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1939140939610Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art 1939. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. 24 pp. Original orange stapled wraps. Very Good with a single vertical crease to wraps and all pages additional crease to back wrap corner a few ink checkmarks to margins. Contents bright with six black-and-white reproductions of paintings therein. Scarce with no other copies for sale in the trade currently a total of three copies found at auction and only 17 institutional copies found in a recent OCLC search. An important catalog of one of the first exhibitions of African American art and apparently the very first to be held in the South. The exhibition was historically significant for its contents and style as well; it was the first to frame Black art as "modern." Over 12000 visitors saw the 116 works by 29 artists including Jacob Lawrence Dox Thrash Samuel Joseph Brown Elton Clay Fax Archibald Motley James Lesesne Wells and Hale Woodruff. Over 80 years later the Baltimore Museum of Art commemorated this occasion with the exhibition "1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA. The Baltimore Museum of Art unknown books
1940140939200Washington D.C.: The Associates in Negro Folk Education Inc 1940. First Edition. Very Good. First edition cloth issue. 224 pp. with many b/w illustrations color frontis. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good sans jacket with light wear to cloth and soiling to edges foxing and offsetting to endpapers later gift inscription on front free endpaper underneath Locke's inscription horizontal crease to frontispiece that may be a production error. Signed by editor Alain Locke on front free endpaper inscribed to professor of philosophy Max Otto and his wife "in remembrance of happy Madison Wisconsin days. signed with an underscore Alain Locke May 27 1946." A nice association between two prominent American intellectuals. As an outspoken critic of religious dogma and a friend of progressive Wisconsin politician Robert LaFollette Otto weathered decades of opprobrium while teaching in Wisconsin. A gay African American philosopher educator and writer Locke is most often remembered as the "Dean" of the Harlem Renaissance; his writing on the movement in 1925 including the seminal anthology The New Negro effectively launched it. He was also the first African American Rhodes scholar. This influential anthology introduced many Black modern artists and subjects at a time when few critics were aware of them. An uncommon signed major work of Locke's. The Associates in Negro Folk Education Inc unknown books
1963146288N.p.: The Landau Company 1963. Draft script for the 1968 film. <br/><br/>As early as 1950 there was talk of adapting Carson McCullers' 1940 debut novel "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" for the screen. In 1963 producer David Susskind took over Jose Quintero's attempt at adapting the novel which began two years earlier with a script from British screenwriter Gavin Lambert. Susskind passed on Lambert's script opting for a script from Thomas C. Ryan.<br/><br/>Susskind planned to shoot the film in New York City with director Sidney Lumet but the project ended up being held up indefinitely. Four years later Marc Merson's Brownstone Productions had taken over the film rights with Thomas C. Ryan's original 1963 script and with Ryan co-producing. During filming Ryan and director Robert Ellis Miller would make extensive re-writes as they went.<br/><br/>One of the great film adaptations of any American novel starring Sondra Locke in her debut film opposite Alan Arkin. Although much of the political aspect of McCullers' novel was removed from the film the themes present in the author's work are readily apparent: race loneliness impoverishment and anger. Arkin and Locke were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress Oscars. <br/><br/>Set in in a small Southern town shot on location in Selma Alabama.<br/><br/>Red titled vinyl Hart Stenographic Bureau wrappers. Title page present dated 8/26/63 with credits for novelist Carson McCullers and screenwriter Thomas C. Ryan. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeographed rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 8/26/63. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two metal screw brads. The Landau Company unknown books
19109027669London: Locke Ellis 1910-11. Fine. Illustrations by Maxwell Armfield Keith Henderson C. J. Holmes C. M. Gere Jack B. Yearts Auguste Rodin Muirhead Bone John Sloan Gwen Raverat and others. A complete collection of the twelve issues of this periodical. Contributors include James Stephens Edward Thoma Douglas Goldring John Drinkwater Walter de la Mare Maxwell Armfield Lord Donsany George Bourne E.M. Forster F. Tennyson Jesse and others. Katherine Mansfield's "A Fairy Story" appears in the first volume predating publication of her first book. Wrappers are in very good condition. Protected by a cloth folder and all contained in a slipcase with a gilt stamped leather spine. <br/><br/> Locke Ellis hardcover books
