Search Results: Authors starting with H from Ed Smith Books

St. Louis: The Haberly Press, 1941. A later printing. Hardcover. A very good copy. Loyd Haberly. One of 1250 copies bound with a black cloth spine and orange boards with yellow decorations to front cover (no dust jacket). 106 pages of poetry with an index of titles. Illustrations by Haberly.

New York: Knopf, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown's punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor—and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year's Eve. The mystery, as it reverberates through families, friendships, and the corridors of power, will open up even the loneliest-seeming corners of the crowded city. And when the blackout of July 13, 1977, plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever.

London: Aurum Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. 4to. Signed by David Hamilton on the half-title page and dated in the year of publication. Each person's idea of a place in the sun, our personal Utopia, is quite different: it may be east of the sun or west of the moon. For some it is a cottage with roses around the door, for others a mountain top, and for many just a simple but content life. This book is an invitation to a visual journey around the world, with Hamilton playing guide and allowing us a glimpse of his own place in the sun. 202 pages with captions.

New York: Macmillan, 1974. Second Printing. hardcover. A near fine copy in a very good clean jacket with some wear to the bottom front corner and spine foot. A realistic novel that won the 1975 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature. This special copy is inscribed by Hamilton "For Madeleine (L'Engle) / With very best wishes / Virginia Hamilton." on the title page. Newbery Medal to front cover. From the library of Madeleine L'Engle. A nearly fine copy in a very good jacket with wear to the extremities. The book also won the National Book Award for Children's Literature as well as the Boston-Horn Book Award. A coming of age novel that covers three eventful days in the life of teenager Mayo Cornelius Higgins. It is set in the Appalachian Mountains on Sarah's Mountain, a fictional Mountain in Kentucky near the Ohio River, that is being encroached upon by a mining company. The book highlights the strange, almost surreal customs of the hill people including their traditions of song… Read More

Vilas (North Carolina): Canterbury House Publishing, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in white cloth over boards in a near fine clean dust jacket. Features a poem by Maya Angelou titled 'Phenomenal Woman." The 40 women are; Meredith Vieira, Joanne Carson, Anne Abernathy, Diane Crump, Brigadier General Wilma L. Vaught, Phyllis Diller, Esther Paik Goodhart, Nancy Giles, Anne Tolstoi Wallach, Janie L. Shores, Leatrice B. McKissack, Faye Heller, Martha Bolton, Dr. Judy Kuriansky, Jeanne Harrison, Barbara Dury, Delores Kesler, Nann Miller, Margaret "Margo" Custer Ford, June M. Morris, Angelina (Angie) C. Torres, Patsy Riley, Laraine Heck, Marilyn Logsdon Mennello, Roxcy O'Neal Boston, Lorraine Miller, Marjorie J. Weber, Shirley R. Martz, Loretta Kaminsky, P.S. Terri Carr, Pota Vurnakes Vallas, Dr. Betty L. Siegel, Louise Harrison, Mary Eisenhower, Jane M. Philo, Ninon De Vere De Rosa, and Terre Thomas.

New York: Assouline, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Small folio. Olga Hanono is a Mexican-born designer with a traditional cultural upbringing and deep passion for aesthetics, beautiful objects, and space. Her charismatic and playful personality comes through her original designs that are not subject to rules or limitations. She transforms every space into an unusual adventure. Her design projects are strongly influenced and inspired by her travels to exotic destinations around the world. She loves encouraging her clients to LIVE AND ENJOY THEIR HOMES EVERYDAY and puts a great deal of detail into enhancing the human senses, by creating an ambiance of beauty balance and wellness. HAPPINESS is her major motto and she embraces it with creative solutions aimed at a luxury lifestyle. Hanono has a natural affinity with art and her projects are a combination of uniqueness and glamour, setting trends in the design world and attracting numerous awards (she has… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy, of the author's first book, is inscribed by him on the half-title page. A western novel that reimagines the story of the Dalton Gang. The novel is told in the form of a fictional memoir written in 1937 by 65 year old Emmett Dalton, the last surviving member of the gang.

New York: Knopf, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy/a fine dust jacket (that looks like it was made not yesterday, but today). Author's first book. Signed by the author on the title page. One of the legends of our childhood comes alive, the story of the notorious outlaw gang, the Daltons, from their hardscrabble beginnings to the final, terrible morning when all but one of the boys are shot down, and snuffed out, in the fatal raid on Coffeyville, Kansas.The survivor is Emmett Dalton, youngest of the brothers. And it is his voice, completely alive, unerringly true, that mesmerizes us as he sits in his darkened Hollywood home, in the year 1937, remembering back to an earlier time and a different place: remembering the old days in the Indian Territory when badmen rode, he among them; remembering what it was really like to live (and die) on the wrong side of the law. 273pp. From the estate of fellow Nebraskan Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur and friend to many many writers.

