Search Results: Authors starting with F from Ed Smith Books

Toronto: Hanover Square Press, 2020. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. A near fine copy, perfect bound in the original printed wrappers. It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from language. First, it vanishes from Dhikilo's parents' conversation at breakfast, then from the road signs outside and from from her school dinners. Soon the local dentist and the neighbor's dalmatian are missing, and even the Donkey Derby has been called off." Though she doesn't know why. Dhikilo is summoned to the home of her old history teacher Professor Dodderfield and his faithful Labrador, Nelly Robinson. And this is where the story begins." A stunning and engaging modern-day Dickensian fable and a celebration of friendship and bravery for freethinkers everywhere. 295 pages.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket. This copy has a long inscription by the author and is dated in January of 1981. Charles Demuth was a member of art gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz' Group of Five, and is credited with helping to bring Cubist theory to America and is a recognized ancestor of Pop Art. A charming, aristocratic hedonist, a smiling, witty man noted for his sartorial perfection, Demuth had close friendships with such other gifted individuals as William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Eugene O'Neill, Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O'Keefe, and Marsden Hartley.

New York: Random House, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. This play, adapted to the stage by Ruth Ford, opened at the John Golden Theatre on January 30, 1959 and ran for 43 performances, closing March 7 of that year. The play was staged by Tony Richardson and starred John Dorman, Christian Flanders, Ruth Ford, House Jameson, Scott McKay, Bertice Reading and Zachary Scott. The jacket is price-clipped.

New York: Liveright, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 4to. When three daunting dolls intersect with one hapless heroine and a hard-boiled private eye, deception, betrayal, and murder stalk every mean street in this piece of illustrated noir. 148 pages. Illustrated by a true master, adding to his legendary career that includes a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, Obie Awards, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America. As the story begins, we meet Annie Hannigan, an out-of-control teenager, jitterbugging in the 1930s, Annie dreams of offing her mother, Elsie, whom she blames for abandoning her for a job soon after her father, a cop, was shot and killed.

New York: Harper Collins, 2008. First editions. Hardcover. All three volumes nearly fine in nearly fine dust jackets. Three volumes; The Flight of the Night Hawks, Into a Dark Realm, and Wrath of a Mad God. The Darkwar rages upon Midkemia and Kelewan, bringing bleak days of destruction and despair. To save the future of both worlds, the powerful sorcerer Pug and select members of the secretive Conclave of Shadows must journey deep into the dangerous realm of the bloodthirsty Dasati, there to carry out an audacious mission that has little, if any, chance of succeeding.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1952. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in black cloth with silver spine stamping in a very bright very good jacket with wear to the spine crown and heal. A novel depicting the lives of Texans in 1950s Texas. The novel is centered around the land tycoon Bick Benedict, the sleazy rich oil baron Jett Rink, and Bick's lovely wife and Jett's unrequited love, Leslie. Basis for the big screen film directed by George Stevens (Oscar winner for Best Director) that starred James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Carroll Baker, Rock Hudson, Chill Wills and Dennis Hopper, among others. Giant was the last of James Dean's three films as a leading actor, and earned him his second and last Academy Award nomination- he was killed in a car crash before the film was released.

New York: Knopf, 2013. First American edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. Fourteen years after landing Mark Darcy, Bridget's life has taken her places she never expected. But despite the new challenges of single parenting, online dating, wildly morphing dress sizes, and bafflingly complex remote controls, she is the same irrepressible and endearing soul we all remember—though her talent for embarrassing herself in hilarious ways has become dangerously amplified now that she has 752 Twitter followers. As Bridget navigates head lice epidemics, school-picnic humiliations, and cross-generational sex, she learns that life isn't over when you start needing reading glasses—and why one should never, ever text while drunk. Studded with witty observations about the perils and absurdities of our times, Mad About the Boy is both outrageously comic and genuinely moving. As we watch her dealing with heartbreaking loss and rediscovering love and joy, Bridget invites us… Read More

Livingston: Clark City Press, 1992. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. A fine copy in perfect bound cream colored wrappers with titles in green and black. In a novel spanning the years 1978-1991, Finney ( Winterchill ) considers the thorny question of what role the past should play in the present. The book's 14 chapters, which read like a series of third-person short stories, probe the distinct points of view of three protagonists: placid, boring Billy; his bitter and curt sister, Ann; and their efficient, patronizing cousin, Kay. All three are somewhat lost, grappling as they pass through their 30s with memories incarnated in the fragment of a childhood jump-rope rhyme that gives the book its title. Twice-divorced Billy still optimistically searches for love, widowed Ann struggles with two teenage daughters, and Kay builds a successful business and solves everyone else's problems but lacks a fulfilling life of her own. They have troubled relationships with their aging, far-from-perfect parents,… Read More

