Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Five thoughtful essays on the past and the future of the Western United States, with a foreword by Governor George Sinner. Illustrated with many pages of beautiful full color photographs. Large format. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-879053577.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

New York: Random House, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of topical and often provocative essays by an American master - on Nixon, Reagan and other political matters, on writers ranging from Anthony Burgess to Italo Calvino, Henry James and Dawn Powell (Vidal is almost singlehandly responsible for the resurgence of interest in the writings of Powell.) 303 pp. ISBN: 0-394-570200.

New York: Nation Books, (2004). Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket - "In Imperial America, the conclusion of his landmark trilogy and most devastating exploration of contemporary America yet, Vidal observes that there's something suspicious about the 'ever reckless Cheney-Bush junta.' " We can only imagine what he would have to say about current events. Index. 182 pp. ISBN: 1-560255854.

Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, Inc, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of interviews with Vidal, taking place all over the world and over a period of more than 20 years, in which he frankly sets out his thoughtful and often controversial ideas on our world. Selected, arranged and introduced by Robert J. Stanton. Index. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-8184-03020.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. Hardcover first edition - An address delivered at the Harvard Union December 8, 1919 - an essay on the purpose of recreation in our lives, which moves from the pleasures of poetry to discussing the author's pleasure in birdsong which he shared with Theodore Roosevelt. 45 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2008. dj. Hardcover first edition - An exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America as only Vowell can write it. 251 pp. ISBN: 978-1594489990.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so investigates the bumpy roads in her own life. Her second full length book. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-743223527.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. A collection of essays on twelve English poems, by various contributors - ranging from A. Alvarez on Shakespeare's 'The Phoenix and the Turtle" to Wain on Yeats' s 'Among School Children.'

New York: Random House, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on a variety of topics ranging from writing and writers, including Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde, to the musical group Sweet Honey , her daughters and dreadlocks. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-679-455841.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1993.). First edition - A collection of essays published during the previous year in a variety of periodicals. In addition to the contributors mentioned above, this includes Jane Kramer on the Salman Rushdie; Los Angeles Crip warlord Sanyika Shakur (aka "Monster Kody") on his initiation into gang violence at the age of 11; Jean Harris on women in prison; Vlaclav Havlov on politics and morality, and more. Notes on contributors. 290 pp. ISBN: 1-555972020.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. A long-running and excellent series, under the general editorship of Robert Atwanm of books which are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes essays by Jo Ann Beard, Cynthia Ozick, Malcolm Gladwell, Marilynne Robinson, Richard Rodriguez, Molly Peacock, W. S. Di Piero and others. Introduction by David Foster Wallace and brief biographies of the contributors.. xxiv, 307 pp. ISBN: 0-618-709274.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1946.). Hardcover first edition - A series of essays written at the end of World War II on the cult of power in literature, from the classics to modern writings, from Aeschylus to Dostoievsky, Dickens and Yeats. 155 pp.

Piscataway, NJ: Winchester Press, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A nonfiction book by this award-winning New England novelist and short story writer. As it describes a year in the life of a fisherman, it is also a celebration of fly fishing, the natural world, and a river valley and the life in it, as well as a book about the character of New England's small towns. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. Illustrated with drawings by Gordon Allan. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-832903655.

Boston: Conde Nast, 1946. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'We know, we Americans, what America means in the human heart; we remember its principles and we honor its record; but we tend to forget that it has its counterpart in sixty or seventy other places. This is mischievous business. It is bloody business. Reinforced with the atom, it may be fatal business.' Political commentary from the noted childrenÕs writer and essayist, in editorials written between 1943 and 1946. The theoretical case for a single world government, just as the UN was taking shape.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Hardcover first edition - Essays on such topics as the centrality of friendship in gay life, on the AIDS crisis, as well on writers like Nabokov, Isherwood, Cormac McCarthy, Truman Capote, on the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and an appreciation of the singer, Prince, and more. Introduction by David Bergman, index. xxviii, 386 pp. ISBN: 0-679434755.

