Los Angeles: USC School of Journalism / Perpetua Press, (1985). Hardcover first edition - "13 essays on the art of communication written by friends" on Norman Corwin's 75th birthday. Includes contributions by Studs Terkel, Charles Kuralt, Norman Lear, Norman Cousins, Erik Barnouw, Philip Dunne, Peter Davis, Richard J. Goggin, Jerome Lawrence, James A. Brown, Robert E. Lee, Leonard Leader, Earl Robinson and Robert Nathan. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. The "Grand Old Man" of radio, Corwin came to fame with a series of broadcasts and programs for CBS in the 1940s and remained influential for the next 40 years. 112 pp.

Santa Barbara: Cordelia Editions, 1984. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes two previously unpublished essays by Macdonald on the role of detective novels in modern literature, and more than two dozen tributes to Macdonald from such diverse writers as Margaret Millar, Reynolds Price, John D. MacDonald, Otto Penzler, Diane Wakoski, Eudora Welty and more. INSCRIBED by Sipper at the bottom of the list of contributors and dated in the year of publication. Frontispiece and photographs. 161 pp.plus brief notes on the contributors.