Search Results: Authors starting with G from Ed Smith Books

Minneapolis: Dreamhaven, 1993. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. A murder in heaven before the fall, a London in which black magic works, if you own a computer, an elderly lady who buys the holy grail and puts it on her mantlepiece. Gaiman tells these stories and others: Tales of spider-kings and mice, of trolls and angels and discount house assassins. Also to be found within these pages are some essays, a book review, a true life journalistic adventure, a fable, some poetry, and even, at no extra cost to the purchaser a scientific experiment concerning the immediate effects of alcohol on a living author. 166 pages. Bound in dense brick red/brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and front cover winged illustration.

New York: The Dial Press, 1971. First edition. Paperback. A fine copy. Proof in the original beige printed wrappers. Basis for the award-winning television movie, broadcast on CBS in 1974. The film holds importance as one of the first films to deal with African-American characters with depth and sympathy. It preceded the ground-breaking television miniseries Roots by four years. The story depicts the struggles of African-Americans as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman. She tells of the major events of her life from the time she was a young slave girl in the American South at the end of the Civil War. The film culminates with her joining in the American civil rights movement in 1962 at age 110. Binding flaw, two indentations across back cover, where a bundle was bound. Very uncommon format of the author's most famous book.

Houston/Los Angeles: Ze Books / Unnamed Press, 2021. First edition. Paperback. A near fine copy in red perfect bound wrappers with white lettering. An Advance Reading copy. A chimerical hybrid of fiction, memoir, essay, criticism, and visual art that trascends categorization. This collage of five works (one a work in progress), interspersed with and thematically linked by a single short story, then woven together with the author's commentary, is a kind of director's cut revealing the personal and societal forces that inform each individual piece of work. 237 pages. Illustrated in color.

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. These twenty-six brilliant and enchanting short stories, by the 1982 Nobel Laureate, are collected in this volume for the first time. They explore, with a deceptive simplicity, the different faces of reality, the miracles and mysteries of life, and the humorous, tragic and ironic patterns of the human condition. Published in many countries and languages and universally praised, the stories, dating from 1947, are the work of a master.

Barcelona: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2003. First edition. Paperback. Fine copies. Two volumes. Text in Spanish. 1006pp. Illustrated from color photographs. This set inscribed by Klein in Volume 1 and dated 2005. Massive research and very detailed. Both copies perfect bound in decorated wrappers, as issued.

New York: Knopf, 1986. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. A near fine copy in the original green perfect bound wrappers with black stamping to front cover and spine. Uncorrected Proofs with info sheet taped to front cover. Novelist Nicholas Delbanco, Gardner's literary executor, has taken it upon himself to give to posthumous (and not intended to be published) Gardner manuscripts the pitiless light of day. Stillness, an autobiographical portrait, was, says Delbanco, undertaken by Gardner "as a process of therapy, as an exercise of recall engaged in with his wife." It's a picture of Gardner's first marriage: a whip-sharp woman, with nowhere special to put her natural talents, is married to a charismatic and rich but plodding novelist ("Very handsome. . .his prematurely silver hair flowing down his back. . .his English-Irish-Welsh voice singing through language . . .People wept, listening"). It is, in its mixture of vanity and complete self-absorption, a document of personal honesty—but to read it as… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1984. First edition, Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. A fine copy perfect bound in the original powder blue printed wrappers, as issued. This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writers—and will continue to do so for many years to come. John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that he gave, he explains, simply and cogently, the principles and techniques of good writing. Gardner's lessons, exemplified with detailed excerpts from classic works of literature, sweep across a complete range of topics—from the nature of aesthetics to the shape of a refined sentence. Written with passion, precision, and a deep respect for the art of writing, Gardner's book serves by turns as a critic, mentor, and friend. Anyone who has ever thought of taking the step from reader to… Read More

New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. A very good plus copy in a very good bright dust jacket with a vertical crease to the front flap and soiling to the rear panel of the dust jacket.

New York: Knopf, 1984. First edition. Paperback. A very good copy with darkening (sunning) to spine and extremities. Uncorrected Proof. The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principle theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's persistent and hopeless quest for immortality. From the literary library of Robert & Enid Cohen.

