Lorne Bair Rare Books

Holograph letter with content. About 100 lines (ca. 750 words), dated June 23, 1815. From John Cunliffe, a weaver in Bolton and Liverpool, UK; to his brother Edward, a recent emigré to Pittsburgh, PA. Single folded sheet, opening to approximately 12" x 14"; three pages used; addressed on verso, with.....

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First printing. With a lengthy inscription to the noted Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson on front fly-leaf, reading in full: "On the occasion of my 25th anniversary as active member of the Explorers Club, I wish to present this book to its honored President Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, whose sympathies and unfailing.....

More info about Yankee Komisar [Presentation Copy, lengthily inscribed to Vilhjalmur Stefansson

First printing. Black cloth hardcover, stamped in deep red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xv,[1]-302pp. Mild dusting to upper edge of text block, else a tight, very Near Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. In the original dustwrapper, all four corners clipped by publisher with printed price.....

More info about The Need For Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Toward Mankind

Slim quarto (32cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.2810-2824; illus.; text is entirely in French. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, subtle toning to extremities, with a bit of oxidation to staples; contents clean, complete; Very Good+. A well-preserved issue of this illustrated French satirical magazine with anarchist and anti-colonialist sensibilities.....

More info about L'Assiette au Beurre - No.169: Texte et Dessins par Jossot (25 Juin, 1904

One of 200 copies. 12mo. Sewn, printed stiff card wrappers; dustjacket; 29pp. A tight, clean copy, Near Fine. In the printed thick-paper dustwrapper, toned at margins, a couple of tiny nicks at folds; Very Good. Minor but quite uncommon late-career work by the great Dublin poet, among the best in.....

More info about Too Great a Vine: Poems and Satires. Second Series

Octavo (23cm). Original printed wrappers; 110pp. Mild external wear and toning, else complete, clean, and sound; Very Good. Main body of text entirely in Russian; second title page in English; appendix in Russian and English. An introduction to American higher education for recent Russian immigrants to the United States, many.....

More info about Заботы о просвѣщеніи в Соединенных Штатах : как...

First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; orange topstain; [6],7-376pp. Touch of sofening to spine ends, gentle sunning to spine, with light wear to extremities and some faint foxing to text edges; a Very Good, sound copy, lacking the.....

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Octavo. Publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth; 524pp. A tight, sound copy, mildly rubbed at board corners but gilt remains bright on spine and front cover; internally fresh and complete with mild foxing to endpapers and prelims – solidly Very Good. Preceded by the London edition in three volumes (1868). SHABERMAN 36.....

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Two volumes, softcovers. Quartos (28cm); tan paper wrappers; all edges untrimmed; 318pp; 342pp. Some pages of text unopened. Text in French. Publications de L'École Francaise D'Extreme-Orient, Volume LXXVII. Trivial surface wear, else Near Fine. History of Buddha. [89290].

More info about Recherches sur la Biographie du Buddha dans les Sutrapitaka et les Vinayapitaka Anciens: II. Les...

First printing. Octavo. Salmon cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 66pp. Trivial dusting to top edge of text block; expected toning to endpapers at gutter, still a Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap, with publication date of "June 1;" very mild rubbing at edges with some toning.....

More info about Not Alone Lost

First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); white cloth spine over black paper-covered boards, titled in black to spine; dustjacket; 312pp. Light bumping to spine ends and a little sunning/discoloration to the extremities; internally clean, signed by Sontag to the half title. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.75) with some toning to the.....

More info about Death Kit

Octavo (20cm x 13.5cm); folded paper, with green pictorial cover; 4pp. Author's signed bookplate laid in. Tiny crease to upper front corner, else Near Fine. In unaddressed original mailing envelope, with light tanning and soil. Copyright printed on final page/rear panel (and not handwriting variant of presumed proof copy). Single.....

