Jean Stafford; John Cheever; Daniel Fuchs; William Maxwell — Stories

New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first printing of this collection of short stories from Jean Stafford, John Cheever, Daniel Fuchs, and William Maxwell. First edition, first printing. A collection of short stories from Jean Stafford, an American short story writer and novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; John Cheever, an American short story writer and novelist; Daniel Fuchs, an American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist; and William Maxwell, an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. With each writer selecting recent works to appear side-by-side with the other authors' works. As writers they have very little in common other than being roughly the same age, but as readers they very much respect and enjoy each other's works. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with minor wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small closed tear. Sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.