Essays

New York: Random House, 1969. . First American edition. . Very good+ in very good dust jacket (pc.) . Included are essays on poetry ranging from Dryden to Syliva Plath to Edith Sitwell, on novels, classic and modern, and others on criticism and more from his years as a free-lance critic and literary journalist. more information

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New York: Harmony, 1994. . First US printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket. . His second collection of essays, trenchant commentary on a wide range of topics, including visits with writers Graham Greene, Rushdie, Updike, Julian Barnes, Asimov the chess match between Kaspov and Kasparov, thoughts on the death of John Lennon and the performances of Mick Jagger and much more. 274 pp. more information

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New York: Viking, 1987. . First US printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder mark.) . A collection of sharp & penetrating essays on American culture - including several on well-known novelists such as Updike and Vonnegut, and others on topics ranging from Reagan to AIDS. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp. more information

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New York: Devon-Adair, 1923. . Reprint. . Very good in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. . Garrity, one of the founders of the publishing firm Devon-Adair, explains in his foreword why he had this classic book of travel and other essays (on the theater, philosophy) reprinted by calling it his old friend -and he expresses doubt that Fairbanks was the author. more information

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Boston: Little Brown, 1995. . First printing. . Very good in a very good dustjacket (lower corner bumped.) . more information

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1974.) . First printing. . Fine in a near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.) . Author's first book of non-fiction - consists of parodies, political satire and fables. more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket. . Written in the form of a journal, this book measures people's short lives and relationships against the history of the earth. Bass is both a petroleum geologist and a lyrical writer. Illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Hughes. Warmly and personally INSCRIBED on the half title page. 172 pp. more information

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Berkeley, CA: North Point Press, 1985. . 1st trade paperback printing. . Near fine. . Selected essays from 1927-1984. more information

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New York: Summit Books, 1983. . First US printing. . Fine in a fine dustjacket. . First book of nonfiction by this internationally acclaimed South African writer. Topics range from apartheid to Mahatma Gandhi, censorship, the position of the Afrikaans writer and more. more information

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San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983. . First printing. . NF/VG (closed tear, small chip in upper edge of dj.) . First collected printing of essays by this award winning poet - these were originally published in 3 separate limited editions by the Elizabeth Press. Among the topics are the Mayan and Inca civilizations and long essays on Thoreau, Whitman and Melville. more information

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Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1984. . First edition. . Fine in a near fine dustjacket (slightly rubbed dj) . An entertaining collection of essays on topics ranging from why Bryant has chosen to self-publish her books, to how to talk to an author, and a discussion of fairy tales. more information

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Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1984. . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. . Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. . An entertaining collection of essays on topics ranging from why Bryant has chosen to self-publish her books, to how to talk to an author, and a discussion of fairy tales. more information

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Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1984. . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. . SIGNED on the title page. Fine (as new) in illustrated wrappers. . An entertaining collection of essays on topics ranging from why Bryant has chosen to self-publish her books, to how to talk to an author, and a discussion of fairy tales. more information

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New York: Random House, 1992. . First US printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket. . 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. more information

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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket. . Lectures on writing which Calvino was preparing to give at the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard in 1985-86. His wife said that these were an obsession with him in the last year of his life; he had planned on writing the 6th memo on "consistency" at Cambridge, and so his untimely death prevented this one from being written. more information

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New York: Random House, 1980. . Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition). . Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. . A collection of 14 pieces ranging from a short portrait of Marilyn Monroe to the novella-length factual crime account of 'Hand Carved Coffins.' more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. . First edition, the second printing before publication. . VG/G (some discoloration and fading to cloth covered boards, general wear to dj, fading on spine) . Collection of essays - studies of literary personalities and certain aspects of literature - Cather's first collection of essays. more information

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New York: Viking, 1989. . First US printing. . F/F. (rem line) . Chatwin's personal selection of stories, essays and travelogues. Published posthumously. more information

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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. . First printing. . F/F. . Studies of "man's infinite desire for knowledge. more information

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1971. . First printing. . Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (prev owner's name on front endpaper, crossed out.) . Dickey on his work, other poets (including Jeffers and Edward Arlington Robinson), country music, archery and more. more information

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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. . First printing. . Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (creasing to lower edge of dj.) . A collection of essays about the boom years passing, and hard times coming, in Washington, California and New York - about wildings in Central Park, murders, earthquakes, Patricia Hearst and presidential politics. The Henry of the title was Henry Robbins, her first editor, who died in 1979. 319 pp. more information

