Search Results: Titles starting with T from Ed Smith Books

New York: Steffan Mihal, 1976. First edition. Paperback. A very good copy with a new nicks. 24mo. Perfect bound wrappers with a printed stiff semi-clear covers. 64 pages with 54 silver gelatin black and white prints illustrating four stories with handwritten captions below. Erotic and sexual in nature.

New York: Sports Publishing, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 215 pages with index. This reissue revised through the 2018 season chronicles Seattle's rise from a hopeless and hapless franchise in the 1970s and '80s to a proud team in the 1990s that went on to capture three division championships and earn four playoff appearances. Illustrated from photographs.

London: Bloomsbury, 2006. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. The author's debut novel for children. "Nobody knows what to do when the Time Tornadoes start. Some days are long, some are short. Time stops then jerks forward, People are getting caught in Time Traps; locked in the past, then pushed into the future. Far from the city, in the strange old house Tanglewreck, Silver lives with her bony, bad-tempered aunt, Mrs Rokabye, and hears strange stories about the Timekeeper; an alchemist's watch that could steady Time again, if anyone could find it." 415 pages.

New York: Macmillan, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. A very good copy (boards slightly splayed) in a very good dust jacket. Generally regarded as one of the greatest songwriters ever, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 60-year career. He rose to prominence in the 1960s when his songs, 'Blowin' in the Wind' (1963) and 'The Times They are a-Changin' (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements. His lyrics during this period incorporated political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture. This is his first book, an experimental prose poetry collection written in 1965 and 1966. It was published in 1971. It employs stream of consciousness writing, somewhat in the style of Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. Its style is also reminiscent of Arthur Rimbaud's in A Season in Hell. It captures Bob Dylan's preoccupations at a crucial juncture in his artistic… Read More

London: Andersen Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy. Ralph Steadman. Small 4to. This copy is inscribed by Ralph Steadman on the front endpaper "For Beef from / Ralph Steadman 8 March '96." Bound in slick illustrated boards and issued sans dust jacket. A children's book with a teddybear. Beef Torrey was a well know friend of many writers, especially in the West. Beef wrote several books of interviews with various writers including Hunter S Thompson, Tom Robbins, and was a close friend of Richard Brautigan and Jim Harrison (co-author of the new Jim Harrison bibliography with Gregg Orr).

Lebanon: ForeEdge, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Major Margaret H. Witt, a decorated 20-year veteran of the United States Air Force won a landmark legal battle against the Pentagon's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and now is retired with full benefits at age 60 with a completely restored service record. Back in 1993 Margie Witt was a young Air Force nurse chosen as the face of the Air Force's "Cross into the Blue" recruitment campaign. This was also the year that President Clinton's plan for gays to serve openly in the military was quashed by an obdurate Congress, resulting in the blandly cynical political compromise known as Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Contrary to its intent, DADT had the perverse effect of making it harder for gay servicemen and women to fight expulsion. Over the next seventeen years more than 13,000 gay soldiers, sailors, marines, coast guard, and airmen and women were removed from military service.… Read More

New York: The Dial Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone chamber known as "the telling room." Containing nothing but a wooden table and two benches, this is where villagers have gathered for centuries to share their stories and secrets—usually accompanied by copious amounts of wine.   It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a larger-than-life Spanish cheesemaker named Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras as he spun an odd and compelling tale about a piece of cheese. An unusual piece of cheese. Made from an old family recipe, Ambrosio's cheese was reputed to be among the finest in the world, and was said to hold mystical qualities. Eating it, some claimed, conjured long-lost memories. But then, Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Dave Roberts. 12mo. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. A strange beast: a book of bones and stones, of vengeful hermits and wayward hearses, of junior Rip Van Winkles and resurrectionists. From the faintly weird to the fiercely eccentric, and from the everyday to the surreal, the stories read like cautionary tales and modern-day fables and the characters make for peculiar but exquisite company. By turns funny, gothic, moving and sad, this collection bears testimony once again to one of the most imaginative and original writers at work today. 173pp.

London: Doubloeday, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy with a slight nudge to a corner. Signed by Rob Wilkins on the title page. Wilkins was one of the people who knew Pratchett the best. This official biography of the storytelling genius that was Terry Pratchett draws on both Pratchett's own unpublished notes and interviews from close friends and family to create a resounding tribute to a unique talent. This special edition features a quarter-bound hardback with a luxurious cloth spine and a debosse foil silhouette of Terry Pratchett, and an unseen transcript of a Terry Pratchett talk from 1991, as well as a section of never-before-seen photos from the estate archive and Pratchett's personal collection. Finally bespoke endpaper design and ribbon marker.

London: Doubleday, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy. A Signed Waterstone's exclusive (signed by Rob Wilkins). Bespoke design to endpapers, and with bonus material. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for best non-fiction. Quarter-bound in red cloth spine and a debossed foil silhouette of Terry Pratchett with sticker to front cover "Signed Waterstone's Exclusive". A section of never-before-seen color photographs from the estate archive and Pratchett's personal collection. Includes an unseen transcript of a Terry Pratchett talk from 1991 exclusive to Waterstones. Ribbon marker. Issued without dust jacket. Quote printed on back cover "Of all the dead authors in the world / Terry Pratchett is the most alive." John Lloyd.

London: Chatto and Windus, 2019. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale. It is narrated by Aunt Lydia, a character from the previous novel; Agnes, a young woman living in Gilead; and Daisy, a young woman living in Canada. With bound in ribbon marker and badge. Booker Prize winner.

Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1999. First edition. hardcover. A near fine copy bound in brown illustrated boards with a near fine dust jacket. Oblong 4to. This copy is inscribed to a Library by Kathleen Jo Ryan on the title page. In Texas Cattle Barons: Their Families, Land and Legacy, thirteen families discuss the reality of owning and working some of the largest land holdings in the state of Texas. Most have owned some or all of their land for generations, others bought into their properties over time, all have risen to the challenge of taking the cattle industry into the next millennium. Learn firsthand from ranchers like Al and Mike Micailef, Jim and James McAllen, and Jon and Jackie Means about the hard work, discipline, and faith required to make a cattle ranch work in this age of big business. Join the owners of the Broseco, Moorhouse, and Williams ranches as they discuss breeding programs, grazing patterns, and the pursuit of the ultimate "beef animal." Listen as the Gibsons and the Ryans… Read More

New York: Knopf, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. The story revolves around a past-middle-age former Hollywood screenwriter, Jack Griffin, who is presently teaching creative writing at a New England college. He loses both parents within a year of each other, and he travels considerable distance to attend two weddings during the same time. As he travels, and as he interacts both with his family and his in-laws, he ponders marital and family relationships. He is also mulling whether to remain in New England or return to the uncertainty of Hollywood. 261 pages.

Riverdale: Baen Publishing, 2003. First edition. hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page (ownership blindstamp at the bottom of the title page with the same name). At the rear of the book is a CD bound in along with a sheet "Baen CD Library Volume 4" that also contains a "Reading List for the 40th Century". In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise-and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive. But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have returned to the natural life of soil and small farm. In the village of Raven's Mill, Edmund Talbot, master smith and unassuming historian, finds that all the problems of the world are falling in his lap. Refugees are flooding in, bandits are roaming the woods, and his former lover and his… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a 1/2 inch pie shaped piece missing from the spine crown, approx 1/2 inch, with general rubbing to extremities. Conjuring up the ephemeral world of cattle ranchers in the 1880s, this intimate saga delights in a Montana community's boisterous, wanderlusting eccentrics as they chase after love and their unbridled ambitions. At its center is Lat Evans, good-hearted and yet seduced by the possibilities for prosperity in his new life; gradually he discerns how the perils of the natural world, and most especially human nature, can conspire to frustrate a young man's best intentions. The dust jacket design is by William Barss. 346 pages.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. A sharp nearly fine copy in a sharp near fine dust jacket. Inscribed in the year of publication by the author. "Compliments of the Author" card laid in.

Vienna: Elsinore Press, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in black illustrated boards, issued sans dust jacket. Gina Lee Photographer. 4to. First edition of photographs by Gina Lee, an American poet, journalist, and dancer. This is a road book where the photographer is embedded as a dancer with Tav Falco & Panther Burns, an itinerant rock & roll band adrift on three continents. The camera of Gina Lee reveals undercurrents of timeless mystery hidden within each relentless photograph. In concert the anthem "Gentleman In Black" takes on a life of its own and shoots off on strangely unexpected tangents, as if the song has its own consciousness and takes the musicians along with it for the ride. And it is a wildly unpredictable ride that careens and twists and turns itself inside out, then lingers suspended on a cosmic rift, and then re-forms and re-launches onward and outward, as if the song could go on forever.There is Tav Falco, himself: the artist, enigmatic and alchemical. Blazing… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 2017. First edition. Paperback. A fine copy in the original wrappers with French flaps. This original paperback with French flaps has been signed by David Keenan and dated in the year of publication. The debut novel by David Keenan is a love letter to the small towns of Lanarkshire in the west of Scotland in the late 1970s and early '80s as they were temporarily transformed by post-punk, the endless possibilities that came out of the freefall and detritus of punk rock. Its authors are Ross Raymond and Johnny McLaughlin, two dedicated fanboys whose interactions with the principle players of the scene, like Chinese Moon, Steel Teeth and Glass Sarcophagus, recreated a story of myth, magic and mundanity. At its core is the story of Memorial Device (perhaps the greatest band you have never heard of), a post-punk group that could have gone all the way were it not for excess and the uncompromising bloody-minded belief that served to confirm them as underground legends. David Keenan… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy with small traces of foxing to all edges in a near fine dust jacket. The author's first novel. "On May 1, 1914, the renowned photographer August Sander (one of the first to train his camera on the face of ordinary humanity) took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance, opening a portal between that moment and the future. This photograph has provided the impetus for Richard Powers's haunting and accomplished novel and plays central but varying roles in the three interrelated stories of which it is composed. The three farmers, stepbrothers Hubert, Peter, and Adolphe, are captured on film in their, and the century's, last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I. As the novel chronicles their way through the century's calamities, two contemporary stories unfold"

Maitland: Mill City Press, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. A nearly new copy in a fine jacket. Signed by the author on the front blank. Mary Louise Ott's wedding was everything she'd always dreamt it would be, except for a few details. As she prepared to marry her true love, she wasn't hearing wedding bells; instead, family members sang their version of the song "Take Me Out To The Ballgame": "And it's one, two, three strikes you're out, in the oold marriage game." You see, this was Ott's third time to the altar; it was also the third for her husband, Gary Howarth. The musical talent was their three kids -- a daughter, 7, and son, 14, from her side; and a son, 12, from his. It was 1996 in Northeast Portland, one month after the couple's previous divorces were finalized. Ott and Howarth would immediately deal with hostile ex-spouses; in addition, both parents had to learn how to relate to their stepchildren, a rough prospect at times. Ott learned to pick her battles. "If it really mattered to me, I… Read More