Boston: Little Brown, (2001) dj. Hardcover - A practical guide to starting and keeping a diary - and to transform it into something permanent. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-316120200.

Hilversum. Netherlands: Verloren, 1997. First edition - Contains 12 papers, 8 in English, 3 in German and 1 in French by the former Dutch State Archivist, E. Ketelaar, who was influential in transforming the agency to one prepared for the modern world. Among the topics are the social role of archives, new developments in archival technology, personal information in archives and the 'right to forget', and more. Illustrated with photographs. 125 pp. ISBN: 90-65505652.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of revealing interviews with Stephen King that lays bare the inner workings of his teeming imagination. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-07-0657599.

New York: New American Library - NAL, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of King's life and work, which includes some notes towards a biography and a study of his major novels. Chronology, several appendices on his short fiction, television and movie adaptations and a detailed bibliography through 1984. Photographs. Index. xix, 252 pp. ISBN: 0-453004768.

Berkeley, CA: Conari Press. (2000). SIGNED first edition - Foreword by Vicki Leon. INSCRIBED by Author on the half title page "To --- a true bibliophile." . An extensive resource guide. Part History, part pop-culture, and all bookish. Illustrated, index. 274 pp. ISBN: 1-57324-0249.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - The publisher shares 60 of his photographs - mostly of writers from Joseph Conrad, Leonard Woolf, Witter Byner, to Raymond Chandler, Satre, Camus, Muriel Spark, Julia Child and more - on the 60th anniversary of his publishing house. Slightly oversized square format. 62 pp. ISBN: 0-394-498925.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. Hardcover first edition - Publication Number 201. Illustrated with 2 photographs, a copy of the original title page, and an original tipped-in leaf (pp. 159-160 of Cowan's Bibliography.) Sources. 63 pp plus colophon. Large format. Edition limited to 390 copies, designed by Lewis Allen and printed at the Anchor & Acorn Press.

New York: Hyperion, (2001.). A young reference librarian is hired by an eccentric bibliophile to do some after-hours research - A New York Times Notable book. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-85181.

New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. Hardcover - A young reference librarian is hired by an eccentric bibliophile to do some after-hours research - A New York Times Notable book. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66039.

New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young reference librarian is hired by an eccentric bibliophile to do some after-hours research - A New York Times Notable book. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66039.

New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young reference librarian is hired by an eccentric bibliophile to do some after-hours research. SIGNED on the title page and dated 2001, in the year of publication. A New York Times Notable book. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66039.

New York: Hyperion, (2001.). First edition - The author's second novel. A young reference librarian is hired by an eccentric bibliophile to do some after-hours research. SIGNED on the title page. A New York Times Notable book. 360 pp.

Miami, FL: Granger Books, n.d. (ca 1970.) dj. Hardcover - A collection of poems about books, bookmen and bibliophiles originally published in 1888. Includes preface by Brander Matthews and selections from Roman poets like Horace and Catullus through Ben Jonson, Robert Burns, Leigh Hunt, Sir Walter Scott, Austin Dobson and many others. xx, 157 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography, both thoughtful, detailed and playful, of the founder of New Directions and a man who transformed American publishing. A poet himself, Laughlin "was the man behind some of the most daring, revolutionary works in verse and prose of the twentieth century. As the founder of New Directions, he published Ezra Pound's The Cantos and William Carlos Williams's Paterson; he brought Hermann Hesse and Jorge Luis Borges to an American audience." Includes an appendix of all the authors published by New Directions, notes and index. 584 pp. ISBN: 978-0374299392.

New York: Twayne, 1953. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays, edited by Harry T. Moore. The first American publication of Lawrence's long essay on this subject "A Propos of Lady Chatterly's Lover."

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - From discussions of reading such diverse books as Huck Finn and Don Quixote, Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle and Ian McEwan's The Child in Time, this is an exploration of what books and reading - and rereading them - can mean to us. SIGNED on the title page. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-61808293X.

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 1984. First edition - Number 9 in the Bibliographical Series. Includes substantial sections on Aldous Huxley, Thomas More, Plato and more. Illustrated. Index. xxx, 230 pp.

Santa Barbara: Cordelia Editions, 1984. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes two previously unpublished essays by Macdonald on the role of detective novels in modern literature, and more than two dozen tributes to Macdonald from such diverse writers as Margaret Millar, Reynolds Price, John D. MacDonald, Otto Penzler, Diane Wakoski, Eudora Welty and more. INSCRIBED by Sipper at the bottom of the list of contributors and dated in the year of publication. Frontispiece and photographs. 161 pp.plus brief notes on the contributors.

Novato, CA: New World Library, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Even if you don't want to be a writer, this is a wonderful introduction to parts of San Francisc, ranging from a portrait of the author's 96-year old mother living at West Portal, the City Lights bookstore, cafes, demographic and more. The large fold-out painting (creating the a 4 page wide streetscape) and the colored drawings by Paul Madonna at the beginning of each essay capture the look and spirit of the city - an attractively-produced and seductively interesting book. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Notes, index. 135 plus a colophon (which, in the spirit of the San Francisco area, notes that the publisher is a member of the Green Press Initiative.). ISBN: 1-577315464.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - The Northcliff Lectures originally presented in London in 1980 - among the authors whom McCarthy looks at from the perspective of 'ideas' in their books are Henry James, Hugo, Balzac, George Eliot and Dickens, and 20th century writers, including Bellow, Malamud and Roth, all writers of the Jewish novel. ISBN: 0-15-1436827.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - The Northcliff Lectures originally presented in London in 1980 - among the authors whom McCarthy looks at from the perspective of 'ideas' in their books are Henry James, Hugo, Balzac, George Eliot and Dickens, and 20th century writers, including Bellow, Malamud and Roth, all writers of the Jewish novel. ISBN: 0-15-1436827.

Charlottesville, VA: Alderman Library, University of Virginia, 1988. First edition - Keepsake produced in conjunction with an exhibition featuring the Sadleir-Black Gothic Novel Collection. Includes an essay on history and imagination in the Gothic novel, and another on the collection itself. Illustrated, notes. Designed by Warren Chappell. One of 1500 copies. 25 pp

New York: Arcade Publishing, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the French by Timothy Bent. Based on unpublished letters and recollections of conversations, this is an intimate account of a writer's self discovery as observed by his friend, the famed photograper Brassai. Illustrated with sixteen black and white photographs by Brassai. Translator's note, map, bibliography. ix, 224 pp. ISBN: 1559702877.

Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1940. First edition - Illustrated exhibition catalogue. Includes 64 incunabula from Gutenberg and his Bible through Wynkyn de Worde, in Westminster in 1500, with information on the printers as well as the books themselves. 94 pp

Philadelphia:
Lippincott, (1955.). Hardcover - A new illustrated edition of book originally published in 1919, designed by Warren Chappell and illustrated by Douglas Gorsline. 253 pp.

New York: Booksellers House, (1992.). Classic novel of a 38 year old spinster who just up and left her life as housekeeper for her author-brother and bought a rolling contraption - a bookstore on wheels. Illustrated by Douglas Gorsline. Foreword by John T. Winterich. 130 pp. ISBN: 1-879923-017.

Philadelphia:
Lippincott, (1955.) dj. Hardcover - A new illustrated edition of book originally published in 1917. Designed by Warren Chappel l and illustrated by Douglas Gorsline. Introduction by John T. Winterich. 160 pp.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover first edition - A collection of critical essays on books, authors and the characters in books. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-195025083.