New York: Scribner, (1997.). A collection of 75 poems, reflecting the diversity of America - from Sherman Alexie and Ai through to Lewis Warsh and Charles Wright. Also includes contributions from Gillian Conoly, Amy Gerstler, Dana Gioia, Jorie Graham, Allen Ginsberg, Lawson Fusao Inada, Larry Levis, Yusef Komunyakaa, Charlie Smith, Derek Walcott, Jayne Cortez, Donald Hall and many others. David Lehman is the series editor.Õ Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments and a cumulative series index. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-684-81451X.

New York: The Elks Magazine, (1932). Hardcover first edition - Collects ten stories originally published in the Elks Magazine between 1921 and 1931, in a limited edition of 1,000 copies to be numbered and signed by the editor, but this copy is unnumbered and out of series. Includes "The Slave" by Albert Payson Terhune; "His Wild Notes" by Octavus Roy Cohen; "Adventure" by Ben Ames Williams; "There is a Tide" by Elmer Davis and others. 271 pp.

New York: Norton, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Introduction by Ron Hansen. Contains fifteen stories by authors both new and well-established, including Peter Lasalle, Joy Harjo, Rick Bass, Ken Smith, Larry Levis, Rudolfo Anaya, Leslie Johnson, Thomas Fox Averill, Antonya Nelson, Kent Meyers, Dagoberto Gilb and more. SIGNED by Hansen on the title page. Notes on authors, list of other notable stories. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-393030180.

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. SIGNED - A collection of 11 stories (most being published for the first time) by authors such as Gary Soto, Al Young, Maxine Hong Kingston, Lois Lowry, Kevin Kyung , Ana Castillo, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Gerald Haslam, Rick Wernli and Gerald Vizenor. SIGNED by Lois Lowry at her story "The Harringtons' Daughter." Includes brief biographies of the contributors. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-06-4470822.

New York: Warner, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first anthology to focus on the presence and influence of black writers in speculative fiction - it includes 25 stories (many of them original) three novel excerpts, and five essays. The stories range from Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Goophered Grapevine" (1887) to an excerpt George S. Schuyler's "Black No More" (1931) as well as Octavia E. Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night"and and Derrick Bell's "The Space Traders" (1992) Other contributors include Stephen Barnes, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Ishmael Reed, Walter Mosley, Robert Fleming, Jewelle Gomez, Akua Lezli Hope, Honore Fanonne Jeffers, Kalamu ya Salaam, Kiini Ibura Salaam, Evie Shockley, and more. Notes on contributors. xiv, 427 pp. ISBN: 0-446525839.

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, (1994). SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Karen Karbo at her story "Keep Your Guts." Anthology which contains stories by Alice Walker, Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood, Erica Jong, Isabel Allende, Andrea Dworkin, Karen Karbo, Amy Bloom, Angela Carter, Fay Weldon, Kathy Page, Veronica Vera and many others, divided into eight topical sections: who is the wild woman, the dark intruder/mate, empowerment and self-esteem, sex, extreme behavior, creativity and life phases, rage, and endurance. Introduction by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Notes on authors. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-879515147.

San Francisco: East Bay Filipino American National Historical Society, 2002. First edition - "An anthology of memoirs by Filipino Americans. The stories are culled from memories of growing up in different regions of the United States: from the urban jungle of Manhattan to the dusty farmlands of California. Contributing writers represent different generations, ranging from survivors of the Great Depression era in the 1930s to immigrants from the 1980s, escapees of an ancestral homeland in economic and political turmoil." Introductions by Toribio and James Sobredo. Includes 3-page glossary and 9-page Filipino American Timeline and notes on contributors. . xvii, 243 pp. ISBN: 1-887764569.

Chicago: Quadrangle Books, (1970). Edited and with an introduction by Harry M. Trebing. Includes essays by Andrew Hacker, Adolf A. Berle, Elizabeth B. Drew, Emmanuel Cellar and others on on the beginning of the multi-national corporations. A New York Times Book. Suggested reading, index. 273 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - 20 short stories selected from US and Canadian magazines. Includes stories by established authors like Raymond Carver, Ursula Le Guin, and John Updike, as well as younger authors including Carolyn Chute, Marian Thurm, Louise Erdrich and more. List of magazines. xx, 332 pp. ISBN: 0-395-34428x.

