Search Results: Authors starting with N from Ed Smith Books

New York: Macmillan, 1967. First American Edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy (tiny binding flaw to extreme top left of last page in a near fine dust jacket. A profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial man's experience in a postcolonial world. Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his childhood during which he secretly fantasized about a heroic India, yet changed his name from Ranjit Kripalsingh. As he assesses his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman, Singh realizes what has kept him from becoming a proper Englishman. But it is the return home and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governed nation that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.… Read More

Los Angeles: Nash Publications, 1978. First edition. Paperback. A near fine copy. Photographer Bill Owen's copy, with his ownership signature. A 71 page catalog, self-published by rock & roll singer Graham Nash that highlights his collection of photographs, his first such catalog. In the original illustrated, perfect bound wrappers. One indentation to back cover. Illustrated with black and white photographs.

Brooklyn: Lunar Offensive Press, 1996. First edition. Paperback. A very good plus copy. Emilie Brough. 36 sewn pages in brown cardstock illustrated wrappers, as issued. This copy marked 2/96. Book order info sheet pasted to front cover. Poems. Illustrations by Emilie Brough. 14 poems.

New York: Knopf, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living." Thus writes the author in the introduction to this visionary new book. Bits, the DNA of information, are rapidly replacing atoms as the basic commodity of human interaction. Negroponte shows us the dramatic effects of this change. Nice copy in the original printed acetate dust jacket, as issued.

New York: Viking Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Inscribed by Gus Van Sant to Todd Haynes on the front endpaper; "To Todd from Gus Jan 2, 2005." Laid in is a hand-written note on Pic Films, Inc letterhead (with Gus Van Sant printed at bottom) "Todd---/ happy / birthday!!! / Love / Gus." Todd Haynes is an American independent film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is considered a pioneer of the New Queer Cinema movement of filmmaking that emerged in the early 1990s. Van Sant is a film maker and producer (Good Will Hunting). Blake Nelson is an author of adult and children's literature. His novel Paranoid Park was the basis for the big screen film written and directed by Gus Van Sant.

New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1968. First edition. Paperback. A near fine copy. Oblong 24mo. Being #70 of 100 copies (plus 26 lettered copies not for sale). String tied wrappers, unpaginated with a wonderfully decorated dust jacket with French flaps. In memory of the painters Paul Klee and Paul Terence Feeley. Measures 5 1/2 inches by 7 1/4 inches. In 4 four parts.

N.P.: Washington University Libraries, 1985. A Signed Limited Edition. Single sheet folded once. A fine copy. #49/50 numbered copies signed by Nemerov on the occasion of the Howard Nemerov program for the Bookmark Society. Measures 5 1/2 X 7 1/2 inches (opens like a greeting card).

Garden City: Doubleday, 1964. First thus. Hardcover. A very good plus copy bound in blue cloth in a good only dust jacket that has tape repairs to verso that show through. 4to. 116 pages with 210 illustrations. This copy inscribed by Newhall "For Libby / with all best / Braumont Newhall." Bookplate of Libby Atkins she dates 8/69 to front endpaper. Atkins was a former student of Beaumont Newhall and friend of Nancy Newhall. Beaumont Newhall was an American curator, art historian, writer, photographer, and the second director of the George Eastman Museum. His book The History of Photography remains one of the most significant accounts in the field and has become a classic photographic history textbook. 215pp.

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. A very goodcopy in green cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, in a very good plus clipped dust jacket (though price visible below the clip). Folio. A biography of Ansel Adams, that starts when he was a teenager, and a summer custodian, of sorts, of a small building provided by The Sierra Club. His hikes in the Nevada mountains taught a young Adams a respect for the sights he saw. Eventually as his respect, and his skill of photography grew, he authenticated the genius of nature for all to see. In the recording of this human interplay Nancy Newhall, with subtle selectivity and with a broad knowleldge of the world of photographs, and photographers, has revealed beautifully how Ansel Adams grew. In the end, it is hard to tell which shaped the other more, Ansel or the Sierra Club. What does matter is that the mutuality was important.

