Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book of poetry, and the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1978 - poems which range across history and geography to give voice to many - from Trotsky in the title poem, to the Japanese writers Mishima and Kawabata to Marilyn Monroe. Ai described herself as half Japanese, Choctaw-Chickasaw, Black, Irish, Southern Cheyenne, and Comanche. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-395-275938.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1993). First edition - An anthology including writers ranging from D. H. Lawrence and Georgia O'Keefe to Larry McMurty, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sandra Cisneros and Barry Gifford, Introduction by Barbara Kingsolver. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-02167.

New York: Delacorte, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "26 original stories by the best women crime writers of our time" including Helga Anderle, Linda Barnes, Nevada Barr, Amel Benaboura, Pieke Biermann, Eleanor Taylor Brand, P. M. Carlson, Liza Cody, Amanda Cross, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Susan Dunlap, Antonia Fraser, Frances Fyfield, Susan Geason, Elizabeth George, Linda Grant, Dicey Scroggins Jackson, Myriam Laurini, Lia Matera, Marcia Muller, Irina Muravyova, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, Ruth Rendell, Andrea Smith, Barbara Wilson. SIGNED by TWO authors: Paretsky on the title page and Elizabeth George at her story "The Surprise of His Life." Edited and with an introduction by Sara Paretsky. . xii, 367 pp. ISBN: 0-385-314019.

New York: Delacorte, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "26 original stories by the best women crime writers of our time" including Helga Anderle, Linda Barnes, Nevada Barr, Amel Benaboura, Pieke Biermann, Eleanor Taylor Brand, P. M. Carlson, Liza Cody, Amanda Cross, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Susan Dunlap, Antonia Fraser, Frances Fyfield, Susan Geason, Elizabeth George, Linda Grant, Dicey Scroggins Jackson, Myriam Laurini, Lia Matera, Marcia Muller, Irina Muravyova, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, Ruth Rendell, Andrea Smith, Barbara Wilson. SIGNED by TWO authors: Sara Paretsky on the title page and Marcia Muller at her story "The Cracks in the Sidewalk. Edited and with an introduction by Sara Paretsky. . xii, 367 pp. ISBN: 0-385-314019.

New York: Delacorte, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "26 original stories by the best women crime writers of our time" including Helga Anderle, Linda Barnes, Nevada Barr, Amel Benaboura, Pieke Biermann, Eleanor Taylor Brand, P. M. Carlson, Liza Cody, Amanda Cross, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Susan Dunlap, Antonia Fraser, Frances Fyfield, Susan Geason, Elizabeth George, Linda Grant, Dicey Scroggins Jackson, Myriam Laurini, Lia Matera, Marcia Muller, Irina Muravyova, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, Ruth Rendell, Andrea Smith, Barbara Wilson. SIGNED by TWO authors: by Paretsky on the title page and by Marcia Muller at her story "The Cracks in the Sidewalk." Edited and with an introduction by Sara Paretsky. . xii, 367 pp. ISBN: 0-385-314019.

New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays by this Booker prize winning writer on other writers - Victorians like Robert Browning and George Eliot, modern writers like William Golding, and other women writers ranging from Willa Cather, to Sylvia Plath, Barbara Pym and Georgette Heyer. Notes, index. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-679-405119.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition - A "novel of family and redemption, as a mother struggles to save her eighteen-year-old daughter from the devastating consequences of mental illness by forcing her to deal with her bipolar disorder" by this award-winning African American author. 319 pp.

Minneapolis: Elixir Press, (2003). First edition - Young African-American's first book, a collection of poetry, experimental and vividly imagistic. 85 pp. ISBN: 1932418008.

Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1991. A multi-cultural anthology of stories and poems by women mostly living and writing in Hawaii. Among the writers are Nell Altizer, Sue Cowing, Epi Enari Fuaau, Jessica Hagedorn, Faye Kicknosway, Susan Nunes, Marjorie Sinclair, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Holly Yamada, Amy Uyematsu, Adrienne Tien and many others. Notes on contributors. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-9100043-221.

New York: Delacorte, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An important book on how circumstances obstruct or silence creativity in women - based both on her own experiences as a writer and on letters and diaries of many other writers, not just women - including Thomas Hardy, Hopkins, Willa Cather, Melville, Blake, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and numerous others. Also contains a long essay on Rebecca Harding Davis, and an excerpt from her book 'Life in the Iron Mills.' In discussing her own life, Olsen comments that it was no accident that the first piece of work she considered publishable began 'As I Stand Ironing.' Subject and name indexes. xiv, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-440079004.

New York: Delacorte, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An important book on how circumstances obstruct or silence creativity in women - based both on her own experiences as a writer and on letters and diaries of many other writers, not just women - including Thomas Hardy, Hopkins, Willa Cather, Melville, Blake, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and numerous others. Also contains a long essay on Rebecca Harding Davis, and an excerpt from her book 'Life in the Iron Mills.' In discussing her own life, Olsen comments that it was no accident that the first piece of work she considered publishable began 'As I Stand Ironing.' Subject and name indexes. xiv, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-440079004.

New York: Delacorte, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - "26 original stories by the best women crime writers of our time" including Helga Anderle, Linda Barnes, Nevada Barr, Amel Benaboura, Pieke Biermann, Eleanor Taylor Brand, P. M. Carlson, Liza Cody, Amanda Cross, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Susan Dunlap, Antonia Fraser, Frances Fyfield, Susan Geason, Elizabeth George, Linda Grant, Dicey Scroggins Jackson, Myriam Laurini, Lia Matera, Marcia Muller, Irina Muravyova, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, Ruth Rendell, Andrea Smith, Barbara Wilson. SIGNED by Paretsky on the title page. Edited and with an introduction by Sara Paretsky. . xii, 367 pp. ISBN: 0-385-314019.

New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Memoir by a Smith College roommate and friend of Plath, described as ' the best informed account we could have of crucial events in the life and art of this important poet'. Introduction by George Stade. 83 pp. ISBN: 0-06-1278157.

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.