Search Results: Titles starting with E from Ed Smith Books

Unity: North Country Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Signed by the author at the top of the title page, "With best wishes / Robert R. Charles". The author grew up in rural Maine. Over four seasons, he describes Maine half a century ago, smelting and rescuing ice houses, moose encounters and indoor ermine, raising mischievous rabbits and conversing with pigs, hunting a legendary "football-sized emerald" and learning from legendary World War II vets. He takes readers down through thin ice, and up spires of one-match fires, Dead River to hair-raising disorientation on the open sea, witih a fluid pen. Illustrated from photographs. 291 pages. "Best Book Awards FINALIST" sticker to front cover. Cover art by Rick Kelley.

Caldwell: Caxton, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. This is the story of Torger Birkeland. As a lad he came to America with his family and started working as a whistle punk in logging camps at the age of eleven. At twenty he finally turned to sea. From then on his life was indivisibly linked with steamboating on Puget Sound. He took part in the extension of routes; he moved from vessel to vessel as the fleet increased in size; he knew promoters and owners and hundreds of commuters personally and he felt the excitement and intense competition of the rate wars. Then as highways were built and automobile transportation grew, Captain Birkeland saw the Mosquito Fleet disappear and the ferry fleets develop. He witnessed an entire era in the history of transportation. A graphic account of life on Puget Sound in the early 1900s. Map present in rear pastdown pocket. With as foreword by Joshua Green. Illustrated from photographs including a color frontispiece… Read More

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993. First edition. Paperback. A near fine clean copy. This copy, in the original tall perfect bound wrappers, is signed by Chris Anderson. A selection of the American Land & Life Series. Buying his dream house several years ago on the forest's edge near Corvallis, Oregon, essayist Chris Anderson hoped to find the joys of rural living. Despite interminable Mr. Blandings experiences, he lived embowered by 12,000 acres of seemingly endless fir trees. But not for long. The McDonald-Dunn Forest was about to become the site of a disturbing research project. Little did Anderson know when he bought his house that, in addition to studying the ecological effects of clear-cutting, the researchers wanted to see how urban fringe dwellers might be affected too. The shock of that harvest compelled the essays in this vibrant, graceful record of the relationship between the forest and Anderson's life on its boundary. 185 pages.

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.

New Haven: Yale, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. An exploration of the environmental history of Seattle and what it tells us about making cities that are both scenic and just for all. The author explores the role of nature in the development of the city from the earliest days of its settlement to the present. Combining environmental history, urban history, and human geography. 344 pages with index and bibliographical references. Illustrated from photographs.

New York: Grove, 2008. Uncorrected Proof. softcover. Fine copy. The narrator of The English Major, Harrison's fifteenth book of fiction, is a 60-year old Michigan cherry farmer named Cliff who has been abandoned by his wife Vivian at a high school reunion. Cliff had taught English and history at that school before taking over his father-in-law's farm ("This man was a big strong asshole and had gone to glory from a heart attack trying to carry a hundred pounds of perch fillets and ice from a cabin to the pickup"). Vivian went into real estate - and with their separation, arranged to have the farm auctioned off. Cliff's pending homelessness doesn't seem to bother him until the death of his dog: "I took to drink which had never been a big item in my life ... quitting two weeks ago after I thought I ran over our dog Lola." But 14-year old Lola has died anyway "with a half-chewed gopher in her mouth." It's as if this story is being told to Lola's abiding ghost, riding shotgun in his 13-year old Ford… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1984. First edition. Paperback. A very good copy. This copy is signed by the author under his printed name on the title page. An uncorrected proof bound in the original orange perfect bound wrappers. The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events of the Two Medicine country's summer: the tide of sheep moving into the high country, the capering Fourth of July rodeo and community dance, and an end-of-August forest fire high in the Rockies that brings the book, as well as the McCaskill family's struggle within itself, to a stunning climax. It is a season of escapade as well as drama, during which fourteen-year-old Jick comes of age. Through his eyes we see those nearest and dearest to him at a turning point—"where all four of our lives made their bend"—and discover along with him his own connection to the land, to history, and to the deep-fathomed mysteries of one's kin and one's self. 352 pages.

Minneapolis: Dillion Press, 1985. Third printing. Hardcover. A very good plus copy with minor wear to the book and jacket. A biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman Supreme Court justice, which includes her childhood, her early legal career, and her life since her appointment. 127 pages with two appendices, a bibliography and index. Illustrated from photographs.

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.

Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A lifetime friend of Southern novelist Eugenia Price, Mary Bray Wheeler offers a unique guidebook to the historical places and people that give Price's novels their special Southern flavor. Travelers, sightseers, and history buffs--whether in cars or their reading chairs--will discover anew Price's treasured coastal Southeast. Maps and photographs. Foreword by Eugena Price. With afterword, appendix, select bibliography, and index.

New York: Knopf, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed on the title page by the author. A novel with the same locale as 'Plainsong,' the High Plains community of Holt, Colorado. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur and friend to many writers.

New York: Knopf, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket wtih a vertical crease to the front flap. Here, Russo is at his best; to chronicle, with insight and compassion, small-town America. The author won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel 'Empire Falls'.

New York: Knopf, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine jacket with a couple of tiny creases to the bottom of the front flap. Signed by the author on the title page. "Signed First Edition" sticker to lower front cover. Here, Russo is at his best; to chronicle, with insight and compassion, small-town America. The author won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel 'Empire Falls'.

New York: Europa editions, 2009. First edition thus. Paperback. A fine, unread copy, with French flaps, that is crisp and clean. This edition, perfect bound in illustrated wrappers, was published in 2013. This is the advance reading copy, so stated on a band of red tape that wraps around the spine. Two sheet press release laid in. Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Book three in the Commissario Ricciardi series. Naples 1931. Together with his indefatigable partner, Brigadier Maione, Ricciardi, a man driven into solitude by his paranormal "gift" of seeing the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths—a talent that also makes him a highly effective investigator—is conducting an investigation into the death of the beautiful and mysterious Duchess of Camparino, whose connections to privileged Neapolitan social circles and the local fascist elite make the case a powder keg waiting to explode. 377 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: Basic Books, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by the author to Glenn Goldman (who owned Book Soup in Santa Monica, CA). How we choose, and lose, our mates has always been a source of fascination. This controversial book is the first to present a unified theory of human mating behaviour, and is based on the most massive study of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000 people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide. 262pp with index.