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

Hollywood: The Screen Writers' Guild, Inc, 1946. First edition. Rear page lightly toned from apparently being kept next to another acidic item; small ink check-mark to front, otherwise fine.. 8vo, 18pp pamphlet in printed self-wrappers, stapled. An offprint from the July 1946 issue of "The Screen Writer," this is Cain's presentation of his proposal for an organization to aid screenwriters in negotiating with producers and studios. The "Cain Plan", as it became known, was attacked as "communist" -- though Cain himself was never blacklisted, nor suspected of Communist ties. Still, the plan won admirers on the left and critics on the right and was ultimately abandoned. Only five copies of the offprint are located by OCLC.

N.P. (Sacramento): N.p., 1942. Very good. 2-sided handbill, 6 x 9 in. Text of a draft resolution by California State Senators Robert W. Kenny, John F. Shelley, and John Phillips.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. Lightly shelf-rubbed and a bit bumped; close to fine in a price-clipped dust jacket, lightly smudged and with two sizeable chips to the spine, one being more of a snag in the center, and a smaller one at the base of the front panel. 8vo, 336pp; cloth. Loosely inserted is a small broadsheet advertisement for new books about Napoleon (Emil Ludwig) and George Washington (W.E. Woodward).

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. Shelf-rubbed; tips bumped; a touch of wear to the crown; very good in a faintly toned, price-clipped dust jacket with a handful of small chips and a short tear.. 8vo, 284pp; cloth-backed decorative boards. A radical critic and founder of the "Modern Quarterly", V.F. Calverton was the pseudonym of George Goetz. This was his first book.

London: Edward Moxon, 1837. First Edition. Spine sunned a shade; bookplate on front pastedown, alongside a small portrait of Campbell; bookseller's description pasted in first blank. 8vo, frontispiece, [x], 306pp; crushed morocco gilt, with elaborative decorative spine-tooling by L. Brock; a.e.g. A most handsome copy, embellished with two signed documents tipped in: a handwritten ticket admitting the bearer to a reading by Campbell (1818) and an autograph letter signed by Campbell to a friend named Williams, inviting him to come see a newly completed portrait by an artist he calls Thomson, possibly Irish painter Thomas Clement Thompson, who executed a portrait of Campbell in 1833, the same year as this letter. This volume features a superb sequence of steel-engraved vignettes by J.M.W. Turner. An appealing copy with no spotting or discoloration to fine vignettes.

Paris: Elysees-Cinema, 1938. Vertical crease; a few wrinkles; two neat pencil notations. Bifolium, approx. 5-1/2 X 6-1/2 in., printed in all four sides. Folding program from a Paris screening of the Eddie Cantor feature, with a photo still inside. Also on the program: two Disney animations "Le Cousin de Campagne" (The Country Cousin) and "Mickey Chez les Géants" (Giantland).

New York: Random House, 1949. First edition. Cloth. Fine copy in a lightly spine-darkened dust jacket with a pair of small rubs to the spine, one faint mark to front corner.. 8vo, 209pp; black cloth. Capote's second book, inscribed and signed by Capote on the front flyleaf.

New York: Random House, 1965. First edition. Spine sunned and rumpled; some small chips, tears, and general soil.. 8vo, 343pp; wrappers. Advance review copy of Capote's classic "non-fiction novel

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First American edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in dust jacket.. 8vo, 349pp; original cloth-backed boards. Inscribed on the title page: "For Quincy Troupe from another Miles fan, Peter Carey." The recipient, a prolific poet, is well-known for having co-written the autobiography of Miles Davis.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. First Edition. Endsheets faintly offset from dust jacket flaps; tips a bit bumped; fine in a rubbed dust jacket with an L-shaped closed tear to the spine and some edge wear./Dust jacket design by Sugar.. 8vo, 313pp; brown cloth. Possibly the only novel by this elusive, English-born writer, based on his experience as a coal miner in western Britain before the World War. After the war, Carlisle emigrated to the U.S. His dust jacket bio reads in part: "Here are some of the things he has done: In England: grocer's boy, moulder's apprentice, coal-mine worker, machinist, waiter, munitions inspector, sailor in the Royal Navy, window-cleaner, boiler attendant. In America: janitor's assistant, stock-room clerk in a publishing house, sailor, economic investigator, accountant, radio sales organizer, manager of a music store, two-dollar-a-night trucker on fruit piers, owner of a bookstore, book reviewer, motion-picture reader, machinist, dishwasher, ghost-writer (scenarios and… Read More