1945140939613Albany: Albany Institute of History and Art 1945. First Edition. About Very Good. First edition. Original wraps. About Very Good with staining and separation to front wrapper at bottom staple small chip nearby; faint dampstain to fore edge of prelims and front wrap. An illustrated collection of biographies of prominent African American artists with an introduction by Alain Locke the philosophical architect of the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement. Each artist is listed with a biography and pictures of select works. Artists include Romare Bearden Eldzier Cortor Lois M. Jones and many others. Uncommon. Albany Institute of History and Art unknown books
194521277No Place: Whittlesey House McGraw-Hill Book Company 1945. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. Elaborately illustrated clothbound book. A 482 pp novel with similar themes to Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men. Lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. Prior owner name. A very good copy overall with light cover wear and faint toning to spine colors. This copy has been SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. A book seldom found signed or inscribed. Basis for the film of the same name. <br/><br/> Whittlesey House (McGraw-Hill Book Company) hardcover books
196714212Camp LaGuardia NY 1967. Original 2pp typed letter on two sides of a sheet of hotel letterhead dated 31 July 1967. Addressed: Dear Ben Shahn signed in ink "Ed Locke." Three old folds else fine. A warm and personal letter from Shahn's old friend and fellow FSA photographer including and commenting on two poems Locke has written: ".a bit of formal verse has crowded into my mind four-square.I'd not send you these trivia except as evidence that my heart is beating in some fashion.I'm inflicting the verses upon you not just because you encouraged me but because they are a sort of safety-valve. What an ancient square I am! I slip into a villanelle as though it were my own coat. Do you ever doodle with your brush" <br/><br/>Though his talents lay more in the realm of writing and editing than photography Edwin Locke worked for three years as Roy Stryker's main assistant at the FSA where in addition to editorial tasks he participated in a number of documentary photo shoots including an important collaboration with Walker Evans to document victims of the 1937 Arkansas Flood. His association with Shahn would have dated from this period as Shahn and Stryker were extremely close colleagues in Washington first in the Special Skills section of the Resettlement Administration and later in the art section of the FSA. unknown books
1923WRCLIT68226New York: The Artist 1923. Original lithograph 22 x 28 cm. plus margins. A bit of dusting in the margins along with pencil notations for it having been shot for reproduction loan deposit stamp on verso from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; very good in bit dust soiled mat. Signed in pencil in lower right margin: "Locke." The year he created this lithograph the artist had come to New York from Ohio at Joseph Pennell's instigation in order to teach lithography at the Art Students' League. The Artist unknown books
1929245795New York: Privately Printed 1929. First. hardcover. good. Edited by Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel. Color Frontis. b/w Illus. and facsimiles. 2 Vols. 4to 1/2 tan cloth decorated boards leather labels edges of board corners worn on both volumes leather labels worn on both volumes page margins uncut. New York: Privately Printed 1929. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> One of 300 numbered copies. Presentation copy from the editor. Pasted into volume II is a manuscript bibliography entry of Weems' George Washington written by Paul Leicester Ford before 1887. This set lacks volume one which is a bibliography of Weems' works by Paul Leicester Ford. This set of volumes II and III are complete in themselves. Mason Locke Weems was an Episcopal minister and author of many books including works on George Washington Benjamin Franklin William Penn and Francis Marion.<br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
19232221731<p>WITH RARE DUST JACKET</p><p>First edition first impression July 1923. Octavo. Color frontispiece and four full page b/w plates by Charles L. Meister. Original gilt stamped red cloth with design in black and baby blue. Original pictorial dust jacket which replicates the design unclipped; chips lower front panel; few small edge nicks. Very good. 315 pages 8 pages of ads. Rare thus.</p><p>Locke 1887- Boston Public Library librarian.</p><p>Hagen page 240.</p> L. C. Page & Company hardcover books
