Search Results: Titles starting with B from Ed Smith Books

New York: Ecco, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in illustrated boards, as issued. Les LePere. Designed by McSweeney's. First edition. A novella. It is presented as a children's book, about Gracie Perke, a young girl exploring the world of beer. She learns why every adult enjoys it and why she's not allowed to drink it. Illustrated Hardbound in illustrated boards, issued sans dust jacket. 125 pages.

Reading: Addison - Wesley, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. A near fine copy bound in green and cream cloth with copper stamping to spine in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by the author on the half-title page, to Helen Swick Perry (1911-2001). Perry, editor, researcher, and author, was hired by Harry Stack Sullivan in 1946 to assist with the enthusiastic response to the second series of William Alanson White Memorial Lectures (presented by Brock Chisholm). She became managing editor later that year, a post she held until 1955, when work on the posthumous series of Sullivan books precluded an ongoing commitment to Psychiatry. Helen built the journal into a self-sustaining enterprise, evident in a tripling of subscriptions and manuscript submissions. She is also widely respected for her definitive biography of Sullivan, Psychiatrist of America (1982), and for her matchless work with the posthumous Sullivan book series. She was a gifted author who used Sullivan's interpersonal approach… Read More

Novato/Landcaster: Underwood-Miller, 1990. First trade edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Patrick Woodroffe. 4to. He was the largest land mammal of perhistoric times--a rhino. Now computers and genetic engineering have brought one of these magnificent creatures back to life and into the life of a boy named Thor. This moving and suspenseful tale will enchant readers, and offer an irresistible reminder of the bond between the creatures of the wild and the child that lives within us all. 197 pages.

Jacksonville: Fortis Publishing, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Ever since the American Revolution, military service has been a proud tradition for the Zumwalt family. Tradition initially led the author to join his father and brother in the Navy, before later transferring to the US Marine Corps. During his 26 years in uniform, the author saw service in three conflicts-Vietnam, Panama and the first Persian Gulf war. It was Vietnam, however, that ultimately would launch him on an unexpected journey-long after the guns of that war had fallen silent-triggered by the loss of a brother who had fought there. This journey was an emotional one-initially of anger towards the Vietnamese and the conflict that claimed his older brother. But it unexpectedly took a change in direction. In Vietnam almost two decades after Saigon's fall, the author, in a private talk with a former enemy general officer, came to understand an aspect of the war he never before had. In that talk,… Read More

New York: Scribner's, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy of the book in a very good plus dust jacket with a crease to the front flap and a touch of soiling to the rear panel. A novel that tells the story of two immigrants to New France, René Sel and Charles Duquet, and of their descendants. It spans over 300 years and witnesses the deforestation of the New World from the arrival of Europeans into the contemporary era of global warming. 700+ pages.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. a nearly fine jacket. First edition of the author's first book, signed by Smiley on the title page.

London: Flamingo, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket as issued. First edition thus. A PBO (paperback original) of the author's first book, the first UK edition. Signed by Smiley on the title page. Review slip tipped in. This original edition is perfect bound in the original decorated wrappers, as issued. No hardback issue in the UK. Smiley won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel A Thousand Acres.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy, light foxing to top edge in a fine dust jacket. First edition of the author's first book, signed by Smiley on the title page.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed on the title page by Ivan Doig. From a great American storyteller, a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son, rocked by a time of change, set in 1960 in a small Montana town. 387 pages.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy lacking the slipcase. #12 of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Three novellas; the title story, Westward Ho, and I Forgot to Go to Spain. Three stories of culture and wildness, of men and beasts and where they overlap. A wealthy man retired to the Michigan woods narrates the tale of a younger man decivilized by brain damage. A Michigan Indian wanders Los Angeles, hobnobbing with starlets and screenwriters while he tracks an ersatz Native-American activist who stole his bearskin. An aging "alpha canine," the author of three dozen throwaway biographies, eats dinner with the ex-wife of his overheated youth, and must confront the man he used to be. Green cloth stamped in gold with ribbon marker. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur, and close friend of the author.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page bound in after the stiff front endpaper. Three novellas; the title story, Westward Ho, and I Forgot to Go to Spain. Three stories of culture and wildness, of men and beasts and where they overlap. A wealthy man retired to the Michigan woods narrates the tale of a younger man decivilized by brain damage. A Michigan Indian wanders Los Angeles, hobnobbing with starlets and screenwriters while he tracks an ersatz Native-American activist who stole his bearskin. An aging "alpha canine," the author of three dozen throwaway biographies, eats dinner with the ex-wife of his overheated youth, and must confront the man he used to be. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur, and close friend of the author.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. These are stories of humans and beasts, of culture and wildness, of men driven crazy by longing and of men who dream they are becoming bears. A man near the end of his life becomes part of an odd band of caretakers for a younnger man whose brain has been damaged in a motorcycle accident, the civilization shaken out of him. Watching over this unmanned man, the hero becomes mindful of his own mortality and excess of civility. In "Westward Ho," Brown Dog, a Michigan Indian, wanders the wilds of Los Angeles, tracking the ersatz Native activist with whom he fled the police in Michigan and who's now disappeared with his bearskin. Ogling girls, sleeping in the botanic garden, and working as a driver to a drunk screenwriter, he eventually comes face-to-face with his ex-friend and with the difference between the world he's been visiting and the world to which he's going home.… Read More

