New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 72 essays on the dance, most written for The New Yorker between 1981 and 1986. In them "Croce, as always, proves herself to be an incisive critic with a remarkable ability to present strong dance images in words. Her interests range from classical ballet to modern dance to the more esoteric dance forms, and she does justice to all of these. There is much about both Baryshnikov ('a genius') and Balanchine, including a moving account of the effect of Balanchine's death on the New York City Ballet company." (Library Journal) Index. 364 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Sempe. ISBN: 0-394561643.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin - Mariner, 2011. First edition - Selected and with an introduction by Sloane Crosley. Contributors include Andre Aciman, Christopher Buckley, Maureen Dowd, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Ariel Levy, Ta Obreht, Annie Proulx, Gary Shteyngart, William T. Vollmann, Emily Witt, and more. Notes on contributors. 255 pp. ISBN: 978-0547333366.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine essays, all with a significant leavening of humor. In addition to the title articles, this includes essays titled the hundred worst books, the convention of books, in praise of politicians, my missionary life in Persia, the colonel in the theological seminary, the merry devil of education and more. 278 pp.

New York: Civitas / Basic Books, (2004). First edition - A collection of essays, some previously unpublished, in which "the notoriously contrarian critic of race-based cultural politics examines the problem of ethnic authenticity in contemporary America. Writing in a characteristically peeved style, Crouch is perhaps most cogent in an essay entitled 'Most Vote for Literary Segregation, Others Don't,' in which he asserts that contemporary American writers, wary of being labeled politically incorrect, rarely write about life beyond the boundaries of their own race and class." (Publisher's Weekly)" 226 pp.

New York: Pantheon, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, a collection of essays on race, sex, politics, art, jazz and blues, history and also Duke Ellington, Albert Murray, John Ford and films, and Ralph Ellison. Index. viii, 321 pp. ISBN: 0-375401539.

New York: Pantheon, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of speeches, essays and reviews on topics ranging from the US constitution to jazz and American and African American literature. Index. xvii, 267 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-679442022.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief but provocative collection of essays,on topics as diverse as the dancer Martha Graham, the Flat Earth society, the artist Henry Darger, the idea of a Hall of Fame and more. Notes. 246 pp. ISBN: 1-555973140.

New York: Norton, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief but provocative collection of essays, triggered by a move to Las Vegas one summer: D'Agata "begins to follow a story about the federal governmentÕs plan to store high-level nuclear waste at a place called Yucca Mountain, a desert range near the city of Las Vegas" and winds up with a re-examination of the future of human life. Notes. 236 pp. ISBN: 978-0393068184.

New York: Ecco Press, 1989. First edition - Includes essays by John Barth (on Poe), Rick Bass, Annie Dillard, Denis Donoghue (on T. S. Eliot), Michael Dorris, Peter Matthiessen (39 pp on the search for the forest elephant), Gary Snyder, William Trevor. and more. Notes on contributors. 245 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-88001-1637.

New York: W. W. Norton, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of nearly all original essays, each of which evokes a different place in our country's diverse landscape. Contributors included Phillip Lopate, Richard Rodriguez, Gerald Early, Harry Crews, Diane Ackerman, Robert Finch, Donald Hall,Kathleen Norris, Scott Russell Sanders, William Kittredge, Gretel Ehrlich, and more. SIGNED by Joy Williams at her contribution "Florida." 268 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-393-039994.

New York: W. W. Norton, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of nearly all original essays, each of which evokes a different place in our country's diverse landscape. Contributors included Phillip Lopate, Richard Rodriguez, Gerald Early, Harry Crews, Diane Ackerman, Robert Finch, Donald Hall,Kathleen Norris, Scott Russell Sanders, William Kittredge, Gretel Ehrlich, and more. SIGNED by Joy Williams at her contribution "Florida." 268 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-393-039994.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Dickey on his work, other poets (including Jeffers and Edward Arlington Robinson), country music, archery and more.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight pieces, starting in 1988 with the election of the first Bush as president - pieces that create a portrait of the American political landscape 'that tells us, devastatingly, how we got where we are today.' Of course, today things are far worse than they were 20 years ago when this was published, but we can still learn from her book. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-375-413383.

