Lorne Bair Rare Books

First Printing. Octavo (20cm); vertically-ribbed red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial dustjacket; color frontispiece by Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock; [vi],443,[1],[8]pp ads. Spine ends nudged, corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with rough erasure to gift inscription on front endpaper; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped.......

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2 volumes in one; octavo (23.25cm.); original dark green cloth, upper cover and spine embossed in gilt and black; xix,[1],481,[1];xiii,[1],611pp.; engraved author portrait frontispiece, tissue guard. Ex-Curtis Memorial Library with its early 20th-century bookplate to front pastedown accomplished in manuscript, no additional library markings; ownership bookplate to rear pastedown. Extremities.......

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"First Edition of 1,000 Printed in September, 1915," octavo (19.25cm.); original brown cloth double ruled and printed in dark brown, all edges speckled blue; [10],240,[4](ads)pp. Fine.

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Folio (34cm.); publisher's brown cloth embossed in brown and gilt, matching cloth slipcase, two large color plates mounted to both sides of slipcase; 536pp.; illus. throughout, including many in color and full-paged. Fine. Massive reference on 16th century Russian icon painting. OCLC locates three copies of this edition as of...

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Octavo (19cm). Navy blue cloth, stamped in colors on spine and front cover; vii, 240, [4]pp; frontis; 5 inserted leaves of plates. Spine ends and board corners a trifle rubbed, else a straight, tight copy, Very Good or better, with titling strong on spine and cover. A collection of seven...

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Octavo (18cm). Publishers blue ribbed cloth, pictorially stamped in white on spine and front cover; frontispiece; [viii], 398pp. Titling partially flaked away on spine, with mild fading to pictorial elements on front cover; scattered mild foxing to text (heaviest to prelims); Good to Very Good.

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Octavo. Staple-bound, thick paper wrappers; 64pp. Toning to text, else clean, tight and unmarked with few signs of use; Very Good.

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Limited to 300 copies printed on Utopian laid paper of which this is no. 276. Quarto (24.5cm.); original rigid cream pictorial card wrappers, glassine dust jacket, with the original paper-covered slipcase; [2],ix,[1],156pp.; color illus. throughout by Dos Passos. Just a hint of wear to book extremities, one-inch tear to rear...

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Paperback original. Octavo (20.5cm); illustrated card wrappers; 125, (2)pp; author portrait and promotional blurb at rear. Light shelfwear and rubbing to extremities, with wear to base of spine; unread, Very Good+ or better.

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First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; [10], 338pp. Hint of sunning to spine, subtle fading to topstain, else a tight, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), lightly shelfworn, with a few small tears and a....

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Twenty color postcards all measuring 15x10.5cm or the inverse; all in Fine, postally unused condition. Explanatory text printed on versos in English and Polish. The set reproduces twenty of the artist's twenty-three miniature paintings commissioned by the Polish foreign office for the Polish pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in...

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Limited to 500 copies. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's black cloth-backed boards, all edges gilt, glassine dust jacket, red paper-covered slipcase with black wrap-around label lettered in red; [2],v,[1],105pp. Unobtrusive ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, light offsetting to last leaf from previously laid in newsclipping, else Near Fine. Signed by the author...

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Three tall octavo volumes. Publishers blind- and gilt-stamped cloth boards; 500+497+498,(2)pp. Text in two columns. 2 pp ads at end of text. Endpapers foxed, with scattered thumb-soil; mild tugs to crowns; board edges rubbed (through, on v.2), but generally a sound, Very Good set, complete, of this uncommon American edition...

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Octavo (20.75cm.); original simulated cloth in teal pictorial dust jacket; [10],276pp. Minor shelf wear with very tiny loss to spine crown, else Very Good to Near Fine. Fictional account of the sports business as seen through the eyes of a minor league baseball player who winds up working in the...

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First Printing. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's maroon gilt-lettered cloth in champaign dust jacket printed in green; 224pp. Jacket quited toned with a few small short closed tears, brief loss at top edge of upper jacket panel affecting decorative border, cloth corners bumped, else Very Good and sound in the uncommon...

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Sewn pamphlet. Small octavo (8"x5"); 3 p.l., (7)-17p. Removed; cover wrappers lacking. Text clean and complete. Inscribed in Latin on half-title: "Johanni Eliot Artum Magistro, Sacra Theologia Doctori, Societate Historica Socio. / Ex dono / Auctoris."

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Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 10. Large ocatvo (24.25cm.); original parchment-backed boards, upper cover embossed in black and gilt, gilt-lettered spine, in green paper-covered slipcase, decorative paper label to upper cover printed in green; [2],xi,[1],184pp. Parchment spine a bit toned, a few tiny spots to upper...

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Lithographed poster in four colors, 102cm x 70cm (ca. 40" x 27-3/4"). Several repaired marginal tears; tape adhesion and ink attribution at extreme upper margin; Grade B/B+. Archivally backed on linen.

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First state, lacking the publisher's ads at rear. Octavo; brown 'S' cloth, with titling stamped in gilt and decorations stamped in black on spine and front panel; [viii], 299pp, [4] blank. Some light rubbing to edges, with a touch of faint spotting to preliminary and terminal leaves; hinges sound -...

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Cloth boards; dustjacket; 248pp. Old private owner's stamp to endpapers; more recent ownership label affixed over ffep stamp, and it looks like someone's had a go at removing it, with unfelicitous but not dire results. Else this is a bright, unworn copy, Near Fine, in the uncommon pictorial dustjacket which...

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12mo ( 19cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed textured paper wrappers; 26pp. Text printed within varicolored borders. Trivial fading to wrapper edges, else Fine.

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First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; gray-green topstain; dustjacket; 345pp. Some trivial wear to board edges, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned, with light wear to extremities and a few short tears tape-mended on verso; Very Good+.

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Two issues of this monthly socialist-pacifist newsletter, together with a mimeographed prospectus in English. Includes issue nos. 37 (Fall 1958) and 38 (Winter 1958-9). Each issue on a single sheet of newsprint, 44cm x 32cm, folded to make eight pages. Prospectus on a single sheet, 36cm x 27cm, printed recto-only...

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First Printing. Octavo (24cm); dark blue cloth and paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; viii,97,[5]pp. Inscribed on the title page in the year of publication: "For Elizabeth / John Ashbery / 9/23/87." Trivial wear along front joint, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced...

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