191395034London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Boards a bit soiled and slightly spotted still a nice and presentable very good copy lacking the rare presumed dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author in the year of publication: "To R. Underwood Johnson gratefully in token of Stella's year of life in 'The Century.' W. J. Locke. Ap. 1913." Robert Underwood Johnson was the editor of The Century Magazine where Stella Maris was serialized. Perhaps the best known work by this popular author of romantic novels. Basis for two silent films notably the 1918 version directed by Marshall Neilan and featuring Mary Pickford in a highly acclaimed dual role. Scarce. John Lane, The Bodley Head hardcover books
1945013078New York: Whittley House / McGraw Hill 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. Signed by the Author with an Inscription ------------ A backwoods salesman's rise to the presidency and ultimate downfall. James Cagney played the role of a clever and ruthless Southern politician in the in the 1953 Raoul Walsh film. Based on the life of the flamboyant former governor of Louisiana Huey Long. --------- Bindings are tight and square. Text clean light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve and has age-toned; the white of the rear panel is darkened. First Edition First Printing. California Book Award for General Literature Silver 1945 . Whittley House / McGraw Hill Hardcover books
198915885JNew York: St. Martin’s Press 1989. First Edition. Paperback original movie tie-in novel. Written by Ray Garton under the pseudonym Joseph Locke. Signed by Garton on the title page: “Ray Garton writing as Joseph Locke.†Laid in is an original photograph of Garton signing the book. Contains a section of still photographs from the films. Fine. St. Martin’s Press paperback books
1909424541909. LOCKE William J. THE BELOVED VAGABOND. London: John Lane 1909. Small 8vo. green cloth stamped in white. Later printing. Signed presentation from William Locke to American Author Parker H. Fillmore on front endpaper: To Parker H. Fillmore from William Locke & to Margery from Parrot." Good some darkening spine white stamping rubbed. $175.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
191440870New York: John Lane Company 1914. First American edition 8vo pp. 352; frontispiece 7 additional plates; contemporary three-quarter green morocco over marble boards gilt-stamped spine in 6 compartments raised bands t.e.g. marble endpapers; edges very lightly rubbed 1-inch tear to frontispiece just barely affecting image else a fine copy. Signed by the author on half title page. <br/><br/> John Lane Company hardcover books
1944142814Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1944. Collection of five original concept art sketches for advertisements or posters for the 1944 film. Pencil and marker on tracing paper. <br/><br/>Based on the 1909 play by Edward Locke about a doctor who becomes obsessed with a young singer whose voice reminds with of his deceased financee whom he murdered out of jealousy. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Very Good plus or better. <br/><br/>Weaver and Brunas Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1944281633Tarpon Springs 1944. unbound. very good. 1 page 10.5 x 7.25 inches Tarpon Springs Florida May 25 1944 complying with a collector's request in full: "Your letter was forwarded to me from the Asso. American Artists -- and reached me yesterday. I shall be very glad indeed to add to your autograph collection of 'outstanding American painters' and wish you the best of luck. It was very nice of you to consider me one of that group." Locke has signed it twice providing examples of his correspondence autograph and his canvas signature. Natural folds and one faint diagonal crease; very good condition.<br/><br/> American etcher best known for his landscapes of Florida scenes.<br/><br/> unknown books
197821418London: Ferret Fantasy Ktd 1978. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 96pp. Black cloth gilt spine title. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. One of 49 copies signed by the author of a total edition of 56 copies. This is copy No. 45. Introduction by Nelson Bond who also signed at the beginning of the Introduction. This edition is interleaved for notes though we find none present. Addenda and Corrigenda leaf is laud in. "a select bibliography and notes for the collector" Ferret Fantasy Ktd hardcover books
196424705Crescent City: EPOS 1964. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Volume 16 Number 2 of this small press poetry journal edited by Tullos and Thorne. Notable for the inclusion of "Advice For Some Young Man In The Year 2064 A. D." a poem by Charles Bukowski plus work by Ammons John Dillon Husband Edith Weaver and more. A clean very good example in bound printed wrappers with ownership stamp on the front cover. EPOS paperback books
