Lorne Bair Rare Books

Octavo. 24.5cm. Limited to 500 copies. Publisher's blue cloth spine with paper title label over printed grey paper covered boards. 118pp.;[1]. Straight and strong, a little soiling to the title label and the paler parts of the boards, some light bumping to spine ends and corners; internally clean and fresh.....

More info about Cooking in Old Creole Days; La Cuisine Creole a L'Usage Des Petits Menages

First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Nora and Ralph de Toledano / with sincere admiration and good wishes," signed, dated July 1959. Tight, clean and unmarked copy, Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Military memoir of the noted American naval officer who, following his long military career, became a proninent.....

More info about Wedemeyer Reports! [Inscribed to Ralph de Toledano

Rebound. Octavo (22cm); half vellum over cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine; gilt top-edge; [xxviii],468pp; tissue-guarded frontispiece illustration; two fold-out maps, present and complete. Text in Spanish. Modest shelf-wear and -soil, with front cover cloth beginning to lift, tiny chips to spine titling, and light.....

More info about Historia de la Conquista de Mejico, Poblacion y Progresos de la América Setentrional, Conocida...

31 Softcovers, with vol. 9 nos. 5&6 released as a doube-issue for 32 issues total, and many issues including publisher's laid-in subscription forms. Thirty-seven Octavos (21cm); stapled pictorial paper wrappers; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations. Full pagination available upon request. All issues have lightly tarnished staples, with modest shelf-wear and.....

More info about A Journal of Research and Thought; Belizean Studies: vol. 4, nos. 3-6; vol. 5, nos. 1-6; vol. 6,...

From the regular edition of 250 copies; this copy inscribed in Perlès' hand on half title: "Personal Copy / Alfred Perlès." Large octavo. Full black cloth; dustjacket; unpaginated [48pp]. A fine, apparently unread copy. In the original dustwrapper, reproducing a painting by Miller; Fine. Note: Shifreen & Jackson state that.....

More info about What Are You Going To Do About Alf? [Alfred Perlès Personal Copy

Octavo (24.5cm); cream card wrappers vertically striped in blue; 112pp; twelve inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Mild external wear and soil, with brief losses to paper at spine ends; still tight and sound, internally free of markings or wear. A solidly Very Good copy. Remnants of the original bright.....

More info about The Little Review - Autumn 1921 (Brancusi Number

Large paper issue, no.152 of 350 numbered sets. Two large octavo volumes. Original paper-covered boards with printed paper spine labels; fore and bottom edges untrimmed; 505+465pp; frontispiece to each volume; engraved title pages and four unnumbered leaves of engraved plates. Housed in a later custom cloth slipcase. Spines darkened; moderate.....

More info about Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife. A Biography by Julian Hawthorne [Large Paper Edition

Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine. 647pp. Strong and solid, some bumping to spine ends, light wear to boards with a couple of small dents and some slight discoloration of the cloth; internally clean and fresh. A very good, strong copy, lacking the scarce dustjacket. A......

More info about Collected Ghost Stories

First Printing. Octavo (21cm); beige cloth with titling and rule in blue; dustjacket; 371pp. Mild soil and toning to board edges, else very Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper; all four corners clipped by publisher (as always), with $2.50 price intact on front flap; slightly dust-soiled, with two old clear.....

More info about The Executioner Waits

First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); white cloth spine over black paper-covered boards, titled in black to spine; dustjacket; 312pp. Light bumping to spine ends and a little sunning/discoloration to the extremities; internally clean, signed by Sontag to the half title. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.75) with some toning to the.....

More info about Death Kit

Octavo (20.5cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; photographic frontispiece,891,[5]pp; illus. Spine ends nudged, light wear to corners and lower board edges, internally clean and tight; a Very Good copy.With printed bookplate of Ruth Jarvis Hall to front pastedown. Important early anthology of radical.....

More info about The Cry For Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest

Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's orange wrappers printed within typographically decorative border; 52pp.; text printed entirely in blackletter. Some shallow chipping to upper cover fore-edge not approaching text, some light soil, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good copy, internally clean and sound. At head of title: "Berliner Arbeiter-Bibliothek," IX. Heft.

