Lorne Bair Rare Books

Mixed issue. Octavo (22cm.); contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xvi,624pp.; frontispiece and added engraved title page, 38 plates. Boards a bit rubbed, spine leather darkened, some spotting throughout textblock, including to plates, else Very Good and sound, housed...

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Limited to 400 copies printed on Alfa paper of which this is no. 418. Octavo (23cm.); original cream pictorial card wrappers in glassine dust jacket; 85pp. Glassine a bit yellowed with rather substantial loss at bottom edge of rear panel, wrappers a bit rubbed and worn, else Very Good in...

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Quarto (38cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; [8]pp; illus. Faint trace of wear/erosion along spine-fold, else Very Good, complete copy.

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First issue with "bite" misprinted on p. 281 and "Printed in U.S.A." on title page verso. Thick octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in the later issue pictorial price-clipped dust jacket with reviews printed on rear panel; [4],602pp. Some wear to jacket extremities, with subsequent wrinkling to rear panel, else Very Good.......

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Large broadside (41x27.5cm.) printed in Roman and blackletter; previous fold lines, type a bit smudged, presumably at time of production, a few tiny chips and closed tears along extremities, else Very Good and sound.

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Octavo (23.5cm); illustrated paper-covered boards; dustjacket; unpaged. Trivial wear to extremities, lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with some faint foxing to endpapers and upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny edge tears; Near Fine. Publisher's...

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Five issues bound in four octavo volumes (ca.17.5-18cm); printed wrappers; 167,[1]; 205,[3]; 294,[2]; 184pp. Second (trimmed) state of issue 1, measuring 6 7/8" x 5 1/16" (per Kermani, p.98); issue 1 showing mild toning to extremities, some light external wear, and a short tear to upper front joint; Very Good+...

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Octavo (20.5cm.); original boards in black dust jacket lettered in white and silver; 176pp. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. The author's first book.

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Original poster (43x30cm.) printed silkscreen in colors on white stock; light wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Poster issued by the Dutch organization the Bond Werkschuw Tuig (translation: Federation of Work-Shy Riff Raff). The term was first used in the 1960s in reference to the young men whose long.......

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Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in Art Deco dust jacket designed by Calman, printed in yellow, hot pink, and dark blue, black toptain; vii,[8]-330pp. Jacket extremities quite chipped and worn with a number of closed tears and small losses, none approaching text, the whole quite dust-soiled, cloth boards a bit darkened.......

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Limited to 600 copies of which this is no. 428. Small quarto (27.75cm.); original cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaged; photographic endpapers, full-paged color-blocked copper-plate engravings throughout. Jacket a hint shelf-worn and rather dust-soiled with small soil stain to upper panel, else Fine in About Very Good jacket. Signed...

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First Impression, one of 14,604 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); Gilbert's Binding A, black cloth with blind-stamped diamond pattern to covers, titles stamped in silver on spine, and baguette-cut diamond stamped in silver at center of front cover; dustjacket; 257, [1]pp. Mild wear to spine ends, rear board corners gently tapped, faint...

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First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); light green cloth, with titles stamped in hunter green on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; 300pp. Light sunning to spine, light wear and spotting to upper and lower board edges, with fading and a few faint stains to top edge; Very Good+. Dustjacket is...

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49 tabloid issues (ca.48cm), with publication seqence as follows: Año II, Nos. 219, 224-225, 227-228, 233-234, 241-243, 245, 327-329, 331-332, 334-340, 342, 347-349, 351-352, 356, 358-363, 365-378. Printed offset, on newsprint, ca.8pp per issue; illus. Issues show light overall wear and toning, creases and small tears, with underlining and marginalia...

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Three octavo volumes; publisher's orange-brown cloth, decoratively stamped in blind and lettered in gilt on spines; [x],359; [viii],319; [viii],313pp. 16pp of publisher's ads at end of volume III; Carter's first state of volume I, without the inserted ad leaf. Cream yellow endpapers, with binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants to.......

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Original (vintage) albumen print, 3-1/4 x 2-1/4 inches; on 4-1/8 x 2-1/2 inch printed mount, (verso with backstamp of Ollivier & Co., New York). Captioned beneath image: "Millie Christine, The Two-Headed Nightingale. Born 1851. Age 31 Years." Some light soiling and wear; image slightly faded; still a very good copy...

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Octavo (19.25cm.); original blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt; ix,[1],345,[1],[24](ads)pp. Light shelf wear, spine a hint cocked, front hinge starting to crack but holding, else a Very Good, unusually vibrant copy. Churchill's only attempt at fiction, set in the fictitious European country of Laurania.

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Second issue with p. [70] blank and imprint moved to p. 71 verso. Octavo (22.5cm.); original drab wrappers in custom-made cloth four-flap chemise; [4],71,[1],[8](ads)pp. Light dust-soil, shallow loss to spine foot, very faint contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper. Very Good and sound. MILES I, p. 131-133.

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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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Quarto. Linen-backed, printed paper-covered boards; pictorial dustjacket; 204pp. Fine in lightly worn dustwrapper with small loss at crown of spine, still Very Good. Facsimile edition of Gauguin's original manuscript, reproduced in offset on Papier Chiffon. Quite uncommon in jacket.

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12 rubber figures measuring approx. 12x11 to 14x15cm., some with Chinese inscriptions to pedestal. General dust-soiling, a few uniformly darkened or slightly discolored, else a Very Good, sound collection. Each figure is unique from the others, whether in size or inscription. Includes quite an uncommon bust of Mao (the only...

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Six volumes bound in one; thick 12mo (18cm.); contemporary half green calf over cloth, gilt-ruled spine in six compartments, all edges speckled red. Leather rubbed with some peeling at corners, spine toned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, textblock of one tract rather browned due to poor paper stock...

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Eleven original monthly issues. Original mimeographed self-wrappers, side-stapled; 12pp per issue. Occasional soil and wear; all issues complete; Good or better. Includes: Vol 3 (1936): nos.30, 33-35; Vol 4 (1937), nos 36-38,41,45; Vol 5 (1938): nos 44,46.

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Two volumes bound in one. Octavo (21.75cm.). Contemporary three-quarter maroon marocco over marbled boards, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges speckled red, marbled endpapers. Extremities a bit scuffed, some foxing to preliminaries, else Very Good and sound. Contemporary armorial bookplate of a Robert Frederick Boyle to front pastedown.

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