Search Results: Authors starting with P from Ed Smith Books

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine clean dust jacket. Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s, when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter (for 'The Two Ronnies, David Frost, etc). Monty Python was just around the corner. This volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrys--Jones and Gilliam--and Eric Idle came together and changed the face of British comedy. 650pp, illustrated from photographs, with index.

New York: Delacorte, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Paretsky on the title page. A parable for the millennium, a powerful haunting novel of magic and miracles, of four troubled people who meet beneath Chicago's shadowy streets, and of the woman whose mysterious appearance changes all of their lives forever. 386 pages.

New York: Tor, 1995. First edition. hardcover. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Paul Park's Nebula Award finalist is an extraordinary, challenging, and disturbing novel about a human colony on a distant alien world, the planet Celestis. The native humanoid population is subjugated by the human colonists, but many of the Aboriginals undergo medical procedures involving surgery and drugs to make them look and think more like humans. As support from home wanes, the "improved" Aboriginals launch a rebellion against the colonists. Simon, a political functionary from Earth, and Katharine, the altered daughter of a successful native merchant, are taken hostage by the rebels. Simon falls in love with Katharine, but, cut off from a supply of the medication she needs to maintain her humanlike state, her suppressed alien nature begins to reemerge. As she discovers her true self, hidden vistas of expanded alien perception are revealed in a stunning exploration of the limits of humanity.

Santa Fe: Twin Palms, 2000. Third Printing. hardcover. A fine copy in black cloth with inset photo to front cover. Small folio. This copy signed by both on the title page. Third printing, limited to 2500 copies. Fantastical images beautifully reproduced in this, their first book. Robert and Shana Parke-Harrison creates constructed photographs which tell stories of loss, struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use. He attempts to metaphorically and poetically link his laborious actions, idiosyncratic rituals and strangely crude machines into tales about our modern experience.The mythic world he creates mirrors our world, where nature is domesticated and controlled. The scenes display futile attempts to save or rejuvenate nature. His 'everyman' character patches holes in the sky, creates rain machines, chases storms to create electricity, communicates with the earth to learn its needs. Within these scenes, he creates less refined, less scientific, more… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Translated by David Magarshcak. A card from the publisher laid in 'With Good Wishes.' The mass trials and indiscriminate executions of 1936-1937, which form so horrible a page in Russian history, claimed the lives of two of Pasternak's closest friends, the Georgian poets Titian Tabidze and Paolo Yashvili. Upon learning of Tabidze's arrest and rumored execution, Paolo, fearing a similar fate, killed himself. The letter than follows, one of the most moving that Pasternak wrote, is to Yashvili's widow. Issued as a New Year's Greeting. Bound in cloth and boards. The original glassine is present and discolored around the edges.

Photograph. In fine condition. Image measures 8 x 8 inches matted and framed, overall measures 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches, black frame. Harry Redl took great photographs of all of the "Beats," this photograph is a good example of Redl's work.

New York: The Dial Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone chamber known as "the telling room." Containing nothing but a wooden table and two benches, this is where villagers have gathered for centuries to share their stories and secrets—usually accompanied by copious amounts of wine.   It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a larger-than-life Spanish cheesemaker named Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras as he spun an odd and compelling tale about a piece of cheese. An unusual piece of cheese. Made from an old family recipe, Ambrosio's cheese was reputed to be among the finest in the world, and was said to hold mystical qualities. Eating it, some claimed, conjured long-lost memories. But then, Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly… Read More

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

n.p.: n.p., n.d.. First edition. Paperback. A near fine copy. A 98-page play comb bound, 8 1/2 X 11 sheet, printed on rectos only. With many sharpie-hand corrections. Pauker's business card is reproduced on the title page: "Poet, Propagandist, Patron of the Arts." Also, on the title page, Pauker uses a quote from an editorial that ran in the Washington Star March 3, 1976, that reads: "There is no worse epithet in / the American idiom than "clown." The title is stenciled (sharpie) to the golden sheet front cover. At the rear are song and voice instructions for the play. Only copy of this play we were able to locate.

Charlotte: Saint Benedict Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. Father Richard Ho Lung, M.O.P. - poet, teacher, musician - is the founder of the Missionaries of the Poor, one of the fastest growing religious orders in the world. Known as the "reggae priest," Fr. Ho Lung had a hit single and critically acclaimed musical. He and his band - Father Ho Lung and Friends - toured the world. In his spare time he taught literature at the University of the West Indies. In 1980, he left behind the fame and academic life, and founded the Missionaries of the Poor to serve the poor and downtrodden in his island home through service and song. Now, marked by a joyful sense of sacrifice and love, Fr. Ho Lung and his more than 550 brothers and his army of volunteers minister to thousands in eight countries around the globe. Here, in the first and only authorized biography of Father Ho Lung and his order, Joseph… Read More

