Titles starting with Z from Ed Smith Books

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Brown cloth stamped in purple. The story of this great All-American sportsman with his wanderlust--and of the woman who waited at home. No romance in his fiction ever surpassed the romance of his own life. ... more information

New York: World Publishing, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very good copy (remainder mark to bottom edge)/very good dust jacket (not-price-clipped). Gruber, author of 22 Westerns of his own, tells Grey's story with both unique understanding and exacting detail. He had access to the incomplete manuscript of Grey's own autobiography, his private diaries and letters, and the family's memories and records. Illustrated from photographs. 284 pp with index ... more information

New York: Knopf, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition. Review copy with publisher's dated slip laid in. A vivid chronicle of a journalist's heartfelt and determined journey to reconnect with a beloved American classic. That classic of course, was Robert Pirsig's novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Author's first children's book, seven stories, with seventeen illustrations (pictures) by Maurice Sendak. 4to. 90pp. Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. Bound in white cloth with gilt decorations in a dust jacket that is clipped on the bottom of the front flap, but the printed price is intact on the top of the flap. A few rubbed spots to jacket that show white. Nice clean copy of an uncommon book.... more information

Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Oblong 8vo. A thorough reworking of a poem by the Dutch writer Hendrik Marsman, this poem is a long, self-referential piece about an intensely visionary alcoholic poet and his tormented process of artistic creation. ... more information

New York: Dutton, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. AIn this novel, a hero who gets into the mind of a serial killer is a fixture of television crime shows, but such stories are usually disappointing, because the viewer knows it's just a gimmick. Not so with this novel, which The New York Times called a "note-perfect, horror-comic ventriloquization of a half-bright, infantile serial killer." Joyce Carol Oates has so convincingly written through the voice of a killer, you will feel n... more information

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition of the second book in the Zuckerman series. ... more information