Lorne Bair Rare Books

Octavo. Contemporary brown calf boards, respined to style retaining original black and gilt leather title label. [xx]; [1]; 534pp.;[1] ads leaf to rear. Strong, straight, and handsome, scuffing and bumping to corners and fore-edge with some pasteboard showing, some discoloration and spotting to the boards; internally clean and fresh, marbled.....

More info about The Journal of A Tour to The Hebrides, With Samuel Johnson LL.D

Presentation, lengthily inscribed: "To Edward Hopper / Assistant Superintendent of a work that is more than mere prevention of disaster in young peoples' lives - it is a program of building creative personalities - with the best wishes always," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. First printing. Octavo. Blue.....

More info about Youth In Trouble: Studies in Delinquency and Despair. With Plans for Prevention [Presentation Copy

Octavo. 18cm. Second issue of the text with "ribbon" spelled correctly on p.235. Bound in contemporary full brown calf with a black leather and gilt title label. [x-xii]; 240pp.; [1]; errata; [5] ads to rear. Some bumping to corners, a few old scrapes and scuffs to the leather and some.....

More info about The American Shooter's Manual; Comprising, such plain and simple rules, as are necessary to...

First printing. Octavo (24cm). Quarter black cloth over red cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; xxiv,[1]-610pp. Includes bibliography. A tight, clean, fresh copy, Fine but for some mild dusting to text block edges. In the original dustwrapper, corner-clipped by publisher with new price ($8.50) overprinted on front flap; gently rubbed with a brief.....

More info about Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Bollingen Series LXXVI

First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black paper spine over gray decorated paper-covered boards; orange topstain; dustjacket; 208pp. Author's signed bookplate laid in. Residue to covers; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.95), with corresponding residue to panels, spine-faded, with light tanning and shelfwear; Good. Westlake's first novel, a mystery set in New.....

More info about The Mercenaries [Signed Bookplate

Large octavo (23.5cm). Privately printed edition limited to 500 copies. Publisher's heavy pebble grained black leather titled and embellished in gilt and silver to spine and front board, professionally recased using the original materials. [xiii]; 376pp. Light rubbing to extremities, strong, tight and very handsome; internally clean and fresh, all.....

More info about Etidorhpa or the End of the Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a...

Small octavo (19.5cm). First trade edition of 1000 copies; preceded by the limited Alcestis Press edition the same year. In Edelstein's third binding, of yellow paper-covered boards with printed paper spine label; dustjacket; 61 pp. A very clean copy, Near fine, with the spine label bright and black top-stain remaining deep.....

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Twelvemo. 19cm. 19th century brown half morocco over marbled boards, titled in gilt to spine. [xx]; 188pp. Strong and solid, joints sound, bumping to lower front corner and some light scuffing and rubbing in places, handsome. Internally clean and fresh, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate to front pastedown, top edge.....

More info about A Critical and Philosophical Commentary on Mr. Pope's Essay on Man. In which is...

First Printing. Octavo (22.75cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [6],7-290,[6]pp. Fine and unread. Sharp copy of Bukowski's third novel, featuring his alter-ego Henry Chinaski. The Australian edition was comprised of a small number of first printing sheets from the Black Sparrow Press edition, given a new title page, but retaining the.....

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No. 966 of 2500 regular copies on vélin alfa, from a total edition of 2600. 12mo (16.5cm x 13cm), tan printed thick-paper wrappers; 90 pp. in tan printed wrappers (soft cover). A clean, unworn copy, text unopened and minimally toned; about Fine. Introduction by Henry Miller; text entirely in French.....

More info about Histoire de Marie

Three Volumes. Octavo. 19cm. Contemporary dark green half morocco over marbled boards, titled and ruled in gilt to spines. 300pp.; 289pp.; 266pp. A strong and handsome set, a little scuffing and rubbing to spine ends and corners, and some light soiling to top edges, the spine of Vol II has.....

More info about The Phantom Ship

Broadside, with text letterpress printed in black within a ruled border on cream Abbey Mills Greenfield laid paper, measuring 28cm x 38cm (11 1/8" x 15"). Signed by Heaney in black pen toward lower right corner. Mild handling and creasing, a few very faint foxed spots, with some trivial dust-soil.....

