Lorne Bair Rare Books

Quarto (27cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 192pp; black-and-white photographic (halftones) and colorful illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to lower corners, with foxing to edges of textblock and pastedowns; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped ($34.95), with 1" tear to upper rear.....

More info about Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogenic Use

First printing. 12mo (19cm). Red cloth stamped in black and gilt; [ii],3652pp; black and white frontispiece and two additional plates. Contemporary presentation inscription on front flyleaf from a Japanese student. Bookplate of Anna Battell. Rubbed and dustsoiled, leaves lightly creased at outer edge, but complete and sound: around Very Good.....

More info about The Japanese in America

First printing. Issue for Great Britain, with sticker price in pounds pasted over printed price on jacket. Square octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; [48]pp. A fine copy of the book, free of markings or noticeable wear. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped but with publisher's price stickered over with price of.....

More info about Poems to Hear and See

Large Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xvi]; 731pp. Light wear and bumping to edges, corners and spine ends; internally clean and fresh, illustrated; in a strong example of the pale grey dustjacket with a closed tear to the upper edge of the front panel.....

More info about The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and His Brothers

First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); burgundy cloth boards, with titling and decorations stamped in white and black on spine and front cover; black topstain; map endpapers; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-389,[3]pp. Some offsetting to endpapers, else internally fresh, and very Near Fine. Dustjacket is evenly machine-clipped, with $2.50 price at lower rear flap, and.....

More info about Conceived in Liberty: A Novel of Valley Forge

Broadside, with text and cut-up illustration offset printed in black in three columns on white stock, measuring 29cm x 43cm (11.5" x 17"). Horizontal fold smoothed-out at center, light wear and handling, with a few tiny edge tears, and a barely discernable trace of foxing along the left margin; Very.....

More info about Broadside: The Invisible Generation

First printing. Octavo. Gray cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 445pp. Tight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, stained at upper portion of spine panel with overall light rubbing and wear; just VG. The first full-scale biography of Reed, written by the prominent Marxist literary historian and critic Granville.....

More info about John Reed: the Making of a Revolutionary

First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover with printed paper title label to front board; frontispiece; one inserted photographic plate (halftone) not reckoned in pagination; 124;(12)pp; illus. Mild external wear, with a few faint spots to cloth, internally fresh, clean, and tight - solidly Very Good. With pencil ownership signature of.....

More info about A History of Yale Athletics 1840-1888. Giving every contest with Harvard, Princeton,...

First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); beige buckram, with printed title label applied to spine; reddish-brown topstain; dustjacket; [10],210pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), with light wear to extremities, some faint creasing along front panel edges, and a sharp vertical fold slightly.....

More info about My Uncle Dudley

First printing. Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xvii,254pp; 65 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones); ten pages of maps at end of text. A very fresh, unmarked copy, fully Fine; in the original dustwrapper, crisp and unworn, also Fine. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his.....

More info about Brick Temples of Bengal. From the Archives of David McCutchion

Octavo. Gray pictorial cloth, stamped in black and silver inks on cover and spine; 379pp. 8 inserted leaves of plates (halftones) by Glenn O. Coleman. Trace of rubbing at spine ends and corners; scattered pencil marginalia, with old erasure to front endpaper; still a tight, square, and attractive copy, Very.....

More info about Types From City Streets

First printing. 12mo (19cm). Blindstamped plum HC cloth, titled in gilt on spine; chocolate brown coated endpapers, with front free endpaper pasted down; [viii],229,[1]pp; list of titles facing t.p. Straight and tight, spine faded, chipped at head, internally clean: Very Good. Published posthumously, edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Purple HC.....

More info about Letters to Various Persons

First Printings. Three quarto volumes (28cm); original pictorial card wrappers; xviii,[3],4-194,[4], with a brad-bound envelope mounted to inner rear cover containing 8 folding maps and charts; xx,,[2],3-211,[1]; xviii,[2],3-226,[4]pp; illus. Pictorial bookplates of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) mounted to the preliminary leaf of each volume. Light wear.....

