New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive anthology containing essays, fiction (including both short stories and excerpts from novels) and poety by both well-established and new black writers, including previously unpublished material from James Baldwin, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Willard Motley, Owen Dodson, John Hope Franklin, Richard Wright, and more. Other contributors include Langston Hughes, LeRoi Jones, Pauli Murray, Ted Poston, Saunders Redding, Benjamin A. Brown, Frank London Brown, Horace R. Cayton, Cyrus Colter, Ossie Davis, William Demby, St. Clair Drake, Katerhine Dunham, Robert Hayden, Chester Himes, M. Carl Holman, M. B.Tolson, Paul Vesey and Dorothy West. Introduction and biographical notes at the beginning of each selection by Herbert Hill. 617 pp.

London: Faber & Faber, (1939). Hardcover first edition - An anthology of poetry and some prose pieces inspired by sleeping and dreams and spanning the centuries, so Emily Bronte's 'Sleep Brings No Joy to Me' is on a page facing Robert Frost's 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' and Marcus Aurelius is juxtaposed with Richard Burton. The first section is a long (110 pp) introduction by de la Mare on 'Dream and Imagination' in which he describes this as a book to be opened at random, browsed in, and then laid aside. Colored frontispiece and title page drawing by Barnett Freedman Indices of authors, first lines of poems, and of plays and prose pieces. viii, 702 pp.

Beverly Hills, CA: New Millennium Press, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Title story by David Baldacci, an original football novella. Also included in this anthology are 13 football mysteries by Lawrence Bloch, Dennis Lehane, Brad Meltzer, Anne Perry, Brendan Dubois, James Crumley, Colin Harrison, Mike Lupica, Gary Phillips, Brad Meltzer, Carol O'Connell, John Wersterman and Peter Robinson. Larry King describes the title story as 'Baldacci's finest masterwork. This novella is a powerfully stunning continually surprising thrill show. I could not put it down.' 316 pp. ISBN: 1-893224-562.

Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - An anthology of works on California's Central Valley by more than seventy writers, from William Saroyan to Luis Valdez, from John Muir to Jediadiah Smith, from Mary Austin to Gerald Haslam, Lillian Vallee John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, Gary Snyder, Cherie Moraga, Wendy Rose, Sherley Anne Williams, Gary Soto, Joan Didion and many others. SIGNED by THREE authors: David Mas Masumoto at "Firedance,' David St John at his poem "The Olive Grove" and by Richard Dokey at his story "Birthright." Double page map. Notes on contributors, index, and bibliography of their publications. xvii, 428 pp. ISBN: 0-930588-82-7.

Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - An anthology of works on California's Central Valley by more than seventy writers, from William Saroyan to Luis Valdez, from John Muir to Jediadiah Smith, from Mary Austin to Gerald Haslam, Lillian Vallee John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, Gary Snyder, Sherley Anne Williams, Gary Soto, Joan Didion and many others. SIGNED by FOUR contributors: Maxine Hong Kingston at an excerpt from "The American Father," David Mas Masumoto at "Firedance,' Richard Dokey at his story "Birthright" and David St John at his poem "The Olive Grove." Double page map. Notes on contributors, index, and bibliography of their publications. xvii, 428 pp. ISBN: 0-930588-82-7.

New York: Random House, (1950). dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects 18 short stories and 2 novelettes from the more than 200 published in the magazine during the previous year. A strong collection with novelettes by Paul Horgan - 'The Devil in the Desert' - and Kay Boyle - 'A Disgrace to the Family - and short stories by Zora Neale Hurston ('The Conscience of the Court'), Ray Bradbury ('The World the Children Made'), Paul Gallico, Conrad Richter, McKinley Kantor and others. SIGNED by Bradbury at his story and very uncommon thus. 298 pp.

Coventry, CT: 1st Casualty Press, 1973. First edition - A collection of 20 stories and some photographs illustrating the human cost of the Indochina conflict through fiction. Contributions from William Pelfrey, David Huddle, James Shields, and the three editors, as well as James Aitken, Igor Bobrowsky, Frank Cross, William Currer, George Davis, James Dorris, Julian Grajewski, John Kimpel, Loyd Little, Michael McCusker, Quentin Mueller, Oran Pitts, Steven Smith, John Tavela, Martin Ray, and Vernon Schibla. SIGNED by editor Wayne Karlin on the title page. An uncommon and significant early anthology of writing on Vietnam by those who had been there, and published by a small press run by Vietnam veterans. Index. 208 pp.

London: Evans Brothers Ltd, (1973, c 1970). An anthology edited and with an introduction by Jamaican educator and poet, John Figueroa. Includes selections by Derek Walcott, Claude McKay, Andrew Salkey, Louise Bennett, George Lamming, Martin Carter and many others. Index of authors and titles and of first lines, appendix on 'our complex language situation.' xii, 228 pp. ISBN: 0-237498774.

