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New York: E.P. Dutton, 1985. First edition, first printing (with full number

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1985. First edition, first printing (with full number line including 1). Hardcover. Quarter white cloth over red paper-covered boards, with black spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($18.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 335 pages. Collects twenty-nine stories from 1951 to 1983: "The Seraph and the Zambesi, " "The Go-Away Bird, " "The Curtain Blown by the Breeze, " "The Pawnbroker's Wife, " "The Twins, " "The Black Madonna, " "The House of the Famous Poet, " "The Portobello Road, " "You Should Have Seen the Mess, " "The Ormolu Clock, " "The Fathers' Daughters, " "The Fortune-Teller, " "Daisy Overend, " "Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse, " "The Truth and the Incident, " "The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life, " "The Girl I Left Behind Me, " "Bang-Bang You're Dead, " "The Snobs, " "The Executor, " "A Member of the Family, " "The Pearly Shadow, " "A Sad Tale's Best for Winter, " "The Big Knockers, " "The First Year of My Life, " "The Gentile Jewesses, " "The Thing About Police Stations, " "The Dark Glasses, " and "The Story of a Poem." The stories are drawn from Spark's earlier collections and later uncollected work: from "The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories" (1958), "Voices at Play" (1961), and "Bang-Bang You're Dead" (1961), together with stories first published in magazines between the 1960s and 1980s. Spark (1918 2006) was a Scottish novelist and short story writer. THE STORIES OF MURIEL SPARK preceded her later collections "Open to the Public" (1997) and "The Complete Short Stories" (2001).