New York: Twayne, (1956). Hardcover first edition - A collection of student poetry from the Manhattan area, sponsored by a Riverside Church. Includes poems by Jack Hirschman, Alan Gross,Jane Philips and many more. Introduction by Stanley R. Hopper. 83 pp.

Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1990. First edition -

New York: Henry Holt, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A poetry anthology especially for young adults - "Drawing on poems both serious and silly and poets from Shakespeare to Lucille Clifton, The Body Eclectic looks at what our bodies are, what they are not, how we love them and taunt them, what they give us, and what they take away." More than 70 poems, including selections from Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Li-Young Lee, William Stafford, Jane Hirshfield, Sherman Alexie, Thomas Hardy and many more. SIGNED by TWO contributors: on the title page by the editor, Patrice Vecchione and by Gary Soto at his poem "Black Hair." Introduction and biographical notes with suggestions for further readings. Index of authors and titles, 192 pp. ISBN: 0-805069356.

New York: Doubleday / Anchor, 1986. In addition to the prizewinners and contributors shown above, this also includes stories by Bobbie Ann Mason, Ward Just, Elizabeth Spencer, Stephanie Vaughn and more. Introduction by Abrahams. Walker won first prize for 'Kindred Spirits' and Oates received a special award for continuing achievement for 'Master Race." 274 pp. ISBN: 0-385-231563.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1993.). First edition - A collection of essays published during the previous year in a variety of periodicals. In addition to the contributors mentioned above, this includes Jane Kramer on the Salman Rushdie; Los Angeles Crip warlord Sanyika Shakur (aka "Monster Kody") on his initiation into gang violence at the age of 11; Jean Harris on women in prison; Vlaclav Havlov on politics and morality, and more. Notes on contributors. 290 pp. ISBN: 1-555972020.

Bakersfield, CA: Poet & Printer Press, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An interesting anthology of works by William Everson, Philip Levine, Gary Soto, Gerald Haslam, Richard Dokey, Shirley Williams, Eugene Redmond, David St. John, Joyce Odam, and many others. INSCRIBED on the title page by both the editor Jane Watts and the illustrator, Albert Naso, and dated in 1980 and also SIGNED by THREE authors at their contributions: by Gary Soto at his poem "History, " and by David St John at 'Hush' by Richard Dokey at his story "The Dead Man" , and uncommon thus. Includes notes on the authors. A very handsomely produced work, slightly oversized, 214 pp.

(np) Poet and Printer Press, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An early anthology of poetry and fiction by writers from California's San Joaquim valley. Contributors include William Everson, Philip Levine, Shirley Williams, Wendy Bishop, Gary Soto, Eugene Redmond, Roberta Spear, David St. John and others. SIGNED by Gary Soto at his poem "History." Each writer's selections are preceded by brief biographical comments. Introduction by the editor, and illustrated with drawings by Albert Naso. An attractive and uncommon book. slightly oversized. Errata slip laid in. Notes on contributors. 214 pp.

London: Collins, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Shirley Williams introduces a selection from the 1979/80 Guardian. Cartoons by Bryan McAllister.

New York: Delacorte, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of documents and accounts that reveal the pain and destruction that have been inflicted on minorities in America: Indians, African Americans, Asian Americans and Latin Americans.

San Francisco: Book Club of California. 1940. Hardcover first edition - Anthology of poems about early California arranged in three sections: The Period of Spain and Mexico, Days of the 'Forty-nine, and San Francisco. Among the poets included are Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Gelett Burgess, Bayard Taylor, Joaquin Miller and others. Very attractively illustrated by Barse Miller with hillside scenes of San Francisco on the endpapers continued on double facing pages preceding the title page and after the final page of text. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies by the Ward Ritchie Press. x, 46.

