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

Los Angeles: L.A. Communist Party, 1940. Folded once; neat pencil notation to verso; very good. Handbill, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in., printed on one side in blue and red. Announcement of Browder's campaign appearance at LA's Olympic Auditorium. Includes a portrait of Browder and bullet-points for his speech: "Why Conscription? Who is the Real Fifth Column? How Can We Defend America? Willkie and Roosevelt, A Program for Peace & Security.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. near fine. 8vo, 129pp; printed wrappers. One of 1500 copies in wrappers.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. First edition. Cloth. Small tear at front pastedown where the paper was not completely glued; hint of tanning toward edges, as often, else a very good copy in the original printed plastic wrapper, with a horizontal tear to the front panel and portions of a couple of letters rubbed off.. 4to, unpag., original white linen, with photograph mounted on front board. A landmark work in modern photography, the great photo-essay on East Harlem includes a brief prefatory text by Davidson, who has also signed this copy on the title page.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First edition. Spine stamping a bit dulled; fine in a bright graphic dust jacket, spine sunned a shade and with small chips to the top of the spine, a couple of small edge tears and faint spatter marks.. 8vo, 237pp; cloth-backed boards. A collection of twelve supernatural tales set in Asia, Oceania, and the Far-East, written in English by Morand for this publication. No French edition was published until 1987, more than a decade after the author's death. The scarce dust jacket was designed and illustrated by Mac Harshberger.

New Rochelle, New York: Elizabeth Press, 1976. First Edition. Fine. 4to; 65pp; boards and card slipcase. This edition designed by Martino Mardersteig is limited to 300 copies printed on Magnani rag paper by Stamperia Valdonega in Verona.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1926. First edition. Slight shelf wear, else fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket, with a touch of wear to the ends of the spine and a bit of darkening to the spine.. 12mo, cloth-backed boards.

Des Moines, Iowa: Better Homes & Gardens Magazine, 1960. First edition. Horizontal fold, else fine.. Broadside poem, 12-1/2 X 4-7/8" Reprinted from the magazine; signed and dated by Engle in 1960.

Los Angeles: Salem Baptist Church, 1952. Top and bottom edges toned; pencil notation in one corner; very good. Mimeographed broadside leaflet, 8-1/2 x 11 i. Bulletin board announcement of three Easter services, conducted by Salem Baptist Church's founding pastor Rev. Charles H. Davis including "Special Atomic Message.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1981. First edition. Cloth-backed boards. Upper edge slightly sunstruck, near fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket with a bit of edge wear. 8vo, 278pp; cloth-backed boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Mooney to poet Quincy Troupe: "1/23/83, For Quincey [sic]-- With respect, affection, and, as you move into your new place/life, spirit... Ted Mooney." This was Mooney's first novel, warmly received upon publication as the work of significant new writer.

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1942. First edition. Near fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket with a couple of small tears and a fingernail puncture to the front hinge.. 8vo, 342pp; green cloth. A capitalist approach to a planned economy. This copy has been inscribed by the author to Glen H. Taylor, the liberal democratic senator from Idaho who would run for Vice President in 1948 on the Progressive Party ticket alongside Henry Wallace. Printed tri-fold prospectus for the book laid in.

Milwaukee, WI: Morgan Press, 1978. First edition. Close to fine, with just some smudges and a band of sunning to the dust jacket.. 4to, unpag.; boards, with printed paper panel, visible through a droplet-shaped cutout in the plain gray dust jacket. One of 500 copies, the entire edition, inscribed on the title page: "To Russell Edson - my favorite outrageous human eyesore petkeeper, Douglas Blazek, Sacramento 2/28/80.

Boston: Limited Editions Club, 1942. First edition thus. Spine a bit rubbed, else very good in rubbed and partly broken slipcase. 4to, red cloth. One of 1500 copies printed for the L.E.C. by the Merrymount Press and signed by Chamberlain, the entire edition.

New York: Random House, 1963. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket. 8vo, 111pp; red cloth. A posthumously published novella.

London: Michael Joseph, 1963. First English edition. Covers slightly bowed; near fine in a price-clipped dust jacket, somewhat used. 8vo, 72pp; light red cloth. Posthmously published novella.

Dublin: Cuala Press, 1939. First edition. A touch of soil toward the base of the spine, else a fine, uncut, bright and fresh copy in original glassine, lightly chipped.. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. One of 450 copies, the entire edition.

N.P.: N.p., 1944. Folded twice horizontally; evenly toned. Small broadside, approx. 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 in., printed on one side. Graphic campaign leaflet for Styles's primary campaign against the Democratic incumbent, John Costello, declaring "Reject Costello 'The Democrat who votes like a Republican.' (L.A. Daily News)" A popular radio host, Styles won the primary handily and even garnered prominent support from Harry S. Truman, but his campaign faltered when his past as a Klansman was exposed.

[Frankfurt]: Officina de Bry, 1612. First edition. Few short marginal tears mended; some marks; vertical crease to engraved title page; few spots and smudges to page edge, images clear and bright.. Oblong 4to, 14 leaves, mounted to later pages, appr. 13 X 10-1/2 in. (33 X 27 CM); later three-quarter white cloth and marbled paper boards. Marvelous series of engraved images by Jacob Zetter and Johann Gelle, printed by de Bry, depicting events in Frankfurt around the coronation of Matthias I as Holy Roman Emperor in 1612.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First edition. Hinges starting but sound, some smudges; covers shelf rubbed and with some bubbling to the cloth on the front; slight lean.. 8vo, [313]pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. Autobiographical novel, written ten years before Day's conversion to Catholicism, while she was immersed in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village, and based on her ill-fated love affair that ended with an abortion. Day would disown the book in later years, and she is believed to have attempted to reclaim copies of it in order to burn them. It remains very scarce.

London: John Harding, et al., 1810. Later edition. Bookplates; dust-soiled; covers rubbed and worn, with front cover of vol. 1 partly detached.. Three vols., 8vos, 322, 336, 325pp; contemporary marbled boards with red morocco spine and corners, spine gilt-tooled without bands. A nicer set than it sounds. The first English edition of Eloisa appeared in 1761.

Edinburgh: J. Dickson and C. Elliot, 1773. Bookplate in Vol. 1; ownership stamps; general soil, wear to covers, hinges, spines. Three vols., 8vos; xx, 390, 319, 288, [36]pp; contemporary calf. Early English-language edition of Rousseau's theory of education, the first having appeared in 1763.