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

New Rochelle, New York: Elizabeth Press, 1974. First Edition. Fine, without publisher's plain card slipcase. 8vo, unpag; printed boards. One of 400 copies printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdoneg in Verona, the entire edition, divided between boards and wrappers in an unspecified proportion.

Penland, North Carolina: The Jargon Society, 1969. First Edition. Close to fine in publisher's plain plastic wrapper, a bit soiled and with a short tear. 8vo, 84pp; printed wrappers. Published as Jargon 52.

Chicago: Big Table Publishing Company, 1969. First edition. Cloth. Fine in dust jacket.. 8vo, 78pp; cloth. Chicago poet's first book, including the five-foot fold-out poem "Ode to Severn Darden About Angels, the Common Cold, Nuclear Disarmament and Popcorn." An advance review copy, with slip.

[London]: Printed at Strawberry-Hill for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. First Edition. Armorial bookplate; some pages partially loose and with moderate general marking; half-title has been restored; wear to spine ends, with the lower two-inches partly detached; edges rubbed. Small 4to, half-title present, 21pp; nineteenth-century full morocco by Morrell, London. The first book published at Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, from the first printing, on thin paper, with "Illissus" on p. 8, "Swarm," on p. 16.

London: R. Dodsley, 1746. First Edition. Old mend to a tear on the last leaf, with a paper overlay applied to the blank verso; cloth covers heavily darkened, as if burned, at edges, though internally the pages remain largely clean an undamaged, save for a few that show some smoky soil toward edges.. Small 4to, 47pp; modern cloth. Includes Warton's "Advertisement," with its declaration of commitment to "Invention and Imagination" in poetry, described by Hayward as a key forerunner of the Romantic movement. Hayward 169.

London: Printed by J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver. ., 1735. First Edition. A touch of wear to corners and spine, internally clean and fresh, handsome bookplate on inside front wrapper. Small folio, 16pp loose in plain brown wrappers, likely disbound from a larger volume and recased in present wrappers. This copy of Pope's famous poem has "Fleet Street" correctly spelled on the title page (variant B). Includes the half title as well as the leaf of publisher's ads, here in the front rather than the rear as usually found. Provenance: collection of Carroll Atwood Wilson, with his bookplate. Wilson was pone of the most distinguished and accomplished American book collectors in his time. Griffith 361.

Oakland: Alameda County Committee, Communist Party, 1937. First edition. Evenly toned, gentle horizontal folds, an excellent copy.. Broadside, single leaf, approx. 11 X 17-1/2 inches, printed on one side. Finely printed broadside poster marking the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Union, with a long anonymous statement celebrating the anniversary and striving to tie the spread of Soviet socialism to the wider struggle for workers' rights, following hard on the bitter strike of California maritime workers. Together with a proof printing of the broadside with some pencil annotations.

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, Inc, 1935. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends.. 8vo, 263pp; cloth. The author's second book, and the first published under his pen name, changed from Julian Shapiro in order to sound less obviously Jewish. Sanford enjoyed a prolific career in Hollywood until being blacklisted after he refused to name names of fellow Communists to congresional investigators. He did achieve remarkable productivity late in life, writing no fewer than ten books after the age of 80. Hie died in 2003 at 98.

Des Moines, Iowa: Better Homes & Gardens, 1958. First edition. Three horizontal folds, else fine. Broadside poem, 13 X 5" reprinted from the April 1958 issue of the magazine; signed by Engle.

Paris: Olympia Theatre, 1934. Folded horizontally; a few minor wrinkles.. Bifolium, approx. 6 X 7-1/2 in., printed on all sides. Printed program for Friday, July 13, 1934, featuring two 1931 comedies: "La Prison en Folie" and "Mam'zelle Nitouche." Haik was a producer and owner of several theaters, with a particular claim to fame among French film devotees for having been the first to present the work of Charlie Chaplin in that country -- he also is credited with inventing the nickname "Charlot" by which Chaplin was widely known in France. A Jew, Haik suffered under Nazi occupation when his theaters and businesses were seized. He produced an anti-Nazi film before fleeing to Tunisia, where he had been born.

København: Gyldendal, 1949. First Edition. Very slightly dusted; fine. Small 8vo, [24]pp; wrappers. An essay about the Danish language.

(New York): New American Library, 1966. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, price clipped, dust jacket with a bit of fraying to the spine ends.. 8vo, 304pp; half cloth. The author's first book, briefly inscribed and signed by Gass on the title page.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First edition. Fine in a very lightly spine-sunned dust jacket with a long tear to the rear hinge, rear flap present but detached, and a few other smaller chips and tears, still quite presentable.. 8vo, 120pp; blue cloth with printed spine label. An early Cowley publication, indeed his first in the U.S., preceded by the Paris publication of his "Racine". Although no physical evidence or marking supports the assertion, a laid-in slip identifies this copy of the book as having come from the library of the fantasy writer and Arkham House publisher Donald Wandrei.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First edition. A tiny tear to the cloth at the top of the spine from being roughly removed from a shelf at one time, otherwise in a lightly toned dust jacket with moderate wear to the extremities and some small chips, the largest being the size of a fingernail at the top of the spine.. 8vo, 293pp; green cloth stamped in gilt. Eighteen literary essays, including an early U.S. review in praise of Joyce's Ulysses, by the author of the 1927 A Key to the Ulysses of James Joyce, one of the first book length studies of the novel. The intact dust jacket has the price of $2.00. A bit of bibliographic rabbit-holery: the title page is a cancel; facing the title page, the list of books "By the Same Author" comprises his previous book, the novel Cables of Cobweb, and notes the title of his second novel, Nomad as "(in preparation)." When that novel appeared in 1925, however, it was under the imprint of Minton, Balch rather than the Boni brothers.

New York: Melrose Music Corp, 1948. A few inconsequential dents and rubs; fine. Single bifolium, approx. 9 X 12 in., printed on all sides. Music and lyrics for Loesser's pop standard, first recorded by Kay Kyser.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961. First edition. Fine in a rubbed dust jacket with a loong tear to the front panel and a sizeable chip to the rear.. 8vo, gray cloth. A presentation copy, inscribed by McCarthy on the front flyleaf: "To dear Sylvia who has her own contrariness, with love, Mary.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First American edition. Fine in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with just a few tiny nicks to the edges of the rear panel.. 8vo, 250pp; mauve cloth stamped in gilt and with pictorial medallion on front board. An exceptionally nice copy, scarce in jacket.

(New York): Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996. First edition. Cloth. Fine in original slipcase./-. Folio; unpag. cardstock, with fifteen tipped-on photographs; blue cloth with leather labels. One of 100 specially bound copies, signed by poet and photographer (out of the total edition of 250) with an additional platinum palladium print, signed by Connor, loosely inserted. Original propsectus also present.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1916. 1st edition. Few marks, fine in a very slightly soiled dust jacket with the price scored through on front panel and spine.. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Clapp's first book of poetry, following his study of Pontormo. In 1931 he became Director of the Frick Collection in New York.

Paris: Edward W. Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1930. First edition. Boards. Slight bubbling to pastedowns; faint spots to flyleaves; edges a trifle rubbed, very good.. 4to, 28pp; original marbled boards with labels. One of 100 numbered copies, the entire edition, printed by Maurice Darantiere and signed by the poet. The illustrations, both depicting Paris street scenes, are original intaglio prints. An unusual expatriate American item.