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Ed Smith Books specializes in buying and selling literary first editions, photographic monographs, screen and theater related material. We offer appraisals for books and photographs. Our location, on Bainbridge Island, is a short ferry ride from downtown Seattle, Washington. Open by appointment. Member, ABAA.

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Small 8vo. Rare hardcover edition, being one of only 506 copies. This copy is inscribed by Tennessee Williams on the front endpaper: " Hard Cover! / What Radical Chic! / Tennessee Williams / Key West, 1971." 114pp. With four photographic plates inserted throughout. When this play first premiered in New York in 1945, actor Montgomery Clift played the role of Hadrian (directed by Gurthrie McClintic)

YOU TOUCHED ME! A Romanic Comedy In Three Acts. Suggested by a Short Story of the Same Name by D. H. Lawrence.
Williams, Tennessee and Donald Windham
New York: Samuel French, (1947). Small 8vo. Rare hardcover edition, being one of only 506 copies. This copy is inscribed by Tennessee Williams on the.. more
Price: $2,000.00

This copy is inscribed to Edward Hyde Cox (1914-1998) who served as the President of the Cape Ann Historical Association (MA): "For Hyde Cox, the Canary / of Crow Island / Wallace Stegner." This book, while written from the perspective of the Mormon immigration, is more than a recounting of history. Rather, it is a glimpse into the culture, mindset, and mantra of the many different people and parties that tamed what is now Utah, northern Arizona and New Mexico, western Colorado, southern Idaho and Wyoming, and eastern Nevada.

MORMON COUNTRY. Part of the American Folkways Series
Stegner, Wallace
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, (1942). This copy is inscribed to Edward Hyde Cox (1914-1998) who served as the President of the Cape Ann Historical Association.. more
Price: $850.00

A realist semi-autobiographical novel that has been called "arguably, Wells' most artistic book." First issue. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and leather and cloth slipcase.

TONO-BUNGAY.
Wells, H. G.
London: Macmillan, 1909. A realist semi-autobiographical novel that has been called "arguably, Wells' most artistic book." First issue. Housed in a custom cloth.. more
Price: $450.00

This is the special limited edition, 1/100 copies, specially bound, slipcased, and signed by the author on the title page. This special edition was not sold but given away by the author to help celebrate his involvment with publishing which debuted with this book. A very scarce item. The book won the Grand Prix, the highest honor for a mystery novel in France. It also won the Anthony Award and Macavity Award for Best Novel of 1998, and was also the basis for the Clint Eastwood directed film that starred Eastwood, Angelica Huston and Jeff Daniels.

BLOOD WORK
Connelly, Michael
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998. This is the special limited edition, 1/100 copies, specially bound, slipcased, and signed by the author on the title page... more
Price: $1,850.00

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