Search Results: Titles starting with V from Ed Smith Books

New York: Viking Press, 2017. Second printing. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. This book collects real-life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god. 253 pages.

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.

Boston: New York Graphic Society/Little Brown, 1982. First printing. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The laid-in print is near fine. Oblong 8vo. This is the first edition in hardback and dust jacket, not the signed limited edition. However, a print is laid in (same print as the front panel of the dust jacket). The print is not signed by Allard but it has the copyright info and title printed at the bottom. Measures 11 1/2 x 8 1/4. Photographer's first book with a foreword by Thomas McGuane. A photographic tribute to the American cowboy captures the hardships and loneliness of this vanishing way of life and reveals the spectacular natural beauty of the West. The magnificent photographs of cowboys and the West, sensitive, lonely, beautiful and real, are superbly matched with short anecdotal material that makes wonderful reading.

New York: Del Rey, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next-door neighbor, the beautiful art student Leonora, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman-and journeying deeper into Leonora's secret life of student radicals and dissidents. 284 pages.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on a tipped-in sheet. The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander follows the inhabitants of a Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart. 300 pages.

New York: Knopf, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A set of thirteen interrelated stories with a large set of characters all connected to Bennie Salazar, a record company executive, and his assistant, Sasha.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961. First edition. Both volumes in stiff printed wrappers, comb bound as issued. The two volumes are in very good condition. 787 leaves, in two volumes, reproducing hundreds of handwritten changes to the original manuscript. This biographical novel traces the parallel lives of Voltaire, "the wittiest, most irreverent, most spectacular philosopher who ever lived," and Rousseau, "the poor, half-educated lad of Geneva who became the most radical, most talked-of philosopher (after Voltaire) of Europe." Endore a Hollywood screenwriter collaborated on scripts like Mark of the Vampire, as well as receiving an Oscar nomination for The Story of G.I. Joe. He also wrote several novels, including Nightmare and King of Paris. A cult favorite of fans of horror, he is best known for The Werewolf of Paris, which occupies a significant position in werewolf literature, much in the same way that Dracula does for vampire literature. Endore was also a political activist and pamphleteer who… Read More

Millerton: Aperture, 1975. First printing. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. 4to. This book is a testament to Weston's fifty years of evolving vision. It presents the photographer before the infinite play of landscape, objects and forms, vivid, authentic, and uncompromising. 100pp.