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.

[Sacramento: CA]: By the author, nd (ca 1977.). First edition - Separate publication of an essay which originally was included in "The Study of American Culture/Contemporary Conflicts." Examines female stereotypes in the media, in advertising, and in popular and high arts. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. pp 122-176 . The author grew up in a Finnish immigrant community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, was the first to receive a doctoral degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Michigan and was a leader in the ASA Commission on the Status of Women.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973. First edition - An essay by Durrell on his experience with Ludo Chardenon, a herbalist in Arles, Provence. Cover blocks by Margaret Wilson. The fifth title in the 'Yes! Capra Chapbook Series' edited by Robert Durand and Noel Young. Illustrated with small decorations and woodcuts throughout. 25 pp plus a facsimile copy of Chardenon's preparations and plants, a final woodcut, a photograph of Chardenon and Durrell and the colophon. ISBN: 0-912264-519.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, (c 1957). SIGNED - First separate appearance of an article originally published in "Dissent." "Superficial reflections on the hipster" with comments by Jean Malaquais and Ned Polsky followed by Mailer's responses. SIGNED on the title page. Later printing or issue with cover price (on back cover) of $1.00 cents (first printing had a cover price of 35 cents). Unpaginated (32 pp including title page and 1 pp publisher's list of titles) Cover with photograph by Harry Redl of a face in negative.

Boston: Beacon Press, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book by this National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet which includes "ten new poems, thirty-five of her classic poems, and two essays, all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit crabs, and, of course, her beloved and disobedient little dog, Percy, who appears and even speaks in thirteen poems, the closing section of this volume." 80 pp. ISBN: 978-0807068847.

New York: Harper Collins, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Essay based on a commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College. The award winning writer tells her own story of attending college, graduating, and struggling with the inevitable question, 'What now?' SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated. 97 pp. An appealing slim volume, with both the book and the dust jacket designed by Chip Kidd. ISBN: 9780061340659.

New York: Random House, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A small volume, a single essay on the "perfection trap" and how to avoid, illustrated throughout with photographs. INSCRIBED on a blank prelim page. 48 pp. ISBN: 0-375-505490.

Detroit: Act Three Publishing, (2003). First edition - Chapbook by this African American poet and author, one he describes as a "critical essay/" This contains an account by a Black man scheduled to be executed, bracketed by comments from the woman who, while she did not believe his claims to be innocent, had promised to publish his journal. 51 pp.

Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, (1979.). SIGNED - Snyder's thesis from Reed College, on a myth from the Haida Tribe of British Columbia about a chief's son who marries a supernatural ghostwoman, looses her and then finds her again. Frontis illustration of a photgraph of Gary Snyder at work on this thesis in 1951. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page, and scarce thus in any printing. Foreword by Gary Snyder. Preface by Nathaniel Tarn. Notes. Bibliography. . xix, 133 pp. ISBN: 0-912516-380.

Lexington, KY: University Of Kentucky Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long autobiographical essay on Southern politics, American history and Jefferson Davis, which grew out of a visit in 1979 to Warren's native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had been restored, 90 years after his death, by an act of Congress. "A meditation by one of our most respected men of letters on the ironies of American history and the paradoxes of the modern South." 114 pp. ISBN: 0-813114454.