 | McSweeney's Issues One Through Three
Buy new: $31.92 / Used from: $24.95 Where it all started. These feature McSweeney's famously awesome fiction as well as non-fiction, interviews and humor (the latter were later moved to McSweeneys humor site and Believer monthly)
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 | Timothy McSweeney's Issue No. 4; Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying by Dave (editor) Eggers
Buy used from: $15.00 Comes in a metal box. Their first creatively packaged issue. Issues 4 through 9 are pretty impossible to find now, except on Ebay.
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 | McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 5
back to basics of 1-3, but hardcover. A very good issue.
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| McSweeney's #6: We Now Know Who
Buy used from: $13.75 Comes with a They Might Be Giants CD. One of 2 I've never been able to find (without paying a ton of money), so can't comment on it.
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| McSweeney's 7 (McSweeney's Quarterly, Volume 7)
Buy used from: $15.03 9 booklets bound up in a rubber band. I haven't read it yet, but neat packaging.
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 | McSweeney's Quarterly #8
Buy used from: $4.75 First to be guest edited (Paul Maliszewski) and themed.
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| McSweeney's Issue No. 9
Buy used from: $3.83 One of the best issues. Great stories by Gabe Hudson, AM Holmes and Denis Johnson.
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 | McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Originally issue 10, republished by Vintage. Very uneven, but a few AMAZING stories like Rick Moody's sci-fi one. So overall, still worth the read.
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 | McSweeney's Issue 11 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Buy used from: $12.00 comes with a DVD. Neat.
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 | McSweeney's Issue 12: Unpublished, Unknown, & or Unbelievable by Dave Eggers
Buy used from: $2.12 The first one I ever bought. Another uneven issue, but uneven for McSweeney's is still better than 99% of the stuff out there.
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 | McSweeney's Issue 13 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $7.95 An award winning issue totally dedicated to comics. All comics or non-fiction about comics. A departure, but a good one.
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 | McSweeney's At War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been so Scared (Quarterly Concern Issue 14)
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 probably my favorite issue. Just straight up amazing fiction, no gimmicks.
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 | McSweeney's Issue 15 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Buy new: $18.72 / Used from: $1.71 All from Iceland.
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 | McSweeney's Issue 16 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Buy new: $18.72 / Used from: $4.00 Comes with a comb and a novella
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 | McSweeney's Issue 17 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $10.00 Bundeled up like mail. Only a short amount of straight short fiction though. Very neat packaging
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 | McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $1.83 Another back to basics issue.
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 | McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $7.97 Then back to crazy packaging.
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 | McSweeney's Issue 20 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $2.25 Every fourth page has a full color illustration. Mostly great art... and of course great fiction.
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 | The Better of McSweeney's, Volume 1 by Eli Horowitz
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $3.65 Most early McSweeney's are hard to find, so this is a great place to start.
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 | Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $2.75 Compelation of humor from the magazine and the website.
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 | McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.15 A spin-off of issue #10: Literary people doing genre fiction alongside genre writers who are kinda literary
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 | McSweeney's Issue 21 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $1.44 What will the future bring? duh duh duh
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