San Francisco: Four Winds Press, (2015). First edition - A collection of essays which maintains that comparisons can be the highest form of argument, using "examples drawn from classical to contemporary history, art, and literature: Hamlet in Ithaca and Telemachus in Elsinore, the Mediterranean and the North Sea, writing from a prison cell and writing from a room at home, the 'suicide; of Primo Levi and Japanese Kamikaze pilots. . [He] demonstrates how the comparative method can provide insight not only into two subjects simultaneously, but also into fundamental issues they may have in common." Translated from the Dutch by Brian Doyle-Du Breuil. Issued as a trade paperback original. 238 pp.

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.

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.

Seattle and London University of Washington Press, 1975 dj. Hardcover first edition - Sacred and secular themes in twentieth century literature, focusing on works by Yeats, Mann, Rilke, Stevens, Beckett, Joyce, Nietzsche, Eliot, Auden and Ibsen. Index, bibliography. 280 pages. ISBN: 0-298-953772.

Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992. A study of the writings of Flora Nwapa, Efua Sutherland, Ama Ata Aidoo, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall with a focus on the bonds between African women and African American women and the cutural values which they evoke in their writings. Notes, bibliography and index. 141 pages. ISBN: 0-253-207142.