New York: Knopf, 1982. First edition. Paperback. Perfect bound wrappers, with irregular sunning to covers and darkening to spine, a very good tight copy. Uncorrected Proof. The author's final novel, that follows Peter Mickelsson, former football player and current Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. From the literary library of Robert & Enid Cohen.

New York: Knopf, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. A nearly fine book in a fine dust jacket. The author's final novel, that follows Peter Mickelsson, former football player and current Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University.

New York: William Morrow, 1956. First edition. hardcover. A near fine copy in a very good jacket with a closed tear to the rear panel bottom of spine. This title is Perry Mason's 50th case. An anniversary triumph for one of the most famous fictional characters ever created.

New York: Knopf, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy, light remainder mark to bottom edge (Random "house"), in a fine dust jacket. Herbert L Fink. Magic, madness, menace and romance are all woven together in this Gardner collection. Nine tales depict ministers and college students, strange medieval countries full of demented royalty, and whaling ships.

New York: Basic Books, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Criticism with both eyes open, fearless, illuminating, proving that the concern of the critic is with art, that true art is moral and not trivial, that it and the discussion of it can give pleasure, of a sort that lasts and re-echoes. Gardner argues that current literature suffers most of all from a plain failure of morality. 214pp.

New York: Putnam, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a very good crisp dust jacket with some sunning to spine. Review copy, laid in is a black-and-white photo of the author (Gardner), and a two-sheet press release. The fourth of the James Bond adventures by John Gardner, finds Agent 007 embroiled in a scheme more terrifying in its implications than anything he's encountered before. There is an international terrorist plot to bring about "the ultimate revolution." It is computerized with such diabolical precision that one slip will result in world-wide holocaust. Can James Bond stop it? Is there any doubt? 302 pages.

New York: Knopf, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Art Garfunkel on the front of the dust jacket (in his hair) in black sharpie. "A memoir of sorts: artful, moving, lyrical impressions of a life that reveal the making of a musician, the evolution of a man; a portrait of a lifelong friendship and of a collaboration that became the most successful singing duo in the roiling age that embraced, and was defined by, their pathfinding music. 241pp illustrated from photographs.

New York: William Morrow, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in yellow cloth stamped in black in a very good plus to near fine dust jacket with minor wear around the edges. The 100th book by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring the now world-famous triumvirate: Perry Mason, Della Street, and Paul Drake. The verso of the dust jacket has unusual graphics and text, trying to convey what over 110,000,000 books looks like, if they could be stacked.

New York: Knopf, 1995. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. A profound meditation on history, on evil, on the living and the dead. A monumental and monumentally original work of fiction.The narrator of the book is a distinguished man in his fifties, William Frederick Kohler, a professor at a Midwestern university. His principle subject, the Third Reich. He has just completed his massive magnum opus, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany. All that remains to write is an introduction. Kohler sits down to write a self-congratulatory text and finds himself unaccountably blocked. He begins instead to write an entirely other book, another history, that of the historian himself. What he writes is the complete opposite of his clearly argued, causally determined history of the Reich. It is as subjective and private as history is objective and public, as apparently shapeless and stagnant as history is ordered and directrive. It is chaotic, obscure, full of lies and disguises,… Read More

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a store sticker to front panel (University Bookstore). Inscribed on the title page by Gastineau "Go Dawgs! / Mike Gastineau." In 1984 the University of Washington Huskies won every game but one, ranking second in national polls. For most coaches, such a season would be a career pinnacle. But for Don James second place motivated him to set aside what he knew about football and rethink the game. James made radical changes to his coaching philosophy, from recruitment to becoming one of the first college teams willing to blitz on any down and in any situation. His new approach initially failed, yet it finally culminated in one of the most explosive teams in college football history. In Fear No Man, Mike Gastineau recounts the riveting story of Don James and the national championship team he built. Undefeated, the 1991 Huskies outscored opponents by an average of 31 points per game on their way… Read More

New York: Knopf, 2021. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. In this urgent authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical and accessible plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. 257 pages with index.