Lorne Bair Rare Books

MDCCCC printed on title page, with 1900 on copyright. Quarto (30cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with title label on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; black and white halftones and illustrations throughout. Includes numbered pages of text, with 125 numbered and complete photographic plates. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "John Madison Taylor with.....

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Bifolium (21.5cm); single sheet of white stock, text offset printed in black, folded to create a 4pp pamphlet. Fine.

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Five Issues, all softcovers. Folio (31cm); photographic paper wrappers, and pictorial card wrappers; 216pp; 128pp; 216pp; 128pp; 215pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout all issues. All issues have modest shelf-wear, peeling and rubbing, and trace soil; overall Very Good. Each issue separately titled (as above). Five installments of this.....

More info about Place [Complete Run of Five Issues]: Vol I, No. 1: A Workingman's Guide to the Universe; Vol I,...

Octavo (23.5cm); orange cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 280pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illlustrations throughout. Light rubbing to board edges, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper, designed by Joseph Alderfer, lightly tanned, with 1" tear to upper front panel, 0.5" triangular chip to upper rear panel, tiny chips.....

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First printing. 12mo. Black publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; fore- and bottom edges uncut; 142pp. Minor thumb-soil to prelims; spine gilt perished, cover gilt slightly dulled; a Very Good copy. First published book by the San Francisco bohemian poet and playwright; Sterling.....

More info about The Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems

Octavo (24.5cm); maroon cloth spine over light gray paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 446pp. Signed by author on title page. Light sunning to board edges, with trace soil to cloth spine and edges of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, designed by.....

More info about Midnight's Children: A Novel [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

Octavo. 21.5cm. Bound in a rather spectacular 20th century mossy green, ripple patterned vellum, with a red leather and gilt title label. [xv];[1]; 442pp.;[1] ads. Some sunning to spine panel, very light wear to extremities, clean, tight, and very striking; internally clean and fresh, plain endpapers, half title present, without.....

More info about The Journal of A Tour to The Hebrides with Samuel Johnson LL.D. Containing Some Poetical Pieces...

No. 29 of the 102 copies on Worthy Dacian paper (of a total edition of 246 copies in three issues). Deep green paper-covered boards; 37pp. Lacking the plain white paper dustjacket. Binding by Arno Werner; initial letters by Wightman Williams. Spine sunned to pale green, though titling still legible; else.....

More info about THREE ACADEMIC PIECES

First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm); glossy pictorial card wrappers; [x],[2]-546,[4]pp. Signed by the author in a contemporary hand on the title page. Scattered foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine. The author's fourth novel, the terrific content of which was completely overshadowed by the conflict it caused among radical.....

More info about The Satanic Verses [Signed

First printing. Octavo (25cm). Publisher's red blind-stamped cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine; xii,[13]-309pp; 4pp publisher's ads; illus. A brilliant copy, unfaded and practically free of wear save a bit of rubbing at crown of spine. Pale yellow coated endpapers darkened from binder's adhesive, else equally fine internally, with.....

More info about Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the Adventures of Porte...

Two octavo volumes. 19th-century polished calf; spines in six compartments with gilt ornaments; viii,435;380pp. With manuscript key to identities laid in to each volume (see note). Some rubbing to joints (external), but holding strong, and overall and attractive, Very Good set in an attractive contemporary binding. From the library of.....

More info about Sexagenarian; or, the Recollections of a Literary Life

First printing. Octavo. Beige linen over boards, titles stamped in brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; charcoal top-stain; decorated endpapers; 295pp; fore- and bottom text block edges untrimmed. Gentle toning to cloth at margins, still a tight, Near Fine copy. In the scarce original dustwrapper, clilpped by publisher on.....

More info about The Hobo's Hornbook: a Repertory for a Gutter Jongleur

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

From a total edition of 1000 copies, this is the deluxe issue, letter "W" of 26 copies with an original holograph poem in rear "pocket" (the pocket being a printed brown-paper sandwich bag). Small octavo; full green cloth with printed paper spine label, 92,(4)pp. Touch of soil to covers, still.....

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One of appoximately 100 copies printed for distribution to members of the International Federation for Internal Freedom in 1963. Slim octavo (23cm); white wrappers printed in black, stapled; 40pp. Gentle sunning along spine-fold and upper edge of front wrapper, with a faint, tiny scuff beneath Leary's name, else a fresh.....

More info about Visionary Experience and How To Change Behavior

First 11 of series, including double issues with Nos.1&2 and Nos.3&4, all softcovers. Quarto (34cm); various color paper wrappers; colorful plates, monochrome plates and line blocks throughout all volumes, with fold-out illustrations to No.11. Full pagination available upon request. Pencilled prices to first pages. Modest shelf- and internal- wear and.....

More info about Lalit Kala: A Journal of Oriental Art Chiefly Indian No.1-11

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

Original double-sided poster, with text and images offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 54.25cm x 41.5cm (21 3/8" x 16 3/8"). Some old folds smoothed out, pin holes at corners, light wear and dust-soil, with mild toning on recto, and a more pronounced patch of toning at upper.....

More info about Guerrilla: Free Newspaper of the Streets. Vol. 2, No. 3

First printing. Octavo ( 20cm). Publisher's plum cloth, decoratively stamped in black with gilt spine and cover titles; 331pp; portrait, map, and six leaves of unnumbered plates; text illus. Spine slightly sunned, with dulling to gilt; a few unobtrusive stains to covers; occasional foxing to text, still a tight, complete.....

More info about Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian War of 1851 Which Led to That Event

First printing. "Library Edition" (so-called), limited to 3,000 copies. Quarto; faux leather over boards, 335pp; illus. External rubbing to joints and board corners, else a tight, sturdy copy, internally clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. A standard work on the subject, with hundreds of examples pictured.

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Two volumes, softcovers. Quartos (28cm); tan paper wrappers; all edges untrimmed; 318pp; 342pp. Some pages of text unopened. Text in French. Publications de L'École Francaise D'Extreme-Orient, Volume LXXVII. Trivial surface wear, else Near Fine. History of Buddha. [89290].

More info about Recherches sur la Biographie du Buddha dans les Sutrapitaka et les Vinayapitaka Anciens: II. Les...

Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's orange wrappers printed within typographically decorative border; 52pp.; text printed entirely in blackletter. Some shallow chipping to upper cover fore-edge not approaching text, some light soil, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good copy, internally clean and sound. At head of title: "Berliner Arbeiter-Bibliothek," IX. Heft.

More info about Die Marx'sche Werththeorie zur Einführung in das Studium von Marx

Three large quarto volumes. Glossy card wrappers with pictorial dust jackets; 259;340;997pp; illus. Volume 3 with embossed label of the Strand Rare Book Room, else fine in slightly battered publisher's slipcase.

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