Search Results: Authors starting with H from Ed Smith Books

St. Louis: The Haberly Press, 1941. A later printing. Hardcover. A very good copy. Loyd Haberly. One of 1250 copies bound with a black cloth spine and orange boards with yellow decorations to front cover (no dust jacket). 106 pages of poetry with an index of titles. Illustrations by Haberly.

New York: Knopf, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown's punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor—and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year's Eve. The mystery, as it reverberates through families, friendships, and the corridors of power, will open up even the loneliest-seeming corners of the crowded city. And when the blackout of July 13, 1977, plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever.

New York: Macmillan, 1974. Second Printing. hardcover. A near fine copy in a very good clean jacket with some wear to the bottom front corner and spine foot. A realistic novel that won the 1975 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature. This special copy is inscribed by Hamilton "For Madeleine (L'Engle) / With very best wishes / Virginia Hamilton." on the title page. Newbery Medal to front cover. From the library of Madeleine L'Engle. A nearly fine copy in a very good jacket with wear to the extremities. The book also won the National Book Award for Children's Literature as well as the Boston-Horn Book Award. A coming of age novel that covers three eventful days in the life of teenager Mayo Cornelius Higgins. It is set in the Appalachian Mountains on Sarah's Mountain, a fictional Mountain in Kentucky near the Ohio River, that is being encroached upon by a mining company. The book highlights the strange, almost surreal customs of the hill people including their traditions of song… Read More

London: Aurum Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. 4to. Signed by David Hamilton on the half-title page and dated in the year of publication. Each person's idea of a place in the sun, our personal Utopia, is quite different: it may be east of the sun or west of the moon. For some it is a cottage with roses around the door, for others a mountain top, and for many just a simple but content life. This book is an invitation to a visual journey around the world, with Hamilton playing guide and allowing us a glimpse of his own place in the sun. 202 pages with captions.

Vilas (North Carolina): Canterbury House Publishing, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in white cloth over boards in a near fine clean dust jacket. Features a poem by Maya Angelou titled 'Phenomenal Woman." The 40 women are; Meredith Vieira, Joanne Carson, Anne Abernathy, Diane Crump, Brigadier General Wilma L. Vaught, Phyllis Diller, Esther Paik Goodhart, Nancy Giles, Anne Tolstoi Wallach, Janie L. Shores, Leatrice B. McKissack, Faye Heller, Martha Bolton, Dr. Judy Kuriansky, Jeanne Harrison, Barbara Dury, Delores Kesler, Nann Miller, Margaret "Margo" Custer Ford, June M. Morris, Angelina (Angie) C. Torres, Patsy Riley, Laraine Heck, Marilyn Logsdon Mennello, Roxcy O'Neal Boston, Lorraine Miller, Marjorie J. Weber, Shirley R. Martz, Loretta Kaminsky, P.S. Terri Carr, Pota Vurnakes Vallas, Dr. Betty L. Siegel, Louise Harrison, Mary Eisenhower, Jane M. Philo, Ninon De Vere De Rosa, and Terre Thomas.

New York: Assouline, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Small folio. Olga Hanono is a Mexican-born designer with a traditional cultural upbringing and deep passion for aesthetics, beautiful objects, and space. Her charismatic and playful personality comes through her original designs that are not subject to rules or limitations. She transforms every space into an unusual adventure. Her design projects are strongly influenced and inspired by her travels to exotic destinations around the world. She loves encouraging her clients to LIVE AND ENJOY THEIR HOMES EVERYDAY and puts a great deal of detail into enhancing the human senses, by creating an ambiance of beauty balance and wellness. HAPPINESS is her major motto and she embraces it with creative solutions aimed at a luxury lifestyle. Hanono has a natural affinity with art and her projects are a combination of uniqueness and glamour, setting trends in the design world and attracting numerous awards (she has… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy/a fine dust jacket (that looks like it was made not yesterday, but today). Author's first book. Signed by the author on the title page. One of the legends of our childhood comes alive, the story of the notorious outlaw gang, the Daltons, from their hardscrabble beginnings to the final, terrible morning when all but one of the boys are shot down, and snuffed out, in the fatal raid on Coffeyville, Kansas.The survivor is Emmett Dalton, youngest of the brothers. And it is his voice, completely alive, unerringly true, that mesmerizes us as he sits in his darkened Hollywood home, in the year 1937, remembering back to an earlier time and a different place: remembering the old days in the Indian Territory when badmen rode, he among them; remembering what it was really like to live (and die) on the wrong side of the law. 273pp. From the estate of fellow Nebraskan Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur and friend to many many writers.

New York: Knopf, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy, of the author's first book, is inscribed by him on the half-title page. A western novel that reimagines the story of the Dalton Gang. The novel is told in the form of a fictional memoir written in 1937 by 65 year old Emmett Dalton, the last surviving member of the gang.

