Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1999). First edition - Carruth's account of his long friendship with Laughlin (1914-1997), the publisher of New Directions (among other enterprises) and a poet himself - a "meditation of one great old poet on the death of another, of two lives intertwined in various ways for half a century." Foreword by Sam Hamill. Photographs. 148 pp. ISBN: 1-556590997.

Los Angeles: Vireo Book/ Rare Bird Books, (2018). SIGNED first edition - A book which "takes on the absurdity of publishing, narrated through the lens of a young woman working as a junior editor at a San Francisco publishing house." INSCRIBED on the title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 978-1947856318.

Los Angeles: Vireo Book/ Rare Bird Books, (2018). SIGNED first edition - A book which "takes on the absurdity of publishing, narrated through the lens of a young woman working as a junior editor at a San Francisco publishing house." SIGNED on the title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 978-1947856318.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Looks at more than 300 short narratives published throughout the country,in 16 different magazines, stories that either confronted or evaded the Civil War and its aftermath. Diffley divides these stories into three broad genres - Old Homestead, Romance and Adventure. Included in this book are three examples of these stories: Mark Twain 'A True Story Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It.' De Forest 'Parole de Honneur' and Rebecca Harding Davis 'How the Widow Crossed the Lines.' Illustrated, bibliography, index. xlvii, 236 pp. ISBN: 0-8203-1445-5.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1995. First edition - Second thriller featuring Diana Speed.set in the world of New York publishing. 360 pp.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, written when she was herself working for a publisher in Manhattan. A book which focuses on the compromises that Black women have to make to succeed (or even just to survive) in the mostly white corporate world, while also bringing in elements of a thriller and even horror. Basis for the television series of the same name. 357 pp plus "additional content exclusively for Barnes and Noble." Cover praise from Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, Terry McMillan and many others. ISBN: 978-1982187187.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1941.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the Fleet family who lived in Pudding Lane in old Boston, above their father's print shop - besides young John and Prue, there was Grandmother Goose, always read with a nonsensical rhyme - based on Hunt's research of how Dame Goose of Boston inherited her rhymes from Mother Goose of old England, and how her book 'Mother Goose's Melodies' was published by Fleet in 1719. Illustrated with a two-page full-color title page and with many black and white drawings, some full page, by Clotilde Embree Funk. An uncommon title by this Newbery Honor award author, and especially so in this condition. Illustrated endpapers, top edge tinted orange. 161 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2004). First edition - A "witty, warm-hearted contemporary tale set in the world of publishing." 514 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - The publisher shares 60 of his photographs - mostly of writers from Joseph Conrad, Leonard Woolf, Witter Byner, to Raymond Chandler, Satre, Camus, Muriel Spark, Julia Child and more - on the 60th anniversary of his publishing house. Slightly oversized square format. 62 pp. ISBN: 0-394-498925.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography, both thoughtful, detailed and playful, of the founder of New Directions and a man who transformed American publishing. A poet himself, Laughlin "was the man behind some of the most daring, revolutionary works in verse and prose of the twentieth century. As the founder of New Directions, he published Ezra Pound's The Cantos and William Carlos Williams's Paterson; he brought Hermann Hesse and Jorge Luis Borges to an American audience." Includes an appendix of all the authors published by New Directions, notes and index. 584 pp. ISBN: 978-0374299392.

New York: Scribner's, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - More than a biography, this is also a study of how Luce used his publishing empire of Time, Inc. to affect American attitudes and policies. Photographs, index, 529 pages. ISBN: 0-684-125927.

Palo Alto, CA: The American West Publishing Co., (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - "For five months, Frank Leslie and his ''Excursion to the Pacific'' traveled by private railroad car. They stopped over in Chicago, Cheyenne, Denver, Salt Lake City, Virginia City, and San Francisco. They peeked into gambling casinos, opium dens, and mining camps; banqueted with Comstock silver kings and reported every detail of their trip to readers of the newspaper." This is the first time the story has been assembled book form, complete with the original drawings from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. In addition this trip has been coupled with an account of the same journey by an American writer 90 years later. Footnotes (at end), index. Large format, a heavy book. 207 pp.

New York: Clarkson Potter, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book based on research into the Ballantyne family papers (the Ballantyne brothers served as Scott's copy editor, printer and literay agent, as well as being lifelong friends), which concludes that Lockhort's biography of Scott was incorrect and that Scott himself was responsible for his financial ruin. Frontispiece portrait and 8 pp of inserted illustrations. Bibliography, index. 290 pp.

New York: The American Institute Of Graphic Arts, 1950. Hardcover first edition - The 1950 exhibition was the 28th Annual Exhibition, opening April 4, 1950 in Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington. A selection of 50 of the best books of 1949 (out of ten thousand), chosen on the basis of typography, design, content, quality of manufacture and significance. Each book is illustrated with pictures of the binding, title page and one interior page. Indexes. Unpaginated, but a slim book.

New York: St. Martin's Press, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, and the second in the mystery series featuring publishers and amateur sleuths Ben and Carrie Porter. They take a working vacation to a recently deceased author's Riviera home, hoping to get the rights to his last novel, only to find that he has set a final challenge for his heirs. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-312050062.

New York: Crown, 1992. First edition - A story of the growing friendship between two women, set against the backdrop of the New York publishing world, and of the Los Angeles television industry.

New York: Crown, 1992. First edition - A story of the growing friendship between two women, set against the backdrop of the New York publishing world, and of the Los Angeles television industry.