Lorne Bair Rare Books

Original pictorial poster (62x42.75cm.) printed offset in purple and black on white stock; light wear to extremities, else Very Good.

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One of 275 signed copies, signed by Benet on limitation page. Octavo (22cm.); full burgundy morocco; later custom cloth chemise and slipcase; 80pp; illus. Fine in original glassine; slipcase lightly sunned on spine, VG or better.

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Folio. White linen boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover. One of 500 copies, signed by A.A. Milne on limitation page and printed on fine wove paper. Boards a trifle spotted; mild foxing to endpapers; small engraved bookplate to front pastedown; a very attractive copy, VG to Near...

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Small quarto (21.75cm.); original reddish-brown gilt-embossed cloth; [14],132,14[ads]pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, narrow strip of discoloration to fore-edge of upper cover, minor foxing to textblock, upper hinge cracked but still quite strong; About Very Good. Contemporary bookplate of Oscar Wilde collector Jon Weekly. 500 copies issued (MASON 357).

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Three volumes; octavo (22cm.); full contemporary mottled calf, black gilt spine labels, Vol. III recently rebacked in the same style, all edges speckled brown, later 19th-century endpapers; frontispieces to each volume, that of Vol. II hand-colored; additionally, 43 plates throughout, including 15 hand-colored added plates from the McLean edition published...

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Octavo. Cloth boards, slipcase. One 350 signed copies (this is no. 95); printed at the Spiral Press. Fine, unread copy in mylar jacket and fine publisher's slipcase.

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Original pictorial poster (61x45cm.) printed offset in purple on white stock; crease and subsequent wrinkling to right-hand edge, additional edge wear, else Good or better.

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Octavo (19.25cm.); original hot pink cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 289pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, red portion of spine faded to light orange, small dime-sized paper flaw to upper panel not affecting text, cloth near fine and entirely unfaded, hairline crack to front joint. Very Good overall. "A Scotland...

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Octavo (25.25cm.); publisher's reddish-pink pictorial staplebound wrappers; xiii-xvipp. Just About Fine. Signed by the author on first page. Extracted from the Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. XXXV, nos. 1 & 2. Brief essay on the 19th-century British illustrator George Cruikshank.

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Limited to 250 signed and numbered copies (this no. 74). Large folio. Emerald silk-covered boards in publisher's pictorial board slipcase; [44pp]; illus. Slipcase with a few minor surface scratches and mild bumps to corners, else Fine. Sensual, dramatic large-format black-and-white photographs of cacti and succulent plants by the Mexican photographer.

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First Printing, preceded by a Gold Medal paperback original. Octavo; quarter brown cloth over tan paper, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 261pp. Front board slightly splayed, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), with some pinpoint rubbing to the edges; Near Fine.

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Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in blue-grey pictorial dust jacket printed in orange; xxix,[3],160pp.; photographic frontispiece, 5 leaves of photographic stills. Jacket spine a bit toned, brief purple pencil smudge to rear cover, some foxing to early leaves, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the editor to...

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Octavo (19.25cm.); original dark maroon gilt-lettered cloth, black glazed endpapers; viii,[9]-366,[2](ads)pp. Some light shelf wear, spine a bit sunned, rear hinge just starting to crack, else a Very Good or better, still quite brilliant copy, now housed in custom cloth slipcase.

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Limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is no. 457. Quarto (32cm). Japan vellum boards with blind-stamped spine and cover titles; slipcase; ten pages of text, twelve lithographic plates with facing letterpress descriptions; includes an original pencil-signed lithographic frontispiece by Day and a gravure portrait of the artist by...

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Octavo (19.5cm.); original black cloth-backed pictorial boards, printed paper spine label, matching pictorial dust jacket; [2],216pp. Several smallish losses to jacket extremities, spine and rear panel dust-soiled, boards rubbed; partially unopened contents About Fine in Good or better jacket. Poetry collection.

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One of 100 numbered copies signed by Anderson and James Crumley, this being copy no.99. Octavo; 3/4 marbled paper over quarter black morocco, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; publisher's black pebbled cloth slipcase; [i-viii], ix-xi, [xii-xiv], 522, [8]pp. Handful of foxed spots to right edge of textblock...

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First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth, pictorial paper plates printed in blue and black mounted to upper cover and spine, cream pictorial dust jacket; vi,378pp.; two-toned frontispiece, illus. throughout, pictorial endpapers. Jacket a bit dust-soiled and rubbed at extremities, minor chipping at spine ends, else Very Good or better. "An.......

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Limited Issue, one of 1,000 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.492. Octavo (21.25cm); light gray linen, with titles stamped in blue on spine and front cover; blue-violet topstain; dustjacket; [xii],466,[4]pp. Light offsetting to endpapers, else Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.75), with...

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One of 150 copies issued as a keepsake by the Press. 12mo. Unprinted card covers; orange dustjacket with applied printed label. Near Fine in mildly spine-sunned dustwrapper. With two laid-in pieces of ephemera (as received): (1) an invitation to a preview reception at the 32nd Annual Exhibition of the Downtown...

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Original screenprint in four colors, 22-1/2" x 17-1/2" (ca 57cm x 46cm). Minor creases to corners, else bright and Fine, grade A-/A. Signed in screen lower left, "Jerry Biggs."

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Octavo (19.5cm); pale green paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,15-186,[4]pp; with photographic frontispiece reproducing a still from the stage production. Trivial wear to lower corners, touch of dustiness to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine. Dustjacket designed by William Siegel is.......

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Quarto (31.5cm x 25cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover) with embossed gilt titling and graphics; dustjacket; 360pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear to bottom extremities, else new. Very Good dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to cover and back panels. First book devoted entirely to the automata of 19th century France...

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Oblong 4to (25.5cm x 34cm). Spiral-bound pictorial boards; title page and 31 leaves of machine-lithographed plates after watercolors by the artist. Descriptive text printed in three languages (Spanish, French, and English). Light rubbing to boards and board edges; with two spots of abrasion to front board; mild toning to plate...

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Octavo (19.5cm.); original decorative cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [8],320pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with minor puncturing to spine affecting text without loss of meaning, yellow portion of spine sunned to white, cloth a bit spotted else Very Good and sound overall. Louisiana fiction, a collection of...

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