New York: The Greenfield Review Press, (1983). First edition - An anthology which collects works from fifty-two poets from more than thirty-five different Native American nations with an introduction by Joseph Bruchac. Among the poets are Elizabeth Woody, Joy Harjo, Diane Glancy, Janet Campbell Hale, Lance Henson, Maurice Kenny, Duane Niatum, James Welch, Ray A. Young Bear, Adrian C. Louis, Barney Bush, Jim Barnes, Peter Blue Cloud, Leslie Marmon Silko, N. Scott Momaday, Paula Allen Gunn, Carroll Arnett, and many others. Each poet is introduced with a biographical paragraph, as well as a photograph, followed by a selection of their poetry. xvi, 294 pp. ISBN: 0-912678585.

New York: The Greenfield Review Press, (1983). First edition - An anthology which collects works from fifty-two poets from more than thirty-five different Native American nations with an introduction by Joseph Bruchac. Among the poets are Elizabeth Woody, Joy Harjo, Diane Glancy, Janet Campbell Hale, Lance Henson, Maurice Kenny, Duane Niatum, James Welch, Ray A. Young Bear, Adrian C. Louis, Barney Bush, Jim Barnes, Peter Blue Cloud, Leslie Marmon Silko, N. Scott Momaday, Paula Allen Gunn, Carroll Arnett, and many others. Each poet is introduced with a biographical paragraph, as well as a photograph, followed by a selection of their poetry. xvi, 294 pp. ISBN: 0-912678585.

New York: Viking, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nineteen stories which "chronicles voyages and visits, trips and travels." Includes stories by Paul Theroux, James Salter, Elizabeth Jolley, John Updike, Sue Miller, Alice Munro, William Trevor, Lorrie Moore, Kate Braverman, Steve Millhauser and others. Edited and with an introduction by Larry Dark. Biographical notes. xiii, 354 pp. ISBN: 0-670845787.

New York: Pantheon, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Compiles letters, articles, and essays on the racial and sexual oppression of Black women in America and the ways in which they have managed to survive in a white-dominated society - Most of the writings are by African American women, with some by white women like Charlotte Perkins Gilman writing on African American women - includes slavery documents, many anonymous articles and writings of women ranging from Frances Watkins Harper and Ida B. Wells and Sojourner Truth to Pauli Murray, Anne Moody and many more. Arranged topically and chronologically within the topics. Introduction by Mary MacLeond Bethune. Notes on sources, bibliographical notes. xxxvi, 630 pp. Uncommon in the hardcover first edition. ISBN: 0-394-475402.

London: Faber & Faber, (1964) dj. Collects twenty-five short stories by African writers from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Sierra Leona, all of whom are writing in English, including Chinua Achebe, Christiana Aidoo, Cyprian Ekwensi, Alex La Guma, James Matthews, Ngugi wa Thiong'o ([)James Ngugi), Grace A. Ogot, Gabriel Okara, Amos Tutuola (Amos Olatubosun Tutuola), Can Themba (Daniel Canodoise Themba) and more. Edited and with an introduction by Ghanaian writer Ellis Ayitey Komey and South African writer Ezekiel] Mphahlele. 227 pp.

Santa Cruz, CA: Quarry West, 1991. First edition - Special double issue of QUARRY WEST, #29/30, with poetry by Marilyn Chin, Chitra Divakaruni, Lawson Inada, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Nelly Wong, Arthur Sze and others, fiction by Indira Ganeson, performance by Genny Lim and a 13 page portfolio of art. Notes on contributors. Square format. 168 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book intended to be the most comprehensive anthology of short fiction by Black writers to be published, edited and with an introduction by Langston Hughes. The contributors range from Charles W. Chesnutt and Lawrence Dunbar to Alice Walker, with selections from Geraldine Brooks, James Baldwin, Jean Toomer, Willard Motley, Ernest Gaines, Owen Dodson, Paule Marshall and many others in between. Includes brief biographical notes on the contributors. xvii, 508 pp.

New York: Liberty Magazine, (1949). First edition - A selection of the best 100 short short stories selected from over 1000 published in Liberty Magazine between 1929 and 1949. Includes 'He'd have said good-by' by Phyllis Duganne, 'After midnight' by Thomas W. Duncan, 'The hunter' by John Erskine, 'Snake dance' by Corey Ford, 'Testimony' by Paul Gallico, 'Up jumped the Devil' by Guy Gilpatric, 'Turn off that infernal radio!' by Rube Goldberg, 'The steel claw' by MacKinlay Kantor, 'Midnight' by Jim Kjelgaard, 'Pearls' by Philip Wylie, 'Seeing is believing' by Don Marquis 'Hole in one' by John D. MacDonald, and many more. A fragile production - it appears that few copies survived. Worldcat only shows 2 copies. Large format, 98 pp.

