Search Results: Authors starting with S from Lux Libri

St. Petersburg, FL: The Florida Holocaust Museum, (2009). Signed and dated by the artist on the title page. A book of 23 memorial wood carvings of French children who were killed at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Photographs of the children and Herbert Savel's carvings are shown side-by-side on facing pages. The last set of images in the book depict Savel's own cousin. (His inspiration for the carvings was French Children of the Holocaust, a book by Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld.) Large paperbound format. 11 x 8.5 inches. 61 pp., on glossy paper. Introduction by the artist (pp. 9-15) followed by the captioned illustrations. VG condition. Sound, tight binding. Clean internally.

NY: F. Kleinberger Galleries, 1917. Illustrated catalog of Italian Renaissance art. On loan for exhibition in NY in November 1917, to raise money for WWI relief work in Europe. Illustrated by 102 full-page b&w plates, one for each catalog entry. Plates are printed one side only on glossy paper. Text printed on quality paper with untrimmed edges. 260 pp; list of contributors and index of authors. (Plates counted in pagination.) Paperbound quarto. 10 by 7 inches. VG with some creasing and edge wear. Clean and bright internally. A well-preserved art catalog from the WWI era. Arranged by the following schools of art; Florentine; Sienese; Central Italian; Lombard; Venetian and other North Italian schools.

London: Sampson Low, Marston Searle & Rivington, 1890. Slender clothbound hardcover. 100 pp., with index. VG with moderate wear and signs of age. Brief biographies of early Renaissance artists Ghiberti and Donatello, along with material on other Italian sculptors of the Pisan and Florentine schools. Nicely illustrated by b&w illustrations. One fold-out plate of The Second Door of the Baptistery, Florence, by Ghiberti. Small prior owner signature to the half-title page, but otherwise unmarked. Sound binding.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., (1997.) 3rd printing. Six humorous Christmas stories by David Sedaris. Signed by him on the title page. 134 pp. 12mo hardcover. Near Fine in unclipped dust jacket with a few small nicks but no tears or other flaws. A nice copy that appears to be unread. Jacket protected by a clear archival cover.

(Buffalo, NY: Sheridan Printing, 1996.) 1st edition. A brief collection of short prose and one poem. Signed by the author on a preliminary page: "J.M. Segriff / A Backstairs / Poet." 31, (1) pp. 8vo printed paper wraps. Red ink date stamp (June 1997) on the title. Fine otherwise. Clean and unmarked.

[Buffalo, NY]: Backstairs Aegis. 1st edition. A brief poetry collection. Signed by the author on a preliminary page: "J.M. Segriff / ... A Backstairs / Poet." 20 pp. 8vo staple-bound paper wraps. Fine.

Self-published in 1989. Place not stated. 1st edition. A brief poetry collection. Signed by the author on a preliminary page: "J.M. Segriff / ... A Backstairs / Poet." 24pp. Staple-bound paper wraps. A Fine copy. Clean and unworn.

London: J.M. Dent, (1942.) One volume from the New Temple Shakespeare edition of his works. First published in this format in 1935. With title page, half-title, binding, and dust jacket designs by Eric Gill. xi, 127 pp., notes and glossary. Small hardcover. 5.25 x 4.25 inches. Red cloth with gilt lettering and cover vignette, gilt top page edge. VG in Good dust jacket with chipping and general age. Inner flap is price-clipped. Book itself is securely bound and unmarked, apart from a prior owner's initials and signature in the front. Jacket is protected by a new, clear archival cover.

With a drawing by Andre Masson. Mount Vernon (NY): Golden Eagle Press, 1946. Limited edition of 1,950 copies on fine laid paper. VG condition. 8vo. [10] pages + colophon, with several blank leaves in front and rear. Brown paper-covered boards with Masson's title page drawing repeated in gilt on the front cover. Original slipcase present but worn and chipped.

NY: Random House, (1968.) 1st edition, 1st printing. A collection of 29 "highly personal and frankly erotic" love poems by the former Poet Laureate. 37 pp. Slender 8vo hardcover. Near Fine in unclipped dust jacket with minor spotting and signs of age but no tears or other flaws. Appears to be unread.

Minneapolis: Unrestricted Editions, [2019.] 1st edition.
A brief collection of 10 poems by a transgender activist. Part of a series of chapbooks by neurodivergent writers. 33 pp. Slender paperbound 8vo. Fine. Appears to be unread.

Chicago: Argonaut, Inc., 1969. An "unchanged reprint" of the original 1901 publication. A study of religious beliefs in ancient Rome and the genesis of the Great Mother goddess cult during the reign of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (535-496 BC.) A scholarly study of the rise of the cult, its ultimate decline and fall. Includes discussions of paganism, the prophecies of the Sybilline Books, "taurobolium" bull sacrifice, archaeology, and literature of the period. 114 pp., index. 4 b&w photographic illustrations. 8vo clothbound hardcover. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. No dust jacket, as issued (?) Minor spotting to top page edge, but VG overall. Sound, tight binding. Clean internally. A book that appears to have seen little, if any, use.

