Lorne Bair Rare Books

Small quarto (26.25cm); mimeographed sheets, printed recto and verso and side-stapled into illustrated wrappers; [vi], 180pp, [20]; illus. Former owner's name in ink to front wrapper, with chipping, thin splits, and short tears to same; thin, vertical paint streak to rear wrapper; text remains fresh and clean; Very Good.

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Octavo (21cm). Stiff printed wrappers, designed by Jindrich Styrsky; 104pp. Just mild wear to extremities of wrappers; VG to Near Fine.

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First Printing; Octavo (23cm); maroon V cloth, bevelled covers, top edge gilt, and stamped in gilt on the spine and front panel (Blanck's E binding); 140pp. + 1 page ad. One of about 1000 copies bound in hard bevelled covers, and one of two binding variants probably used for the...

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Folio (41.5cm); printed card wrappers, stapled; [36pp]; illus; text is in French. Light wear to spine fold and extremities, with a few short tears, light dustiness and faint stains to wrappers; tiny price rubber stamped to upper left corner of rear wrapper; Very Good+.

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Octavo; full blue calf bound by Bayntun, with leather spine labels, five raised bands, and animals stamped in gilt at center compartments; marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, with all edges gilt; 400pp; illus. Spine subtly faded to gray, with a touch of light rubbing to panels; Near Fine.

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Oblong folio (22.5x30.5cm.); original full red illustrated moiré silk stamped in gilt; [14]pp. & 14 color plates mounted to thick cream card stock; text photographic illus. throughout. Text leaves a bit yellowed along extremities, minor soil spots to preliminaries, else Very Good or better. From the Library of Ben and.......

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Small folio (28cm.); full mid-19th-century sheep ruled and lettered in blind; [8],212,[8]pp.; A2 a2 B-3K; engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Boards both separated but present and heavily worn at extremities with loss of leather at corners and spine; lacking endpapers; several leaves with long shallow losses along fore-edges not.......

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Octavo (21cm). Green cloth boards; dustjacket; 572pp. Purple top-stain slightly faded, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped and with minor spots of rubbing at flap-folds and spine ends; Very Good Plus.

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First State, with the word "stopped" spelled incorrectly as "stoppped" on p.181, line 26. Octavo (20cm); smooth black cloth with gold paper labels on spine and front panel, lettered and ruled in black; dustjacket; 259pp. Gold labels a bit dulled, with some creasing and a few scratches (though still perfectly...

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Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 50. Slim quarto (30.5cm.); original brown cloth-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in black; 13pp.; 4 mounted facsimile plates; staplebound facsimile catalogue laid into chemise mounted inside rear cover. Fine. Facsimile of the hoax auction catalogue issued in 1840, organized by Belgian bibliophile Renier Chalon.

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Octavo (19cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 409pp. In Johnson's first binding of plum cloth. A very tight, fresh copy with just a few small spots of discoloration to edges of text block; Near Fine. In an attractive example of the very scarce jacket, lightly dusted overall and with a few brief...

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Octavo (19.25cm.); original blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt; ix,[1],345,[1],[24](ads)pp. Light shelf wear, spine a hint cocked, front hinge starting to crack but holding, else a Very Good, unusually vibrant copy. Churchill's only attempt at fiction, set in the fictitious European country of Laurania.

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Tall octavo. Tan cloth boards, stamped in red and black on spine and front cover; maroon top-stain; dustjacket; 312pp. Tight, clean copy, Near Fine, in original dustwrapper, llightly rubbed overall with a small (.

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Octavo (21.5cm). Red cloth-covered boards, lettered in gilt. With a warm presentation inscription to Ben and Bernarda Shahn: "To Ben and Bernarda and all the little Shahns, who are not related to (the "Portrait of) Sahn the Guerrilla" on p.165 / Ben Appel," dated Sept. 1951. Binding slightly shaken, with...

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Three illustrated broadsides, offset lithographed in black and in colors on white stock, each measuring 28cm x 17cm (11" x 17"); offered here in three variant colors - a) purple, pink, and brown, b) black and white, and c) rainbow-colored, the first printed on recto only, with the latter two...

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Octavo (21cm.); original charcoal cloth in black pictorial dust jacket by Andor Braun, dark blue topstain; [6],424pp. A few tiny chips and small scratches and bald spots along jacket flap folds, else Near Fine in a Very Good or better copy of the scarce jacket. Signed by the author on...

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First printing with conjugate title page. Octavo (22.5cm.); original terracotta decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt; 432pp.; photographic frontispiece in first state with facsimile signature measuring 1 7/16 inches, tissue guard; marginal illustrations throughout. Spine darkened with a bit of a lean; extremities rubbed with some spotting to cloth;...

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Original color photograph, measuring 11.5cm x 16cm, housed in an off-white unprinted card folder with typed letter tipped onto facing page. Mild signs of handling to folder, else Fine. Letter shows two old folds smoothed out, with a clear example of Rev. Divine's signature above his typed name.

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Original 2pp typed letter on two sides of a sheet of hotel letterhead, dated 31 July 1967. Addressed: Dear Ben [Shahn], signed in ink "Ed Locke." Three old folds, else fine.

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Octavo. Blue cloth boards; dustjacket; 190pp. Lengthy presentation from the Communist Party of Eastern Pennsylvania to "Comrade Walter Lowenfels / with best wishes on your 39th birthday and looking forward to many fruitful years of work in the interest of our great movement," signed by eight District Committee officials and...

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The Special Artist's Edition, comprised of 250 signed, numbered copies (this is no.76). Oblong folio (33cm x 43cm). Cloth-board portfolio; 5 preliminary leaves and 52 color lithographic plates, loose as issued. Slight wear to the portfolio; plates uniformly clean and unmarked; Near Fine.

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Octavo (21cm). Tan cloth boards, stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 340pp. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "Paul Jordan Smith - his book - Wessel Smitter - his Friend / W.H.S. / Feb. 1939." Mild toning to boards, with a couple of small spots of discoloration; jacket lightly...

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Octavo (22cm). Green cloth boards, lettered in silver and gold; 502pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1940 Dutton edition, inscribed on title page to artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn: "Happy birthday bernarda so you can hear the peoples of the world talk and talk as a jet-setter over all the continents, Love...

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Slim 12mo (19.25cm.); original grey illustrated paper-covered boards printed in green; [6],36pp. Tiny paper flaw to upper cover not approaching text or illustration, light shelf wear, endpapers a bit foxed, else Very Good or better.

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