New York: Longman, (1998). SIGNED - Includes 32 short stories ranging from early pieces by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Poe, through Faulkner, Hemingway, Shirley Jackson, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker and Margaret Atwood. While most selections are by American authors, there are some from other countries, including Anton Chekhov, Chinua Achebe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and more. SIGNED by Sandra Cisneros at her contribution "Barbie-Q" and uncommon thus. Includes alphabetical list of authors and a new foreword for this edition. Index. xii, 308 pp. ISBN: 0-321011481.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An annual anthology which collects stories by some of today's best crime writers - including Doug Allyn, Jeffrey Deaver, Tom Franklin, Dennis Lehane, Brad Watson, and many others. SIGNED by both Westlake and Penzler on the title page. Notes on contributors and list of other distinguished stories of the year. xvii, 489 pp. ISBN: 0-395939178.

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, (2001). First edition - A thick issue of one of the most interesting - and long surviving - of the literary magazines. This issue is devoted to writings by authors from the Carribbean or about that area. Contributors include Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Derek Walcott, Cristina Garcia, Nilo Cruz, Bob Shacochis, Merle Collins, Edwidge Danticat , Lorna Goodison, Rosario Ferres, Madison Smartt Bell, Julia Alvarez, Kamau Braithwaite and many others. Notes on contributors. 352 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-941964434.

New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 12 essays which "span the spectrum, from Carlos Manuel lvarez's story of being among the last generation of Cubans to be raised under Fidel Castro to Patricia Engel's look at how Cuba's capital has changed through her years of riding across it with her taxi driver friend; from The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson (who traveled with President Obama on the first trip to Cuba by an American president since the twenties) on being a foreigner in Cuba during the Special Period to Francisco Goldman on the Tropicana, then and now, to Leonardo Padura on the religion that is Cuban baseball." Introduction by the editor, Leila Guerriero. Notes on contributors. xi, 285 pp. ISBN: 978-0062661067.

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 THREE authors: by Kevin Anderson on the contents page, next to the title of his story and by Gregory Benford and Marc Scott Zicree at the beginning of their stories. 222 pp.

Rocklin, CA, Santa Clara, CA & Berkeley: Sierra College Press / Santa Clara University / Heyday, (2010). SIGNED first edition - A literary anthology inspired by the Range of Light, combining excerpts from well-known writers such as Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Dame Shirley, Mary Austin, Wallace Stegner, Gary Snyder, T. Coraghessan Boyle, James Houston, Wendy Rose, Ishmael Reed and many others, as well as original works from local authors. "Native Americans, explorers, missionaries, gold seekers, governors, mountain climbers, naturalists, environmentalists, essayists, and poets are all represented with their powerful descriptions and compelling insights into California's grand and glorious mountain range." (Gary F. Kurutz) Foreword by Robert Hanna. Illustrated by Joe Medeiros. INSCRIBED on the half title page by the editor, Gary Noy, and dated in the year of publication. A California Legacy Book. Author index. 447 pp. ISBN: 978-1597141284.

Chicago: Open Court, (2006). First edition - Includes fifteen essays which "discuss hidden issues in Bond's world, from his carnal pleasures to his license to kill. Among the topics explored are Bond's relation to existentialism, his objectification of women; the paradox of breaking the law in order to ultimately uphold it, the personality of 007 and the Hegelian quest for recognition evinced by Bond villains," and Bond's softer side in multiculturism and women. A title in the Popular Culture and Philosophy series. Includes a reference guide to all the Bond movies, notes on the contributors and index. xv, 244 pp. ISBN: 978-0812696073.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1995). SIGNED first edition - A collection of stories about vampires in the various arts - from painting to sculpture, film, and dance, edited and with an introduction by Esther M. Friesner, SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Laura Anne Gilman at 'Exposure' and Cynthia Ward at "Beat Surrender." Other contributors include Christie Golden, Adam-Troy Castro, Chuck Rothman, Jane Yolen, Susan Schwartz, Richard Parks and many more. 339 pp.

New York: Jove / HBJ, (1977). First edition - A paperback anthology which collects 5 stories by Michael Moorcock, J. Michael Reaves (2 stories), Ben Bova and Maxwell Grant, edited and with an introduction and afterword by Byron Preiss. Illustrated by Steve Hickman, Craig Russell, Howard Chaykin and Alfredo Alcala. 281 pp. plus publisher's ads. ISBN: 0-515042579.