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

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.

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.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1958. First English edition. Discreet ownership signature on front pastedown, beneath the flap; faintly toned, else fine in a toned dust jacket with a few marks to the rear.. 8vo, 319pp; cloth.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. A bit of a stain to the rear free endpaper; lightly shelf-rubbed and with a few spots and scratches, still a very good, bright copy, without the rare dust jacket. 8vo, 349pp; cloth. A serviceable copy of Faulkner's second book.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. Hinges cracked; tips and spine ends a bit rubbed, otherwise very good indeed, albeit without the rare dust jacket.. 8vo, 319pp; cloth. A nice affordable copy of the author's first book.

New York: Random House, 1957. First edition. Shelf-rubbed, just about fine in a used dust jacket with a few holes and small chips and a three-inch tear tot he rear panel, mended with tape on the underside. 8vo, 371pp; cloth. Second volume of the Snopes trilogy.

New York: Random House, 1973. First edition thus. Fine in a very lightly rubbed dust jacket with a short closed tear to the rear panel.. 8vo, 370pp; cloth. Posthumous publication of the complete text of Faulkner's 1929 novel, originally published in a shortened form as Sartoris.

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1954. Facsimile reprint. Fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket.. 8vo, 319pp; blue cloth. Handsome reprint of Faulkner's first novel, issued following his receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Boston: Origin Press, 1980. First Edition. fine. 8vo, 57pp; paper wrappers. One of 200 unnumbered copies deisgned and printed by Alan Loney at Hawk Press in Eastbourne, New Zealand.

Los Angeles: American Committee For Peace Through Democracy, 1939. A bit of wear along right edge; marginal toning, small spatter mark. Broadside, single leaf approx. 9 X 12 inches, printed on one side. Poster announcing a Town Meeting on the steps of LA's City Hall with a keynote address by Mayor Fletcher Bowron, and an agenda of support for the then current peace policies of Franklin Roosevelt.

New York: Dynamo, 1935. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8vo, burgundy cloth. One of 1000 numbered copies in the edition, this is a presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the front fly: "To Bart, the only Don Quixote ever born ahead of his times, Ken.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. First edition. A fine, fresh copy in a lightly chipped dust jacket, spine sunned a shade.. 8vo, 90pp; cloth-backed boards. Feibleman's scarce first book, a collection of poems, most of which had appeared in "The Double-Dealer," the New Orleans literary magazine edited by his friend Sherwood Anderson. Feibleman soon set aside his literary aspirations and settled into a long and fruitful academic career at Tulane University, where he became a professor of philosophy, publishing dozens of books and establishing himself as an authority on pragmatism and C.S. Peirce.

Los Angeles: N.p., 1957. Single leaf, 8-1/2 X 11 inches, folded twice to make a small mimeo invitation. Invitation to a birthday party for the Yiddish poet, Sarah Fel [sic] Yellin, featuring a speech on "Culture to-Day" by John Howard Lawson.

Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1982. First edition. Cloth. FIne in dust jacket.. 8vo, 93pp; red cloth, with the separately printed insert containing corrected text and an explanation. One of 3000 copies, this one is from the first issue of 600 with the incorrect text and separate insert; publisher's promotional materials and cover letter laid in.

New York: Liveright, Inc, 1932. First American edition. A bit shelf-rubbed, slight bubbling to rear cover, very good in a moderately edgeworn dust jacket with a triangular chip to the lower front corner and shallow chips at the spine ends.. 8vo, 288pp; black cloth. The English edition had the title "The Murderer" and the penname William Morton. Dust jacket design by Sugar.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1932. First edition. Patch of offsetting to the fornt endsheets where a clipping may once have been laid in, else just about fine in a lightly rubbed and nicked dust jacket with a handsome Irving Politzer graphic; spine faded a shade. 8vo, 298pp; black cloth. Uncommon in jacket.

[London]: The Heron Press, 1954. First Edition. Toning toward edges; general soil; vintage pencil price on front (25¢). 12mo, 31pp; printed wrappers, stapled. Poet's smudged ink signature is on the rear wrapper.

Venezia: Biennale di Venezia, 1959. Evenly toned; wear at spine ends and to hinges, edges; very good.. 4to, 96pp + 56pp advertising section; original wrappers. Fully illustrated and graphically electric official program of the 1959 Venice Film Festival, which included such notable features as Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot" and Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" alongside films by Claude Chabrol, Ingmar Bergman, Juan Antonio Bardem, and the grand prize winner "Il Generale della Rovere" by Roberto Rosselini. The full-page color printed ads in the rear comprise an excellent mini-exhibition of Italian graphic design at mid-century. This copy belonged to the American filmmaker and editor Sidney Meyers, whose "The Savage Eye" was shown at the festival. Laid in at the front is a letter to Meyers from the festival's secretary confirming his nomination to be on the jury of the following year's festival.

Carcassonne: Comite des Fetes, 1951. Discreet ownership stamps internally; fine. 8vo, unpag. pamphlet in printed wrappers, stapled. Printed program from the first iteration of this festival, intended as a popular event for regular filmgoers rather than the specialized elite sort of festival represented by Cannes. Includes a preface by (and photographic portrait of) Jean Cocteau, who was president of the Association des amis du Cinéma, de la Radio et de la Télévision, which sponsored the event. The program included premieres of Jean Tedesco's "Napoleon" and Gilbert de Daunant's short film "Anone"; the Czech puppet-animation "Prince Bayaya" shown for the first time in France, as well as acknowledged classics such as Eisenstein's "Alexander Newski." With the neat ownership stamp of noted French cinema collector Gérard Troussier.

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.