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

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First American edition. Small ink spot to foredge; faint offsetting to endsheets, else fine in a a very lightly faded dust jacket with just a couple of short closed tears and a bit fraying at spine ends.. 8vo, 431pp; red cloth. The third volume of a trilogy by Cournos, a neglected modernist who was a friend and peer to his better-known contemporaries James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot et al. This edition is exceedingly scarce in the original dust jacket, which features a blurb written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was the first of only five that Fitzgerald provided to publishers (Bruccoli G1) appearing here at about the same time as his novel The Beautiful and Damned.

København: Forlaget Fremad, 1952. First Edition. Spine a shade sunned; light rubbing to extremities. 8vo, [63]pp; publisher's striped boards with printed label. A novella that first appeared in English in "Ladies Home Journal," here for the first time in book form in a translation into Danish by Jørgen Claudi. The source of Gabriel Axel's 1987 Academy Award-winning film "Babette's Feast.

København: Forlaget Fremad, 1952. First Danish edition. Slightly rubbed and dusted, near fine. Small 8vo, [63]pp; pictorial wrappers. A novella that first appeared in English in "Ladies Home Journal," here for the first time in book form in a translation into Danish by Jørgen Claudi. The source of Gabriel Axel's 1987 Academy Award-winning film "Babette's Feast.

Np: Lee/Lucas Press, 1978. First edition. Wraps. Slightly toned and creased. 8vo, unpag. pamphlet; wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies, the entire edition. Part of the Littlr Rootie Tootie series, this is a presentation copy, inscribed to fellow poet Quincy Troupe.

Omaha: Abattoir Editions/Cummington Press, 1974. First edition. Cloth. Fine.. 4to, unpag.; buff linen with decorative label. One of 430 copies on Ragston paper, printed by Harry Duncan, with Robert Fritzmeier and Nicholas Wees.

London: Fulcrum Press, 1967. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket with a two-inch folded tear to the front panel. 8vo, 112pp; beige cloth. The U.S. edition did not appear until the following year.

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.

Los Angeles: National Committee, Communist Political Association, 1944. Folded horizontally; neat pencil notation. Broadside, on one side of a single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches. Message over CPUSA leader Earl Browder's name, supporting D-Day, Roosevelt, and the all out win-the-war effort.

Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870. First edition. Slight lean; light fading to spine and toward edges, else fine, chocolate endpapers crisp and unchipped.. 8vo, maroon cloth gilt, a.e.g.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Fine in a bright dust jacket, only slightly marked and with a small nick to the front panel; cover illustration by Jacks.. Small 8vo, 102pp; cloth-backed boards. The poet's first book, a collection of light-hearted yet erudite poems. Inscribed and signed "Respectfully, Carlton Talbott, March, 1929" on a preliminary leaf, and scace thus: Talbott died the following year, after the publication of a second book, at 39 years of age.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Tips rubbed; some soil, near fine in a clean dust jacket with a bit of edge wear.. Small 8vo, 102pp; cloth-backed boards. Poet's uncommon first book in the seldom seen jacket, designed by Jacks.

Berkeley: Oyez, 1975. First edition. Bump to the spine, just about fine.. 8vo, unpag.; printed green wrappers. This copy has been boldly inscribed by Tranströmer on the first blank for fellow poet Christopher Middleton with the addition of an elaborately stylized letter "W" (which Tranströmer sometimes did in homage to his grandfather, whose name was Westerberg). He has also added textual corrections and glosses by hand to four pages of the poem. With the publisher's two-page press release and portrait photo of the poet loosely inserted. Tranströmer received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011, four years before his death.

NP: NP, 1954. Complete, intact, with some separation at perforation, and in fine condition. Single sheet of eight stickers, separated by perforations, each measuring about 2 X 3-3/4 inches. A series of protest stickers, issued in the wake of the fatal H-Bomb test in the Pacific amid growing fear of nuclear war. There are four designs, each printed twice in two different color combinations: "Ban the H-Bomb!", "Let Kids Grow Up!", "Talking Is Better Than Dying!", and "Truce! No Troops to Indo-China." each sticker also urges people to write President Eisenhower or your congressman. A rare survival from the Cold War.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First American edition. Very slightly shelf-rubbed, a fine copy in a bright pictorial dust jacket, lightly rubbed and with a couple of closed tears. 8vo, 313pp; cloth-backed patterned boards. After publishing two pseudonymous novels, the author, British diplomat Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, followed with this quasi-biographical account of a Japanese contemporary, depicting modern Japan in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake of 1923.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1932. First edition. Fine in a lightly spine-faded dust jacket, price-clipped and with a couple of tiny nicks.. 8vo, 200pp; pale green cloth stamped in blue and silver. Epic verse by the suffragist activist and life partner of Charles Erskine Scott Wood. With jacket blurb by Robinson Jeffers.

New York: C[elia] Z[ukofsky], 1958. First Edition. Wrappers toned and soiled; very good. Oblong 12mo, 73, [4]pp; printed wrappers. One of 300 copies printed by offset in facsimile of the poet's handwriting, numbered and signed by Zukofsky. This is copy number 9, bearing an additional presentation inscription, dated September 30, 1958, to the poet Frank Samperi, a Zukofsky protege.

Suffern, New York: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2003. First Edition. Fine. 8vo; unpag.; stiff wrappers. One of 96 copies, the entire edition, designed and printed by Jerry Kelly.

New York: Ecco Press, 1984. First edition. Fine in dust jacket.. 8vo, 101pp; cloth-backed boards. The author's second book.

New York: Whittlesey House, 1948. First edition. Heavy-handed pencil inscription erased from front fly, covers rubbed; good copy in a nice supplied dust jacket, price-clipped.. 8vo, 224pp; red cloth. An unremarkable copy of the Yankee Clipper's instructional guide to the game of baseball, yet distinguished by the presence, loosely inserted, of a small slip of paper to which is affixed a rare example of DiMaggio's autograph from the 1940s. DiMaggio's ink signature is mounted between clipped photos of the great Yankee; along the bottom edge the original owner has written: "Joe DiMaggio -BB Player - given me - Nov. 1941." On the other side of the paper are pencil autographs of four members of the 1941 St. Louis Cardinals: pitchers Ira Hutchinson and Sam Nahem, shortstop Marty Marion, and second baseman Eddie Lake, all noted as having been obtained at a 1941 game between the Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers -- (why couldn't he have gotten Stan Musial?). In his later years, when his signature had… Read More

Paris: La Cooperative Generale du Cinema Francais/Cine-Union, 1946. Card is a bit wrinkled and marked; booklet evenly toned, but essentially fine.. Program is a 16pp booklet, approx. 5-1/4 X 8 in.; invitation card is on heavy blue paper, approx. 4 X 5-1/2 in., printed on both sides. Invitation and program for the premiere of this important postwar French feature. "The Battle of the Rails" was a triumphant production depicting heroes of the French resistance among French rail workers. The film was made with support from the "Cheminots de France" (the French rail system) and included rail workers in the cast. A highlight of the dramatic action was the actual derailment of a train, something undertaken under tremendous risk, with careful planning, and by necessity in a single take. The film won the international jury prize at the Cannes festival in 1946 and best director honors for Clément. The bulk of the sixteen-page booklet is an essay by André Delage, who served as technical consultant for the… Read More