Search Results: Authors starting with J from Ed Smith Books

London: Faber & Faber, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Dave Roberts. 12mo. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. A strange beast: a book of bones and stones, of vengeful hermits and wayward hearses, of junior Rip Van Winkles and resurrectionists. From the faintly weird to the fiercely eccentric, and from the everyday to the surreal, the stories read like cautionary tales and modern-day fables and the characters make for peculiar but exquisite company. By turns funny, gothic, moving and sad, this collection bears testimony once again to one of the most imaginative and original writers at work today. 173pp.

Jefferson (NC) and London: McFarland, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in slick illustrated boards. This copy is inscribed by the author to cinematographer Pernell Y Tyus on the second front blank: "To / Pernell Y Tyus / Best Wishes / Eugene "Pineapple" Jackson / Our Gang Comedies 1924 / 1-10-2000". Laid into the book is another inscription from the author to Pernell on a postcard size stiff sheet dated 1-12-2000: "Pernell / Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! / Here's a little something for your bookshelf / My father turned 83 on Christmas day. / Have a great and fun year / I'm looking forward to working with / you again." (signed) "God Bless / Gene." "Pineapple" became a child star in 1924 with the original Our Gang comedy shorts. The beginning really of a long show biz career that included Vaudeville, film, and television. He also took his band, The Jackson Trio on long country tours. 222 pages with index. Illustrated from photographs.

London: New English Library, 1973. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good clean dust jacket (price-clipped). A representative collection of poetry and prose from City Lights that includes work by: Genet, Picasso, Ferlinghetti, Neal Cassidy, Kerouac, Mailer, Wm Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Corso, Lamantia and more. 141 pages, bound in purple cloth over boards in a price-clipped dust jacket. This is the only hardback edition.

Nw York: Riverhead, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Myth, fantasy, and history merge in this stunning novel following a mercenary and his search for a missing child.

New York: Riverhead, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket (signed sticker to front of jacket). Signed by the author on a tipped-in sheet (signed sticker to front of jacket). The second novel of the Dark Star Trilogy, Sogolon the moon witch tells her own story; of her life, how she gained her power, and what happened in the search for a missing child.

New York: Riverhead, 2014. First edition. Paperback. A very good copy that would be fine without the small whole at the bottom of the rear cover due to the removal of a sticker. An advance uncorrected proof bound in yellow perfect bound wrappers with French flaps. A fictional exploration of the 1976 attempted assassination of reggae superstar Bob Marley and its bloody aftermath. James, a Jamaican author, deftly chronicles the lives of unforgettable characters, gunmen, drug dealers, former girlfriends, CIA agents, even ghosts over the course of three decades as they roam the streets of 1970s Kingston, dominate the crack houses of 1980s New York, and unlimately reemerge in the radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Along the way, they learn that evil does indeed cast long shadows, that justice and retribution are inextricably linked, and that no one can truly escape his fate.

Nw York: Riverhead, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. Myth, fantasy, and history merge in this stunning novel following a mercenary and his search for a missing child.

New York: Riverhead, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed on the title page. "Signed First Edition" sticker to the front cover. Myth, fantasy, and history merge in this stunning novel following a mercenary and his search for a missing child. Illustrated with maps. 620pp. The first volume of a proposed trilogy.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. First edition. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Signed by the editor Rosemary James, co-founder (along with Joe DeSalvo) of The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, a nonprofit organization devoted to writers and their readers. Rosemary and Joe own Faulkner House Books, in New Orleans, one of the country's most famous bookstores housed in what used to be William Faulkner's house in the French Quarter. A PBO. A wonderful group of essays about New Orleans, after Katrina struck, by some of the city's most famous sons and daughters. Paul Prudhomme writes about the emotional highs New Orleans inspires, Wynton Marsalis exalts his native city as soul model for the nation, whille Walter Isaacson shares his vision for preserving his hometown's pentimento magic. Steward O'Nan recalls the fantasy haze that enshrouded his first trip to the Big Easy when he was thirty and bowed to Richard Ford to receive his first literary prize. Poppy Z. Brite thanks New Orleans for helping her… Read More

