Search Results: Titles starting with F from Ed Smith Books

New York: Knopf, 1985. First edition. Paperback. A very good copy in the original blue perfect bound printed wrappers with sunning to spine. Uncorrected Proof. 97pp. Printed by Crane Duplicating Service. Though not marked in any way, this copy is from the literary library of Robert & Enid Cohen.

New York: Viking Press, 1974. Second printing. Hardcover. A fine copy in yellow and orange cloth in a very good dust jacket with a small V chip to the top of the rear panel of the dust jacket. Author's first book. This copy bears the author's 7-line inscription on the front endpaper dated 19/4/79. "Dick / I must apologize, deeply, for missing your / class last week --- my students kept me pinned in the / office until it was too late --- but I wanted to give you / a copy of my novel, partly because I hope you'll / enjoy it, and partly in thanks for your friendship / your support, and the delightful time I had on / your program, "Postscript to Roots." / Many thanks / Charles Johnson / 19/4/79." Two printed sheets laid in, on 'Charles Johnson' letterhead. Page 2, highlighted with a pencil mark, is the program he mentions above in his inscription, "Panelist on "University Conversations: Postscript to Roots" Summer 1978.

Honesdale: Boyds Mills Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. A fine crisp copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by both writers on the title page. The real life escape of Helen Szablya's own family from Communist Hungary in 1956 inspired the dramatic events told here with accuracy and feeling. This spellbinding story speaks to the universal struggle for freedom, then and now.

London: Faber and Faber, 1988. First UK edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. From a Southern storyteller and National Book Award-winning author, essays on her childhood, influences, and thoughts on writing and life. Now, with this collection of essays, readers can explore the author of Victory Over Japan throughout her career. From the Mississippi plantation of her childhood to pieces featured in Vogue, Outside, New Woman, and The Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Gilchrist comes alive. With more than forty pictures, essays about Gilchrist's thoughts on writing, and a peek into the books, teachers, and artists that influenced her work, this is required reading for any fan. Illustrated from photographs. 166 pages. "This book of "journals" is actually a carefully patterned quilt sewn of the author's NPR "entries" and a few assorted essays and speeches. Underlaid with a warm, subtle (sometimes precious) humor, these homey reflections on things near and far . . . manage, in… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Subtitled "A Fictional Memoir" and categorized as fiction, the book is semi-autobiographical. In a brief "Note to the Reader" in the opening pages, Exley writes: "Though the events in this book bear similarity to those of that long malaise, my life...I have drawn freely from the imagination and adhered only loosely to the pattern of my past life. To this extent, and for this reason, I ask to be judged a writer of fantasy." A sardonic account of mental illness, alcoholism, insulin shock therapy and electroconvulsive therapy, and the black hole of sports fandom.

Boston: Little Brown, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Arthur Tress. A retrospective study of the forty-five-year career of acclaimed American art photographer Arthur Tress combines 250 full-color and duotone photographs with an in-depth biographical essay of the artist and an incisive critical analysis of his work and his place in American photographic history. 10,000 first printing. 200 pages with chronology and bibliography.

Paris: Magnum Photos, 2007. First edition. Paperback. A fine copy in perfect bound wrappers, as issued. 4to. Signed by Alec Soth. In this beautifully produced third issue of the international art/fashion collectible Fashion Magazine, the acclaimed American photographer Alec Soth plays Editor-in-Chief, Advertising Director and sole photographic contributor--to quietly mesmerizing results. Featuring exquisite printing, unexpected gatefolds, special inks, varnishes and paper changes, this magazine-as-artist's-book-as-sociological-study-as-tongue-vehicle contains some of the most riveting work being produced by a young photographer today. Soth explains: "While Fashion Magazine has a single photographer-author, it's still a magazine, not a book. So it doesn't follow my usual mode of slow, solitary production. It's collaboration. The ideas for the collaboration were formulated very quickly. I was approached by the folks at the Paris office of Magnum to work on this issue late last year. I immediately said… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1980. First British edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. A book of 10 stories that were originally published in Australia by the University of Queensland Press in 1974.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First edition. Paperback. A near fine copy. Proof copy. This copy bound in slick photo illustrated wrappers with contact sticker to front cover (partial). Edited by Douglas Brinkley with a Foreword by David Halberstam. Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever. 912pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First edition. Paperback. A fine copy. Proof copy, perfect bound in the original yellow wrappers, with press release laid in. 912 pp. The second volume of the Gonzo letters from this famous, infamous author of such titles as Hell's Angels and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.

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

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This lucidly written study gives a careful and detailed reading of all of Pynchon's fiction from the early stories to Gravity's Rainbow. Seed stresses the intricacy of Pynchon's narratives and discusses such issues as his parody of myth, influences from the Beats, and various uses of comedy and American culture. While taking previous criticism into account, Seed reinterprets Pynchon's texts from an original perspective, showing the continuities, obsessions, and deeper generative concerns that run through all of Pynchon's writing. Seed concludes his analysis with a chapter relating the themes of Pynchon's writing to the novels for which he has written promotional comments. A unique appendix includes the text of a letter written by Pynchon discussing the research for his third novel. 268 pages.

