Lorne Bair Rare Books

First 25 issues with no. 25 supplement; nos. 6&7 and nos. 11&12 released as double-issues, and issues 13, 19, and 21 separated into three parts, all softcovers. 25 Octavo issues (19cm); stapled pictorial wrappers; black-and-white illustrations. Full pagination available upon request. All issues have modest shelf-wear and light soil, with.....

More info about The Review: Magazine of Poetry and Criticism nos. 1-25 [with] no. 25 Supplement...

11 Issues running from November 1978 to October 1979, with no December 1978 production as issued. Small Quarto. 24.5cm. Publisher's original vibrantly decorated thin card wraps. Approx. 68-80pp. per issue. Clean, bright, and sharp; internally clean, printed on various colors of paper, some light spotting and offsetting in places due.....

More info about New Culture; Review of Contemporary African Arts. Plastic Arts, Architecture, Performing Arts

12 Issues in 8 texts, with nos. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 11-12, and 13-14 released as double-issues, all softcovers, with publisher's promotional materials laid in. Octavo (24cm); white photographic paper wrappers; black-and-white and colorful photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Full pagination available upon request. Text in French and English. From the.....

More info about Cahiers D'Asie Centrale: 1-7 [with] 9-14 [8 Total, Mixed Issues

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

First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Miriam Moskowitz / who lived a part of this story - with deep appreciation and best wishes," signed by both authors, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo (24cm). Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 467pp. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges, else a tight.....

More info about Invitation To An Inquest [Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Miriam Moskowitz

MDCCCC printed on title page, with 1900 on copyright. Quarto (30cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with title label on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; black and white halftones and illustrations throughout. Includes numbered pages of text, with 125 numbered and complete photographic plates. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "John Madison Taylor with.....

More info about Anatomy in its Relation to Art: an Exposition of the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body with...

Octavo. 21cm. Later black institutional cloth titled in gilt to spine. [xii]; 458pp.; [viii] index, notes, and errata to rear. Clean and bright cloth with bright gilt and negligible wear; internally clean, some toning and spotting to prelims and plates, a little thumbing in places, fore-edge untrimmed, offsetting from some.....

More info about Twelve Essays on the Proximate Causes of the Material Phenomena of the Universe; With...

Large paper issue, no.152 of 350 numbered sets. Two large octavo volumes. Original paper-covered boards with printed paper spine labels; fore and bottom edges untrimmed; 505+465pp; frontispiece to each volume; engraved title pages and four unnumbered leaves of engraved plates. Housed in a later custom cloth slipcase. Spines darkened; moderate.....

More info about Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife. A Biography by Julian Hawthorne [Large Paper Edition

Octavo (20cm); pale green cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xli,252pp. Morocco leather bookplate of Estelle Doheny to front pastedown. Inked gift inscription (dated Dec 25/84) to front endpaper, and additional inked inscription with Lanier's quote signed by Charles(?) D. Roberts.....

More info about Selected Poems of Sidney Lanier: Edited by His Wife

First printing. Octavo (20cm). Early 20th-c. half morocco over marbled boards; top edge gilt; fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; xii;13-557pp. A richly grangerized copy, enlarged by the addition of three maps (two folding) and thirty-eight engraved plates. A few pencilled bookseller's notes to front endpapers; brief pencil binder's note to.....

More info about History of the State of Ohio. First Period 1650-1787 [with] A Map of the British and French...

Second Printing, with "B C D E" code but no "First Edition" on copyright page. Octavo (24cm); black paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in metallic blue on spine; dustjacket; [x],[3],4-310 + [16]pp of inserted black & white plates at center. Signed by Warhol on the upper.....

More info about POPism: The Warhol '60s [Signed & Inscribed

First Printing. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's deep red cloth titled and decorated in gilt and black to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 299pp. Strong and tight, light bumping to spine ends, small spot or stain to edge of rear board; internally clean and fresh, yellow topstain, fore-edge untrimmed, spotting to page.....

