Lorne Bair Rare Books

Slim quarto (32cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.2810-2824; illus.; text is entirely in French. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, subtle toning to extremities, with a bit of oxidation to staples; contents clean, complete; Very Good+. A well-preserved issue of this illustrated French satirical magazine with anarchist and anti-colonialist sensibilities.....

More info about L'Assiette au Beurre - No.169: Texte et Dessins par Jossot (25 Juin, 1904

First Printing. Two octavo volumes (21.5cm); original yellow card wrappers, with titles printed in black, and publisher's printed labels tape onto front covers; [xi],[3],4-602,[2]; 603-1204,[4]pp. Signed by the author on the title page of Vol.1, with each volume bearing two publisher's folded promotional sheets stapled to the inner front covers.....

More info about Women and Men: A Novel [Uncorrected Proof Copy, Signed

Octavo (24cm). Green cloth titled in gilt; [x],[144]pp; color frontispiece, and black and white halftone portraits throughout. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. Slight rubbing to extremities, else Near Fine. Originally organized to protect travelers on the Oregon Trail, the Third Cavalry had seen action in the Mexican-American War, Civil War.....

More info about A History of the Third United States Cavalry

First impression. Limited issue, no. 91 of 100 copies, signed with initials by the author/artist, with original signed screenprint on Mylar laid in. Small quarto; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 58,(2)pp; illustrations and poems by Dine. Clean and tight in the original dustwrapper, Fine but for a small abrasion to front pastedown.....

More info about Welcome Home, Lovebirds [1/100 Signed Copies

Quarto. 26cm. Publisher's illustrated paper wraps, respined. 96pp.;[4]. Some spotting and soiling to wraps, and light chipping to extremities, bright and striking, internally clean with mild uniform toning to the relatively cheap paper stock, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated throughout with 111 works by Ensor including the full color front cover ("Le.....

More info about Peintre et Graveur

Octavo. 21cm. Bound in contemporary tree calf, professionally respined at some distant point, with a red leather title label. 142pp. Handsome, two repairs to corners, and some traces of scorching to the fore-edge of the binding which has cracked and bubbled the finish of the leather along the edge, hinges.....

More info about Tachyhippodamia, Or, Art of Quieting Wild Horses in a Few Hours, As Discovered by The Author, In...

Two Octavo volumes (20.5cm); brown cloth-covered beveled boards with titling and ruling stamped in gilt on spines and front covers; [xiv],[3],4-421,[1]pp; [viii],[3],4-490pp; black-and-white frontispiece illustrations with plates throughout. Some pages of text unopened. Vol. I has soil to front cover, and both volumes have modest shelf-wear, with rubbing and tiny.....

More info about Six Months Among The Charities of Europe: Volume I [with] Volume II [Two Volume set

First Printing, one of 1,006 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; [vi],[3],4-201,[1]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.75), with gentle sunning to spine, a few tiny foxed spots, and a......

More info about Life Along the Passaic River

Slim quarto (28cm); printed sheets (rectos), side-stapled into beige pictorial card covers; [9]pp. Tiny spot to lower front cover, touch of dust-soil to rear cover; contents clean; Near Fine. Innaugural program and ten-point platform of the Institute of the Black World (IBW), an African American think tank established in the.....

More info about Institute of the Black World: Statement of Purpose and Program

12mo. Brown woven cloth, titled in black on spine and front cover; 134pp. Trace of rubbing at spine ends, still a tight, Very Good or better copy. Translation into Bulgarian of Trotsky's "The Bolsheviki and World Peace," made from the English version published by Boni & Liveright earlier the same.....

More info about БОЛШЕВИКИТѢ И СВѣТСКИЯ МИРЪ [= The Bolsheviki And World Peace]....

First Impression. Quarto (29.5cm); dark blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [224]pp; illus. A fresh, Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced £15.95 net), with some light surface wear and a few faint scratches to rear panel. A collection of satirical.....