More info about Die Marx'sche Werththeorie zur Einführung in das Studium von Marx

Original lithographed poster, with text and illustrations printed in dark red and black on thick cream laid paper, measuring 48cm x 66.25cm (18 7/8" x 26 1/8"). Mild handling, a few faint creases from being rolled, with a half-dozen foxed spots; unbacked; Near Fine. A striking poster by Lawrence, designed.....

More info about Lawrence - Paintings, March 25 - April 20 [Two Rebels

Octavo. Blue-green pictorial cloth, stamped in black and silver on cover and spine; 379pp. 8 inserted leaves of plates (halftones) by Glenn O. Coleman. A bright, Near Fine copy, with just a trace of rubbing to spine ends board edges; virtually free of soiling, with the pictorial design on front.....

More info about Types From City Streets

Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's bottle green buckram titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xii]; 260pp. Very bright and handsome, very slight wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh, illustrated throughout; in an attractive Cliff and Rosemary Ellis dustjacket with some extremely light wear and a touch of toning to the spine.....

More info about Dragonflies

Original double-sided poster, with text and images offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 54.25cm x 41.5cm (21 3/8" x 16 3/8"). Some old folds smoothed out, pin holes at corners, light wear and dust-soil, with mild toning on recto, and a more pronounced patch of toning at upper.....

More info about Guerrilla: Free Newspaper of the Streets. Vol. 2, No. 3

First complete and corrected edition after the 1978 issue of the same title. This is the rare Deluxe Issue, Letter "G" of only ten copies signed by the poet on title page and with a full page holograph poem from the work. Octavo, 672pp; bound in full black morocco by.....

More info about Ranger (Volume 1

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); jade green cloth, with titling, rule, and decorations stamped in maroon and dark green on spine and covers; dark brown topstain; [viii],282,[2]pp. Gentle sunning to spine and covers, base of spine crimped, with faint foxing to front cover, and some mild dustiness and two faint splash.....

More info about The Glass Key

Royal octavo (23cm). Publisher's blue ribbed cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; xx, 429pp; 82 inserted leaves of half-tone plates (incl. frontis); text illustrations. Slightly over-opened at center of text block, but still a firm, unfaded copy with just a hint of roughness to cloth at base.....

More info about Eighteen Capitals of China

No. 163 of 400 numbered copies on vélin pur fil du Marais (from a total edition of 450). 12mo (approx.17cm). Original printed wrappers; glassine overlay; unpaginated. Designed by Pierre Faucheux. A tight, clean copy with a touch of darkening to page margins; Near Fine. The last book published in his.....

More info about Ci-Git précédé de La Culture Indienne

First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover with printed paper title label to front board; frontispiece; one inserted photographic plate (halftone) not reckoned in pagination; 124;(12)pp; illus. Mild external wear, with a few faint spots to cloth, internally fresh, clean, and tight - solidly Very Good. With pencil ownership signature of.....

More info about A History of Yale Athletics 1840-1888. Giving every contest with Harvard, Princeton,...

Ten octavo volumes (issued annually). Original printed card wrappers; variously paginated. Mild evidence of use; generally Near Fine or better. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his embossed stamp to title page of first issue. Texts primarily in English save v.5, which is entirely in.....

More info about Experiment / эксперимент: A Journal of Russian Culture (nos. 1-10, 1995-2004

Quarto. Of 250 copies printed, this letter Q, being one of fourteen copies that is both signed and includes a four-line holograph verse quotation. Quarter-bound in calf over gray paper-covered boards; [8],9-51,[5]pp. A fine copy in the publisher's unprinted acetate jacket, also fine.

More info about River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States [One of 14 Special Copies

Folio. 36cm. Limited to a run of 200 copies only. Publisher's original illustrated heavy card wraps. Unpaginated [72pp.]. Light wear and creasing to corners and extremities, a little soiling to the white portions of the card wraps, strong and bright; internally clean and fresh, lavishly illustrated. A very good, strong.....

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