More info about Madness and Civilization; A History of Insanity in The Age of Reason

First Impression, one of 20,000 copies. Thick octavo (23.5cm); grey cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; lxxxvi,[3],4-568,[4]pp; illus. Inscribed by Guillén on the half-title page in January, 1974, to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Márquez and his wife, with drawings of an.....

More info about Obra Poetica, 1920-1958 - Tomo I [Inscribed to Roberto Márquez

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. Octavo (22cm); russet cloth, blocked and titled in dark brown and beige on spine; dustjacket; xxxiv,[2]-809,[3]pp, with publisher's errata slip tipped onto front hinge. Some dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, spine ends nudged, upper corners gently bumped (but still sharp), with a faint dampstain to heel; contents.....

More info about Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City

First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; dark blue top-stain; 191pp. A touch of fading to top-stain near spine, else a tight, clean, Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00), a shade faded on spine panel, very lightly worn at extremities; VG+. A good year for Stevens; this.....

More info about The Auroras of Autumn

12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers, 32pp. Text in Ukrainian. Light rubbing and wear to wrappers, including brief chips and marginal tears. Text paper browned but not brittle; about Very Good. No publisher given, but rear wrapper advertises publications by "Iskra," the Russian revolutionary exile newspaper. Early, extremely uncommon up-to-the-minute.....

More info about Революція в Росії від 1861 року до найновіших подій ...

First Printing, softcover. Octavo (20cm); pictorial paper wrappers; xiii,[3],4-337,[1]pp; illus. Inscribed by author on front cover verso: "For Jane Best Wishes Camille Paglia". Designed by Maura Fadden Rosenthal. Light shelf-wear with rubbing and creases to spine and corners, and trace shelf-soil to edges of textblock; Very Good+. Collection of essays.....

More info about Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays [Inscribed

No. 54 of 200 signed and numbered copies. Oblong format (13cm x 25cm); pictorial, comb-bound wrappers with unprinted acetate cover sheets; unpaginated [22 leaves]. Very mild toning to covers, else fine. The first published book by well-known book artist Carol Barton, proprietor of the Popular Kinetics Press and author of.....

More info about Beyond the Page

Edition of 100 copies. Inscribed by DiPalma on title page: "For Carter Burden / Ray DiPalma with good wishes," dated May 25, 1982. Oblong quarto; pictorial wrappers; unpaginated. Trivial wear to wrapper edges; Near Fine. Rare collection of visual poetry, consisting of rubber-stamped, one-word "poems," by the influential LANGUAGE poet.....

More info about Dreiundzwanzig arbeiten (23 works

Octavo. 22cm. 20 Monthly Parts, issued as 19 with 19/20 being a single larger issue. The majority of the parts, all in their original powder blue wraps, are in very good condition with some light wear to edges and extremities, Part I has some soiling and chipping to the front.....

More info about Martin Chuzzlewit; In the Original Parts

One of 500 copies signed by Gissinger, of which this is no.123. Folio (43.5cm); printed cloth-covered boards, with titling in white and black on spine and front cover; marbled endpapers; [6],7-194,[6]pp; colorful photographs and illustrations throughout. A Fine copy. French text followed by Pevear's translation to English, with full-page photographs.....

More info about Salamí [Signed

First State, with Index of Titles arranged by order of appearance in the book, and "Warm Hair" on p.8 credited to Mark Twain. Thick octavo (23.5cm); brown cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; patterned endpapers; xxiv,707,[1]pp; illus. Armorial bookplate of S.&C.....

More info about Mark Twain's Library of Humor

First Printing. 12mo. (18.75cm); publisher's original vertically-ribbed dark brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [iv],172pp. Elaborate wildlife-themed bookplate of Walter Rutherford Peterson mounted to front pastedown (presumably the father of Walter Rutherford Peterson, Jr., the former governor of New Hampshire). Spine ends gently nudged, some trivial external.....

More info about Carolina Sports, by Land and Water; Including Incidents of Devil-Fishing, &c