Titles starting with P from Ed Smith Books

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Very good plus to near fine in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Centrania is preparing to flood this country with a secret product, and in the balance rests the whole financial future of America. Short blurb (probably from the dust jacket) pasted to the front pastedown. Lacking the dust jacket. ... more information

Boston: Boston Book & Art, 1970. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First American edition. Foreword by Mark Glazebrook. 100 pps ... more information

New York: Dell #24, 1940. First edition thus. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Dime novel.16mo. size. Basis for the Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak and Rita Hayworth film released in 1957 directed by George Sidney. Uncommon format in nice condition. Evidence of sticker removal to front cover. A paperback thin dime novel. ... more information

New York: Atheneum, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In these stories from the bible the author seeks to recapture the physicality -- palpability, or feelability, is the right word -- of the ancient narratives. Neither the King James version nor the later, more scholarly renderings of Holy Writ have, in his view, caught the essential tones. ... more information

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine in decorated boards/very good minus jacket with chipping to the bottom front corner. Clare Turlay Newberry. Tall 4to. Pandora is a Persian cat, and she is the subject of the artist's twelve beautiful pastel drawings and many pen and ink sketches, and she is also the dominating character in the captivating story of one morning in the life of the family with which she lives. ... more information

Bernalillo: Bleak Beauty, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Signed by the photographer. Bound in illustrated wrappers with a minor bump to the front corner. ... more information

New York: Horace Liveright, (1930). First edition. Hardcover. A remarkably bright, fresh copy/a lovely "jazz era" pictorial dust jacket with minimal wear at the extremities. A novel about a magazine editor caught up in "the hysteria for speculation, for getting something for nothing, that has engulfed our country for the past few years. ... more information

New York: Riverhead, 2002. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Proof of the author's first novel. 455pp. Bound in the original wrappers. ... more information

New York: Clarkson Potter, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine solid tight copy/a very good dust jacket. Michele Chessare. The renowned reviewer of theater, film, and literature brings his razor-sharp pen to bear on the misuses of the English language, and no one, be they noted writers, journalists, critics, academics, and the public, is exempt from his ire. 222pp with index. ... more information

New York: Viking Press, 1986. First American edition. Paperback. Near fine copy with a nudge to the spine foot. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Press release laid in. This novel concerns English life since 1945. Mortimer is the creator of the Rumpole books and television series, and also the adapter of Brideshead Revisited. Bound in the original red printed wrappers, as issued. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Proof. In this powerful work, four young women are brutally attacked in a Convent near an all-black town in America in the 1970s. Each of singular provenance, they together suggest the vicissitudes of the era, of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the counter culture, generational conflict. The inexorableness of the attack and the efforts to avert it lie at the heart of this book. In the original perfect bound wrappers, as issued. P... more information

Millerton: An Aperture Book, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very good, one page with a closed tear (not affecting text)/near fine, price-clipped. Only a city as generous, mysterious, and captivating as Paris could spawn the remarkable creative institution known the world over as Magnum Photos. Founded in 1947 by the great photographer Robert Capa, Magnum was intended as more than a mere photo agency; it was to be a pool of mutual support among first-class freelance photographers. Its base was Paris; its ... more information

Berlin: Road Movies, 1984. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +/No Jacket as issued. 4to. Edited by Chris Sievernich. This is not the screenplay as it was originally written by Sam Shepard, rather it is a description of the finished and edited film containing all of Sam Shepard's original dialogue. Includes color and black and white stills from the film. Measures 7 1/2 X 9 1/2 inches. 509pp. Text in English and German (and another language), side by side. A PBO (paperback original, no hardbound issue... more information

Iowa City: Univ of Iowa Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In the 1950s a number of Afro-American artists left the United States, seeking a community where their blackness could be accepted without racial nightmares and where they could practice their art with a freedom denied them in America. This sensitive narrative explores the self-exile of four renowned Afro-American artists; best-selling authors James Baldwin and Chester Himes; the father of modern jazz drumming, Kenny Clarke; and not... more information

South Royalton: Steerforth Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author originally intended to write a conventional cookbook, but she soon found that each recipe evoked a remembrance, each ingredient carried with it an anecdote. So this is more than just a cookbook, much more. 272 pp with index of recipes. ... more information

New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author sets out alone in his own boat to sail from his Seattle home to the Alaskan Panhandle, to decode the many riddles and meanings of the sea; in Indian art and mythology, in the journals of Vancouver and his officers and midshipmen, in poetry and painting, in the physics of waves and turbulence. His voyage began as an intellectual adventure, but he soon found himself in deeper, more ominously personal waters than he had planned. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. A novel about psychological growth. Because of traumatic sexual experiences suffered in his childhood, Konrad Vost, the protagonist, has a history of pathological relationships with women. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Proof of Tyler's 14th novel, the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order, one Barnaby Gaitlin. He has this habit of breaking into other people's houses-not for big loot, but simply to read their mail, pore over their photo albums, and sneak away with some of their precious mementos. Bound in the original printed wrappers, with two promotional sheets stapled to the inside of the front cover. ... more information

New York: Viking Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Basis for the Kubrick film, the story of individual lives, touching, human, and true.of men caught in a military situation of which those who stay at home seldom hear, but which must be common to wars so long as there are armies to fight them. Period bookplate under front flap. ... more information

n.p.: SOOJ Press, 2005. First edition. Broadside. Fine. Artist Proof" of this broadside, being one of 25 designated as such, this numbered 11/25. Contains song lyrics by Patti Smith accompanied by two images by Path Soong. This "AP" is signed by both. Printed on Arches paper, these artist's proofs that were for the private use of the author and publisher. Broadside measures approx 8 1/2 x 13 inches. Both images are black and white as is the lyric printing. Signed at the bottom left by ... more information