Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1968. First edition - Literary magazine of UC Berkeley, featuring fiction, poetry and photography. Includes an essay by William Stafford and Norman Jacobson, poetry by Tate, Miles, Dave Kelly, Gerald Locklin and many others. Notes on contributors. 120 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1978). Hardcover first edition - A title in the Quantum books series - "a short study distinctive for the author's ability to offer a richness of detail and insight in about one hundred pages of print, short enough to be read in an evening and significant enough to be a book". Index, 120 pp. ISBN: 0-520035496.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Works by and about Stein, including interviews and criticism. Edited and with a preface by Robert Bartlett Haas. Other contributors include Gertrude Stein Raffel, her niece, and Donald Sutherland. One of only 500 copies copies bound in cloth. 158 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-876851375.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Photographs, index, bibliography. ix, 134 pp. ISBN: 0-374-374678.

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.

Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex: Desert Island Books, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects twenty papers presented by leading scholars of Bram Stoker and Dracula, including Nina Auerbach to Kellie Donovan Wilson, at the Dracula Centenary Celebration in Los Angeles in 1997. The papers present "new theories about Stoker's possible sources, explorations of Dracula in the Victorian context, commentaries on the historical Dracula, and fresh interpretations of the novel." Edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Miller. INSCRIBED by Miller on the title page. Works cited and notes at the end of each selection. 256 pp. ISBN: 1-874287104.

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.

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: Monarch Press / Simon & Schuster, (1987). First edition - Looks at Walker's life, and the influences on her work, especially her discovery of the novels of Zora Neale Hurston. While this focuses on Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning The Color Purple, it also discusses her work both before and after its publication. Bibliography, 121 pp. ISBN: 0-671648616.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (1991.). Discusses the novels of Margaret Walker, Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Louise Meriweather, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker and more in the context of the Civil Rights movements, its hopes and its achievements. Bibliography of primary works, notes, index. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-300-054327.

Amherst: University of Massachutts Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comparative study of three major Caribbean novelists: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant. "Despite differences of language and background, these writers from Cuba, Guyana and Martinique have much in common. Each has written extensively on the shared heritage of the peoples of the Caribbean and each has been influential in redefining the novel in the context of New World culture." Notes, selected bibliography, index. x, 185 pp. ISBN: 0-870237845.

Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, (1991). First edition - An innovative reading of the work of Edith Wharton, one which examines her lifelong preoccupation with the place of the American woman writer. Includes detailed interpretations of many of her works,including The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Ghosts and more. Notes, index. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-807843024.

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. A study of Whitman's apparently contradictory attitudes towards African American and an argument that his developing attitudes were central to his writing of 'Leaves of Grass.' Bibliography, index. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-271-016426.

Miami, Florida: Ediciones Universal, (1981). First edition - The final book by this scholar and educator who focused on Afro-Hispanic literature from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Among the topics covered are Los antecedentes de la poesa negra; La poesa negra en el concepto moderno and Clasificacin de la poesa afroantillana. Text in Spanish / en espanol. Bibliografia. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-897292375.

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.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover - A book which brings together all of the published material on the Southern characters and the settings that run through this North Carolina born novelist. Photographs. Index. xii, 194 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1978.) dj. This volume of Woolf's letters cover a period when her literary career and the Hogarth Press were well launched and she was in relatively good health, Includes letters to Dora Carrington, Vita Sackville-West, Vanessa Bell, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Maynard Keynes and more. Illustrated with photographs, Index. 600 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1509263.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979.) dj. This volume of Woolf's letters cover the years when she was writing her masterpiece, "The Waves." Although this includes letters old friends - including Vita Sackville-West, Vanessa Bell, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, and more - these years (and the letters) are dominated by a new acquaintance - the composer Ethel Smythe. Illustrated with photographs, Index. xxi, 442 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1509263.

New York: Harper & Row, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the primary major approaches to science fiction, from Verne and Wells (who added a strong social conscience, that has continued in science fiction) to Asimov and Vonnegut. Among the other authors whose works he discusses are Michael Crichton, Nabokov, Bradbury, Andre Norton, Harlan Ellison, Tolkien, Robert Silverberg and many others. Index. 122 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1925.). Hardcover first edition - Her first collection of literary pieces - on authors ranging from Chaucer to Defoe to Jane Austen and the Brontes. Includes one essay - "Miss Ormerod" in Lives of the Obscure which was not in the UK edition. 332 pp.

New York: New York University Press, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author goes through Woolf's novels, one by one, and describes the settings, the period, and Woolf's experience, from the beginning of the 20th century to 1941 and the Blitz. Bibliography, index. 120 pp

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.

New York: Amistad / Harper Collins, (1993). SIGNED first edition - Includes 20 reviews of Wright's novels and other books and 22 critical essays on his works; the reviewers include Joyce Cary, Max Eastman, Clifton Fadiman, Zora Neale Hurston, Sinclair Lewis, Ralph Ellison, Horace A. Porter, Lionel Trilling, David Bradley and others. Essays by Dan McCall, Claudia C. Tate, Robert Stepto, Herbert Leibowitz, Houston A Baker and more. Preface by Gates. SIGNED by K. A. Appiah on the title page. One of the first six volumes of literary criticism launching the Amistad Literary series, which is devoted to literary fiction and criticism by and about African Americans. Chronology, bibliography and index. xvi, 476 pp. ISBN: 1-567430279.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1991). A new look at the work of Richard Wright - and especially 'Native Son' - as literary works and not just social polemics. Works cited, index. xvii, 129 pp. ISBN: 0-877453209.

New York: Warner/ Grand Central. (1988) dj. Hardcover - A portrait of this important African American novelist by a friend and fellow writer, one which discusses his political beliefs, and looks at his major works. The first biography of Wright by one of his contemporaries and the first critical biography by another Black scholar and author. Photographs, bibliographical essay, index. xix, 428 pp. ISBN: 0-446710016.

New York: Warner/ Grand Central. (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A portrait of this important African American novelist by a friend and fellow writer, one which discusses his political beliefs, and looks at his major works. The first biography of Wright by one of his contemporaries and the first critical biography by another Black scholar and author. INSCRIBED and dated by Walker on the title page. Photographs, bibliographical essay, index. xix, 428 pp. ISBN: 0-446710016.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of an often overlooked subgenre of the Western novel - of how some of the popular women writers of the time - including B.M. Bower, Caroline Lockhart, Vingie E. Roe, Honore Willsie Morrow and Katharine Newlin Burt - both appealed to the prejudices of the mass market on a superficial level, but also managed to subvert the traditional images by downplaying violence, portraying active rather than passive heroines, etc. Notes, bibliography, index. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-826315690.