Lorne Bair Rare Books

Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in Art Deco dust jacket designed by Calman, printed in yellow, hot pink, and dark blue, black toptain; vii,[8]-330pp. Jacket extremities quite chipped and worn with a number of closed tears and small losses, none approaching text, the whole quite dust-soiled, cloth boards a bit darkened.......

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Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 894. Large octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in pale green dust jacket printed in red, black topstain; x,374pp. Jacket unevenly toned to tan, shallow chips and closed tears to extremities, split along spine edge of upper panel with old tape repair to...

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Original silkscreened poster, printed in navy blue on yellow stock, measuring 52cm x 65cm (20.5" x 25 5/8"). Edgeworn and creased, with tears at the margins and shallow loss to three of four corners (none affecting image); Very Good.

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16mo (13.5cm). Staple-bound pictorial wrappers; 80pp. Mild aging to covers; staple-holes slightly eroded at bound edge, else Near Fine. Cover woodcut illustration by J. Frank Horrabin.

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First Printing. Octavo; black cloth, with titles and illustration in gilt on spine and front panel; yellow topstain; 428pp. Gilt moderately oxidized, with dustiness to boards and a trace of foxing to preliminary and terminal pages; a tight, straight copy - Very Good.

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Small octavo (18.75cm.); original dark blue decorative cloth embossed in blind and gilt; iv,[5]-351pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece by J.C. Buttre. Spine a bit toned, spine gilt very slightly dulled; preliminaries and frontispiece heavily foxed, occasional soil throughout textblock, else Very Good and sound. Collection of 10 short pieces.

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Octavo (21.5cm.); original two-toned cloth in decorative dust jacket by George Salter, grey topstain; [10],611,[2]pp. Shallow chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, none affecting text; spine and rear panel a shade darkened, else Very Good.

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Quarto (28cm); variously-colored sheets, mimeographed in black and red, printed recto and verso; side-stapled; 34pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, oxidation to staples with resulting bleed-through, with lower staple partially broken; Very Good+.

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Octavo (20.5cm.); original plum cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label; xii,310,[2](ads)pp. Spine a bit discolored, label darkened with very tiny vertical crack, else a Very Good copy in original binding. Armorial bookpate of an Edward Arthur Lee to front pastedown; slightly later (1840) ownership signature to front free endpaper. Meta-fictional.......

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Original illustrated poster, silkscreened in red and black on white stock, measuring 74cm x 46cm (29" x 18"). Edgeworn, extremities slightly toned and creased, with several tears ranging from 1/4" to 1 3/4"; Very Good.

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Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket; [14],297pp. A few minor soil-spots to textblock fore-edge, else Fine. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Crime novel set at the race track, the author's second hard-cover book.

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Oblong folio (28x34.75cm.); original photo-illustrated string-bound card wrappers, yapp edges; unpaged; photographic illus. throughout. Some shallow chips and tiny losses to wrapper extremities, none affecting text or illustrations, spine nearly split, some foxing to contents, else About Very Good.

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Number 55 of 125 signed, hand-numbered copies. 12mo (19cm); half-leather over boards; 48pp. Brief scuffs to leather at head and heel of spine, else a tight, well-preserved copy with the usual waviness to the hand-bound text. An obscure work by the poet, photographer and prominent Warhol Factory figure, rarely seen...

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Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],298pp. A number of small chips to jacket extremities, short closed tear at top edge of upper panel with subsequent crease, upper panel unevenly sunned, short tear along gutter edge of last leaf of text, else Very Good in a Near Very...

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Limited to 500 copies. 12mo (19.5cm.); original linen-backed boards, printed paper spine label; [6],89pp. Small dampstain to spine label (uniformly toned and vertically creased); extremities a bit rubbed, else a Very Good, unopened copy. Signed author inscription addressed to a John Fitch on front free endpaper. Poem inspired by classical...

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2 volumes; octavo (22cm.); mid-19th century maroon blind- and gilt-tooled morocco, all edges gilt, spines in 5 compartments; xiii,[3],398;[4],408pp. Bound without half titles. Leather a bit rubbed at extremities, spines faded to tan, else a Very Good, quite attractive set. Slightly later armorial bookplates of an Edward T. Ward to...

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First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; 361pp. Base of spine gently nudged, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly edge-rubbed, with a few tiny tears and creases to same; Very Good+ to Near Fine, with the spine...

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Limited to 300 trade copies of which this is no. 197. Octavo (23.5cm.); original grey pictorial cloth in glassine dust jacket; [12],28pp.; illus. Jacket a bit creased, else Fine. Signed by Walker Percy and Eudora Welty. HOBSON A.1.14; POLK C83.

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First Printing. Octavo; orange cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 312pp. Some trivial rubbing to lower board edges, else Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, edgeworn, with several small nicks and short tears, and some unnecessary clear tape reinforcement along edges on verso; Very...

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Quarto (29cm). Gray textured paper boards, printed in dark gray on front cover; dustjacket; [46] leaves. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper: "To Cousin Tom Flagler / Denys Wortman," dated Christmas, 1929. Volume slightly worn, with 1/2" loss at crown of and paper rubbed through at tips of corners...

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Octavo (19cm); purple cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 256pp. Hint of sunning to spine and rear panel, with faint foxing to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), gently spine-sunned, with light shelfwear and a few short tears; 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 (24.25cm); hunter green vertical-ribbed cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; iv, 300pp. Base of spine gently nudged, with scattered foxing to textblock edges; clean throughout; very Near Fine. Dustjacket priced $2.00 at mid-spine, with flaps unprinted; shallow nicks and chips to spine ends and corners, including...

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Original poster (65x45cm.) printed offset in color on white stock; some general wrinkling, tiny closed tear at bottom edge, else Very Good and sound. Issued by the Basque separatist political party Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), appropriating a detail from Picasso's anti-fascist painting Guernica, completed in 1937 after the bombing of...

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