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Three novellas; Westward Ho, I Forgot to Go to Spain, and The Beast God Forgot to Invent. These are stories of humans and beasts, of culture and wildness, of men driven crazy by longing and of men who dream they are becoming bears.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ‘When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our own pain and that of others.' That's ultimately what Beautiful Boy is about: truth and healing." — Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia   What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff's journey through his son Nic's addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first warning signs: the denial, the three a.m. phone calls—is it Nic? the police? the hospital? His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself. But as a journalist, he… Read More

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2021. First American edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Signed by the author on a tipped in page. Sally Rooney's third, exceptionally deft novel in five years takes its title from a line from a poem by Friedrich Schiller, which Schubert set to music in 1819. "Beautiful world, where are you?" is a question her two main female characters, best friends from college now on the cusp of 30, grapple with repeatedly in their struggles to figure out how they should live and find meaning in a troubled world that has become increasingly unviable on multiple levels — ecologically, economically, ethically and emotionally.

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2021. First American edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Sally Rooney's third, exceptionally deft novel in five years takes its title from a line from a poem by Friedrich Schiller, which Schubert set to music in 1819. "Beautiful world, where are you?" is a question her two main female characters, best friends from college now on the cusp of 30, grapple with repeatedly in their struggles to figure out how they should live and find meaning in a troubled world that has become increasingly unviable on multiple levels, ecologically, economically, ethically and emotionally.

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2021. First American edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket (a Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition sticker to front cover). Sally Rooney's third, exceptionally deft novel in five years takes its title from a line from a poem by Friedrich Schiller, which Schubert set to music in 1819. "Beautiful world, where are you?" is a question her two main female characters, best friends from college now on the cusp of 30, grapple with repeatedly in their struggles to figure out how they should live and find meaning in a troubled world that has become increasingly unviable on multiple levels, ecologically, economically, ethically and emotionally.

New Yok/Boston: Little Brown & Co/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. First edition & Printing 4. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Dawud Anyabwile. This copy signed by Kwame Alexander on a laid in loose bookplate (King County). Two heavy-hitters in children's literature deliver a critically acclaimed, bestselling biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali.  "This utterly delightful story about Ali's childhood is a smash hit."—School Library Journal (starred review) Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join forces to vividly depict his life up to age seventeen in both prose and verse, including his childhood friends, struggles in school, the racism he faced, and his discovery of boxing. Readers will learn about Cassius' family and neighbors in Louisville, Kentucky, and how, after a thief stole his bike, Cassius began training as an amateur boxer at age twelve. Before long, he won his first Golden… Read More

New York: Knopf, 2016. First edition. hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is briefly inscribed by the author on the title page. A family saga that will stand along side Ken Kesey's 'Sometimes a Great Notion.' 290 pages.

New York: Aperture, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. A very good to near fine copy in a similar dust jacket. 4to. For the first time ever, in this monograph, Brandt's achievement is traced against the backdrop of Europe and England in transition through the upheavals of the mid-twentieth century. Detailed introductions to every stage of Brandt's career are provided by Mark Haworth-Booth. Essay by David Mellor. Brandt, the master of twentieth-century British photography. 99 pages.