Lorne Bair Rare Books

First printing, with "March, 1903" date on verso of title page. Octavo (20cm); vertically-ribbed maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xiv,[1]-441pp; with half-tone illustrations and facsimiles. Mild wear to spine ends, joints, and lower board edges, with offsetting from laid-in newspaper.....

More info about The Story of My Life. With Her Letters (1887-1901) and A Supplementary Account of Her Education,...

Small quarto (24.5cm); mimeographed sheets, saddle-stiched and bound into pink printed wrappers; 70pp; text is in Chinese. Sunning to spine, light wear and dustiness to wrappers, with a few short tears and splits to joints; Very Good.

More info about Sibadakesi [Spartacus

12mo (18cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt; v,[3],136pp.; engraved frontispiece. Some wear to extremities, corners softened, some spotting to cloth and textblock, contemporary juvenile ownership signature to front free endpaper, faint pencil notes to rear endpapers (dated 1867). Very Good and sound overall.

More info about Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet

Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in tan dust jacket printed in red and black; ix,[3],297pp. A few chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, none quite touching text, spine very slighty toned, later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good overall. Important work on the business and managerial structure.....

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Oblong quarto (22cm); light gray stapled wrappers, with titling printed in black and red on front cover; 27,[1]pp; illus. Modest wear and handling to wrappers, with some toning and a few short splits along spine-fold; preliminary and terminal leaves detached from staples, but laid in; some trivial thumb-soil to margins.....

More info about Loray: A Pictorial Visit to the Home of Quality Fabrics

Five original press photographs (all approx. 17.5x23cm. or the inverse); typescript snipe or newsclippings mounted to all but one verso; some cockling from exposure to damp, snipe toned, else a Very Good collection. One image has been touched up for publication, with Johnstown Mayor McCloskey, mid-speech, cirlced in black, an.....

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Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's pink pictorial wrappers; 21,[3]pp.; vignette at head of p. [1]. Wrapper extremities a bit toned and slightly chipped, else Very Good and sound. At head of upper cover: Bibliothèque Ouvrière Cosmopolite. At bottom of last leaf of text: "Deux cents exemplaires de la LIBERTÉ DE L'AMOUR seront.....

More info about La Liberté de L'Amour ... avec La Carmagnole sociale - Le Père La Purge - La...

Ninety-one quarto (29.75cm.) issues bound together in contemporary reddish-brown cloth; illus. throughout. Textblock quite toned due to poor paper stock, light edge wear to cloth extremities, else Very Good and sound. Quite possibly complete set (the numbering ends after no. 13 (misprinted 31) and a few weeks appear to have.....

More info about Schwoabe-Spaetzle - Bound Volume of 91 Issues [May 23, 1917 - April 16, 1919

Six volumes bound in one; thick 12mo (18cm.); contemporary half green calf over cloth, gilt-ruled spine in six compartments, all edges speckled red. Leather rubbed with some peeling at corners, spine toned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, textblock of one tract rather browned due to poor paper stock.....

More info about Sammelband of Six Tracts on Economics and Socialism [Progress and Poverty [AND] Merrie England...

Octavo (24.5cm.); single leaf folded into 8-pp. pamphlet, partially opened. Previous mail folds, some creasing and wear to extremities, light foxing throughout, faint contemporary pencil notes on p. [6] (blank), else Very Good and sound.

More info about Resolutions Relating to the Abolition of Slavery [Senate No. 84

Square quarto (25.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; [36pp]; chiefly illus; parallel text in Russian and English. Wrappers dusty and lightly edgeworn, with a few small creases and two splits to wrappers along spine fold; contents clean, complete - Very Good+.

More info about The Chinese People's Volunteers in Korea: An Album Of Drawings

Original pictorial poster (59.5x41.75cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; minor wrinkling from handling, else Very Good or better.

More info about Poster] Demonstratie Tegen de Sloop in de Nieuwmarkt! Vanavond half acht Westermarkt / Vandaag...

Quarto (30.5cm); publisher's tall comb-bound sheets (rectos only), with publisher's typed labels mounted to front wrapper, and original publisher's seal along lower edge; [vi],105pp. Light wear to extremities, some mild curling to wrapper edges, with seal broken at an early date; Very Good+.

More info about The Hungered One: Early Writings [Uncorrected Proof

Quarto (30cm). Cream vellum boards, stamped in gilt; illustrated dustjacket; 75pp text and [26pp] of photographic plates, followed by xxiv tipped-in paper specimens. This copy inscribed on second blank: "To Mrs. Bernarda B. Shahn, with the compliments of Bunsho Jugaku," dated in 1970 and with the author's address penned above.....

More info about Paper-Making By Hand in Japan

Octavo (23.5cm); pale gray wrappers, with titles printed in black on front cover; [477]-542, plus [40]pp section containing nine plates and explanatory notes. Light wear to extremities, 1.5cm tear at crown, with light, scattered soil to wrappers, and a medium-sized stain to rear wrapper, briefly affecting terminal (blank) leaf; clean.....

More info about The Nearctic Members of the Genus Lycaeides Hübner (Lycaenidae, Lepidoptera

First printing. Quarto. Original pictorial card wrappers; 104pp; illus. Trivial wear to wrapper edges; a Fine copy. Inscribed on title page to Minnesota poet and educator John Calvin Rezmerski: "For John / in friendship and in good humor," dated 2001. An early and rare work by Kooser, who would go.....

More info about Hatcher

Original poster, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 67.5cm x 80.5cm. Light wear to extremities, old horizontal and vertical folds with attendant creasing; Very Good+.

More info about Poster: "Penny Pamphlets That Help Fight Against Hunger - Read and Spread Among Your Fellow Workers"

First Impression. Octavo;red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; 247pp. Small, rough erasure to front endpaper, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with a hint of sunning to spine and some light wear along the edges. A comical novel about a middle-aged widower.....

More info about Nothing

Two octavo volumes (only, of an eventual six). Original olive green cloth, lettered in gilt on spines; pp.558,(2),31; three inserted leaves of plates (folding) + x,407,32; twenty inserted leaves of plates (some folding). Volume 1 with mounted presentation on Glasgow University stationery: "To [in separate hand]: A.B. Nixon / in.....

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First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); rough blue cloth with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 244pp. Laid into this copy is a half-page typed letter, signed, addressed to literary editor Aaron Asher (dated October 21, 1959). Hint of a lean, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly.....

More info about Nothing Is Sacred

Limited to 600 copies. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in peach pictorial dust jacket printed in blue, black, and gilt, blue-green topstain; [2],246pp.; illus. Jacket spine a bit sunned with some minor chipping to ends, else Near Fine. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Comic novel about a man.....

More info about The Crazy Fool [Limited Edition, Signed

Limited to 650 copies of which this is no. 10 of 100 illustrated with original lithographs by George Biddle. Folio (31cm.); original red maroon-backed papier-peint boards, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, others uncut; unpaged; mounted frontispiece and four leaves of plates; 5 additional half-page plates mounted to leaves of text.....

More info about The Twelve [Limited Edition, Signed by the Illustrator

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

Vol. I: Revised and expanded edition; Vols. II & III, first American editions. 3 volumes, large octavos (24cm.); original cloth in cream decorative dust jackets, matching board slipcase; illus. Slipcase a bit scuffed, minor edge wear to jackets, Vol. I jacket spine a bit toned, occasional minor foxing, else Very.....

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