Search Results: Authors starting with W from Ed Smith Books

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy (tiny binding flaw to pages 321-323) in a fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed on the title page (top left). Now in its seventh year, CBC Radio's award-winning program, "Writer's & Company," has a large, loyal audience who tunes in each week to enjoy the far-ranging, often intimate exchange of ideas and stories between Eleanor Wachtel and her extraordinary guests. In this marvelous companion to the acclaimed first volume, twenty-two writers of international renown, creators of novels, essays, short stories, explore what moves and motivates them. They are: Chinua Achebe, Isabel Allende, Martin Amis, John Berger, Harold Bloom, Nicole Brossard, E.L. Doctorow, Louise Erdrich, Carlos Fuentes, Amitav Ghosh, David Grossman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jamaica Kincaid, Jane Anne Phillips. Reynolds Price, Oliver Sacks, Edward Said, Carol Shields, Jane Smiley, William Trevor, Alice Walker, and Jeanette Winterson. 352 pages.

Seattle: The Center For Wooden Boats, 2012. Second edition (2012). Paperback. A fine copy (signed sticker to front cover). Dick Wagner. Signed by Wagner on the half-title page: "Imagine a World / without history." (signed, Dick Wagner). The Center for Wooden Boats provides a gathering place where maritime history comes alive through direct experience and our small craft heritage is enjoyed, preserved, and passed along to future generations. 156 pages, perfect bound in the original illustrated wrappers.

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1973. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy in blue/green boards in a very good plus jacket with light soiling to the rear panel. The author's masterpiece of autobiography in verse (his fourth book). With black and white author photo, 5 x 7, laid in. 152pp. Walcott won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 4to. While writing her 1992 novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Walker opened a painful door: she brought the issue of female genital mutilation, a practice that affects one hundred million of the world's women, to the attention of the reading public. She realized she had not yet done enough to help stop this age-old practice and she resolved to make a documentary film that would fruther educate people about the harmful, sometimes deadly process. To make the film Walker teamed up with Indian-British filmmaker Pratibha Parmar, whose credites include several widely acclaimed documentaries focusing on issues of race, gender, and sexuality. This book chronicles their odyssey together. Illustrated from photographs. 372 pages.

New York: Random House, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Alice Walker. 12mo. Here, Walker reveals her remarkable philosophy of life. Curiously, this labor of love started with the author's signature: Faced with the daunting task of providing autographs for multiple copies of one of her poetry collections, "Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth", turned an act of repetition into an act of inspiration. For each autograph became something more than a name: a thoughtful reflection, an impromptu sketch, a heartfelt poem. The result is this spontaneous burst of the unexpected, a collection of insights and drawings, by turns charming and humorous, provocative and profound, that represent the wisdom of one of our most beloved writers. 153 pages.

New York: Random House, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded in a way that challenged everything I'd ever thought about human relationships. Situated squarely in that terrifying paradise called freedom, presipitously out on so many emotional limbs, it was as if I had been born; and in fact I was being reborn as the woman I was to become."

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. First edition. Paperback. This copy would be in fine condition were it not for spine sunning that wraps around to the rear panel (about an inch). Uncorrected Proof of this book of prose pieces. Perfect bound in sky blue printed wrappers, as issued. Here, the author expands on our intimate connection with plants and animals, the poisoning of our environment, and nuclear peril. She describes her struggles, sometimes humorous, to becoming a devout vegetarian. Finally, her Native American belief that all creation is of one substance, and she identifies closely with her own part Cherokee heritage (thanks to her great-grandmother).

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Publisher promotional letter laid in. This book collects all the poems from the author's previously published books. 461pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine, clean dust jacket with the lightest of wear to extremities. Set mostly in the deep South and New York, this novel, the author's second, has been described as Walker's "meditation on the modern civil rights movement." Meridian is about Meridian Hill, a young black woman in the late 1960s who is attending college as she embraces the civil rights movement at a time when the movement becomes violent. The story follows her life into the 1970s through a relationship that ultimately fails, and her continued efforts to support the movement. 228 pages.

New York: Random House, 1997. First edition. hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Alice Walker on the title page. Here, Walker writes about her life as an activist, in the belief that the world is savable, if only we will act. The book begins with an autobiographical essay in which she describes her own spiritual growth and the roots of her activism, including reflections about religion in 'The Color Purple.' Then she explores; being a daughter and raising one, dreadlocks, banned books, civil rights, gender communication and the ritual mutilation of children in Ghana. She writes about Zora Neale Hurston and Salman Rushdie and offers advice for Bill Clinton, for Fidel Castro, and for young women growing up. She comments on culture and cats, feminism and race, writing and living. Here are a wise woman's thoughts as she interacts with the world today, and an important portrait of an activist writer's life.

