Lorne Bair Rare Books

Octavo (21cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-319,[1]pp. Signed by author with 2009 date on title page. Lightly faded topstain with trace shelf-wear, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper, designed by Stanley Chapman, unclipped (priced $6.95), tanned, with peeling to upper rear corner, light.....

More info about The Book of Flights: An Adventure Story [Signed

Octavo (23cm). Full sheep with leather spine label; 267pp. Slightly rubbed and worn; endpapers mildly foxed with offsetting at margins; still a tight, clean, Very Good copy. With bookplate and ownership signature of a William S. Seibert to front endpapers; bookseller's stamp of T. & J.W. Johnson (Phila) to front.....

More info about Blackstone's Commentaries for American Students in the form of Questions and Answers....

Second Edition. Folio (38cm); pictorial paper-covered boards, with titling on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; publisher's pictorial slipcase; 299pp; colorful and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Pictorial bookplate of noted zoologist and marine biologist James Glen Mead to front pastedown. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper, unclipped, with trival surface wear.....

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Volumes 1 Number 1-2 to Volumes 5 Number 1-2 (10 total), all softcovers. Quarto (27.5cm); orange and brown pictorial paper wrappers, many stapled with additional black band to spine; 60pp; 61pp; 62pp; 160pp; 97pp; 53pp; 129pp; 91pp; 112pp; 53pp. This set is from the library of noted poet, translator, and.....

More info about Journal of Mayan Linguistics [Volume 1-5, Number 1-2; 10 Total

Two Volumes. Octavo. 25.5cm. Publisher's original printed pale green card wraps titled in black to spines and front covers. Glassine Dustjackets. [xi]; 383pp.; [90]; 423pp.; [85]. Volumes are paginated contiguously with extensive unpaginated sections of plates, expanatory matter, and errata. Clean and strong, lightly sunned to spines; internally clean fresh.....

More info about The Na-Khi Naga Cult and Related Ceremonies

Octavo. 26cm. Bound in a 20th century institutional brown cloth, titled in gilt to spine. 395pp. The binding is strong, tight, and eminently functional; internally clean, almost entirely untrimmed, endpapers contemporary with the binding, lacking a half-title, there are marginal repairs to the title page which has been laid down.....

More info about Recollections of The Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the...

First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black paper spine over gray decorated paper-covered boards; orange topstain; dustjacket; 208pp. Author's signed bookplate laid in. Residue to covers; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.95), with corresponding residue to panels, spine-faded, with light tanning and shelfwear; Good. Westlake's first novel, a mystery set in New.....

More info about The Mercenaries [Signed Bookplate

First State. Small quarto (26cm); glazed pictorial cloth binding; [xii],144,[2]pp; black-and-white illustrations throughout. Lacking dustjacket. Previous ownership's inked inscription (1892) and address on ownership page. Spine-tanned, with shelf-wear and soil, rubbing to spine ends and board edges, residue to front pastedown, old tape marks to pp.xi-xi, 4" triangular chip to.....

More info about The Brownies: Their Book

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

First printing; 3,472 copies printed. Quarto. Deluxe binding of full pebble-grained morocco over beveled boards, bound in Japanese style with silk cord; all edges gilt; 184pp; illus. A pretty copy, with minimal rubbing to the fragile leather binding at spine ends and board corners; small loss to silk endcap at.....

More info about Michael Angelo, A Dramatic Poem. Illustrated

Five quarto issues (28cm); mimeographed sheets, printed in colors and stapled at upper left corner; ca.8-12pp per issue. Light wear to extremities, else very Near Fine.

More info about Bloomington Women's Liberation Front [Newsletter]. Five consecutive issues, Jan - May 1971

First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and blocking stamped in gilt and red on spine and front cover; red topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 155pp; black and white photographic (halftone) illustrations on glossy pages throughout. Light shelf-wear, with previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, and light off-setting to.....

