The Best American short stories, 1955 :  and The Yearbook of the American short story / 
edited by Martha Foley. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin Co.,  1955. 
 - xii, 404 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>A matter of price / Robert O. Bowen -- The excursionists / Nancy Cardozo -- Bachelor of Arts / Nancy G. Chaikin -- The country husband / John Cheever -- The fisherman from Chihuahua / Evan S. Connell, Jr. -- The decline and fall of Augie Sheean / Joe Coogan -- The day of the equinox / Daniel Curley -- Little Joe / William Eastlake -- Brother Quintillian and Dick the chemist / George P. Elliott -- The hundredth centennial / Mac Hyman -- The resting place / Oliver la Farge -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Dead center / Judith Merril -- Portrait of my son as a young man / Elizabeth H. Middleton -- The professor and the poet / Marvin Mudrick -- Yore / Howard Nemerov -- A circle in the fire / Flannery O'Connor -- Tip on a dead jockey / Irwin Shaw -- Maiden in a tower / Wallace Stegner -- Bird man / David Stuart -- Herman's day / Harvey Swados -- I got a friend / Mark van Doren -- The scale room / George Vukelich -- Going to Naples / Eudora Welty. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--20th century.<br/>Short stories, American.<br/>Canadian fiction--20th century.<br/>Short stories, Canadian.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS643  / .B47 1955