Chicago: Big Table Publishing Company, 1969. First edition. Cloth. Fine in dust jacket.. 8vo, 78pp; cloth. Chicago poet's first book, including the five-foot fold-out poem "Ode to Severn Darden About Angels, the Common Cold, Nuclear Disarmament and Popcorn." An advance review copy, with slip.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1876. First Edition. Discreet blindstamp of a London bookshop on front endpaper; 1876 gift inscription; title page faintly offset from frontispiece tissue, as usual; covers a bit soiled and rubbed at extremities.. 8vo, 83pp; original pictorial cream cloth, a.e.g., coated black endpapers. A presentable copy of Carroll's great nonsense poem, distinguished by the presence of the rare pamphlet "An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves 'Alice'" tipped to the front endpaper.

New York: Harper & Row, 1982. 1st edition. Fine in a very lightly sunned dust jacket.. 8vo, gray cloth. Signed by Carruth on the title page.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1971. First Edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a couple of small nicks and short tears to the rear panel.. 8vo, 128pp; black cloth. This copy has been inscribed and signed ("Elliott") on the front flyleaf for the harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe and her husband, artist Leonid Berman. As founder of the Harpsichord Music Society, Marlowe commissioned, performed, and recorded original pieces for the instrument by Carter, among other contemporary composers.

Melbourne, Australia: McLaren & Co. Pty. Ltd, 1963. Slightly rubbed; fine. 8vo, (19)pp in printed wrappers. The first two books of poems by Casey, the Australian baroness, aviatrix, and writer, with illustrations by Burke who was known primarily as a textile artist. Copy number 252 of an unspecified limited edition, this copy warmly inscribed by Casey to Marie Bullock, the prominent American supporter of poets. Laid in is a single page typescript poem, the last line of which was completely rewritten for its publication in this book.

New York: Birk & Co. Publishers, 1955. First edition. Inked word "Slogans" on rear wrapper, else fine. 8vo, 12pp pamphlet in wrappers, stapled; illustrated. Historical context of famous phrases, from "we must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately" to "Kilroy was here.

Tübingen: Verlag von J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Sibeck), 1932. First Edition. Wrappers sunned and worn at hinges, a few minor creases; mostly uncut.. 8vo, 491pp; original printed wrappers. Solid but delicate copy of this intellectual history of the Enlightenment written as its ideas were under severe strain during the rise of Nazism in Germany.

St. Louis: The Cauldron Press, 1977. First edition. Wraps. Base of spine bumped, slight toning to edges, very good. 8vo, unpag.; perfect-bound in wrappers. Presentation copy, nicely inscribed by Castro on the title page to fellow poet Quincy Troupe. A lifelong resident of St. Louis, and eventually the city's poet laureate, Castro enjoyed a long relationship with Troupe, who grew up in East St. Louis. Castro founded the journal River Styx, under which auspices he and Troupe collaborated frequently.

Marvin, S.D.: Blue Cloud Quarterly, 1975. First edition. Wraps. Edges toned, trifle bent; very good. 8vo, unpag. pamphlet; wrappers. Inscribed by Castro to poet Quincy Troupe.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First edition. Slight lean; spine label darkened a shade, else a fine copy without dust jacket.. 8vo, 303pp; green cloth with printed labels, With the first issues points: no topstain; "happned" on p. 20 and "suppper" on p. 57.