Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998. dj. SIGNED first edition - Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp. ISBN: 1565121937.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp.

New York: Plume, (1999). SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-452-280672.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by TWO authors: Bernard Cooper at his essay "Winner Take Nothing" about his relationship with his father after he won the Hemingway award and Barbara Ehrenreich at "Welcome to Cancerland." Includes contributions by Jacques Barzun, Sebastian Junger, Darryl Pinckney, Richard Price, Gore Vidal, Mario Vargas Llosa and others. Introduction by Gould and brief biographies of the contributors. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-9283.

New York: St Martin's, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Twelve authors select one of their stories and include an essay which focuses on how they crafted a particular aspect of that story: style, character, etc. SIGNED by FOUR authors: Nancy Kress on the title page; Greg Bear at his story "Sisters"; John Kessel at "Buddha Nostril Bird" and Joe Haldeman at "Feedback." Other authors include Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling, Lucius Shepard, Harold Waldrop, Kim Stanley Robinson, Pat Murphy, Karen Jay Fowler, James Patrick Kelley. xii, 368 pp. ISBN: 0-312140231.

New York: St Martin's, (2016). SIGNED first edition - A memoir from the author of 'Running with Scissors' - this focuses on his relationships in New York City, often humorous, always frank, and sometimes quite wise. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 295 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A biographical memoir of the writer John Cheever by his daughter. Photographs. x, 243 pp. ISBN: 0-395-352975.

New York: Norton, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A powerful memoir which tells of his coming of age in a drug-ridden and depressed mill town in Massachusetts where his mother struggled to support them, while his father was a professor at a nearby liberal arts college. This is book is a meditation on violence, and a description of the creative process, and a story of coming together with his father. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 9780393064667.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of sometime provocative and always entertaining essays, primarily on traveling and writing, but also on aging (and writing), growing up in South Africa under apartheid, marriage, and much more. INSCRIBED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1619029279.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of sometime provocative and always entertaining essays, primarily on traveling and writing, but also on aging (and writing), growing up in South Africa under apartheid, marriage, and much more. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1619029279.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 23 essays, covering 40 years by this South African writer. Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Clingman. 3560pp. with index and notes. ISBN: 0-394-573978.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 23 essays, covering 40 years by this South African writer. Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Clingman. 3560pp. with index and notes. ISBN: 0-394-573978.

Cincinnati: Writers Digest, (1979) dj. Hardcover - A comprehensive guide to writing and assessing poetry, beginning with the basic question "are you a poet" and "the vanity of print" Index, glossary. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-911654-704.

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: Harper Collins, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second collection of essays, on subjects as diverse as Japanese food, the Grand Canyon, the story of a baby rescued by a bear in Iran, environmentalism, and the art of the novel - including some more controversial on the after effects of the 9/11 attack and homelessness as part of the American way of life. Illustrated with drawings by Paul Mirocha. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0504072.

New York: Harper Collins, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second collection of essays, on subjects as diverse as Japanese food, the Grand Canyon, the story of a baby rescued by a bear in Iran, environmentalism, and the art of the novel - including some more controversial on the after effects of the 9/11 attack and homelessness as part of the American way of life. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Paul Mirocha. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0504072.

New York: Harper Collins, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second collection of essays, on subjects as diverse as Japanese food, the Grand Canyon, the story of a baby rescued by a bear in Iran, environmentalism, and the art of the novel - including some more controversial on the after effects of the 9/11 attack and homelessness as part of the American way of life. Illustrated with drawings by Paul Mirocha. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0504072.

New York: Harper Collins, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second collection of essays, on subjects as diverse as Japanese food, the Grand Canyon, the story of a baby rescued by a bear in Iran, environmentalism, and the art of the novel - including some more controversial on the after effects of the 9/11 attack and homelessness as part of the American way of life. SIGNED on the half title page. Illustrated with drawings by Paul Mirocha. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0504072.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2017) dj. Hardcover - But take the time to dip into this wonderful book - both funny (on the absurdity of denying your age: 'If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.') and serious. Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler. 215 pp. ISBN: 978-1328661593.

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: The Viking Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In her preface, Lively contends that this is fiction - that it is an anti-memoir in which she uses events from her own life to examine alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path and changed our lives completely. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-670-034479.

Novato, CA: New World Library, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Even if you don't want to be a writer, this is a wonderful introduction to parts of San Francisc, ranging from a portrait of the author's 96-year old mother living at West Portal, the City Lights bookstore, cafes, demographic and more. The large fold-out painting (creating the a 4 page wide streetscape) and the colored drawings by Paul Madonna at the beginning of each essay capture the look and spirit of the city - an attractively-produced and seductively interesting book. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Notes, index. 135 plus a colophon (which, in the spirit of the San Francisco area, notes that the publisher is a member of the Green Press Initiative.). ISBN: 1-577315464.

New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of some of the events which shaped his life - from a small town Pennsylvania boy brought up in a foster home, to a young naval officer during World War II to a Pulitzer prize winning author. Photographs. Index. 519 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-678-401342.

Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, (1979). First edition - Essays on the art of writing biography by seven award-winning biographers - Leon Edel, Justin Kaplin, Alfred Kazin, Doris Kearns [Goodwin], Theodore Rosengarten, Barbara Tuchman, and Geoffrey Wolff. Notes on contributors. 157 pp.

New York: Atheneum, (1994) dj. Hardcover - An account of a 'mid-life collision with cancer and paralysis' by this noted writer, originally published in 1994. Includes a selection of 'revelant poems.' 213 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121970.