Collected Stories

First edition. 8vo. Pp. xxi, 442. Quarter-bound black cloth over teal blue paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket photograph, Chicago, 1951, by Yasuhiro Ishimoto. Preface by Janis Bellow, introduction by James Wood, afterword by Saul Bellow.

Author's definitive collection of short stories, the last to be published during his lifetime. They include "What Kind of Day Did You Have?", "Leaving the Yellow House", "A Theft", and the previously uncollected, "By the St. Lawrence", first published in Esquire. The only three-time National Book Award winner, in addition to the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. "Reading Bellow is a special way of being alive." –James Wood, The New Republic