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

N.P.: Rockbook, 1978. First edition. Hint of sun toward edges, some tiny chipping to the lower front wrapper, near fine.. 8vo, unpag.; pamphlet in wrappers, stapled. Inscribed by the poet and signed on the inside front wrapper. This was Baca's first book, written in prison, containing eight poems and the essay "Thoughts On Leaving Prison." Abandoned at two, consigned to an orphanage as a small child, a homeless illiterate teenager, Baca was incarcerated for more than six years. In prison, he taught himself to read and write and began to write poetry and to publish his poems in small magazines. His first commercial book, Immigrants In Our Own Land, was published by Louisiana State University Press in 1979. He went on to win multiple awards and become one of the most significant Chicano poets in the US and an activist supporting at-risk youth and prison literacy. A powerful and deeply moving debut. With a portrait drawing of Baca on the rear wrapper by Emiliano Hinojosa.

New York. Letter folded for mailing; envelope with some annotations; photographs have some minor dents.. 3pp on two leaves of Famous Music Corporation (Paramount Pictures) letterhead, together with original mailing envelope and two photographs. An excellent letter, discussing Marlene Dietrich, for whom Bacharach was working as musical director at the time, as well as his own burgeoning career. "Work in my world here is best thats [sic] its ever been. Have had inside a span of two years about 14 hits and in this last year have been making them myself. . ." It was during this year that Bacharach formed his songwriting partnership with Hal David, one of the most fruitful collaborations of the era. The recipient, Sonia Shaw was a choreographer who had worked with Bacharach and Dietrich a couple of years earlier. The older of the two photographs is a 5 X 7 inch gelatin silver print showing the young Bacharach between Shaw and her husband, William Hitchcock. The second is a later 8 X 10 studio portrait of… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. First edition thus. Fine in original glassine (nicked) and folding box, rubbed.. 4to, cloth-backed decorative boards. One of 1100 numbered copies in the edition, signed by the designer Bruce Rogers; the printing was done by William Edwin Rudge. The introduction is by Christopher Morley. An elegant and appealing volume.

Königsberg: Bei den Gebrüdern Bornträger, 1837. First edition. Plates of first volume foxed; bright clean copy, professionally recased and original spine laid down; abrasions to front and rear covers where tape was removed; shelf rubbing; internally bright, fresh copy. 2 vols. bound in one; small 4to; xii (i) 271 + (iv) 315 (1)pp; folding table bound between I/224-225; three hand-colored folding plate at rear of Vol. I; four folding plates (one hand-colored) at rear of Vol. II. Contemporary boards with leather spine and tips. Baer's Magnum opus. Baer proved Harvey's century-and-a-half old proposition that all animals come from eggs and founded the modern science of embryology. This copy bears the discreet owner's stamp of the noted anatomist and medical professor H.K. Corning, himself the author of a later textbook on embryology. (PMM 288b). Horblit 9a.

Vienna. -. Folded for mailing, fine.. Two pages on a printed bifolium of "Die Zeit" letterhead, approx. 5-3/4 X 8-3/4 in. Hermann Bahr (1863-1934), prominent journalist and drama critic in Vienna and Munich, who was pilloried by Karl Kraus, trying to arrange an appointment with a writer. The recipient was the writer who published under the pseudonym "Ulrich Frank," and was also sometimes known by her later married name Ulla Wolff-Frank.

Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson for the Author, 1752. First Edition. Bookplate; general soil; front hinge tender; edges worn; still a sound copy with generous margins.. 4to, xvii, [1], 472, 2pp of "Corrections and Additions"; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. At a time when the art of biography was flourishing, Ballard offered this, his only published work, stating: ". . . I know not how it hath happened, that very many ingenious women of this nation, who were really posses'd of a great share of learning, and have, no doubt, in their time been famous for it, are not only unknown to the publick in general, but have been passed by in silence by our greatest biographers." (Preface) With subscribers list and a word blacked out on p. 178.

San Diego, 1945. Some tears and wear; very good. 21 pieces, various sizes and formats. The Mission Beach Ballroom, part of an ambitious development of the ocean-front property, was one of the premier West Coast dance halls of the swing era attracting top-tier talent. This collection derives from the hall's manager, Richard Costenborder and comprises twelve typed letters to Costenborder concerning the hiring of dance bands for the venue, two original contracts, two vintage photos of the hall, lists of attendees, ticket stubs, receipts for expenses, and a printed program from a 1945 event. The contracts are for appearances by Gene Krupa and Count Basie. The letters concern hiring the bands of Jimmy Dorsey, Eddy Duchin, Jimmie Lunceford and Earl Hines, among others. The printed program is from an appearance by the then-popular German-born trumpeter Henry Busse and his orchestra and has been signed by Busse and six of his musicians.

