Boston: Godine, (1978.) dj. Hardcover - The first book in his delightful series of essays on adjusting to, and learning to appreciate, the rural life - among the topics in this book are buying a pick-up truck and a chainsaw, selling firewood, grades of maple syrup, and more. Illustrated by Stephen Harvard. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-2323.

Boston: Godine, (1983.) dj. Hardcover - Third volume of essays by this urban man turned framer and teacher, now living in Thetford Vermont and teaching at Dartmouth. The NY Times Review stated that "Perrin makes a fine defense of country living, not as a retreat from the world but as a place to use one's talents to battle it out. These essays for guaranteed to amuse confirmed urbanites and set them dreaming of the country." Included are such topics as the gourmet potato grower, farm flowers, a cow's plea to vegetarians and more - but despite the often light-hearted tone, but the underlying theme - how to preserve and protect the land - is serious. Illustrated by Robin Brickman.188 pp. ISBN: 0-879234679.

Boston: Godine, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second volume of essays by this urban man turned framer and teacher, now living in Thetford Vermont and teaching at Dartmouth. The NY Times Review stated that "Perrin makes a fine defense of country living, not as a retreat from the world but as a place to use one's talents to battle it out. These essays for guaranteed to amuse confirmed urbanites and set them dreaming of the country." Included are such topics as lamb to lamb chop, winter in the woods, Vermont silences and more - but despite the often light-hearted tone, but the underlying theme - how to preserve and protect the land - is serious. Illustrated by F. Allyn Massey.152 pp. ISBN: 0-879233419.

Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1990. First edition - Includes short stories by Daniel Wallace, Julie Brown (the powerful story 'Work'); poetry by Margaret Grossman, David Ray, etc; book reviews and photographs. Special symposium on 'Boundaries' - between high/low art, prose/poetry, art/autobiography - featuring Piercy, Baker, Jerome Mazzaro, Robert Altieri, Hassan, Kumin, Ron Silliman and Gordon Weaver. Contributors' notes. 180 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York: Modern Library, (2001). SIGNED first edition - Includes 88 of her best - and most provocative - essays on topics like abortion, affirmative action, and school vouchers, Clinton, Modern Library's list of 100 best novels of the century, the Taliban and more. These originally appeared over a period of seven years in her column in 'The Nation.' Includes a new introduction on feminism at the millennium. INSCRIBED on the title page and signed simply as Katha. Notes. xxviii, 332 pp. ISBN: 0-679783431.

Familius, (2014). SIGNED - A collection of essays by mothers who describe both the joys of motherhood and ways of handling the difficulties. SIGNED by one of the contributors, Julia Jacobsen, on the first page with the words "The power is in you!" Bibliography. 191 pp. ISBN: 978-1939629074.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. First edition - Includes 28 essays selected and with an introduction by Richard Preston. Series editor, Tim Folger. Includes essays by James Gleick, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Steve Olsen, Michael Perry, Susan Casey, John Seabrook and more. Notes on contributors. xxii, 300 pp. ISBN: 9780618834471.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. SIGNED first edition - Includes 28 essays selected and with an introduction by Richard Preston. Series editor, Tim Folger. Includes essays by James Gleick, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Steve Olsen, Michael Perry and more. SIGNED by Michael Perry at his essay "Health Secrets from the Morgue." Notes on contributors. xxii, 300 pp. ISBN: 9780618834471.

Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, (2014). A book which requires that you read it - the list of awards it has won is long and exhaustive - but as the Los Angeles Times review commented ÒSo groundbreaking is Rankine's work that it's almost impossible to describe; suffice it to say that this is a poem that reads like an essay (or the other way around) - a piece of writing that invents a new form for itself, incorporating pictures, slogans, social commentary and the most piercing and affecting revelations to evoke the intersection of inner and outer life.Ó 169 pp. ISBN: 978-1555976903.

New York: Basic Books (Perseus), (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection by one of the most 'innovative, irreverent and outspoken iconoclasts of our time" - essays on racism, slavery, American history, Africa, the confederate flag, Celtic-American traditions, W. E. B. DuBois, terrorism on American soil and more. SIGNED on the title page. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-46506891X.

New York: Norton, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on the meaning of poetry in America at the end of the 20th century - the place it has in our era of "waste, greed, brutality, frozen indifference." Praise from David Trinidad, Alice Ostriker and others. Notes, index. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-393-035654.

New York: Norton, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on the meaning of poetry in America at the end of the 20th century - the place it has in our era of "waste, greed, brutality, frozen indifference." Praise from David Trinidad, Alice Ostriker and others. Notes, index. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-393-035654.

New York: Norton, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on the meaning of poetry in America at the end of the 20th century - the place it has in our era of "waste, greed, brutality, frozen indifference." Praise from David Trinidad, Alice Ostriker and others. Notes, index. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-393-035654.

