Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1993). First edition - These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes contributions from Jean Ervin, Jacob Cohen, Ward Just, Floyd Skloot, Gerald Early, James Salter, Philip Weiss, Cynthia Ozick, Diane Johnson, Joseph Brodsky, Marcia Aldrich, Paul R. McHugh, Anthony Burgess, Daniel M. Harris, Robert Sherrill, Shaun O'Connell, Thomas C. Palmer, Lawrence Otis Graham, Scott Russell Sanders, Shelby Steele, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison and more. Introduction by Epstein and brief biographies of the contributors. Robert Atwan, series editor. xviii, 378 pp. ISBN: 0-395-636485.

Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - An anthology, signed by Steve Erickson at his essay 'Neil Young on a Good Day.' Also includes contributions from Jonathan Lethem, David Rakoff, Mike Doughty, Richard Meltzer, Sarah Vowell, William Gay, Ryan Malan, Monica Kendrick, Gilbert Garcia, Whitney Balliett and more. Introduction by Nick Hornby, Series editor Ben Schafer. List of other notable essays of the year 2000 and notes on the contributors. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-306-810662.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2003). First edition - These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes contributions from Cheryl Strayed, Ian Frazier, Michael Pollan, Adam Gopnik, Edward Hoagland, Atul Gawande, Katha Pollitt, Susan Sontag, John Edgar Wideman and more Introduction by Fadiman and brief biographies of the contributors. Robert Atwan, series editor. Index. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-618-341617.

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays in which Foot, a socialist and Labour Party member, seeks to pay some of his debts to a varied collection of 'creditors' - including his father Isaac Foot, a teetotaler and bibliophile, Bertrand Russell, Ignazio Silone and others. Index.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 21 essays and speeches written mostly in the five years preceding publication. Among the topics are his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, his feelings about the suicide of his friend and fellow author David Foster Wallace, and a description of a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there - but where he also impressed by the pace of China's economic development and so the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudices. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 978-0374153571.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - First collection of essays by the award-winning author of 'The Corrections,' including his controversial Harper's article on the modern novel, an award-winning and moving account of his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease, and an account of his brief tenure as an "Oprah pick." SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-374-173273.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of thoughtful and humorous essays - this one consists of 5 longer pieces ranging from an affectionate profile of the woman who writes the "hints from Heloise" to an account of a small town in Kansas where 40 people were killed in a Cheyenne raid in 1878 and a profile of fisherman Jim Deren. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-374-223106.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of thoughtful and humorous essays - this one consists of 5 longer pieces ranging from an affectionate profile of the woman who writes the "hints from Heloise" to an account of a small town in Kansas where 40 people were killed in a Cheyenne raid in 1878 and a profile of fisherman Jim Deren. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-374-223106.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning author's first book, a collection of 25 short humorous pieces, written between 1975 and 1985, and arranged chronologically - some of them are parodies (Samuel Beckett as the pilot of an airplane), some wildly inventive (on the real cause of the New York City blackout) - most appeared originally in the New Yorker magazine. 123 pp plus lots of blank pages for "your notes" (still blank, in this copy.). ISBN: 0-374135088.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. First edition - Includes a foreword by Jason Wilson, series editor, and an introduction by Frazier. Collects 24 of the best essays from both commercial and literary publications in 2002. Includes contributions from Lawrence Millman, Steven Rinella, Jacob Silverstein, Peter Canby, Rebecca Barry, Geoff Dyer, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Tom Bissell, William T. Vollmann and others. Notes on contributors. xxii, 358 pp. ISBN: 0-618118810.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a foreword by Jason Wilson, series editor, and an introduction by Frazier. Collects 24 of the best essays from both commercial and literary publications in 2002. Includes contributions from Lawrence Millman, Steven Rinella, Jacob Silverstein, Peter Canby, Rebecca Barry, Geoff Dyer, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Tom Bissell, William T. Vollmann and others. Notes on contributors. xxii, 358 pp. ISBN: 0-618118810.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of sometime provocative and always entertaining essays, primarily on traveling and writing, but also on aging (and writing), growing up in South Africa under apartheid, marriage, and much more. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1619029279.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of sometime provocative and always entertaining essays, primarily on traveling and writing, but also on aging (and writing), growing up in South Africa under apartheid, marriage, and much more. INSCRIBED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1619029279.

New York: Grove Press, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The best new writing on California. An anthology of essays which capture some of the complexities of California as a proud melting pot, among other things. Among the contributors are Lauren Markham, Robin Coste Lewis, Jennifer Egan, Oscar Villalon, Rachel Kushner, Xuan Juliana Wang, Elaine Castillo, Frank Bidart, D.A. Powell, Yi-Yun Lee, Juan Felipe Herrera, Tommy Orange, William Vollman and many others. SIGNED by THREE authors: Jaime Cortez at "Fire Notes" (and with his stamp), Mai Der Vang at her poem "Prayer to the Redwood" and by Hector Tobar at his story "Portrait of the Artist as a Latchkey Child." Notes on contributors. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0802147875.