Albuquerque/New York: Artspace Press/Castelli Graphics/Aperture, 1980. Grease mark to front board, else fine in a very slightly marked dust jacket. Oblong 4to, 246pp; cloth. One of Baltz's haunting, poetic photographic documentations of urban development and the American landscape, accompanied by an essay by Blaisdell. The first edition consisted of only 3000 copies; this copy has been signed by Baltz on the title page.

[Tokyo/New York: Gallery Min/Aperture, 1989. First edition. Lower corner slightly bumped; some smudges to boards, especially on rear panel, otherwise fine in the original cardboard slipcase with printed wraparound label.. Oblong 4to, unpag.; boards. With text by Gus Blaisdell. Briefly inscribed and signed by Baltz on the dedication page.

Millerton/Berlin: Aperture/Zwölftes Haus, 1986. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with printed plastic overlay. 4to, unpag.; cloth. One of only 1200 copies in the first edition; this one has been signed by Baltz on the title page.

N.P.: N.p., 2001. First Edition. Fine. 8vo, unpag. pamphlet in printed card wrappers, stapled. Baraka's controversial poem written in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001. Initialed by Baraka on the first page and dated "01.

New York: Contact II Publications, 1983. Second Printing. Fine. 8vo, pamphlet in stapled wrappers. Inscribed and signed by Baraka on the title page.

N.P.: U.S. League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L), 1983. First edition. Just about fine. 8vo, [12]pp pamphlet in printed wrappers, stapled. Scarce separate publication of this essay, which first appeared in the Fall/Winter issue of "Black Nation

Verona: (Officina Bodoni), 1974. First edition thus. Vellum-backed boards. Fine in original clear plastic wrapper and slipcase, very slightly sunstruck.. Small 4to, 55pp; original vellum-backed boards, t.e.g. One of 150 numbered copies on handmade paper.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1969. Some minor finger smudging on last endpaper, otherwise fine. 8vo; unpag.; wrappers. #246 of 700 copies printed in Monotype Bembo on L Amatruda Amalfi, an all rag paper from Italy.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. First edition. Fine in a very lightly rubbed dust jacket, trace of a small circular label removed from the spine and just a touch of wear at the upper edge.. 8vo, 466pp, illustrated; pictorial endpapers; blue cloth stamped in silver and light green. Correct first edition of this maritime autobiography. Barnes, born in 1850 to a seafaring family in Newfoundland, spent most of his life as a sailor in one capacity or another, from the era of wind-powered sailing to modern steamships. A natural raconteur, who kept copious notebooks, his story was put into book form with the aid of his editor and dedicatee who, in addition to using Barnes's written diaries, recorded him on wax cylinders in order to better preserve the quality of his storytelling voice. The more common London edition, published by Cassell in 1931, omits her credit. This edition, further, is illustrated with fine wood engravings by Francis Shields. Exceptionally scarce in dust jacket.

New York: Putnam, 1981. First edition. Small bumps to bottom edge, otherwise fine in a bright, crisp dust jacket with just a bit of rubbing to the ends of the spine.. 8vo, cloth backed baords. An excellent association copy, inscribed by Barthelme on the front endpaper to fellow writer John Hawkes and his wife: "For Jack and Sophie with all best, Don, 16 March 1983.

Tokyo/New York: Mushinsha/Grossman, 1968. Second printing. Fine in dust jacket and publisher's cardboard box with printed wraparound label. 8vo, 173 (2)pp; cloth-backed boards. A handsome publication.

London: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1758. First editions thus. Bookplates (John Hadmar Sticht); wear to edges, hinges, and spine ends; signature N in Paradise Regain'd pulled loose; front cover of Paradise Lost detached, still an attractive set.. Two vols., uniform 8vos, [xxxii] 416pp & lxix, 390pp; contemporary calf, rebacked with elaborately gilt-tooled spines. The first Baskerville books in English (preceded by Virgil in Latin), with all cancels called for, p. 135 correctly numbered and italic I in headline on p. 346 of Paradise Lost. Includes full list of subscribers, including Benjamin Franklin. Gaskell 4, 5.

Stuttgart: Verlag Müller und Schindler, 1968. First edition thus. Fine.. Folio, 55pp loose in paper chemise; with twelve original signed zinc-engravings by Maranova in separate chemise; housed together in publisher's wood and cloth folding box, paper covered slipcase. One of 280 copies in the entire edition.