New York: Faber & Faber, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Eighty-five columns from Billboard which combine interviews with recording artists and reviews of their records. Ranges across all genres of music, from rock, new wave, punk, blues, jazz, rap, country, reggae, world music, calypso, Latin to classical and more. Pieces on veteran artists like Eric Clapton, George Harrison, David Byrne, Ray Charles, Wyonna Judd, Joni Mitchell and the Eagles, White and on the less known artists like Liz Phair, Joan Osborne, Alanis Morissette, the spiritual dance sonorities of the Haitian group Boukman Eksperyans and many others. Photographs. Index. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-805039759.

Washington, D.C.: Island Press, (1991.). First edition - A collection of essays about the environment and the movement to protect it by Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, Barry Commoner, Anne and Paul Ehrlich, Wendell Berry and others. Notes on the contributors, index. 282 pp. ISBN: 1-55963-1201.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - An important book by one of jazz's most distinguished critics - includes reviews, essays about musicians at work recording, rehearsing and performing as well as a selection of album liner notes. by one of jazz's most distinguished critics, divided into sections, includes a collection of reviews of Ella Fitzgerald, Ornette Coleman, Bud Powell, Ellington, Fats Waller and many others; depictions of musicians at work recording, rehearsing and performing as well as a selection of album liner notes for Jelly Roll Morton, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and others. Index. xiv, 253 pp. ISBN: 0-195036115.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays by eleven top mystery writers on their work, and on the genre, including Robert Barnard, Rex Burns, K.C. Constantine, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Michael Gilbert, Donald Hamilton, Joseph Hansen, Tony Hillerman, Reginald Hill, James McClure, and Robert B. Parker. Introduction and afterword by Winks. Notes on the contributors, index. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-684-184281.

New York: Summit Books, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A revolution, a crime, a remarkable boy, a honeymoon, a war - A generation revealed 1970-1979." Wolff's first book, a series of essays which show what happened to some white kids after the 60s ended - including the story of Angela Atwood, a neighbor of his family who helped kidnap Patricia Hearst as a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army - although he uses a quote from James Baldwin as an epigraph: ". . .the troubles of what people failed to impress me as being real troubles." Wolff is best known now for his trilogy of unflattering books about Trump's presidency. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-671400010.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Wolff at his essay 'Civilian.' In addition to the contributions by the writers shown above, this includes selections by James Alan McPherson, Edna O'Brien, Grace Paley, Maxine Kumin and more. Robert Atwan, series editor. ISBN: 0-395-691834.

Maui: Flying Rabbit Press, (2002.). SIGNED first edition - Essays which represent the best of the columns the author wrote, fashioned from over 25 years of living on Maui - including spoofs, unlikely eyewitness accounts and grossly distorted reminiscences. INSCRIBED on the title page. ISBN: 0-9706200-04.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1925.). Hardcover first edition - Her first collection of literary pieces - on authors ranging from Chaucer to Defoe to Jane Austen and the Brontes. Includes one essay - "Miss Ormerod" in Lives of the Obscure which was not in the UK edition. 332 pp.

London: Cassell, (1945.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Stories, sketches, ancedotes and personalities including essays and sketches about such people as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Katherine Cornell, Orson Wells, George Gershwin, Harpo Marx, Jane Austen, Helen Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan Macy, the Baker Street irregulars, accounts of five classic crimes and more. 233 pp.

New York: Amistad / Harper Collins, (1993). SIGNED first edition - Includes 20 reviews of Wright's novels and other books and 22 critical essays on his works; the reviewers include Joyce Cary, Max Eastman, Clifton Fadiman, Zora Neale Hurston, Sinclair Lewis, Ralph Ellison, Horace A. Porter, Lionel Trilling, David Bradley and others. Essays by Dan McCall, Claudia C. Tate, Robert Stepto, Herbert Leibowitz, Houston A Baker and more. Preface by Gates. SIGNED by K. A. Appiah on the title page. One of the first six volumes of literary criticism launching the Amistad Literary series, which is devoted to literary fiction and criticism by and about African Americans. Chronology, bibliography and index. xvi, 476 pp. ISBN: 1-567430279.