1975156428Boston: Gregg Press 1975. Octavo cloth. New edition. Reprint of the 1859 William Gowans edition. New 30-page historical introduction by Ormond Seavey. Edgar Allan Poe's comment on the Moon Hoax is appended. A reprint of Locke's successful hoax perpetrated in the New York Sun in August 1835 that pretended to reveal a discovery that men and animals existed on the moon. The revelations supposedly reprinted from the actually defunct Edinburgh Journal of Science pretended to reveal a discovery that men and animals existed on the moon and were so cleverly wrought that for a short time the report was given credence in scientific circles in the United States and Europe. The report was soon denounced as a hoax by the public press and Richard Adams Locke 1800-1871 a reporter for the Sun was identified as the perpetrator of the "ingenious astronomical hoax." Interest in the lunar discoveries increased the Sun's circulation to more than nineteen thousand the largest of any daily of that time. According to William Gowans who reprinted the story in 1859 Locke's account created such public interest that the owners of the Sun published sixty thousand copies of it in pamphlet form. The pamphlet was published in September 1835 and every copy was sold in less than a month. Nevertheless the 1835 printings are rare and only a handful of copies survive. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 1-137. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1348 and 1349. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. #156428 Gregg Press unknown books
1955W0408XPittsburgh PA: Historical Record Association 1955. Original maroon embossed and blindstamped leatherette with gold insets of coat of arms of Pittsburgh which for Vol. 3 is blackened. Some spine end crumpling and edgewear. The history of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County PA proceeds by chronicling individual and family stories. First Edition. Leatherette. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Trade. Historical Record Association Hardcover books
196521498Brooklyn: Harvey Tucker 1965. First edition. Paperback. Good . Tall side stapled wrappers. The third issue of Tucker's small press mimeo magazine of poetry. Folded and stamped for mailing to poet Jackson Mac Low. A good copy with toning to covers and general light wear. With Leonard Deutsch's name and address written in pencil on the front cover. Scarce mag that has fallen through the cracks. Not listed in Clay & Phillips. <br/><br/> Harvey Tucker paperback books
1916012504Milford N.H.: W.B. And A.B. Rotch 1916. Front cover lettered in bright gilt. "Geography and geology of Amherst life and character of General and Lord Jeffery Amherst reminiscences of "Cricket Corner" and "Pond Parish" districts by Prof. Warren Upham archaeologist of the Minnesota Historical Society". Illustrated throughout in black and white one folded plate of "The Second Church". Historical poem entitled "Fragrant Memories or The Dead of the Hundred Years 1760-1860" By Edfward D. Boylston at the end. A crisp clean copy of a scarce title. 122pp. First Edition. Brown Cloth. Light Edge Wear./No Jacket. Thin Octavo. W.B. And A.B. Rotch Hardcover books
190942442NY: John Lane Co. 1909. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg. LOCKE William J. SEPTIMUS. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg. NY: John Lane Co. 1909. 12mo. green cloth stamped in white. First Edition. Signed presentation from Locke on a sheet of paper tipped to the front endpaper: "To Acosta Nichols with New Year feelings from W.J. Locke. January '09." With another presentation on the front endpaper by an unknown person: "Good luck always me dear Acosta Rutger." Acosta Nichols was related brother or nephew to Kate "Katrina Nichols Task founder of the Yadoo atist colony in upstate New York. Very Good front hinge neatly repaired. $85.00. <br/><br/> John Lane Co. hardcover books
1924106767London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. 1924. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-53 54-55: ads 56: blank eight inserted plates with color illustrations by Marcia Lane Foster smaller black and white illustrations in the text original pictorial light orange boards with black cloth spine panel front panel stamped in dark orange and black spine panel stamped in gold top edge stained orange pictorial endpapers. First edition. A short fantastic allegory about the gift of life. Overworked successful but spiritually dead English barrister wins a bet with an itinerant musician and awakes in France as a vital younger man with a caravan and peddler's license. After several days spent analyzing his past life "the dawn found him with the shinning eyes of one awakened to Life's promise jogging southward on an irrevocable way never in this life to retrace his steps." Typical of Locke's gay romanticism; his favorite fictional type was the vagabond who is the despair of dull and pompous people. This story was collected in STORIES NEAR AND FAR 1927. Bleiler 1978 p. 125. Not in Reginald 1979; 1992. A bit of scattered foxing to first gathering preliminary leaves a near fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with several short closed tears at edges and some dust soiling. #106767 John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. unknown books
