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London: British Museum, 1908; 1928. 2 Volumes: 1095, 1694 pages. ISBN: 281AIB1048836.

New York: Atheneum, 1966. About 300 leaves, printed on one side (rectos) only. A very uncommon proof, presumably issued in very small numbers. This is not the frequently seen advance reading copy. ISBN: 281AIB1034944.

San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1987. 52 pages. 9-1/2 by 12-1/2inches. An autobiographical story of a summer spent in Hawai'i. Illustrated with color woodcuts by Deng Ming-Dao. Printed by Leigh McLellan on Korean Kozo papers. One of 75 deluxe copies specially bound by the printer and signed by the author, the artist, and the printer. There were also 75 case bound copies. ISBN: 281AIB1044024.

Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Joannem de Vivie, 1720. {4} 838 {132} pages. Edited by the great classical scholar Pieter Berman, the 19 major Declamations and selected minor ones are heavily annotated (approximately half of each page is notes), and occupy the first 790 pages. Calpurnius Flaccus takes up the next 46 pages, followed by the extensive index. Some have questioned the authorship of the Declamations, but apparently Berman felt they were Quintilian's. ISBN: 281AIB1047610.

Mexico: L. Alvarez y Alvarez de la Cadena [Editorial Layac], 1943-1944. Three volumes. 169, 348, 255 pages, plus six folding maps (2 in vol. 2 and 4 in volume 3). A reprint of the 1757 original, newly typeset with decorative chapter headings. Volume 3 includes texts by Andres Marcos Burriel, Sebastian Vizcaino, and Ferdinand Konsag, as did the original. An attractive and scarce reprint of a hard-to-obtain Zamorano 80 title (no. 78), published during the Second World War, with maps not included in the original. The book mostly relates to Baja California. ISBN: 281AIB1030883.

(N.-pl.): (n.p.), 1985. 65 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. A typed script printed recto (front side) only. The script was published six years later in Dramatist Play Service series. ISBN: 281AIB1040941.

Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2003. 230 pages in text volume; 291 pages in plate volume. Housed in beautiful cloth covered box with silk ribbon. Text volume is in Italian. Plate volume has text and plate descriptions in Italian and English. ISBN: 9788882900083.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960. 286 pages. The author's first book. A look at everyday life in the Soviet Union. Introduction by Irving R. Levine. ISBN: B000N7FXVG.

Dallas: Texas Arts Journal, 1977. 109 pages. 8-3/8 by 10-7/8 inches. Contains Updike's libretto for a Grimm-inspired children's opera, The Fisherman and His Wife. Limited to 22 copies, with a page of the original typescript signed by Updike laid-in to a folder labeled with limitation details. The opera premiered at the Opera Company of Boston in 1970, with score by Gunther Schuller. ISBN: B002WAITHM.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1938. 274 pages. Daniel Mainwaring (1902-1977) writing as Homes wrote a series of mystery novels before going on to a career as Hollywood screenwriter for films including The Big Steal, This Woman is Dangerous (starring Joan Crawford) and the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. ISBN: 281AIB1050609.

San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1977. ISBN: B000SVQIB6.

University City, MO: Contre Coup Press, 1983. 8 leaves (2 blank). An essay that first appeared in Esquire, published in an edition of just 30 copies. Undoubtedly Elkins toughest book, especially considering that 9 copies are recorded in libraries (WorldCat). ISBN: 281AIB1037164.

Washington, DC: Office of War Information, 1943. 22-1/4 by 16 inches. OWI Poster no. 55. Poster depicting a woman in a headscarf and uniform operates a machine, perhaps a lathe. Despite the vast number of posters issued by government agencies during the Second World War, this is one of the few depicting women doing traditionally male jobs, like manufacturing. Not much has been written about the artist, but he produced many magazine and advertising illustrations. ISBN: 281AIB1017649.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. 388 pages. A novel; the author's first book. ISBN: 9780395120941.

New York: Ultramarine Publishing, 1992. 214 pages. Sketches of London, published in the UK as London Observed. This is one of 12 lettered copies, signed by the author and bound in full brown leather. Bound by Denis Gouey. This edition uses the sheets from the first US edition, published by HarperCollins. There were also 38 numbered copies in this edition. ISBN: 281AIB1033292.

(N-pl. but perhaps Bucharest?): (the author?), 1900. xxiii, 1055 pages. Papahagi, according to Wikipedia (I know, I know) was "an acknowledged authority on the life and languages of the Romance-speaking peoples from south of the Danube, the Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians; he wrote several foundational texts on the subject that are classic models of sociological and folkloristic monographs" including Din literatura poporana a aromanilor. OCLC locates one copy, in Romania. ISBN: 281AIB1039626.

Clovis, California: Word Dancer Press, (1998). 1676 pages. ISBN: 9781884995149.