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

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1929. First edition. Covers faded where portions of the dust jacket are lacking, otherwise very good in a spine-faded dust jacket, chipped at extremities and with a two-and-half-inch portion torn from the base of the spine, wrapping around to the front and rear panels.. Small 8vo, 132pp; brown cloth. Account of the last two weeks before the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti in Boston.

Tokyo: Mushinsha Limited, 1976. First Edition. fine. 8vo, 100pp; paper wrappers. Signed by Sackheim.

New York/Tokyo: Grossman/Mushinsha, 1968. First Edition. Fine in a bright dust jacket with a tiny chip at the base of the spine, with original cardboard slipcase, rubbed. Small 4to, 174pp; cloth-backed boards. A handsome copy, with signatures of the translator and illustrator facing the title page, protected by a tissue guard. Features ten excellent tipped-in calligraphic images.

New York: Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, 2010. First edition. As new. 4to, unpag.; additional print in paper chemise, glassine-encased leaf loosely inserted; embossed boards; two-piece drop-spine box. One of 135 numbered copies signed at the colophon by Sacks, Morell, and Muehling; 75 were reserved for council members and thirty for the artists. There was also a deluxe issue of 25 copies in a custom wooden box designed by Muehling. The designer was involved in all aspects of the book, producing exquisite laser-perforated enpapers, a beautifully subtle foldout paper-cast of leaves, consultng in the typography as well as the selection and arrangement of Morell's spectacular cliché-verre images -- a process akin to monoprints, in which the artist has made plant-based images on glass that are then used as negatives for photographic prints. The text is a chapter excerpted from Sacks's book The Island of the Colorblind. Another impressive entry in this MOMA series.

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1961. First edition. A trifle sunstruck, very slight lean; fine in a lightly marked but bright dust jacket with a closed tear to the front panel and a touch of edge wear.. 8vo, 201pp; blue-gray cloth. An attractive copy.

Madrid: Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, 1988. First edition. Fine. 4to, illus. printed wrappers. Exhibition catalog, inscribed by Salle on the title page to the writer John Hawkes and his wife.

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.

New York: Random House, 1975. First edition. Trifle shelf-rubbed, very near fine in a clean dust jacket.. 8vo, 308pp; cloth-backed boards. Salter's acclaimed fourth novel, this copy signed by the author on the half-title page.

New York: William Drenttel, 1992. First edition. Fine. 8vo, unpag.; cloth-backed boards. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by Salter.

New York: Random House, 1997. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.. 8vo, 365pp; smooth ivory boards. Signed by Salter on the first blank leaf.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition. A trifle rubbed; fine in a very lightly chipped pictorial dust jacket.. 8vo, 236pp; dark red cloth. Completed just before his death, Saltus's last novel, a supernatural mystery.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920. First edition. Stamping dulled, else fine in a rubbed dust jacket with a few small chips and a touch of fraying at the extremities.. 8vo, 237pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt. An imaginative history of imperial Russia by the once highly popular novelist.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1917. First American edition. Rear board bumped, ownership signature to front pastedown; else fine in a lightly soiled pictorial jacket showing just a touch of wear to edges and spine-ends.. 8vo, 422pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt. The masterpiece by Russia's great nineteenth-century satirist, better known under the title "The Family Golovlyov". This was one the very first books to bear the Boni & Liveright imprint and is exceedingly scarce in dust jacket.

-. Slight damage to plain card, that appears to have been affixed to a bouquet of flowers, othewise fine. Four picture postcards, approx. 3-1/2 X 5-1/2 in., and one plain card, somewhat smaller. Friendly greetings from Mafalda Salvatini (1888-1971), a leading operatic soprano in Germany for many years in the early twentieth century.

New Rochelle, New York: Elizabeth Press, 1973. First Edition. Fine. 8vo; unpag.; Japanese paper wrappers. One of 250 copies in the edition, designed by Cid Corman and printed by Genichido, Kyoto, Japan.

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.

Peterborough, New Hampshire: Richard R. Smith, 1967. 1st edition. Fine in a handsome photographic dust jacket.. 8vo, blue-gray cloth. With a portion of the publisher's order-form prospectus laid in.

Paris: France Dimanche, 1948. Evenly toned; a few incidental wrinkles and a small bit of shallow wear to two corners. Single leaf, approx. 5-1/4 X 8-1/4 in., printed on both sides. Broadsheet entry blank for a contest sponsored by the tabloid journal "France Dimanche" asking for audience response to the film by Jean Delannoy based on a screenplay by Jean-Paul Sartre. The film, which premiered at the Cannes Festival in 1947, tells the story of a man and a woman who, though unknown to each, are destined to be together as life partners. They themselves only meet after both have died, but are given a second chance at life if they can return and realize their love in the real world. Once back in life, however, they find themselves absorbed in unresolved matters from their previous lives and fail in their mission. The contest asks readers of "France Dimanche" two questions: 1. would you have done as Eve and Pierre, why or why not? and 2. should Jean-Paul Sartre be condemned or offered a chair at the… Read More

Los Angeles: California Emergency Defense Comm, 1951. Fine. Broadside leaflet, 7-3/4 x 10 in. Text-heavy leaflet in defense of Communist party members prosecuted and convicted under the Smith Act, during the height of McCarthyism.

Washington DC: National Committee to Defeat the Mundt Bill, 1950. Partly toned; folded as for mailing; neat pencil notation in one corner. Mimeograph broadside, on one side of a single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches. Text-rich poster in opposition to the anti-communist bill that had passed the U.S. House of Representatives and awaited action in the Senate. Originally the Mundt-Nixon bill when it was first introduced in 1948, it died in the Senate. In 1950, it was offered up again as the Mundt-Ferguson bill, requiring the registration of all communist party members, or members of affiliated groups. While the bill once again failed in the Senate, its provisions were folded into the broader McCarran-Walter act two years later.