Durham, NC: Duke University, 1991. First edition - A collection of essays, written over a period of 20 years, arranged chronologically and each dealing with a single author: Miguel Angel Asturias, Jorge Luis Borges, Jose Maria Arguedas, Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Roa Bastos. 255 pgs, notes, index.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1993. First edition - A small nonfiction work based on Dorris's travels to Zimbabwe to visit and report on Mozambican refugee camps and agricultural areas devasted by years of drought. A thoughtful and challenging work. 66 pp plus final map and about the author. ISBN: 0-915943-700.

New York: HarperCollins, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this Native American author - topics range from libraries to children, fetal alcohol syndrome to Indians. Small format. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0169710.

New York: HarperCollins, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this Native American author - topics range from libraries to children, fetal alcohol syndrome to Indians. Small format. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0169710.

New York: HarperCollins, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this Native American author - topics range from libraries to children, fetal alcohol syndrome to Indians. SIGNED on the title page. Small format. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0169710.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1993. SIGNED first edition - A small nonfiction work based on Dorris's travels to Zimbabwe to visit and report on Mozambican refugee camps and agricultural areas devasted by years of drought. A thoughtful and challenging work. SIGNED on the title page. 66 pp plus final map and about the author. ISBN: 0-915943-700.

Boston: Beacon Press, (2001). SIGNED first edition - His eighth book, one which is part memoir, part art history and part meditation. This a 17th century Dutch still life painting as a starting point for his exploration of our attachment to things. SIGNED on the title page. 70 pp plus list of works cited.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. Hardcover first edition - A series of essays on just how badly things have declined in Europe - and in England - especially as comparted to the East. Commenting on executions to English cooking, to a false sense of racial superiority and of the evils wrought by missionaries and colonial powers throughout the world, as well as on the works of Nietzsche and Darwin, among others, these essays are acerbic but entertaining. 264 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of very personal and candid essays by this award-winning and eloquent writer, the last book published before his death. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-679-43108x.

Boston: Godine, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Dubus's first collection of non-fiction, essays written between 1977 and 1990, on topics ranging from his Catholic boyhood in a Cajun-Creole community in Louisiana, to baseball and the accident that cost him the use of his legs. Introduction by Tobias Wolfe. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-8852.

New York: Norton, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A poet's first venture into prose - five of these essays explore the composition of poetry, while the rest are autobiographical in nature, on such diverse topics as basketball, gambling and silence. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-393-034887.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first work of non-fiction (his third book), a collection of very personal essays by this author who was named one of the best young fiction writers in the US by Granta magazine. They explore "the difficulties of finding one's place in the world without letting go of where we came from. From his television-obsessed childhood in the North Carolina mountains to his new family, he presents his life with straightforward humanity." 172 pp. ISBN: 1565123026.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first work of non-fiction (his third book), a collection of very personal essays - one which explore "the difficulties of finding one's place in the world without letting go of where we came from" - by this author who was named one of the best young fiction writers in the US by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the title page. 172 pp. ISBN: 1565123026.

New York: Philosophical Library, (1950.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays written after 1936, including many never before published, on a variety of topics ranging from a self-portrait to science to public affairs and world affairs, including the idea of mass destruction. One section is devoted to scientists through the years and the final section on "my people" deals with being Jewish and the history of the Jews. Index. This is the variant with the frontispiece black and white portrait of Einstein by Lotte Jacobi and the typographical jacket. Index. 282 pp.

London: Faber & Faber, (1948.) dj. Hardcover first edition -

New York: Penzler Books, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "The most infuriating man in American letters is back . . . More than 50 previously uncollected essays, over 160,000 words of smoldering opinion." SIGNED by Robert Crais at his foreword. Index. xxvii, 418 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2399.

New York: Penzler Books, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "The most infuriating man in American letters is back . . . More than 50 previously uncollected essays, over 160,000 words of smoldering opinion." SIGNED and dated on the title page by Ellison. Index. xxvii, 418 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2399.