New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1988) dj. Hardcover - Sunny is 22, her first novel just published, when she meets noted poet David Harvey, who's divorced, Jewish, and 15 years her senior. Instant attraction is followed by a marriage typical of the early 1950s, with Sunny a supportive wife and mother following where David's work takes them - and thru it all, despite his philandering, Sunny remains a "true believer." But when interest in his work wanes, and hers begins to catch the public interest, the 2 decade long relationship is in trouble. "While Birstein pokes fun at everyone involved in producing literature - writers, editors, critics - this is primarily a rueful story about the loss of passion." 315 pp. ISBN: 0-39302587X.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A series of interviews with American Indian authors which focus on the crucial issues behind their work - included are Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, LInda Hogan, M. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz. Wendy Rose, Gerald Vizenor and James Welch. Edited and with an introduction and biographical notes by Laura Coltelli. Each interview in preceded by a portrait of the author and a brief introduction. SIGNED on the half title page by THREE authors: Michael Dorris, M. Scott Momaday and Laura Coltelli. ISBN: 0-803214456.

New York: Pantheon, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, a collection of essays on race, sex, politics, art, jazz and blues, history and also Duke Ellington, Albert Murray, John Ford and films, and Ralph Ellison. Index. viii, 321 pp. ISBN: 0-375401539.

New York: Civitas / Basic Books, (2004). First edition - A collection of essays, some previously unpublished, in which "the notoriously contrarian critic of race-based cultural politics examines the problem of ethnic authenticity in contemporary America. Writing in a characteristically peeved style, Crouch is perhaps most cogent in an essay entitled 'Most Vote for Literary Segregation, Others Don't,' in which he asserts that contemporary American writers, wary of being labeled politically incorrect, rarely write about life beyond the boundaries of their own race and class." (Publisher's Weekly)" 226 pp.

New York: Pantheon, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of speeches, essays and reviews on topics ranging from the US constitution to jazz and American and African American literature. Index. xvii, 267 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-679442022.

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: Pantheon, 1999. SIGNED first edition - A collection of essays on a life as a writer, on books, and places and more -together these pieces form an "intellectual autobiography." SIGNED on the title page. 274pp

New York: Pocket Books, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Delightful romantic comedy set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts where Harriet, an unpublished fortyish writer, recently jilted, has fled to in response to an intriguing ad. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-671-881604.

New York: Henry Holt, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first full-length biography of this mid-century American author (Hemingway called her his favorite living author) whose work was almost unknown until a fairly spectacular revival in the 1990's. Gore Vidal called this biography 'not only a distinguished work in itself but [it] illuminates one of our most brilliant - certainly most witty - novelists, whose literary reputation continues to grow long after her death; we are catching up to her.' Frontispiece and glossy photographic inserts. Notes, bibliography, index. INSCRIBED by Page on the title page and dated March 2002 in Charlottesville. 362 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-5068x.