Lorne Bair Rare Books

Octavo. Black cloth boards, lettered in purple on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 343pp. Signed by Foster on front endpaper. A brilliant perfect copy in price-clipped but else fine dustwrapper. A full-length statement of Communist Party policy during the "third period;" issued during Foster's Presidential campaign of 1932. Uncommon signed;...

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Oblong quarto (ca 19cm x 31cm). Hand-silkscreened boards; unpaged (8 leaves), each with hand-set text and an original silkscreen illustration. Number 5 in a total edition of 7 copies, signed by the artist on colophon. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with their estate label laid in at colophon.

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Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 261pp. First printing, with (1) present on final page of text. Gilt a trifle oxidized, else a fine, tight copy in scarce original dustwrapper, lightly nicked at extremities but unusually bright and unfaded, VG+ to Near Fine...

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12mo (18cm.); publisher's light green pictorial cloth stamped in black and red, gilt-lettered spine; 172pp.; full-page illus. Cloth rather dust-soiled and a bit rubbed at extremities, more heavily so at spine ends with small loss at foot, spine slightly cocked, ragged shallow tear at top edge of pp.107/8 not approaching...

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Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in green pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; [10],302pp.; illustrated endpapers printed in orange. Jacket quite worn with coin-sized loss to top fore-edge corner of upper panel affecting the "T" in "PIT," splitting to upper flap fold, narrow half-inch loss to mid-spine, small loss to spine crown...

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Reprint. Octavo (19.5cm); blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 276pp. Some trivial soil to rear gutter and upper edge of text, with purple rubber stamp of "A. George Volck Incorporated" to pastedowns and endpapers; Near Fine, but for the stamping. Dustjacket is soiled...

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First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); pale green and gray cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 286,[2]pp. Hint of a forward lean, else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), edgeworn, sunned at spine and panels, with several losses to spine ends and...

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16mo (14.5cm.); publisherr's tan pictorial wrappers printed in red and blue; 74pp.; illus. throughout, including a few full-paged. Wrappers rather soiled and slightly worn from handling, else Very Good or better. However, due to the poor printing quality, the text of two leaves is so faint as to leave about...

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First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); half charcoal gray paper over black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; black topstain; yellow and black pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],255pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed and worn with a few short closed tears, unobtrusive tape repair to verso, mild cockling from damp; Very.....

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Octavo (19cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 409pp. In Johnson's first binding of plum cloth. A very tight, fresh copy with just a few small spots of discoloration to edges of text block; Near Fine. In an attractive example of the very scarce jacket, lightly dusted overall and with a few brief...

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12mo (18.75cm.); original dark blue pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 32pp.; folding frontispiece of the IWW "wheel," reproduced in smaller format on p. 32. Typed note tipped in with tape (see below) causing offsetting to title page, else Very Good and sound.

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Advance Issue, with "Advance Complimentary Copy" rubber-stamped to lower edge of textblock. Octavo (20.25cm); original wrappers bound into publisher's dustjacket; [10],11-477,[3]pp. Forward lean, light wear to extremities, with some vertical creasing to spine, faint foxing to text edges, with light dust-soil to wrappers; Very Good and sound.

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Broadsheet 7-1/2” x 5”, printed on both sides of a single leaf. Old folds; discoloration and scattered foxing; a Good, well-preserved example.

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Large quarto (29.5cm.); two spiral bound interlocked volumes, black unadorned wrappers; unpaged. Upper wrapper quite worn and separated, rear cover with several white paint ring stains (made by Shahn?). Still, interior Very Good, albeit in Fair to Good only binding. Massive and uncommon typographical catalog. No copies in OCLC as...

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First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); red cloth, with ivory title label printed in black and red and applied to spine; dustjacket; 130pp. Former owner's name and small bookseller's ticket to front pastedown; spine ends gently nudged, with a touch of dustiness to top edge; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00);...

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Six tabloid issues (58cm); newsprint wrappers; 4pp per issue; occasional illus; text entirely in Spanish. Publication sequence as follows: Año XLIV, Nos.15.394, 15.409, 15.411, 15.413, 15.424, 15.435 (October 8,27,29,31; November 13,26 1937). All six issues horizontally folded at center, occasional creasing to extremities, with a few scattered passages underlined in...

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Octavo (20cm). Aqua cloth, stamped in white, gold and black on spine and front cover; [i]-[viii], 1-257, [5]pp. Frontispiece illus. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges; scattered foxing to title page and prelims; Very Good to Near Fine. Collection of seven stories, including the socialist utopian romance "The Dream of.....

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Octavo (21.5cm.); original two-toned cloth in decorative dust jacket by George Salter, grey topstain; [10],611,[2]pp. Shallow chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, none affecting text; spine and rear panel a shade darkened, else Very Good.

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Limited to just a few copies for the friends of the Blue Barge (number not given). Quarto (29cm.); original blue decorative stencil-illustrated wrappers in white and magenta; [4]pp.; title page stencil illustartion in red. Light fading to wrapper extremities, else Very Good or better.

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12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth (white over blue), upper cover lettered and ruled in gilt, unadorned spine; [8],44pp. Some minor shelf wear, white portion of cloth binding rather soiled and toned along spine, short closed tear to title page fore-edge not approaching text, old ink spot affecting first few leaves...

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Limited Issue, one of 450 numbered copies signed by the author. Octavo (21cm); tan cloth, with titles and rule stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; 371pp. A fine, unworn copy, lacking the original acetate jacket (though a mylar jacket has been supplied for protection).

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Octavo (19.5cm); brown cloth with titles stamped in red on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 248pp. Light foxing to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly rubbed, with a few shallow chips and tears, and light soil to rear panel; Very Good+.

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Limited to 1200 copies. 2 volumes; large quarto (29.5cm.); original cloth, spines lettered in red, grey board slipcase; 19 color plates, including 8 double-paged photographs in Vol. II. Printed at the Stinehour Press; designed by Klaus Baumgärtner.

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Octavo (20.5cm.); original printed wrappers in custom blue cloth double slipcase, gilt-lettered spine; xii,182,[2](ads)pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Wrappers chipped and worn along extremities with several shallow losses, not affecting text, contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper, spine quite darkened and cracked with small losses; interior near fine. An About Very.....

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