Lorne Bair Rare Books

Seventeen-volume set, all softcovers. Quarto (38cm); red paper wrappers, with titling stamped in gilt on spines and front covers; Volume 3 Part 3 has folded illustration tucked into rear folder, Volume 4 Part 2 has fold-out map illustration, Volume 8 Part 1 has 4 folded map illustrations tucked into rear.....

More info about Corpus of Maya: Hieroglyphic Inscriptions [Volumes 1-8, Parts 1-3; 17 Total

Folio (41.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; [40]pp, plus fold-out centerfold plates; illus. Text is entirely in English. Modest wear and handling, some oxidation to staples, a 2" closed tear and mild dust-soil to rear panel, with one panel of the fold-out centerfold neatly and archivally mended along the fold; contents.....

More info about USSR in Construction. 1932, No.10 (October

First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pink topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-288pp. Signed by the author on the title page, dated 2007. Pink topstain very slightly dulled, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $6.95), showing light wear to spine ends and.....

More info about War [Signed

First Printing, in the second state binding, with Chesnutt's name spelled correctly along the lower front cover. Octavo (20.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; x,294pp. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to spine ends and extremities, a few tiny scuffs to front cover.....

More info about The Colonel's Dream

Limited Issue, one of 150 numbered copies signed by the author, this being no.113. Octavo; 3/4 marbled paper over quarter brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; glassine dustjacket; 293pp. Fine in a Near Fine glassine, with a touch of wear along the edges. Chatwin's much-praised fifth book.....

More info about The Songlines - Limited Edition, Signed

Expanded Edition (first published in 1966), First Printing, softcover. Octavo (23.5cm); photographic white paper wrappers; 165pp; black-and-white photographic halftone illustrations and map illustrations. Inscribed by editor on title page: "To the most civilized man in the new - wild west - and a true friend - with gratitude. Matt H......

More info about The Shoshoneans: The People of the Basin-Plateau; Expanded Edition [Inscribed

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); olive green cloth, with titling and cornstalk device stamped in black on spine and front cover; [vi],[2],3-302,[4]pp. Spine gently sunned, moderate wear to extremities, foxing to text edges, with a few spots of white paint spatter to rear cover; contemporary ownership signature of Elizabeth Prestopino on.....

More info about The Green Corn Rebellion

The three works bound in one volume. 12mo (17cm); contemporary full calf gilt; marbled endpapers; viii,108 [+] 132 [+] x,109,[1]pp; final title followed by 8-pp publisher's catalog for G. Dearborn & Co. All three titles bound without original wrappers; Part I of Clio without the leaf of ads, as usual.....

More info about Clio [Parts I & II, bound with] Ion; a Tragedy in Five Acts, by Thomas Noon Talfourd

Limited issue. Number 7 of 75 signed and numbered copies (after ten ad personam copies). Octavo. Vellum-backed cloth in publisher's cloth and board slipcase; 85,(5)pp. A fine, unopened copy in a fine, unworn slipcase. Sole edition of this revised version of a work first published commercialy by Faber in 1991.....

More info about Kings. An Account of Books One and Two of Homer's Iliad

Twelve octavo volumes. Octavos; sewn printed wrappers; each with an engraved frontispiece by a Welsh artist. Each no. 362 of 400 copies printed, housed in the publisher's cloth clamshell box with printed paper spine label. Uniformly fine, in fine, unworn box. Texts in English or Welsh. The first twelve of.....

More info about Beirdd Gregynog / Gregynog Poets. Nos 1-12

Limited Issue, one of 600 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author on a pictorial plate mounted to the front pastedown, this being copy no.170. Quarto (28.5cm); original glossy pictorial boards; xii,131,[1]pp; illus. Trivial surface wear, with crown gently bumped, resulting in two tiny tears; Near Fine, without.....

More info about The Complete Crumb Volume 5: Happy Hippy Comix [Limited Edition, Signed

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

11 Issues running from November 1978 to October 1979, with no December 1978 production as issued. Small Quarto. 24.5cm. Publisher's original vibrantly decorated thin card wraps. Approx. 68-80pp. per issue. Clean, bright, and sharp; internally clean, printed on various colors of paper, some light spotting and offsetting in places due.....

