Boston: Beacon Press, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Vertamae Grosvenor. A combination of recipes and food-related reflections on her life and comments on historical events related to the African Diaspora. Notes. 113 pp. ISBN: 0-807072400.

Boston: John W. Luce & Company, 1905. Hardcover first edition - The second appearance of this essay in the US, but the first which faithfully followed the original publication in The Savoy in 1896 (the Savoy was a London quarterly edited by Arthur Symons.) 60 pp plus 1 p ad for book by Oscar Wilde.

Chester Springs, Pennsylvania: Dufour Editions, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on modern American poets and themes in poetry: James Atlas on W. S. Merwin, Shaw on Poetry of Protest, Harold Bloom on John Ashbery, Albert Gelpi on Adrienne Rich, J. D. McClatchy on Sylvia Plath, Peggy Rizza on Women as Poets, a conversation with Mark Strand, and more. The second title in Carcanet's Critical Series. Notes at the end of each essay, a reading list, notes on contributors, index. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-802312527.

New York: Tin House, Bloomsbury, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - The 'best of the nonfiction published' published in the literary magazine 'Tin House.' SIGNED by TWO authors at their contributions: David Shields at his essay on Bill Murray and Ann Hood at "Little Audrey." Also includes contributions from David Gates, Amy Bloom, Rick Moody, Francine Prose, Ann Hood, Russell Banks, Kathryn Harrison, Jeffrey Eugenides, Lisa Zeidner and many others. Introduction by Charles d'Ambrosio. Notes on contributors. 322 pp. ISBN: 1582344868.

New York: Routledge, (2002). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 21 essays - by Hebrew school teachers, principals, rabbis, Jews in the pews, and those who define themselves as secular - which show how they are "changing Jewish American culture, creating communities and making room for themselves, as openly, unapologetically queer and Jewish. Combining political analysis and personal memoir, these essays explore the various ways queer Jews are creating new forms of Jewish communities and institutions, and demanding that Jewish communities become more inclusive." SIGNED on the title page by editor Caryn Aviv. Notes on contributors, index. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-415931673.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first collection of essays, "steeped in Native American lore, religion, culture and history (especially that of her own Laguna Pueblo heritage." SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Notes. 203 pp. ISBN: 0-684-811537.

New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A biting and witty collection of essays on the subject of women-hating, by the author of the Loretta Lawsen academic mysteries.

New York: Scribner's, 1967. Hardcover first edition - Portrayals of nine men who have shaped the spirit and events of the 20th century - including H. G. Wells, Einstein, Robert Frost, Churchill & Stalin.

Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker & Hoard, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this noted poet on "a wide range of topics, from explorations of southwestern European Paleolithic cave art to his own personal poetic history with haiku; from reminiscences of youthful West Coast logging and trail crew days to talks given in Paris and Tokyo on art and archetypes. He honors poets of his generation, like Philip Whalen and Allen Ginsberg, and meditates on art, labor, and the making of families, houses, and homesteads." 167 pp. ISBN: 978-1593761370.

New York & Boston: Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin, 2015. SIGNED first edition - Collects 20 essays selected and introduced by Rebecca Solnit on a wide variety of topics by writers Alexander Chee, Masha Gessen, Michelle Alexander, Elizabeth Kolbert and more. SIGNED by Solnit on the title page. Robert Atwan, series editor. Notes on contributors. xxvii, 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1328465801.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this award winning author, many of which are "commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti and others" 204 pp. ISBN: 0-374280762.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this award winning author, many of which are "commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti and others" 204 pp. ISBN: 0-374280762.

New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, (1989). The first publication of these two essays in one paperback volume - the first "Illness as Metaphor" was written in 1978 when Sontag was recovering from cancer; the second was written in 1989 to counter the labeling of AIDS as a plague. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-385267053.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on twelve poets (listed chronologically by birth date) including William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Elinor Wylie, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Conrad Aiken, Mark Van Doren, Robert Hillyer, Allen Tate, Laura Riding, Robert Penn Warren and W.H. Auden. The author comments that 8 of the 12 poets included here are attempting to alter and re-invigorate the poetic tradition. xxii, 138 pp.

Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University, 1993. SIGNED first edition - Includes essays, an interview with Paulette Jiles, poetry, and short stories. SIGNED and dated by Paulette Jiles at her essay "The Spontaneously Created People" and uncommon thus. Also includes contributions by Janet Peery, Millicent Dillon, Richard Tillinghast and more. Notes on contributors. 150-280 pp plus ads.

Claremont, CA: Claremont College, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which is perhaps more approriate than ever as we try to navigate the new work-from-home model. A title in the Annual lecture series of the Claremont Colleges with a foreword by Joseph B. Platt who comments that Spilhaus is an oceanographer and meteorologist who also has an "amused understanding of human pervisity." The first lecture is on Indolence and Pollution - but polution is interpreted very broadly as an excess of anything that reduces the quality of your life - including, for example, clutter. A hardcover advance copy sent to Friends of the Claremont Colleges with slip laid in. 65 pp

Fredonia, New York: White Pine Press, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - INSCRIBED on the title page. Includes a bibliography of his uncollected prose. 256 pp. ISBN: 1877727466.

Fredonia, New York: White Pine Press, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - Includes a bibliography of his uncollected prose. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 1877727466.

London: John Murray, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays, many on travel and writing, but touching on other topic also, and even including three short fiction pieces (she compares this book to a patchwork quilt), together with Stark's commentary on each piece. Illustrated with a frontispiece self portrait and woodcuts by Reynolds Stone, list of sources. 230 pp.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1983) dj. Hardcover - Steinem's first book, a collection of her best and more provocative pieces written over the previous 20 years, in a special edition for the Friends of Ms. Magazine. Index. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-030632366.

New Haven: Yale University Press, (1971). Collects four lectures from the T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures - C.P. Snow commented that Steiner "presents us with a dark prospect for our culture. But his own existence is a proof that the culture has not altogether crumbled or split. His own existence is a cultural phenomenon in which we can take a decent pride." 141 pp. ISBN: 0-300017103.

New York: Norton, (1980.). SIGNED - SIGNED by Susan Griffin at her contribution. Essays by 16 American women writers - including Anne Tyler, Joan Didion, Margaret Walker, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Erica Jong and more - edited and with an introduction by Sternberg. Notes on contributors. xix, 265 pp. ISBN: 0-393-000710.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. First edition - Includes a foreword by Jason Wilson, series editor, and an introduction by Strayed. Collects 24 of the best essays from both commercial and literary publications in 2017. Includes contributions from Pam Houston, Ian Frazier, Nathan Heller, Eileen Pollack, Jennifer Hope Choi and others. Notes on contributors. xix, 328 pp. ISBN: 0-618118810.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, dj, 1964. Hardcover first edition - Essays on a variety of topics - from travel, of course, including Malaysia, a leper colony, old Afghanistan, but also on Tarzan the expat, V. S. Naipaul, Graham Greene, John McEnroe, Rudyard Kipling and much more. 365 pp. ISBN: 0-395-382211.

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.

New York: Henry Holt, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third book. Richard Seltzer called this "a rare book about a common subject.. . Reading it, we are informed, instructed and entertained. There is delight on every page in her unexpected connections." SIGNED on the title page. Notes, index. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-805009205.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book by an award winning essayist which explores the complicated American relationship with food - it ranges over hundred of years of American and European history,looking at the rise of "time-saving" refinements in life - what are we giving away simply to have convenient food? Included in the discussion is how white sugar and white flour were sold to the public as good, and the ways in which advertisers get the public to use products they don't really need and might not even want if they took the time to think about alternatives. A book which is informative, fun to read and also thought-provoking. SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography. 311 pp. ISBN: 1-573221309.

London: William Heinemann, (1931). Hardcover first edition - A collection of sixteen short "pieces" - mostly essays but some fiction - and many related to the sea, as is typical of his writing, although it also includes a piece on war literature and another on the death of Thomas Hardy. 273 pp.

Dublin: University College, (1998). First edition - A collection of 16 essays, "each and all marked by a vast knowledge of Ireland and its writers, by penetrating insights, and perceptive analysis." They reveal "how Anglo-Irish writers founded modern Irish literature in English, identifying themselves with their native country and its people. Yet they often felt themselves surrounded and watched by an 'Unappeasable Host,' a population that resented them." Among the topics and authors covered are the colonial novel and works by Maria Edgeworth, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats, Synge, James Joyce, and Elizabeth Bowen among others. Bibliography, index, 380 pp. ISBN: 1-90062107X.