Search Results: Authors starting with K from Ed Smith Books

London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2007. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Film source. The true story of the Battle of Iwo Jima, the subject of two films directed by Clint Eastwood. 'Flags of Our Fathers' tells the story of the US Marines who raised the flag above the island: the iconic image of the war with Japan. His other film, 'Letters from Iwo Jima' tells the story from the Japanese point of view. At the heart of this story is the maverick general Tadamichi Kurlyabashi, devoted family man, brilliant leader and the first man on the island to know they were going to die.

New York and Cleveland: World, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. A very good copy in powder blue cloth with sunning around the edges in a very good plus dust jacket with minor wear to extremities with some rubbing to the front cover. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book interweaves the stories of real and fictional characters. It is told from many points of view, including that of Henry Wirz, the camp commandant, who was later executed. It also features William Collins, a Union soldier and one of the leaders of the "Raiders". The "Raiders" are a gang of thugs, mainly bounty jumpers who steal from their fellow prisoners and lead comfortable lives while other prisoners die of starvation and disease. Other characters include numerous ordinary prisoners of war, the camp physician/doctor, a nearby plantation owner, guards and Confederate civilians in the area near the prison.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. Third edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in red cloth with a very good plus clean dust jacket. Signed on the front free endpaper by Karsh dated in the year of publication. 48 gravure illustrations. He is the classic portrait artist of the camera, photographer of the world's great. To be photographed by Karsh has been a sign of personal accomplishment for a third of a century. During that time his camera lens has repeatedly, and unforgettably, recorded the illuminating gesture, the unique attitude, the moment's reflection, to create a definitive picture of one celebrated personality after another.

London: Peter Owen, 1994. reprint. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Originally published in 1929. Anna Kavan (1901-1968) is now regarded as one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. She wrote in the tradition of the great writers on drug addiction. Born Helen Woods, in Cannes, Kavan spent her childhood in Europe, the USA and Great Britain. Her life was haunted by her rich, glamorous mother, beside whom her father remains an indistinct figure. Having begun her career under her married name Helen Ferguson, it was only after she had a nervous breakdown that she became Anna Kavan, the protagonist of her 1930 novel Let Me Alone, with an outwardly different persona and a new literary style. This early work, A Charmed Circle, is a dark tale of family repression in 1920s England. She suffered periodic bouts of mental illness and long-term drug addiction - she had become addicted to heroin in the 1920s and continued to use it throughout her life - and these facets of… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1978. First edition. Paperback. A very good plus copy sunned a little at spine (ink mark to bottom edge (k). Small 4to. The uncorrected proof (tall galley) measuring 5 1/4 by 10 3/4 inches. Perfect bound in green printed wrappers. Taped to the front cover is a notice that this title is to be 'An Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild" along with the ISBN number and publication date, July 10. A beautiful and strongly sexual young woman seeks security and certainty within her husband's Greek-American family but is soon on the move again, toward an inevitable final reckoning. 297 pages.

New York: Random House, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on a tipped-in blank sheet. Here, Keaton shares the wisdom she's accumulated through the years as a mother, daughter, actress, artist, and international style icon. 188pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. A fine copy in the original green perfect bound printed wrappers. A construction project in the desert of eastern Oregon forms the basis for a story with deep political, mystical, and--for its time--prescient implications: the impingement of American imperialism on its own native territory. Set in the 1980s, the project underway is to be a "prison for profit" where alien captives are incarcerated in secret. Broken Ground is about the seen world of excavated earth, steel, and concrete, and the unseen world of ghosts and spirits, bound together by an undertaking that expresses the root of both a clandestine and overt political evil that extends well into our present time". 140 pages.

London: Faber & Faber, 2017. First edition. Paperback. A fine copy in the original wrappers with French flaps. This original paperback with French flaps has been signed by David Keenan and dated in the year of publication. The debut novel by David Keenan is a love letter to the small towns of Lanarkshire in the west of Scotland in the late 1970s and early '80s as they were temporarily transformed by post-punk, the endless possibilities that came out of the freefall and detritus of punk rock. Its authors are Ross Raymond and Johnny McLaughlin, two dedicated fanboys whose interactions with the principle players of the scene, like Chinese Moon, Steel Teeth and Glass Sarcophagus, recreated a story of myth, magic and mundanity. At its core is the story of Memorial Device (perhaps the greatest band you have never heard of), a post-punk group that could have gone all the way were it not for excess and the uncompromising bloody-minded belief that served to confirm them as underground legends. David Keenan… Read More

New York: Abbeville Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. 4to. With photographs and text by Kertesz. This combination of revealing, often charming text and sparkling duotone reproductions forms a unique, 120-page self-portrait of the man and artist-of his years in his native Hungary, in Paris in the 20s and 30s, and in New York from 1936.

