Lorne Bair Rare Books

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

First Printings. Two thick octavo volumes (23cm); original gray cloth boards, blocked and titled in maroon and gilt on spines and front covers; dustjackets; clxxiv,[3],4-879,[3]; xxxii,[2],3-1207,[9]pp. Pictorial bookplate of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) mounted to front pastedown of each volume. Two very gently bumped corners on.....

More info about Marginalia - Volumes I and II (Abbt to Byfield [with] Camden to Hutton

One of 113 copies. Quarto (28.25cm); black leather and grey paper-covered boards, with title embossed on upper spine; [52]pp, with six etchings and one composite drawing by Warrington Colescott. Signed by all contributors, and additionally by Walter Hamady, the publisher, and Bill Anthony, the binder. Lower corners bumped, else Near.....

More info about Since Man Began to Eat Himself: Four Poems, Two Stories [Limited Edition, Signed

Quarto (.27cm). Photo-illustrated paper wrappers, staple-bound; 12pp; illus. Printed on newsprint. Old horizontal fold; paper tanned (but not brittle); a few brief, closed tears to cover wraps - complete and about Very Good. A series of illustrated articles documenting atrocities at German death camps, including Buchenwald and Nordhausen, as well.....

More info about D'Oradour à Buchenwald. Numéro Special des Cahiers de L'Union Française...

First Printing, with "First Edition" and the publisher's "I-F" code on copyright page. Octavo (21.75cm); dark grey cloth boards, with titles stamped in white on spine, and publisher's logo in white at lower front cover; dustjacket; [x],276,[2]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "August 28, 1964 / Especially.....

More info about Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family [Inscribed to Sybil Harriet Landau

One of 18 copies (plus an additional 6 artist's proofs). Oblong octavo (15.5cm x 23cm); folded and gathered sheets of handmade paper in various shades of beige and grey, sewn together at spine; text is letterpress printed in black and silver inks on a Vandercook 4 press; [44]pp. Fine. An.....

More info about If I Should Die: Children Murdered in Wisconsin in 1993

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; 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

First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 152pp. Author's inscription to title page: "Peter Ackroyd - to Howard, with love. 20 June, 1976". Pencilled note to front endpaper with light foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, illustrated by Helen Saunders.....

More info about Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism [Inscribed

11 volumes. Small Octavo. 18cm. Publisher's uniform decorated card wraps in a variety of colors. Pagination varies, but between 34pp.- 60pp. per title. Some light soiling and scuffing in places; internally clean; all numbers very good or better. Nos. 2 & 3 are second printings, all others are first printings.....

More info about Burma Pamphlets #1-11 (Complete); Burma Background; Burma Setting; Buddhism in Burma; Burma Rice;...

One of 100 copies, specially bound and signed by both Miller and Perlès. Large octavo. Quarter gray cloth of black cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; unpaginated [48pp]. A fine, apparently unread copy. In the original dustwrapper, reproducing a painting by Miller; Fine. A color photo-facsimile of the original pamphlet, issued by Bern.....

More info about What Are You Going To Do About Alf? [Signed, Limited Edition

Second Printing (September 1910). Octavo (17.5cm); dark green cloth-covered boards, with titling and ruling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; fore- and lower-edges untrimmed; [x],[2],3-129,[1]pp. Spine-tanned, with light shelf-wear, previously present bookplate residue to front pastedown, and tiny upper marginal tear to copyright page; Very.....

More info about The Town Down the River: A Book of Poems

First impression. Deep tan cloth; dustjacket; 101pp. Tight and straight, Fine but for some mild foxing to text block edges. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 8s.6d. on front flap, foxed on verso but otherwise remarkably clean and free of wear or fading to the spine, very Near Fine. Thomas'.....

More info about Under Milk Wood

No. 74 of 200 copies, this from the "regular" issue of 140 unsigned. Quarto (29cm); unprinted card wrappers with glassine jacket; [16] leaves, silkscreened in colors with additional letterpress. Laid into cloth-backed gold-foil chemise, with publisher's card slipcase. Foxing to spine cloth of chemise, as seems to happen so often.....

