New York: Dutton, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon anthology of Abbey's works, edited and illustrated by Abbey himself. In addition to selections from his books ranging from 'Jonathan Troy' to 'Desert Solitaire' and 'Monkey Wrench Gang', this also includes a preface by Abbey and a selection 'Rites of Spring' from an unpublished novel. 383pp. ISBN: 0-525-242848.

New York: Doubleday, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 18 stories, with the first prize "The Dead" by Joyce Carol Oates, Other authors include Bernard Malamud, Rosellen Brown, Raymond Carver, Diane Johnson and more. Introduction by William Abrahams, and brief biographical notes at the beginning of each selection. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-385-11673x.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - Authors include Joyce Carol Oates (winner of the first place prize for "In the Region of Ice"), Miriam Goldman, Richard Yates, John Updike and more. 221 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes the stories by the prize winners - first prize, Bernard Malamud, second prize, Joyce Carol Oates, and third prize, John Barth - as well as contributions by Anne Tyler, Peter Taylor, Grace Paley and others. xiii, 293 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (1992.). SIGNED - The winning and finalist short stories for the O. Henry Award for 1992, .edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. Include stories by Cynthia Ozick, Lucy Honig, Tom McNeal, Amy Herrick, Murray Pomerance, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Michael Wagner, Yolanda Barnes, David Long, Harriet Doerr, Perri Klass, Daniel Meltzer, Les Myers, Ken Chowder, Alice Adams, Frances Sherwood, Antonya Nelson, Millicent Dillon, Kent Nelson, Ann Packer, and Kate Braverman. SIGNED by Ann Packer at her story "Babies." Biographies of the authors. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-385-421923.

London: Spectacular Diseases, 1987. First edition - An anthology of 40 years of poetry by Latin American women poets, edited and with an introduction by Agosin and Franzen in which they comment that the position of these women poets is still very precarious and that this anthology aims to be eclectic by including writers of various regions and styles. Among the poets included are Julia Alvarez, Rosario Castellanos, Ana Castillo, Rosario Ferre, Cecilia Vicuna and many others. Brief notes on contributors. One of 700 copies available for purchase (out of a total edition of 790 copies). 109 pp plus colophon,. ISBN: 0-946904073.

New York: Henry Holt, (1994.). Anthology containing the works of over 100 modern American poets, including Martin Espada, Paul Beatty, Sapphire, Ntozake Shange, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Luis Rodriguez, Eileen Myles, Wanda Coleman, Thulani Davis, Victor Hernadez Cruz, Patricia Spears Jones, David Henderson, Sandra Maria Esteves, Patricia Smith, Luis J. Rodriguez and many others. The selected works were all first performed at New York City's Nuyorkian Poets' Cafe --- founded by poets Miguel Algarin, Miguel Pinero, and others. 1994 American Book Award Winner. Notes on the poets, 514 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-32576.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. A collection of essays, excerpts & short fiction designed for use in the college classroom or to give an overview of the development of the science fiction genre & its literary criticism. Contributors include Hawthorne, Vonnegut, Heinlein, Asimov, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Susan Sontag , Kenneth Koch, Zelasny and many others. Suggestions for further reading, 345p. ISBN:. ISBN: 0-155786504.

New York: Ballantine, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A survey of American Indian literature which brings together the works of seventeen authors - E. Pauline Johnson, Mourning Dove, Luther Standing Bear, Roger Black Elk, D'Arcy McNickle, N.Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz and others - "to give readers a historical overview of the richness, depth, and range of Native literature in the first part of this century." The selections are drawn from many genres: memoirs, oral histories, short stories, novels. Edited and with an introduction by Allen. SIGNED by Allen on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. Notes on the authors, bibliography. xii, 321 pp. ISBN: 0-345375262.

New York: Ballantine, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of two decades of American Indian literature which brings together the works of both well-known and established authors and emerging writers. The selections are drawn from many genres: memoirs, oral histories, short stories, novels. Edited and with an introduction by Allen. Among the contributors are Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Diane Glancy, Linda Hogan, Dean Ing, Roxy Gordon, Martin Cruz Smith, Joy Harjo, Luci Tapihonso and more. Notes on the authors, supplementary readings. ix, 353 pp. ISBN: 0-345375254.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories and sketches including anonymous traditional tales and others by writers such as Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Linda Hogan, Mary TallMountain and more. Edited and with an introduction by Paula Gunn Allen. Suggestions for further reading, glossary. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-8070-81000.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994.). A collection featuring 75 poets. 39 appearing for the first time in this anthology. Contributors include Charles Bukowski, Amy Clampitt, Mark Doty, Carl Philips, W. S. Merwin, Sharon Olds and many others. David Lehman is the series editor. Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments and a cumulative series index. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-671899481.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994.). A collection featuring 75 poets. 39 appearing for the first time in this anthology. Contributors include Charles Bukowski, Amy Clampitt, Mark Doty, Carl Philips, W. S. Merwin, Sharon Olds and many others. David Lehman is the series editor. Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments and a cumulative series index. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-671899481.

Scottsdale, AZ: Quadrillion Media, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Five stories, novelizations based on the best of the shows on MGM's pioneering television program in 1956. A trade paperback original. SIGNED by both Anderson on the contents page, next to the title of his story and by Benford at the beginning of his story.