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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket. . SIGNED on the title page. A collection of essays about the boom years passing, and hard times coming, in Washington, California and New York - about wildings in Central Park, murders, earthquakes, Patricia Hearst and presidential politics. The Henry of the title was Henry Robbins, her first editor, who died in 1979. 319 pp. more information

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New York: Simon & Schuster, (1979.) . First printing. . Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, chip to upper edge of dj, other edgewear.) . Her second collection of essays, mostly on subjects relating to the changes which began in the late 60's - changes which affected life in California and the United States. Among the topics are the women's movement, Jim Morrison, the Manson Family, the Black Panthers, bikers, Bishop James PikeGeorgia O'Keeffe, visiting Hawaii and Bogota and more. 223 pp. more information

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New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989. . First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover. . Near fine in printed wrappers. . The fourth in the series. In addition to contributions by Annie Dillard, Richard Ford, MaryHood, William Kittredge, Shelby Steele, Gay Talese and others, this includes the first published essay by Julia Ruiz "Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy", Joan Didion on "Insider Baseball" and Julian Barnes on "Playing Chess with Arthur Koestler." more information

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New York: Random House, (1993.) . First printing. . Near fine in a very good- dust jacket (edgewear to dj.) . A collection of 14 essays on - in addition to the topics mentioned in the title - George Orwell, James Wright, Ronald Reagan, 19th century New York and more. Introduction by the author. Notes. xii, 206 pp. more information

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Boston: Godine, 1991. . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket. . Dubus's first collection of non-fiction, essays written between 1977 and 1990, on topics ranging from his Catholic boyhood in a Cajun-Creole community in Louisiana, to baseball and the accident that cost him the use of his legs. Introduction by Tobias Wolfe. 195 pp. more information

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New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. . First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover. . Just about fine in printed wrappers. . The second in the series. In addition to the contributions by the writers shown above, some other selections are a wonderful long essay by Richard Ben Cramer "What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?","Tools of Torture" by Phyliis Rose and "Land of Wizards" by Tom Wolfe. more information

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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. . First thus - first printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover. . Near fine (crease on corner of back cover.) . Originally published in 1961 this look at American pop culture has become a classic. This edition includes a new introduction by Ralph Ellison. Illustrated. more information

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Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1869 (c 1856.) . Early printing. . Very good+ in original brown embossed cloth covers with gilt title on spine (some rubbing to the lettering on the spine.) . An appealing copy of theseessays on such diverse topics as 'the poet', experience, manners, nature, and more. Small volume, 274 pp. more information

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New York: Harper & Row, 1981. . First American edition. . Near fine in fine dust jacket (small initials on bottom edge of textblock.) . A collection of essays in which Foot, a socialist and Labour Party member, seeks to pay some of his debts to a varied collection of 'creditors' - including his father Isaac Foot, a teetotaler and bibliophile, Bertrand Russell, Ignazio Silone and others. Index. more information

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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987. . First printing. . Fine in near fine dust jacket. . His second collection of thoughtful and humorous essays - this one consists of 5 longer pieces ranging from an affectionate profile of the woman who writes the "hints from Heloise" to an account of a small town in Kansas where 40 people were killed in a Cheyenne raid in 1878 and a profile of fisherman Jim Deren. 181 pp. more information

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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1986.) . First printing. . Fine in near fine dust jacket. . Prize-winning author's first book, a collection of 25 short humorous pieces, written between 1975 and 1985, and arranged chronologically - some of them are parodies (Samuel Beckett as the pilot of an airplane), some wildly inventive (on the real cause of the New York City blackout) - most appeared originally in the New Yorker magazine. 123 pp plus lots of blank pages for "your notes" (still blank, in this copy.) more information

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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987. . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket. . His second collection of thoughtful and humorous essays - this one consists of 5 longer pieces ranging from an affectionate profile of the woman who writes the "hints from Heloise" to an account of a small town in Kansas where 40 people were killed in a Cheyenne raid in 1878 and a profile of fisherman Jim Deren. 181 pp. more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. . Near fine in wrappers (spine slightly faded.) . The 12th in the series. These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. In addition to the contributions by the writers shown above, some other selections include Debra Dickerson on 'Who Shot Johnny?' a moving indictment of the world that left her 17 year old nephew paralyzed, Bernard Cooper on mazes in 'Labyrinthine' , Susan Sontag on 'A Century of Cinema; and Joy Williams on 'The Case Against Babies and much more'. Introduction by Frazier and brief biographies of the contributors. 226 pp. more information