London: Faber & Faber, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. A very good plus copy in blue cloth over boards (magazine photo of Eliot stuck to the front endpaper) in a very good minus clipped jacket with closed tears and price-clipped (bottom). Peter Pendrey. 4to.The film version of Murder in the Cathedral, designed and produced by Mr. George Hoellering in close co-operation with the author of the play, is itself a new and important development of the art of the cinema. We believe that it deserves to be commemorated by a new kind of book of the film. This volume contains the complete scenario, including, with a few minor cuts and alterations, the original text of the play, together with the new scenes written specially for the film by Mr. Eliot, and not elsewhere published. It is also abundantly illustrated, with photographs of sets, details of costume and architectural decoration, including reproductions in colour and reproductions of drawings and sketches made in preparation for the film. With six… Read More

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Card laid in "As this book was coming off press, one of the Navy SEALs who was on the raid on the Abbottabad compound published a book in which he gave an account of the shooting of bin Laden that differs slightly from the one that appears on p.229 of this book. He says that as he and two other SEALs were climbing the stairs to the third floor, a man stuck his head out from a doorway. Two shots from a suppressed gun were fired. He then entered the room to see bin Laden "with blood and brains spilling out of the side of his skull." He and another SEAL fired several rounds into his body until he was motionless. I assume this account is accurate though the account here was reviewed at the highest level of Special Forces Command and confirmed as accurate before the book went to press. All subsequent editions of this book will have a slightly expanded version of this addendum worked into the text,---Mark Bowden.

New York: Harlin Quist, 1980. First edition. Paperback. A very good plus to near fine copy with some light, small indentations to back cover (black). Issued without dust jacket. Similar to french flaps. 4to. A PBO, the first and only edtion. Full of the famous Fiorucci graphics and anecdotes from its heyday, a daytime "Studio 54" experience. Popular with everybody from Warhol, Farah Fawcett, Marc Jacobs, Madonna, Lauren Bacall, Haring, Maripol, Jackie O, Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, etc., to the Paninaro kids in Milan. A celebration of Fiorucci fashion and flash. As colorful as one can imagine, a real stunner.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. A very good plus copy in an unclipped clean dust jacket. Here, the author has re-imagined the story of the Trojan War, and retells it from the point of view of Kassandra the beautiful and tormented royal princess of Troy. The story unfolds in a new and daring way, from the judgment of Paris, the abduction of Helen (here, not the wicked adultress of legend, but a warm and loving woman, devoted to Paris and their children) and the summoning of the Greek armies by Agamemnon, Helen's enraged brother-in-law, to the final tragedy of the city's destruction, fated by the gods, and by the willful pride of its male leaders.

New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a very good plus jacket. The first person is the narrator who appears throughout, guiding the reader with one hand while throwing sand in his eyes with the other, since all of this is full of contrivances and connivances and interpolations designed to show that what one invents or experiences is perhaps the same thing. Author Wright is an English professor and so is timid Ralph Hathorne Burr who may or may not be the narrator after he becomes the "protagonist of a novel about murder." In fact, hypothecating here, deviating there, one is left wondering about the murder itself -- is it that of the old woman whom at first he stones, with fossils, in a wood -- Burnet Woods of course -- or a man who is killed at the same site or perhaps even his wife Cynthia, whom he permitted to die of her own hand? Other things do happen -- he becomes involved with a young woman half his age who fulfills his "sectsual needs" and then impels him… Read More

Boston: Bulfich Press/Little Brown & Co, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine, clean dust jacket. 4to. 50 color illustrations. A breathtaking collection of flower photographs by Mapplethorpe. All in color, some of his final work. Though his best known flower images were in black and white, this book reveals his genius in color. The photographs here range from images of the early 1980s to many taken in the months before his death. The latter, in particular, are astounding in their intensity; here one finds both erotic drama and absolute clarity of composition, Mapplethorpe's gift at its most bold and uncompromising.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1965. First UK edition. Hardcover. A very good copy with a binding flaw to the bottom (at spine) of pages 109-114 in a very good plus dust jacket. Richard Chopping. The first novel written by this British illustrator best known for painting the dust jackets of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels starting with 'From Russia With Love'. The Fly was recommended to its publisher by Angus Wilson, where David Farrar found it "a perfectly disgusting concoction". Edited by Giles Gordon who said the book was "Sufficciently sordid to appeal to voyeurs, and if Chopping were to adorn it with one of his famous dust jackets it could be a 'succes de scandale; and so it proved." The dust jacket depicts a huge fly peering into an human eyeball (and I wager they do not see 'eye to eye'!) Chopping, during the 1940s established himself as an author and illustrator of natural history and children's books. Bound in bright blue cloth with silver spine lettering.

n.p.: Self-published, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy, hardbound in white boards, with black printing. Issued without dj. Chad Muthard. One of only 100 hardbound copies self-published by Muthard, and printed by Conveyor Arts. A book of black and white photographs that tell a story. Of further interest is that he self-released it at the New York Art Book Fair under his own name (at his own booth with a stack of his books). Of course it helps to have great content but also a well-made product like this book; white cloth, heavy paper, full page images, the book itself makes a statement.