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	ALVAREZ, A. BEYOND ALL THIS FIDDLE: Essays, 1955-1967. New York: Random House, 1969. First American edition. 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. Very good+ in very good dust jacket (pc.) USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 13451 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	AMIS, MARTIN. THE MORONIC INFERNO and Other Visits to America. New York: Viking, 1987. First US printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder mark.) ISBN: 0-670-814326 USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 3954 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	AMIS, MARTIN. VISITING MRS NABAKOV and Other Excursions New York: Harmony, 1994. First US printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 41366 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ANONYMOUS (ASCRIBED TO CHARLES B. FAIRBANKS), FOREWORD BY HENRY GARRITY. ) MY UNKNOWN CHUM Aguecheek. New York: Devon-Adair, 1923. Reprint. 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. Very good in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 22907 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BARTH, JOHN. FURTHER FRIDAYS, Essays, Lectures and Other Nonfiction, 1984-1994. Boston: Little Brown, 1995. First printing. Very good in a very good dustjacket (lower corner bumped.) USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 14631 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BARTHELME, DONALD GUILTY PLEASURES New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1974.) First printing. Author's first book of non-fiction - consists of parodies, political satire and fables. Fine in a near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.) ISBN: 0-374-167370 USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 43152 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BASS, RICK OIL NOTES Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-395-486750 USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 34093 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BERRY, WENDELL. THE LONG-LEGGED HOUSE. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1969.) First printing. Berry's first book of essays - written when he was still an almost unknown young writer. The chapter headings (and the topics themselves) are provocative, dealing with environmental, political and social issues - The Tyranny of Charity; The Landscaping of Hell - Strip-Mine Morality in East Kentucky; The Nature Consumers; The Loss of the Future; A Statement Against the War in Vietnam and more. 213 pp. Very good in a fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, brackets and some underlining in the book: this is one of those books that makes you want to mark pertinent passages.) USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 \| £UK 60.25 \| JP¥ 8826] Book number: 43805 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BRINK, ANDRE. WRITING IN A STATE OF SIEGE: Essays on Politics and Literature. New York: Summit Books, 1983. First US printing. 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. Fine in a fine dustjacket. ISBN: 0-671-47751x USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 16502 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BRONK, WILLIAM VECTORS AND SMOOTHABLE CURVES: Collected Essays San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983. First printing. 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. NF/VG (closed tear, small chip in upper edge of dj.) USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 8763 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BRYANT, DOROTHY MYTHS TO LIE BY Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1984. First edition. 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. Fine in a near fine dustjacket (slightly rubbed dj) ISBN: 0-931688-116 USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 17309 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BRYANT, DOROTHY MYTHS TO LIE BY Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1984. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. 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. SIGNED on the title page. Fine (as new) in illustrated wrappers. ISBN: 0-931688-124 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 24875 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BYATT, A. S. PASSIONS OF THE MIND: Selected Writings. New York: Random House, 1992. First US printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-679-405119 USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2471] Book number: 18376 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CALVINO, ITALO SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENIUM Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. First printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 3179 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CAPOTE, TRUMAN MUSIC FOR CHAMELEONS: New Writing. New York: Random House, 1980. Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition). A collection of 14 pieces ranging from a short portrait of Marilyn Monroe to the novella-length factual crime account of 'Hand Carved Coffins.' Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. ISBN: 0-394-508262 USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 39870 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CATHER, WILLA. NOT UNDER FORTY. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. First edition, the second printing before publication. Collection of essays - studies of literary personalities and certain aspects of literature - Cather's first collection of essays. VG/G (some discoloration and fading to cloth covered boards, general wear to dj, fading on spine) USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 2675 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CHATWIN, BRUCE WHAT AM I DOING HERE New York: Viking, 1989. First US printing. Chatwin's personal selection of stories, essays and travelogues. Published posthumously. F/F. (rem line) USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 5925 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CONNELL, EVAN S. THE WHITE LANTERN. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. First printing. Studies of man's infinite desire for knowledge. F/F. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 3814 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DICKEY, JAMES. SORTIES: Journals and Other Essays. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1971. First printing. Dickey on his work, other poets (including Jeffers and Edward Arlington Robinson), country music, archery and more. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (prev owner's name on front endpaper, crossed out.) USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 12956 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DIDION, JOAN. AFTER HENRY. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-671-727311 USD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 40.25 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5295] Book number: 1952 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DIDION, JOAN. AFTER HENRY. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First printing. 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. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (creasing to lower edge of dj.) ISBN: 0-671-727311 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 42082 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DIDION, JOAN. THE WHITE ALBUM. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1979.) First printing. 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. Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, chip to upper edge of dj, other edgewear.) ISBN: 0-671226851 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 45217 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DOCTOROW, E.L. JACK LONDON, HEMINGWAY AND THE CONSTITUTION: Selected Essays, 1977-1992. New York: Random House, (1993.) First printing. 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. Near fine in a very good- dust jacket (edgewear to dj.) ISBN: 0-679426868 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 42622 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DUBUS, ANDRE BROKEN VESSELS: Essays Boston: Godine, 1991. First printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-87923-8852 USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 \| £UK 14.5 \| JP¥ 2118] Book number: 42720 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	EMERSON, R. W. (RALPH WALDO ) ESSAYS: Second Series. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1869 (c 1856.) Early printing. An appealing copy of theseessays on such diverse topics as 'the poet', experience, manners, nature, and more. Small volume, 274 pp. Very good+ in original brown embossed cloth covers with gilt title on spine (some rubbing to the lettering on the spine.) USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 24699 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).

