Search Results: Titles starting with R from Ed Smith Books

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 4to. This copy inscribed on the title page, in the year of publication, by R. C. Gorman and signed and inscribed by Stephen Parks. Gorman is the world-famous Navajo artist who has created an enduring image of the Indian woman, and who has become one of the most popular and successful living American artists. 143 pages illustrated from color and black and white photographs.

International Focus Press: Richardson (TX), 2005. Second Printing (2008). Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Dan Korem on the front blank. 524 pages. Mass school shooters/bombers, suicide bombers, and postal/company killers all have something in common. They have the Random Actor behavioral profile identified in the early 1990s by Dan Korem, the critically acclaimed author of the classic text, The Art of Profiling - Reading People Right the First Time, 2nd ed. Korem details this profile and extraordinary cases where in an intervention he identified has thwarted scores of Random Actor attacks in schools, companies, and military theaters. For over fifteen years, scores of Texas school districts have stopped attacks and threats by applying his research and many education and law enforcement professionals believe it is the reason that Texas has not had a mass shooting/bombing since the trend started in 1997. In the early 1990s, Korem predicted in the early 1990s with nearly 100%… Read More

New York: The Blue Sky Press, 2002. First Book Fair Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy in illustrated slick boards. Leo & Diane Dillon. 4to. With bold paintings and a simple, rhyming text, Caldecott Medalists Leo & Diane Dillon bring young readers a rap a tap tap celebration of dance that will have readers clapping and tapping along. "There once was a man who danced in the street / He brought pleasure and joy to the people he'd greet / He didn't just dance, he made art with his feet / Rap a tap tap--think of that!" This simple book for young children has the added bonus of describing the life of a ground-breaking African-American tap dancer. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was one of the most popular entertainers of the 1920s-30s. People said he "talked with his feet," and in the Dillons' graceful paintings of old New York, he dances from page to page to the tune of a toe-tapping rhyme. Rap a tap tap--think of that! This copy lacking the dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket. Ackerman journeys in search of monarch butterflies and short-tailed albatrosses, monk seals and golden lion tamarin monkeys: the world's rarest creatures and their vanishing habitats. She delivers a rapturous celebration of other species that is also a warning to our own. Traveling from the Amazon rain forest to a forbidding island off the coast of Japan, enduring everything from broken ribs to a beating by an irate seal, Ackerman reveals her subjects in all their splendid particularity. She shows us how they feed, mate, and migrate. She eavesdrops on their class and courtship dances. She pays tribute to the men and women hwo have deoted their lives to saving them. 184 pages with index.

New York: Flatiron Books, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy. Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they… Read More

New York: Crown, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. A sharp nearly fine copy in a sharp dust jacket. Basis for the major big screen film directed by Steven Spielberg. "It's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place." So begins this wildly original spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut, part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera.

New York: New American Library, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. A very good plus to near fine copy in black cloth over boards with red spine stamping in a very good plus dust jacket. This collection of Southern's short pieces--two dozen hilarious, well-observed, and devastating sketches that expose the hypocrisy of American social mores--is widely recognized as an underground classic.

New York: Powerhouse Books, 1996. Signed limited edition with print laid in. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a similar matching slipcase. #137 of 300 numbered copies with a signed print laid in. Photojournalist Sylvia Plachy and Investigative Reporter James Ridgeway produced this look at people involved in the sex industry over three years in the 1990s while working at the Village Voice. Signed by both on the front endpaper. Includes porn, prostitution, rituals, toys and much more. An interesting period view to compare to the cyber-dominated scene of today. In slipcase as issued. Laid in is a silver gelatin print signed by Sylvia Plachy titled "Showgirl Contest, Las Vegas". Image measures 3 x 4 1/2 inches on a 7 x 9 inch sheet. Bound in slick illustrated boards with ribbon marker and matching slipcase. Issued without dust jacket.

New York: Viking Press, 2007. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. This book tells the tale of three Montana men who get swept up in the machinations of World War II and its fateful aftermath.

Philadelphia/New York: Lippincott, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. A nearly fine copy in red cloth with gilt spine lettering in a very good plus clean jacket with sunning at spine. Basis for the big screen film directed by James Goldstone that starred Richard Thomas and Catherine Burns. An adolescent boy and his mother are sent to live in New Mexico after his father goes off to fight World War II. The move is hard on both mother and son. The boy, one of the few whites in the area, must deal with making friends, the strange new land, and first love. Meanwhile, his mother becomes increasingly withdrawn. When they learn that his father has been killed, the son must fight with his mother's lover to become the real head of the household. Bradford, the son of Roark Bradford, also wrote the novel So Far From Heaven.

