Lorne Bair Rare Books

Limited (cloth) Issues. Fourteen octavo volumes (23.5cm); variously colored cloth bindings, with titling and decorations stamped in different colors on spines and front covers; dustjackets; [2],3-295,[9]; [6],7-228,[10]; [5],6-223,[7]; [6],7-226,[4]; [6],7-237,[11]; [6],7-306,[14]; [6],7-275,[9]; [7],8-262,[10]; [6],7-289,[7]; [6],7-304,[16]; [6],7-288,[8]; [6],7-312,[8]; [6],7-275,[13]; [6],7-287,[9]pp; illus. While not marked as such, this set comes from the.....

More info about Conjunctions: Bi-Annual Volumes of New Writing - Nos.1-14

Limited Issue, one of 400 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the poet, this being copy no.57. Slim octavo (22cm); yellow paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in bronze on front cover; [16]pp, with two wood engravings (one in black & white, one in colors) by Gertrude Hermes. A bit.....

More info about Animula [Limited Edition, Signed

First impression. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; yellow top-stain; dustjacket; 208pp. A few spots of foxing to upper and lower edges of text block; expected offsetting to endpapers from jacket flaps, else a tight, clean, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 7s. 6d. at base of front flap).....

More info about Broken Record: Reminiscences

First Printing, one of 3,000 copies. Octavo (15.75cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-60,[4]pp. Inscribed by the author to noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) on the title page: "11-11-72 / Nathaniel – Blessings come to thee from the mother cloak of stars, the mother / Love, Janine." Wrappers.....

More info about Poems To Fernando [Inscribed to Nathaniel Tarn

Folio (30.5cm); photographic paper-covered boards; 260pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) and colorful photograph illustrations throughout. Trace shelf-soil, else Near Fine. Lithuanian filmmaker and poet shares this collection of Village Voice "Movie Journal" columns (1961-1975) discussing cinema with artists and filmmakers, including Andy Warhol, Stephen Dwoskin, and Michael Snow. [85747].

More info about Conversations with Film-Makers [cover title: Movie Journal Columns 1961-1975

First Printing, in the second state binding, with Chesnutt's name spelled correctly along the lower front cover. Octavo (20.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; x,294pp. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to spine ends and extremities, a few tiny scuffs to front cover.....

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Tabloid (38.5cm); original pictorial newsprint wrappers, with covers printed in metallic ink and in colors; 40pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, mild handling, with some very subtle toning to the edges; contents clean; a Near Fine example, unfolded and without postal markings. Eighth issue of the Oracle, the psychedelic brainchild.....

More info about San Francisco Oracle - Vol.1, No.8 (June, 1967

Second edition. Two octavo volumes. Red cloth hardcovers with printed paper spine labels; top edges gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; xxvii, 352; xvi, 350, [1]pp. Mild external wear, with some rubbing and darkening to spine labels, else a tight, clean, and sound set, easily Very Good. Heckethorn's best-known work.....

More info about The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries. A comprehensive account of upwards of one hundred...

12mo. Contemporary full sheep; xx,[1]-130pp; frontispiece + 5 leaves of plates. A complete but somewhat worn copy, with typical darkening to text leaves; a few brief marginal chips (including a small loss to frontispiece, costing a couple of characters of the printed margin); Good and sound. Early holograph ex-libris of.....

More info about The British System of Education: Being a Complete Epitome of the Improvements and Inventions...

Four octavo volumes; all are Letter "U" of 26 lettered copies, each signed by Heyen on colophon, from a total edition of 126. First three in full cloth with printed paper spine labels, fourth volume with stamped spine title (as issued). Uniformly fine - a new-appearing set, uncommon in this.....

More info about The Chestnut Rain: A Poem in Progress. 4 vols, comprising: The Snow Hen (Sections 1-7); The...

Octavo. 18cm. Second issue of the text with "ribbon" spelled correctly on p.235. Bound in contemporary full brown calf with a black leather and gilt title label. [x-xii]; 240pp.; [1]; errata; [5] ads to rear. Some bumping to corners, a few old scrapes and scuffs to the leather and some.....

More info about The American Shooter's Manual; Comprising, such plain and simple rules, as are necessary to...

