Lorne Bair Rare Books

Large octavo (24.5cm). Original printed card wrappers; 128pp. Wrappers somewhat worn, with triangular losses to rear cover costing a few words of promotional text; spine abraded, with titling partially rubbed away. Occasional mild creasing to contents, but generally clean and free of markings; just Good. Text entirely in English.

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Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in black and orange decorative dust jacket; xiv,205pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped, orange spine lettering faded, a few pieces of tape repair to jacket verso; old round dampstain to upper cover cloth, else Very Good in Very Good jacket. Collection of short stories, here inscribed.......

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Octavo. Green cloth boards with gilt; no jacket; 414pp; light bumping to boards; else a tight, bright copy in very good or better condition. Classic of WW1 reportage (but not to be confused with the book of the same name, also a WW1 memoir, by Humphrey Cobb).

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Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [6],332pp.; illustrated endpapers. Jacket extremities a bit chipped with a couple short closed tears, else Near Fine/Very Good. With the red circular sticker to front panel: "The New 1938 Zane Grey Novel."

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Original pictorial poster (70x50cm.) printed silkscreen in red, white, and blue on pale blue stock; stock a bit wrinkled, tiny chips at top edge, short closed tear at bottom edge not approaching text or image, one small dampstain, else Near Very Good overall. Poster advertising the premier of a 40-minute.......

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Cloth boards; dustjacket; 348pp. INSCRIBED by Conroy in shaky hand on front endpaper: "For Andrew McLean / a book written ... many years ago but I hope you'll find it of interest/ best wishes from Jack Conroy with [hospitalization?] for diabetes, Sincerely Jack Conroy / Moberly / Sep. 26, 1978."...

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Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in blue-grey pictorial dust jacket printed in blue; xxxvi,267pp.; photographic frontispiece, 7 leaves of photographic stills. Jacket spine a bit toned, plates rather foxed, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the editor to his son on front free endpaper: "For 'Ra' from...

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Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 290. Folio (43cm.); title page & 13 color silkscreen plates mounted to printed stiff card stock, loose as issued in red pictorial chemise. Chemise unevenly darkened, some faint dampstaining to top and bottom edges, 1 x 2" paper flaw to upper...

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Octavo (19.25cm.); original blue gilt-lettered wrappers; 45pp. Wrappers quite fragile with long shallow loss along upper wrapper fore-edge not affecting text, upper wrapper starting to separate, spine toned; interior about fine. About Very Good. The author's first book, comprised of two short pieces inspired by the London aesthetes and the...

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Octavo (20cm.); original dark teal gilt-embossed cloth; iv,[4],488pp.; frontispiece, 11 plates of illustrations by W. Hatherell. Spine a hint cocked, light edge wear, else Near Fine. PURDY, p. 91.

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Octavo (22.75cm.); original grey printed staplebound wrappers; 24pp. Wrapper edges a bit toned, else about Fine. WITH the rather elusive large bifolium insert to accompany p. 19 of the pamphlet. Insert with clean tears from previous folds affecting text without loss of meaning. Insert provides several "Tests" and reproduces manuscript...

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12mo (16cm). Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; gilt spine in six compartments; marbled endpapers and page edges; 296pp. Copy of the prominent Boston reformer and temperance lecturer John B. Gough, with his ownership signature and a lengthy presentation to him, dated 1859, from a John Lang, Dundee [Scotland?]. Corners and...

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Octavo (23cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in blue, gray and red; original Seymour Chwast dustjacket; 209pp. The dedication copy, inscribed on dedication page, below the printed dedication to Ben and Bernarda, "with all my friendship / Ed." A fine copy in slightly worn and spine-darkened jacket.

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Limited to 450 copies of which this is no. 233. Small quarto (21.25cm.); publisher's cream card wrappers printed in red and black, glassine dust jacket, custom silk slipcase; [6],95pp.; color frontispiece and illus. throughout by the author. Glassine spine darkened and partially perished, else a Fine copy. Contemporary ownership bookplate...

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Limited to 120 copies. Quarto (34cm). Printed paper portfolio enclosing title page and eleven bifolium fascicules containing text and eight original signed prints. Signed by Nin at close of introduction; by Honickman at her first contribution; by designer/publisher Arthur Williams at colophon. Fine and complete in the original publisher's cardboard-and-plexiglas...

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Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; 369pp. Chips and tears to jacket extremities including small loss to upper panel, horizontal tear to spine crow, some general dust-soiling. Near Fine in an About Very Good copy of the scarce dust jacket. Novel describing a young Virginian's...

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Slim quarto (28.5cm.); original red cloth; 94pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, illus. throughout, text in double columns. Spine perished, boards and textblock rather soiled. A Fair only copy, well worn possibly due to its previous owner, Ben Shahn, one of the subjects of this, Parks's second work. Other subjects include Ralph...

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First state with "Pomarea" on p. 19, line 1. 12mo (17.75cm.); recent half maroon morocco over cloth, gilt-lettered spine, new endpapers; xvi,285pp.; map plate. Textblock a hint browned, small portion of leaves very shallowly creased, else Very Good and sound. The author's first book, better known under the title of...

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Tall octavo. Tan, rough linen boards, stamped in maroon and gilt; publisher's slipcase; [45]pp.; illus in text. Number 394 of 500 hand-numbered copies, signed by the artist and printed at the Spiral Press. Faint scratch to lettering on spine, else a Fine, unworn copy in a lightly rubbed, Very Good slipcase.

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First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black paper covered boards over quarter navy blue cloth, with titling in gilt on the spine and front cover; 71pp. Two tiny bumps to the upper edge of the front board, paper worn with some minor board exposure at the corner tips, with the spine gilt...

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Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 250pp. Warmly inscribed by editor Rigney to David Meltzer (contributor to the work) and his wife: "To David & Tina Meltzer with my deep appreciation for their very real help in producing this book - Francis Rigney." Undated, but clearly...

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8 issues in varying formats. Collection includes one unnumbered issue (presumably June, 1970?), wrappers illustrated with a comic strip at the bottom of which reads "Let It Bleed, Sisters, Let It Bleed!"; September, 1970; October (1970?); December, 1970, "Special Double Issue"; February (1971, based on order form date); Vol. 3...

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First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; 485pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with some pinpoint wear to extremities and a faint production crease at mid-spine to note.

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Quarto (26cm.); original cream pictorial paper-covered boards printed in grey and red, tan glazed endpapers; [4],145pp.; text illus. throughout. Boards uniformly dust-soiled with a few tiny dampspots, small cracks to spine ends slightly touching "Daddy" at crown, else a Very Good, uncommonly nice copy. BAL 7117.

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