1940 Colliers Greatest Short Stories Volume I, III & IV (1 3 6)

This listing is for a set of 3 - 1940 Collier Greatest Short Stories. Included are:

Volume I ~"American" which includes the following titles and authors:
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
The murders in The Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
The Great Stone Face by Nathanial Hawthorne
The Lady, Or The Tiger? By Frank Stockton
The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O’Brien
The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
The Lost Phoebe by Theodore Dreier
The Man Who Stole a Meeting-House by J T Trowbridge
A Ride With a Mad Horse in a Freight-Car by W H H Murray
Balacchi Brothers by Rebecca Harding Davis
Who Was Sh by Bayard Taylor



Volume III ~"American" which includes the following titles and authors:

The Phonograph and The Graft by O Henry
Brother Rabbit’s Cradle by Joel Chandler Harris
After The Battle by Joseph A Altsheler
Many Waters by Margaret Deland
To make A Hoosier Holiday by George Ade
A Christmas Present for a Lady by Myra Kelly
The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte
Purple-Eyes by John Luther Long
The Run Of The Yellow Mail by Frank H Spearman
Mrs. Protheroe by Booth Tarkington
Mr Dooley on The Pursuit of Riches by F P Dunne
The Charge by Douglas Newton
Bondage by Leila Burton Wells
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
Rosemary For Remembrance by Henry Harland
Such As Walk in Darkness by Samuel Hopkins Adams
His First Penitent by James Oliver Curwood



Volume VI "Foreign" which includes the following titles and authors:

The Accursed House by Emile Gaboriau
The Cloak by Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol
Cavalleria Rusticana by Giavanni Verga
Railroad and Chruchyard by Bjornstjerne Bjornson
The Vendean Marriage by Jules Gabriel Janin
The Young Girl of Treppi by Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
The Sire De Maletroit’s Door by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Theif by Feodor Mikailovitch Dostoievski
Thou Shalt Not Kill by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
The Beauty Spot by Alfred Louis Charles De Musset
A New Year’s Eve Confession by Hermann Sudermann
The Red Room by H G Wells
The Long Exile by Count Leo Nikolaievitch Tolstoi
Index of Titles
Index of Authors

Each of these 3 books is in good shape with no writing, missing or torn pages or other issues. the spines, covers and bindings are also in good shape with very little ware. See pic.