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.

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.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of humorous columns on our national life, both public and private, by one of our funniest writers. SIGNED on the half title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-899199585.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Essays on the survivors of the old West - the wild horses (the battle to save them is still going on, years later), the saguara cactus and ever-encroaching landdevelopment , chiles and chili (including a recipe for Basic Texas Red Chili), the history of the Basques in Nevada mostly, and more. A combination of oral history and personal observations. Nicely INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For --- something here maybe to help keep you warm. .. " and dated in Santa Fe in the year of publication. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-4281.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on the survivors of the old West - the wild horses (the battle to save them is still going on, years later), the saguara cactus and ever-encroaching land development , chiles and chili (including a recipe for Basic Texas Red Chili), the history of the Basques in Nevada mostly, and more. A combination of oral history and personal observations. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-4281.

New York: The Free Press, 1970. Hardcover first edition - A selection of essays from the Paris-based Polish emigree journal. Foreword by Paul F. Wheeler.

Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Five thoughtful essays on the past and the future of the Western United States, with a foreword by Governor George Sinner. Illustrated with many pages of beautiful full color photographs. Large format. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-879053577.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

New York: Random House, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of topical and often provocative essays by an American master - on Nixon, Reagan and other political matters, on writers ranging from Anthony Burgess to Italo Calvino, Henry James and Dawn Powell (Vidal is almost singlehandly responsible for the resurgence of interest in the writings of Powell.) 303 pp. ISBN: 0-394-570200.

New York: Nation Books, (2004). Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket - "In Imperial America, the conclusion of his landmark trilogy and most devastating exploration of contemporary America yet, Vidal observes that there's something suspicious about the 'ever reckless Cheney-Bush junta.' " We can only imagine what he would have to say about current events. Index. 182 pp. ISBN: 1-560255854.

Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, Inc, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of interviews with Vidal, taking place all over the world and over a period of more than 20 years, in which he frankly sets out his thoughtful and often controversial ideas on our world. Selected, arranged and introduced by Robert J. Stanton. Index. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-8184-03020.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. Hardcover first edition - An address delivered at the Harvard Union December 8, 1919 - an essay on the purpose of recreation in our lives, which moves from the pleasures of poetry to discussing the author's pleasure in birdsong which he shared with Theodore Roosevelt. 45 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2008. dj. Hardcover first edition - An exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America as only Vowell can write it. 251 pp. ISBN: 978-1594489990.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so investigates the bumpy roads in her own life. Her second full length book. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-743223527.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. A collection of essays on twelve English poems, by various contributors - ranging from A. Alvarez on Shakespeare's 'The Phoenix and the Turtle" to Wain on Yeats' s 'Among School Children.'

New York: Random House, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on a variety of topics ranging from writing and writers, including Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde, to the musical group Sweet Honey , her daughters and dreadlocks. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-679-455841.

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.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book publication of fifteen of Wallace's essays, issued posthumously. 323 pp. ISBN: 978-0316225144.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1946.). Hardcover first edition - A series of essays written at the end of World War II on the cult of power in literature, from the classics to modern writings, from Aeschylus to Dostoievsky, Dickens and Yeats. 155 pp.

Boston: Conde Nast, 1946. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'We know, we Americans, what America means in the human heart; we remember its principles and we honor its record; but we tend to forget that it has its counterpart in sixty or seventy other places. This is mischievous business. It is bloody business. Reinforced with the atom, it may be fatal business.' Political commentary from the noted childrenÕs writer and essayist, in editorials written between 1943 and 1946. The theoretical case for a single world government, just as the UN was taking shape.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Hardcover first edition - Essays on such topics as the centrality of friendship in gay life, on the AIDS crisis, as well on writers like Nabokov, Isherwood, Cormac McCarthy, Truman Capote, on the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and an appreciation of the singer, Prince, and more. Introduction by David Bergman, index. xxviii, 386 pp. ISBN: 0-679434755.

New York: Faber & Faber, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Eighty-five columns from Billboard which combine interviews with recording artists and reviews of their records. Ranges across all genres of music, from rock, new wave, punk, blues, jazz, rap, country, reggae, world music, calypso, Latin to classical and more. Pieces on veteran artists like Eric Clapton, George Harrison, David Byrne, Ray Charles, Wyonna Judd, Joni Mitchell and the Eagles, White and on the less known artists like Liz Phair, Joan Osborne, Alanis Morissette, the spiritual dance sonorities of the Haitian group Boukman Eksperyans and many others. Photographs. Index. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-805039759.

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: Oxford University Press, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - An important book by one of jazz's most distinguished critics - includes reviews, essays about musicians at work recording, rehearsing and performing as well as a selection of album liner notes. by one of jazz's most distinguished critics, divided into sections, includes a collection of reviews of Ella Fitzgerald, Ornette Coleman, Bud Powell, Ellington, Fats Waller and many others; depictions of musicians at work recording, rehearsing and performing as well as a selection of album liner notes for Jelly Roll Morton, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and others. Index. xiv, 253 pp. ISBN: 0-195036115.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays by eleven top mystery writers on their work, and on the genre, including Robert Barnard, Rex Burns, K.C. Constantine, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Michael Gilbert, Donald Hamilton, Joseph Hansen, Tony Hillerman, Reginald Hill, James McClure, and Robert B. Parker. Introduction and afterword by Winks. Notes on the contributors, index. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-684-184281.

New York: Summit Books, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A revolution, a crime, a remarkable boy, a honeymoon, a war - A generation revealed 1970-1979." Wolff's first book, a series of essays which show what happened to some white kids after the 60s ended - including the story of Angela Atwood, a neighbor of his family who helped kidnap Patricia Hearst as a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army - although he uses a quote from James Baldwin as an epigraph: ". . .the troubles of what people failed to impress me as being real troubles." Wolff is best known now for his trilogy of unflattering books about Trump's presidency. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-671400010.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Wolff at his essay 'Civilian.' In addition to the contributions by the writers shown above, this includes selections by James Alan McPherson, Edna O'Brien, Grace Paley, Maxine Kumin and more. Robert Atwan, series editor. ISBN: 0-395-691834.

Maui: Flying Rabbit Press, (2002.). SIGNED first edition - Essays which represent the best of the columns the author wrote, fashioned from over 25 years of living on Maui - including spoofs, unlikely eyewitness accounts and grossly distorted reminiscences. INSCRIBED on the title page. ISBN: 0-9706200-04.