More info about The Lovelorn Astronomer: A New Poem [Signed Bookplate

Second Printing. Octavo (22cm); teal cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt and blind embossed to spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; 48pp. Author signed front fly, with full-page handwritten poem, "About Poetry". Light soil to front endpaper, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.00), with light tanning and.....

More info about The Wreck of the Thresher: and Other Poems [Signed

First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pink topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-288pp. Signed by the author on the title page, dated 2007. Pink topstain very slightly dulled, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $6.95), showing light wear to spine ends and.....

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Slim octavo (21.5cm); pictorial mimeographed wraps; [iii],6,[3]pp. Light wear and handling, else very Near Fine. McLucas (1945-2016), one of the New Haven 9, was convicted of conspiracy in the torture-murder of Alex Rackley, who at the time of his death in 1969, was suspected by several members of the Black.....

More info about Lonnie McLucas: A Truly Revolutionary Servant of the People

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative element stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 314pp; photographic (halftone) frontispiece. Light sunning and rubbing to board edges, with dampstains to spine ends, and foxing to edges of textblock and interior; Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 7s. 6d. net), tanned.....

More info about The Carreta

First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); russet cloth, blocked and titled in black on spine; brown topstain; [x],322,[4]pp. Warmly inscribed on the title page to Ken McCollum, Algren's bibliographer, with a drawing of a cat, dated 1972: "With best wishes to Ken McCollum / from Nelson Algren (Whose private opinion it is.....

More info about Somebody in Boots [Inscribed to Ken McCollum

Mixed state, without 'viii' on bottom of contents page, and with 'sence' printed on p.19. Octavo (19.5cm); blue mesh cloth-covered board with titling and illustration stamped in white and black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 345pp; black and white illustration at frontispiece and throughout. Modest shelf-wear, with dampstain to.....

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First Printing, cloth issue, one of 500 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; [vi],[2],3-64,[1]pp; illus. Subtle fading to topstain, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.95), lightly edgeworn, with rubbing to panels, gentle sunning to spine, and a few tiny nicks.....

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One of 469 copies, printed for members of the Bibliophile Society only. Octavo (26cm); brown calf boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine, and ruling stamped in gilt on covers; top edge gilt; fore- and lower- edges untrimmed; slipcase with chemise; poem printed on recto only; unpaginated; plate illlustrations.....

More info about Gray's Elegy [Signed Plate Illustrations

31 Softcovers, with vol. 9 nos. 5&6 released as a doube-issue for 32 issues total, and many issues including publisher's laid-in subscription forms. Thirty-seven Octavos (21cm); stapled pictorial paper wrappers; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations. Full pagination available upon request. All issues have lightly tarnished staples, with modest shelf-wear and.....

More info about A Journal of Research and Thought; Belizean Studies: vol. 4, nos. 3-6; vol. 5, nos. 1-6; vol. 6,...

Nine Issues, all softcovers, with publisher's promotional materials laid in. Nine Octavo issues (21.5cm); paper pictorial wrappers. Full pagination available upon request. Occasional pencilled prices to front covers and title pages. All issues lightly spine-sunned, with modest shelf-wear and -soil; overall Very Good. Issues continued from the 1950s to 1970s.....

More info about The Fifties [with] The Sixties: nos. 2-10 [9 Issues; Incomplete run

Octavo (25cm); black boards with titling stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xxvi],[1],2-200,[4]pp; illustrations and diagrams throughout, with one fold-out chart. Modest shelf-wear and -soil; Very Good. Dustwrapper crinkled, with modest shelf-wear and -soil, and light creases to extremities; Good. Explores social history of Burma, with focus.....

More info about A Cultural Study of the Burmese Era: Being an Enquiry into the Nature and Career of the Era of...

Fifth Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-190,[2]pp. Inscribed on the half-title page by Tom Maschler (1933-2020), head of publishing at Jonathan Cape, to Nathaniel Tarn, formerly the literary editor at Cape Goliard: "For my dear & old friend Tarn / who.....

More info about Flaubert's Parrot [Inscribed by Tom Maschler to Nathaniel Tarn