New York: Atheneum, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning poet Diane Ackerman describes how she gained mastery over the mysteries of flight and earned her private pilot's license, of her frustration and exhilaration during hours of lessons and seemingly endless touch and go's of her first solo and her first cross-country flights, and of the teachers and pilots and aviation enthusiasts with whom she flew. Glossary. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-689115407.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel inspired by the life of Ovid and his banishment to the edges of the Roman empire. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-374231796.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1994. First edition - Novel set in New York City in the 1970s - cover praise from Philip Lopate and Paul Auster (who calls Brownstein a 'singular and haunting writer.' 338 pp.

New York: The Century Company, (1924). Hardcover first edition - An historical novel by this American-born Irish novelist set in the west of Ireland, and based on the life of the Irish poet Antoine Raftery (1779-1835). The basis of the 1957 BBC television opera. Illustrated by John Richard Flanagan with a frontispiece and 3 interior plates. 175 pp.

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.

Santa Fe, NM: Sherman Asher Publishing, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The story of the poet's boyhood in California, where he arrived from his native Costa Rica in 1939 at age twelve. Cover praise from Marjorie Agosin, among others who called it a "lyrical memoir shaped by an exquisite language and a wise heart." IINSCRIBED on the half title page - "To --- the delights of meeting" and dated in 2000. 140 pp. ISBN: 1-890932078.

Boston: Twayne Publishers, (1984). Hardcover first edition - A book which looks at Cullen's role in the Harlem Renaissance and at his work as a novelist and playwright, in addition to focusing on his poetry. Frontispiece portrait. Chronology. Notes and references, index. 145 pp. ISBN: 0-805774114.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Journalist and poet's first novel - a coming-of-age story set in the South in the year school integration shook the little town of Turner, Virginia. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-12307.

London: Faber & Gwyer Limited, (1929). SIGNED hardcover first edition - An adaptation of some of the stories contained in the first nine books of the Bible from Genesis to David slaying Goliath by this noted author and poet - As he comments in his introduction, this was written with the hope that despite all of its shortcomings, it might inspire young readers to return to the bible itself. A lovely edition, one of only 300 copies, printed on English handmade paper, and bound in quarter-vellum over aubergine cloth, with a woodcut illustrtion on the title page, gilt decoration on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. This copy is numbered 107 and SIGNED by de la Mare on the limitation page. xiv, 397 pp.

New York: Viking, (2001). SIGNED first edition - A memoir by this influential poet which explores the first three decades of her life and chronicles the Beat years - including her relationships with Frank O'Hara, Audre Lorde, Franz Kline and others. SIGNED on the title page. An uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed. 422 pp.

New York: Bellevue Literary Press, (2016). First edition - Award-winning novelist's attempt to uncover the real Emily Dickinson, just hinted at in her words and surviving pictures.- he "introduces us to a different Emily Dickinson: the fierce, brilliant, and sexually charged poet who wrote: 'My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -' " Frontispiece, endnotes, bibliography, index. Published as a trade paperback original. 255 pp.

Boston: Beacon Press, (2001). SIGNED first edition - His eighth book, one which is part memoir, part art history and part meditation. This a 17th century Dutch still life painting as a starting point for his exploration of our attachment to things. SIGNED on the title page. 70 pp plus list of works cited.

New York: Harper Collins, (1999). First edition - An account of his childhood and his coming of age by this award-winning poet. 198 pp.

New York: Atheneum, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautifully illustrated book that tells how Teresa Carreo (1853-1917), a ten year old girl who played piano for Abraham Lincoln in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War. A revolution in Venezuela had forced her family to flee to the United States, but although Teresa felt lonely at first in New York City. , she soon realized the power her music had to give a few moments peace or happiness to others. SIGNED by Engle on the title page. Every page is a double spread of colorful paintings by the Mexican American artist Rafael Lopez. Historical note. Named by Kirkus Reviews as a Best Picture Book of 2019. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1481487405.

New York: Dutton, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir by this award-winning poet, of how he - born with disabled legs - went through many reconstructive sugeries, and a look back at the support given by his working-class, Jewish family, as well as the hidden tensions in his family life, the doctor who alone did not recommend amputation, and finally of his sexual awakening. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-525941622.

New York: Amistad / Harper Collins, (2008). First edition - A memoir by this Jamaican born-poet - an account of her mother's two lives - in the country at Harvey River where she was the privileged daughter of a large family, and in Kingston after her marriage where she raised nine children in "hard times." 285 pp.

New York: Pantheon, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by this National Book Award winning writer - one which follows the Wu family as they leave China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and attempt to build a new life in the US. Includes a section of poems by Nan Wu. SIGNED on the title page. 660 pp. ISBN: 9780375424656.

New York: Pantheon, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this National Book Award winning writer - one which follows the Wu family as they leave China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and attempt to build a new life in the US. Includes a section of poems by Nan Wu. 660 pp. ISBN: 9780375424656.

New York: Pantheon, (2007). Hardcover first edition - Novel by this National Book Award winning writer - one which follows the Wu family as they leave China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and attempt to build a new life in the US. Includes a section of poems by Nan Wu. 660 pp.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2025) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A work of "wisdom, warmth and generosity," in which poet laureate and activist Joy Harjo "speaks directly to Native girls and women, sharing stories about her own coming of age to bring renewed attention to the pivotal moments of becoming including forgiveness, failure, falling, rising up, and honoring our vast family of beings." SIGNED on the title page. 142 pp. ISBN: 978-1324094173.

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, (2022) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in the 'Why I Write' series - a "lyrical meditation on the joys of writing poetry." The 2021 Windman Campbell Lecture. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. Harjo was the first Native American poet laureate. Small format, 122 pp. ISBN: 978-0300257038.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in the UK in 1966, this is the first publication in the US. Includes a new foreword by the author dated in 1984. An account of the poet's early life - and of his meeting his wife -the perfect stranger - and her death from polio. 213 pp. ISBN: 1-555971156.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (1997). In the introduction to this book, the author, an award-winning African American poet, Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.describes this as a book of "impressions of journeys, memories held in fragments, like footprints on a beach." Her travels took her to Malaysia, to Fiji, to Ayers Rock in Australia and much more. 241 pp. ISBN: 1-566890594.

New York: Anchor Books - Doubleday, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mura discusses his experience growing up Japanese American in a country which interned both his parents during World War II, simply because of their race and how being a 'model minority' has resulted in a loss of heritage and wholeness for generations of Japanese Americans. . . he suggests that the shame of internment affected his sense of sexuality, leading him to face troubling questions about desire and race: an interracial marriage, compulsive adultery, and an addiction to pornography which equates beauty with whiteness - but finally, this is an account of the triumph of love - his wife, his children, his family, SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471831.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The autobiography of poet and journalist for the BBC Philip O' Connor, focusing on his difficult and uncommon childhood. Includes both introductions by Stephen Spender, for the first edition in 1958 and to the new edition in 1988 in the UK. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-393-027635.

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1970. First edition - A thematic study of the prose writings of this influential avant-garde Flemish poet - who has also remained enduringly popular in his native Belgium. The first such study to be written in English, and the first to focus on his prose. A title in the 'Bibliotheca Neerlandica Exta Muros' series. Frontispiece portrait. Includes several appendices, chronology, bibliography, notes. x, 196 pp.