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

(Buttermarket, Ipswich): Emanuel for Pendragon Press, 1968. First Edition. Fine. 8vo, 21pp; natural linen with green cloth spine; issued without dust jacket. One of 2000 numbered copies in the entire edition, this is from the second thousand, designated for sale in the United States. Although uncalled for, this copy has been signed by Pinter across the title page. Further, on the facing bank there is a presentation inscription dated in 1968 from two theatrical producers, Richard Lee Marks and henry Jaffe, giving the book to the lighting and costume designer Neil Jampolis. The text is Pinter's recollection of the Irish actor and theatrical producer Anew McMaster.

Peterborough, New Hampshire: The MacDowell Colony, 1962. A bit rumpled, upper corner of front wrapper creased and with a short tear; folded in half once, as for mailing, with the beginnings of a short tear at the fold. 4to, 8pp unpag. pamphlet in self-wrappers. This number of the renowned artist colony's newsletter celebrates the poet Robert Frost, who was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal the previous month at a ceremony in New York. With a cover portrait of Frost and coverage of the event inside, including press-reports and a copy of the congratulatory telegram from President John F. Kennedy. With further coverage of other MacDowell artists and alumni.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968. First edition. Pressed steel. Covers slightly rubbed, but very bright and free of scratches. A lovely copy.. Small 4to, [218]pp; original pressed steel covers, printed in colors. Historic exhibition catalog from MOMA's second major overview machine-age art, extensively annotated by the late Pontus Hulten. The catalog is notable for its striking design and unusal fabrication from pressed steel, the cover having been designed by Anders Osterlin.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First American edition. Fine copies in bright, crisp, clean dust jackets (design by Sugar) with a handful of inconsequential marks. Without box.. Two vols., 8vos, 375 + 368pp; cloth. A brilliant set of Sudermann's last novel -- he died in the year of publication.

1971. Authors' archive of working scripts as follows: 162pp typescript in black spring-binder, with inserts in photocopy; pagination somewhat jumbled. Scattered holograph revisions; 158pp typescript in black spring-binder, with "Return to J.J. Bologna 320 West End Ave, NYC NY Tel. 799-4775" on title leaf and extensive holograph revisions throughout; 122pp photocopy, in black spring-binder, with one page tape-mended, marked on title leaf in pen: "Renee - Revised"; Green three-ring binder with working production script, pagination jumbled, 1971, with extensive revision, annotation, holograph production notes, shooting schedules, call sheets, etc. The couple's second screenplay. They also starred in the film about a couple who meet at a group therapy session. The film featured early film roles for Paul Sorvino and Olympia Dukakis.

New York: The Foreign Policy Association/Headline Books, 1935. First edition. Ink notation to front board; edges rubbed, otherwise fine, issued without dust jacket.. 8vo, 38pp; boards. When the graphic artist Georg Salter, already a prolific designer of books in Germany, was forced to emigrate under Nazi persecution, among the earliest jobs he found in the U.S. was designing the series of "Headline Books" published by the Foreign Policy Association. This one was the second in the series, an introduction to the issues of foreign trade illustrated throughout with marvelous graphics and isotype charts.

Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1802. First edition. Endpapers tanned; edge and spine rubbed; shelf wear to corners and extremities.. 12mo, 102pp; contemporary boards with handwritten spine label. Translation from the French by Goethe; scarce.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First edition. Bookplate; two small name labels partly removed, one from front pastedown and one from first blank leaf; hinges rubbed; slight wear to spine-ends; slight fading, still an attractive copy.. 8vo, 328pp, no ads; plum cloth. From the library of businessman, philanthropist, and New Jersey Democratic political figure George Mason LaMonte.

New York: Random House, 1973. First edition. Cloth-backed boards. Upper edge of blue boards slightly sunstruck, very good in a lightly nicked dust jacket, faded somewhat at spine.. 8vo, 83pp; cloth-backed boards. Nice presentation copy from Cruz to fellow poet Quincy Troupe: "Para Quincy, internalization of all full moons - mas words signal the eternal - never running out of blue skies) Victor Hernandez Cruz, New York City, Big Mango/Oct. 1976.

Markesan, Wisconsin: Pentagram Press, 1980. First Edition. Fine. 8vo; unpag.; paper wrappers. One of 350 copies sewn in to Strathmore wrappers, inscribed by author and dated 3-22-81.

New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1965. First Edition. Slight soil, very good. 8vo, 22pp pamphlet in wrappers, stapled. Text of a speech delivered to the Friday Night Socialist Forum at Eugene V. Debs Hall in Detroit on March 5, 1965, days after Malcolm's assassination in New York.

N.P.: n.p., 1959. Few marks and small corrections; faintly toned; folded, as for mailing.. Six mimeographed leaves, 8-1/2 X 11 in., stapled in one corner. English translation of an interview conducted with the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman by journalists Georges Menant and Philippe Letellier in 1958 for Paris Match. We are unaware of who did the translation or for what purpose this mimeo was produced. The interview does not appear to have been reprinted.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. First edition thus. Fine in original glassine, one tear, and slipcase, slightly marked and a bit bumped at extremities.. 8vo, full embossed leather. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator.

San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1899. First edition. Fine, with the original printed envelope, chipped. Small 8vo, unpag. pamphlet in original wrappers, printed in red and black, saddle stitched. The first appearance in book-form of Markham's famous poem, which was first issued as a supplement to the San Francisco Examiner after the celebrated painting by Jean-Francois Millet had arrived in the city. "A poetic J'accuse on behalf of exploited workers that galvanized the Left throughout the English-speaking world" (Kevin Starr, California: A History, p. 160) An attractive little book, not common in this condition.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1934. First edition. Covers marked, endsheets a bit offset, very good.. 8vo, beige linen. The poet's first substantial book, preceded by an exceedingly rare pamphlet. This copy has been signed and dated by Stuart (1936) with a small sketch of the eponymous "bull-tongue plow.

(New Brunswick, NJ): Rutgers University Press, 1946. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Small 8vo, 70pp; maroon cloth. A futurist essay by the president of the National Industrial Conference Board.

New York: Corinth Books, 1969. First edition. Wraps. Fine. 8vo, 47pp; original printed wrappers. One of 1500 copies. The cover design is from a collage by Joe Brainard.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1946. First edition. Fine in a slightly spine-faded dust jacket, price-clipped, but bright and crisp, with a closed tear at the top neatly reinforced with archival tape on the underside. 8vo, 59pp; green cloth. Excellent copy of the poet's first book, a collection of poems written during the Second World War.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. First American edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket, remnants of old price label adhesive on rear.. 8vo, 246pp; cloth-backed boards. Inscribed and signed by Farah on the front flyleaf to poet, writer, anthologist, biographer, and literary whirling dervish Quincy Troupe. A nice association.

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999. First uniform edition. Boards. Fine in dust jackets.. 3 vols., 8vos, 259pp, 246pp,298pp; boards. Uniformly produced set of Farah's acclaimed "Blood in the Sun" trilogy; the first two having been reprinted to appear in the same format as the first American printing of the third volume, present, Each volume here has been inscribed and signed by Farah on the title page to poet and writer Quincy Troupe.