1964 Washington Square Press paperback 66th printing of the 1941 collection by various authors. Introduction by M. Edmund Speare. I found this copy some months ago in the free books pile on the porch of Dimond Library.

I can let this go after I read:
1833 An Episode of the Reign of Terror (short story) [read 2009]
1835 A Passion in the Desert Honore de Balzac [read 2010]
1838 Ligeia (short story) [read 2010]
1839 The Fall of the House of Usher (short story) [read 2009]
1841 The Murders in the Rue Morgue (short story) [read 2010]
1841 A Descent into the Maelstrom (short story) [read 2010]
1842 The Gold-Bug (novelette) [read 2010]
1843 The Tell-Tale Heart (short story) [read 2010]
1843 The Black Cat (short story) [read 2011]
1843 A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (short story) [read 2010]
1844 The Oblong Box (short story) [read 2010]
1844 The Purloined Letter (short story) [read 2010]
1845 The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (The Lunatics) (short story) [read 2010]
1845 The Bells (poem) [read 2010]
1846 The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe [read 2010]
1856 The Luck of Roaring Camp Bret Harte [read 2010]
1859 Family Happiness (novella) [read 2010]
1867 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County Mark Twain [read 2010]
1869 War and Peace [read 2011]
1872 God Sees the Truth, but Waits Leo N. Tolstoi [read 2011]
1878 The Sire de Malétroit's Door (short story) [read 2010]
1879 The Suicide Club and Other Stories (from New Arabian Nights) [read 2008]
1879 A Lodging for the Night Robert Louis Stevenson [read 2011]
1880 Boule de Suif (novelette) [read 2011]
1881 The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard [read 2013]
1881 Maison Tellier (short story) [read 2013]
1882 Mademoiselle Fifi (short story) [read 2013]
1884 The Necklace Guy de Maupassant [read 2013]
1892 The Procurator of Judea Anatole France [read 2013]
1895 An Upheaval (short story) [read 2014]
1895 In Exile (short story) [read 2014]
1896 The Seagull [read 2014]
1896 Many Cargoes (story collection) [read 2013]
1897 The Skipper's Wooing [read 2013]
1897 Liza of Lambeth [read 2014]
1898 Sea Urchins (More Cargoes) (story collection) [read 2014]
1899 The Darling Anton P. Chekhov [read 2014]
1899 Dogged (short story) [n/a]
1901 Buddenbrooks [read 2014]
1902 The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs [read 2015]
1902 The Woman Who Never Should (short political sketch) [n/a]
1904 Reginald (story collection) [read 2010]
1904 The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein (short story) [read 2013]
1905 Tobermory Saki [read 2010]
1905 Paul's Case Willa Cather [read 2015]
1905 Telemachus, Friend (short story) [read 2015]
1894-1906 Collected Stories of O. Henry [read 2015]
1910 A Municipal Report O. Henry [read 2015]
1911 In a German Pension [read 2015]
1915 Of Human Bondage [read 2008]
1916 You Know Me, Al (baseball stories) [n/a]
1919 Hands (short story) [read 2015]
1919 Winesburg, Ohio [read 2015]
1920 Bliss Katherine Mansfield [read 2016]
1920 The Egg (short story) [read 2016]
1920 The Magician (short story) [read 2016]
1921 Seeds Sherwood Anderson [read 2016]
1921 Rain W. Somerset Maugham [read 2016]
1922 The Golden Honeymoon (short story) [read 2016]
1923 The Gentleman from San Francisco Ivan Bunin [read 2016]
1962 The Wild Years (1920s essay collection) [read 2008]
1924 The Magic Mountain [read 2016]
1925 In Our Time (story collection) [read 2009]
1925 The Devil and Daniel Webster Stephen Vincet Benet [read 2016]
1926 The Killers Ernest Hemingway [read 2010]
1926 Haircut Ring Lardner [read 2016]
1928 Disorder and Early Sorrow Thomas Mann [read 2016]
1929 Big Blonde Dorothy Parker [read 2017]

Edit November 25, 2017: An excellent collection of early stories.

... in the box.

And please visit the next meetup of TriValley BookCrossing group, at Panera Bread in Dublin, the second Tuesday of each month.

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