Lorne Bair Rare Books

Octavo. 12mo; 83,[1]p., sewn sheets bound ito modernn paper wrappers with printed spine and title labels. Some mimld darkening and soil to title page, else a clean, Near Fine copy. The French text and English translation are on facing pages. A posthumously-published work by the Parliamentarian, freethinker, and self-styled philosopher.....

More info about Reflections Concerning Innate Moral Principles Written in French by the Late Lord Bolingbroke and...

Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled in gilt and blind to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 17pp. text, the photographic leaves unpaginated. Light wear and sunning to the extremities of the cloth, a little scuffing and discoloration in places; internally clean, signed by Mary Ellen Mark to the title.....

More info about Falkland Road; Prostitutes of Bombay

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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Octavo (23cm). Rebound with green marbled paper over boards, backed in green buckram, titled in gilt; modern yellow endpapers; [i]-viii [9]-304, [i]-viii [9]-92pp; 8 plates. Clean and tight, though rubbed at edges; paper heavily browned and slightly brittle, with one folding plate broken at folds: around Very Good. Second American.....

More info about Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, in a Course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture. To...

Folio (41.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; [40]pp; ilus.; text is entirely in English. Light wear to extremities, touch of oxidation to staples, with some very mild creases to spine-fold; contents clean, complete; Near Fine. A significant issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine, issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate.....

More info about USSR in Construction. 1932, No.1 (January

First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); maroon cloth spine over burnt orange paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; [vi],[2],3-147,[7]pp. Inscribed by author on title page, "Respectfully AC". A Fine copy. Dustwrapper, designed by Carol Devine Carson, unclipped (priced $22.00), with trivial surface wear and sticker to.....

More info about The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos [Signed

Quarto (35cm); pictorial paper-covered boards, with titling in white on spine; [n.p.]; illus. Spine-faded, with modest shelf-wear, 4" split to upper front joint, rubbing to spine ends and board edges, and bumped corners (affecting upper margins of text); Very Good. In publisher's slipcase, with shelf-soil and residue, tiny cracks and.....

More info about My Pretty Pony

Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's bright green cloth titled and decorated in gilt, red, blue and white to spine and front board. 274pp.;[1]. Bright and striking, light bumping and scuffing to the spine ends and corners, spine gilt a trifle dulled; internally clean and fresh, ownership stamp of the Hotel Suisse in.....

More info about Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women

Regular Issue (published simultaneously with a limited issue of 100 copies with an original composition). Slim quarto (30cm); beige sheets with text hectographed in purple ink (rectos), interleaved with three sheets offset printed in black and saddle stapled into grayish-green pictorial card covers; [23]pp. Subtle fading to wrapper extremities, else.....

More info about Spielpläne: materiale poesie, 4. folge, zur ausstellung Immagini E Testi Visuali (Visuelle Texte...

First impression. Quarto. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 319pp; illustrations in color and b/w. A fine, unworn copy. In the original dustwrapper, similarly Fine. From the library of noted poet / translator / Buddhist scholar Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate inside front cover.

More info about The Great Stupa of Gyantse. A Complete Tibetan Pantheon of the Fifteenth Century

One of 200 numbered copies pencil-signed by the author, this being #154. 24mo (13.5cm); letterpress printed sheets, sewn into gray handmade wrappers, with printed title label mounted to front cover; [28]pp. Fine copy. An exquisite little chapbook, designed, printed and bound by Elizabeth Coberly at the Night Heron Press, utilizing.....

More info about The Design on the Oriole [Limited Edition, Signed

Octavo (24.5cm); cream card wrappers vertically striped in blue; 112pp; twelve inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Mild external wear and soil, with brief losses to paper at spine ends; still tight and sound, internally free of markings or wear. A solidly Very Good copy. Remnants of the original bright.....

