Search Results: Authors starting with T from Ed Smith Books

New York: Ecco, 2013. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket (Autographed Copy" sticker to front cover. Signed by the author on the title page. Spanning more than forty years and two continents this book will transport readers from the collapse of China's last imperial dynasty to the beginning of the Republic and recaptures the lost world of old Shanghai through the inner workings of courtesan houses and the lives of the foreigners living in the International Settlement, both erased by World War II. 589 pages.

London: Trigram Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. Paul Vaughan. 4to. Bound in white cloth with dust jacket (a deluxe edition of 100 copies was bound in buckrum number and signed by the poet). These ten poems are published here for the first time. Those familiar with Nathaniel Tarn's three previous volumes will recognise a departure in style and language from the complex preoccupation with mythic and anthropological sources which distinguished his earlier work. These moving and passionate poems are a sustained personal statement of crisis, breakdown and renewal.

Greenwich: American Golfer, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Tatum has been at the forefront of golf for over 60 years. A 1942 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Sandy played on the 1942 National Co-Championship team and was the individual collegiate national champion. While a Rhodes Scholar from 1947 to 1949, he played on the Oxford University golf team and won the Danish Amateur while living in Europe. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Stanford in 1960. Sandy was a member of the United States Golf Association Executive Committee from 1972 to 1980 and served as President from 1978 to 1980. He continues to serve the USGA by negotiating the network television contract. In addition, Sandy has been active in golf course design. 221 pages.

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.

Seattle: Sasquash Books, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. The story of how the Mariners went from the bottom to the top of Major League Baseball, and how Seattle shed some of its backwater instincts to become a city wiht a record-setting passion for the game. With the help of a Japanese billionaire, some Microsoft-made money, McCaw Cellular moxie, and political leverage that included the White House, the Mariners acquired a wealthy new ownership and a new manager, Lou Piniella, that gave the franchise credibility. National baseball icons such as Ken Griffey Jr., Randy Johnson, Alex Rodriguez, and Ichiro Suzuki helped take the team on a ride to the baseball heights rich in joy, disappointment, controversy, and success. 289 pages illustrated from photographs, with index.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First edition. Paperback. A fine copy. Proof copy, perfect bound in the original yellow wrappers, with press release laid in. 912 pp. The second volume of the Gonzo letters from this famous, infamous author of such titles as Hell's Angels and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.

New York: Modern Library, 1999. First edition thus. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. First Modern Library edition of the author's classic first book, and the second book by Dr. Thompson to be issued by the Modern Library. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas was the author's first ML title. Unread copy in a photo illustrated dust jacket. The story of how and why Hunter ran with the Hell's Angels and got stomped in the process.

New York: Villard, 1997. First edition. softcover. A fine copy in tape bound printed wrappers. 4to. Tape bound advance copy of the manuscript. Nearly 700 pages of letters that begin with a high school essay (written in 1955), that takes us through 1967 (after the publication of Hell's Angels). HST's missiles pierce pomposity and rattle the soul. Whether written to his mother, Virginia, or to such luminaries as Charles Kuralt, Philip Graham, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Carey McWilliams, Lyndon Johnson, and Joan Baez, the letters represent the evolution of a true American original, a singular voice defying an era of banality.

New York: Villard, 1997. First edition. softcover. A fine copy in pictorial wrappers. Advance reading copy. Nearly 700 pages of letters that begin with a high school essay (written in 1955), that takes us through 1967 (after the publication of Hell's Angels). HST's missiles pierce pomposity and rattle the soul. Whether written to his mother, Virginia, or to such luminaries as Charles Kuralt, Philip Graham, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Carey McWilliams, Lyndon Johnson, and Joan Baez, the letters represent the evolution of a true American original, a singular voice defying an era of banality.

New York: Putnam, 1970. First edition. Paperback. A near fine copy, perfect bound in white unprinted wrappers. Advance copy perfect bound in the original plain white wrappers of the author's first novel. Nominated for the National Book Award. Destitution, hunger, cruelty, rootlessness-all the odds stand against Jacky, the young boy at the center of this powerful, popular American classic, yet still he prevails. Resourcefully, doggedly, Jacky nurtures his spirit of independence, his capacity to love, and his faith in a nation's dream in a journey that takes him from Wichita to Corpus Christi and from poverty to possibility. 510pp.