New York: Knopf, 1983. Hardcover. A very good copy (would be near fine except for foxing to page ends) in a near fine dust jacket. This copy signed by Aljean Harmetz on the front blank. Twenty-five pieces of movie-world journalism, 1969-1982, by the author of The Making of the Wizard of Oz--many of which originally appeared in the New York Times: Interviews (from Jessica Lange, Jack Nicholson, and our Miss Rona to Mary Pickford and Clint Eastwood); profiles (of the true intergalactic hero of then Star Wars trilogy, George Lucas; the last of the old true larger than life producers, Ray Stark; and the genius of B pictures, Sam Arkoff); and piercing in-depth reportage, clarifying and unscrambling the shake-ups and shake-down of current movie business.

Tucson: Dennis McMillan, 1997. Signed Limited edition. hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket in the original publisher's slipcase. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. This copy still in shrinkwrap with dust jacket and slipcase. Vincent Calhoun, a DEA agent with a gambling addiction, tries to rescue his Mexican girl friend as he deals with drugs and corruption along the Mexican border.

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: Grove Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on a tipped-in sheet. The follow up to the author's retired detective novel 'The Great Leader", involves Detective Sunderson who dares to confront his new neighbors, a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan." The best moments come when the detective loses the trail and looks up to find, in Harrison's precise and powerful descriptions, the landscapes that surround him, where religion, money, and sex disappear, and a creek is more powerful that despair.''' 341pp.

New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. This novel parodies nearly everything for which critics had taken Harrison to task. Johnny Lundgren, a.k.a. Warlock, becomes a private detective after he loses his job as a foundation executive. Unable to handle women, earn the devotion of his dog or remember to load his pistol, he bumbles through a series of adventures on the behalf of a deranged physician. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur, and close friend of the author.

New York: Grove Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy bound in light blue cloth in the publisher's matching slipcase still in shrinkwrap. #25 of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Michigan has been home to Jim Harrison for most of his life. Here, he has written a novel of his homeland, exposing both its raw beauty and the brutal ravaging it has endured over the last century. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur, and close friend of the author. 400pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Includes three novellas; The Summer He Didn't Die, Republican Lives, and Tracking. As well as the Author's Notes on Tracking. 277 pages.

New York: Grove Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy bound in light blue cloth in the publisher's matching slipcase, issued without dust jacket. #211 of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. 400pp. Brooding, occasionally brutal eighth novel, linked to the author's previous work (The Road Home, 1998) by blistering contempt for the diseased American polity and acute existential melancholy. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur, and close friend of the author.

New York: Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. A very good plus copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Harrison has produced a masterpiece in this magnificent full-scale novel portraying five generations of a pioneer American family.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Three novellas; Westward Ho, I Forgot to Go to Spain, and The Beast God Forgot to Invent. These are stories of humans and beasts, of culture and wildness, of men driven crazy by longing and of men who dream they are becoming bears.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. These are stories of humans and beasts, of culture and wildness, of men driven crazy by longing and of men who dream they are becoming bears. A man near the end of his life becomes part of an odd band of caretakers for a younnger man whose brain has been damaged in a motorcycle accident, the civilization shaken out of him. Watching over this unmanned man, the hero becomes mindful of his own mortality and excess of civility. In "Westward Ho," Brown Dog, a Michigan Indian, wanders the wilds of Los Angeles, tracking the ersatz Native activist with whom he fled the police in Michigan and who's now disappeared with his bearskin. Ogling girls, sleeping in the botanic garden, and working as a driver to a drunk screenwriter, he eventually comes face-to-face with his ex-friend and with the difference between the world he's been visiting and the world to which he's going home.… Read More

Livingston: Clark City Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. 4to. Features an essay by Harrison about the 10-day stay he had at Diana Guest's house and studio when he was returning from Russia, and how seeing her art, stonecarvings of animals, affected him, and his ideas and thoughts on the natural world. "It did not occur to me until I left ten days later that I was leaving a heraldic world where an artist's work resonated the deep past with improbable vividness. Diana's sculpted swans, owls, hawks, and horses emerged there and belonged to the soul of the landscape (if you do not believe the land has a soul, look at land that has lost it). It was a reality with a distant but direct relationship to the one we know from tapestries, a reality that emerges from bestiaries written when animals held far more significance than as fodder for environmental squabbles, animals that retained a sacred position in our lives in contrast to something we merely use, take… Read More