calendar • Edith Nixon • pm *
196 • The Parasol • Fred Pegram • il *
197 • U Wilkiya • Ray Carr • ss *
201 • Children’s Hour • Lilian M. Rowles • il *
202 • Denomination • Inder Burns • ct *
202 • A Flying Experience • Sir Alan J. Cobham • ms *
203 • The World Forgetting • Harold Ernshaw • il *
204 • Out of the squall comes ‘Revenge’ • Chas. Pears • il *
205 • Steps and ‘Stares’ • Walter Bell • ct *
205 • Love’s Enchantment • Edward Allerton • pm *
205 • Master of the House • Walter Bell • ct *
205 • How’s the Liver ? • F. C. Boyle • ct *
206 • Half-Awash • F. C. Boyle • ct *
206 • My Fairy Galleon • Edith Nixon • pm *
207 • The Organ Grinder • Joyce H. Davies • ct *
207 • Vote for Joe • Walter Bell • ct *
208 • Transition of a Starfish • Bobby Horn • il *
Spicy Western Stories ed. Tom Mason (Newbury Park, CA: Malibu Graphics, Inc. 0-944735-53-3, 1990, $9.95, 107pp, tp); Anthology of eight stories reprinted from the 1930/1940’s pulp Spicy Western Stories.

iii • Hot in the Saddle • John Wooley • in
1 • Hermit of Hell’s Hump • Tim Carey • ss Spicy Western Stories Nov ’40
13 • Forbidden Food • E. Hoffman Price • ss Spicy Western Stories Nov ’40
31 • Trouble Rides Hard • William G. Bogart • ss Spicy Western Stories Jun ’38
43 • Six Gun Rendezvous • Rex Norman • ss Spicy Western Stories Jun ’38
55 • The Bull Had Blue-Horns • Laurence Donovan • ss Spicy Western Stories Mar ’42
67 • The Moving Finger • Edwin Truett • ss Spicy Western Stories Nov ’42
83 • Pinch-Penny, Bulldogger • Laurence Donovan • ss Spicy Western Stories Nov ’42
97 • Hell on Wheels • Max Neilson • ss Spicy Western Stories Mar ’42
Stories from the Transatlantic Review ed. Joseph F. McCrindle (Penguin, 1974, 413pp, pb); Reprint (Gollancz, 1970) anthology. [DP]

