Lorne Bair Rare Books

Octavo (19.25cm.); original buckram in black pictorial dust jacket; x,11-302pp.; color frontispiece. Jacket extremities rubbed with a few tiny losses, closed tear to spine crown touching one word without loss of meaning, rear panel and spine dusted, the former with some additional spotting; corners bumped, cloth spine a shade toned.......

More info about North Star: A Dog Story of the Canadian Northwest

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.

More info about Hustlers Convention

First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); dark yellow and navy blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],467,[3]pp. Signed by the author on the first blank page. Ownership rubberstamp and label to upper front endpaper, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.95), with gentle sunning to spine, light...

More info about Five Years to Freedom [Signed]

Small quarto (26.25cm); mimeographed sheets, printed recto and verso and side-stapled into illustrated wrappers; [vi], 180pp, [20]; illus. Former owner's name in ink to front wrapper, with chipping, thin splits, and short tears to same; thin, vertical paint streak to rear wrapper; text remains fresh and clean; Very Good.

More info about Diné Bikéyah (The Navajo's Country)

Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's black buckram in green decorative dust jacket, dark green topstain; [8],264pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with some short tears with creasing at bottom edge of rear panel, minute tape repair to verso, spine rather sunned, else Near Fine in a just about Very Good jacket. Review...

More info about Strange Fugitive [Review Copy]

First Printings. Five octavo volumes; original tan cloth boards; printed dustjackets (save Book V, which has a pictorial jacket). Uniformly Near Fine copies in original dustwrappers, all unclipped but with moderate toning to spines and extremities; Book I also with a small scuff to rear jacket panel, partially eliding one...

More info about Paterson, Books I-V

Octavo (19.5cm.); original reddish brown imitation leather cloth, gilt-lettered spine, red topstain; 322pp. Light shelf wear, else Very Good overall. One of the numerous pirated "Medusa" variants, though this apparently unlisted in SHIFREEN & JACKSON: the binding conforms with A9p ("Variant Eighth Edition / Second Illustrated / Medusa Variant") but...

More info about Tropic of Cancer

Small octavo (20cm). Beige cloth boards, lettered in blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 276pp. Ink ownership signature (an "H.R. Lawrence") to front endpaper, with clumsy inked price adjacent ($.25); else a tight, Near Fine copy in the attractive pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and with a small closed, horizontal...

More info about Jim Lofton, American

Quarto (28cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; [16]pp; illus. Toning to extremities, with a few short tears along right margins; Very Good+.

More info about Counter-Attack: Organizing Self-Defense Groups

12mo. Sewn pamphlet; printed thin paper wrappers; 24pp. Minimal aging and wear; faint damp-staining to margins; Very Good or better.

More info about False Reconstruction; or, The Slavery That Is Not Abolished

Folio (41.5cm); printed card wrappers, stapled; [36pp]; illus; text is in French. Light wear to spine fold and extremities, with a few short tears, light dustiness and faint stains to wrappers; tiny price rubber stamped to upper left corner of rear wrapper; Very Good+.

More info about L'URSS en Construction (USSR in Construction). 1938, no.3

Original photographic poster, offset printed in black on beige pulp paper, measuring 57.5cm x 84cm (22.75" x 33"). Two old folds, mild toning to extremities, with two faint corner creases and two short, closed tears to right margin; unbacked; Near Fine / A.

More info about Poster: The Black Panther Party Calls for the Plenary Session of the People's Revolutionary...

Five octavo volumes. Original green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spines; 526+589+418+337+345pp. Vol. 5 spine gilt slightly dulled; else just mild external wear; overall a fresh, Very Good or better set.

More info about The Polish Peasant in Europe and America. Monograph of an Immigrant Group (5 vols, complete)

Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; dustjacket; [i-xiv], 258pp; with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Generically inscribed by the editor on the title page, with his business card laid in: "With sincere regards, Kenneth I. Brown / 16...

More info about Character "Bad" - The Story of a Conscientious Objector [Inscribed]

First Printing. Octavo; gold cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in blue on spine and front panel; blue topstain; dustjacket; 287pp, [2]. Topstain a bit unevenly applied, with some minor offset to pastedowns; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly edge-rubbed, with one short tear, a touch of soil along the...

More info about Washington Jitters

Octavo (21.25cm.); original two-toned (green and black) cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [4],236pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled, a few closed tears along extremities, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Crime novel set in Prohibition-era Kentucky.

More info about The Moonshine War [Signed Bookplate Laid in]

Four octavo volumes. Cloth boards; dustjackets; 253+250+320+287pp. First Printings. Each Near Fine, clean and unmarked in original dustwrappers. Justine in unclipped, mildly spine-sunned second state jacket (handprint present on spine) retaining a portion of the "Book Society" wraparound advertising band; Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea each price-clipped, Balthazar with mild spine...

More info about [The Alexandria Quartet] Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), Clea (1960)

Two volumes bound in one. Octavo (21.75cm.). Contemporary three-quarter maroon marocco over marbled boards, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges speckled red, marbled endpapers. Extremities a bit scuffed, some foxing to preliminaries, else Very Good and sound. Contemporary armorial bookplate of a Robert Frederick Boyle to front pastedown.

More info about Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. With Notes. The Prophecy of...

First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); purple cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; red topstain; dustjacket; 308pp, [1]. Vintage bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown, upper board edges slightly darkened, with a slight bump to upper right corner of front panel; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with several...

More info about Stealing Through Life

16mo. Printed pamphlet; 16pp. Removed; lacking original cover wraps; Good.

More info about A Lecture on Consistency, as Delivered in New York, Boston and London

Octavo, illustrated card wrappers; 136pp; illus. Presentation copy from McCaffery to Jackson Mac Low, inscribed on half-title with small original drawing, dated 1975. Minor external wear; Near Fine.

More info about Dr. Sadhu's Muffins

Second Issue. Octavo (19cm); yellow cloth, with titling and rule stamped in blue on spine and front panel; blue topstain; dustjacket; 208pp. Hint of darkening to spine, with faint staining along joints and fading to topstain; Near Fine. In later dustjacket, advertising war bonds on rear panel; both corners clipped...

More info about Cannery Row

Octavo (20cm). Pictorial deep blue textured cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 360pp. Publisher's presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "Best wishes of the publisher (see title page) and his wife / Xmas 1909." First issue, with gilt stamping to cloth (later issues stamped in red)...

More info about Abaft the Funnel

Broadsheet circular (29x15cm.). Signed in type by Terence W. Powderly, General Master Workman, at bottom of verso. Previous folds and rather substantial archival tape repair where stock has split at folds, faint contemporary ownership rubberstamp of J.A. Sorge to recto. About Very Good overall.

More info about Preamble and Declaration of Principles of the Knights of Labor [verso title: The Requirements of...