New York: Grove Press, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The best new writing on California. An anthology of essays which capture some of the complexities of California as a proud melting pot, among other things. Among the contributors are Lauren Markham, Robin Coste Lewis, Jennifer Egan, Oscar Villalon, Rachel Kushner, Xuan Juliana Wang, Elaine Castillo, Frank Bidart, D.A. Powell, Yi-Yun Lee, Juan Felipe Herrera, Tommy Orange, William Vollman and many others. SIGNED by THREE authors: Mai Der Vang at her poem "Prayer to the Redwood", Rachel Kushner at "Gone in Sixty Seconds" and by Hector Tobar at his story "Portrait of the Artist as a Latchkey Child." Notes on contributors. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0802147875.

New York: Grove Press, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The best new writing on California. An anthology of essays which capture some of the complexities of California as a proud melting pot, among other things: among the contributors are Lauren Markham, Robin Coste Lewis, HŽctor Tobar, Jennifer Egan, Oscar Villalon, Rachel Kushner, Xuan Juliana Wang, Elaine Castillo, Frank Bidart, D.A. Powell, Tommy Orange and William Vollman. SIGNED by SIGNED by FOUR contributors: Jaime Cortez at "Fire Notes" (and with his stamp), Mai Der Vang at her poem "Prayer to the Redwood" and by Hector Tobar at his story "Portrait of the Artist as a Latchkey Child" and by John Freeman on the title page. Notes on contributors. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0802147875.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of thirteen essays - five never before published. Topics range from re-creating the life and times of the last empress of Rome, the remaining days of Mozart's life, to his childhood in New England. Index of names. xiii, 384 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-09035.

Seattle: Mountaineers Books, (1996). First edition - A collection of essays on the environmental past and future of the Western United States. Like Abbey and Wallace Stegner and other both established and younger writers, Frome refused to quit pointing fingers and naming names until he felt that important environmental concerns were no longer being sloughed off as second-rate issues. This collection offers environmental criticism at its best. These essays, spanning 30 years, are as relevant today as when they were first published. Included are essays on clearcutting, on destruction in the Bitterroots, on loving our National Parks to death, and "Who's Managing the Managers While They Manage the Wolves?" and much more. Reading list, index. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-898864755.

New York: Henry Holt, (1937.) dj. Hardcover - A collection of reviews, criticism and essays on Frost's life and work, by such writers as William Dean Howells, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Louis Untermeyer, Christopher Morley, Louis Untermeyer, W.H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Edwin Muir and others. Illustrated with photographs. Frontispiece portrait with a fascimile signature. Chronology, xx, 312 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Hardcover first edition - An early collection of essays, and pen portraits of men from varying walks of life, by the author best known for 'The Forsythe Saga.'274 pp.

London: Grey Walls Press, (1949). Hardcover first edition - Anthology which includes essays on Rilke, Arturo Barea, Walt Whitman, on Joyce's Finnigans Wake. Includes sections on English poetry with contributions by Robert Payne, Tessa Sillars, Kathleen Raine, May Sarton, Ruthven Todd, Henry Treece, Alex Comfort, Nicholas Moore and others; five poems from Ireland (chosen by Robert Greacen); and a section on French writings, including poems by Jean Cocteau, Aime Cesaire, Henri Michaux, Jules Supervielle, St. John Perse, and Patrice de la Tour du Pin. Thirteen illustrations. 184 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A little bit autobiographical, partially an irreverent look at his family, comments about the current state of literature and more. ISBN: 0-15-191513137.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A little bit autobiographical, partially an irreverent look at his family, comments about the current state of literature and more. ISBN: 0-15-191513137.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which includes a decade's worth of essays on literature, philosophy and the theory of language, Among the writers whose work he discusses are , Emerson, Joyce, Nabokov, Dickens, and Pound. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-671527266.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen witty, elegant and powerful essays about writing, reading, culture, history, politics, and public opinion. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-375412573.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on art, writing, culture and nature by this award winning writer. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award three times - including for this book (front cover of the book has a sticker saying that it was a finalist for the award) x, 354 pp. ISBN: 0-679446621.

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghagen, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on film and those involved in the movies by this novelist and former film critic for The New Yorker and The Observer. Topics range from Woody Allen to Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel, 'The Birth of a Nation.' Jeanne Moreau and more. Index. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-698-110153.

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghagen, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on film and those involved in the movies by this novelist and former film critic for The New Yorker and The Observer. Topics range from Woody Allen to Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel, 'The Birth of a Nation.' Jeanne Moreau and more. Index. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-698-110153.