Honolulu: Beyond Words Publishing, (1989.) 2nd edition. Signed by co-author MacKinnon Simpson with a brief greeting: "With Warmest Aloha." VG in VG dust jacket with a clear archival cover. A well-illustrated book about whales and whaling. This edition contains four new chapters not in the 1986 1st edition. 148 pp. A large volume. 11.25 by 9 inches. ***This title had the distinction of being the first coffee-table book created with desktop publishing using Apple Macintosh computers. Book is accompanied by a 32-page booklet detailing the use of new technology of the 1980s. Booklet is VG with a small paperclip mark and a name written at the top of the front cover.

Washington, DC, & San Francisco: Dryad Press, (1981.) Poems of the Jewish experience. Signed and inscribed by the author on the verso of the half-title. 63, (1) pp. 8vo. Paper wraps with calligraphic cover. VG+ with light signs of age. Clean and unworn.

Boston: Little, Brown, (1989.) Signed 1st edition. A big, beautiful retrospective of work by American photographer Victor Skrebneski (1929-2020.) More than 100 photographs, 42 in color, showcasing his work over a span of four decades. Includes fashion and art photography, celebrity portraits, surrealistic compositions, architectural studies, and sensual, sculptural nudes. Signed and inscribed by Skrebneski in black marker "For Corky" in the rear of the book. Dated in the year of publication. A large, bold signature that measures about 9 inches across. Not paginated, but about 185 pages with 2-page "Plate List and Notes." Folio hardcover in dust jacket. 13.25 by 10.5 inches. Book and jacket illustrated with negative and positive images of a Skrebneski photo. VG overall. DJ shows some rubbing and wear but no major flaws. Binding sound and tight. Clean and unmarked internally. Jacket is protected by a clear archival cover.

London: Grey Walls Press, (1947.) 1st edition of this brief collection of work by Smart, an 18th century English poet whose life was "chiefly a sequence of debt, imprisonment, drink and madness." 58 pp. Slender 12mo. Pictorial paper boards with matching dust jacket. VG overall. Securely bound with moderate wear and signs of age. "British Book Centre" sticker on the inner jacket flap. Clean internally, apart from minor tanning, foxing of the endpapers. Neat prior owner signature (K.R. Huntington.)

Westport: Westport Chamber of Commerce and Westport Historical Society, 1989. A guide to the history and architecture of private homes, public and commercial buildings in Westport (founded 1764) in Essex County. (33) pages with small b&w photos and a map of the 5-mile walking route. Oblong, staple-bound booklet. 5.35 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Clean and unmarked. Issued in a small edition and now hard to find.

[NY: Hearst] 1930. Advance printing in book form of a June 1930 Cosmopolitan magazine article. Snowden's first-person account of how he "limped his way to power." Snowden (1864-1937), socialist politician and propagandist, was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the first two Labour Party governments of Great Britain. Crippled by spinal disease at a young age, Snowden's tenure coincided with the worst years of the Depression in the UK and other countries. 30 pages, divided between Snowden's story, and advertising/promotional material. Small hardcover, about 4.5 by 6.25 inches. Purplish paper-covered boards, silver foil endpages. Near Fine, with some very minor rubbing. A nice copy of a scarce item.

NY: Oxford, 1970. 1st edition. Signed / by the author as "Monroe" on the first blank page. A study of the modern spirit in literature from about 1909 onward. With an emphasis on American and British modernism in the poetry of Yeats, Pound and Eliot, the poets of the American South after the First World War, and the mid-century revolution in modern poetry and criticism. 278 pp., index. Clothbound hardcover. 8.5 by 5.75 inches. VG in moderately worn dust jacket. A couple of pages creased from a minor production flaw in the printing process. Jacket protected by a new clear archival cover. Sound, tight binding. Uncommon signed.

1902 Autograph of the civil rights activist and president of the NAACP. Signed "A.B. Spingarn" in pencil in 1902 on a page removed from an unknown book. Spingarn was an avid collector of books and other material by African Americans, and he has also written [Limited edition] below his signature. Spingarn and his brother, Joel, were Jewish Americans who became interested in the civil rights movement through the work of W.E.B. Dubois. They were active in the NAACP from its outset in the early 1900s. A.B. [Arthur Barnette] Spingarn was chairman of its legal committee, vice president from 1911-1940, and president from 1940-1946. His important "Spingarn Collection" was donated to Howard University and helped form the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. Joel Spingarn was a founding member of the NAACP in 1909, and president from 1930-1939. The prestigious Spingarn Medal is awarded annually to honor African American achievement. An early example of A.B. Spingarn's signature. Uncommon outside of institutional… Read More