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Darkness at Noon

Darkness at Noon by Carlisle, Harry

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Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books
Title
Darkness at Noon
Author
Carlisle, Harry
Seller
Locus Solus Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Endsheets faintly offset from dust jacket flaps; tips a bit bumped; fine in a rubbed dust jacket with an L-shaped closed tear to
Description
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 several novels) . . . . And he is only 33 years old!" Carlisle was an ardent communist, colleague, and, evidently, lover to fellow writer Tillie Olsen, with whom he traveled to the American Writer's Congress in 1935. He was active in the John Reed Club and was ultimately brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee in their pursuit of supposed communists in the film industry. As a member of the LA Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, a front organization, he faced deportation proceedings as a "Communist Alien" under the McCarran act, one of the so-called "Terminal Island Four." A shadowy figure in the film business who left little trace, Harry Carlisle appeared as one of the witnesses in Warren Beatty's 1980 film "Reds," about Reed. This copy of his elusive novel shows some additional cinematic pedigree. The author's inscription on the front endpaper marks the intersection of two Hollywood career paths going in distinctly different directions: "To William Wyler, with sincere congratulations for "Hell's Heroes" -- and hoping for mutual respect - Harry Carlisle, April 7, 1931." "Hell's Heroes," a western, was Wyler's first sound feature. He would shortly become one of the most honored and critically acclaimed directors in all of American cinema, winner of three Academy Awards for best director and best picture, while directing fourteen actors to Oscar-winning performances.
The Beautiful Struggle [Signed in the Month of Publication]

The Beautiful Struggle [Signed in the Month of Publication] by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] COATES, Ta-Nehisi

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books
Title
The Beautiful Struggle [Signed in the Month of Publication]
Author
[AFRICAN AMERICANA] COATES, Ta-Nehisi
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2008. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); white and sage green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xii],227,[1]pp. Signed on the title page in the month of publication, dated 5/27/08." While not explicitly marked as such, this copy comes from the library of Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez, who has highlighted passages on 30 pages. Base of spine gently nudged; Very Good+ in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $22.95). The National Book Award-winning author's first book, a memoir about coming of age in West Baltimore, and the influence of his father (a former Black Panther) on he and his older brother.
[INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Incunables

[INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Incunables by Thomas-Scheler (Librairie / Bookseller) - Stephane Clavreuil (compiler)

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Title
[INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Incunables
Author
Thomas-Scheler (Librairie / Bookseller) - Stephane Clavreuil (compiler)
Seller
Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Paris: Librairie Thomas-Scheler, 1994. First Edition. Very good. Folio. 50 items described and illustrated. Original wrappers. Price-list loosely inserted as issued. An extraordinary catalogue of 50 incunables which includes many great rarities, i.a. the first edition of Homer in Greek (Florence, 1488 -- Doheny copy). The price-list has been annotated by B.H. Breslauer: the published prices total FF 5,743,000 -- not including 9 items Prix Sur Demande which he estimated to be ca. FF 4,500,000 -- and thus the entire catalogue amounts to more than FF 10,000,000 (an impressive sum in 1994). We have seen other instances whereby B.H. Breslauer added up all the asking prices in a single bookseller's catalogue, not only as a pastime but as an expression of his intense competition, even though he had few rivals. ¶ From the famed Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana (sale at Christie's NY, 2005, lot 1275).

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