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

Milano: Riccardo Ricciardi, 1961. First edition. Small closed tear at top of front wrapper, few marks. 8vo, 164pp; wrappers. An excellent presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Gadda on the half title page to the German writer and publisher Hans Magnus Enzensberger, dated 1963, when Enzensberger was instrumental in bringing out a German translation of Gadda's La Cognizione del Dolore, providing an afterword. Gadda inscriptions are quite uncommon and this one has a meaningful association.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1955. First Edition. Fine in a lightly used, unclipped and unfaded dust jacket with just a couple of small nicks and a bit of spotting along the edges.. 8vo, 956pp; black cloth. An excellent copy of Gaddis's landmark first book, an inimitable novel of art, forgery, and the depredations of the New York art world at mid-century. The dust jacket in the first issue, with the publisher's address 383 Madison Avenue on the rear flap.

New York: Wolsk-Azenberg, 1974. Ink number to first leaf; otherwise clean copy with just slight, ordinary wear to the edges of the oversized wraps.. 4to, 125 mimeograph pages, bolt-bound in printed leatherette wrappers of the Studio Duplicating Service. Rehearsal script from the Broadway production, which was directed by Charles Grodin and featured performances by Richard Mulligan, Marlo Thomas, Irwin Corey, William Hickey, and Dick van Patten. Grodin, who was said the play was "the most gratifying experience I've had in the theater", would take over Mulligan's role for the film adaptation in 1977.

New York: Liveright, Inc, 1932. First edition. Fine in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket, spine darkened a shade and with a few chips.. Small 8vo, 96pp; salmon cloth stamped in black. Lighthearted anecdotes by one of the movie industry's most versatile figures. Garnett's career as a screenwriter started in the earliest days of American cinema with Mack Sennett, Hal Roach, and Laurel & Hardy. He went on to write or direct dozens of films, most notably the classic adaptation of James M. Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice, and stayed active well into the TV era, working on such popular shows as "Gunsmoke," "Bonanza," and "Please Don't Eat the Daisies.

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, Inc, 1930. First Edition. Covers marked and with wear to corners and spine ends; 1930 ownership signature; a good copy, without dust jacket. 4to, 173pp, with decorative patterned endpapers; black cloth stamped in gilt. Richly illustrated study of Mexican domestic architecture.

(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.

NP: Lord John Press, 1979. 1st edition. Fine. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. One of 275 numbered copies signed by Gass (there were an additional twenty-six lettered copies and an undetermined number of author's copies).

New York: Abbeville, 1983. First edition. Cloth. Fine in dust jacket/fine. Small 4to, 136pp; black cloth. Generously illustrated monograph published in the Abbeville Modern Masters series. Signed by the artist "de Kooning" on the half title.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921. First American edition. Library bookplate on front pastedown and blindstamp on first leaf; endsheets marked and a bit mottled; edges and spine rubbed, tips bumped, very good.. 4to, 186pp; pictorial boards.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1931. First edition. Fine in a lightly used price-clipped dust jacket.. 8vo, 340pp; cloth. Illustrated biography of the artist.

Edinburgh: E. and J. Robertsons; W. Gray, 1758. Generally toned; ownership inscription on title page; poor quality paper brittle.. 12mo, 68pp; pebble grained cloth with ribbed cloth spine, handwritten paper label. Popular edition.

Dublin: George Risk, 1752. Third Dublin edition. Very small chips to edges; endsheets offset from binder's glue' covers rubbed, spine flaking a bit.. 12mo, 291 [1]pp, with misnumbered pages; contemporary calf, raised bands, leather spine label.

London: Bernard Lintot, 1730. First complete edition. Title page and preliminaries foxed, scattered marks, generally clean; covers rubbed at edges, hinges, and spinal ends.. 8vo, 80pp; three-quarter calf and marbled boards by Henry Young & Sons, Liverpool. Bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead on front pastedown.

London: H. Hills, 1709. Pirated edition. Tightly cropped; slight internal soil, very good.. 12mo, 16pp; later morocco-backed cloth. Gay's first work, printed in the year after its first publication.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. First Edition. Scattered spotting; a few minor edge tears and small chips; wear to edges of boards; stain on front corner.. 12mo, 147pp + errata; original boards, rebacked with pebble-grained cloth, printed leather spine label; endpapers renewed.

London: Printed for J. Buckland, et al., 1788. A few pages with edge tears and old mends; page 28 has a corner torn off, with loss of text, and has a replacement leaf from an 1816 edition tipped in; covers rubbed; ownership signatures to title page and dedication.. Small 8vo, 230pp; contemporary calf, recased and rebacked; title page trimmed and mounted. Illustrated throughout with woodcut vignettes.

London: Bernard Lintot, 1716. First Edition. Font cover detached; bookplate of John Louis Ketterlinus, Philadelphia; edges rubbed, still a very attractive copy.. 8vo, 80pp + index; full crushed red morocco gilt in the manner of Riviere by R. Bedford with gilt tooled spine, raised bands, dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. One of Gay's most popular works, this being from the large paper first issue, with engraved headpieces and ornaments. Headpiece on p. 1 is a street scene.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. First American edition. A very slight lean; a trifle shelf rubbed; fine in a a rubbed dust jacket with a bit of fraying to spine ends and extremities.. 8vo, 262pp; cloth-backed boards. Among the "Montparnassians" whose illustrations appear throughout are Modigliani, Picasso, Man Ray, Gris, Leger, Soutine, Severini, Picabia, Goncharova, and others. The jacket illustration is by Tsugaharu Foujita.

Berlin: Zentralrat, 1919. First edition. Cloth. Pages somewhat toned; few pencil notations and marginalia; short closed tear to title page; exlibris stamp from former East German library on verso of title; extremities of covers rubbed; library label removed from base of spine, still very good.. 4to, 277pp; contemporary buckram. Original documentation from this dark moment in the history of modern Germany, the weeks of counter-revolution in Berlin that followed the murders of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in January 1919. The councils that had been established by the 1918 revolution in the wake of Germany's disastrous defeat in the First World War were being swept aside by their own leadership. The rather hapless head of state Friedrich Ebert had allied himself with the armed forces, and, ominously, with the reactionary Freikorps militia bands commanded by Gustav Noske. It was a peculiar alliance that shortly solidified Ebert's power and set the stage for the creation of the Weimar Republic,… Read More