New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover first edition - A collection of critical essays on books, authors and the characters in books. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-195025083.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, (2001). First edition - John Nichols was raised in a privileged American family, attended top-notch private schools and at 23 wrote a best-selling novel, The Sterile Cuckoo. .. "However, a trip to Guatemala derailed his golden-child existence and set him on a very different path toward social and environmental activism. This book charts Nicholss rich and often tormented journey out of his sheltered middle-class life toward a belief in what he calls 'liberation ecology'. SIGNED on the title page. Includes an extensive bibliography of Nichols' works and articles and reviews about his work. 197 pp. ISBN: 1-571312536.

London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1923. Posthumous book publication of 14 essays, most originally published between 1901-1918 in British Weekly, which focused on Dickens's relationships with his literary contemporaries and close family members. Based in large part on letters to and from Dickens, these bring out the darker side of Dickens's personality, although Nicoll is quoted in the prefatory note as saying "There must be reticences. It is not decent or right to tell in print all you know of a man - you may easily misrepresent him by doing so." Includes two essays on Dickens and Edgar Allen Poe. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Laid in is a small bookplate from The Old Curiosity Shop and a certificate that this article was purchased there. xii, 244 pp.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first publication of 44 themes written while Norris was a student at Harvard, and a reprinting of 2 of his early novels. with notes. 596 pages. ISBN: 0-674-628209.

New York: Ecco Press, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains trenchant pieces, always worth reading. on Doctorow, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel, Sylvia Plath, Richard Yates, Pat Barker, Michael Connelly and a lot more writers, popular or literary. xiii, 367 pp. ISBN: 0-060775564.

New York: Ecco Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Discusses - among other things - the importance of reading for a writer, her childhood inspirations, and how she learned the craft of writing. 158 pp. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-06-0565535.

New York: Vanguard, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which examine the works of such writers as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Melville, Dostoevski, Thomas Mann, etc. Notes, 259 pp. ISBN: 0-814906753.

Boston: Little Brown, 1926. Hardcover first edition - Includes chapters on printing, typography, illustrations and much more - illustrated with a full color frontispiece with a captioned tissue guard and many plates throughout the book, Orcutt, who designed the type face 'humanistic' was the manager of University Press in Cambridge and Plimpton Press in Norwood and he has been credited with advancing printing as an art form. Top edge gilt. List of illustrations. Index. 316 pp plus colophon.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2018). First edition - An investigation of the most devastating library fire in US history - that of 29 April 1986 at the Los Angeles Public Library, which destroying more than 400,000 books, and which is still unsolved. Orlean uses this event as "a lens through which to tell the story of all libraries - their history, their meaning and their uncertain future as they adapt and redefine themselves in a digital world." 310 pp.

New York & Boston: D. Appleton & Co. , George H. Doran & Little Brown, (1924.). Hardcover first edition - Includes a lot of information on authors now almost forgotten - but perhaps worth a bit of a look, for nostalgia's sake - among them Melville Davisson Post, Jeffrey Farnol (of Beau Geste fame), E.V. Lucas, the espionage novels of E. Phillips Oppenheim, Frank L. Packard, Emerson Hough, Michael Arlen, Aldous Huxley, Mary Johnston and more. Illustrated with nine photographic plates. Includes brief listings of each author's books, an index of prices, and a general index, x, 416 pp.

New York & Boston: D. Appleton & Co. , George H. Doran & Little Brown, (1924.). Hardcover first edition - Includes a lot of information on authors now almost forgotten - but perhaps worth a bit of a look, for nostalgia's sake - among them Melville Davisson Post, Jeffrey Farnol (of Beau Geste fame), E.V. Lucas, the espionage novels of E. Phillips Oppenheim, Frank L. Packard, Emerson Hough, Michael Arlen, Aldous Huxley, Mary Johnston and more. Illustrated with nine photographic plates. Includes brief listings of each author's books, an index of prices, and a general index, x, 416 pp.

Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, (1979). First edition - Essays on the art of writing biography by seven award-winning biographers - Leon Edel, Justin Kaplin, Alfred Kazin, Doris Kearns [Goodwin], Theodore Rosengarten, Barbara Tuchman, and Geoffrey Wolff. Notes on contributors. 157 pp.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2008). First edition - The author's first book - "When licensed cosmetologist turned publisher's rep Kathy Patrick lost her job due to industry cutbacks, she wasn't deterred. One year later, she opened Beauty and the Book, the world's only combination beauty salon/bookstore. Soon after, she founded The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas -- a reading group that dared to ask the question, Does a book club have to be snobby to be serious?" Cover praise from Pat Conroy and John Berendt, among others. Includes resources, recipes, a list of the book club selections. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-446695424.

