Lorne Bair Rare Books

First Printings, published between 1000-2000 copies per issue. Eleven octavo volumes (23.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [1]-275,[1]; [1]-324,[4]; [3]-381,[1]; [3]-402,[2]; [7]-440,[2]; [9]-412,[2]; [7]-458,[4]; [9]-400,[4]; [7]-346,[6]; [9]-358,[2]; [9]-299,[5]pp, with black & white illustrations, half-tone plates, and folding charts; text is entirely in Spanish. Edgeworn, wrappers rubbed, gently spine-sunned, and lightly dusty.....

More info about Estudios de Cultura Maya - Vols.I, III-XII (1961-1979

12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers, 32pp. Text in Ukrainian. Light rubbing and wear to wrappers, including brief chips and marginal tears. Text paper browned but not brittle; about Very Good. No publisher given, but rear wrapper advertises publications by "Iskra," the Russian revolutionary exile newspaper. Early, extremely uncommon up-to-the-minute.....

More info about Революція в Росії від 1861 року до найновіших подій ...

Slim quarto (32cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.646-657,[2]; illus.; text is entirely in French. Some wear to extremities, toning to wrapper extremities and text edges, with a few tiny nicks, tears, and some attendant creases, and a few benign shapes drawn in red pencil at lower rear wrapper; contents complete;.....

More info about L'Assiette au Beurre - No.41: L'Argent par François Kupka (11 Janvier, 1902

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. 30cm. Publisher's burgunbdy cloth titled in orange to spine. Dustjacket & Publisher's Slipcase. [xi]; 428pp. Very light incidental wear to the cloth, sharp and bright; internally clean and fresh, illustrated throughout; in a clean strong pictorial dustjacket, and the publisher's buff card printed slipcase with some minor bumping and.....

More info about Shigaraki; Potter's Valley

Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's bottle green embossed ribbed cloth titled and decorated in gilt and blind to the spine and front board. 211pp. Strong and straight, bumping to corners and softening to spine ends, some oxidisation to the spine gilt, and some light cosmetic soiling and discoloration of the cloth in.....

More info about The South Carolina Jockey Club; History of The Turf in South Carolina

Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's ribbed dark blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. [x]; 384pp. Light bumping to corners, some fraying and bumping at the spine ends and a little discoloration to the cloth in places, gilt bright, binding strong; internally clean and fresh, fore-edge untrimmed, frontis. with tissue guard. A......

More info about The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals

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

Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's brown cloth titled in black to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 309pp. Minor bumping to spine ends, light wear and scuffing to extremities, and a little soiling to the lower edge of the cloth boards, clean and fresh; internally clean, with some light offsetting to flyleaves and.....

More info about Whispering Windows; Tales of The Waterside

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

12mo. (19.5cm); publisher's original dark green vertically-ribbed cloth titled in gilt on front cover, with embossed decorations within triple blind-ruled border on covers; viii,[9]-238,[4]pp, with pictorial frontispiece of an eight-point buck by Wightman, and woodcuts at the end of Chapters 14 and 16. Touch of softening to spine ends, light.....

More info about Pioneer Life; or, Thirty Years a Hunter. Being Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Philip Tome

First Printing. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "For Evelyn Scott whose reaction to my little book I most sincerely appreciate," signed in full, datemarked aboard the S.S. Bremen, Mar 28, 1933. Octavo (20.5cm); tan cloth, with titling and rule stamped in black on spine and front panel; green topstain; dustjacket;.....

More info about From Flushing to Calvary [Presentation Copy to Evelyn Scott

First printing. Two octavo volumes. Early straight-grained morocco over marbled boards; gilt spine-titles; pp. lxxxiii, 364; iii--xv, 429pp. Half-titles present. Rubbing to board edges and spine ends, with heavier rubbing at crowns and board corners; foxing generally mild, more conspicuous (but not obtrusive) to a few gatherings in each volume.....

More info about The History of Louisiana from the Earliest Period [copy of John T. Ludeling

One of 390 copies on antique wove rag paper. Quarto (32cm); quarter vellum over yellow pictorial paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; xxiii,208,[4]pp; illus. Lightly spine-tanned, with marginal soil to p.111; Near Fine. Dustwrapper has sticker residue and 1.5" triangular tear.....

More info about Champ Fleury

Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's bottle green cloth titled and decorated in vibrant gilt and black to spine and front board. 289pp. +[6pp] ads to rear. Very light scuffing and edgewear, light cosmetic bumping to spine ends; internally clean, fore-edge untrimmed. A very good, bright copy indeed. Notable on several major points;.....

More info about The Circular Study

First printing. Folio (40cm x 37cm; ca 16" x 14-1/2"). Original marbled paper-covered boards, re-spined and recornered to style; new endpapers; early owner's inserted stenciled half-title ("James Mathews / Atlas / April 14 1868"); 72pp. Leaves are printed rectos-only, comprising title-page, 64 hand-colored maps (two folding), a table of distances.....

More info about Atlas of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania from actual Surveys

Quarto. 25cm. Pulisher's pictorial paper covered boards. Dustjacket. 132pp. Very light wear to corners and spine ends; internally clean, signed by McCulling to the title page; in a clean, strong example of the dustjacket with some very light cosmetic edgewear. A near fine signed copy. McCullin's relationship with India has.....

More info about India

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

12mo (10.5cm); brown paper-covered boards; [n.p.]; black and white illustrations throughout, with red color included in four illustrations. Lacking slipcase. Rubbing and peeling to spine and board edges, with shelf-soil; Good. Comic flip-book includes a person manipulating the letters of 'Mafia' as they are brought to his location on a......

More info about Mafia

51 issues, with nos. 93&94 and 120&121 released as double-issues, all softcovers. 51 Octavos (21cm); pictorial paper wrappers; black-and-white and colorful photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Full pagination available upon request. From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Edward Michael Mendelson (pseud. Nathaniel Tarn), with his ownership to.....

More info about Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art vol.vii, nos.39 & 42; vol.ix, nos.53; vol.xi,...

First impressions. Two slim, small octavo volumes (19cm). Uniform publisher's blind-embossed green cloth by Westleys, titled in gilt on spines; printed endpapers; 104 + 69pp. Printed binder's ticket to rear pastedown of each volume. A few old bookseller's marks to prelims; ownership signatures of Edward Dowden to front endpapers, dated.....

More info about On Translating Homer. Three Lectures Given at Oxford. [with] On Translating Homer: Last Words. A...

First printing. Review copy, so stamped by the publisher on front endpaper, with stamped publication date of November 21, 1939. Octavo. Tan linen hardcover; title stamped in brown on spine, with applied photomontage panel on front cover; x,363pp. A tight, square, attractive copy, lightly dusted on upper edge of text.....

More info about The Cosmological Eye [Review Copy

36 softcovers, including the First and Second Editions of no. 2. Octavos (19cm); pictorial paper wrappers; French flaps; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations, including fold-out map and charts, throughout. Full pagination available upon request. Text in Spanish. From the library of contributor, noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Edward Michael Mendelson.....

More info about Seminario de Integracion Social Guatemalteca: publicaión nos. 1-25, 31-36, 38, 40-43 [36 Mixed...