New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc. 1947. First edition - First separate publication of this offprint from 'Delaware, a History of the First State' with a new foreword by Henry Seidel Canby. Discusses the importance of regional literature in understanding American life. Includes discussion of fiction, both romantic and realistic, nonfiction prose and poetry, Glossy frontispiece. States that this is one of 250 copies, but it is not numbered. Large format, measuring 8 1/12 in wide by 11 inches tall, 32 pp.

New York & London: Routledge, 1998. First edition - A fresh look at the 'literature of the west' - fiction, non-fiction and in film - with chapters on the only black cowboy to have left an autobiography, a memoir by one of Brigham Young's wives, the story of a boy in an Oregon logging camp who claimed to be a French aristocrat, the California Mother Lode and more. Photographs, notes, index. 222 pages. ISBN: 0-415-914639.

New York: Summit Books, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A partially autobiographical book by this author who wrote more than 20 novels, including the Booker Award winning "The Old Devils." It includes opening chapters on his family, school days, and life at Oxford, but much of the book is about other writers, including a piece on Philip Larkin (rewritten from a version published before Larkin died), and his praise for neglected writers, such as Elizabeth Taylor, and for Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time series. Index. 346 pp. ISBN: 0-671749099.

New York: Quadrangle / New York Times Book Co., (1975) dj. Hardcover - Includes chapters on the history of book selling by John Tebbel; Bestsellers in the stores, 1900-1975 by Alice Payne Hackett; Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach; Censorship and the Gotham Book Mart by Frances Steloff; Never by a Bookseller by David Garnett and more, including Christopher Morley's speech at the ABA, Mark Twain at the ABA. Illustrated with photographs. Appendix. x, 214 pp. ISBN: 0-812905393.

Limpsfield, UK: Paper Tiger, (1983). Hardcover first edition - A guided tour of ten famous houses from novels by many authors - including Kafka's The Castle and Wodehouse's Blanding Castle, Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, Gone with the Wind, Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, and more. Illustrated with full color paintings, including some double page spreads, drawings and floor plans throughout. Large format. 141 pp. ISBN: 0-905895800.

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: Crown, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of the American novelist who was "able to observe America's privileged class from the inside." Photographs, extensive notes, index. xii, 287 pp. ISBN: 0-517-587203.

North Kingston, R.I.: North Kingston Free Library, (1998). First edition - A year by selction of American books for every year from 1898 (Henry James' A Turn of the Screw), through 1987 (Del Blanco, Required Reading) with notes on each book. Includes fiction and nonfiction, poetry and plays; among the authors are Cather, Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Rachel Carson, Tim O'Brien and many more. Index. Unpaginated - each book is on a separate dated page.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects a quarter-century of essays and reviews by this writer who served as the reviewer and editor for the NY Times, and was a founder of the National Book Critics Circle. Among the authors whose works are discussed is T. S. Eliot, Joyce Carol Oates, Carson McCuller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, J. D. Salinger, Eudora Welty and more. In addition, she discusses trends in modern literature from the claimed decline in mass markets to the vibrant alternate printing culture, and gives some insight into her own career. Includes a long introduction written for this book. 250 pp.

New York: Putnam, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first work of nonfiction by this award-winning writer - many of these essays are on books and the state of literature, but the topics range from Maryland crabs and crabcakes to student activists in the 60s. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-399-129979.

New York: Henry Holt, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - Fascinating stories about bibliomania and book collecting through the years - including sections on many responsible for building some of the great collections in the US - from Ruth Baldwin to Ransom to Schomberg. A true feast for book lovers. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 631 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-3653-9.

New York: Henry Holt, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - Fascinating stories about bibliomania and book collecting through the years - including sections on many responsible for building some of the great collections in the US - from Ruth Baldwin to Ransom to Schomberg. A true feast for book lovers. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 631 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-3653-9.

London: The Cresset Press, (1962) dj. Hardcover - Volume four of Cresset Press': 'Introduction to English Literature' series. Covers the period from 1830-1914. Editor's preface, preface to 3rd edition, a chapter on the economic background by Guy Chapman, Most of the book is an annoted bibliography of the writers of this period and their works, arranged topically. index. xx, 360 pp.

Los Angeles: HP Books, (1985). First edition - A comprehensive overview of all things Oz since L. Frank Baum first created this wonderful world in 1900 - an entertaining trip through the original Oz books, with profiles of all of the characters, other publications, musicals, plays, and films, including Disney and Oz. Illustrated throughout, mostly in full color. Large format. Appendices. 96 pp. ISBN: 0-895864150.