Concord, CA: Dark Regions Press, 1991. SIGNED frst edition - A magazine of weird fiction in a trade paperback format. Includes fiction and poetry as well as an article in the writer's corner by Bruce Boston on small press publishing. SIGNED by Kevin J. Anderson at his story "The Dragon Business." Illustrated by Cheryl Mandus, Alan Jude Summa and Sandra L. Johnson.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Otto Penzler, series editor. Notes on the contributors and a list of other distinguished stories of 2002. xv, 328 pp.

Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Henderson. Contains 63 selections, including 33 poems, 12 essays and 18 short stories by many authors, including Cynthia Ozick, David Plante, Seamus Heaney, Charles Wright, Jorie Graham, Al Young, Carol Muske, W. P. Kinsella, and more. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 608 pp. ISBN: 0-916366-103.

New York: Penguin, (1987.). "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Cynthia Ozick. Contains poems, essays and short stories by many authors, including Francince Prose, Denis Johnson, Wendell Berry, Richard Ford, Andre Dubus, Linda Hogan, Mark Doty, Mona Simpson, Mary Hood, Paul Auster and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 539 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0094695.

Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press / Norton, (2009). First edition - An annual anthology of essays, short stories and poems, selected from small literary journals across America - a reflection of the diversity and excellence to be found in offbeat publications from across the United States. Includes works by Derek Walcott, Wells Tower, Louise Gluck, Anthony Doerr, John d'Agato, Louis B. Jones, Marvin Bell, Bill McKibben and many more. List of special mentions, brief notes on the authors, and index to the first 33 volumes. 618 pp. ISBN: 978-1888889512.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology containing 8 original short stories by Michael Bishop, R. A. Lafferty, James Tiptree, Jr, F, M. Busby, Howard Waldrop and others, and a special non-fact articles section. 182 pp. Interesting association copy with the name of science fiction writer Paul Preuss on the front endpaper. ISBN: 0-385-114141.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology containing 8 original short stories by Michael Bishop, R. A. Lafferty, James Tiptree, Jr, F, M. Busby, Howard Waldrop and others, and a special non-fact articles section. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-385-114141.

New York: Random House, (1974) dj. Hardcover - An anthology containing 12 original short stories, by Hilary Bailey, George Alec Effinger, Stephen Goldin, Kris Neville, Ursula Le Guin, Gene Wolfe and more. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-394-485629.

London: Chatto & Windus, (1992) dj. SIGNED first edition - True 1st edition of this anthology of the Crime Writers' Association - bound in wrappers with an outer wrapper. Many are original stories by such writers as Ian Rankin, Ruth Rendell, Susan Moody, Reginald Hill, Dick Francis, Robert Barnard, Simon Brett and more. INSCRIBED on the title page by Sara Paretsky. Illustrated with Clewsey's Cliches, biographical notes. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-7011-59235.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. SIGNED first edition - The seventh in this series of mystery anthologies includes a Prohibition-era tale of a scorned lover's revenge, a Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery solved by an actor playing the famous detective onstage, stories of a woman's near-fatal search for self-discovery, a bar owner's gutsy attempt to outwit the mob, and a showdown between double-crossing detectives, and a tale of murder by psychology. Among the contributors are Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, James Crumley, Joyce Carol Oates, George Pelecanos, Scott Phillips, Brendan DuBois, Daniel Stashower, Hanna Tinti, Monica Wood and more. Otto Penzler, series editor. SIGNED by Connelly on the title page. Notes on the contributors and a list of other distinguished stories of 2002. xv, 328 pp. ISBN: 0-618-32965X.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes introductions to each section, and brief biographical introductions to the individual author's selections. A wide-ranging anthology, from Phillis Wheatley, William Wells Brown and Sojourner Truth thru Chestnutt, Dunbar, the Harlem Renaissance and including James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Gwendolyn Brooks, Don Lee, and Sonia Sanchez, among many others. Whenever possible, the selections have been printed in their entirety. A massive book, 897 pgs, including an index and bibliography. ISBN: 0-395-04345x.

New York: St Martin's, (2008.). First edition - Thick book - on the cover it says more than 300,000 words of fantastic fiction. Includes stories by Greg Egan, Steven Baxter, Michael Swanwick, Pat Cadigan, James Van Pelt, John Barnes, Bruce Sterling, Alastair Reynolds, Ian MacDonald, Robert Reed, Gregory Benford, and many others, as well as a summary of the year and an honorable mention list. lx 788 pp. ISBN: 9780312378592.

New York: St Martin's, (2009.). First edition - Thick book - on the cover it says more than 300,000 words of fantastic fiction. Includes stories by Alastair Reynolds, Michael Swanwick, Robert Reed, Elizabeth Bear, Stephen Baxter, Paolo Bacigalupi, Darryl Gregory, Nancy Kress , Sarah Monette, Karl Schroeder, Ted Kosmatka, and Darryl Gregory, Peter Beagle, John Barnes and many others, as well as a summary of the year and a recommended reading list. xlviii, 639 pp. ISBN: 978-0312551056.