New York: Times Books, (1992). A graphic portrait of life inside one of America's largest prisons - the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, written by the prisoners themselves for The Angolite. the award winning prison magazine. In his NY Times Review, Russell Banks said that this should be ". . .required reading for all fifty United States governors and for all present and future Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates...the most convincing argument I have read against our nationwide desire to deal with lawbreakers by 'locking 'em up and throwing away the key'." Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, index. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-812920481.

Boston: Richard G. Badger / The Gorham Press, (1918). Hardcover first edition - Scarce first edition of this collection of three essays by this noted American biologist and zoologist who, among other accomplishments, initiated and shaped the Marine Biological Association of San Diego (now Scripps Institution of Oceanography). Throughout his life he was an advocate for evolution, science education, and human service, believing that science was the key to a future society. In his foreword to this book, he states that as he "is approaching the completion of the 'Unity of the Organism' that he needed the essays in print, partly as record and partly as super-record" of the development of his thoughts in this area. Index. 164 pp.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, a collection of ten essays, which address such subjects as religion, history, the state of society - among the ideas she considers are "how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists; how Creationism, "long owned by the Religious Right," has spurred on contemporary Darwinism; or how John Calvin [which is how 17th century theologist Jean Cauvin is known to us], who was a Frenchman in Geneva, points to America's continental origins" Winner of the PEN/Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-395-926920.

Beverly HIlls, CA & London: Sage Publications, (1985, c.1980.). A thought-provoking collection of essays about Black women, past and present, by Black women. Among the contributors are Gloria Wade-Gayle, Christina Harrington, Willie Mae Hemmons and the editor. References at the end of each article. A Sage Focus Edition. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-8039-13125.

New York: Doubleday, 1991. Hardcover first edition - A collection of irreverant essays charting the author's cycles of discovery in New York, France and New England.

New York: Basic Books, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of seven essays, including the title essay, one on biology and the law and another on biology and the cinema. Translated from the French by A. J. Pomerans.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. dj. Foreword by Studs Terkel. Commentaries by Louise Wille. Selected from over 7500 columns spanning 4 decades, including the last column he wrote on the curse on the Chicago Cubs. Photographs. 273 pages.

New York: John Wiley & Son, 1866. Hardcover first edition - Includes a preface by Ruskin. xxi, 127 pp.

Westwood, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1953) dj. Hardcover - A brief book by this journalist, educator and the first poet-laureate of South Carolina, from 1934-1973, on the different forms beauty can take - the beauty born in storms, in friendship, in loyalty and more - preceded by a 16 page appreciation by Frank S. Mead. 63 pp.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which write of a world both beautiful and vulnerable, of "hikes above clouds on mountain trails, of expeditions in the pre-dawn chill to hear the calls of owl" and of fathers teaching their sons carpentry, and also of the brutal side of society, of weapons and drugs. Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. 155 pp. ISBN: 0-820309036.

New York: Norton, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first comprehensive anthology of Sarton's works, with introductory essays by Daziel and Constance Hunting and essay on writing by Sarton herself. Includes selections from thirteen of her books of poetry (covering a period from 1930 to 1988), eight autobiographical writings, an excerpt from the novel 'A Reckoning' and the complete 1973 short novel 'As We Are Now' about a former teacher's confinement in a nursing home. A wonderful sampler of the varied output of this extraordinary woman writer. 390 pp. ISBN: 0-393-029689.

New York: Norton, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first comprehensive anthology of Sarton's works, with introductory essays by Daziel and Constance Hunting and essay on writing by Sarton herself. Includes selections from thirteen of her books of poetry (covering a period from 1930 to 1988), eight autobiographical writings, an excerpt from the novel 'A Reckoning' and the complete 1973 short novel 'As We Are Now' about a former teacher's confinement in a nursing home. A wonderful sampler of the varied output of this extraordinary woman writer. 390 pp. ISBN: 0-393-029689.

New York: Hill & Wang, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 21 essays by this provocative journalist, including several on Vietnam, his interview with Fallaci, and others on such diverse topics as Pepsi in Moscow, the Bronx, the Lawrence Livermore Lab's nuclear eggheads, and more. SIGNED on the half title page and dated 11-18-88.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays originally published during the 1990s from this physicist and long time editor of Analog - many deal with environmental issues, education and government - and underlying each is the emphasis on being open to new solutions. SIGNED on the title page. Introduction by Marvin Minsky. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-765301040.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays originally published during the 1990s from this physicist and long time editor of Analog - many deal with environmental issues, education and government - and underlying each is the emphasis on being open to new solutions. Introduction by Marvin Minsky. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-765301040.

Chicago: Quadrangle, 1970.

New York: Praeger, 1974.