New York: Abrams, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine jacket with some yellowing to white jacket and spine sun. 4to. Features 150 duotone illustrations, with text by Ben Lifson. Grey cloth with silver stamping, crisp copy.

New York: Abrams, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/a near fine. This retrospective volume celebrates the seventy years of Kertesz' photographic career, from his youth in his native Hungary, through an exciting and fruitful decade in Paris, to his American period in Greenwich Village. It presents 150 insightful and penetrating images, including 60 photographs never before published and some 40 taken within the last ten years. While subjects of his images are varied, ranging from portraits and scenes of World War 1 to still lifes, landscapes, and cityscapes, Kertesz' personal, poetic style remains constant.

New York: Random House, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Here, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man's remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him-a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances. Deo arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and genocide, plagued by horrific dreams, he lands at JFK airport with two hundred dollars, no English, and no contacts. He ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores. Then Deo begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing. Kidder breaks new ground in telling this unforgettable story… Read More

New York: Random House, 2009. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. An inspiring account of one man's remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived civil war and genocide, plagued by horrific dreams, he lands at JFK airport with two hundred dollars, no English, and no contacts. He ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores, Then Deo begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing.

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Author's first book, ten stories. They are: Girl - In the Night - At Last - Wingless - Holidays - The Letter From Home - What I Have Been Doing Lately - Blackness - My Mother- At the Bottom of the River.

New York: Avon, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. A nearly fine copy, with list foxing to the top edge, in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by B. B. King in his distinctive hand. King (1925-2015) has defined the blues for a worldwide audience. Since he started recording in the 1940s, he has released over fifty albums, many of them classics. Riley B. King, born on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, near Indianola was also a songwriter and record producer. After serving in World War II he became a disc jockey in Memphis where he was dubbed "the Beale Street Blues Boy." That nickname was shortened to "B.B." and the guitarist cut his first record in 1949. He spent the next several decades recording and touring, playing more than 300 shows a year. He won his 15th Grammy Award in 2009. Coincidentally, the year that King made his first recording was also the same year that he named his beloved guitar. King attended a dance in Twist, Arkansas, that had a barrel lit with kerosene in the middle of… Read More

New York: Ecco, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Drew D Hanson on the title page. This is the first book about Dr. King's legendary "I Have A Dream" speech. Opening with an enthralling account of the August day in 1963 that saw 250,000 Americans converge at the March on Washington. The speech itself, is examined on various levels; as a political treatise, a work of poetry, and a a masterfully delivered and improvised sermon bursting with biblical language and imagery. 293pp with notes and index. Illustrated from photographs.

Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1984. Signed limited edition. Hardcover. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. #49 of 50 copies signed by both Kittredge and Carver. Additionally inscribed by Kittredge to another (her signature and another to front endpaper). Eight stories; The Waterfowl Tree, Thirty-four Seasons of Winter, Flight, The Soap Bear, Blue Stone, Momentum is Always the Weapon, The Underground River, and We Are Not in This Together. One of the best publications of the press. 128 pages. Blurbs by Edward Abbey, Thomas McGuane, John Nichols and Richard Ford. In his foreword Carver writes; "Whole thing works on gravity. Heavy falls and the light floats away." This is said by a wheat rancher as he explains how a threshing machine operates in "The Van Gogh Field," the title story in Kittredge's first book of short stories.

New York: Knopf, 2006. First edition. The author's first novel; an epic that stretches over the twentieth century, from the settlers, cowboys, gamblers who opened up this country to the landholders and politicians who ran it. A way of life nearly extinct at the novel's beginning and surviving only in memory upon its close at century's end. 342 pages.

Brockport: Boa Editions, 1984. First edition. hardback. A fine copy in dust jacket. Volume #10 in the American Poets Continuum Series. The winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for this volume. Four sections: Believing/Unbelieving, A Muse, Dreams and Friends, and Fanny and the Affections. 28 poems. 87 pages.

New Haven: Yale, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. An exploration of the environmental history of Seattle and what it tells us about making cities that are both scenic and just for all. The author explores the role of nature in the development of the city from the earliest days of its settlement to the present. Combining environmental history, urban history, and human geography. 344 pages with index and bibliographical references. Illustrated from photographs.