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

Phoenix: Education Division of the American Indian Service, 1944. First Edition. Lightly used; very good. 8vo, 20pp pamphlet in printed wrappers, stapled. The correct first edition of this primer on the Navaho language. It was reprinted in 1946. The copyright code suggests that this edition was 500 copies.

Hollywood, California: American Russian Institute, 1947. Folded, as for mailing, small hole and rust stain at the fold on front wrapper; delicate but sound.. 8vo, eight unnumbered mimeograph pages in printed wrappers. Scarce little cultural propaganda publication issued by the American Russian Institute of Southern California, whose board of directors included the soon-to-be blacklisted screenwriter Alvah Bessie and Russian-born director Lewis Milestone. Although Milestone, like Bessie, refused to name names of Hollywood communists when summoned in the infamous HUAC hearings, he was able to avoid the blacklist. This publication contains reports on violinist Yehudi Menuhin's visit to Moscow, and other music reviews; reports on science and medicine in the USSR, and a piece on Soviet cinema, along with brief announcements and notes. The wrappers include photographs on inside and outside. Not recorded in OCLC.

London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1936. First edition. Bookplates; just about fine in light soiled dust jacket, edges reinforced on the underside with paper-tape, a handful of small tears.. 8vo, 351pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. From the first issue, with "A Flood in the Office" on pages 278-281, which was excised from later copies. A notable association copy, linking icons of LGBTQ literature: signed by Forster on the title page. Glued to the front flyleaf are the small bookplates of Glenway Wescott and Monroe Wheeler, with another small paper with "Mr. Glenway Wescott" affixed above these, apparently preserved from the package in which Forster sent the book; further inserts tipped in at various places, and with Wescott's marginal notes in ink on several pages.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1955. First American edition. Heavy bump to top of front board, very good in a lightly rubbed dust jacket, faded a bit at the spine.. 8vo, 214pp; green and black cloth. Third volume of Powell's "Dance to the Music of Time" series.

San Francisco: Bedford Arts Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Book is as new in original mailing box; slight rumpling to two posters, which have been rolled; other items fine. 4to, unpag. in pictorial boards with printed wraparound band. Accompanied by: three posters promoting the event; printed guide/prospectus to the event, with narrative cassette tape; size XL cotton t-shirt from the event, with fabric samples from the Umbrellas pinned on; commemorative Pepsi-Cola can, depicting the Umbrellas and with a welcome message from the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co of Bakersfield; 56-pp newspaper supplement from the Bakersfield Californian providing details abot Christo anand the Umbrellas project. A nice small collection surrounding one of Christo's major international environmental art installations developed between 1984 and 1991. More than 3000 yellow and blue umbrellas were installed respectively in Japan and California. The exhibition closed early amid controversy after a woman was crushed to death when… Read More

London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. Second Edition. Small tape mend to the base of the half-title; short marginal tear to map (affecting only a bit of sea); scattered spotting in early pages, more severe toning to a number of final leaves.. 8vo, xxii, 1, folding map, 384pp; modern light brown leather. Boswell's first major work, which made him famous and went quickly into multiple editions. This London edition followed shortly after the Glasgow first edition. A solid copy, albeit in a workmanlike binding by Joseph Ruzicka.

London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1802. Second Edition. Bookplate removed from front pastedown has left a ghost-image offset on facing leaf; endsheets toned at edges; covers rubbed, hinges tender.. 8vo, 307pp + 1 p of ads; contemporary calf gilt. Robertson, the Scottish historian, was known for his early History of America, as well as works on the reign of Charles V, Scotland, and India.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Communist Party, 1946. Evenly toned; neat pencil notation. Broadside, on a single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches. Strong statement of opposition to President Truman's labor policy.

Fremont, Michigan: The Sumac Press, 1974. First Edition. very good. 8vo, 256pp; paper wrappers.

N.P.: [Galatea P. Arditsoglou], 1968. First Edition. Slight soil, very good. 8vo, unpag. 4p chapbook in card wrappers, stapled. Prints Kallman's tribute poem in memory of Yannis Boras, who was killed an auto accident, with two Greek translations. Small ink correction to one Greek word.

Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1937. First edition thus. Fine in dust jackets, a touch of sun, and original slipcase, bumped at extremities.. Two vols., 4tos, two-tone cloth. One of 1500 numbered copies printed for the L.E.C. by John Johnson and signed by Austen.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. First edition thus. Spines, especially of volume I, a bit rubbed, else about fine in edgeworn slipcase.. Two vols., 8vos, calf-backed decorative boards. One of 1500 numbered copies, designed for this edition by W.A. Dwiggins, and signed by the illustrator.

London: T. Johnson, 1753. Pirated edition. Heavily worn and rubbed with boards mostly detached; bookplates and ink notations.. Two vols, 8vos; vii [1], 268; 324; full contemporary calf. Unauthorized edition of Smollett's third novel.

London: J. Osborn, 1748. First Edition. Glue stains to preliminaries where bookplates were likely once affixed; a bit of rubbing to hinges and edges. An attractive set.. Two vols., 12mos; xxii [1], 324; xii, 366; full red morocco gilt (by Scroll Club, NY) with gilt spines and panels, dentelles, doublures and endleaves of blue moire; t.e.g. The first edition of Smollett's first novel was a popular success, and a second was produced in the same year (with frontispieces added). This set is the more common issue with I9 a cancel in Vol. 1.

Knotting, Bedford: Martin Booth, 1980. First Edition. Fine. Small square 8vo, unpag. chapbook in wrappers, stapled. One of 125 numbered copies (81), the first fifty of which were signed by Weil.

Knotting, Bedford: Martin Booth, 1980. First Edition. Slight mark, about fine. Small square 8vo, unpag. chapbook in wrappers, stapled. One of 125 numbered copies in the edition, this being one of the first fifty, signed by Weil.

Bremen: Wattenberg & Co, 1925. Very good. Single leaf of card stock, 6-1/4 x 12-1/2 in., printed on both sides; the bottom portion is an order form. Illustrated with seven varieties.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. 1st edition. Fine in a crisp dust jacket with a bit of wear at the ends of the spine and the lower rear corner.. 8vo, cloth-backed boards.

New York: Kelly-Winterton Press, 1990. First Edition. Moderate smudging on back cover. 4to; 17pp; black cloth boards. One of 100 copies in the edition, printed from Adobe Garamond type onto film from a Macintosh file. Binding by Moroquain, Inc. Gilt title (Aeneidos VI. 637-901).

New York: Liveright, 1941. First edition. Fine in a rubbed dust jacket with light wear to extremities.. 8vo, 260pp, illustrated; cloth. A first hand account by the pioneering aviatrix of her greatest adventure, a flight that took her from Paris to Shanghai with numerous stops along the way. In the course of flying over Germany she took the first aerial photographs of the Dachau concentration camp, one of which appears in this book facing p. 86.