New York: Penguin Press, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on a tipped-in sheet. "Signed Copy" sticker to the front panel of the dust jacket (circular). Ng's second novel explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood - and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket (one crease to the bottom of the front flap). It is the end of the 70s and in the town of Chamisaville, Progress has triumphed. However, there is one holdout, but at 83 and over his head in debt, Eloy Irribarren, the last Chicano farmer, can't hold out much longer. By the author of The Milagro Beanfield War and The Magic Journey.

London: Cape, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. A very good copy in yellow and green cloth in a very good jacket with some foxing to the verso. William McLaren. This book is not a sequel to 'Merry Hall'. Its accent is less on the garden than on the house itself. When the author arrived, he found Merry Hall in a sorry state, shabby, neglected, bearing many traces of the vandalism of previous owners long ago. How he brought order out of chaos, how he gradually opened windows and let in the light, and how he finally banished the Edwardian ghosts of his predecessors, all this makes some of the most entertaining reading which Mr Nichols has yet given us.

Seattle: Sasquash, 1994. First edition. A fine copy bound in blue leatherette with gilt illustration and lettering in a fine jacket. Jack McMaster. Signed by the author in the year of publication. A true story of adventure, Nisbet carefully re-creates the life and times of David Thompson; fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the Inland Northwest. Thompson was the first person to chart the entire length of the Columbia River, and his wilderness expeditions are become the stuff of legend. Nisbet tracks the explorer across the continent, interweaving his own observations with Thompson's historical writings. The result is a fascinating story of two men discovering the Northwest territory almost two hundred years apart. 280 pages with index, chronology and further reading. Illustrated with maps.

Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Jack McMaster. This copy is signed by the author on the title page and dated 10/94. Maps and illustrations by Jack McMaster. In this true story of adventure,N isbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson; fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812. As David Thompson traveled, he carried a compass, a sextant, and a business proposition for the native tribes he met. For Thompson was not just a geographer out to map a river, he was also a fur trader with the North West Company, out to expand its domain and convert the natives to its commercial purposes. He was an agent of revolutionary change in the region; its history turns on the moment of his arrival.

New York: National Review Books, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. A tight nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on a tipped-in sheet. A "grab-bag of a book," containing almost 100 pieces on a multiplicity of subjects. Here, Nordlinger visits unusual towns, universities, even music camps. He delves into politics, then profiles a number of personalities: George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Naguib Mahfouz, Al Sharpton, Donald Rumsfeld, Rosie O'Donnell, Rodney Dangerfield and more. He sends dispatches from Europe, East and West, and the Middle East. He writes on a favorite sport, golf, and a favorite art: music. We meet Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, Luciano Pararotti, Meredith Willson (the composer of The Music Man) and many others. 505 pages with index.

New York: Pantheon, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author in the year of publication. A profoundly moving and deeply personal memoir by the co-host of National Public Radio's flagship program All Things Considered. While exploring the hidden conversation on race unfolding throughout America in the wake of President Obama's election, Michele Norris discovered that there were painful secrets within her own family that had been willfully withheld. These revelations—from her father's shooting by a Birmingham police officer to her maternal grandmother's job as an itinerant Aunt Jemima in the Midwest—inspired a bracing journey into her family's past, from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the Deep South.The result is a rich and extraordinary family memoir—filled with stories that elegantly explore the power of silence and secrets—that boldly examines racial legacy and what it means to be an… Read More

Cambridge: NESFA Press, 1989. #270. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket bound in green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. However, this copy is not signed nor is there a slipcase. Includes an introduction by Robert Bloch, stories by Robert A. Heinlein, Jack Williamson, Clifford Simak, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton, Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov.

New York: Knopf, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy. Author's first novel, and second book. The story of Catherine, in her 20s, who sells tickets in a run-down porn theater in a decrepit port city. A sign in the window of the seedy hotel where she lives reads TRANSIENTS WELCOME. Her only friend is Jerome, an anorexic drag queen who searches for love among the sailors. As Catherine and Jerome set out for Hollywood, we witness, with equal horror and fascination their desperate attempt to find redemption in a world that offers them so little. 197 pages. Publisher's dated slip and publicity material laid in. Bound in cloth and slick pictorial boards, no dust jacket (as issued). Her first book was a book of stories, City of Boys.