Washington and London / New York: Smithsonian Institution Press / Tenth Avenue Editions, (1990). First edition - A large trade paperback illustrated throughout with black and white photographs by Berenice Abbott, including many portraits and images of New York City, most full page. Introduction by David Vestal and a foreword by Muriel Reykeser. Includes a chronology and a list of articles and reviews of Abbott's work. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-874742110.

New York: Newmarket Press (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes interviews with Edward Albee, Horton Foote, Frank Gilroy, William Goldman, William Inge, Alan Jay Lerner, Mary Mercier, David Merrick, Mason Miller, John Patrick, Richard Wilbur, Edwina Dakin Williams, Tennessee Williams, Lanford Wilson, as they discuss both their successes and failures. Illustrated with photographs. Warmly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. Foreword by Kevin Kline. Suggestions for further reading, index. xii, 211 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 1-557041288.

Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, (2005). First edition - A history of a small independent bookstore in Salt Lake City, Utah, and much more. Includes reflections on books, and bookselling, book lists, accounts of author events. Illustrated with photographs. 302 pp. ISBN: 1423601246.

Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, (2005). SIGNED first edition - A history of a small independent bookstore in Salt Lake City, Utah, and much more. Includes reflections on books, and bookselling, book lists, accounts of author events. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED on the title page. 302 pp. ISBN: 1423601246.

El Cerrito, CA: Earl Enterprises, 1982. First edition - The second book by the author of "A Sagebrush Heritage." Written in a very informal style, this begins with "A sexagenarian writes a book, so can you." The buried treasure, of course, are the papers, letters, photographs and more, sometimes saved over the generations, and which inspired her to write her family history. This book includes information about some of the people who helped her in her research and provided more letters for her - as well as some authors whom she knew slightly or wrote to. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 169 pp. ISBN: 0-960256417.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1921. Hardcover first edition - A collection of mostly humorous sketches originally published in the New York Evening Post and the Literary Review and other newspapers and journals. Includes a short piece on McSorley's and several on various authors - Gissing, Conrad, etc. Illustrated with drawings by Walter Jack Duncan viii, 242 pp., publisher's ads at rear.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second book of literary odysseys - from his childhood in the Bronx, to Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, interviews with John McPhee in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey and with Tony Hillerman in the Southwest, and to the Britain of Shakespeare, Yeats and Joyce. Small format. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-87805-6726.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive reference on children's books of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the years after World War II, arranged in encyclopedia format, alphabetically by author, illustrator or topic. Includes a recommended reading list and entries from seventy-five contributors (which include such well-known names as Lloyd Alexander, Nina Bawden, Eric Carle, Paula Fox, Gary Soto and many more) on topics ranging from ABC books to young adult books. Color plates inserted and illustrated throughout with smaller black and white reproductions of book covers or illustrations. Notes on contributors, index of contributors, general index. 800 pp. ISBN: 0-395-653800.