Lorne Bair Rare Books

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 (20cm). 19th-c. half morocco over marbled boards (re-backed); 132pp. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To A. Seemuller, [Jr], Esq / with the sincere esteem of S. Yates Levy," datemarked Savannah, October 5th 1857. Also laid-in is a one-page ALS from Levy to William B. Hodgson (see note below). Bookplate...

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Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; [4],284pp.; map endpapers. Upper jacket panel rather dust-soiled, some minor shelf wear, corners bumped, else Very Good or better. Novel set in a fictional country based on Georgia, pseudonymously authored by the British Fascist sympathizer and historian of the South Caucasus...

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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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Small octavo. Original blue cloth; dustjacket; 300pp. Clean, tight copy, VG or better, in the exceedingly scarce pictorial jacket which is chipped at upper 1/2" of spine, just shy of title, and eroded at heel just into publisher's name. In all, a VG example, uncommon thus. HANNA 315. A novel...

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Octavo. Publisher's maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt; xi, 496pp; four folding maps (including frontispiece); illus. Front board faintly stained; foxing to front endpaper; still a tight, attractive copy, easily Very Good and with the frontispiece folding map in excellent condition. Churchill's third book, a first-hand account of events in...

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One of 100 numbered copies signed by Anderson and James Crumley, this being copy no.99. Octavo; 3/4 marbled paper over quarter black morocco, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; publisher's black pebbled cloth slipcase; [i-viii], ix-xi, [xii-xiv], 522, [8]pp. Handful of foxed spots to right edge of textblock...

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Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket; [14],297pp. A few minor soil-spots to textblock fore-edge, else Fine. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Crime novel set at the race track, the author's second hard-cover book.

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Octavo (19.5cm); rust-colored cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 281pp. Mild wear; page edges dusted; jacket lightly rubbed and uniformly soiled on front and rear panels; Very Good.

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First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; vi,[2],206pp. General wear to jacket extremities, including tiny chips, crease to upper panel, red spine portion quite faded, tape repair to jacket extremities verso not showing through to exterior, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Publisher's office copy.....

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Quarto (31.5cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 328pp; illus. Signed by Forbes on the title page. Fine, unread copy in unworn dustwrapper; a new-appearing copy. Remarkable, extensively illustrated survey of 84 major African-American artists and their studios. Self-published in a small edition and already uncommon.

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First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); burnt orange textured cloth stamped in green and gray on the spine and front cover, with an even gray-green topstain; 285pp. The book is Fine, giving every evidence of being unread. Dustjacket is unclipped, with an imperceptible degree of toning to the upper half of the...

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12mo (17cm). Red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt; dustjacket; [41]pp. A fine copy in lightly rubbed and unclipped jacket.

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Octavo (21.25cm); hunter green cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 115pp; photographic frontispiece + 25 plates of illustrations. Shallow bump to rear cover, mild wear to spine ends, with biopredation resulting to some scattered loss of color on cloth; binding firm, contents...

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7 bifolium volumes bound in one; octavos (23cm.); disbound from larger volume with paper remnants to spine; No. 1 with splitting at previous folds affecting text without loss of meaning, other issues Very Good and sound overall.

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First Printing. Octavo (22cm); red and navy blue striped cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; red topstain; pictorial endpapers; 301pp. Spine ends and board edges lightly rubbed, thumbnail-sized patch of fading to upper left corner at crown, with some minor board exposure at lower corners and a few...

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First paperback edition. Four quarto volumes in publisher's card slipcase; 1044+1084+949+1025pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, with the faintest signs of use; a Near-New set. Out of print in paperback (published at $400).

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Original drypoint etching. Sheet size 22.5cm x 29.5cm (ca 9" x 11-1/2"); image area 18cm x 24.5cm. Signed in plate, lower right; titled and signed in pencil in lower margin. No edition stated (artist's proof?). Very faint soiling at margins; Near Fine.

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12mo (18cm). Original printed paper wrappers; 193pp. Endpapers and wrappers (versos) are ads. Pulp paper text somewhat tanned and brittle, with minute chips to corners (away from text); cover wraps lightly chipped and soiled; Good.

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12mo. (16.5cm); attractive early 20th-c. binding of full red morocco, spine in six panels, decoratively stamped; gilt-ruled borders and gilt turn-ins; all edges gilt; 206pp. Lacking half-title and advert leaf (often lacking); slightly darkened on spine; else a clean and very attractive copy of the First Edition. Engraved bookplate of...

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Large quarto (27.5cm.); original pictorial boards; 175pp.; illus. throughout. Fine. Text entirely in German. Very attractively produced and illustrated overview of the photomontage works of John Heartfield.

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Original tan cloth boards; dustjacket; (47)pp incl. frontis.; illus. INSCRIBED on front endpaper: "To Leon / -- Hugo;" in Gellert's characteristic hand but undated. Faint dampstain at base of boards; text fresh and unmarked; Very Good; in the very scarce jacket, which is roughly price-clipped, rubbed and chipped with extensive...

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Limited to 550 copies of which this is no. 434. Octavo (23cm.); original half cloth, brown morocco gilt spine label, original black paper-covered board slipcase; x,[2],328pp. Leather spine label rubbed with a few tiny losses, else Very Good or better. Signed by the author on limitation page.

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Twenty volumes; 12mo (15.5cm.); uniformly bound in cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; color plates and text illus. throughout each volume. All show general wear and some board exposure, some more heavily so than others, most with price sticker ghost to upper cover, else a Very Good and sound set overall.

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