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New York: National Blue Print Co, 1942. 11 by 13-1/2 inches. An early printed edition of this work, issued on blue-print paper, reproducing Sessions' handwritten score (the commercially published edition appeared in 1947). Sessions was an important New York 12-tone composer who won the Pulitzer Prize for music. ISBN: 281AIB1035642.

Madison: 1889. pp. 52-98 from Proceeding of the Historical Society of Wisconsin. Jackson offered the present study as his dissertation for the doctorate at Johns Hopkins University in 1890. At the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, he read to a group of historians a paper on his now famous theory concerning the frontier. "Without warning he set forth a new hypothesis, and there opened a new peiod in the interpretation of the history of the United States..." Frederick L Paxson in D.A.B. as quoted in Grolier American Hundred, No. 96. ISBN: 281AIB1049785.

Decatur, GA: Wisteria Press, 1997. 40 pages. Loose sheets, 12-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. One of three copies. This essay about a heifer's struggle to birth a calf was later included in a collection titled Billy Ray's Farm: Essays From a Place Called Tula. with a signed, numbered engraving by Barry Moser. ISBN: 281AIB1050648.

London: Printed by and for Messrs, Nicols and Son, 1820. vi, 92 pages. Pages 43-77 contain Lamb's remarkable essay "On Christ's Hospital, and The Character of The Christ's Hospital Boys." Wilson concludes his "History" by stating: "It was the intention of the writer of this little work to have closed it by attempting a general character of the boys upon the establishment, when he accidentally met with the following account of the Hospital and the Character of the Boys...It was written by a gentleman well known in the literary world, who had himself passed seven years in the Hospital, and was communicated in 1813 to the Editor of the Gentleman's Magazine.". ISBN: 281AIB1048723.

Miami Herald, 1985-86. Michel du Cille (1956-2014) was a Jamaican-born photojournalist who won 3 Pulitzer Prizes. In 1988 he was awarded the Feature Photography Pulitzer Prize "for photographs portraying the decay and subsequent rehabilitation of a housing project overrun by the drug crack." These photographs are from that work. ISBN: 281AIB1050600.

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.

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.

Quito: Casa De La Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1953. 43 separate sheets, most folding, organized by theme: Indio, 12 folding, 3 single sheets; Mestizo: 13 folding, 3 single sheets; Negro, 8 folding, 1 single sheet; Portraits, 2 folding (with 3 images); Mural, 1 folding sheet. Folded sheets have more than one image. Additional commentary by Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, Julio E. Payro, Alejandro Carrion, Jorge Romero Brest, Pedro Jorge Vera, Alfred Frankenstein, Jorge Carrera Andrade, A. K., Atanasion Viteri, and Carlos Bravomalo Roatta. Text in English and Spanish. One color tipped-in plate on Catalogue page. ISBN: B002QYEYNM.

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.

Holguin, Cuba: Casa Editora Cuadernos Papiro, 2015. 13-1/2 by 17 inches. 12 leaves printed letterpress on rectos (one-side) only. Several types of paper are used, including sheets made from recycled Communist party newspapers.

Jose Emilio Leyva Azze illustrates Coscia's poems with linocuts, shaped newspaper collages, and hand-colored elements. The binding is done with cord punched through the leaves in a zig-zag patter.

Published in an edition of 100 copies. ISBN: 9789597163527.

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.

London: Paramount Pictures, 1933. 8 pages, 11.75 x 9.5 inches. An extremely rare film, only shown at festivals on occasion since its release, with only one known nitrate print in storage at UCLA. Along with Baby Face, made the same year, The Story of Temple Drake is one of the most famous of the films from the pre-Code area, so controversial that it was ordered never to be shown again after the Motion Picture Production Code was more rigidly enforced beginning in 1934. ISBN: 281AIB1050542.

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1931. [314] pages. "Rough Proof Only," as stated on cover, of the British author's novel. ISBN: 281AIB1032415.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1935]. ISBN: 281AIB1034472.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1933. 332 pages. 7-1/4 by 5 inches. Proof copy, as stated on cover, of the British author's novel. ISBN: 281AIB1032507.

London: Collins, 1946. 256 pages. Proof copy with misspellings, including the author's name on the cover. ISBN: 281AIB1031675.

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. 284 pages. 5 by 7 inches. "Rough Proof Only," as stated on cover, of the British author's novel. ISBN: 281AIB1032509.