More info about Broadside: Land [Signed

First impression, limited issue. No. 86 of 115 signed, hand-numbered copies. Octavo. Full blue-dyed vellum; top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges uncut; 454pp. The usual sun-fading to spine, else a fresh, clean, Near Fine copy, free of markings or soil. Lacking the publisher's unprinted glassine wrapper. GALLUP A21b.

More info about Selected Essays 1917-1932 [Signed, Limited Edition

One of 64 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the illustrator, this being copy no.40. Quarto (38cm); dark blue Asahi cloth boards and black cloth backstrip, titled in gilt on spine, with printed title label mounted to upper front cover; text printed letterpress; [48]pp; illus. A Fine copy. An.....

More info about Black White & Blues [Limited Edition, Signed

One of 150 numbered copies specially bound and signed by cover artist George Herms on the inner front cover, this being copy no.55. Oblong quarto (9" x 13"); variously-colored sheets (including canvas), coil bound into covers – the front cover being wood with a mounted print by George Herms, the.....

More info about Eye 12: Players of a Glass Chess Game [Limited Edition, Signed

Two Volumes. Quarto. 31cm. Publisher's grey heavy grain cloth with paper title labels to front boards. [xiv]; 28pp.; [xvi]; 40pp. Strong and resilient, light bumping and scuffing to extremities, some minor soiling of the pale cloth and paper labels; internally clean and bright, illustrated throughout with full page color reproductions.....

More info about My Hunting Sketch Book; Volumes I & II

One of 100 numbered copies signed by Ted Hughes, this being copy no.30. Original broadside, with text letterpress printed in black on white Barcham Green handmade paper (left edge cut, others deckled), measuring 32.75cm x 47.75cm (13" x 18.75"). Some very subtle toning and dust-soil to extremities, with a few.....

More info about Broadside: February 17th [Limited Edition, Signed

First Printing. Octavo (19cm); navy blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in red and brown on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; [11],12-318pp, with a black & white portrait frontispiece of the author and 13 plates of illustrations. Modest external wear, softening to base of spine and lower.....

More info about The Huntsman in the South

First printing (preliminary issue?), from British sheets. 12mo (17cm). Original printed paper-covered boards; 64pp. Title page is a cancel. Some rubbing to boards, including a small scuff at upper corner of front cover; internally clean, tight, and unmarked. A Very Good copy. An uncommon issue of Aldington's third regularly-published book.....

More info about Images of War

Enveloped A.L.s. by photographer to Harlan Kleiman laid in. Quarto (33.5cm); white cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-183,[1]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftones) and illustrations throughout. Inscribed by photographer on front endpaper: "For Harlan Kleiman / Irving Penn". Enveloped autographed letter printed, with Irving Penn Studios blind.....

More info about Moments Preserved [Inscribed to Harlan Kleiman

Photograph of Rutledge signing his work laid in. Quarto (28.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; blue topstain; 210pp; colorful frontispiece with black-and-white illustrations throughout. Lacking dustwrapper. Inscribed by author on half-title page: "Sincerely your friend, Archibald Rutledge". Modest shelf-wear, with slight ripple.....

More info about Hunter's Choice [Inscribed, with laid in photograph

Third edition. Octavo (21cm). Contemporary quarter-morocco over marbled boards; 479pp. Spine leather dry, with a small loss at crown; mild rubbing to boards; internally clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Text entirely in French. Tocqueville's last major work and one of the most important early socio-political analyses of.....

More info about L'Ancien Régime et La Révolution. Troisième Édition

Octavo (21cm); silver cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in purple, yellow, and black on spine and front cover; lavender and teal pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 158pp; black and white photographic (halftone) illustrations, with colorful illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to board edges, with trace residue to title page; Very Good.....

More info about Pipe Dream

Folio. 35cm. Publisher's black and magenta decorated paper covered boards. Dustjacket. 415pp.; [1]. Light signs of wear to the extremities and joints, strong and solid; internally clean, decorated endpapers, inscribed by Ungerer to the verso of the front flyleaf: "For Edward, Tomi Ungerer.", a little thumbing to the page edges;.....

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