Search Results: Authors starting with B from Ed Smith Books

New York: Harlin Quist, 1980. First edition. Paperback. A very good plus to near fine copy with some light, small indentations to back cover (black). Issued without dust jacket. Similar to french flaps. 4to. A PBO, the first and only edtion. Full of the famous Fiorucci graphics and anecdotes from its heyday, a daytime "Studio 54" experience. Popular with everybody from Warhol, Farah Fawcett, Marc Jacobs, Madonna, Lauren Bacall, Haring, Maripol, Jackie O, Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, etc., to the Paninaro kids in Milan. A celebration of Fiorucci fashion and flash. As colorful as one can imagine, a real stunner.

New York: Knopf, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. A near-future thriller that casts new light on how we live today, and what may be in store for us tomorrow. Featuring a Los Vegas 'water knife' named Angel Velasquez,who is a detective, assassin, and spy, who "cuts" water for the boss of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, one Catherine Case.

Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co of America, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Author's first book, in the first issue dust jacket (without the Southern Living quote) published by a small press in Baltimore. Tiny first printing. In this copy Bahr was written out a paragraph from the book and signed underneath. Laid in is a note from Joe DeSalvo, Faulkner House Books, explaining Bahr working on this special copy during his appearance at Faulkner House. An impressive debut with a haunting tale of a brief but bloody encounter on the road to Nashville, which helped put paid to the Confederate cause in the latter stages of America's Civil War. 266pp.

Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co of America, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Author's first book, in the first issue dust jacket (without the Southern Living quote) published by a small press in Baltimore. Tiny first printing. An impressive debut with a haunting tale of a brief but bloody encounter on the road to Nashville, which helped put paid to the Confederate cause in the latter stages of America's Civil War. 266pp.

New York: Holt, 2020. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. An intimate, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by award-winning political journalist Molly Ball. 345 pages with index. Illustrated from photographs.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1999. Second printing. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To Adventures / yet to / share / (signed) Richard Bangs." As compelling as Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, this harrrowing story of river rafting examines the high risk and high adventure at the heart of modern-day explorations. In the early 70s, in a quest to run the last unexplored rivers of Africa, two young men drowned: one a client on this first river expedition; the other Richard Bang's rafting partner and best friend, Lew Greenwald. Twenty-three years later, Bangs returned with survivors of the earlier expeditions to complete what was left undone, to run the Tekeze. Gold sticker to front cover announcing Winner National Outdoor Book Award. Illustrated from photographs, 267 pages.

San Francisco/Portland: Night Shade Books, 2004. First trade edition thus. hardover. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. The first collection of stories by the author. The title story is a Culture novella that features characters from other Banks novels, but is set on Earth in 1977. An additional Culture story is included in this collection, as well as several other non-Culture stories that demonstrate Banks' tremendous range and skill. 188 pages.

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Long Galleys. no binding. A very good plus to near fine set. Rare long galleys of the poet's first book. Measures 6 1/2 inches wide and 24 inches long, folded once. Coleman, poet and translator. Bark's poetry, influenced by Wordsworth, Whitman, and Rilke, is lyrical, meditative and steeped in his native Southeastern landscape. Awards for his poetry include the Guy Owen Prize from the Southern Literary Review, and the New England Review's prize for narrative poetry. In 1976 poet Robert Bly introduced Barks to the work of 13th-century Sufi mystical poet Jalaluddin Rumi. Since then Barks has translated more than a dozen volumes of Rumi' s poetry, including The Illuminated Rumi (1997) and the Essential Rumi (1995), often in collaboration with Persian scholar John Moyne. Barks's translation work was the focus of an episode of Bill Moyer's PBS series The Language of Life, and he has collaboratively produced his Rumi translations with music and dance ensembles including the… Read More

London: Cape, 1986. Uncorrected Bound Proof. Paperback. A very good plus copy in a very good trial jacket with some chipping at spine crown (jacket is 1/2 inch higher than the proof). Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Author's fourth novel charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we learn cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.This proof copy is perfect bound in the original decorated wrappers. In the trial dust jacket which has the title of the book at the top of the front panel and the author's name at the bottom of the front cover. Ditto on the front cover of the proof as well. The finished dust jacket has the title and the author's name reversed; author's name at the top of the… Read More

Hanover: University Press of New England, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the editor on the title page and dated 2015. A collection of witty, intelligent, and provacative pieces about women and their beverage of choice. 28 original essays here come from a diverse community of voices from ages 21 to 79, including such luminaries as Fay Weldon, Wendy Liebman, Amy Bloom, Liza Donnelly, Nicole Hollander, Beth Jones, Dawn Lundy Martin and many others. 186 pages.

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.

Norfolk Island: Island Heritage Limited, 1976. First edition thus. A very good copy (front hinge cracked). 4to. Inscribed on the front blank by Carol A. Jenkins to Madeleine (L'Engle) and Hugh Franklin (husband) and dated "3-25-1977". The first book written by Winona Beamer (1923-2008). Winona was a champion of authentic and ancient Hawaiian culture, publishing many books, musical scores, as well as audio and video recordings on the subject. In her home state, she was known as Auntie Nona. She was an early proponent of the ancient form of the 'hula' being perpetuated through teaching and public performances. Illustrated, with ribbon marker. 196 pages. Bound in yellow leather, a.e.g. with gilt decorations. Edited by Murry Engle. Musical Notation by Zillah S. Young, Carol A. Jenkins and Kalehuamakanoe Harward.