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	ALVAREZ, A. BEYOND ALL THIS FIDDLE: Essays, 1955-1967. New York: Random House, 1969. First American edition. 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. Very good+ in very good dust jacket (pc.) USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 13451 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	AMIS, MARTIN. THE MORONIC INFERNO and Other Visits to America. New York: Viking, 1987. First US printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder mark.) ISBN: 0-670-814326 USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 3954 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	AMIS, MARTIN. VISITING MRS NABAKOV and Other Excursions New York: Harmony, 1994. First US printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 41366 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ANONYMOUS (ASCRIBED TO CHARLES B. FAIRBANKS), FOREWORD BY HENRY GARRITY. ) MY UNKNOWN CHUM Aguecheek. New York: Devon-Adair, 1923. Reprint. 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. Very good in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 22907 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BARTH, JOHN. FURTHER FRIDAYS, Essays, Lectures and Other Nonfiction, 1984-1994. Boston: Little Brown, 1995. First printing. Very good in a very good dustjacket (lower corner bumped.) USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 14631 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BARTHELME, DONALD GUILTY PLEASURES New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1974.) First printing. Author's first book of non-fiction - consists of parodies, political satire and fables. Fine in a near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.) ISBN: 0-374-167370 USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 43152 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BASS, RICK OIL NOTES Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-395-486750 USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 34093 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BERRY, WENDELL. THE LONG-LEGGED HOUSE. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1969.) First printing. Berry's first book of essays - written when he was still an almost unknown young writer. The chapter headings (and the topics themselves) are provocative, dealing with environmental, political and social issues - The Tyranny of Charity; The Landscaping of Hell - Strip-Mine Morality in East Kentucky; The Nature Consumers; The Loss of the Future; A Statement Against the War in Vietnam and more. 213 pp. Very good in a fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, brackets and some underlining in the book: this is one of those books that makes you want to mark pertinent passages.) USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 \| £UK 60.25 \| JP¥ 8826] Book number: 43805 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BRINK, ANDRE. WRITING IN A STATE OF SIEGE: Essays on Politics and Literature. New York: Summit Books, 1983. First US printing. 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. Fine in a fine dustjacket. ISBN: 0-671-47751x USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 16502 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BRONK, WILLIAM VECTORS AND SMOOTHABLE CURVES: Collected Essays San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983. First printing. 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. NF/VG (closed tear, small chip in upper edge of dj.) USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 8763 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BRYANT, DOROTHY MYTHS TO LIE BY Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1984. First edition. 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. Fine in a near fine dustjacket (slightly rubbed dj) ISBN: 0-931688-116 USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 17309 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BRYANT, DOROTHY MYTHS TO LIE BY Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1984. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. 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. SIGNED on the title page. Fine (as new) in illustrated wrappers. ISBN: 0-931688-124 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 24875 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BYATT, A. S. PASSIONS OF THE MIND: Selected Writings. New York: Random House, 1992. First US printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-679-405119 USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2471] Book number: 18376 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CALVINO, ITALO SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENIUM Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. First printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 3179 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CAPOTE, TRUMAN MUSIC FOR CHAMELEONS: New Writing. New York: Random House, 1980. Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition). A collection of 14 pieces ranging from a short portrait of Marilyn Monroe to the novella-length factual crime account of 'Hand Carved Coffins.' Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. ISBN: 0-394-508262 USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 39870 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CATHER, WILLA. NOT UNDER FORTY. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. First edition, the second printing before publication. Collection of essays - studies of literary personalities and certain aspects of literature - Cather's first collection of essays. VG/G (some discoloration and fading to cloth covered boards, general wear to dj, fading on spine) USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 2675 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CHATWIN, BRUCE WHAT AM I DOING HERE New York: Viking, 1989. First US printing. Chatwin's personal selection of stories, essays and travelogues. Published posthumously. F/F. (rem line) USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 5925 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CONNELL, EVAN S. THE WHITE LANTERN. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. First printing. Studies of man's infinite desire for knowledge. F/F. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 3814 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DICKEY, JAMES. SORTIES: Journals and Other Essays. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1971. First printing. Dickey on his work, other poets (including Jeffers and Edward Arlington Robinson), country music, archery and more. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (prev owner's name on front endpaper, crossed out.) USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 12956 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DIDION, JOAN. AFTER HENRY. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-671-727311 USD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 40.25 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5295] Book number: 1952 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DIDION, JOAN. AFTER HENRY. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First printing. 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. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (creasing to lower edge of dj.) ISBN: 0-671-727311 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 42082 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DIDION, JOAN. THE WHITE ALBUM. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1979.) First printing. 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. Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, chip to upper edge of dj, other edgewear.) ISBN: 0-671226851 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 45217 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DOCTOROW, E.L. JACK LONDON, HEMINGWAY AND THE CONSTITUTION: Selected Essays, 1977-1992. New York: Random House, (1993.) First printing. 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. Near fine in a very good- dust jacket (edgewear to dj.) ISBN: 0-679426868 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 42622 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DUBUS, ANDRE BROKEN VESSELS: Essays Boston: Godine, 1991. First printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-87923-8852 USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 \| £UK 14.5 \| JP¥ 2118] Book number: 42720 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	EMERSON, R. W. (RALPH WALDO ) ESSAYS: Second Series. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1869 (c 1856.) Early printing. An appealing copy of theseessays on such diverse topics as 'the poet', experience, manners, nature, and more. Small volume, 274 pp. Very good+ in original brown embossed cloth covers with gilt title on spine (some rubbing to the lettering on the spine.) USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 24699 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).