4to. Twentieth-century parchment-backed, paper-covered boards; [24],212,[16]p. Some external soil and wear; blank margins of final three leaves with small losses at gutter, else internally fresh and Near Fine. Includes list of subscribers and General Index; six vignettes in text by Toms and Jeffreys. In The Papers of the Cambridge Bibliographical.....

More info about The Hymns of Callimachus, translated from the Greek into English verse, with explanatory notes....

12mo. 16cm. Contemporary tree pattern sheep or roan with a black leather and gilt title label to spine, old respine. [xii]; 132pp. Very light wear, tight and bright, hinges strong, light sunning to spine, gilt bright; internally clean and fresh albeit with fairly low production values. A very good, neat.....

More info about The Horseman's Manual; Being a treatise on Soundness, The Law of Warranty, and Generally on...

Octavo. 18cm. Bound in original publisher's paper wraps titled and bordered in black to front wrap. [iv]; 168pp. Chipping and wear to edges and extremities, spine panel heavily chipped, lacking rear wrap, strong and tight but with several closed tears, soiling etc; internally clean & untrimmed with some dampstaining to.....

More info about The Warwick Woodlands or, Things As they Were There, Ten Years Ago

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

Small Octavo. 18cm. Publisher's original blue buckram titled and embellished in gilt to spine and front board. 137pp.;[2] ads to rear. Firm and straight, a little darkened to the spine with some bumping at the corners, handsome; internally clean and fresh, fore and lower edges untrimmed, spotting to endpapers and.....

More info about Songs Of The Road

Postal card, 3.5" x 5.5"; recto reproduces (in halftone) a photograph by White House staff photorapher Abbie Rowe; verso contains a printed message with space for address (unused). Light wear; faint bleed-through to image from printing on verso; Near Fine. An unusual piece of American campaign ephemera, marking a brief.....

More info about "Civil Rights Paramount at White House" (Original Postcard for the 1958 Congressional...

Tall quarto. 34cm. Screw-bound heavy bottle green boards. 154pp. Mimeo'd typewritten pages, with 50pp mounted photographs and charts, some with manuscript additions or notes. Light rubbing to extremities of the album, clean and solid; internally clean and bright, with some occasional fluctuations in repro quality as would be expected, ownership.....

More info about Tube Railway Rolling Stock; Report upon Investigations into London's Underground Tube...

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); jade green cloth, with titling, rule, and decorations stamped in maroon and dark green on spine and covers; dark brown topstain; [viii],282,[2]pp. Gentle sunning to spine and covers, base of spine crimped, with faint foxing to front cover, and some mild dustiness and two faint splash.....

More info about The Glass Key

Octavo (24cm). Green cloth titled in gilt; [x],[144]pp; color frontispiece, and black and white halftone portraits throughout. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. Slight rubbing to extremities, else Near Fine. Originally organized to protect travelers on the Oregon Trail, the Third Cavalry had seen action in the Mexican-American War, Civil War.....

More info about A History of the Third United States Cavalry

17 individual issues in original staple-bound, printed wrappers (Reports for 1987-88, 1995-96, and 1997-1999 are combined in single volumes). Occasional mild sunning to spines, still a uniformly Fine set in the original wrappers. Four issues (1979, 1980, 1983, and 1987-88) are signed by Fowles on front cover; included with the.....

More info about Lyme Regis (Philpot) Museum: Curator's Report with notes on recent research and new...

One of 500 copies. This copy lengthily inscribed on front endpaper to Carol McGovern Cerf, daughter of the dedicatee (posthumous) Dr. William Montgomery McGovern (1897-1967). Quarto; blue cloth hardcover with silver foil stamping to spine and front cover; 476pp; illus. Also laid in is a substantial typed letter, signed, from.....

More info about Little Big Horn Diary: Chronicle of the 1876 Indian War [Dedication Copy

Octavo (21cm); pale green paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in red on spine; 188pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations on glossy paper throughout. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "To my dear friends Louise and Norman Reider (and Pete) / Affectionately Albert Deutsch 12.22.48". Spine-tanned, with rubbing and scuffing of paper.....

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