Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1984. First edition - An entertaining collection of essays on topics ranging from why Bryant has chosen to self-publish her books, to how to talk to an author, and a discussion of fairy tales. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-931688-124.

Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1984. SIGNED first edition - An entertaining collection of essays on topics ranging from why Bryant has chosen to self-publish her books, to how to talk to an author, and a discussion of fairy tales. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-931688-124.

Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - An entertaining collection of essays on topics ranging from why Bryant has chosen to self-publish her books, to how to talk to an author, and a discussion of fairy tales. ISBN: 0-931688-116.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. First edition - Includes a foreword by Jason Wilson, series editor, and an introduction by Bryson. Collects 25 of the best essays from both commercial and literary publications in 1999. Includes contributions from Bill Bufford, Dave Eggers, Amy Wilentz, Jeffrey Taylor, Clive Irving, William T. Vollmann and others. Notes on contributors. xxvii, 307 pp. ISBN: 0-618118810.

New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1984). First edition - A collection of essays in which "women read and respond to the Bible out of pleasure and curiosity . . Drawing on their own epxeriences and interests, Louise Erdrich, Cynthia Ozick, Fay Weldon, Phyllis Trible, Rebecca Goldstein, June Jordan, Ursula Le Guin, and twenty-one other writers boldly imaginatively - and sometimes reproachfully - address the Old Testament stories, characters, and poetry that mean the most to them." Among the other contributors are Marina Warner, Rachel M. Brownstein, Amy Clampitt, Allegra Goodman and more. Notes, contributors' biographies. xiv, 350 pp.

New York: October House, (1969). SIGNED hardcover - A book of essays by this poet, educator and critic. As she states in her preface, this is a book of "non-rules. A personal witness to the problems and the possibilities of the creative imagination." INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to another poet "who is making her own journey" and dated in 1991. Illustrated with photographs of some of her draft pages. vii, 112 pp.

New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays by this Booker prize winning writer on other writers - Victorians like Robert Browning and George Eliot, modern writers like William Golding, and other women writers ranging from Willa Cather, to Sylvia Plath, Barbara Pym and Georgette Heyer. Notes, index. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-679-405119.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Lectures on writing which Calvino was preparing to give at the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard in 1985-86. Includes a brief introduction by his wife in which she notes that these were an obsession with him in the last year of his life; he had planned on writing the 6th memo on "consistency" at Cambridge, and so his untimely death prevented this one from being written. Frontispiece. Translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-674810406.

Oakland, CA: Regent Press, (2007). SIGNED first edition - A collection of essays - on art, nature, history, growing up in California (and considering leaving it), Iris Murdoch, James Broughton and other writers, and more - by this award-winning poet. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Includes an appendix with an 11 page list of Canan's publications. 305 pp. ISBN: 9781587901294.

New York: Random House, 1980. dj. Hardcover - A collection of 14 pieces ranging from a short portrait of Marilyn Monroe to the novella-length factual crime account of 'Hand Carved Coffins.'. ISBN: 0-394-508262.

Guileford, Connecticut: Lyons Press, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this Pulitzer Prize winning author on nature, travel and adventure, from Alaska to Cuba, from the Khyber Pass to Kenya in Africa, originally published in 2004. This is a special reprinted edition, SIGNED by the author on the front free-end paper. 317 pp. ISBN: 978-0762796519.

Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays, some originally radio pieces, which are loosely connected by "the author's attempt to run down a pronghorn antelope. His pursuit-odd, funny, and inspired-is juxtaposed with stories about sibling rivalry, falling in love, and working as a journalist in war-torn countries" - setting range from the American West, to the mountains of Peru, and Cambodia. SIGNED on the title page.130 pp. ISBN: 1582431116.

New York: Viking, 1989. Hardcover first edition - Chatwin's personal selection of stories, essays and travelogues. Published posthumously.

Seattle: Seal Press, (1996). First edition - A look at women and the new Internet technology, collecting fifteen essays that discuss such issues as gender attitudes, courtship via e-mail and romance on the infobahn, the sexist marketing of computers and software, censorship, and the abuse of women by the "hacker" underground, to the overall role of women in science. Contributors include Ellen Ullman, Karen Coyle, Judy Malloy, Jean Camp and others. Notes on contributors. xv, 269 pp. ISBN: -1878067737.

