Lorne Bair Rare Books

Text is Fourth Edition, Corrected, Enlarged, and Rewritten, later reprint. Supplement One (1945) and Supplement Two (1948) are both First Editions. Three Octavos (24cm); black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spines, and illustration blind embossed to front covers; navy blue topstains; dustjackets; 769pp; 739pp; 890pp. Set from.....

More info about The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States [with]...

Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's royal blue cloth titled in red to spine. 245pp. Slightly shaken in its binding, bumped and scufed to spine ends and corners, with some light surface wear and soiling to the boards, the most notable defect is a small, shallow scrap to the fore-edge of the front.....

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First printing. Octavo. 24.5cm. Publisher's original white paper wraps, with yapp edges, titled in black to front wrap. [3]; 60pp.; [24] bibliography to rear. Light wear and creasing to the yapp edges, a little scuffing to the spine ends and some isolated minor soiling; internally clean and fresh. A Very.....

More info about The Political Ideal of The Rule of Law; Fiftieth Anniversary Commemoration Lectures, National...

One of 100 numbered copies signed by Ted Hughes, this being copy no.63. Original broadside, with text letterpress printed in black on white Barcham Green handmade paper (left edge cut, others deckled), measuring 32.75cm x 47.75cm (13" x 18.75"). Faint, shallow stain to left edge center, some mild handling; Very.....

More info about Broadside: Ravens [Limited Edition, Signed

Two octavo volumes; xv, [1], xxiv, [2], 297, [1]; [2], [299]-621,[1]p., contemporary calf, rebacked. Original boards somewhat dry, with some old flaking and pitting to leather (since stabilized); internally clean, fresh, and sound; Very Good. Engraved armorial bookplate of the Dukes of Beaufort pasted to blank versos of each title.....

More info about The Thebaid. Translated into English Verse, with Notes and Observations and a Dissertation upon...

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.....

More info about Let the Mice In

First printing. Octavo (23cm). Printed paper wrappers; 261pp. Text mostly unopened. Fading to spine, with scuffing to publisher's price-sticker; expected toning to text; still a tight, lightly worn copy, Very Good. Text entirely in French. There was no numbered issue. Quite presentable copy of Calas' first surrealist work, written shortly.....

More info about Foyers D'Incendie

First printing. Oblong quarto (22cm x 28cm). Color pictorial cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; unpaginated [50pp]. Tight, straight, and unmarked - a Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.47 on front flap), clean and crisp but for a brief closed tear (1") to bottom edge of rear panel, accompanied by.....

More info about The Paper Snake

Octavo. 22.5cm. Signed Limited Edition; #28 of 125. Publisher's rather lurid printed card booklets, sewn bound at the spine into one volume. 44pp. In original grey card box with paper label to front, and additional page of signed and numbered artwork, as issued. Very light wear to the box. A......

More info about Le Secte du Triangle Vol I + II

Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling and blocking stamped in gilt and red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 649pp. Light sunning and rubbing to board edges, with tanning and shelf-soil to edges of textblock and rear endpaper; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.00), tanned, with shelf-soil, chip and.....

More info about The House of Fiction: An Anthology of the Short Story with Commentary

One of 250 copies in the regular issue. Small, slim octavo. Tan linen over printed blue paper-covered boards; printed paper spine label; [6],30,[6]pp (final 5 pp blank). A straight, very clean copy, Near Fine but for mild toning to spine and a small loss to spine label, costing final character.....

More info about Wild Apples

One of 100 copies signed by the artist and author. Oblong quarto (19.5cm); pale blue cloth, with titles stamped in light grey on front cover; publisher's slipcase; [iv],1-5,[6-30]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine slipcase, with the publisher's shrinkwrap still intact, but for the opening. A catalog of 12 "waterscapes" (all.....

More info about Waterscapes, Landscapes [Limited Edition, Signed

First Printing (cloth issue), with 1.-20. Tausend printed on title page. Octavo (24cm); yellow decorative cloth, with photomontage by John Heartfield applied to covers and titles stamped in black on spine; yellow topstain; 231pp, [5]; illus; text is in German. Contemporary (October 1929) owner's name penciled to front endpaper; slight.....

More info about Deutschland, Deutschland Ueber Alles

Original oversized pictorial broadside (52.5x78cm.); adorned with calendars for the years 1849 and 1850 on left and right margins and eleven steel-engraved vignettes of scenes from the February Revolution in Paris, 1848. Previous folds with some subsequent splitting touching text and images without loss, general wrinkling and a few soil.....

More info about Drop Title] Calendriers Illustrés Pour 1849 et 1850

One of 200 copies. Quarto (28cm); white and goldenrod mimeographed sheets (printed on rectos), side-stapled and glued into black card covers, with a silkscreened cover illustration by Barbara O'Connelly; [45]pp, with one silkscreened illustration by T.L. Kryss. About Fine. An anthology of Cleveland School and California poets, compiled by Kryss.....

More info about Panama Gold

Quarto. 26cm. Functional pasteboard binding with paper title label to spine. 16pp. Light wear and soiling to boards, some chipping to spine label, strong and suitably robust; internally clean and fresh, plain endpapers contemporary with the binding, text sharp and clean, large margins. A very good, clean copy. Lettice's rather.....

More info about The Conversion of St. Paul: A Poetical Essay

First Printing, one of 10,000 copies. Octavo (18.75cm); publisher's printed paper-covered boards, titled in red on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[4],5-31,[3]pp. Subtle tanning to upper and lower board edges, trivial wear to extremities, else contents fresh; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently sunned at spine and panels, with trivial external wear and.....

More info about A Child's Christmas in Wales

No. 205 of 250 signed copies (the entire edition). Quarto (26.5cm). Quarter morocco; green cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; top edge gilt; unpaginated [24pp]; illus. Fine copy in the publisher's unprinted acetate dustwrapper, slightly cloudy but unworn, Near Fine. No. 16 in the Dolmen Editions series. The illustrations "derive from carvings at.....

More info about Finistere

Quarto (30cm); yellow cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 253pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. Text in German. Modest shelf-wear and -soil, with slight rubbing to cloth at board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper has shelf-wear and -soil, with ca. 5cm loss at lower.....

More info about Buddha in der Kunst des Ostens: mit sieben textabbildungen und hundertdreiundzwanzig tafelin

Octavo (22cm); light gray cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; red topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 534pp. Inscribed by author on title page: "To Ed Kaback with best wishes Joseph McElroy October 17, 1988". Faint dampstains to crown and upper.....

More info about Hind's Kidnap: A Pastoral on Familiar Airs [Inscribed

Quarto. 26cm. Publisher's ribbed maroon leatherette with the title embossed in gilt to the front board, gilt decoration to spine. Approx 250pp.Some wear and rubbing to the extremities, most noticeable at the spine ends, strong, robust, and handsome, internally clean, a very good, smart looking copy. Complete, with the two.....

More info about Moscow

12mo. Black cloth, with printed paper spine and cover labels; printed dustjacket; 52pp. A fresh, Fine copy, free of soil or wear. In the scarce original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 at base of front flap), remarkably fresh and clean with just a hint of toning at spine panel and a......

More info about Mr. Pope and Other Poems

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...