Paris: Galerie Brugier-Rigail, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine box, book issued sans dust jacket. Nickk Walker. #26 of 100 numbered copies (handwritten on box) with a 94 full-color page hardbound exhibition catalog that features the artist's originals and murals. Nick Walker is one of the world's best known street artists. Born in 1969, he emerged from the infamous and groundbreaking Bristol Graffiti scene of the early 1980s. As a forerunner of the British graffiti phenomenon, Nick's work has become a blueprint for hundreds of emerging artists, including Bansky. His work is constantly evolving and remains innovative, modern and thought-provoking. His work has also been embraced by the record, fashion and film industries. He was commissioned by Stanley Kubrick to recreate the heavily hit graffiti'd areas of New York for Eyes Wide Shut. More recently Nick's infamous and recognizable 'Vandal' character, the artist who disguises himself as a quintessential English gentleman in… Read More

St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1986. Advance Uncorrected Galley. Paperback. A very good solid copy. Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason, Louise Erdrich, Alice Munro, Sara Vogan, Alice Adams, Tess Gallagher, Elizabeth Tallent, Anne Beattie, Jane Bowles, Joy Williams, Susan Minot, Laurie Colwin, and Mavis Gallant. Front cover missing, but a bright gold back cover still present. Title page is the top page. Flesh colored spiral binding. Some hand corrections throughout.

New York: Doubleday, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. A haunting, tender story that weaves a tragic secret, a mysterious meeting with the Devil, and a family of charming circus freaks recounting the extraordinary adventures of their friend Henry Walker, the Negro Magician. In the middle of a dusty Southern town, in the middle of the twentieth century, magician Henry Walker entertains crowds at Jeremiah Musgrove's Chinese Circus. Though not the world-famous illusionist he once was, Henry, with his dark skin and green eyes, is still something of a novelty to the patrons who pay a dime to see his show. Most of the patrons, anyway. As the novel begins, one May night in 1954, Henry is confronted by three menacing white teens, and soon thereafter disappears. With his fate uncertain, his friends from the circus—Jenny the Ossified Girl, Rudy the Strong Man, and JJ the Barker—piece together what they know of Henry's mysterious and extraordinary… Read More

London: Scribner, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine book (nudge to front bottom corner) in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the editor Caroline Walsh. A collection of short stories by writers who have come to prominence during the turbulent time. Set in Dublin, America, the Irish Midlands, London, and Middle Europe. Stories by Tom Humphries, Claire Keegan, John MacKenna, Aidan Mathews, Molly McClosky, Blanaid McKinney, Mary Morrissy, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Joseph O'Neill, Sean O'Reilly and Keith Ridgway.The stories here journey away from conventional 'Irishness'. They create a new order as they move through worlds sometimes familiar, sometimes alien, sordid, even violent. Bound in black cloth with silver lettering.

New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth--and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories and her own.

New York: Scribner, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page, her third novel published on September 5, 2017. It is about a family's dynamics in the fictional town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. National Book Award winner for fiction. Selected by Time magazine as one of its top ten novels of the year. 289 pages.

New York: Anchor Doubleday, 1997. First U.S. edition. Paperback. A fine copy in the original printed wrappers, as issued. A PBO. Author's first book. This copy is signed on the title page. Basis for the cult film that starred Samantha Morton directed by Lynne Ramsay. A kind of post-punk Patricia Highsmith. A suicide, a road trip, a novel on a computer whose authorship changes. Better read the book before you see the film.

Carmel: Friends of Photography, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Small Oblong 4to. Edited by James Alinder with Essays by David Featherstone and Russ Anderson. Watkins, the consummate photographer of the American West, combined a virtuoso mastery of the difficult wet plate negative process with a rigorous sense of pictorial structure. For large-format landscape work such as Watkins produced along the Columbia River in Oregon, the physical demands were great. Since there was as yet no practical means of enlarging, Watkins's glass negatives had to be as large as he wished the prints to be, and his camera large enough to accommodate them. Furthermore, the glass negatives had to be coated, exposed, and developed while the collodion remained tacky, requiring the photographer to transport a traveling darkroom as he explored the rugged virgin terrain of the American West. The crystalline clarity of Watkins's remarkable "mammoth" prints is unmatched in the work of… Read More

Boston: Bulfinch / Little, Brown, 1994. First small format edition. Hardcover. A near fine clean copy in photo illustrated white boards. 12mo. Watson, is a Scottish fashion, celebritry, and art photographer. He has shot over 100 covers of Vogue and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s, and has created major advertising campaigns for clients such as Prada, Chanel and Levis. Here is a great collection of art prints, portraits, still life, and fashion images ranging from the start of his career to the mid 90's. Be advised this copy offered is the first small format edition (6 x 7 inches), not the original edition measuring 11 x 14 inches.

New York: Crown, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself—and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.