Search Results: Authors starting with A from Locus Solus Rare Books

New York: Stage 73, 1965. A hint of toning, few tiny nicks and marks; fine.. Broadsheet, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in., printed on both sides by mimeograph. An extraordinary statement in support of Lionel Abel's play, based on Sophocles' "The Trachiniae" which played off-Broadway at Stage 73. The recto prints an impassioned statement lauding Abel's play - and criticizing the general mediocrity of New York's commercial theatre - published in the names of an impressive roster of New York's leading artists and intellectuals, including Alfred Barr, Jr., Irving Kristol, Harvey Swados, Irving Howe, Barney (i.e. Barnett) Newman, William Phillips, Norman Podhoretz, Robert Lowell, Meyer Schapiro, Esteban Vicente, Willem de Kooning, James Merrill, and Elizabeth Hardwick, among others. On the verso appear extended quotations from Albert Bermel's review of the play from "The New Leader". A uncommon ephemeron.

New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1970. First Edition. Slight sun toward edges, close to fine. Square 8vo, 28pp; original wrappers, illustrated with photographs. Abish's first book, a collection of poems, limited to 300 copies. The colohon states that copies numbered 1-20 were signed. This copy is not numbered but has been signed by Abish on the title page.

1942. Folded twice horizontally; very good. 2-side broadsheet leaflet, 8-1/2 x 11 in., printed on both sides. A professor of history and political science, Charles W. Lightbody was dismissed from his position at St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY) without a specific charge. Lightbody was outspoken about world affairs and had been a signer, in 1939, of a letter in support of the Soviet Union and opposition to fascism. The leaflet is detailed point by point defense, particularly critical of his departmental colleague Albert Corey. Lightbody went on to long career in Canada, where he was a much loved teacher and mentor.

Beverly Hills, California: Morrison, Raven Hill Company, 1983. First edition. Slight damage at the top of the spine, where the book was once pulled roughly from a shelf, with small, unobtrusive tape mend; very good.. 4to, 286pp; glazed pictorial boards. Compendium documenting the career of the great film actor Lon Chaney, known especially for his roles as monsters and fantastic creatures involving extensive and elaborate makeup. This copy is from the limited issue, the only hardcover issue, one of 200 numbered copies (plus 52 lettered copies) signed by Ackerman, as well as other contributors, including Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Ken Strickfaden, et al, and with a small glass bead containing a dab of Chaney's makeup affixed to a ribbon marker.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. Gift inscription to front endpaper; top edge lightly dusted; close to fine in an unclipped dust jacket with slight fading to spine, a closed tear and a surface scratch to the rear panel, a few small chips and some fraying at spine ends. Small 4to, 132 (4)pp; yellow cloth stamped in orange. This edition contains 48 photos by Adams, along with notes on the photos and an afterword by Adams, in part paying tribute to Austin (1868-1934) who had previously written text for Adams's first book, Taos Pueblo (1930). The Land of Little Rain was originally published in 1903 and is a classic of Californiana, a Zamorano 80 title.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First edition. Cloth. Just about fine in a crisp, price-clipped but unworn dust jacket, the spine of which shows a hint if sun.. Oblong folio, uunpag.; two-tone cloth. This copy has been signed by Adams on the half title. In addition, Adams has signed and dated (9/11/79) a loosely inserted ticket stub from John Szarkowski's MOMA lecture that was given during the contemporary exhibition "Ansel Adams and the West.

New York: Macy-Masius, 1926. First editions. Fine copies in lightly rubbed dust jacket with some small tears and scratches, in publisher's decorated paper slipcase.. Two vols, 8vos, 223 + [191]pp; cloth-backed boards. Each volume is one of 100 copies, signed and numbered on an additional leaf by FPA. Contributors include Christopher Morley, Marc Connelly, Countee Cullen, Corey Ford, Dorothy Parker, and many others.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition thus. Short closed tear to front endpaper; slight dampstain affecting rear board, not too serious; otherwise near fine in a faintly faded dust jacket with a few small chips and tiny edge tears.. 8vo, 334pp illustrated; pictorial endpapers; rough-grained tan cloth stamped in black and green. A charming collection of fictional travels, originally published in 1883.

