Lorne Bair Rare Books

Small octavo (20cm.); original blue blind-tooled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ix,[1],100pp. Minor shallow dampstain to first few leaves else Near Fine.

More info about The Winding Stair and Other Poems

Original silver gelatin photograph, measuring 6" x 8.75" (15.25cm x 22.5cm); mounted to off-white mat board to a total size of 11" x 14" (28cm x 35.5cm). Photographer has titled, dated, and signed on verso of matting: "McHenry, Illinois. Oct.1965. Danny Lyon." Photograph shows some trivial wear to extremities, a......

More info about Original Photograph - "McHenry, Illinois" [Signed

18mo (15.5cm.); publisher's full sheep, red gilt morocco spine label; viii,[9]-288pp.; portrait frontispiece. Boards rather worn and joints cracked but holding, old dampstain to rear cover very slightly bleeding into textblock, some soil to early leaves, else a Good or better copy overall.

More info about Memoir of Jemima Wilkinson, a Preacheress of the Eighteenth Century; containing an authetic...

Octavo (19.75cm); gray patterned paper and taupe cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; 255,[1]pp. Light wear to extremities, faint, shallow dampstain to upper board edges, with faint splash mark to upper edge of textblock, affecting upper margin of several.....

More info about Farmington

Ten mimeographed bi-weekly issues. Corner-stapled sheets, printed recto and verso; ca. 8pp per issue. Fine. Representative run from the first year of this long-lived newsletter, which continued publication until 1979. Though crudely produced, Pandora had a comparatively wide circulation in the Pacific Northwest and has been credited with playing a......

More info about Pandora. Vol 1, no 3 (Nov 16, 1970) - Vol 1, no 12 (Mar 22, 1971); run of 10 issues

Original lithographed poster, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 44.5cm x 57cm (17.5" x 22.5"). Light wear and subtle toning to extremities, diagonal crease at upper left corner, with three horizontal creases smoothed out; Very Good / B.

More info about Poster: You don't have to belong to a minority group to register PEACE AND FREEDOM

Quarto (27.5cm); illustrated card wrappers, stapled; 64pp; illus. This copy signed by Marguerite Robinson (Executive Director), Emil Freed (Organization Secretary), and Rose Chernin (Membership Director), each directly beneath their respective portraits on p.3. Wrappers toned, with scattered staining and wear to extremities; pencil marks to group portrait on p.52; Very.....

More info about The Civil Rights Congress Tells the Story...[Signed

12mo (17.5cm.); full contemporary sheep, black gilt-lettered spine label; vi,[7]-251pp.; engraved frontispiece, six leaves of plates. Boards rather scuffed wtih brief exposure at corners and spine ends, rear free endpaper torn, some soil throughout textblock, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Ownership signature at head of title page of.....

More info about The Life of Gen. Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partisan Officer in the Revolutionary War, Against...

First Printing, with publisher's seal and 'A' on copyright page. Octavo (21.5cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 295pp. Bookplate signed by Vonnegut affixed to front endpaper. Hint of fading to upper board edges, with a faint rubbed spont on front panel; Near Fine. Dustjacket is.....

More info about Player Piano

Original lithographed poster, 57cm x 45cm (ca 22" x 17"). Printed offset in two colors on heavy cream paper. Fine and unworn; unbacked; Grade A. Signed in stone lower left.

More info about Poster: Racism Chains Both

Folio (50cm). Number 207 of an unspecified number of copies. Printed paper portfolio containing 21 loose sheets, including one page of letterpress and 20 halftones after original works by the author. Inscribed on front cover: "A Ben Shan [sic] / mio maestro e mi [illegible]," signed by the artist and.....

More info about 20 Drawings by Franco Minei

Original lithographed poster, 22" x 17' (ca 56cm x 43cm). Printed in three colors on white paperstock. A few stains on verso bleeding faintly through on lighter portions of image, else a bright, Very Good copy, minimally worn -- Very Good / B.

More info about Death Has Many Faces - We Demand Life!