Barcelona: Plaza & Janes, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy. Signed by Saul Bellow. This edition, a first edition printed March of 1979, is in Spanish. Features three Nobel winners, Harry Martinson (Swedish, 1974) features three pieces; Nettles Bloom, The Path of Freedom, and a Poetry Anthology, Eugenio Montale (Italian, 1975) three pieces; In Our Time, The Butterfly in the Square Cafe, and Out of Home, and Saul Bellow (American, 1976) contributes Humboldt's Gift. Bound in leather with gold stamping, t.e.g., ribbon marker, issued without jacket. 1592pp.

Brooklyn: Powerhouse Books, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. A very good plus copy (tiny red dot to bottom edge) bound in photo illustrated cloth issued sans jacket. Oblong 4to. If Harry Benson's photos are surgical in their incisive precision, they are at the same time compassionate, poetic, moving, and frequently downright beautiful in their balanced, compositional perfection, possible Felliniesque in their empathetic embrace of the diversities, and even the grotesqueries, of life and in their cinematic love of the panoramic vision of events. They are embracing, all embracing. Includes Benson's captions and index of images. Simply put Benson got it all, leaving nothing, whether it is a teenage, English schoolboy just smacked in the gut by tragedy or the smiling, then-young queen of England in the unlikely guise of a Scottish coal miner every Benson image records, he points out "what's going on at the time"; and, whether that "what" is historic and life-changing or homely and obscure, he sees the… Read More

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2013. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. This copy is inscribed on the front endpaper. A behind-the-scenes look at the firm behind WordPress and the unique work culture that contributes to its phenomenal success 50 million websites, or twenty percent of the entire web, use WordPress software. The force behind WordPress is a convention-defying company called Automattic, Inc., whose 120 employees work from anywhere in the world they wish, barely use email, and launch improvements to their products dozens of times a day. With a fraction of the resources of Google, Amazon, or Facebook, they have a similar impact on the future of the Internet. How is this possible? What is different about how they work and what can other companies learn from their methods? To find out, former Microsoft veteran Scott Berkun worked as a manager at WordPress, leading a team of young programmers developing new ideas. The Year Without Pants shares the secrets of WordPress… Read More

Lexington: University of Kentucky Libraries, 1998. First edition 1997. Hardcover. Fine copy issued without dust jacket. Author's Copy" written in pencil on the colophon page, and underneath that statement it is signed by Russell Freedman. Hardbound in red cloth over boards, front panel stamped in gold as is the spine. Introduction by Russell Freedman. Contents include: Acknowledgements, "A Vision" by Wendell Berry, Section A: Books, Pamplets, and Broadsides, SECTION B: Original Material Published in Books by Other Authors, Prefaces and Blurbs, Section C: Contributions to Periodicals, Section D: Books and Articles About Wendell Berry (partial list), Section E: Records and Tape Recordings by Wendell Berry, and Index. 177 pages.

Rutland/Tokyo: Charles E Tuttle, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket (price-clipped). Oblong 4to. Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian painter, Jesuit missionary, arrived in China in 1715 and passed his life at the Court of the Emperors K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung. There he became pre-eminent among a group of European missionary-court painters who combined the propagation of the Christian faith (in the face of daunting difficulties) with professional dedication to the artistic commissions of the Emperors. Although trained as a Jesuit, Castiglione was an artist of high accomplishment and in the course of his long stay in Peking (he died there in 1766) he managed to achieve a remarkable synthesis between the traditions and techniques of European painting and those of Chinese painting. He excelled in religious painting, was famous as a portraitist and genre painter, and his paintings of animals, flowers and landscapes earned him an unprecedented honour--first… Read More

New York: Flatiron Books, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket (signed copy sticker to front of jacket). Signed on a tipped-in sheet by the First Lady. 210 pages illustrated from photographs.

London: The Folio Society, 2003. Reprint. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine slipcase, as issued. Peter Forster. A satirical dictionary consisting of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The lexicon was written over three decades as a series of installments for magazines and newspapers. Bierce's witty definitions were imitated and plagiarized for years before he gathered them into books, first as The Cynic's Word Book in 1906 and then in a more complete version as The Devil's Dictionary. Introduction by Miles Kington and illustrated by Peter Forster. As always this publisher produces a fine presentation. Hardbound in cloth and marbled boards with the original slipcase, 365 pages. 16mo. First published in 1911, Bierce, an American journalist of the late nineteenth century who was famous in his own day for being the most savage newspaper commentator on human affairs (mostly American) who vanished mysteriously in Mexico about the beginning of the Great War. Set in Miller text at… Read More

Prague: Kant, 2000. Second revived and enlarged edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) together with those of Jaromir Funke, Jaroslav Rossler and Josef Sudek, constitute the most significant Czech contributions to world photography in the first half of the 20th Century. Drtikol's photographs remain exceptionally impressive today for their originality, depth of thought, artistic cultivation, and technical mastery. Following years of virtual oblivion in the past three decades these works have again provoked exceptional interest at one-person and group exhibitions in many countries, as well as in the most diverse publications. Drtikol was the first Czech photographer to gain world-wide prominence, a draftsman whose talents remain underappreciated to this day, a graphic artist and painter, a designer of original decorations and house accessories, a thinker and spiritual teacher as well. Includes; 120 duotone and 8 color full-page reproductions of… Read More