Boston: Limited Editions Club, 1942. First edition thus. Spine a bit rubbed, else very good in rubbed and partly broken slipcase. 4to, red cloth. One of 1500 copies printed for the L.E.C. by the Merrymount Press and signed by Chamberlain, the entire edition.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Slight mottling of endsheets from jacket flaps, else fine in a rubbed dust jacket with slight wear to extremities and a dime-sized abrasion on the spine.. 8vo, 304pp; textured blue cloth stamped in green. Uncommon in dust jacket.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. Ownership signature; tiny hole to cloth at front hinge; fine in a fresh, unfaded, albeit price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of short tears and a mild stain to the rear panel.. 8vo, 318pp; textured blue cloth stamped in green. An excellent copy of the muckraking journalist's principal novel, based on the scandalous Warren G. Harding administration.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. First edition thus. Fine in a lightly rubbed slipcase, faded on the closed end.. 8vo, padded, patterned silk-covered boards, t.e.g. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by Ross, the entire edition.

San Francisco. -. Paper clip impression and a bit of rust, very good.. Printed invitation card for a luncheon in honor of Adenauer, hosted by the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, and signed by Adenauer at the event. Approx. 4 X 5 in. Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967), nicknamed "Der Alte," the former mayor of Cologne, was the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, a position he held from 1949 to 1963.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Mixed edition. Slight leans, shelf-rubbing, very good in chipped and torn dust jackets.. Five volumes, large 8vos; 989, 227,135, 341, 164pp; cloth. The complete set of this historic series in a mixture of mostly later printings and one first. Includes The Authoritarian Personality by Adorno, with Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, and R. Nevitt Sanford (later printing); Dynamic of Prejudice by Bruno Bettelheim and Morris Janowitz (later printing); Anti-Semitism and Emotional Disorder by Nathan W. Ackerman and Marie Jahoda (later printing); Rehearsal for Destruction by Paul Massing (first printing); Prophets of Deceit by Leo Lowenthal and Norbert Guterman (later printing).

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First American edition. Discreet bookseller's blindstamp on front flyleaf; remnants of paper stuck to the rear board where the dust jacket, once moistened, had adhered; very good in a bright pictorial dust jacket showing sings of the aforementioned dampness on the lower rear panel and spine; a tape-mended tear to the joint of the front flap and a few small chips, especially at the top of the spine.. 8vo, 295pp; black cloth. Adès was a francophone Egyptian; this was his third book.

San Francisco: AFL-CIO, 1942. Evenly toned; vertical fold; neat pencil notation. Four-page pamphlet printed on a single bifolium of newsprint. Reproduces a speech by Monroe E. Deutsch, vice president and provost of the University of California, delivered to a meeting at San Francisco's Civic Auditorium sponsored by the Citizen for Victory Committee, with additional excerpt from remarks by CIO VP Joseph Curran.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. Covers a trifle marked, else near fine in a lightly sunned and edge-worn dust jacket.. 8vo, tan cloth. Aiken's follow-up volume after his 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, this copy has been singed by the poet on the front flyleaf.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. Faint marks to endsheets; fine in a bright dust jacket with just a shade of fading tot he spine and some minor chipping to the top, a small closed tear.. 8vo, 240pp;. Poet's short fiction.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. Fine in a bright, fresh dust jacket with a short edge tear to the rear panel.. 8vo, 151pp; cloth. With the 1953 ownership signature of poet and translator Lysander Kemp on the front flyleaf.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. 1st edition. Fine in a very lightly used dust jacket, a hint of sun to spine and edges.. 12mo, off white cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Aiken on the front flyleaf to Marie Bullock, founder of the Academy of American Poets.