New York: Abbeville Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. A very good plus copy. The Georgia folk artist in his own (mostly) words. Attractive and detailed career retrospective of the "man of visions now on this earth," published 12 years before his death in 2001. A backwoods Baptist preacher inspired by the Gospel, visitations from the dead, and visions of extraterrestrial life, the Reverend Howard Finster is an unlikely candidate for art celebrity. But in this collection of 150 of the artist's paintings, fans can make the pilgrimage to Finster's Paradise Garden in Pennville, Georgia. 120 illustrations in full color. Lightly used, slight sag to text block, but binding firm (particularly for this title). Boards bright and unscratched. No dust jacket as issued.

London: Collins, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. In 1912 Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge, where for centuries no female has been allowed to set foot. He lectures in physics and the questionable nature of matter, and worries about the universal problem known in Cambridge at the time as "the absurdity of the Mind-Body Relationship". To Fred this is tormenting rather than absurd. The young woman beside him when he wakes up one evening in the Wrayburns' spare bedroom might help to resolve it, but how can he tell if she is quite what she seems? Fred is a scientist. To him the truth should be everything, and indeed he thinks it is. But scientists make mistakes.

New York: Random House, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine tight copy (ownership signature to verso of last page) with remainder mark (the Random 'house'), in a near fine, clean dust jacket with a closed tear to the top of the rear panel. This copy is inscribed by Foote on the front endpaper, "For / Michael Hargraves / displaced in Frisco / from / Shelby Foote / Memphis Nov 1982." In this novel, a magisterial historian of the Civil War charts its distant repercussions in the streets of the contemporary South. By turns wryly comic, ribald, and chilling, a convincing thriller and a powerful tragicomedy of race.

New York: The Dial Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover and paperback. The book is near fine in green cloth with a very good dust jacket with light tanning at spine. The offprint has an old waterstain to the front cover that has rippled a few pages, otherwise very good. Laid into this copy is an offprint, DELTA No. 4. Published by Paul Valery University (Montpellier), in 1977. 14pp. Printed sheets, measuring 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches staple bound, which prints a review of a section of Foote's 'Jordan Country", specifically the "Pillar of Fire", the pioneer days in the south that tells of Ike Jameson, the first white man in the country, and how his house was burned by Union soldiers in reprisal, during the Civil War. This offprint is signed by Foote on the rear cover in black ink.

New York: William Morrow, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. A tale of serial lies, corruption, and murder that throws an unforgettable new pair of investigators into the mad cosmopolitan mix of present-day Seattle.

New York: Knopf, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. A very good plus copy in a very good plus dust jacket. The Pulitzer-Prize winning novel for 1996. In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction, and in so doing gives us an indelible portrait of America. Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an "Existence Period," selling real estate in Haddam, New Jersey, and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life. Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of astonishing empathy and perception.

New York: Villard, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Oscar winner Milos Forman, film director, tells his story; orphaned by WWII in a small Czechoslovakian town to the heights of Hollywood. Illustrated from photographs. 295pp.

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2015. First edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Barney Frank on the title page. How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time? One man's account of the country's transformation, and the tale of a truly momentous career. 387 pages with index. Illustrated from photographs.

New York: Pantheon, 1989. First American Edition. Hardcover. A very good plus copy in a very good dust jacket. Folio. This retrospective study of the work and life of Robert Frank demonstrates the artistry, innovations, and magnificent images of the distinguished photographer in more than 350 photographs. The book was originally published by Yugensha in Tokyo in 1972.

New York: Regan Books, 2004. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. A true war hero, General Tommy Franks was the Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003. Franks made history by leading American and Coalition forces to victory in Afghanistan and Iraq, the decisive battles that launched the war on terrorism. 590 pages with two large sections of color photographs.

New York: Viking Press, 2008. First edition. hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Author's second book, the haunting follow-up to the Edgar Award-Winning "In the Woods". Cassie Maddox is still recovering. Transferred out of Dublin's Murder squad at her own request, she vows never to return. That is, until her boyfriend Sam O'Neill, calls her one spring morning, urgently asking her to come to a murder scene in the small town of Glenskehy. 466 pages.

New York: Harper, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine crisp copy in a fine dust jacket. Author inscription in sharpie that covers the entire title page. Author's first novel. A sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. 500+ pages.