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New York: John B. Alden Publisher, 1886. . First edition. . Good overall in original decorated teal cloth covers with gilt lettering on the spine (some wear to the covers, signs of bookplate removal.) . . The topics include three lectures on Erasmus and Luther, and essays and lectures on Spinoza, The Dissolution of the Monasteries, England's Forgotten Worthies, Homer, Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic, Lucian, and Divus Caesar. 368 pp. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. . First US printing. . Very good in deep purple cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover (some fading to the cloth spine, but otherwise a tight and clean copy.) The American edition of this book seems to be quite a bit more uncommon than the English edition. . An early collection of essays, and pen portraits of men from varying walks of life, by the author best known for 'The Forsythe Saga.'274 pp. more information

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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. . First printing. . Near fine in a fine dustjacket (rem mark.) . A bit autobiography, an irreverant look at his family, comments about the current state of literature and more. more information

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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. . First printing. . Very good in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.) . A bit autobiography, an irreverant look at his family, comments about the current state of literature and more. more information

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New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghagen, 1980. . First American edition. . NF/VG (rem line, stain on front cover, light soiling to dj) . Essays on film and those involved in the movies - from Woody Allen to Hitchcock to Jeanne Moreau. more information

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New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.) . Six thought-provoking essays on death by the Mexican born pathologist, including the 'postmortum careers' of John Dillinger & Eva Peron, the significance of the Aztec earth goddess Coatlicue and more. more information

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New York: Summit Books, 1981. . First printing. . NF/NF (pc.) . More lucid commentaries on current situations by this Pulitzer prize winning author and columnist. more information

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Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket. . SIGNED on the title page. A collection of very personal essays on her life as a woman, relationships with other men and women - a single, urban, contemporary woman looking honestly at herself and the world around her. 164 pp. more information

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Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. . First printing. . Near fine in a fine dustjacket (prev owner's name.) . SIGNED on the title page. A collection of very personal essays on her life as a woman, relationships with other men and women - a single, urban, contemporary woman looking honestly at herself and the world around her. 164 pp. more information

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New York: Norton, 1987. . 2nd printing. . Near fine in near fine dust jacket. . A collection of reviews which together make provocative and entertaining reading - on Darwin, evolution, contemporary science and more. Illustrated. Index. 255 pp. more information

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London: Faber & Faber, 1994. . First UK printing. . Fine in fine dustjacket (as new.) . Essays on poets ranging from the 16th c to H.D. , Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop, from Robert Duncan and August Kleinzahler to Pound and Ginsberg. Includes memoirs of Isherwood and Yvor Winters and an interview with Jim Powell. more information

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Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, (1991.) . First printing. . Fine in near fine dust jacket. (little crinkling to top edge of dj. . Collects essays written over a period of 25 years, including some never been published; arranged topically in sections entitled Food, Travel & Sport, and Literary Manners, with subjects ranging from dreams to bar pool, Zen to ice fishing, revenge to cuisine minceur to walking at night, from Lake Okeechobee to horse pulling to poetry, plus several book reviews. Illustrations and dust jacket painting by Russell Chatham. xiii, 320 pp. more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1914.) . Early printing. . Very good- in original orange half-cloth with blue paper label lettered in orange over flecked blue-gray board (gift inscription.) . A collection of thirty-five short imaginative essays and articles written by Hearn when he was living in New Orleans and originally published in the New Orleans Times-Democrat and the Daily Item between 1880 to 1884. Edited and with an introduction by Charles Woodward Hutson. x, 242 pp more information

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. . . F/VG (pc, edgewear.) . Essays on books and writing. more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. . Near fine in wrappers. . These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. In addition to the contributions by the writers shown above, some other selections include 'Planet of Weeds' by David Quammen; 'The Lion and Me' by John Lahr; 'Torch Song' by Charles Bawden and more. Introduction by Hoagland and brief biographies of the contributors. Robert Atwan, series editor. Index. 297 pp. more information

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. . First edition. . Near fine in olive green cloth covered boards. . Topic include writers and readers, D.H. Lawrence, Tunisia and English snobbery - more information

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