Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (1955) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which focus on the work of 9 major American women writers of the late 19th and 20th centuries - Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, Carson McCullers, and Mary McCarthy - in their dual roles as conservationists of American culture and as literary pioneers. Index. 202 pp.

New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays by this Booker prize winning writer on other writers - Victorians like Robert Browning and George Eliot, modern writers like William Golding, and other women writers ranging from Willa Cather, to Sylvia Plath, Barbara Pym and Georgette Heyer. Notes, index. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-679-405119.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1997.). Essays on books and writers - from Clover Adams (wife of Henry Adams) to Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Andre Dubus, and more. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-8070-62233.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1988. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on the myth of Quetxalcoatl by Anaya, on Jack London, James Fenimore Cooper's influence on Karl May and the Indian myths they created, and on recently discovered letters by Willa Cather. Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1964. SIGNED first edition - An uncommon issue of this quarterly journal of literature published in cooperation with the University of Nebraska Press and the Department of English at the University of Nebraska. This issue features two portfolios with works by and about Willa Cather and William Carlos Williams. INSCRIBED by Jane Etsy at her poem 'On Making a Visit in Mid-Afternon' to fellow poet X. J. Kennedy (In addition Etsy has written X. J. Kennedy on the front cover with a line pointing to her circled name). Also includes poems by Larry Rubin, Richard Kelly, and more, a short story by Harry Wilson and book reviews. Index. 66 pp. 283-376.