Search Results: Titles starting with I from Ed Smith Books

London: Peter Owen, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy (stamped numbers to top of first page) in a fine crisp dust jacket. Review copy with slip and press release laid in. An English chef, encouraged by his ambitious Swiss wife to reinterpret la grande cuisine francaise, follows in the steps of the great French masters. 119 pages.

New York: Hyperion, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Chicago deejay Daphne "Dee Dee" Dupree is sassy and successful—but a series of catastrophic relationships has left her gun-shy. Now with her own life and the lives of those closest to her seemingly coming apart at the seams, she's going to have to leave the safe cocoon of her broadcasting booth to face her world, her secrets, and a new promise of mature love fearlessly and head-on. 290 pages.

New York: Fiction Collective, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in a very good dust jacket, price-clipped (but with a $15.95 price sticker present), dust jacket with a couple of tiny tears and some light edgewear. Hardcover issue of the author's first book. 8vo. This copy bears Leyner's 1992 presentation inscription to the owner of Book Soup in Hollywood: "To Glenn, great fun reading in your wonderful store. Best, Mark Leyner."

Tucson: McMillan Publications, 2000. Limited signed edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket in a near fine slipcase. Michael Kellner. One of 225 copies bound in quarter-morocco and hand made paper covered boards with dust jacket. Each copy is signed and numbered by the author. This is copy no. 107. Basis for the big screen film directed by Harold Ramis with a screenplay by Richard Russo and Robert Benton that stars John Cusak, Billy Bob Thornton, and Connie Nielsen. Housed in the original black slipcase. 158 pages.

Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2004. First editiom. hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Laid into this copy is a 4 x 5 1/2 inch color photograph of Ichiro and Barack Obama standing in front of Ichiro's open locker at the Mariner's ballpark. "He makes it look so easy, all the hits, being named MVP in his first year in the major leagues, his acrobatic defense, his base-stealing that ruined the day of any opposing catcher. Ichiro was the first position player ever brought in from Japan. When Ichiro arrived at the Mariners spring training facility in the spring of 2001, as the superstar of Japanese baseball. He had nine league records in his pocket, including 216 consecutive at bats without striking out, and then he took Major League Baseball by storm. Just 3 years with the Mariners at the time this book was published, Ichiro already had a firm handle on; his decision to leave Japan and come to the major leagues, the work he puts in daily to achieve baseball excellence; the differences between… Read More

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Thick small 4to. This copy is briefly inscribed and signed by Alton Brown on the title page. Dig into the science, history, and trivia of baking in this follow-up to the James Beard Award-winning I'm Just Here for the Food. Includes recipes! Alton Brown explores the science behind breads, cakes, cookies, pies, and custards, explaining it in his own inimitable style. Recipes cover all the basics, from pie crust to funnel cake to cheese souffle. The book also contains appendices and equipment lists. 336 pages with index.

London / New York: Verso, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family to each other in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby's working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling fashionable Jamaican delicacies. In Jamaica, we follow the lives of both the 'white Carbys' and the 'black Carbys', as Mary Ivey, a free woman of colour, whose children are fathered by Lilly Carby, a British soldier who… Read More

New York: Viking Press, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. For the past five years Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in town where he grew up so Hayley can go to a proper school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life, put aside her own painful memories, even have a relationship with Finn, the hot guy who obviously likes her but is hiding secrets of his own. Will being back home help Andy's PTSD, or will his terrible memories drag him to the edge of hell, and drugs push him over?

Austin: Encino Press, 1968. 4th printing with "C" on the copyright page. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "For ____________/ with my best / wishes / Larry McMurtry." An early readable, normal full signature. This book distills the classic statement of what it means to come from Texas. Some say this book is the author's best. Dust jacket has the flap price of $7.50. 177 pages. Design by William D. Wittliff.

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Chris Jordan. Oblong 4to. Signed by Chris Jordan on the title page. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated coastal areas of the Gulf Coast states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, including the city of New Orleans. It was among the greatest of natural disasters to ever strike the United States. "This series, photographed in New Orleans in November and December of 2005, portrays the cost of Hurricane Katrina on a personal scale. Although the subjects are quite different from those in my earlier Intolerable Beauty series, this project is motivated by the same concerns about our runaway consumerism. There is evidence to suggest that Katrina was not an entirely natural event like an earthquake or tsunami. The 2005 hurricane season's extraordinary severity can be linked to global warming, which America contributes to in disproportionate measure through our extravagant… Read More

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1980. Galley. Paperback. A very good plus copy of this rarity with drawings by the author. Tom Wolfe. 4to. A book of essays written and drawn by Tom Wolfe. Measures 8 1/2 x 11 inches bound in yellow illustrated wrappers (pad bound). Includes the drawings by the author. A copy of a letter from the publisher laid in, dated 7/80, reads: Enclosed is a galley of Tom Wolfe's IN OUR TIME. Of course, the quality of the galley in no way reflects the quality of the paper and printing of our finished book. The publication date for IN OUR TIME is October. It will retail at $12.95. Enjoy." 119 pages.

Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed and inscribed by both authors on the front endpaper and dated November 15, 2014. Laid into this copy is a brochure; SOCIAL JUSTICE, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, AND RECONCILIATION: An Introductory Workshop to Kingian Nonviolence with Dr. Lafayette that was held in Seattle in 2014. Bernard LaFayette Jr. (b. 1940) was a cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leader in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, a Freedom Rider, an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the national coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign. At the young age of twenty-two, he assumed the directorship of the Alabama Voter Registration Project in Selma—a city that had previously been removed from the organization's list due to the dangers of operating there. In this electrifying memoir, written with Kathryn Lee… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The author's unflinching account of his tour in Vietnam, his tangled journey there and back. Using his old wiles and talents, he passes through boot camp, trains as a paratrooper, volunteers for the Special Forces, studies Vietnamese, and, without really believing it himself, becomes an officer in the U.S. Army. Then, inexorably, he finds himself drawn into the war, sent to the Mekong Delta as adviser to a Vietnamese battalion. 221pp.

San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in red cloth and photo illustrated boards, issued without dust jacket. Miguel Gandert. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Arturo Madrid's homeland is in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico, where each town seems a world apart from the next, and where family histories that extend back four centuries bind the people to the land and to one another.This New Mexico is a land of struggle and dispute, a place in which Madrid's ancestors predate those who landed at Plymouth Rock. In the Country of Empty Crosses is Madrid's complex yet affirming memoir about lands before the advent of passable roads--places such as Tierra Amarilla, San Augustín [insert "u" and note accent on I], and Los Fuertes that were once among the most remote in the nation. Madrid grew up in a family that was doubly removed from the community: as Hispanic Protestants, they were a minority among the region's… Read More

New York: Ecco Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine jacket with the $10.95 price. Twelve stories that include; a boy who cannot tell the truth, a wounded hunter bleeds and freezes in the back of a truck, a mousy history professor, brutally manipulated and deceived, finds her courage and goes mad in the process, and much more.

New York: Knopf, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. A very good plus copy in a very good plus dust jacket. The Pulitzer-Prize winning novel for 1996. In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction, and in so doing gives us an indelible portrait of America. Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an "Existence Period," selling real estate in Haddam, New Jersey, and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life. Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of astonishing empathy and perception.

San Francisco: Chronicle, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. A nearly fine copy in pictorial cloth in a very good plus jacket with a little sun to spine. Dorothy Norman. Intimate is the right word for these photographs. These are private explorations made between 1930 and 1955, and never shown publicly until the 1990's. In this collection you'll find hushed interior and landscape views, plus many ethereal yet substantial portraits of some of the 20th century's artistic and political trailblazers. As Alfred Steiglitz's only direct protegee, Norman embodied the Masters's approach while remaining her own seer. The sculptural application of natural light, her pensive touch as a printer, and the scale of the prints themselves all contribute to a body of work that uncannily applies Stieglitz's own theories to practice. These beautifully reproduced photographs suggest not only their subjects' inner secrets, they also open small, deep windows into the heart of the artist who made them. 180 PAGES.

New York: Peter Kraus, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy. Limited to 90 copies, and privately printed by Gunnar A. Kaldewey for Peter Kraus. Unpaginated. Zweig's timeless story, set in Germany, in the aftermath of the first World War. This copy is signed by Peter Kraus on the front endpaper: "Christmas 1990 / Best Wishes / Peter Kraus." Laid in is an Ursus note card with this message in Peter's hand: "With Thanks for your / continued interest in / Ursus Books." Bound in elegant yellow boards with some sunning around the edges.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984. First edition. hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. Large 4to. Inscribed by Irving Penn "For old friend Bob / with warmest / greetings" (signed) "P". Below the inscription Penn has drawn a circle which he signed in the middle. At the bottom of the circle he has written "NY 1984." From the library of his agent, Peter Shub, who had a long and distinguished career as a revered photo agent (Penn, Anthony Armstrong Jones, Peter Beard among others). This book was published with the exhibition at MOMA, and is the first comprehensive retrospective of Penn's work. 216 pages. 156 plates (21 in color).

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Large 4to. Inscribed by Irving Penn "For old friend Bob / with warmest / greetings" (signed) "P." Below the inscription Penn has drawn a circle which he signed in the middle, at the bottom of the circle he has written "N.Y. 1984." From the library of Peter Schub (1926-2021) who had a long and distinquished career as a revered photography agent. He negotiated for some of the most prominent photographers of the 20th century including Penn, Peter Beard, and Anthony Armstrong Jones. Published in conjuction with an exhibition at MOMA, this is the first comprehensive retrospective of Penn's work. The essay by Szarkowski follows a brilliant career, from its art-school beginnings to the provocative still lifes of recent years, photographs of cigarette butts and street detritus-works of eloquence and classical rectitude, made from the least consequential of subject matter. 216 pages, 156 plates (21 in… Read More