New York: Blue Rider Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. Signed by Jewel on a special bound in sheet. When Jewel's first album, 'Pieces of You', topped the charts in 1995, her emotional voice and vulnerable performance were groundbreaking. Drawing comparisons to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, a singer-songwriter of her kind had not emerged in decades. Now, with more than thirty million albums sold worldwide, Jewel tells the story of her life, and the lessons learned from her experience and her music. Living on a homestead in Alaska, Jewel learned to yodel at age five, and joined her parents' entertainment act, working in hotels, honky-tonks, and biker bars. Behind a strong-willed family life with an emphasis on music and artistic talent, however, there was also instability, abuse, and trauma. At age fifteen, she moved out and tasked herself with a mission: to see if she could avoid being the kind of statistic that her past indicated for her future.… Read More

New York: Pantheon, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. A fine, crisp copy in a fine dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award. This novel is based on a true story that Jin heard from his wife when they were visiting her family at an army hospital in China. 309pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. A few dark spots to the top of the front red endpaper and a tiny tear to the top of the first white page, 1/4 inch. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise a decent very good plus copy in dust jacket. This novel is set in California and Central America and tuned to the currents of several kinds of revolution.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Second Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Charles Johnson and dated 10/29/98. Initially conceived as an exploration of "the plight of the black male in the United States" this book is that and more. It gives expression to a range of issues; cultural, economic, psychological, religious, and personal, as seen by a remarkable group of black men, novelists, a well-known arrtist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a doctor, an academic, a famous musician and a group of ordinary citizens from Harlem. Powerful voices give us powerful images and powerful messages. 190 pages with a few illustrations.

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy/a fine dust jacket. A novella about a day laborer in the old American West, bearing witness to terrors and glories with compassionate, heartbreaking calm. This book was one of the three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Literature for 2012, but, for the first time, the judges could pick no winner (the other two nominees were; Swamplandia by Karen Russell, and The Pale King by the late David Foster Wallace). The book was a New York Times Notable Book of 2011, an Esquire Best Book of 2011, A New Yorker Favorite Book of 2011, and a Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2011. 116pp. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur and friend to many many writers.

New York: Harper Collins, 2000. First edition. Paperback. A fine copy. Proof copy. A slim 129 page novel that is darkly comic, beautiful and haunting. In decorated wrappers, as issued.

New York: Atheneum, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a very good jacket (closed tear to lower back panel of dj). A Historical novel about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship on the Middle Passage. Set in 1830 it presents a personal and historical perspective of the illegal slave trade in the United States, tell the story of Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave who sneaks aboard a slave ship bound for Africa in order to escape a forced marriage. During the voyage he is humbled by the conditions he observes, learning lessons that teach him to value and respect humanity, which includes identification with his own country, America. The novel received critical acclaim, winning the 1990 U.S. National Book Award.

New York: Random House, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Short fiction (5). The long-awaited new story collection written in luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation. Finished shortly before Johnson's death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on.

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This first appeared in Playboy magazine. The story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. 196 pages.

London: Cape, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Her first book, a novel that turns classical myth on its head and takes readers to a modern day England unfamiliar to most. As daring as it is moving. A story of family and identity, of fate, language, love, and belonging that leaves you unsettled and unstrung.

New York: Viking Press, 1974. Second printing. Hardcover. A fine copy in yellow and orange cloth in a very good dust jacket with a small V chip to the top of the rear panel of the dust jacket. Author's first book. This copy bears the author's 7-line inscription on the front endpaper dated 19/4/79. "Dick / I must apologize, deeply, for missing your / class last week --- my students kept me pinned in the / office until it was too late --- but I wanted to give you / a copy of my novel, partly because I hope you'll / enjoy it, and partly in thanks for your friendship / your support, and the delightful time I had on / your program, "Postscript to Roots." / Many thanks / Charles Johnson / 19/4/79." Two printed sheets laid in, on 'Charles Johnson' letterhead. Page 2, highlighted with a pencil mark, is the program he mentions above in his inscription, "Panelist on "University Conversations: Postscript to Roots" Summer 1978.