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

Boston: hHoughton Mifflin, 1952. First edition. Spine stamping dll, else about fine in a rubbed dust jacket with a one inch chip at the base of the spine and a longish tear at the front flap-fold.. 8vo, 114pp; cloth. The author's second book, an excellent association copy, inscribed by Hamburger to longtime New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell and his wife: "For Joe & Therese from their friend Phil Hamburger, Sept. 1952.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1919. First edition. Cloth. Bookplate on front pastedown; hinges mended neatly with glue; endsheets offset.. 8vo, 521pp; frontispiece, illustr.; original blue cloth. Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), an anglo-catholic writer and scholar of religious mysticism, was responsible for rediscovering and promoting the work of the medieval Italian poet Jacopone da Todi, author of the Stabat Mater. This book was reviewed favorably in "The Dial" by Marianne Moore, by which means it may have come to the attention of Robert McAlmon, who had befriended Moore and was arranging the publication of her first book of poems. This copy belonged to McAlmon his bookplate is on the front pastedown. McAlmon's marginal marks in ink appear on a few pages. The selection of Jacopone's poetry is extensive, comprising about half of the book's content.

(New York): Nadja, 1987. First Edition. Fine. 8vo, unpag.saddle-stitched in plain orange wrappers with matching printed dust jacket. One of 74 numbered copies signed by Merrill; there were another 26 lettered copies bound in cloth.

New York: Jargon Society, 1958. First Edition. Lightly soiled and somewhat used, very good copy, albeit without printed envelope. 8vo, 14 loose leaves inserted in printed chemise, unbound as issued. Poems by Louis Zukofsky, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Blackburn, Bob Brown, Edward Dahlberg, Paul Goodman, Joel Oppenheimer, Gilbert Sorrentino, Jonathan Williams, Walter Lowenfels, Max Finstein, Edward Marshall, and E.A. Navaretta, printed in facsimile of their handwriting over portrait drawings by Fielding Dawson. Although unstated, the edition was 1000 copies. This one has been inscribed and signed on the inside front flap of the chemise by Louis Zukofsky to a poet who was his protege: "To Frank V. Samperi, Happy 1959 from Louis Zukofsky.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First edition. Spine stamping slightly dull, otherwise near fine in a soiled dust jacket with a sizeable chip from the top of the front panel, removing the first two letters of the title as well as a shallow bit of the top of the spine.. 8vo, 265pp; cloth. The first printing of Tully's third book, a Hollywood novel.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. First edition thus. Few spots of foxing to foredge, else just about fine in original glassine wrapper, torn and slipcase, rubbed.. 4to, cloth, t.e.g. One of 1500 copies printed by D.B. Updike at his Merrymount Press and signed by the illustrator.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First edition. But for two tiny nicks to the cloth of the spine-ends, a fine copy in a bright graphic dust jacket with just slight fraying to the extremities and a closed split to the front flap. 8vo, 452pp; black cloth. An excellent copy.

New York: Jefferson School of Social Science, 1946. Folded; general toning; some small chips; two small ink notations. Mimeograph broadside, printed on one side of a single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches. Newsletter with information about events at the CPUSA adult education school, including a special course by Harry Haywood on "The Negro Question in the U.S.", a Soviet film series, and notes on events at the library and bookshop.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1926. Later printing. Bookplate; fine in a bright pictorial dust jacket witha couple of small chips and tears.. 8vo, [431]pp; orange cloth. Attractive reprint of Dreiser's second novel.

Los Angeles: Jewish Currents Los Angeles Committee, 1964. Mimeographed broadside leaflet, 8-1/2 x 11 in., with bifolium offprint from Jewish Currents, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. Announcement of a lecture by Jewish Currents editor, with a copy of his article "Parents' Corner: Problems of Integration in Schools," from the September, 1963 issue of the magazine arguing for the importance of integration at the peak of the Civil Rights Movement.

New York: N.p., n.d.. First separate edition. Evenly toned; edges a trifle rubbed.. 8vo, 16pp pamphlet in card wrappers, stapled. A chapter from the author's two-volume study "Inside Jewish Palestine (1519-1919)

Jerusalem: The Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1947. First edition. Wrappers toned; chipping to top of spine and with a lengthy tear to front wrapper. some wrinkles. 8vo, 559pp; original wrappers. Full documentation of testimony presented by the agency to the UN committee, including statements from prominent Zionist leaders David Ben Gurion, Chaim Weizmann, and others.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First edition. Ownership signature; toning to endsheets, very slight lean, spine faintly faded and a bit rubbed, without dust jacket.. 8vo, 282pp; red cloth stamped in gilt.

N.P.: Rockbook, 1978. First edition. Hint of sun toward edges, some tiny chipping to the lower front wrapper, near fine.. 8vo, unpag.; pamphlet in wrappers, stapled. Inscribed by the poet and signed on the inside front wrapper. This was Baca's first book, written in prison, containing eight poems and the essay "Thoughts On Leaving Prison." Abandoned at two, consigned to an orphanage as a small child, a homeless illiterate teenager, Baca was incarcerated for more than six years. In prison, he taught himself to read and write and began to write poetry and to publish his poems in small magazines. His first commercial book, Immigrants In Our Own Land, was published by Louisiana State University Press in 1979. He went on to win multiple awards and become one of the most significant Chicano poets in the US and an activist supporting at-risk youth and prison literacy. A powerful and deeply moving debut. With a portrait drawing of Baca on the rear wrapper by Emiliano Hinojosa.

New York: The Viking Press, 1931. First American edition. Edges slightly sunstruck, else near fine in a rubbed dust jacket, frayed at spine-ends.. 8vo, 279pp; green cloth.

New York: The Viking Press, 1965. First edition. Fine copy in a rubbed but bright dust jacket with a touch of wear to the edges. 8vo, 181pp; cloth-backed boards. Mitchell's last completed work before he entered a crippling writer's block that devoured his last years.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. Covers a trifle marked, else near fine in a lightly sunned and edge-worn dust jacket.. 8vo, tan cloth. Aiken's follow-up volume after his 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, this copy has been singed by the poet on the front flyleaf.

San Francisco: MCS Union Defense Committee, 1955. Pencil notation in upper front corner, back page toned, folded twice; very good. Bifolium, 8-1/2 x 11 in., printed on all sides. Illustrated flyer defending Hugh Bryson, leader of the Marine Cooks and Stewards union who was sentenced to two years imprisonment under the Taft-Hartley Act.

Los Angeles: Daily People's World, 1947. Two discreet ink notations; folded, as for mailing. Broadside, on one side of a single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches. Bulletin board poster promoting a lecture by the prominent African American communist journalist. Pittman was a reporter for the Western Worker, and its successor the Dailiy People's World, as well as for the Chicago Defender. His 1947 research trip to Europe - including the newly communist nations - was quietly sponsored by Lena Horne, Paul Jarrico, Albert Maltz, and Dalton Trumbo.

Long Beach (CA): Local Lodge 1577 (I.A.M.), 1943. Few wrinkles, evenly toned, neat pencil notation.. Broadside, on one side of a single leaf of newsprint, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in. Bulletin board poster promoting the International Association of Machinists, reading in part: "We don't believe any union in the country can show a better batting average of victories . . . In aircraft particularly, the I.A.M. showing has been a sensational one . . . since Pearl Harbor, the International Association of Machinists has won over a thousand elections in all types of indistrial establishments." Includes a list of fourteen aircraft and defense contractors where the union had won key victories. Aimed especially at recruiting workers in Southern California's large aerospace industries.