Santa Barbara: Neville, 1991. One of 26 lettered copies. Hardcover. A fine copy. Copy "0", of 26 numbered copies signed by the author, the deluxe issue. Bound in full brown leather. Contains three pieces by the Dr. of Gonzo. Thompson's first limited edition. Contents include an Introduction by HST in the form of a letter to Maurice Neville, followed by the three pieces: Mescalito, Death of a Poet, and Screwjack. 38pp plus the colophon page. Hunter dedicates this book "To Mona / for making this outburst possible"

New York: Villard, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Nearly 700 pages of letters that begin with a high school essay (written in 1955), that takes us through 1967 (after the publication of Hell's Angels). HST's missiles pierce pomposity and rattle the soul. Whether written to his mother, Virginia, or to such luminaries as Charles Kuralt, Philip Graham, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Carey McWilliams, Lyndon Johnson, and Joan Baez, the letters represent the evolution of a true American original, a singular voice defying an era of banality.

New York: Summit Books, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Here, the author journeys by ship, plane and borrowed car to the outposts of civilization to find intelligent life and reports back, instead on the demented state of current events and, once again, the Death of the American Dream. 304pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First edition. Paperback. A near fine copy. Proof copy. This copy bound in slick photo illustrated wrappers with contact sticker to front cover (partial). Edited by Douglas Brinkley with a Foreword by David Halberstam. Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever. 912pp.

New York: Summit Books, 1988. First edition. softcover. A near fine copy. 4to. An Advance Uncorrected Proof. Here, the author journeys by ship, plane and borrowed car to the outposts of civilization to find intelligent life and reports back, instead on the demented state of current events and, once again, the Death of the American Dream. Bound in the original light blue perfect bound printed wrappers. This copy with white pasted on label to front cover with typed title, publication date, price, and ISBN number. Uncommon in this format 304pp.

Santa Barbara: Neville, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy with minor stains to front cover (DNA?). Marked "Presentation Copy" on the colophon page and signed in full by Hunter S Thompson. A small book, 38pp, containing three pieces by the Doctor of Gonzo: Mescalito, Death of a Poet, and Screwjack. Bright red cloth with gilt decoration (HST's monster), issued without dust jacket.

South Royalton: Steerforth Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. My Two Wars describes the great battles in his life - one against a rich, tyrannical father; the other against anti-aircraft gunners over Germany in 1943 and 1944. It was completed shortly before Thomsen's death, and with it he concluded the story of his unusual life. In this posthumously published masterpiece he returns to his youth growing up in a wealthy Seattle household with the father he despised, and goes off to war in Europe as a bombardier with the Eighth Air Force. In his introduction Page Stegner calls it "the best narrative account ever written of an imperfect and fragile human soul caught up in the air war over Germany." But it is Thomsen's other war - his lifelong and monumental battle with his father - which begins and ends the book and makes My Two Wars one of the most outrageous and memorable father-and-son stories ever told.

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1978. Paperback. A very good copy in the original perfect bound white wrappers with black printing, as issued. Bob Blanchard spent his entire inheritance on a cattle ranch in the Missouri Ozarks—but it hasn't turned out the way he'd hoped, and he's now being threatened with foreclosure. The cattle are sick, and the herd can't survive, so Blanchard agrees to a reckless scheme to sell the cattle before their illness is widely known. But when a faked cattle rustling and an insurance scam goes wrong, the plan begins to crumble from the inside out. By the author of 'Cutter and Bone." 243pp.

South Royalton: Steerforth Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Yelberton Abraham Tittle, from the Piney Woods of East Texas, played pro football from 1948 until 1964, retiring at 38 after starring for the Baltimore Colts, San Francisco 49ers and New York Giants. Although he was the quarterback in the 49ers' so-called Million Dollar Backfield, he is best remembered for his three years in New York, when his passing took the team to three NFL championship games, none of which they won, and for his willingness to take the field when badly hurt. His daughter Dianne, a poet and concert harpist, has authored an unusual volume that is rich in memorable metaphors and explains her pursuit of the question, What constitutes a hero? Her answer is based heavily on her study of the Greek and Roman classics. Classicists will exult in the passages from Pindar and Martial, and all literate sports fans will love it. There are several excellent action photos. 261 pages with program notes… Read More

San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2014. First edition. hardcover. Fine copy in a fine jacket with a fine pamphlet laid in housed in a fine slipcase. Signed by Toews on the title page, her sixth novel. Includes the booklet with the same title, and all housed in a black cloth slipcase. One of Powell's IndieSpensable editions. Toews, a Canadian writer, won the 2014 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for this book, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the 2015 Folio Prize for Literature, and the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize. The novel recounts the tumultuous relationship of the Von Riesen sisters, Elfrieda and Yolandi, the only children of an intellectual, free-spirited family from a conservative Mennonite community. Yolandi, the novel's narrator, has always lived in her sister's shadow; whereas Elfrieda is a gifted, beautiful, happily marrried, and much celebrated concert pianist, Yolandi is something of a failure, with a floundering writing career and teenage children from separate… Read More