Authors starting with F from Ed Smith Books

Los Angeles: Los Angeles: Ladd Company, 1980., 1980. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. An 138 page xeroxed revised shoooting script bound in the original printed agency wrappers with brads, with "Received Stamp" to front cover and date. From the deliciously tense film directed by Tony Scott, that stars Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman in a power-play saga on board a nuclear submarine. ... more information

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1974. First edition. Paperback. Very good/No Jacket. First edition. A 52-page book full of publicity and production information on the film based on the Nathanael West novel starring Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, and Burgess Meredithy, directed by John Schlesinger. Bound in the original studio wrappers (magazine size). ... more information

Los Angeles: Kopelson Productions, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Near fine in printed studio wrappers/No Jacket as issued. 136-page shooting script for the recent film starring Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves, Pacino plays Satan who takes mortal form as a New York lawyer. ... more information

Lafayette: Far Gone Books, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. First edition. A PBO (paperback original). 4to. Signed by the author on the title page. A "what if" novel that starts with the bizarre notion that Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Tim Leary paid government agents, seeking to subvert the American consciousness.What if the twisted path from Father Knows best to Woodstock was carved out by top-level G-Men bent on creating a new world order. In the original, perfect bound decorated ... more information

New York: Issued Privately for Subscribers by Nicholas L. Brown, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good (front lower hinge weak). Alexander King. Limited to 1250 numbered copies, 775 of which are for America (this is copy #126). Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (4/27/1876, Lyon–6/21/1957, Paris), was a French author of novels set in such exotic locations as Istanbul, Saigon & Nagasaki. One of his novels, Les civilisés (The Civilized) won the 1... more information

New York: Spiral Press, 1951. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Small 4to. First separate edition, third printing. Printed wrappers. One of 3500. Reprints Faulkner's speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Great copy of this double prize-winner. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis for the big screen film. Great copy! ... more information

New York: Random House, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. This play, adapted to the stage by Ruth Ford, opened at the John Golden Theatre on January 30, 1959 and ran for 43 performances, closing March 7 of that year. The play was staged by Tony Richardson and starred John Dorman, Christian Flanders, Ruth Ford, House Jameson, Scott McKay, Bertice Reading and Zachary Scott. The jacket is price-clipped. ... more information

n.p.: Twentieth Century Fox, 1960. First edition. Photographs. Near Fine/No Jacket as issued. 28 Glossy black and white photographs, each 8 x 10 inches, from the 1961 big screen film SANCTUARY, based on the William Faulkner novel that was directed by Tony Richardson (who won the Best Director Oscar in 1963 for Tom Jones), and was adapted by Ruth Ford. The photographs each are numbered in the top right hand corner (in the negative) and are all in near fine condition. An interesting selection from this Darr... more information

New York: Random House, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Fine clean copy/fine, price-clipped dust jacket. This play was first presented by The Theatre Guild wiht Richard Myers and Julius Fleischmann at the John Golden Theatre, New York City, on January 28, 1959, directed by Tony Richardson, with original scenery and costumes by Motley and superivised by Marvin Reiss. Ruth Ford also played Temple in the play. ... more information

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This sequence of 14 love poems by Faulkner is a pivotal work in the great writer's literary career, a vital link between his early apprenticeship to poetry and the brilliance of his fiction. After writing these poems, Faulkner bound it by hand, and presented it to his future wife, Estelle Oldham Franklin, during the summer of 1921 while she was still married to her first husband. The original manuscript has apparently been l... more information

Paris: Gallimard, 1958. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. First French edition. #66 of a limitation of 76 copies. Bound in french wrappers, as issued. The original tissue wrapper is present but has tears. Very clean copy. Peterson A37.30 ... more information

Paris: Gallimard, 1962. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. First French edition, translated by J. and L. Breant. #57 of 66 copies. Bound in the original white wrappers, with tissue wrapper present (with tears). Uncommon in this condition. ... more information

New York: Equinox, 1932. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Four string-tied pages (one sheet folded to make four pages), in brown printed wrappers - Petersen C17a. Being Number One of the Equinox Quarters. (This is a revised version of the poem "My Epitaph" and was one of the four pamphlets issued by the Equinox Press for Xmas, 1932). Lacking the original envelope. Nice copy. ... more information

London: Hutchinson, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Proof. Signed by the author. An ambitious triple biography on Christopher Wood, Richard Hillary and Jeremy Wolfenden, all three blessed with extraordinary gifts. Wood, a beautiful young Englishman, set out for Paris at the age of nineteen determined to become the greatest painter the world had ever seen; Hillary, confident, handsome, and argumentative, flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain, Wolfenden was charming, witty and generous, by... more information

London: Hutchinson, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Proof bound in the original slick white photo illustrated perfect bound wrappers. By the author of Birdsong. A few scratches to front cover. ... more information

Cleveland: World Publishing, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy/a near fine dust jacket. Author's first book. This copy is inscribed by Feibleman on the front free endpaper: "For Chuck and Tuck -- in quick friendship -- Peter." Los Angeles. Jan. '64. ... more information

New York: Chelsea House, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. A painter for more than ten years, Feldstein turns his eye to photography. His "Sightings" show he is involved with compositon as well as the play of light and shadow. ... more information

New York: Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Portraits by Felver of all the famous poets. Prologue by Gary Snyder, Foreword by Robert Creeley, afterword by William E. Parker. 144 pages. ... more information