Authors starting with V from Ed Smith Books

New York: Knopf, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author's sixth book. A modern crime novel with a dose of salient reality and a markedly different kind of hero, an outcast who makes his living dispensing mean yet measured justice. Burke comes combat ready to engage those who prey on and profit from the lives of children. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Author's third book. To the exclusive company of the great hard-boiled detectives-Sam Spade of San Francisco and Philip Marlowe of L.A.-Vachss has added an unmistakable peer: Burke, New York City. One tough cookie. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author's second book (after FLOOD) and the first published by Knopf. Briefly inscribed by the author on the title page. Set in the steamy underworld of New York City, Burke, ex-con, scam artist, private eye, whose self-appointed mission is to make the world unsafe for child molesters. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author's fifth book, briefly inscribed on the title page. The author's brilliant anti-hero Burke-the brooding, merciless adversary of criminals who fatten on the lives of children-has been hailed as "lord of the asphalt jungle" (by the Washington Post). Here Burke leaves the big bad city to trek to Indiana, and Indiana may never be the same. ... more information

New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. First book that introduces us to the hero Burke and his 'Family." A cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachss' renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a child's murderer through he catacombs of New York where every alley is blind and the penthouses are as dangerous as the basements. Almost like new copy. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Briefly inscribed on the title page by Vachss. The story of a killer stalking his destined prey, driven by forces he cannot understand. It is the story of a man searching for a witness to his own humanity. ... more information

New York: New York: Knopf, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Here, Burke strays closer to the edge than he ever has before, and closer to the most twisted workings of the human heart and mind. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Briefly inscribed by the author on the title page. The fourth Burke novel. One of Vachss' best, this one features hit man extraordinaire Wesley. A thrilling noir mystery, hardball style and in your face. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Briefly inscribed by the author on the title page. Burke and his 'family gang' are after a savage gang of predators who prowl the dark streets of the city in a special vehicle, the "Ghost Van', hunting teenage prostitutes, kidnapping and killing. One of the BEST hero's in fiction, Burke, an ex-con whose time "inside" honed his survival skills to a razor-edge. He's an unlicensed PI who's an expert on the dang... more information

New York: Random House, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. As a front line prosecutor and then as chief of the Special Victims Bureau in the Queens District Attorney's Office in New York City, Alice Vachss specialized in cases of rape, incest, and child abuse. Here, she recounts her career and in the process offers a searing indictment of our justice system. Harrrowing cases, among them the predatory pedophile who headed a boys' club to get closer to his victims; the serial rapis... more information

New York: Knopf, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Burke travels to Indiana to hunt a baddie. Indiana may never be the same. By the author of Flood, Strega, Blue Belle and Hard Candy (among others). ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Very good plus copy/in a very good creased and torn jacket. This copy inscribed by the author on the title page to the owner of Book Soup in Hollywood. The inscription is dated 15.9.98. An account of the Murphys and their friends follows them through the whole arc of their glittering and sometimes tragic lives. The Murphy's relationships with Picasso, Hemingway, and Firtzgerald affected the work of all three. 470 pp, illustrated from photograp... more information

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Picasso declared that every photographer wanted to be a painter. But what is certainly true is that many artists, painters, sculptors, and others, have been committed photographers. Here the author traces this special aspect of the interrelationship between art and photography. How, and to what purpose, artists from Thomas Eakins to Andy Warhol, Edgar Degas to Edouard Vuillard, and Constantin Brancusi to Henry Moor... more information

New York: Random House, 1930. First edition thus. Paperback. Very good plus copy with browning around the edges. A small book about the author's cat, Feathers. One of 875 copies perfect bound in stiff wrappers with spine label ... more information

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Front flap price of $3.50. ... more information

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A nice reprint. ... more information

New York: Paragon House, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. "The definitive Celine biography" Kurt Vonnegut. 600pp with index. Celine has been called a genius, a scoundrel, provocative, secretive, compassionate, and hateful. He was a racist, a compassionate doctor, an anti-Semite, and Nazi sympathizer, who had to flee France in 1944 and was tried in absentia for treason. With horrifying accuracy Vitoux illuminates this darkest and least understood writer. Illustra... more information

Tuscaloosa: Gonfalon Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. One of 110 copies signed by Kurt Vonnegut and artist Michael Fallow, with original woodblock prints (color), printed on handmade paper, with hand-painted title on cover. A libretto based on Igor Stravinsky's 1918 composition. When first produced, Stravinsky needed money, so he took up a project unworthy of his talent; the results have always frustrated listeners. When Vonnegut decided to tackle this project, he completely rewr... more information

n.p.: n.p., 1983. First edition. No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. PRESS PHOTO INSCRIBED. World Photo stamp to rear. Caption attached to rear: "New York, Oct 21-PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST-Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr., stands beside one of his artworks during the premier showing of his drawings at the Freiden Gallery in New York. Monday (AP Laserphotos)". Black and white 8 X 10 (image measures 6 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches). Inscribed and signed in black ink under the image by Kurt Vonnegut: "Peace and Plenty to My... more information

New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. A sci-fi novel that depicts the authors views of loneliness, both on an individual and social scale. Bound in black cloth in the original publisher's slipcase, with label. Issued without dust jacket. ... more information