New York: Scribner's, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. A startling debut. Jason Matthews is a 33-year veteran of the C.I.A. who, according to the press release in front of me, "served in multiple overseas locations and engaged in clandestine collection of national-security intelligence." A classic spy thriller. Rare wrap-around band present with a blurb by Nelson DeMille. 433 pages.

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1995. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a "Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: sticker to the front panel of the dust jacket. Here is how Seamus Heaney defines the title of his new work of criticism, which gathers the lectures he gave during his tenure as Professor of Poetry at Oxford: "To redress poetry is to know it and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself ... not only as a matter of proffered argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul. His ten lectures speak to the pleasure and surprise of poetry, its rightness and thereness, the way it is at one moment unforeseeable and at the next indispensable, the way it arrives as something unhindered and self-directing, sweeping ahead into its full potential.

New York: Knopf, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in blue cloth and boards in a fine dust jacket. Author's first novel. Tells the story of Marshall Pearl, born in a sea battle on an illegal immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947. Sent to America by the ship's captain, he is adopted by the wealthy and childless Livingstons and grows up on their Hudson Valley estate, riding ice floes on the river, jumping freights, climbing cliffs. Yet he is shaped by the imperatives of his origins and destiny, by his peculiar sensitivity to light, and by his astonishing seizures and visions.

New York: Knopf, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Author's first novel, that is immense, both serious and comic, filled with character, incident, and the sweep of history. The story of Marshall Pearl, born in a sea battle on an illegal immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947. Sent to America by the ship's captain, he is adopted by the wealthy and childless Livingstons and grows up on their Hudson Valley estate riding ice floes on the river, jumping freights, climbing cliffs. Yet he is shaped by the imperatives of his origins and destiny, by his peculiar sensitivity to light, and by his astonishing seizures and visions. Always restless and attracted by forces and affinities just beyond his grasp, he begins to move outward; as a child, to an idyllic summer in the Rockies; as an adolescent, to the tropical forests of Jamaica and the Rastafarian rebellion; as a young man, to the taxing traditions of Harvard, to the Great Plains, to Charleston, to the… Read More

Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. Eliot Porter & Robert Glenn Ketchum. 4to. The work of two great American landscape photographers presented together for the first time-revealing an artistic progression from one generation to the next. 88 color and duotone reproductions of works from a major exhibition organized by the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; Both photographers are celebrated for creating art for environmental activism; Includes an introductory essay by John Rohrbach, senior curator of photographs at the Carter, and closing remarks by Robert Glenn Ketchum; Also includes chronologies of both artists along with lists of their publications and major exhibitions. Eliot Porter (1901-1999) was the first established artist-photographer to commit to exploring the beauty and diversity of the natural world with color film and Ketchum is recognized as one of the leading contemporary photographers of the American landscape.

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. The author's amazing story of his journey from a middle-aged couch potato to a World Marathon champion. He also provides a deeply personal and candid view of what it is like to compete in one of the most demanding amateur sporting events on the planet, including the sacrifices made just to get to the start of the race and what it takes to win. He describes in detail each individual contest, originating in Antarctica and ending in Australia, and the physical, emotional and psychological sides of the grueling stage race. Illustrated from photographs. 186 pages. A special laminated illustrated bookmark included.

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy bound in slick illustrated boards, issued without dust jacket. During the last year of her life, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings took on the arduous task of collecting materials toward a biography she intended to write on her deceased friend, Ellen Glasgow. The two authors met through correspondences they exchanged about their novels. Glasgow was drawn to Rawlings's sympathy for animals and enthusiasm for nature. Rawlings discovered in Glasgow a writer who was able to articulate the same experiences she underwent when beginning and finishing writing projects. In 'The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow', Ashley Lear examines the documents collected by Rawlings on Glasgow, along with her personal notes, to better understand the experiences that brought these two women writers together and the importance of literary friendships between women writers. 251 pages with index.

N.P.: Washington University Libraries, 1985. A Signed Limited Edition. Single sheet folded once. A fine copy. #49/50 numbered copies signed by Nemerov on the occasion of the Howard Nemerov program for the Bookmark Society. Measures 5 1/2 X 7 1/2 inches (opens like a greeting card).

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: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017. First edition. hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed and signed by Luce on the half-title page. In his book 'Time to Start Thinking', Luce charted the course of America's relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil. Here, he makes a larger statement about the weakening of Western hegemony and the crisis of liberal democracy.