Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects a quarter-century of essays and reviews by this writer who served as the reviewer and editor for the NY Times, and was a founder of the National Book Critics Circle. Among the authors whose works are discussed is T. S. Eliot, Joyce Carol Oates, Carson McCuller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, J. D. Salinger, Eudora Welty and more. In addition, she discusses trends in modern literature from the claimed decline in mass markets to the vibrant alternate printing culture, and gives some insight into her own career. Includes a long introduction written for this book. 250 pp.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1963, c 1955.). Baldwin's second book, a collection of essays - his first non-fiction book, originally published in 1955. 175 pp,. ISBN: 0-8070-64319.

New York: Picador, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Witty and revealing essays on a variety of topics. ISBN: 0-312-144407.

New York: Putnam, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first work of nonfiction by this award-winning writer - many of these essays are on books and the state of literature, but the topics range from Maryland crabs and crabcakes to student activists in the 60s. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-399-129979.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book of non-fiction - consists of parodies, political satire and fables. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-374-167370.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1991) dj. First edition - A celebration of winter in a remote valley of 30 inhabitants in Montana - the last valley in Montana to still lack electricity. SIGNED on the half title page with the words "All best" and dated in 1994. Illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Hughes. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-395611504.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A celebration of winter in a remote valley of 30 inhabitants in Montana - the last valley in Montana to still lack electricity. Illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Hughes. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-395611504.

London: Collins, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Written in the form of a journal, this book measures people's short lives and relationships against the history of the earth. Bass is both a petroleum geologist and a lyrical writer. Illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Hughes. SIGNED on the title page. 172 pp. ISBN: 0-395-486750.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Written in the form of a journal, this book measures people's short lives and relationships against the history of the earth. Bass is both a petroleum geologist and a lyrical writer. Illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Hughes. SIGNED on the title page. 172 pp. ISBN: 0-395-486750.

Boston: Little Brown, (1999) dj. The author's very highly praised first book, a collection of 'fierce, funny and wholly unforgettable' autobiographical essays, ranging from her childhood to the present day, forty years later. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-316086251.

New York: Doubleday, (1991.). Well-written, always entertaining, but sometimes elegiac, essays on the desert in Arizona, mostly - especially as suburbia and ranchettes encroach on the native desert. Among the topics are the growth of Phoenix, the effects of airconditioning, Frank Lloyd Wright, LSD, and much more. Illustrated with drawings by Johnson Charley. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-385-413947.

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays, written over a period of 20 years, which focus on athletes overcoming hardships, including profiles of pitcher Jim Abbott, who worked past the handicap of having just one arm, and Geno Torretta, who won the Heisman Trophy. The title piece, which was cowinner of a 2000 Pulitzer Prize, examines the struggle that minority football players have undergone in winning recognition at a position once reserved for white players. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Index. xi, 307 pp. ISBN: 1-566634229.

Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint Press, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A slim volume of six new essays on sustainability and stewardship. In them he expresses the hope that people will learn once more to care for their local communities. He emphasizes that "the renewed development of local economies would help preserve rural diversity despite the burgeoning global economy that threatens to homogenize and compromise communities all over the world. From modern health care to the practice of forestry, from local focus to national resolve, there can never be a separation between global ecosystems and human communities - the two are intricately connected." xii, 109 pp. ISBN: 1-887178031.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Berry's first book of essays - written when he was still an almost unknown young writer. The chapter headings (and the topics themselves) are provocative, dealing with environmental, political and social issues - The Tyranny of Charity; The Landscaping of Hell - Strip-Mine Morality in East Kentucky; The Nature Consumers; The Loss of the Future; A Statement Against the War in Vietnam and more. 213 pp.