More info about The Little Review - Autumn 1921 (Brancusi Number

Limited issue. Number 7 of 75 signed and numbered copies (after ten ad personam copies). Octavo. Vellum-backed cloth in publisher's cloth and board slipcase; 85,(5)pp. A fine, unopened copy in a fine, unworn slipcase. Sole edition of this revised version of a work first published commercialy by Faber in 1991.....

More info about Kings. An Account of Books One and Two of Homer's Iliad

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [4],5-133,[3]pp, with portrait frontispiece of the author and 13 inserted plates of illustrations. Gentle sunning to spine, heel gently nudged, with faint foxing to text edges, title leaf, and occasionally on the plate margins;.....

More info about Colored People in Bible History

Eight octavo (digest-size) issues. Pictorial wrappers printed in colors; each issue ca. 124-132pp; illus; ads. Gentle rubbing and soil to most issues, but in all a complete, attractive, and perfectly sound run, easily Very Good. Text entirely in French. Breton's final periodical venture, a continuation of sorts of his long.....

More info about La Brêche: Action Surréaliste [complete run of 8 issues

Octavo. No. 106 of 110 copies for sale (after 15 hors-commerce copies). Cloth-backed, pale tan paper-covered boards (hardcover) in publisher's slipcase. Very fine in the original slipcase, mildly soiled on side panels, still Near Fine.

More info about New Collected Poems (Signed, Limited Edition

First impression. Octavo. Publisher's blue-green cloth; dustjacket; fore- and bottom edges uncut; viii,246,(2)pp. A few spots of foxing to the untrimmed text block edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. In the scarce original dustwrapper, lightly sunned on spine and with a few nicks.....

More info about Literature and Occult Tradition: Studies in Philosophical Poetry [La littérature et...

First Impression, limited issue, one of 500 numbered copies signed by the author on the colophon, this being copy no.16. Octavo (20.5cm); gray paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],81,[5]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, showing some mild surface wear and a hint of.....

More info about The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes [Limited Edition, Signed

First Printing. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's original pebble grain deep brown cloth titled and embellished in gilt to front board. [iv]; [2]; 110pp. Tight, clean and strong, a little bumping and scuffing to extremities, light sunning to spine, very handsome; internally clean and fresh, brown endpapers with armorial bookplate to front.....

More info about Memoirs of The Life of The Late John Mytton Esq., Of Halston, Shropshire. Formerly MP for...

First printing. Octavo (25cm). Publisher's red blind-stamped cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine; xii,[13]-309pp; 4pp publisher's ads; illus. A brilliant copy, unfaded and practically free of wear save a bit of rubbing at crown of spine. Pale yellow coated endpapers darkened from binder's adhesive, else equally fine internally, with.....

More info about Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the Adventures of Porte...

First issue, without inserted frontispiece portrait of the author and "319 Washington Street" address below the title page imprint. Octavo (20.5cm); fuchsia cloth, 459,[1]; no ads. Cloth faded in spots, with some spotting to front board edge; moderate foxing throughout; Good and sound; far from pristine, but a scarce issue.....

More info about David Elginbrod

Octavo (23cm). Full sheep with leather spine label; 267pp. Slightly rubbed and worn; endpapers mildly foxed with offsetting at margins; still a tight, clean, Very Good copy. With bookplate and ownership signature of a William S. Seibert to front endpapers; bookseller's stamp of T. & J.W. Johnson (Phila) to front.....

More info about Blackstone's Commentaries for American Students in the form of Questions and Answers....

First impression. Inscribed on title page: "To Edward," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xv,765pp. Mild soil to text block edges; faint reading crease to spine, still solidly Very Good. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £15 at base of front flap), crisp and.....

More info about The Exile of James Joyce [Inscribed Copy

One of 150 numbered copies specially bound and signed by cover artist George Herms on the inner front cover, this being copy no.55. Oblong quarto (9" x 13"); variously-colored sheets (including canvas), coil bound into covers – the front cover being wood with a mounted print by George Herms, the.....

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