New York: Bowker, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive and important work on science fiction: covers the emergence of sf (to 1920), between the wars (1918-1938), the early modern period (1938-1963), the modern period (1964-1986) by Brian Stapleford, children's and young adult sf, an extensive checklist on science fiction in languages other than English (numerous entries for German, French, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian, Romanian, and Yugoslav science fiction and foreign-language secondary material and a survey of Hebrew science fiction) as well as a core collection checklist, author, subject and title indexes, and much more. Introduction by Brian Aldiss. 874 pp. ISBN: 0-835-223124.

New York: Bowker, (1995.). Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive and important work on science fiction: covers the emergence of sf (to 1920), between the wars (1918-1938), the early modern period (1938-1963), the modern period (1964-1986) by Brian Stapleford, children's and young adult sf, an extensive checklist on science fiction in languages other than English (numerous entries for German, French, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian, Romanian, and Yugoslav science fiction and foreign-language secondary material and a survey of Hebrew science fiction) as well as a core collection checklist, author, subject and title indexes, and much more. Introduction by James Gunn. xxiv, 912 pp. ISBN: 0-8352-32883.

Eugene, Oregon, University of Oregon Press, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - The definitive edition of this valuable bibliography, incorporating and expanding significantly on the imprints recorded by Douglas C. McMurtrie in 1950. Includes 700 additions recorded in four supplements by Belknap, and 262 items not previously described, for a total of 1,521 books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Oregon through 1870 Includes 16 pages of illustrations, an introduction by Belknap, notes and both a subject and printer index. Attractively produced, slightly larger in format, illustrated endpapers. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-871140195.

Chicago: Passport Books, 1998. dj. Hardcover - Includes 8 detailed walks, illustrated with maps by John Babcock and over 200 mystery writers are represented. Also includes information on restaurants, special events and much more. List of authors by walk, bibliography, index. 305 pages. ISBN: 0-7394-05624.

Santa Fe, NM: John Muir Publications. (1983.). A good example of this often reprinted classic counterculture travel guide. Note to this edition mentions that this edition is greatly expanded - almost twice the size, and with more pictures - and also comments on the rapid changes taking place in Mexico. Illustrated. 579 pp plus Index. ISBN: 0-91252815x.

Hilton Head, SC. 1978. First edition - A look at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina from its history to nature studies, with information on fishing, weather,hotels, travel, planets and much more in between. Numerous ads throughout. Illustrated, maps. 116 pp.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first full-length biography of this influential writer, one who redefined feminism in many ways, and who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. Based on interviews with many who know Lessing, but Lessing herself declined to be interviewed for this book. Photographs. Notes, bibliography of Lessing's works and of works about her, index. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-08069.

New York: Playboy Press, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes long time Galaxy editor Horace L. Gold on Galaxy and stories by Frederik Pohl, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, Issac Assimov, James Tiptree Jy, Harlan Ellison, Zenna Henderson, Judith Merril, Fritz Liver, Alfred Bester, Damon Knight, Philip K Dick, Larry Niven, Theodore Sturgeon and many others. Introduction by Frederik Pohl. Includes a complete index to Galaxy magazine. xiii, 465 pp. ISBN: 0-87223-5688.

Acton, MS: Copley Publishing, 1995. First edition - Essays on Gayl Jones, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Frances Watkins Harper, Sonia Sanchez and more. 128 pgs.

New York: Twayne Publishers, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first developmental study of Smith's poetry (for which she is best known) and her prose as an avant-garde novelist and short story writer. Frontispiece portrait, chronology, notes, selected bibliography, index. x, 118 pp. ISBN: 0-805769900.

New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First edition - 'The furniture and artifacts, and the spirit and precepts embodied in their simplicity, beauty, and functional practicality.' Illustrated with both photographs and drawings. 219 pp with notes, references, and index. ISBN: 0-394-731433.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (1991.). Discusses the novels of Margaret Walker, Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Louise Meriweather, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker and more in the context of the Civil Rights movements, its hopes and its achievements. Bibliography of primary works, notes, index. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-300-054327.

New York: Workman Publishing, (1984.). "Fresh trouble brewing from 40 new conspirators plus the tea mystery so definitive that you can smell it." In addition to including a book within a book - "The Tainted Tea Tragedy" this includes contributions from such writers as P.D. James, Thomas Perry, Gladys Mitchell, Edward Gorey, Joseph Hansen, Catherine Aird and many others. Illustrated with photographs and drawings throughout. Index to authors. 398 pp. ISBN: 0-89480-7773.

Who's Who in California Publishing Co, (lithographed by Wm. Westerfield), 1948. Hardcover first edition - The first and apparently the only edition of this uncommon reference work. Includes biographies of approximately 500 notable California African Americans. Book is divided into seven sections: The Pioneers, The Church and Pulpit, The Professions, Business and Industry, Art and Music, Civic and Social, and In Memorium. Illustrated with many individual and group photographs. Index. Large format. 133 pp.