New York: HarperCollins, 1994. First edition - Aimed primarily at reading groups, this is still an interesting book to browse. Included are 33 annotated book lists with titles like "The butler did it? Unlikely" and "War is hell," "From Asian shores," and so on. Several authors also suggest their "dream lists." Includes author and title indices.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second book of literary odysseys - from his childhood in the Bronx, to Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, interviews with John McPhee in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey and with Tony Hillerman in the Southwest, and to the Britain of Shakespeare, Yeats and Joyce. Small format. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-87805-6726.

Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - For more than fifty years, Price, winner of the William Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and many others, kept a journal of his writing life, and publication of this journal provides a revealing window into his creative process and craftsman's sensibilities. List of the names that appear, notes, 603 pp. ISBN: 0-822321122.

New York: Scribner, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In this very original and entertaining book, Rose describes how reading Proust freed her to write her own memoir - a memoir of a woman in midlife, of a writer and of a reader (each chapter is keyed to other books she read- or reread - during the year.) Long list of recommended reading at the end. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-684-839849.

Atlanta:
Longstreet Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Writers, including Madison Smartt Bell, Fred Chappell, Jim Barnes, Reginald McKnight, Scott Russell Sanders, and many others, talk about their writing. Includes a photograph and brief bilbliography of each author. xiv. 416 pp. ISBN: 1-563520281.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive reference on children's books of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the years after World War II, arranged in encyclopedia format, alphabetically by author, illustrator or topic. Includes a recommended reading list and entries from seventy-five contributors (which include such well-known names as Lloyd Alexander, Nina Bawden, Eric Carle, Paula Fox, Gary Soto and many more) on topics ranging from ABC books to young adult books. Color plates inserted and illustrated throughout with smaller black and white reproductions of book covers or illustrations. Notes on contributors, index of contributors, general index. 800 pp. ISBN: 0-395-653800.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2016). SIGNED first edition - Here are "the most outrageous wrecks in Shipwreck's three-year history, drawn kicking and moaning from twenty-three of history's most cherished books and illustrated for your pleasure." Contributors include Seanan McGuire (who wrote the introduction as well as the first selection on The Great Gatsby), Mara Wilson, Joseph Fink, John Scalzi, Carolyn Ho, Jacquelyn Landgraf, Alexander Chee, and many others. SIGNED on the title page. Index. 285 pp. ISBN: 978-1455566426.

San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1972. First edition - An entertaining speech in which this collector reminiscences about books, collections and booksellers, including his purchases from the 1948 auction of Mosher's own library, incunabula, booksellers like David Magee, and much more. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. One of 200 copies specially printed for private distribution by the author, out of a total printing of 1,000 copies. 21 pp.

New York: The American Institute Of Graphic Arts, 1950. Hardcover first edition - The 1950 exhibition was the 28th Annual Exhibition, opening April 4, 1950 in Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington. A selection of 50 of the best books of 1949 (out of ten thousand), chosen on the basis of typography, design, content, quality of manufacture and significance. Each book is illustrated with pictures of the binding, title page and one interior page. Indexes. Unpaginated, but a slim book.

Reykjavik: 1982. First edition - A collection of scholarly essays by Jonas Kristjansson, Bjorn Bjornsson, Sigurour Lindal, Olafur Halldorsson, and Finnbogi Gudmundsson, published in conjunction with the first exhibition of Icelandic manuscripts outside that country. Illustrated with photographs of manuscript illuminations and pages of early Icelandic printed books. 84 pp

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982. Hardcover first edition - From the publisher - the first comprehensive bibliography since 1908 and "the only Thoreau bibliography to be based on the principles of modern textual scholarship. It contain complete descriptions of the primary editions and lists all subsequent editions. Illustrated with plates and facsimiles. . . [plus] information on the books, magazines, and pamphlets that contain first printing material by Thoreau. For the first time, illustrations of all of Thereau's first edition title pages are gathered in one volume. Also illustrated are bindings and dust jackets." A title in the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. Frontispiece portrait. Appendix, index. xvi, 232 pp. including an , text and illustratedfrom photographs of many of Therou's first edition titles. ISBN: 0-822934450.

London: Gordon Fraser (1988). Hardcover first edition - A look at the development and growth of the profession of typography, progress on type designs, methods, and more, including brief sections on some of the most influential mentors in the field. Illustrated with type fonts throughout. Slightly oversized format. References 94 pp plus index. Illustrated. ISBN: 0-860921123.