Boston: Beacon Press, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifty essays, lectures, and reviews written over a 20 year period -including selections on Al Purdy, Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, Erica Jong, Nadine Gordimer, E. L. Doctorow, Mordecai Richler, African American women writers, human rights and the woman's movement, Tillie Olsen, Sylvia Plath, Marie-Claire Blais, Northrup Frye, and much more. Index. 444 pp. ISBN: 0-807063584.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1984.). First edition - Fifty essays, lectures, and reviews written over a 20 year period -including selections on Al Purdy, Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, Erica Jong, Nadine Gordimer, E. L. Doctorow, Mordecai Richler, African American women writers, human rights and the woman's movement, Tillie Olsen, Sylvia Plath, Marie-Claire Blais, Northrup Frye, and much more. Index. 444 pp. ISBN: 0-807063592.

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: Poets & Writers Inc., 2000. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the cover, on her portrait, by Francine Prose. Feature articles include an article on the work of Francine Prose and a section on literary success in the midwest, which includes articles on the Twin Cities, on Wright Morris, on poetry and on small presses there. Advertisements and a long section of resources for writers. 121 pp.

New York: Poets & Writers Inc., 2003. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the cover, on her portrait, by Maxine Hong Kingston. Feature articles include one on the devasting Oakland fire which destroyed not only Kingston's home, but the manuscript of the book she was working on and articles on Jhumpa Lahiri, small independent publishers, and Amanda Stern's first book and more. Advertisements and a long section of resources for writers. 152 pp.

New York: Poets & Writers Inc., 2003. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the cover, on his portrait, by T. C. Boyle. Feature articles include a look at Boyle's work, writers' retreats, learning to write with Harry Crews and more. Advertisements and a long section of resources for writers. 152 pp.

Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell - Asphodel Press, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 27 essays - several dealing with Chicago, others on Billie Holliday, jazz musician Roland Kirk, on Michael Jordan, the black Baptist church, sculptor Richard Hunt - book reviews and more, by this noted African American writer. ISBN: 1-55921-0680.

New York: Norton, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of reviews which together make provocative and entertaining reading - on Darwin, evolution, contemporary science and more. Illustrated. Index. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-393-02492x.

New York: Harper Collins, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 32 essays, many which originally appeared in the New York Review of Books, on contemporary life, culture, history, and politics. Included are essays on Sebold's 'The Lovely Bones' and Cunningham's 'The Hours,' on Ted Hughes, Marie Antoinette, the Trojan War, the movie 'Kill Bill,' Henry James and Oscar Wilde, Greek plays, and much more. 456 pp. ISBN: 9780061456435.

Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1990. First edition - Includes short stories by Daniel Wallace, Julie Brown (the powerful story 'Work'); poetry by Margaret Grossman, David Ray, etc; book reviews and photographs. Special symposium on 'Boundaries' - between high/low art, prose/poetry, art/autobiography - featuring Piercy, Baker, Jerome Mazzaro, Robert Altieri, Hassan, Kumin, Ron Silliman and Gordon Weaver. Contributors' notes. 180 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

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.