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New York:: Norton,, (2010). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. A brief but provocative collection of essays, triggered by a move to Las Vegas one summer: D'Agata "begins to follow a story about the federal governmentÕs plan to store high-level nuclear waste at a place called Yucca Mountain, a desert range near the city of Las Vegas" and winds up with a re-examination of the future of human life. Notes. 236 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1998.. First edition -. Fine in printed blue wrappers (2 sheets with the cover art and promotional material from the publisher stapled inside the front cover.) . Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) A collection of very personal essays, about his life and writing, exploration and the environment and more. 273 pp.

Soft Skull Press,, (1999). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Includes essays on AIDS, youth culture, drugs, films and contemporary art as well as "stoic, unsentimental and bracing" obituaries for Kurt Cobain, River Phoenix and William Burroughs and more. Issued as a trade paperback original. 146 pp.

New York:: Catapult,, (2016). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps. . First printing, a trade paperback original. A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Criticism. A collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds - in a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, the Lizzie Borden story in Fall River or a crowded bus in Haiti. Among the many writers he discusses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman, William Trevor, and more. SIGNED on the title page. Author and title index. 316 pp.

New York:: Pantheon,, 1999.. SIGNED first edition -. Fine in pale green printed wrappers.. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) 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:: Oxford University Press,, 1979.. VG (cover loose). Trade paperback.

Boston & New York:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1910.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in olive green cloth with gilt decorations and lettering (rubbing to the lettering on the spine, a humorous quote on the front endpaper, a few pages carelessly opened with small chips to the margins, but otherwise sturdily bound, and an attractive tight and straight copy.) . First printing. A collection of nine essays, all with a significant leavening of humor. In addition to the title articles, this includes essays titled the hundred worst books, the convention of books, in praise of politicians, my missionary life in Persia, the colonel in the theological seminary, the merry devil of education and more. 278 pp.

Washington, D.C.:: Counterpoint Press,, (1995). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A slim volume of six new essays on sustainability and stewardship. In them he expresses the hope that people will learn once more to care for their local communities. He emphasizes that "the renewed development of local economies would help preserve rural diversity despite the burgeoning global economy that threatens to homogenize and compromise communities all over the world. From modern health care to the practice of forestry, from local focus to national resolve, there can never be a separation between global ecosystems and human communities - the two are intricately connected." xii, 109 pp.

New York:: Bluehen Books (Penguin Putnam),, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book which combines "wisdom, insight and a hawk's eye for detail" (Kim Barnes) Each animal that passes by in this book reflects a truth about love - between a husband and a wife, a child and a parent, or a brother and a sister. Like a traditional bestiary, each chapter highlights one letter of the alphabet - K is for Kestrel, P is for Porcupine - but then takes off from there. SIGNED on the half title page. Erratum sheet laid in. Small format. 224 pp.

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (1993).. Hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 2nd printing. An entertaining and intriguing look at the geology of California - from its gold and mineral filled mountains to the causes of the earthquakes. Frontispiece, en texte illustrations. 304 pp.

New York:: Random House,, (1988.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of topical and often provocative essays by an American master - on Nixon, Reagan and other political matters, on writers ranging from Anthony Burgess to Italo Calvino, Henry James and Dawn Powell (Vidal is almost singlehandly responsible for the resurgence of interest in the writings of Powell.) 303 pp.

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

Emeryville, CA:: Shoemaker & Hoard,, (2007). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of essays by this noted poet on "a wide range of topics, from explorations of southwestern European Paleolithic cave art to his own personal poetic history with haiku; from reminiscences of youthful West Coast logging and trail crew days to talks given in Paris and Tokyo on art and archetypes. He honors poets of his generation, like Philip Whalen and Allen Ginsberg, and meditates on art, labor, and the making of families, houses, and homesteads." 167 pp.

Westwood, NJ:: Fleming H. Revell Company,, (1953). Hardcover -. Very good in a fair only dust jacket. (several small chips and edgewear to the dj, price-clipped) . Fourth printing. A brief book by this journalist, educator and the first poet-laureate of South Carolina, from 1934-1973, on the different forms beauty can take - the beauty born in storms, in friendship, in loyalty and more - preceded by a 16 page appreciation by Frank S. Mead. 63 pp.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 2002.. SIGNED first edition -. Very near fine. . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. 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.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 2005.. SIGNED -. Very near fine.. Trade paperback. A long-running and excellent series, under the general editorship of Robert Atwan, of books which are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes essays by Andrea Barrett, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Jonathan Lethem, Cathleen Schine, David Foster Wallace. Robert Stone, Oliver Sacks and others. SIGNED by TWO authors at their essays: Jonathan Lethem at "Speak, Hoyt-Schermerhorn" (a tribute to a subway station in Brooklyn) and Cathleen Schine at "Dog Trouble." Introduction by Susan Orlean and brief biographies of the contributors.. xviii, 292 pp.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 2004.. First edition -. Near fine.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes contributions from James Agee, Jared Diamond, Anne Fadiman, Susan Orlean, Rick Moody and more. Introduction by Menard and brief biographies of the contributors. Robert Atwan, series editor. Index. 323 pp.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, (1993). First edition -. Near fine in wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes contributions from Jean Ervin, Jacob Cohen, Ward Just, Floyd Skloot, Gerald Early, James Salter, Philip Weiss, Cynthia Ozick, Diane Johnson, Joseph Brodsky, Marcia Aldrich, Paul R. McHugh, Anthony Burgess, Daniel M. Harris, Robert Sherrill, Shaun O'Connell, Thomas C. Palmer, Lawrence Otis Graham, Scott Russell Sanders, Shelby Steele, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison and more. Introduction by Epstein and brief biographies of the contributors. Robert Atwan, series editor. xviii, 378 pp.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1995.. SIGNED first edition -. Very near fine in a stiff wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. SIGNED by Wolff at his essay 'Civilian.' In addition to the contributions by the writers shown above, this includes selections by James Alan McPherson, Edna O'Brien, Grace Paley, Maxine Kumin and more. Robert Atwan, series editor.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1998.. First edition -. Near fine in wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. 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 William Gass on 'the Test of Time', Jamaica Kincaid on "in History,' "Lost Art" by John Updike, "Nearing Ninety" by William Maxwell and more. Introduction by Ozick and brief biographies of the contributors. Robert Atwan, series editor. Index. 260 pp.