Lorne Bair Rare Books

Octavo (21cm x 17cm). Printed paper wrappers; 187pp; text printed in two columns. Externally worn, with lower wrapper lacking, front wrapper partially detached, conspicuously chipped and toned at edges. Text complete and clean. Private library stamp (in Gaelic) to title page, "Leabharlann Ard-eaglaise Concaise" (LIbrary / Cathedral of the Immaculate.....

More info about Why Ireland Is Not Free. A Study of Twenty Years in Politics

Cloth issue of no. 1, softcover issue of no. 2, cloth issue of no. 2, and cloth issue of no. 3/4, with signed illustration by Pierre Jorris (23 of 26) and publisher's pictorial subscription form laid in no. 1. Four Octavos (25.5cm); no. 1 has blue cloth-covered boards with paper.....

More info about Boxkite: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics; nos. 1, 2, 2, 3/4 [Four Issues

First impression. Quarto. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 319pp; illustrations in color and b/w. A fine, unworn copy. In the original dustwrapper, similarly Fine. From the library of noted poet / translator / Buddhist scholar Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate inside front cover.

More info about The Great Stupa of Gyantse. A Complete Tibetan Pantheon of the Fifteenth Century

Octavo. 12mo; 83,[1]p., sewn sheets bound ito modernn paper wrappers with printed spine and title labels. Some mimld darkening and soil to title page, else a clean, Near Fine copy. The French text and English translation are on facing pages. A posthumously-published work by the Parliamentarian, freethinker, and self-styled philosopher.....

More info about Reflections Concerning Innate Moral Principles Written in French by the Late Lord Bolingbroke and...

63cm x 43cm. Printed in red, white and black, depicting a grinning, skull faced figure in a tuxedo. Clean and bright with some fold creases, pinholes to corners, a touch of light soiling to the margins, and a small fingernail sized chip out of the lower left white border, not.....

More info about Poster: Faust – L'Hypnotiseur, Le Plus Grand Spirite et Magicien Du Mond

First printing; 3,472 copies printed. Quarto. Deluxe binding of full pebble-grained morocco over beveled boards, bound in Japanese style with silk cord; all edges gilt; 184pp; illus. A pretty copy, with minimal rubbing to the fragile leather binding at spine ends and board corners; small loss to silk endcap at.....

More info about Michael Angelo, A Dramatic Poem. Illustrated

Quarto. 23cm. Functional buff card wraps. 12pp. Clean and sharp; internally clean, large margins, some very light soiling in places. A very good, bright copy. A popular (and rather swift) parody by a witty clergyman and poet, of the incredibly popular "Elegy in A Country Church Yard" by Gray. The.....

More info about An Evening Contemplation in A College; Being a parody on the Elegy in A Country Church-Yard, By...

Quarto (18cm); mimeographed sheets (rectos), saddle stapled into pictorial card covers; [58]pp. Inscribed by Lewis Warsh on the title leaf to Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley: "For Ted + Alice / Bappy B'days / Lewis." Contents clean, but for a tiny stain to right margin of one page; covers lightly.....

More info about The Boston Eagle #3 [Inscribed by Warsh to Ted Berrigan & Alice Notley

One of appoximately 100 copies printed for distribution to members of the International Federation for Internal Freedom in 1963. Slim octavo (23cm); white wrappers printed in black, stapled; 40pp. Gentle sunning along spine-fold and upper edge of front wrapper, with a faint, tiny scuff beneath Leary's name, else a fresh.....

More info about Visionary Experience and How To Change Behavior

Tabloid (43.75cm); original newsprint wrappers; 40pp; illus. Horizontal fold smoothed out at center, light wear and toning to wrapper extremities, with light dust-soil to covers and a few tiny edge tears; contents clean, complete; Very Good+. Third issue of this innovative British literary magazine published by Emma Tennant, which ran.....

More info about Bananas - No.3

Octavo. 24.5cm. No. 216 of 950 copies. Publisher's tan heavy grain cloth ruled and titled in maroon and gilt with leather title labels to spine and front board. Publisher's glassine dustjacket. 248pp. Strong and solid, very light wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh, large sections of the book unopened.....