More info about Scar Strangled Banner

Sixth, expanded edition. Two quarto volumes; original morocco-backed cloth over boards; 480+552,xxxii pp; 10 unnumbered leaves of plates (portraits); text illustrations printed in colors. Unobtrusive rippling to endpapers; faint foxing to prelims; mild external rubbing – a complete, clean, and attractive set. Essential reference to the printed street propaganda of.....

More info about Les Murailles Révolutionnaires de 1848. Décrets, Bulletins de la République, Adhésions,...

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

12mo. Black cloth, with printed paper spine and cover labels; printed dustjacket; 52pp. A spot of rubbing to bottom front board corner; expected offsetting to endpapers, still a tight, Near Fine copy. In the scarce original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 at base of front flap), mildly toned and with tiny.....

More info about Mr. Pope and Other Poems

Twelvemo. 17cm. Publisher's original linen spine, lacking paper title label, over decorated publisher's paper covered boards. 216pp. Strong and solid, scuffed to the corners with the paper worn allowing the board to show through, rubbed and a little battered in places, with some light cosmetic fraying to the spine ends.....

More info about Volney's Ruins; or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires. Translated under the immediate...

Deluxe issue, letter "Y" of 26 lettered copies, signed by Merrill on the colophon; from a total edition of 126. Oblong octavo; sewn plain card wrappers in publisher's decorative dustwrapper sith applied printed title; unprinted glassine jacket. Fine. A lovely copy of this Merrill rarity. Issued as no.17 in the.....

More info about Yannina

Octavo. 18cm. Bound in later full bottle green morocco by Bennett of NY, elaborately decorated and titled in gilt to spine and boards with geese, ducks, snipe etc. [iv]; 168pp. Strong, tight, and attractive, very light wear, slight darkening to the spine panel, gilt bright; internally fresh and clean, top.....

More info about The Warwick Woodlands or, Things As they Were There, Ten Years Ago

Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's black cloth titled and decoreated in gilt and blind to spine and front board. Dusjacket. 217pp. Very light wear, a touch of bumping to the head of the spine and some minor scuffing in places; internally clean and fresh, a little toning to page edges; in a......

More info about Loyalty in America

Softcover, two authorized facsimile volumes. Octavo (20cm); black paper wrappers, with decorative paper title labels on front wrappers; 309pp; 311-675pp; one-sided printed text. Part I signed by author on title page, and Part II signed on half-title page. Part I spine-sunned, with creases to wrapper extremities, and pencilled notes to.....

More info about The Old Men [Signed

First Impression, one of 20,300 copies. Octavo (23.75cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,[3],4-426,[2]pp; text is entirely in Spanish. Inscribed by Guillén on the half-title page to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Márquez, with small drawings of the Cuban.....

More info about Prosa de Prisa, 1929-1972 - Tomo I [Inscribed to Roberto Márquez

Octavo. 20cm. Disbound, with traces of an old calf spine. 22pp. Clean and strong, stitch bound; internally clean with a little offsetting and light soiling to the first and last leaves otherwise bright and fresh. A very good copy. A printed letter, putatively addressed to William Pitt, from the doomed.....

More info about An Exact Copy of A Remarkable Letter From Admiral Byng to the Right Hon W ---- P ---- Esq.; dated...

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

Limited issue, no. 83 of 150 copies signed on the leaf following the title page and hand-numbered on the colophon. Octavo. Quarter-bound in green cloth over printed paper-covered boards; publisher's acetate dustjacket; 69pp. A fine copy in original unprinted acetate jacket, just lightly scratched and rubbed; Near Fine.

More info about The Engendering Flood. Book One of Dust Shall be the Serpent's Food (Signed, Limited

17 individual issues in original staple-bound, printed wrappers (Reports for 1987-88, 1995-96, and 1997-1999 are combined in single volumes). Occasional mild sunning to spines, still a uniformly Fine set in the original wrappers. Four issues (1979, 1980, 1983, and 1987-88) are signed by Fowles on front cover; included with the.....

More info about Lyme Regis (Philpot) Museum: Curator's Report with notes on recent research and new...