9 • Introduction • J. F. McCrindle • in
11 • Music to Lay Eggs By • Thomas Bridges • ss Transatlantic Review, 1968
26 • Home Is • Morris Lurie • ss Transatlantic Review, 1968
35 • The Road • Alan Sillitoe • ss Transatlantic Review, 1968
47 • Summer Voices • John Banville • ss Transatlantic Review, 1968
57 • Making Changes • Leonard Michaels • ss Transatlantic Review, 1969
66 • My Sister and Me • Asa Baber, Jr. • ss Transatlantic Review, 1967
82 • Before the Operation • Paul Breslow • ss Transatlantic Review, 1967
94 • The Collector • Austin C. Clarke • ss Transatlantic Review, 1967
111 • Sing, Shaindele, Sing • Jerome Charyn • ss Transatlantic Review, 1966
123 • Black Barbecue • Daniel Spicehandler • ss Transatlantic Review, 1966
140 • The Adult Education Class [from Eating People Is Wrong] • Malcolm Bradbury • ex Transatlantic Review, 1959
151 • During the Jurassic • John Updike • ss Transatlantic Review Sum ’66
156 • Acme Rooms and Sweet Marjorie Russell • Hugh Allyn Hunt • ss Transatlantic Review Spr ’66
172 • The Zodiacs • Jay Neugeboren • ss Transatlantic Review, 1969
186 • Dying • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Transatlantic Review, 1966
204 • The Redhead • Penelope Gilliatt • ss Transatlantic Review, 1965
215 • Girl in a White Dress • Edward Franklin • ss Transatlantic Review, 1964
228 • Changed • Norma Meacock • ss Transatlantic Review, 1964
236 • A Meeting in Middle Age • William Trevor • ss Transatlantic Review, 1964
252 • The World’s Fastest Human • Irvin Faust • ss Transatlantic Review, 1964
264 • The Siege • Sol Yurick • ss Transatlantic Review, 1963
280 • The Enemy • Bruce Jay Friedman • ss Transatlantic Review, 1963
290 • Simple Arithmetic • Virginia Moriconi • ss Transatlantic Review Spr ’63
303 • The Hyena • Paul Bowles • ss Transatlantic Review, 1962
307 • The Fair of San Gennaro • John McPhee • ss Transatlantic Review, 1961
319 • Ismael • Alfred Chester • ss Transatlantic Review, 1961
327 • Francois Yattend • Jean-Claude Van Itallie • ss Transatlantic Review, 1961
332 • The Star Blanket • Shirley Schoonover • ss Transatlantic Review Spr ’61
353 • A Game of Catch • George Garrett • ss Transatlantic Review, 1960
363 • The Educated Girl • V. S. Pritchett • ss Transatlantic Review, 1960
370 • Johnny Dio and the Sugar Plum Burglars • Harry D. Miller • ss Transatlantic Review, 1960
377 • At Home with the Colonel • Frank Tuohy • ss Transatlantic Review, 1962
383 • A Different Thing • Walter Clemons • ss Transatlantic Review, 1959
397 • The Ice Cream Eat • William Goldman • ss Transatlantic Review, 1959
408 • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
A Line of Cutting Women ed. Beverly McFarland, Teri Mae Rutledge & Micki Reaman (Calyx Books 0-934-97163-3, Dec ’98, $32.00, 256pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.

• Introduction • Beverly McFarland • in
• Apple and Stone • Katherine Sturtevant • ss
• Firewood • Marisha Chamberlain • ss
• The Doe • Molly Gloss • ss
• There Are Colors • Carol Orlock • ss
• New World • Julia Alvarez • ss
• It Is You, My Sister, Who Must Be Protected • Cherrie Moraga • ss
• White-Out • Phyllis Wolf • ss
• The Fifth Floor — 1967 • Beth Brant • ss
• Crow • Linda Hogan • ss
• Loving Leo • Sandra Scofield • ss
• Luisa in Realityland (excerpts) • Claribel Alegria • ex
• Falling off the Matterhorn • Shirley Sikes • ss
• Two Deserts • Valerie Matsumoto • ss
• Siko • Marianne Villanueva • ss
• Native Daughter • Shirley Geok-lin • ss
• Paths upon Water • Tahira Naqvi • ss
• Sanctuary • Amy Jones • ss
• The Transforming Eye • Kathleen Alcala • ss
• Lives of a Long-Haired Lesbian: Four Elemental Narrations • Ruthann Robson • ss
• Killing Color • Charlotte Watson Sherman • ss Obsidian II Spr ’89
• Young Mother • Maria Luisa Puga & Julie Albertson • ss
• Happy Mourning • Rosa Margot Ochoa & Bertie Acker • ss
• We Have Always Stashed Our Bones in the Closet • Aiyana Trotter • ss
• Walking Away • Barbara Branscomb • ss
• Sheets • Beth Bosworth • ss
• Esther, or The World Turned Upside Down • Alicia Ostriker • ss
• A Thing about Italy • Viki Radden • ss
• Nighthawks • Carolyn Barbier • ss
• Sarah’s T-Bird • Kim Silveira Wolterbeek • ss
• Sister Zita • Terese Martineau • ss
• Her Wild American Self • M. Evelina Galang • ss
• Gypsies in the Place of Pain • Hollis Seamon • ss
• River • Dee Axelrod • ss
• Afterward • Rebecca Lavine • ss
• The Wings • Kristin King • ss
• Scissors Girl • Margaret Willey • ss
• A Line of Cutting Women • Rita Marie Nibasa • ss
• Contributors’ Notes • Misc. Material • bg

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