More info about The Prehistory of Chalchuapa, El Salvador - Volumes I-III

Octavo. 19cm. First State with "treacherous" for "ruddy" on line 3 of page 124. Publisher's original deep brown embossed cloth titled in gilt to spine. 215pp. + 12pp ads to rear dated October 1858. Light rubbing and bumping to corners, bumping to the tail of the spine with some shallow.....

More info about The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems

Octavo in fours (21cm). Contemporary tree calf; red morocco spine label; viii,[9]-303pp. Slight wear to board edges; upper 1" of title page clipped to remove a signature (see note); scattered foxing: a sound, Very Good copy. With ownership signature of a "George R. Ives" to verso of front flyleaf. An.....

More info about Revolutionary Plutarch. Containing the Biographical, Historical and Secret Memoirs of the...

First Printing. Inscribed by McElroy on title page: "To Ed Kabak / with best wishes," signed, dated October, 1988. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt and light grey on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; viii,435,[5]pp. Quite clean copy, with top-stain deep and unfaded, just a......

More info about A Smuggler's Bible [Inscribed Copy

One of 60 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.27. Broadside, with text and illustrations hand press printed in black on white laid paper (all edges deckled), measuring 26cm x 39.5cm (10.25" x 15.5"). Mild wear and handling, particularly along the upper margin, else Near Fine. An.....

More info about Broadside: Pan [Signed

In second issue dustjacket. Octavo (20cm); beige cloth-covered boards, with titling in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 230pp. Bookshop sticker to rear pastedown. Shelf-soil, with light dampstains to spine and covers, rubbing to board edges, off-setting to endpapers, and very occasional pencilled marginal notes; Good. Dustwrapper, redesigned by publisher to promote.....

More info about The Cabala

First Impression. Quarto (25.5cm); original glossy photo-illustrated card wrappers; [3],4-125,[3]pp; illus.; text is almost entirely in Dutch. Trivial wear to extremities, else a clean, Fine copy. An excellent photobook covering the Dutch punk scene from 1976-82, including essays, discography, fanzine and album covers, and an extensive series of black &.....

More info about Het Gejuich Was Massaal: Punk in Nederland 1976-1982

Quarto. 30cm. Publisher's original pink paper wraps, titled in black to spine and front cover. 197pp. Some sunning and fading to the pale pink paper of the covers, with some very minor shelfwear and soiling, clean and bright; internally clean and fresh, signed by Abramović to the title page. A......

More info about 100 Pisama / 100 Letters; 1965-1979

First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (21.5cm); navy blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-194pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "From Eduardo to David / Seattle / April 27/88." Base of spine gently bumped, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped.....

More info about Days and Nights of Love and War [Inscribed

First printings. Limited to 430 sets for sale to members. Three octavo volumes. Cloth-backed parchment over boards; top edges gilt; 224;199;220pp; numerous plates and text illustrations. Spine gilt slightly dull; very mild dusting to boards, still a tight, clean, Near Fine set, mostly unopened and free of the foxing so.....

More info about The Journals of Washington Irving (Hitherto Unpublished). Vols I-III complete

Eight octavo (digest-size) issues. Pictorial wrappers printed in colors; each issue ca. 124-132pp; illus; ads. Gentle rubbing and soil to most issues, but in all a complete, attractive, and perfectly sound run, easily Very Good. Text entirely in French. Breton's final periodical venture, a continuation of sorts of his long.....

More info about La Brêche: Action Surréaliste [complete run of 8 issues

24 loose lithograph prints tucked into folder, with pamphlet of details on each illustration. Prints reproduced and printed by the Photogravure and Color Co. Folio (34cm); light blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine, and decoration stamped in gilt on front cover; pocket folder; dustjacket. Quarto (30cm);.....

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