More info about New Culture; Review of Contemporary African Arts. Plastic Arts, Architecture, Performing Arts

First Impression, one of 6,000 copies. Octavo (22.75cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; [4],5-191,[1]pp. Hint of sunning to spine and upper board edges, scattered foxing to upper endpapers, else internally clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 7s. 6d. net), showing light wear.....

More info about Collected Poems 1909-1935

12mo (18cm). Modern plain buckram with gilt spine label; xii,[13]-162pp. Early perforated stamp to title page (Rhode Island Historical Society); scattered foxing and toning to text, still a complete, fresh copy, Good and sound. An anonymous early work by Blake, identified as such in the catalog of the American Antiquarian.....

More info about Ramon: the Rover of Cuba. The Personal Narrative of that Celebrated Pirate. Translated from the...

First Printing. Octavo (22cm); white cloth, titled in red and black on spine; dark pink topstain; dustjacket; xii,[3],4-304,[4]pp. Signed by the author along the upper margin of the title page. Some wear to spine ends, sunning to upper and lower board edges, with the usual tanning to the text edges;.....

More info about Against Interpretation and Other Essays [Signed

Quarto (32cm). Color-printed card wrappers; 52pp; illus. Strip of sunning to upper inch of front cover; mild dusting to rear wrapper, else a tight, complete, Near Fine copy. Text in French. Premier issue of the legendary Paris art monthly, which appeared in this format – including one or more original.....

More info about XXe Siècle. No. 1 (Mars 1938

Second Printing. Octavo (22cm); teal cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt and blind embossed to spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; 48pp. Author signed front fly, with full-page handwritten poem, "About Poetry". Light soil to front endpaper, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.00), with light tanning and.....

More info about The Wreck of the Thresher: and Other Poems [Signed

Volumes 1-7, including double issue nos.2&3, all softcovers, with publisher's press release laid into Vol. 7. Volume 1 is Octavo (21.5cm) in tan paper wrappers; Volumes 2-7 are Quarto (28cm) in white paper wrappers; black-and-white illustrations throughout all volumes. Full pagination available upon request. Volume 1 has Lincoln County Unif.....

More info about Spawning the Medicine River [Volumes 1-7

First printing. Small, square octavo (18.5cm). Publisher's khaki-brown cloth, titled in black on front cover; [11]-101pp; frontispiece portrait. Tight and generally clean, with mild rubbing to board edges and corners; bookplate shadow to front pastedown; Very Good. A scarce, privately-published account of the Siege, from the diary of a Private.....

More info about The Siege of Vicksburg from the Diary of Seth J. Wells. Including Weeks of Preparation and of...

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

Cloth issue of no. 1, softcover issue of no. 2, cloth issue of no. 2, and cloth issue of no. 3/4, with signed illustration by Pierre Jorris (23 of 26) and publisher's pictorial subscription form laid in no. 1. Four Octavos (25.5cm); no. 1 has blue cloth-covered boards with paper.....

More info about Boxkite: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics; nos. 1, 2, 2, 3/4 [Four Issues

Four octavo volumes; all are Letter "U" of 26 lettered copies, each signed by Heyen on colophon, from a total edition of 126. First three in full cloth with printed paper spine labels, fourth volume with stamped spine title (as issued). Uniformly fine - a new-appearing set, uncommon in this.....

More info about The Chestnut Rain: A Poem in Progress. 4 vols, comprising: The Snow Hen (Sections 1-7); The...

First Impression, cloth issue. Octavo (20cm); white cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in lime green on front cover; dustjacket; [8],9-148,[8]pp; with black & white illustrations throughout the text by Alfredo Rostgaard; text is entirely in Spanish. Inscribed by Guillén on the half-title page to Puerto Rican editor, translator.....

More info about Musica de Camara [Inscribed to Roberto Márquez