New York: Granta. 2008. SIGNED first edition - An issue which brings together diverse pieces about fathers and fatherhood. SIGNED by TWO contributors - Joseph O'Neill and Jonathan Lethem. Also includes contributions by Siri Hustveldt, Ali Smith, poetry by Will Self, photographs by Kevin Cummins and John Naughton and more. Notes on contributors. 261 pp. ISBN: 9781929001347.

New York: Del Rey, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of ClarkeÕs articles, essays, and speeches, on war and peace, the frontiers of space, the need for communication, his life in Sri Lanka and more. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-345-313577.

New York: Del Rey, (1984.) dj. Hardcover - A collection of ClarkeÕs articles, essays, and speeches, on war and peace, the frontiers of space, the need for communication, his life in Sri Lanka and more. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-345-313577.

Ashland, Oregon: White Cloud Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - A balanced collection of essays on and by Hillary Clinton on her social, political and personal life. Contributors include Christopher Hitchens, Dee Dee Myers, Susan Faludi, Walter Shapiro, Katha Pollitt, Maureen Dowd, Henry Lewis Gates, Ellen Goodman, Anna Quindlen, and many more. includes bibliography, 311 pp. ISBN: 1-883991-34X.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. First edition - Includes articles on the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and the story of Americans who were kidnapped in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan by a militant Islamic group, and on athletes Cal Ripken Jr., Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tiger Woods, Joe DiMaggio, and others. Among the contributors are H. G. Bissinger, Charles P. Pierce, Jim Harrison, Rick Reilly, Toure and others. Biographical notes. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-618-086269.

Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays focusing on the great explorers - and on eccentrics, dreamers, scientists, cranks and geniuses. Includes all of the contents of two previous collections - The White Lantern and A Long Desire - plus two additional essays not previously published in book format. Bibliography. 470 pp. ISBN: 1582431620.

Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Essays focusing on the great explorers - and on eccentrics, dreamers, scientists, cranks and geniuses. Includes all of the contents of two previous collections - The White Lantern and A Long Desire - plus two additional essays not previously published in book format. SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography. 470 pp. ISBN: 1582431620.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on men, women and children who have that "unappeasable desire" to go beyond what is known and familiar - including seekers after Altlantis, the seven cities of Cibola, the northwest passage, legendary figures like Prester John, and more. Bibliography. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-030461618.

Soft Skull Press, (1999). First edition - Includes essays on AIDS, youth culture, drugs, films and contemporary art as well as "stoic, unsentimental and bracing" obituaries for Kurt Cobain, River Phoenix and William Burroughs and more. Issued as a trade paperback original. 146 pp.

Los Angeles: USC School of Journalism / Perpetua Press, (1985). Hardcover first edition - "13 essays on the art of communication written by friends" on Norman Corwin's 75th birthday. Includes contributions by Studs Terkel, Charles Kuralt, Norman Lear, Norman Cousins, Erik Barnouw, Philip Dunne, Peter Davis, Richard J. Goggin, Jerome Lawrence, James A. Brown, Robert E. Lee, Leonard Leader, Earl Robinson and Robert Nathan. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. The "Grand Old Man" of radio, Corwin came to fame with a series of broadcasts and programs for CBS in the 1940s and remained influential for the next 40 years. 112 pp.

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1973). First edition - Includes interviews with John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Jean-Luc Bertrande and others, essays on Bob Dylan, Leonard Crow Dog, The Last Poets, Randy Newman, the Fillmore, Yoko Ono, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Genet, Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, Frank O'Hara, film reviews, and a selection of Cott's poetry and more - a great picture of the late 1960s, early 1970s! Illustrated with black and white photographs. 349 pp plus final photograph. ISBN: 0-87932-0656.

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1973). First edition - Includes interviews with John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Jean-Luc Bertrande and others, essays on Bob Dylan, Leonard Crow Dog, The Last Poets, Randy Newman, the Fillmore, Yoko Ono, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Genet, Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, Frank O'Hara, film reviews, and a selection of Cott's poetry and more - a great picture of the late 1960s, early 1970s! Illustrated with black and white photographs. 349 pp plus final photograph. ISBN: 0-87932-0656.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. First edition - Collects 26 essays by sportswriters and journalists - including Gary Smith, Ira Berkow, Susan Orlean, William Nack, Mitch Album, Rick Telander, Robert Draper, Charles P. Pierce and others. Introduction by Richard Ben Cramer and foreword by Glenn Stout, series editor. Biographical notes on contributors. xxiii, 300 pp. ISBN: 0-618251391.