A first edition of the short story collection "Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night" signed by the author, Thisbe Nissen. The book won the 1999 John Simmons Award for Short Fiction from the University of Iowa Press, and was reissued in a pared-down version by Anchor Books in 2000. You're bidding on the original U of I Press edition, with cover art by Iowa photographer Sandra Louise Dyas. It has 9 more stories than the later Anchor Books edition, and is one of only approximately 2,500 copies printed.

These fierce and quirky stories deal innovatively with familiar issues -- young women (and some men) cope with eating disorders, death, illness, infidelity, and love.