Half-a-hundred
Subtitle: tales by great American writers
By: edited, with an introduction by Charles Grayson
Contributors: Grayson, Charles
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: The Blakiston Company
Published: 1945
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 530
Subjects: American Short stories
Other titles: Tales by great American writers
Notes: "First edition."

Copyright date from verso of t.p.

Illustrated t.p.
Table of contents: title: Mr. Arcularis  -- Conrad Aiken; title: Justice  -- Louis Bromfield; title: Baby in the icebox, The  -- James M. Cain; title: Single purpose of Leon Burrows  -- John Cheever; title: Coroner's inquest  -- Marc Connelly; title: Farewell to Cuba  -- James Gould Cozzens; title: Old Bill  -- J. Frank Dobie; title: Two soldiers  -- William Faulkner; title: Place to lay one's head, A  -- Waldo Frank; title: House of three candles, The  -- Erle Stanley Gardner; title: Fame for Mr. Beatty  -- James Norman Hall; title: Nightshade  -- Dashiell Hammett; title: Weight of command  -- Ernest Haycox; title: Crime without passion  -- Ben Hecht; title: Capital of the world, The  -- Ernest Hemingway; title: Triall by armes  -- Joseph Hergesheimer; title: To the mountains  -- Paul Horgan; title: Opinion on West Eden, An  -- Cyril Hume; title: Twenty horses  -- Nunnally Johnson; title: Whear ha'ye ben, my laddie?  -- MacKinlay Kantor; title: Knock on a door  -- Rufus King; title: Day of pleasure, A  -- Manuel Komroff; title: Empress' Yankee, The  -- Harold Lamb; title: Cape Horn pilot  -- Jacland Marmur; title: You can't do that  -- John P. Marquand; title: Girl in the grave, The  -- Horace McCoy; title: Deckers on the coast  -- William McFee; title: Cowboy sang soprano, The  -- George Milburn; title: Continuity  -- Christopher Morley; title: Lieutenant, The  -- John O'Hara; title: Pipe, The  -- S.J. Perelman; title: Captain Waskow  -- Ernie Pyle; title: Hanging acrobat, The  -- Ellery Queen; title: Price of the head, The  -- John Russell; title: Dear Baby  -- William Saroyan; title: Squadron leader ; title: Robert L. Scott, Jr., Horace S. Mazet --; title: Faith at sea  -- Irwin Shaw; title: Life of Riley, The  -- Richard Sherman; title: Extra! Extra!  -- Robert E. Sherwood; title: Body of the crime, The  -- Wilbur Daniel Steele; title: Over the hill  -- John Steinbeck; title: Secret of success, The  -- Donald Ogden Stewart; title: Bullets  -- T.S. Stribling; title: Juggler, The  -- Arthur Stringer; title: Another April  -- Jesse Stuart; title: Black magic of Barney Haller, The  -- James Thurber; title: Swirling sky  -- Jim Tully; title: Warship  -- Thornton Wilder; title: Fingernail, The  -- Cornell Woolrich; title: Almos' a man -- Richard Wright.