More info about High Country

12mo (13cm); beige cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine, and illustrations stamped in pink on covers; red topstain; cloth bookmark; dustjacket; 46pp; illustrations. Text in Czech. Signed by poet at publisher's copyright page. Light shelf-wear and -soil, with bookmark slightly frayed; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, lightly tanned, with.....

More info about Otvírání Studánek [Signed

One of 40 copies privately printed by James Beale for W.H. Lambert. The Compliments of William H. Lambert card tipped in at front flyleaf, and William H. Lambert's The Critic (January 3, 1891) review on Thackeray's The Yellowplush Correspondence laid in. Quarto (31cm); parchment spine over tan paper-covered boards, with.....

More info about Notes for Speech at Dinner October 11 1855 by W.M. Thackeray on the Eve of His Departure for...

First printing. Small, square octavo (18.5cm). Publisher's khaki-brown cloth, titled in black on front cover; [11]-101pp; frontispiece portrait. Tight and generally clean, with mild rubbing to board edges and corners; bookplate shadow to front pastedown; Very Good. A scarce, privately-published account of the Siege, from the diary of a Private.....

More info about The Siege of Vicksburg from the Diary of Seth J. Wells. Including Weeks of Preparation and of...

Softcover. Octavo (20.5cm); marble printed wrappers, with title label on front cover; 60pp. Tanning to edges of textblock, with interior foxing and finger-soil; Very Good+. Collection of verse focused on the imprisonment of François Bonivard, a Genevois monk. Concludes with 4pp. of Mr. Murray ads dated November 1816. [84276].

More info about The Prisoner of Chillon

One of 300 copies. Slim octavo (19.75cm); letterpress printed sheets, hand-sewn into bluish-grey card wrappers, with printed title label mounted to front cover; [16]pp. Signed by Heaney on the preliminary blank, dated 10.iv.88. A Fine copy, together with the original printed envelope, showing light wear to extremities and some creasing.....

More info about The Sounds of Rain [Signed

Inscribed by Pickard on front endpaper: "Rev. Herbert Loubard with regards Samuel T. Pickard", dated July 25, 1904, and 3pp. A.L.s. from Pickard to Loubard and printed "Note to page 61" adhered to rear pastedown. Octavo (18.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover;.....

More info about Hawthorne's First Diary: with an Account of its Discovery and Loss [Inscribed

First Impression, one of 4,000 copies. Octavo (21cm); beige paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [iv],[1]-251,[1]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, tiny indentation to upper edge of front board, with a faint, tiny stain at upper edge of textblock; contents clean and without foxing; Near Fine. Dustjacket.....

More info about The Naked Lunch

First Impression, one of 20,000 copies. Thick octavo (23.5cm); grey cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; lxxxvi,[3],4-568,[4]pp; illus. Inscribed by Guillén on the half-title page in January, 1974, to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Márquez and his wife, with drawings of an.....

More info about Obra Poetica, 1920-1958 - Tomo I [Inscribed to Roberto Márquez

Original illustrated broadside, with text and pictorial elements offset printed in black on light brown wove stock, measuring 38cm x 61cm (15" x 24"). A few faint creases from storage at upper and lower edges; Very Good+. Broadside printing a poem Ginsberg wrote at midnight, February 12, 1966, on his.....

More info about Broadside: Entering Kansas City High

Ten posters. Offset lithography on medium-weight stock; each approximately 65cm x 43cm (ca. 26" x 17"). Professionally cleaned and archivally mounted on linen; Fine (A+/A). Caption titles include: 1. "Angola: Racism in Action" 2. "The Apotheosis of the Dictator" [Augusto Pinochet] 3. "Lebanon: Love to the Middle East" 4. "Mr.....

More info about Ten original posters from the series Кровавые дела империализма [= Bloody...

Small quarto (24.75cm); original printed card wrappers; [1]-63,[1]pp, with 18pp of inserted halftone plates. Wrappers toned, edgeworn, and creased, with a few tiny stains and some bleed-through onto front cover from oxidized staples; a few pages roughly opened, text edges foxed, encroaching into margins; a complete, Good to Very Good.....

More info about The Little Review: Quarterly Journal of Art and Letters (Miscellany Number, Winter, 1922