Publication: Stories Selected from The Unexpected

Publication: Stories Selected from The UnexpectedPublication Record # 329265
Editor: Bennett Cerf
Date: date unknown
Catalog ID: FP30
Publisher: Bantam Pathfinder
Price:
$0.50^?$: US dollar
Pages: viii+184
Format:
pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Notes:
- 2nd printing [This Publication Record].
- No printing date or printing number line in book.
- ©Copyright 1948 by Bennett Cerf.
- Bantam Pathfinder edition published March 1963.
- Individual stories' copyright data on copyright page.
- LCCN 63-8930.
- Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada.
- Introduction ends with -Bennett Cerf. No dating.
- Cover artist not credited in book. Signature not found.
- FP30 in pricing line at top of front cover.
- FP30 at top spine.
Vendor listing of Bantam HP4705, 4th printing also found.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 1731707
- Open Library: OL24220649M

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Anthology Title: Stories Selected from the Unexpected • (1963) • anthology by Bennett Cerf (variant of The Unexpected 1948)

Contents (view Concise Listing)

vii • Introduction (The Unexpected) • (1948) • essay by Bennett Cerf
1 • Salesmanship • non-genre • (1930) • short story by Mary Ellen Chase
9 • The Storm • (1944) • short story by McKnight Malmar
23 • The Thousand Dollar Bill • (1935) • short story by Manuel Komroff
37 • Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen • non-genre • (1907) • short story by O. Henry
43 • Exchange of Men • (1946) • short story by Joseph Cross
55 • A Horseman in the Sky • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
62 • Two Bottles of Relish • non-genre • (1932) • short story by Lord Dunsany
76 • Final Break • (1945) • short story by Ian S. Thomson
79 • Addio • non-genre • (1921) • short story by Thomas Beer
94 • Suspicion • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
111 • Gavin • (1945) • short story by John Van Druten
124 • Mammon and the Archer • non-genre • (1902) • short story by O. Henry
131 • The Interlopers • (1912) • short story by Saki
137 • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me • (1921) • short story by A. E. Coppard
148 • Revelations in Black • (1933) • novelette by Carl Jacobi
169 • The Price of the Head • non-genre • (1916) • short story by John Russell
181 • The Chaser • (1940) • short story by John Collier

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