Albuquerque. NM: Hawkeye Press, (1980). First edition - A collaborative work by these four former residents of Berkeley - includes poetry by Judy Wells, prose poems by Carla Kandinsky and a short story by Ralph Dranow, illustrated with drawings by Donna Duguay.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology containing 270 selected stories, legends, poems, essays, letters, and memoirs which reveal some of the world's classic friendships - from famous literary friendships such as those between H. L. Mencken and James Joyce, Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev, and Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore to Frederick Douglass's meditation on friendship and slavery to Elie Wiesel on friendship and the Holocaust. Includes a list of the authors, index. 622 pp. ISBN: 0-393030652.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943. Hardcover - The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition of this influential anthology. Includes stories by Eudora Welty (first prize for 'Livvie is Back'), the second year in a row that Welty won the first prize; Dorothy Canfield (second prize for 'The Knot Hole'), Pearl Buck, Kay Boyle, Josephine Johnson and others. Introduction by Herschell Brickell. Appendix. 319 pp.

New York: Citadel Press, (2009). SIGNED first edition - A collection of essays about a writer who shaped modern terror - this "straddles the line between biography and reader's companion." Includes interviews with friends, family members and famous fans, as well as tributes, introductions to various Matheson editions and personal letters by the author and a comprehensive, 150-page bibliography. This copy is SIGNED by FOUR writers at their contributions: William F. Nolan, Dennis Etchison, Joe R. Lansdale and Richard Christian Matheson (both Nolan and Lansdale also signed on the table of contents.) Illustrated with photographs. Notes on the contributors, index. xv, 382 pp. ISBN: 978-0806531137.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1996. SIGNED - An anthology from magazines in the US and Canada published in 1995. Introduction by Wideman. Includes stories by Rick Bass, Robert Olen Butler, Lan Samantha Chang, Jamaica Kincaid, Alice Adams, Stephen Dixon, Junot Diaz, Mary Gordon, Melanie Rae Thon and more. SIGNED by Lan Samantha Chang at her story "The Eve of the Spirit Festival." Notes on the contributors, a listing of other distinguished stories, and information on the magazines. 363 pp. ISBN: 0-395-752900.

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing, (1996.). First edition - Contributions from 25 women, edited and with an introduction by Wilder. Among the authors are Paula Gunn Allen, Denise Chavez, Pam Houston, Demetria Martinez, Mary Sojourner, Yoshiko Uchida, Terry Tempest Williams, Melissa Pritchard and seventeen others. A brief biographical note precedes each piece. x, 245 pp. ISBN: 0-87358-6484.

Washington, D.C.: Island Press, (1991.). First edition - A collection of essays about the environment and the movement to protect it by Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, Barry Commoner, Anne and Paul Ehrlich, Wendell Berry and others. Notes on the contributors, index. 282 pp. ISBN: 1-55963-1201.

Washington, D.C.: Island Press, (1991.). First edition - A collection of essays about the environment and the movement to protect it by Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, Barry Commoner, Anne and Paul Ehrlich, Wendell Berry and others. Notes on the contributors, index. 282 pp. ISBN: 1-55963-1201.

New York: Adrenaline / Thunder's Mouth / Balliet & Fitzgerald, (2002). First edition - Collects 18 stories - a mixture of fiction, memoir, and description - of surviving storms. It opens with a disturbing essay by Gordon Chaplin who lost his wife and boat after deciding to ride out a typhoon instead of seeking shelter. Contributors range from Rick Bass to John Muir, Leo Tolstoy, Wallace Stegner, Richard Byrd, Jack London, Sebastian Junger, Barry Lopez, Ernest Gann, Annie Proulx and more. xiii, 363 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 1-560253002.

New York: Doubleday, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An original anthology of all new science fiction stories by the following authors: Jay A. Parry, David F. Bischoff, Tanith Lee, Steve Rasnic Tem, Andrew Weiner, Roger Zelazny, Thomas F. Monteleone, Tetsu Yano, Leanne Frahm, Connie Willis and Gardner Dozois. Edited and with an introduction by Roy Torgeson. SIGNED by Connie Willis at the beginning of her story "A Little Moonshine." 182 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Tom Barber. ISBN: 0-385-175981.