More info about Yod

Octavo (20cm). Sewn pamphlet; early paste-paper wrappers; 108pp. A somewhat worn copy; lacking half-title; title page margins unevenly trimmed; neat mends to leaves A2 and B7; vertical tear to first text leaf; small puncture to final leaf, costing a few characters but no loss of sense; wormhole to gutter of.....

More info about Essai Sur La Théorie du Somnambulisme Magnétique. Novembre 1785

three Volumes. Octavo. 18.5cm. Bound in a 19th century tan roan binding over marbled boards, titled and ruled in gilt to spines. [viii]; 315pp.; 297pp.; 309pp. Some sunning to spines, scuffing and light rubbing to corners and spine ends, hinges strong, gilt bright, just general shelfwear; internally clean and fresh.....

More info about The Moonstone. A Romance

One of fifty copies in the "Author's Edition." Inscribed on front endpaper: "for Leo Huberman / Monthly Review, 333 Sixth Ave New York... this copy no 31 of Special Author's Edition of 50 copies is sent with regards," signed by Strong with her Peking address, dated November 1961. 12mo. Cloth.....

More info about Cash and Violence in Laos [Author's Edition, Inscribed to Leo Huberman

Offset lithograph in colors, 43cm x 29cm (17" x 11"). Signed in image, lower right. Crease to left corner, with a single short, closed tear; Very Good+. Unbacked. A fiery photomontage poster advertising a rally that appears never to have taken place, perhaps because it was scheduled for the same.....

More info about Resist the Draft / Anti-War Day

One of 100 numbered copies signed by Ted Hughes, this being copy no.30. 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"). Some very subtle toning and dust-soil to extremities, with a few.....

More info about Broadside: February 17th [Limited Edition, Signed

First Printings. Seventy-two slim octavo volumes (23.75cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 16-24pp per pamphlet; illus. A few issues showing trivial wear and occasional, subtle toning to wrapper extremities, else a fresh, Fine set. A complete set of the Sparrow chapbooks produced by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press between 1972-1978, each.....

More info about Sparrow 1-72 [Complete Set

Limited Edition, one of 1200 copies, of which this is No. 146 and signed by Polk, with an additional inscription: "To Geoffrey Holder my admiration for all you have accomplished which have furthered black America culture P.H. Polk". Quarto (32cm); brown cloth spine over oatmeal cloth-covered boards with titling stamped.....

More info about Photographs: with an Essay [Inscribed, Limited Edition

Large Octavo. Publisher's heavy grain oatmeal cloth with a green and black title label to spine. Dustjacket. [xiv]; 566pp. Strong and bright, trifling wear to extremities; internally clean, illustrated throughout; in a strong, priceclipped example of the dustjacket with some very light soiling and wear to the extremities. A very.....

More info about The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees

Three typed-manuscript volumes of Donahue's collected poetry. Three Quarto volumes (28cm); front wrapper mylar overlays; Dissolves is spiral-bound; printed on recto only; 143pp; [n.p.]; 186pp. Dissolves: (Terra Lucida IV-VII) is inscribed by Donahue on title page: "For Nathaniel and Jane / Much love, Joe". Pencilled annotations throughout, presumably Nathaniel Tarn's.....

More info about Terra Lucida [with] Mercury Shadow: from Terra Lucida [and] Dissolves: (Terra Lucida IV-VII)...

Sixth, expanded edition. Two quarto volumes; original morocco-backed cloth over boards; 480+552,xxxii pp; 10 unnumbered leaves of plates (portraits); text illustrations printed in colors. Unobtrusive rippling to endpapers; faint foxing to prelims; mild external rubbing – a complete, clean, and attractive set. Essential reference to the printed street propaganda of.....

More info about Les Murailles Révolutionnaires de 1848. Décrets, Bulletins de la République, Adhésions,...