Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition, small octavo (19cm.); original blue decorative cloth stamped in gilt and black; 150pp.; engraved author portrait frontispiece; edges a bit rubbed with boards minimally exposed, spine a touch cocked; Fine interior in Very Good, quite attractive binding.

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Octavo (19cm); white and yellow wrappers with French flaps; 229, [5]pp; text is entirely in Spanish. Wrappers toned and dust-soiled, with a shallow scrape to upper rear wrapper and tiny bookseller's label to front endpaper; contents fresh and clean; Very Good+.

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Folio (31.5cm.); publisher's linen lettered in brown; 48pp.; chiefly photographs throughout. Boards rather soiled, corners bumped, spine crown a bit frayed, else Very Good and sound, contents about fine. Nude photographs of French women taken early in the Nazi occupation--a history of the photographs and the publication of the book...

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First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titling and rule stamped in red and gilt on spine and front panel; red topstain; dustjacket; 384pp, [1] fold-out map. Partial, thin split to paper on front hinge, with subtle fading to topstain; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, toned at spine and rear...

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12mo (16cm). Contemporary vellum over boards; inked spine title; [48], 406, [26]pp. Chafing and perforation to vellum along front joint (but holding strong); pencilled note to rear endpapers; text fresh, tight and clean; Very Good.

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Offprint. Octavo (22.75cm); beige wrappers printed in black; 4pp. Holes punched at left edge, with light dustiness along spinefold, else Near Fine.

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Ca. 1937. 179 images (5 missing), ranging in dimension from 2-1/2" x 2" to 3-1/2" x 5-1/2". Artfully arranged and almost fully captioned in white ink, with names of subjects and locations; a few items dated 1937 & 1938.

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32 issues, varying formats (approx. 28-45cm.); illus. Tabloid issues with horizontal fold line as usual, some light toning, else a Fine collection. Color printing introduced in issue no. 5.

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First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 rust-colored linen over quarter black cloth, with titling and illustration stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; green topstain; dustjacket; 389pp. Topstain slightly faded, with moderate offsetting from binders glue to pastedowns; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned, with some light wear along the...

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Octavo (20.75cm.); original simulated cloth in teal pictorial dust jacket; [10],276pp. Minor shelf wear with very tiny loss to spine crown, else Very Good to Near Fine. Fictional account of the sports business as seen through the eyes of a minor league baseball player who winds up working in the...

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Octavo; gilt-pictorial cloth; 465pp. Text block edges mildly dusted; top-stain faded, else Fine in the scarce and fragile pictorial dustwrapper, lightly edge-worn, mildly eroded at spine-ends, but unclipped and quite handsome.

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Limited 150 copies of which this is no. 60. Octavo (23cm.); original thick blue papier-peint wrappers, printed paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine; unpaged; chiefly illus. Fine.

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Oblong quarto (11cm x 24cm). Brown cloth-covered boards; [880pp]; entirely illus. Sun-fading to spine and approximately 1-1/2" of front board; remainder dot (?) to bottom edge of text block; Very Good overall and internally fine.

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12mo (18.25cm.); recent brown gilt-ruled polished calf, green and red morocco spine labels, all edges gilt; iv,128pp.; frontispiece & 7 plates by the author, many text illus. Fine, though bound without publisher's advertisements in rear. The last of the author's Christmas books. VAN DUZER 185.

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2 volumes; octavo (22cm.); mid-19th century maroon blind- and gilt-tooled morocco, all edges gilt, spines in 5 compartments; xiii,[3],398;[4],408pp. Bound without half titles. Leather a bit rubbed at extremities, spines faded to tan, else a Very Good, quite attractive set. Slightly later armorial bookplates of an Edward T. Ward to...

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First Printing. Slim oblong quarto (25.5cm.); publisher's cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; [32]pp.; full-page illus. throughout. A couple tiny closed tears to jacket extremities, none approaching text or images, spine a hint cocked, else Near Fine in a Very Good or better jacket. The author's Caldecott Medal-winning picture book...

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Small octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards, decorative paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine, in cream dust jacket printed in green, green topstain; viii,136,[1],4pp.; portrait frontispiece. Jacket rather delicate with chipping and a few short closed tear to extremities, a bit of finger soil, spine darkened with three tiny.....

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Oblong 4to (27cm x 29cm); dustjacket; 235pp; 208 illustrations, including 40 tipped on color plates. Includes bibliography. From the library of Ben & Bernarda Shahn, with estate bookplate inside front cover and with Bernarda Shahn's ownership signature on front endpaper. Mild signs of use, including faint thumb-soil to a few...

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Stated "Second Edition, February 1921." Limited to 400 signed and numbered copies. Tall octavo (25cm). Paper-backed boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 266pp +index. A very good copy in the extremely uncommon dustwrapper, fashioned from the same stock used for the book's endpapers, hand-titled in Nearing's...

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Octavo (24cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [8],210pp. A hint of wear to jacket extremities, textblock very slightly toned, else Near Fine. Second novel to feature Inspector John Rebus.

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Paperback original. Octavo (20.5cm); illustrated card wrappers; 125, (2)pp; author portrait and promotional blurb at rear. Light shelfwear and rubbing to extremities, with wear to base of spine; unread, Very Good+ or better.

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Third printing with "and" on p. 232, line 6. Octavo (19.25cm.); original dark green buckram, gilt-letterd spine, upper cover lettered in blind; [2],xi,[1],317pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, mostly at spine ends; gilt dulled and spine cloth a hint faded, stock somewhat toned and brittle, else interior about fine. Near Very...

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Quarto (27.5cm.); original blue printed wrappers; [14],200pp. Spine and top quarter of wrappers a bit faded, else Fine. Signed and inscribed "To Herb" on half title.

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First Impression. Octavo; red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 319pp. Bookplate signed by Vonnegut loosely laid in. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped, with toning to flap folds and spine, small circular sticker to base of spine, light edge wear and a few short...

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