Dear Booksmith customers and book collectors,
Here are some signed first editions for which we are soliciting
orders. Each is an autographed first American edition book in new
condition. Please let us know if you are interested in ordering. Email
us at
re...@booksmith.com or telephone us to place an order. Our phone
number is
415-863-8688.
POETRY
"Sleeping It Off" by August Kleinzahler (signed hardback 1st edition,
$26.00) AVAILABLE NOW
--- a selected poems by a poet emerging as one of the leading of his
generation (Kleinzahler was recently the subject of a large profile in
the New York Times)
"New Collected Poems" by Eavan Boland (signed hardback 1st edition,
$27.95) AVAILABLE NOW
--- a big new volume from the internationally acclaimed Irish-born
poet now resident in the United States
"The Angels Knocking on the Door" translated by Robert Bly (signed
hardback 1st edition, $22.95) AVAILABLE NOW
--- a selection of poems by the Persian poet Hafez, translated by a
National Book Award winning poet
"Turkish Pears in August" by Robert Bly (signed softcover 1st edition,
$19.95) AVAILABLE NOW
--- delicate oblong chapbook of poems from the National Book Award
winning poet
SOME NON-FICTION
"Home" by Julie Andrews (signed hardback 1st edition, $26.95)
AVAILABLE NOW
--- memoir of the actress' early years - part of a pre-signed edition
from the publisher
"Notes on a Life" by Eleanor Coppola (signed hardback 1st edition,
$25.00) AVAILABLE MAY
--- memoir by the wife of film director Francis Ford Coppola
"Charles Fort" by Jim Steinmeyer (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.95)
AVAILABLE NOW
--- biography by the acclaimed author-magician of the man eccentric
author who "invented the supernatural"
"The Book of the Damned" by Charles Fort (signed softcover 1st
printing, $18.95) AVAILABLE NOW
--- the collected writings of the eccentric author who "invented the
supernatural"
FICTION
"Enchantress of Florence" by Salmon Rushdie (signed hardback 1st
edition, $27.00) AVAILABLE JUNE
--- new novel from the acclaimed author of "Satanic Verses," etc....
"Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri (signed hardback 1st edition,
$25.00) AVAILABLE NOW
--- the new novel from the PULITZER PRIZE winning novelist
"Trauma" by Patrick McGrath (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.95)
AVAILABLE NOW
--- new novel from the acclaimed British-born Gothic novelist
"Plague of Doves" by Louise Erdrich (signed hardback 1st edition,
$25.95) AVAILABLE NOW
--- part of a signed edition "specially bound by the publisher"
"Age of Shiva" by Manil Suri (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.95)
AVAILABLE NOW
--- a second novel from the author of "The Death of Vishnu"
"All the Sad Young Literary Men" by Keith Gessen (signed hardback 1st
edition, $24.95) AVAILABLE NOW
--- debut novel from the acclaimed Russian-born translator and
founding editor of the literary magazine n+1
"Mayor's Tongue" by Nathaniel Rich (signed hardback 1st edition,
$24.95) AVAILABLE NOW
--- debut novel - "I read "The Mayor's Tongue" with ever-increasing
delight, rooting with all my heart for the young protagonist on his
near-mythic quest. This is an elegantly-structured, brilliantly-told
novel, by turns terrifying, touching, and wildly funny, and always
generous and magical. "The Mayor's Tongue" is about how we talk to
each other and how make-believe helps us get on with our lives; most
of all, it's about love. Kudos to Nathaniel Rich, who has created a
brave book, a novel brimming with brio." - Stephen King
"Lady Lazarus" by Andrew Foster Altschul (signed hardback 1st
edition, $25.00) AVAILABLE NOW
--- first novel by a former Stegner Fellow
"Snuff" by Chuck Palahniuk (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.95)
AVAILABLE MAY
--- provocative new novel from the author of "Fight Club"
"Sharing Knife: Passage" by Lois McMaster Bujold (signed hardback 1st
edition, $25.95) AVAILABLE NOW
--- the third volume in the author's Sharing Knife trilogy
"Collected Fantasies" by Clark Ashton Smith (signed hardback 1st
edition, $120.00) AVAILABLE NOW
--- three volume small press edition signed by editor Scott Connors