The New Avon Bedside Companion (Avon Books, 1949, 182, 25¢, 156pp, pb, an)
Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. Reissued as Avon Bedside Companion, Avon # 482, 1952, as if new.
- 3 · Crown-Fire · Erskine Caldwell · ss We Are the Living by Erskine Caldwell, Viking Press, 1933
- 9 · Men Are All Alike · Sally Benson · ss The New Yorker November 9 1940
- 20 · The Impersonation of Esther · Pierre Louys · ss (r)
- 33 · We Want You for a Neighbor · Jerome D. Ross · ss Story #125, May/June 1947
- 46 · A Bad Error · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903
translated from the French (“La fenêtre”, Gil Blas, July 10, 1883 as by Maufrigneuse).
- 53 · Night! Youth! Paris! and the Moon! · John Collier · ss The New Yorker January 1 1938
- 59 · Stranded on a Davenport · H. Allen Smith · ts Low Man on a Totem Pole by H. Allen Smith, Doubleday, 1941
- 70 · The High Constable’s Wife · Honoré de Balzac · ss (r)
- 88 · The Obscenity of Glamis Flang [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · ss Vanity Fair (US) May 1930, as “The Obscenity of Glamis Flood”
- 95 · Shell-Fish · Émile Zola · nv (r)
- 118 · Red Mike, Mabel and Me · Benjamin Appel · ss 1941
- 126 · Crusoe’s Footprint · Wolcott Gibbs · ss The New Yorker September 14 1946
- 137 · The Bear Tamer’s Daughter · Konrad Bercovici · ss Adventure 1st July 1921
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