Privately printed, 1961. First edition - Includes a reproduction of the manuscript of Beerbohm's Sonnet "To The 'Most Distinguished Chancellor' That Oxford Has Had?" and a reproduction of the caricature "The Old and the Young Self" 12 pp. Handsewn

Eugene, Oregon, University of Oregon Press, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - The definitive edition of this valuable bibliography, incorporating and expanding significantly on the imprints recorded by Douglas C. McMurtrie in 1950. Includes 700 additions recorded in four supplements by Belknap, and 262 items not previously described, for a total of 1,521 books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Oregon through 1870 Includes 16 pages of illustrations, an introduction by Belknap, notes and both a subject and printer index. Attractively produced, slightly larger in format, illustrated endpapers. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-871140195.

Novato, CA: New World Library, (2001.). SIGNED - "A spiritual approach to writing that show[s] both beginners and seasoned authors how to overcome blocks, unleash their creative voice, and see their books into print." This edition includes more interactive experience; it incorporate exercises from workshops and a chapter on supportive critiquing. SIGNED on the half title page and dated 2001. Bibliography. 238 pp. ISBN: 1577311779.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A compilation of quotations, ranging from Victor Hugo to Winston Churchill and images that celebrate reading. Arranged topically with sections on reading to relax, libraries, bibliomania, the dangers of lending books, bookshops and bookburners and more. Illustrated throughout. An enjoyable book to dip into or browse. Foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin. List of authors. 139 pp. ISBN: 0-879236736.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1987) dj. Hardcover - A compilation of quotations, ranging from Victor Hugo to Winston Churchill and images that celebrate reading. Arranged topically with sections on reading to relax, libraries, bibliomania, the dangers of lending books, bookshops and bookburners and more. Illustrated throughout. An enjoyable book to dip into or browse. Foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin. List of authors. 139 pp. ISBN: 0-879236736.

New England: Wesleyan University Press, (1995). First edition - Interviews of American authors of diverse cultural background and expertise. Those interviewed are: Luci Tapahonso, Ed Vega, Gerald Vizenor, John A. Williams, Roberto Fernandez, Andrew Holleran, Alan Lelchuk, Grace Paley, and Ishmael Reed. Originally published in German in 1994. Bibliography. xvii, 187 pp.

Southport, WA: R. M. Weatherford, Bookseller. (1988). First edition - Two bookseller's catalogues issued by Dick Weatherford, the founder of Interloc (now Alibris) from the years when he was a well known Western Americana bookseller. #68 has 471 items, 58 pages including the rear cover. #69 has 463 items, 58 pages including the rear cover.

Monroe, WA: R. M. Weatherford, Bookseller. (1986). First edition - Two bookseller's catalogues issued by Dick Weatherford, the founder of Interloc (now Alibris) from the years when he was a well known Western Americana bookseller. #47 has 595 items, 50 pages including the rear cover. #49 has 664 items, 50 pages including the rear cover.

Southport, WA: R. M. Weatherford, Bookseller. (1988). First edition - Two bookseller's catalogues issued by Dick Weatherford, the founder of Interloc (now Alibris) from the years when he was a well known Western Americana bookseller. #71 has 481 items, 58 pages including the rear cover. #69 has 449 items, 58 pages including the rear cover.

New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1970. Hardcover - Originally published in 1934, so "present time" refers to the early 1930s. When it was published, it was the only extensive listing of Arizona literature. Arranged topically - adventurers, novels, poetry, biography, legends, translations from Spanish, etc - this includes brief biographical notes on each author and a selection from their work. Index, 574 pp. ISBN: 0-838311687.

Reading, PA: The Snyder Publishing Co., 1942. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book written by Ethel M. Briggs, Northwest Branch Librarian at the Reading (Pa.) Public Library Hardback, which - in addition to telling a cute story about a boy named Tommy and his black Scotch terrier, named Arsenic (because he is 'poison' to so many things) -also explains much about how a public library works - beginning with it is "free for everyone to use." Illustrated with simple line drawings by the author. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page and dated in 1944. 84 pp plus 1 pp Dewey classification chart.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press / Oxford University Press, 1917. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of humorous essays, some on food, as the title implies, but many of family, friends and also on books and readers, including a delightful one on buying old books. SIGNED by the author on a blank prelim. Illustrated with drawings by Theodore Diedricksen, Jr. 139 pp.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which appeared on page 2 of the New York Times commenting on the current literary situation, edited and with an introduction by Francis Brown. Contributors inclued by Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Anthony Burgess, John le Carr, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, James A. Michener, W.H. Auden, Nathalie Sarraute, Brigid Brophy, James Michener, Harvey Swados, Leon Edel and many more. xii, 300 pp.