Lorne Bair Rare Books

First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, with an old-fashioned jail door embossed to front cover; [8], 276pp. Mild wear to spine ends and corners, with a faint stain to lower edge of textblock; Very Good+, with gilt still bright...

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Small octavo (19.5cm.); original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ix,[1],130pp. Spine gilt a bit dulled, offsetting to endpapers, else Very Good or better. Collection of essays, including "Meeting Ring Lardner," "Prize Fighters and Authors," and "Gertrude Stein."

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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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First Printing. Folio (31cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaged; photographic illus. throughout. Just About Fine. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper: "Richard! Good wishes from Ray Bradbury."

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Octavo (19cm.); original blue-green pictorial cloth stamped in tan, blue, and green, gilt-lettered spine with "Federal Book Co." imprint at foot; [6],ii,[7]-269,[1],[27](ads)pp.; frontispiece. Very light shelf wear, corners slightly bumped, spine a bit toned, some minor soiling, else a Very Good or better, rather superlative copy of an elusive early.....

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Octavo (22cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; ix,[1],214pp. Very light soil to top textblock edge, else Near Fine. Signed by the author with a tic-tac-toe drawing on title page, presumably in reference to the dust jacket art of his previous novel "Knots & Crosses" (1987), the first of...

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Publisher's green cloth boards, stamped in gilt; xxiv, 443pp; 12pp publisher's catalogue at rear. A tight, attractive copy with minor rubbing at board edges and spine ends, Very Good to Near Fine. LEWIS p.87. NEGLEY 562 (the London edition).

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First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 253pp.; photographic frontispiece Light edge wear to jacket extremities, including tiny close tear at top edge of upper panel, spine just a hint faded, tiny dampspot to upper panel, top textblock edge foxed...

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Quarto (28cm); photostatically reproduced tape-bound sheets; xxxix,218pp. Holograph corrections and revisions throughout the text in several hands, including Jamal's (in addition to numerous editorial corrections in facsimile). Holograph notations to front wrapper, including: "Jan 95 manuscript proofed by Mumia / final stages." Some external wear and handling, staple holes and...

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Original pictorial poster (57x41cm.) printed offset in colors on glossy white stock; small loss at top left-hand corner not approaching text or image, general rather substantial wrinkling from handling; Good.

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First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow-green pictorial dust jacket; [6],216pp. General wear to jacket extremities, including closed tears and chipping, some light dust-soil, spine a bit cocked, else Near Very Good and sound. The last of the Dr. Kildare books, comprised of two novellas.

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Broadside, 47cm x 35cm. Printed recto-only, on newsprint. Text in 4 columns beneath woodcut illustration, within decorative border; 8 cuts in text. Illustration signed "beltrán" in type, below image. Old folds; edge-chips; paper moderately browned; about Very Good.

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Octavo (23.5cm). Cloth-backed boards; 155pp. Presentation inscription on front endpaper from Nobel laureate George Wald to Ben Shahn: "To Ben Shahn / the "eminent artist" (p.49) / George Wald," undated. Covers soiled and stained; text clean and unmarked; about Very Good. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn...

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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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Three volumes; folio (33cm.); publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; vi,67pp. & 274 collotype plates; additional 14 plates of maps and plans, all but one folding; frontispieces in each volume. Boards very gently shelf worn and corners bumped, upper cover of Vol. I dampstained; some...

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Octavo (21cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 310pp. Warmly and lengthily inscribed to a young Stephen Sondheim in year of publication: "To Stephen Sondheim: novelist and musician - With all good wishes," followed by a lengthy quotation from Proust's The Past Recaptured. Bottom board edges rubbed; abrasions along...

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Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 894. Large octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in pale green dust jacket printed in red, black topstain; x,374pp. Jacket unevenly toned to tan, shallow chips and closed tears to extremities, split along spine edge of upper panel with old tape repair to...

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Limited to 300 copies of which this is no. 75. Slim 12mo (19.5cm.); original blue gilt-lettered cloth, glassine dust jacket; [2],vi,88pp. Spine a hint cocked, light wear to bottom fore-edge corner of upper jacket panel, else Near Fine. Signed by Moore on colophon. ABBOTT A19.

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One of three hundred signed copies on Rives. Quarto (29.5cm); original linen-backed patterned batik boards; publisher's slipcase; 51pp. Signed in ink by Williams on limitation leaf. Small (ca 1" x 3") faint adhesive stain to front free endpaper from removed bookplate, else a fine, fresh copy. In somewhat worn publisher's...

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First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket by Seymour Chwast; [8],248pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a number of paper flaws along bottom quarter of upper panel, endpapers toned, else contents fine. About Very Good overall. The author's second novel, of a love...

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Tall octavo (24cm). Publisher's green beveled, pictorial cloth boards, blocked in gilt and blind on spine and covers; 319pp; illus. A bright, Fine copy, exceptionally well-preserved.

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8 volumes; octavo (17.5cm.); uniformly bound in contemporary half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt spines, all edges speckled red. Some light rubbing to extremities, endpapers a bit darkened, else a Very Good, attractively bound set, all half titles present. Contemporary ownership signature "Meakin" to each half title. BAKER &...

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First Printing. Octavo; beige linen, with titles stamped in red and green on spine; gray topstain; dustjacket; 231pp. Sunning to topstain and upper board edges; minor wear at crown; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, spine-sunned, with light edgewear, a few short tears, and a minute chip at crown; Very Good+.

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