Cambridge, MA: Ploughshares Inc, 1975. First edition - Includes contributions by James Merrill, Octavio Paz, John Peck, Mark Strand, John Malcolm Brinnin, James McMichael, Robert Lowell, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Margo Lockwood, Nicholas Christopher, Constance St. John Marchiel, Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg, Alice Mattison, Richard Howard, Jonathan Galassi, Barry Spacks, Helen Vendler, Frank Bidart, David Ferry, F.R. Leavis, Eugenio Montale, Peter Taylor, Donald Gertmenian, Elizabeth Bishop, Peter Kaplan, Todd Boli, Horace, William Nestrick, J.V. Cunningham, Robert Pinsky, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Eliot, Proust, Stein, and Dante and more - mostly poetry but some essays including Brinnin on first meeting Auden, and David Gertmenian on Rereading Howl. Illustrated with collages by Ralph Hamilton. Notes on contributors. 249 pp plus ads.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008) dj. Hardcover - . . and 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face. The first book by this comedian, actor and screenplay writer. 224 pp. ISBN: 9781416964056.

New York: Harper & Row, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover - His first collection of essays, written over a period of forty years, which discuss issues in modern poetry, and look at the works of twelve poets (mostly male, mostly white), including James Wright, David Ignatow, Denise Levertov, W.S. Merwin, Thomas McGrath, Robert Lowell, James Dickey, Galway Kinnell, Etheridge Knight, John Logan, Louis Simpson and Donald Hall. INSCRIBED on the title page. Index. xvii, 338 pp. ISBN: 0-060162651.

New York: Harper & Row, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book to collect Bly's essays on poetry, spanning a period of thirty years - some on individual poets like James Wright, David Ignatow, Etheridge Knight, W. S. Merwin, James Dickey and more - and others on poetry in America in the 60s and 70s and later. Index. vii. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-060162651.

New York: The Viking Press, (1999.). First edition - The third and final volume in Viking's centenary edition of Borges' collected works in English. This includes over 150 selections of his nonfiction prose writings, more than 100 of which had never previously been translated into English. Although the topics are wide-ranging, many of the pieces are about books and authors - ranging from Shakespeare and Dante to Kafka, Walt Whitman, Ray Bradbury and Bret Harte. Translated by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine and Eliot Weinberger. Notes, 547 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects twelve stories and six essays, written between 1962-1992, including three previously unpublished stories. Each piece is preceded by an extensive and sometimes autobiographical introduction. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-312855508.

Saratoga Springs: Skidmore College, 1994. First edition - Includes essays by Mary Gordon, William Kennedy, Richard Howard and others , poetry by Terese Svoboda, David Weiss and more. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Lowell Boyers. Notes on contributors. 273 pp. . We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Berkeley, CA: North Point Press, 1985. Selected essays from 1927-1984.

Santa Barbara: Joshua O'Dell Editions / Capra Press, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 23 essays on art, literature, science fiction, the design of our cities, our public transportation systems, our museums, galleries, concert halls, and cinemas and on those who influenced his thinking from Bernard Berenson to Walt Disney to Fellini. 240 pp. ISBN: 1877741043.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on four major poets, all of whom move from strength to strength despite being past 70. Designed and illustrated with engravings by Barry Moser. Notes at the end of each section, Afterword, selected readings. 90 pp. ISBN: 978-1567923162.

London: Pitman Medical Publishing Co., (1960). Hardcover first edition - A lighthearted series of essays by Brain, a noted neurologist and physician, on various historical and literary figures including Jonathan Swift, Dr Johnson, Lord Monboddo (evolutionist and anti-Johnsonian), Christopher Smart, Dickens, and others. Illustrated chapter heads and tails by Norman Smith. Glossary of medical terms. 192 pp.

New York: Summit Books, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - First book of nonfiction by this internationally acclaimed South African writer. Topics range from apartheid to Mahatma Gandhi, censorship, the position of the Afrikaans writer and more. ISBN: 0-671-47751x.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three essays in which these poets - all Nobel laureates - explore the misconceptions and mythologies that surround Robert Frost. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-374172463.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press / Oxford University Press, 1917. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of humorous essays, some on food, as the title implies, but many of family, friends and also on books and readers, including a delightful one on buying old books. SIGNED by the author on a blank prelim. Illustrated with drawings by Theodore Diedricksen, Jr. 139 pp.