Moser, Barry [Selected and Illustrated by]; Glassman, Peter [Afterword]

GREAT GHOST STORIES [Signed by Barry Moser]

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 204, [8] pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. In maroon cloth quarter binding with navy paper boards. Jacket is maroon with blue pictorial elements and white lettering, wrapped in an archival mylar sleeve. Sleeve is moderately scuffed. Jacket shows moderate shelving wear, with small scuffs, some rubbing and peeling on the bottom edges, and a ~1 in. closed tear in the front cover at the bottom of the fore edge. Price uncut: "$22.00". Boards show lighter wear, with some rubbing and light sunning along edges and small white scuffs on the back cover. Spine is slightly slanted. Text block shows mild sunning and small stains to dyed top edge. Interior clean. Inscribed by Moser to Neil and Susan Sheehan on title page: "For Neil + Susan Sheehan-- / BM-- North Hatfield, MA, October 23, '00". Shelved in Room X.

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Special Collections

Price: $100

NOTES

Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936–2021) and Susan Sheehan (born 1937) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie", while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine’s editorial and artistic community.