More info about The American Way

Two volumes. Vol I octavo (24cm x 17cm); Vol II oblong quarto (24cm x 32cm). Blue cloth hardcovers; dustjacket; xvi,185; second volume (linguistic atlas and plates) unpaginated. Mild fading to jacket spines, else a fine set, free of markings or notable wear. From the library of noted poet, translator, and.....

More info about Phases of Pre-Pagan Burma: Languages and History (2 vols

Quarto (35.75cm); original pictorial wrappers; 6pp. Modest wear and handling, some dust-soil and faint foxing to wrappers, with several small tears and attendant creases to extremities, and a faint tide mark affecting lower right corners; complete, but just Very Good. A key piece of anti-suffrage sheet music – a strident.....

More info about The Anti-Suffrage Rose

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.....

More info about Anatomy in its Relation to Art: an Exposition of the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body with...

First Printing, a Presentation Edition to the Booksellers of America, this is no.752. Octavo (21.5cm); beige cloth-covered boards, with titling, blocking, and decorations stamped in gilt and green on spine and front cover; green topstain; acetate dustjacket; 437pp. Light shelf-soil, with tanning and rubbing to board edges; Very Good. In.....

More info about Return to Paradise

First Printings, trade issue, each volume printed between 500-1000 copies. Eight octavo volumes (23.75cm); photo-illustrated paper-covered boards and variously-colored cloth backstrips, with title labels mounted to spines; publisher's original acetate dustjackets. Pictorial bookplates of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) mounted to the front pastedown of each volume;.....

More info about Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence [Volumes 1-8

First impression. Octavo. Cloth-backed floral boards, titled in gilt on spine; 147,(6)pp. Mild age-toning to text, tiny bit of rubbing to board corners, still a tight, clean, uncommonly nice copy, Near Fine. Text entirely in Italian. Pasolini's third published book, a collection of poems written between 1942 and 1949. This.....

More info about L'Usignolo Della Chiesa Cattolica

First Printing. Octavo (21cm); beige cloth with titling and rule in blue; dustjacket; 371pp. Mild soil and toning to board edges, else very Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper; all four corners clipped by publisher (as always), with $2.50 price intact on front flap; slightly dust-soiled, with two old clear.....

More info about The Executioner Waits

First printing. Of a total edition of 750, this is no.662 of the regular numbered issue. 12mo; cream printed wrappers, 60,[8]pp; illus. A very pretty copy, just a touch toned at wrapper edges; the printed spine title is fully intact and legible. Text unopened. Very Good to Near Fine. A......

More info about Vingt-cinq-et-un poèmes. Dessins de Hans Arp

Octavo (24cm); pictorial vellum boards; pictorial pastedowns; 29pp; illus. Light shelf-wear and soil, with faint tanning; Very Good. English nursery rhyme first published by Caldecott as a Christmas book in 1878, the publisher continued to publish Evans' works annually until he passed away. [85084].

More info about The House that Jack Built

Oblong Quarto. 23.5cm. Publisher's heavy burgundy cloth boards titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board, with an oval photographic image of Lartigue laid on to the front board. 126pp; [2]. Light bumping to spine ends and some minor scuffing to extremities, some scratches and shelfwear to the.....

More info about The Boyhood Photos of J.H. Lartigue; The Family Album of a Gilded Age

First printing. Quarto (28cm). Later nineteenth-century grey calf, gilt and blind rolls around outer perimeter of boards, tooled in gilt on spine, titled on red leather spine label, all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; xlviii,335,[5],269,[1]pp; frontispiece, large folding map, 1 hand-colored print, 35 black and white engravings, a few in-text wood.....

More info about Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and...

First Printing. Octavo (20cm); green cloth titled in gilt, with decorative elements embossed onto front cover; [viii],[2],3-381,[3]pp. Contemporary ink name on front endpaper ("George E. Barton, 1903"); pronounced forward lean, spine ends nudged, top edge dust-soiled, though contents are clean; Very Good, lacking the rare dustjacket. Collection of three long.....

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