Lorne Bair Rare Books

Oblong folio (22.5x30.5cm.); original full red illustrated moiré silk stamped in gilt; [14]pp. & 14 color plates mounted to thick cream card stock; text photographic illus. throughout. Text leaves a bit yellowed along extremities, minor soil spots to preliminaries, else Very Good or better. From the Library of Ben and.....

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15 tabloid issues (29cm); offset printed in black on newsprint; each issue 12pp; illus. Includes Vol.1, Nos.3-17. Original folds, with light toning to extremities; Near Fine overall.

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12mo (17cm.); recent half leather over marbled boards, black gilt leather spine label, all edges marbled; xv,[1],349,[1],[4](ads)pp. Includes half title and publisher's ads. Extremities a bit rubbed, else Very Good and sound.

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Original silkscreened poster, printed in red and black on off-white stock, measuring 89cm x 58.5cm (35" x 23"). One of 75 numbered copies signed by the artist in pencil at lower margin, this being copy no.11. Light toning and minor signs of handling to extremities, else bright and Near Fine / A-.

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Octavo (19.5cm); rust-colored cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 281pp. Mild wear; page edges dusted; jacket lightly rubbed and uniformly soiled on front and rear panels; Very Good.

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Octavo. Original brown buckram, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 64pp. Number 30 of 300 hand-numbered copies, printed at the Curwen Press. Stencil-colored text illustrations by Albert Rutherston. Darkened at spine and board edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy in a later custom linen slipcase.

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First printing, first state, with "Purdy" for "Lyte" in line 4, and "my" for "any" in line 5 on p.49. One of 9,500 copies. Octavo (19.25cm); navy blue cloth, titled, blocked and ruled in orange on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 401, [1 blank], [6]pp ads. Hint of offset from...

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Original lithograph. Sheet size ca. 20" x 13". Edition 175; signed in pencil, lower right. Mild, uniform toning to image, else fine.

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16mo. Printed pamphlet; 16pp. Removed; lacking original cover wraps; Good.

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First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); grey linen, with titling and rule stamped in black and red on spine; dustjacket; 283pp. Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket, gently spine-sunned, with a few small tears to extremities, one larger tear with attendant crease to lower edge of rear panel, with a small bruise to...

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32mo (10cm x 6.5cm). Red-printed tan paper wrappers; 108pp. Fresh, unmarked copy, Very Good or better.

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Octavo (20.5cm.); original boards in black pictorial dust jacket designed by Christopher Simon; [4],219pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities and panels, minor dusting to rear panel, textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock, else interior near fine. Very Good overall. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Keneally's...

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Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 16pp. Faint vertical crease; front cover lightly foxed and soiled, with wax-pencil ownership initial at upper margin near bound edge, else a Very Good, well-preserved copy. Ownership signature in ink of R[obert] T. Ely to front cover. At base of cover: "Copyright by Samuel.....

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Octavo (19.75cm.); original tan decorative wrappers printed in red and black; 179pp; text printed in blackletter. Upper wrapper separated, shallow chips along wrapper edges not affecting text; interior fine. Good and sound.

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First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; [8],182pp. Some general wear to jacket extremities, including short closed tear at top spine-edge corner of upper panel with subsequent creasing, minor soil, boards a hint rubbed, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title...

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12mo. Cloth-backed boards; 46, [8]pp; illus. Cloth spine faded, boards somewhat soiled, but still a tight, straight copy, internally fresh with a few pencil marginal notations; about Very Good. French bookseller's ticket ("Boyveau & Chevillet") inside front cover.

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First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; 223, [1]pp. Mild rubbing to upper and lower board edges, with a tiny sunned spot at crown; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.50), edgeworn and spine-sunned, with small nicks to crown...

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Original lithographed poster, 54cm x 41cm (21" x 16"). Professionally matted and framed (not laid down) beneath UV-protective glass. Fine, unfaded example; Grade A.

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First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black paper covered boards over quarter navy blue cloth, with titling in gilt on the spine and front cover; 71pp. Two tiny bumps to the upper edge of the front board, paper worn with some minor board exposure at the corner tips, with the spine gilt...

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Two volumes bound in one; 12mo (18.5cm.); contemporary crimson morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine; x,[11]-251,[1],234pp. Boards rather rubbed and joints crudely recased with too much glue, textblock spotted and rather soiled throughout. An About Very Good copy overall. This title preceded by the London edition, published in three volumes.....

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Octavo (21cm). Green cloth boards; dustjacket; 572pp. Purple top-stain slightly faded, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped and with minor spots of rubbing at flap-folds and spine ends; Very Good Plus.

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One of 150 copies issued as a keepsake by the Press. 12mo. Unprinted card covers; orange dustjacket with applied printed label. Near Fine in mildly spine-sunned dustwrapper. With two laid-in pieces of ephemera (as received): (1) an invitation to a preview reception at the 32nd Annual Exhibition of the Downtown...

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Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 301pp. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Bernarda and Ben Shahn a book of unrest for peaceful reading from friends Elis and Immanuel Velikovsky," dated 1964. Very good in slightly edge-worn dustjacket with 1/2" loss at base of spine.

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Limited to 150 copies of which this is no. 134. Folio (33cm.); decorative vegetable vellum embossed in gilt, two-toned (tan and purple) cloth slipcase; 24pp.; original water color and etching by Therrien bound in. Fine. A handsome production.

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