New York: Knopf, 1983. Hardcover. A very good copy (would be near fine except for foxing to page ends) in a near fine dust jacket. This copy signed by Aljean Harmetz on the front blank. Twenty-five pieces of movie-world journalism, 1969-1982, by the author of The Making of the Wizard of Oz--many of which originally appeared in the New York Times: Interviews (from Jessica Lange, Jack Nicholson, and our Miss Rona to Mary Pickford and Clint Eastwood); profiles (of the true intergalactic hero of then Star Wars trilogy, George Lucas; the last of the old true larger than life producers, Ray Stark; and the genius of B pictures, Sam Arkoff); and piercing in-depth reportage, clarifying and unscrambling the shake-ups and shake-down of current movie business.

Tucson: Dennis McMillan, 1997. Signed Limited edition. hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket in the original publisher's slipcase. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. This copy still in shrinkwrap with dust jacket and slipcase. Vincent Calhoun, a DEA agent with a gambling addiction, tries to rescue his Mexican girl friend as he deals with drugs and corruption along the Mexican border.

New York: Grove Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The follow up to the author's retired detective novel 'The Great Leader", involves Detective Sunderson who dares to confront his new neighbors, a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan." The best moments come when the detective loses the trail and looks up to find, in Harrison's precise and powerful descriptions, the landscapes that surround him, where religion, money, and sex disappear, and a creek is more powerful that despair.''' 341pp.

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the editor Joseph Bednarik on the title page underneath his printed name. A "What do you think?" reply postcard laid in. One of only 4000 printed in grey cloth with dust jacket painting by Russell Chatham "Spring Moon Over the Marshall Ridge" (2018) and a photograph of Harrison by Andy Anderson on the jacket rear panel. This book is the work of a lifetime by one of America's iconic writers. Introduced by activist and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams, this tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career as well as a section of unpublished "Last Poems." Here are the nature-based lyrics of his early work, the high-velocity ghazals, a harrowing prose poem correspondence with a Russian suicide, the riverine suites, fearless meditations inspired by the Zen monk Ikkyu, and a buoyant conversation in haiku-like gems with friend and fellow poet Ted Kooser.… Read More

New York: Grove Press, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. A near fine copy with a slight cover curl.. Uncorrected Proof. Contains all five previously published works and one new one, the complete novellas featuring the beloved recurring character Brown Dog. A bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian, rescues the preserved body of an Indian from Lake Superior's cold waters; overindulges in food, drink, and women while just scraping by in Michican's Upper Peninsula; wanders Los Angeles in pursuit of an ersatz Native activist who stole his bearskin; adopts two Native children; and flees the authorities, then returns across the Canadian border aboard an Indian rock band's tour bus. The collection culminates with "He Dog," never before published, which finds B.D. marginally employed and still looking for love (or sometimes just a few beers and a roll in the hay) as he goes on a road trip from Michigan to Montana and back, in search of an answer to the riddle of family and, perhaps, a chance at… Read More

New York: Grove, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Contains six novellas; Brown Dog - Seven-Ounce Man - Westward Ho - The Summer He Didn't Die - Brown Dog Redux, and He Dog. The New York Times has said this about the writings of Jim Harrison; "Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years..." Harrison (1937-2016), poet, novelist, and essayist, is one of America's most beloved writers. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing over three dozen books in several genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature. Of all his creations, Brown Dog has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance, scrambling to stay out of jail after his salvage-diving operation uncovers the frozen body of an Indian man in the waters of Lake Superior. Now, for the first time, this book gathers together all the Brown Dog novellas, including one that has never been published (He Dog). 525 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: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981. First edition. Paperback. A fine copy. Proof. Bound in the original yellow printed wrappers. Label to front cover with publication date, price, and ISBN #. Fine. 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: E.P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with two tiny closed tears to the back panel. Signed by the author on the title page. A kind of detective story. In this case, it is a detective story, concerned with the "mystery of personality" - specifically that of an eccentric and larger-than-life adventurer named Robert Corvus Strang. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur, and close friend of the author.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine price-clipped jacket. The author's first novel since Dalva (10 years). One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author on the colophon page. This novel continues the story of Dalva and her peculiar and remarkable family. Ribbon marker. 446pp. With silver signed sticker to rear panel of jacket and publisher's glassine over the jacket. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur, and close friend of the author.

New York: Grove, 2007. Uncorrected Proof. softcover. A very good copy with a crease to the top of the rear panel. A magnificant novel about Donald, a half-breed Chippewa-Finn facing an early death with grace and courage. It is a moving novel about loss but also about love and the mystery and joy of everyday living. Bound in golden printed perfect bound wrappers.