Search Results: Authors starting with S from Ed Smith Books

New York: Viking Press, 2016. First edition. hardcover. A near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket (store signed sticker to front cover). Signed. As New York City's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world's greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and cyclists. Her approach was dramatic and effective: Simply painting a part of the street to make it into a plaza or bus lane not only made the street safer, but it also lessened congestion and increased foot traffic, which improved the bottom line of businesses. Real-life experience confirmed that if you know how to read the street, you can make it function better by not totally reconstructing it but by reallocating the space that's already there. Breaking the street into its component parts, Streetfight demonstrates, with step-by-step visuals, how to rewrite the underlying "source code" of a street, with pointers on how to add… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1957. First edition. Paperback. The proof is very good, the clamshell case is fine. A UK uncorrected proof of the author's first book. Perfect bound in the original beige wrappers printed in green. Basis for the big screen film (1958) directed by Dick Powell that starred Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner and Richard Egan. In 1952, during the Korean War, two American pilots become bitter enemies over the same woman but must shelf their personal feud when confronted by deadly Chinese MIG fighter jets in battle. Housed in a clamshell case bound in full tan morocco with gold lines on the spine, with title, author and date with decorative bird motif tooled in three panels.

New York: Random House, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is still in shrinkwrap with a sticker to the front cover 'Signed copy STRAND 8 Miles of Books.' This book showcases Salter's uniquely beautiful style with some of the most evocative pages about flying ever written, together with portraits of the actors, directors and authors who later influenced him. It is an unforgettable book about passion, ambition and what it means to live and to write.

New York: Knopf, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Salter on the title page. "This novel explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. It is a dazzling, sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition, a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive". 288 pages.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. This book is about the author's quest for a meaningful and moral life. The center he seeks and describes is geographical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual, and it is rooted in place. The geography is midwestern, the impulses are universal. 196 pages with notes.

New York: Harcourt, 2002. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a similar jacket, With "Nobel Prize" sticker to front cover. The story concerns an elderly potter named Cipriano Algor, his daughter Marta, and his son-in-law Marçal. One day, the Center, literally the center of commerce in the story, cancels its order for Cipriano's pottery, leaving the elderly potter's future in doubt. He and Marta decide to try their hand at making clay figurines and astonishingly the Center places an order for hundreds. But just as quickly, the order is cancelled and Cipriano, his daughter, and his son-in-law have no choice but to move to the Center where Marçal works as a security guard. Before long, the mysterious sound of digging can be heard beneath the Center, and what the family discovers will change their lives forever. The author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.

New York: Random House, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The author's first novel. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night. February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. Booker Prize winner.

Canterbury: H J. Goulden Limited, 1939. First edition thus. softcover. A very good copy browned around all edges, but a solid copy. 12mo. In this play, Dorothy L. Sayers reworked the legend of Faustus as a serious 'comedy,' presenting Faustus as one who chooses wicked means as an end to an admirable goal: the relief of suffering (while becoming entirely focused on his own supposed satisfactions). In the last scene, in the Court of Heaven, Azrael, angel of the souls of the dead, claims Faustus' soul, opposing Mephistopheles' claim. With the knowledge of good and evil returned to him, Faustus finally accepts that his evil must be cleansed, with Mephistopheles serving as the agent of that purgation. Faustus accepts his need for cleansing, trusting that the divine Judge/Court President, will indeed in mercy meet him at the very gates of hell, finally redeemed. Perfect bound in the original printed wrappers. 63 pages.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1979. First edition. Paperback. A near fine copy. Proof copy. A collection of fifteen stories. Uncommon title. Information about the book stapled to first page states the publication date as March 27, 1979. In green printed wrappers with a publisher label to the front cover with author, title, publication date, price and ISBN number.

Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Bound in imitation black leather with gilt title and author on front cover. A very good plus copy. Josef Scaylea. 4to. 56 photographs. Laid into this copy is a print, measuring 10 x 11 inches of #31, "In the bronze sunset of a late Summer evening a sailboat glides homeward to its moorage on Shilshole Bay. 1969." Josef Scaylea's photographs were always true to his vision. "I strive for beauty in its myriad forms and for faithful reproduction which will carry a special message to each person. I believe photography cannot be effective unless it is completely honest and without gimmicks." True to his immigrant heritage from the village of La Costa in the mountains of Northern Italy, simplicity, focus, and dedication to hard work were hallmarks of his life and his photography. He grew up working from dawn until dusk in the family orchard in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. His gutsy immigrant traits led him to leave the farm to study… Read More

New York: Crown, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. A very good plus copy. Pierr Morgan. Small 4to. This copy is inscribed and signed by both author and illustrator on the front endpaper. "As she walks to the park with her school class, a young girl finds a piece of string which her imagination turns into a dragon's tail, an acrobat, fireworks, a storm cloud and more". Slick illustrated boards.

New York: Da Capo Press, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Patty Schemel's story begins with a childhood surrounded by the AA meetings her parents hosted in the family living room. Their divorce triggered her first forays into drinking at age twelve and dovetailed with her passion for punk rock and playing the drums. Patty's struggles with her sexuality further drove her notoriously hard playing, and by the late '80s she had focused that anger, confusion, and drive into regular gigs with well-regarded bands in Tacoma, Seattle, and Olympia, Washington. She met a pre-Nirvana Kurt Cobain at a Melvins show, and less than five years later, was living with him and his wife, Hole front-woman Courtney Love, at the height of his fame and on the cusp of hers. As the platinum-selling band's new drummer, Schemel contributed memorable, driving beats to hits like "Beautiful Son," "Violet," "Doll Parts," and "Miss World." But the band was plagued by tragedy and heroin addiction,… Read More

New York: Henry Holt, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The flesh and blood story of the outlaw lovers who robbed banks and shot their way across depression-era America. Based on extensive archival research declassified FBI documents, and interviews. Illustrated from photographs. 382pp with index.

New York: Viking Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Signed by Daniel Schorr, a legend in journalism, on a bookplate (NPR) pasted to the front endpaper. This book collects in one place, Schorr's observations on politics and American life over the years from 1990 to present. 382 pages with index.

Kansas City: Hallmark Books, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy bound in slick illustrated boards with wear to the top of the spine crown. The jacket is near fine with a little wear to spine crown. A very bright clean copy. Charles Schulz. Square 12mo. The Peanuts gang gathers around the tree (and the doghouse) to celebrate the holiday season with family and friends.

A fine copy. Oblong 8vo. Signed by Josef Schulz. A photo essay about disused military checkpoints and border stations across Europe, catalogued in this series by Polish-born photographer Josef Schulz (+ slideshow). Named Übergang after the German word for crossing, the series of images depicts transnational borders that have become redundant. Each shot has also been digitally manipulated so that the surroundings of each structure appear to have been shrouded in fog. Bound in simple photo illustrated boards, not issued with dust jacket.

New York: St. Martin's, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Author's first book. Chronicles the 100 year odyssey of a Chinese-American family, in the tradition of Alex Haley's Roots, a multigenerational saga of power, ambition, romance, and race that tells the story of the immigrant experience in America. 394pp, illustrated from photographs.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. Signed by Sellers on the title page. A fan's memoir overflowing with humor, self-deprecation encyclopedic knowledge of musical minutiae, and "you should have been there" personal anecdotes. Vowing never to get caught up in music, he found himself powerfess to resist the lure of indie rock, the genre that begat the likes of Sonic Youth, Pavement, Built to Spill, and Modest Mouse. When his favorite band, Guided by Voices, called it quits in 2004, Sellers examined his own listening habits, caught a few mind-blowing shows, got drunk with his heroes, and wrote this book. 214 pages with acknowledgements.

New York: Little, Brown & Co, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket ("Autographed" sticker to front of dust jacket panel). Signed by the author on the title page . An electric novel for our times. Taking us from Seattle to New Orleans and back again, it's a wildly funny and unflinching exploration of motherhood, middle age, faith, and the risks of facing up to our former selves so we can truly begin living. Complete with "The Flood Girls" insert (in color).

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1973. First editions. Hardcover. A fine set in near fine dust jackets with the publisher's illustrated slipcase, as issued. Lore Segal. Consisting of two volumes, both stated first editions, cloth bound with dust jacket, housed in the original publisher's slipcase. Signed in volume 1 by the translator Lore Segal and dated 'June 4, 2003'.