2 volumes, 12mo (17cm.); recent brown calf over marbled boards, gilt spines in 5 compartments, red and green spine labels, new endpapers; Vol. 1: *4 B-K12 L6; Vol. 2: [A]4 B-K12 L6; 12 leaves of engraved plates. Minor toning to textblock edges, tiny loss at top fore-edge corner of Vol.....

More info about The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Written in...

One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the artist, this being copy no.223. Quarto (27.25cm); black buckram, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's purple buckram slipcase; xiv, 221, [5]pp; illus. Fine in a Very Good+ slipcase, lightly shelfworn, with sunning along the spine panel.

More info about The Voice of the City and Other Stories [Limited Edition, Signed

Limited to 1600 copies. Large, oblong folio (35.5x50cm.); original blue cloth-backed boards, upper cover and spine lettered in blue, white board slipcase; unpaged; chiefly color illus. Fine. Bookplate signed by Doctorow laid in.

More info about Scenes and Sequences: Fifty Eight Monotypes. Text by E.L. Doctorow

Quarto (28.5cm.); original brown blind- and gilt-embossed cloth; unpaged; illus., mostly photographic, a few in color. Boards a bit rubbed, else Near Fine. Scarce WW2-era year book honoring current and former members of the Union, including those who were serving the country as well as members who served in WW1.....

More info about 50th Anniversary History Book of the New York Photo-Engravers Union No. 1, I.P.E.U. of N.A

One of 1000 numbered copies signed by Maugham and Sutherland. Octavo; blue and beige leather over boards, with black spine label titled in gilt; top edge gilt; slipcase; 255pp. Sunning to spine, some trivial offsetting to endpapers, and a pin prick-sized puncture at mid-front joint; Near Fine in the Near.....

More info about Cakes and Ale [Limited Edition, Signed

Tabloid-sized bifolium (38cm); photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers; 4pp; illus. Some light wear and dust-soil, with a few tiny tears to extremities; Very Good+.

More info about Let's Face It...Massive One-Day Demonstrations Aren't Enough...More's Needed to End the War...We...

Seventeen 16mo bifolium issues (12.25cm), publication sequence as follows: Vol. 3, nos. 58-61, 63-6, 120-2, 125-7, 145-7. Presumably disbound, nearly all with inoffensive punch holes, minor dusting, else a Very Good to Near Fine collection.

More info about The O.C. Daily -- Run of 17 Issues

First Impression. Octavo (19cm); thin red boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; 318pp. Upper corners very slightly splayed, with two tiny stains to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly edgeworn, with an old, faint stain at the base of the spine (most evident on verso).....

More info about Pylon

12mo (20cm). Original printed boards; v,(1),136pp; engraved frontispiece facsimile. List of books for sale on rear board. Covers darkened, edgeworn; front board hanging by threads. Discard stamp (Swarthmore) inside front cover. Text Note to title page: "Received from author," dated 1830. A worn but complete example, quite rare in the.....

More info about Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet

Autograph letter, signed, accomplished on first and third panels of bifolium sheet (measuring 24.5x20cm. when folded), approx. 750 words. Postally used on rear panel; previous mail folds with rather long subsequent splitting, some minor soil, loss as a result of wax seal affecting approx. five letters, else Good and legible.....

More info about Autograph Letter, Signed, to Edmond-Charles Genet

Two octavo volumes (24cm). Blue cloth boards; dustjackets; viii,688pp; illus. Old damp-marks to board edges of both volumes, causing discoloration to cloth but no structural damage. Text clean, tight and unmarked; jackets lightly worn and sun-faded; complete, sound and Good. Text entirely in Yiddish save verso of title page, which.....

More info about Celia Adler dertzeilt [The Celia Adler Story]. Geshribn mit der hilf fun Jacob Tikman

Small octavo (18.75cm.); recent black morocco-backed marbled boards, original blue pictorial wrappers bound in, custom cloth clamshell box; [12],134pp. Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author in purple ink "A / Monsieur Lumet / avec les compliments / de / Renée Vivien."

More info about Études et Préludes [Inscribed & Signed to Louis Lumet