Authors starting with A from Ed Smith Books

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To Bill Henry / Edward Abbey." A wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind. Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that stretch from the interior of Alaska to the dry lands of Mexico. Mis-spelling of Larry "MacMurtry" under blurb on front cover (as i... more information

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. This copy bears the rubberstamp of Gershwin Enterprises, the entertainment company that holds the copyrights to the music of George Gershwin. Small scuff mark to spine of jacket. ... more information

Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1975). First edition. Hardcover. About fine copy/a very good to near fine dust jacket with a few tiny nicks and tears at the spine and extremities and some browning around the edges. A rollicking adventure novel with a serious political message. It covers the adventures of four disparate characters who band together to disable power plants and their supporting equipment, which they believe despoil the landscape of the desert. The book is credited with having inspired the formati... more information

New York: Dutton, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In this novel, Abbey has created an imaginary world only superficially different from our own. The action takes place after the energy companies, bankers, and industrialists have brought the nightmare cities of the west to ruins. ... more information

New York: Dutton, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Abbey's road is just that, writings from his travels, and it is no picture-postcard travelog. The "rape of the west" is not limited to the Arizona and Utah. The forces that are destroying America, and our land, are hard at work. ... more information

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A romance novel, so to speak, about a forest ranger that falls for an utterly beguiling freckle-faced American princess, half his age. ... more information

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Old coffee stains to seven pages, otherwise very good. Very good copy bound in red cloth with black stamping, lacking the dust jacket. Bookplate of Adrian Homer Goldstone to front pastedown. ... more information

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This volume, 225pp, brings together Abbott's own selections of the photographs she believes are her finest. Many of the more than 250 in this book have never before been published or even exhibited. All are reproduced in large size and in rich duotone offset. ... more information

Berkeley: Oannes, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket as issued. Dedicated to James Broughton (from his collection). One of 500 copies. A two-act play illustrated with drawings by Jess. Stiff 4to wrappers, as issued, lithographed by Mike Kummer. 100+ pages. ... more information

San Francisco: 5 Associates, 1963. Third edition. Paperback. Very Good +/No Jacket as issued. 4to, in perfect bound wrappers and illustrated with 23 black and white plates, as well as 10 color plates by Ansel Adams. Story by Nancy Newhall, and Ruth Kirk is the guide and with map endpapers drawn by Edith Hamlin. 55pp. ... more information

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Very good, a few spots to cloth (tiny ink 5-letter code to top of rear pastedown).. A Rex McBride murder mystery Gray cloth with nice red lettering to spine. Lacking the dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Very good minus, rear hinge split/Very good only but whole, with a thin slot cut out at spine.. A Rex McBride mystery. Cleve Franklin Adams also wrote under the pseudonym 'John Spain,' and together with Robert Leslie Bellem under the joint pseudonym 'Franklin Charles'. Publisher's original black cloth stamped in gold. Lending library sticker to front endpaper (as well as a short synopsis). Nicely illustrated jacket depic... more information

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt lettering, mostly worn. Very good. Cleve Franklin Adams was an American author. He worked as a copper miner, an art director on movies, a life insurance executive and a private eye before beginning his writing career, in which he wrote many stories for the pulp magazines. Lacking the dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Very good, old dampstain to back board. 284 pages, bound in cloth and boards with black spine lettering, lacking the dust jacket. J.J. Shannon, the toughest private eye west of the Rockies goes to Arizona to investigate a suicide and before he even smells a suspect, he has kidnapped the mayor, bribed the chief of police and bought out a newspaper. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Proof. The story continues here as Adams tells us about the lives of the rabbits after their defeat of General Woundwort at the end of Watership Down. Bound in the original printed wrappers. Stapled to front cover are blurbs about the book. ... more information

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Very good plus copy/a very good dust jacket. The author knew Woollcott long and intimately, and he dug deep into Woollcott's precocious childhood; unearthed the strange circumstances which shaped his emotions and his physique; discoverd the insecurity which made it necessary for Woollcott to revile his friends and shock his acquaintances. He has traced the development of the youthful reporter into the national-network philosopher, and r... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1909. In his forty-five years he was film critic, social documentarist, poet and screenwriter (The African Queen), but he is best known for his autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family -- and for the passionate, full-out living that killed him. ... more information

New York: The Modern Library, 2000. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Very good plus copy (one corner tip old dampstain)/in a near fine jacket with a few scratches to the back panel. In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a 32-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting grounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen fast in the pack ... more information

New York: Atheneum, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Two plays, both delicate pieces, lyrical and musical, and written with particular elegance. ... more information

New York: Atheneum, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A savage play, a seething play, a brutal frontal assault on the morals and mores of the affluent society. Dust jacket is price-clipped. 201pp. Clean copy. ... more information