Tucson: Dennis McMillan, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/a fine dust jacket with the publisher's slipcase. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Pelecanos. The main character of the book is Derek Strange, a black rookie police officer. The story is a prequel to other novels featuring Strange as a private detective. Unlike those stories, which occur in real time, Hard Revolution takes place in 1959 when Strange is a child and in 1968 after he just joins the police force. Beginning in 1959, the novel sets the stage for the moral paths that the main characters take as Pelecanos shows their evolution. Joe Servello dust jacket art.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine book with a near fine dust jacket in a similar decorated slipcase. Small folio. This copy is inscribed by Penn (1917-2009) to his long-time agent Peter Schub: "For Peter" (signed) "P." From the library of Peter Schub (1926-2021) who had a long and distinguised career as a revered agent of photography. Among his clients; Peter Beard, Anthony Armstrong Jones, and Irving Penn. Celebrated as Vogue magazine's top photographer for 60 years, Irving Penn was an intensely private man avoiding the limelight, concentrating on expanding the creative potential of the medium. This is his first book.

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: The Lisa Fonssagrives Penn Trust, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in cloth with dust jacket and slipcase (near fine). 4to. With the trust's notecard of Lisa Fonssagrives Penn inscribed "with love from Lisa (via her husband)" with a small heart drawn after her name. From the library of Irving Penn's agent Peter Schub. This book was produced by Nicholas Calloway (who edited the Issey Miyake book with photos by Irving Penn) with an introduction by Alexander Liberman. Lisa was the wife of Irving Penn, she was a dancer, model, a metal artist and much more. 94 pages.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in slick illustrated boards in a fine jacket. 4to. This copy is inscribed by Issey Miyake: "Mr. Peter Schub / with gratitude / A / UN / (signed by Miyake) and dated 1988.9.1." From the library of Peter Schub who had a long and distinguished career as a revered photo agent. Penn and Miyake, a Japanese fashion designer had a deep creative understanding of each other's work, having met in 1983. Miyake saw his designs in a new way through Penn's photographs. The images communicated the essence of the collection. Through the photographer's lens, the texture, shapes, and forms went beyond cloth and instead transformed into art. To keep an unbiased view, Penn never attended an Issey Miyake fashion show, while Miyake was never present at the photo sittings by Penn. Their collaboration was based on complete creative trust. Edited by Nicholas Calloway, foreword by Isamu Noguchi and an essay by Jay Cocks. Typographic design by… Read More

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in slick illustrated boards in a fine jacket. 4to. This copy is inscribed by Irving Penn, "For old Pete / with all good thoughts / (signed) I.P." From the library of Peter Schub who had a long and distinguished career as a revered photo agent. Penn and Miyake, a Japanese fashion designer had a deep creative understanding of each other's work, having met in 1983. Miyake saw his designs in a new way through Penn's photographs. The images communicated the essence of the collection. Through the photographer's lens, the texture, shapes, and forms went beyond cloth and instead transformed into art. To keep an unbiased view, Penn never attended an Issey Miyake fashion show, while Miyake was never present at the photo sittings by Penn. Their collaboration was based on complete creative trust. Edited by Nicholas Calloway, foreword by Isamu Noguchi and an essay by Jay Cocks. Typographic design by Kiyoshi Kanai, and a few words by… Read More

New York: Kokila, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. When three very different girls find a mysterious invitation to a lavish mansion, the promise of adventure and mischief is too intriguing to pass up. Ofelia Castillo (a budding journalist), Aster Douglas (a bookish foodie), and Cat Garcia (a rule-abiding birdwatcher) meet the kid behind the invite, Lane DiSanti, and it isn't love at first sight. But they soon bond over a shared mission to get the Floras, their local Scouts, to ditch an outdated tradition. In their quest for justice, independence, and an unforgettable summer, the girls form their own troop and find something they didn't know they needed: sisterhood. 370 pages.

New York: Random House Rolling Stone Book, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The first comprehensive history of the movement that culminated in San Francisco's famous Summer of Love, is a hip, richly detailed analysis of one of the most dynamic periods in recent American history. The Haight-Ashbury movement of 1965-67-named after a run-down Victorian neighborhood in San Francisco, which became its home--was one of the most written about and discussed events of the late sixties. Everyone recognized that something frightening amusing or insane was happening but no one was able to explain the movement's origins, possibilities and meaning. Now, however, Charles Perry has written the definitive account of this phenomenon by virtue of prodigious research historical perspective, periods documents and scores of interviews. 306 pages with index. Illustrated from photographs (black and white).

Sherwood/Bloomington: Thalian Press/AuthorHouse, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Dick Peterson, drummer with The Kingsmen, the group that recorded the iconic, yet controversial mega-hit, Louie Louie, tells the tale of the Kingsmen and 'the song'. Herein the humorous details, how things went down (and up) for The Kingsmen. Will the book solve the never-ending controversy that lies at the heart of this tale, at the very heart of Louie Louie? 394pp, illustrated from photographs. Bound in dark blue boards with gilt spine lettering.

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.