Burning Questions : Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021
New York: Doubleday, 2022. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
Literary Criticism & Essays
Dinner at Magny's.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1971. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
The Walker : On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City
London: Verso, 2020. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Rotten Rejections : A Literary Companion
Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1990. Later printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. Introduction by Bill Henderson.
99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939.
Summit Books, 1984. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, and Others on the Left Bank.
New York: Scribner, 1995. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Black Paper : Writing in Dark Time
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Radiance of the Ordinary : Essays on Life, Death, and the Sinews that Bind
White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2025. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz : The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
New York: Gallery Books, 2021. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Selected Letters of E. E. Cummings.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1972. First English edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Village Year : A Sec Prairie Journal.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1941. Wood engravings by Frank Utpatel. Endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt. First edition, first printing. Publisher's beige cloth, stamped in maroon and blue, lacking dust jacket. ARKHAM HOUSE FOUNDER'S HOMETOWN Remembered for his role as one of the first publishers of H. P. Lovecraft and founder.....
Garish Lights : The Public Reading Tours of Charles Dickens.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1970. First US edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
The Dickens Theatrical Reader
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1965. With illustrations. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Expatriates and Patriots : American Artists, Scholars, and Writers in Europe
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Fart Proudly : Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
Columbus, OH: Enthea Press, 1990. First printing thus (paperback original). Illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Werther's Goethe and the Game of Literary Creativity.
Toronto: University of Toronto, 1992. First edition, first printing. Hardover, in dust jacket.
The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces.
London: Faber and Faber, 1965. First edition, first printing. Publisher's red cloth, title stamped in gilt and black, in Michael Ayrton dust jacket (25s net). LORD OF THE FLIES AS SUGARED MORALS The centerpiece of The Hot Gates, the essay"Fable," adapted from his 1962 UCLA lectures, offers a wonderful.....
Tributes : Interpreters of Our Cultural Tradition
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Essays After Eighty.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Signed by author on full title.
Testimonies : Selected Shorter Prose 1950-1987
Manchester, UK: Carcanet Press, 1989. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling.
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994. First US edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Once Again for Thucydides.
New York: New Directions, 1998. First US edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
My First Publication : Eleven California Authors Describe Their Earliest Appearances in Print
San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1961. Drawings by David Stone Martin. Limited first edition. Illustrated green paper boards with linen spine and paper spine label, various colors of paper with deckle edges. One of four hundred and seventy-five copies. Featuring authors Richard Henry Dana, Mark.....