Lorne Bair Rare Books

No author, publisher, or sponsoring organization given. Oblong quarto (20x25.5cm.); original peach decorated wrappers; 16pp; illus. Wrapper extremities quite worn with shallow chipping and long closed tears, previous vertical fold, some old tiny losses throughout textblock due to vermin activity. Still, Good and sound for such an ephemeral piece.

More info about Official Labor Union Manual of Montgomery, Alabama. Containing a Full Description Union Labor,...

Folio (42cm); printed wrappers, saddle-stitched; [44]pp; illus.; text is entirely in English. Some wear, mild toning, and handling to wrappers, with a few faint creases to same, and a few faint damp marks at margins; 8-panel centerfold spread is detached from staples, but present; just Very Good.

More info about USSR in Construction. 1932, No.3 [March

Small quarto (26cm). Blue cloth boards; gilt titles on spine and front cover; 469pp; illus. Crown of spine slightly pulled, else a tight, Near Fine copy, free of markings or significant wear; lacking the dustwrapper. Issued as Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, Vols V-VI.

More info about A Grammar of Chinese Lattice

Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in grey decorative dust jacket, blue topstain; [6],186pp. Topstain quite faded, minor foxing to textblock fore-edge, else Near Fine, with unfaded jacket spine. Signed and inscribed "To Ken" on title page. Author's first book, recounting the ambivalent relationship between a young black ex-drug addict and an.....

More info about A Glance Away [Signed & Inscribed

Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in green decorative dust jacket; [10],189pp. Some chipping and wear to jacket extremities, including a few short closed tears; upper cloth cover darkened, edges and spine toned, contents fine. Very Good overall. See ROBERTS, p. 94.

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Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial silver foil dust jacket printed in black; [6],285pp. Some general shelf wear to jacket extremities, a few tiny chips and closed tears, some minor scratching to rear panel, else Near Fine in a Very Good example of the uncommon dust jacket. Publication date on.....

More info about One Came Out

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.....

More info about Letters of James Joyce

Deluxe Issue, one of 40 numbered copies handbound in boards and signed by Anne Tyler. Quarto; 3/4 handmade paper over boards, quarterbound in powder blue cloth with white printed spine label; 30pp. Fine in a Fine glassine overlay, as issued. The first appearance in book form of this story, which.....

More info about Your Place Is Empty [Deluxe Limited, Signed

Large, heavy quarto. Pictorial laminated boards (hardcover); no dustjacket as issued; 416pp; illus. Inscribed by both authors on half-title "to Anthony", with an original full-page ink sketch of a rabbit descending a waterfall. Corners bumped and a bit of soil to bottom edge of text block, else a tight, Near.....

More info about Die Utopische Stadt und andere Projekte / The Utopian City and Other Projects [Inscribed, with...

Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's dark green gilt-lettered cloth; [8],360pp. Board extremities a bit rubbed and worn with brief exposure at corners, light foxing throughout textblock, dampstain along fore-edge of front pastedown not affecting binding or facing leaf; Near Very Good and sound overall. The author's second novel.

More info about The Longest Journey

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

Bifolium (21.5cm); single sheet of 8.5" x 14" white stock, folded once vertically to create a 4pp pamphlet; offset printed. A few faint creases and mild signs of handling; Very Good+. Accompanied by an 8.5" x 11" flyer from the same event, similarly printed; old horizontal fold at center, else.....

More info about Resist the Draft - Nov.14

Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth-backed boards in decorative price-clipped dust jacket designed by Harry Ford; [6],185pp. Very minor wear to jacket extremities, short closed tear to top edge of upper panel with discrete tape repair to verso, some unobtrusive paper flaws to endpapers from previously removed bookplates (?); boards slightly toned.....

More info about The Poorhouse Fair [Signed Bookplate Laid in

One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.31. Quarto; 4 broadsides sewn into plain card covers and marbled paper dustjacket; 8 uncut leaves; illus frontispiece signed by Scott, dated 1/69. Hint of offset to endpapers from jacket, else Fine.

More info about 4 By Robert Lowell [Limited Edition, Signed

With "H-H" code on copyright page. Octavo (21.5cm); dark blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in lime green across spine and covers; patterned endpapers; dustjacket; [viii],295,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page: "For Bill Paxson, who likes greyhound racing as much as I do - Best regards.....

More info about Dark Hazard [Inscribed

2 volumes, large quartos (29.25cm.); original black 3-ring pictorial binders embossed in gilt together containing all 103 bifolium weekly broadcast newsletters for the years 1962 and 1963, along with 4 additional flyers, and yearly indices; illus., text printed in double columns; nos. 463-82 printed in blue. Previous mail folds to.....

More info about Manion Forum Yearbook, 1962 & 1963 [Broadcast Nos. 380-482

Octavo. Yellow cloth boards, lettered in blue and gold on spine; dustjacket; yellow top-stain; 281pp. Bookplate signed by Bradbury loosely laid in. A clean, straight, unmarked copy with clean, even top-stain, Near Fine, in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped, lightly rubbed at extremities, with a small (.

More info about Dandelion Wine: A Novel

Quarto (28.75cm); full black cloth, with titling and artist's facsimile signature stamped in white on spine and front cover; illustrated endpapers; dustjacket; 143,[1]pp; illus; text is in French and English. Inscribed by the artist to Broadway star Sondra Lee on the first blank page ("Pour Sondra / trés amicalement /.....

More info about Franta: Paintings and Works on Paper [Inscribed to Sondra Lee, with a Full-Page Original...

12mo. Blue cloth boards; dustjacket; 181pp. Tidy, unmarked copy, Near Fine, in lighly edge-rubbed dustwrapper, unclipped but with faint pencilled bookseller's price below printed price on front flap. First issue, with period (full-stop) following "Sailors" on p.5.

More info about Quite Early One Morning: Broadcasts

Folio (42.5cm.); original white photo-illustrated boards; unpaged; photographic illus. Light dust-soil, else Fine. Photographic catalogue of the works of Belgian assemblage sculptor Panamarenko, who specializes in imaginary flying vehicles, dirigibles, and flying saucers.

More info about Panamarenko: For Clever Scholars, Astronomers, and Doctors [cover title

Folio (32cm.); original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; xxxii,464pp.; frontispiece, numerous illus. (mostly photographic) throughout text. Minor shelf-wear to extremities, else Very Good and sound.

More info about Negro: An Anthology

Octavo (20.25cm.); original boards in maroon pictorial dust jacket lettered in gilt, purple topstain; 445pp.; illustrated endpapers by Tom Adams. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, ring stain to upper jacket panel verso almost imperceptible to exterior, else Very Good. Laid in bookplate signed and dated by the author "England, 1996.".....

More info about The French Lieutenant's Woman [Signed and Dated Bookplate Laid in

First Printing. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's maroon gilt-lettered cloth in champaign dust jacket printed in green; 224pp. Jacket quited toned with a few small short closed tears, brief loss at top edge of upper jacket panel affecting decorative border, cloth corners bumped, else Very Good and sound in the uncommon.....

More info about Aspects of the Novel

Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in blue and grey pictorial dust jacket; [6],361pp.; pictorial endpapers. Losses to jacket extremities, some affecting text at top edge of upper panel without loss of meaning, faint dampstainging to rear panel; contemporary ownership rubberstamp of a H.E. James on p. [vi], else Near Fine in.....

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