Lorne Bair Rare Books

First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; gray-green topstain; dustjacket; 345pp. Some trivial wear to board edges, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned, with light wear to extremities and a few short tears tape-mended on verso; Very Good+.

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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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First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket by Seymour Chwast; [8],248pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a number of paper flaws along bottom quarter of upper panel, endpapers toned, else contents fine. About Very Good overall. The author's second novel, of a love...

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Limited to 450 copies of which this is no. 233. Small quarto (21.25cm.); publisher's cream card wrappers printed in red and black, glassine dust jacket, custom silk slipcase; [6],95pp.; color frontispiece and illus. throughout by the author. Glassine spine darkened and partially perished, else a Fine copy. Contemporary ownership bookplate...

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First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); navy blue cloth with titling stamped in gilt; gray topstain; dustjacket; 140pp. Wilder has signed his name on the front endpaper in an early hand, above which he has added a simple line drawing of a broken bridge. Light offset from jacket onto endpapers, some minor...

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Lithograph in two colors, 21" x 16-1/2" (ca 54cm x 42cm). Vertical and horizontal fold lines; mild toning to paper on verso; Near Fine - Grade A/A-.

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Quarto (28cm.); red pictorial staplebound and hole-punched self-wrappers; [12] mimeographed leaves; illus. throughout, each leaf printed on differently colored stock. Upper wrapper a bit rubbed with tiny chips along extremities, else a Very Good, unused example. Apparently the only such calendar distributed by the IWW, most likely as a holiday...

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12mo (14.75cm.); original white photographically illustrated staplebound wrappers; 68,[4](ads)pp.; illus. publisher's ads printed inside wrappers. Some light wear from handling, textblock uniformly toned and rather brittle due to poor paperstock, else Very Good. "Biblioteka 'Ogonek'" no. 195. Title page imprint gives the date 1926; upper cover dated 1927.

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First Impression. Octavo (20.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; vii,861pp. Spine ende gently nudged, some offset to front endpaper, with a crack to gutter at terminal leaf; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 9/6 net), gently spine-sunned and lightly shelfworn, with some dustiness and a....

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Large octavo (24cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Paul Laune; xxi,[3],405pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 23 leaves of plates, map endpapers by James Darley. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a few very short closed tears, spine faded. Fine in Very Good jacket. Generously illustrated account of the second...

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Octavo (19.5cm); gray pictorial cloth; 275pp; illus. Spine slightly sunned, some soil to text edges, with rubbing to the extremities and cover decorations and minor pull to rear endpaper; a Very Good copy, housed in a custom clamshell case.

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"Bi-Centennial Edition." Octavo. Decorative cloth with paper spine label; dustjacket; 238pp; illus. INSCRIBED by the author on half-title: "To Ira Bennett, who helped the town up - with sincere regards - L.S.," dated 1932. Mild toning/soil to board edges, else about Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper, faded on spine.....

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Octavo (20.5cm.); original simulated cloth in orange pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [8],205pp. Jacket spine faded, minor glue residue from previously removed price sticker on upper jacket flap, else Very Good or better.

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First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket by Frederick Banbery; [6],244pp. Light edge wear, some very brief spotting to upper jacket panel and along flap fold, else Near Fine. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. The author's fourth novel, of an Australian stud farmer...

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Silk bandanna, 21-1/4" x 19-1/2", printed in blue and red ink on a white background. Old folds and soiling; tack holes to extremities; Very Good.

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Original broadside flyer (30x45cm.) printed in black on off-white stock; faint vertical fold, stock rather brittle and uniformly toned due to poor paper quality, several shallow losses along extremities, none approaching text. Near Very Good overall.

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Tabloid format (40.5cm.); unpaged; photographic illustrations and cartoons throughout printed in green, upper cover adorned with an elaborate cartoon titled "The Royal Bodyguard, Composed of United States and State Senators, Coal and Iron Police, Judges, Governors, Congressmen and Assemblymen, Deputy Sheriffs, Mayors, Etc." Horizontal mail fold, extremities rather worn from...

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Large octavo (24.5cm). Original printed card wrappers; 128pp. Wrappers somewhat worn, with triangular losses to rear cover costing a few words of promotional text; spine abraded, with titling partially rubbed away. Occasional mild creasing to contents, but generally clean and free of markings; just Good. Text entirely in English.

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Small quarto (digest format), ca 25cm x 19cm. Staple-bound, pictorial wrappers; each issue 24pp. Includes: (1940) nos 5, 9, 10, 12; (1941) nos 1, 3, 4, 7, 11; (1942) nos 3, 4, 6. Expected wear; all with at least a bit of tenderness at bound edge; three with wrappers detached (but present); all issues complete with text generally clean and fresh; about Very Good overall.

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First Printing. Octavo (21cm); lime green cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 542pp. Sunning to cloth at spine and extremities, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), gently spine-sunned and lightly dusty, with a few short closed tears; Very Good+.

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Original silk-screened poster in three colors, 23" x 29". Browned at margins, but image area bright and clean. Archivally hinged to acid-free backing, in gallery frame.

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First printing, first state, with "Purdy" for "Lyte" in line 4, and "my" for "any" in line 5 on p.49. One of 9,500 copies. Octavo (19.25cm); navy blue cloth, titled, blocked and ruled in orange on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 401, [1 blank], [6]pp ads. Hint of offset from...

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Limited to 100 deluxe copies of which this is no. 46. Octavo (23.5cm.); original morocco-backed 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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