Lorne Bair Rare Books

Octavo. Printed pink paper wrappers; 40pp; ads; illus. Tipped inside both covers is a trade card, printed in colors, for Yeend & Potter, purveyors of work clothing. Wrappers darkly stained at upper fore-margin, with stain extending through marginal extremities throughout (not approaching printed area). Other wear and soil; marginal loss.....

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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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No author, publisher, or sponsoring organization given. Oblong quarto (20x25.5cm.); original peach decorated wrappers; 16pp; illus. Wrapper extremities quite worn with shallow chipping and long closed tears, previous vertical fold, some old tiny losses throughout textblock due to vermin activity. Still, Good and sound for such an ephemeral piece.

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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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Autograph letter, signed, on first and second panels of single bifolium sheet (25.5cm.); approx. 370 words. Previous folds, the whole rather wrinkled, postally used on rear panel, else Very Good.

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Octavo; navy blue cloth, with titles and decoration stamped in gilt on spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; 269pp. Offsetting to pastedowns, rough erasure to former owners name on front endpaper, with the topstain a bit dulled; Near Fine. In the correct dustjacket, without mention of the publisher's name and with the.....

More info about Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Bucaneer, with Occasional Reference to History

First Impression. Octavo (19cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-223,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Tiny indentation at crown, contemporary owners ink name at upper margin of front pastedown, with a single, tiny spot to right edge of textblock; a fresh.....

More info about Six Feet of the Country: Short Stories [Signed

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow-green pictorial dust jacket; [6],216pp. General wear to jacket extremities, including closed tears and chipping, some light dust-soil, spine a bit cocked, else Near Very Good and sound. The last of the Dr. Kildare books, comprised of two novellas.

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First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); green vertical-ribbed cloth, with pictorial device on front panel, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, and pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 293pp. + 1 page ad; illus. Top edge slightly dusty, spine ends gently nudged, decorative bookplate of designer Harry Bordeaux Dorr on the front pastedown, with.....

More info about Bambi: A Life in the Woods

Slim 12mo (18.5cm.); original pinkish-purple printed wrappers; [4],42pp. Spine faded (as usual), else Fine. Two biographical essays about Mencken and Nathan, pseudonymously authored by the same.

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Original photographic poster (59x41.75cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; very faint horizontal fold, light wrinkling from handling, else Very Good or better.

More info about Poster] Zo Ontruimt Krasnapolski: Kra$ Laat Huizen 7 Jaar Leegstaan + Verkrotten [This is How...

Five quarto issues (28cm); mimeographed sheets, printed in colors and stapled at upper left corner; ca.8-12pp per issue. Light wear to extremities, else very Near Fine.

More info about Bloomington Women's Liberation Front [Newsletter]. Five consecutive issues, Jan - May 1971

Letter "L" of twenty-six copies, signed, hand-numbered, and with an original postcard collage in rear envelope (the artwork with matching number and signature). Octavo (23cm); pictorial card wrappers; 138pp. A fine, unread copy.

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Octavo (22.5cm.); original grey pictorial boards; vii,[2],68pp. Boards a bit rubbed, spine a hint toned, else Very Good or better. Bookplate signed by Gordimer laid in.

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First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-320pp. Base of spine gently nudged, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), edgeworn, with a few shallow nicks to spine ends and corners (none affecting.....

More info about Red Hell: The Life Story of John Goode, Criminal

Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in orange printed dust jacket; xviii,[2],490pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine rather toned, top textblock edge heavily foxed, compliments card of the Michigan Association of Personal Finance Companies, signed by the Director of Social Research Russell J. Darling, originally paperclipped (now loose) to front.....

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First printing. Crown octavo (19.5 cm). Publisher's blue cloth boards, titled in gilt on spine; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; [i]-viii,[9]-256pp + 8pp ads. Text slightly toned at margins; edge gilt a bit dulled; still a tight, well-preserved, Very Good or better copy. Bookseller's embossed stamp at upper corner.....

More info about The Doings of Raffles Haw

Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in orange pictorial dust jacket; [8],507pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, full-page illus. by George Clayton Field throughout. A few tiny chips to jacket extremities, small stain from previously removed tape at top edge of rear panel, else a Near Fine copy in the uncommon jacket. Contemporary photographic.....

More info about I Am in Action [Inscribed

Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 9. Octavo (21.5cm.); original full red gilt-lettered morocco, top edge gilt; xi,[1],3-373pp. Fine. Signed by the author on colophon. Printed at the Caxton Press, Caldwell, Idaho. The fifth in the 12-volume "Testament of Man" series, set among the tribe that would.....

More info about The Divine Passion [Limited Edition, Signed

Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 384pp. Inscribed to Ben Shahn and family on front endpaper: "On the edge of the Assinpunk [sic] 1958 - to a fellow author; Bernarda; and kids / Ben Appel." Endpapers slightly browned, light wear to board edges; Very Good or better in the original pictorial dustwrapper.....

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Small quarto (21.75cm.); original reddish-brown gilt-embossed cloth; [14],132,14[ads]pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, narrow strip of discoloration to fore-edge of upper cover, minor foxing to textblock, upper hinge cracked but still quite strong; About Very Good. Contemporary bookplate of Oscar Wilde collector Jon Weekly. 500 copies issued (MASON 357).

More info about Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman

Limited 150 copies of which this is no. 60. Octavo (23cm.); original thick blue papier-peint wrappers, printed paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine; unpaged; chiefly illus. Fine.

More info about Sixteen Small Portraits of Katherine Made by Her Friends & Colleagues [Limited Edition

Limited Issue, one of 375 numnbered copies signed by the author. Octavo; light gray textured cloth, with titled and blocked in crimson and gilt on spine; top edge gilt; slipcase; 279pp, [2]. A Fine copy in the original publisher's slipcase, with a bit of light shelf-wear and some sunning to.....

More info about The Summing Up [Limited Edition, Signed

Original pictorial poster (42.75x61cm.) printed offset in black on white stock. Wrinkling from handling, as well as some old tape repairs to verso not showing through to image, else About Very Good. Squatters movement protest poster issued in response to the newly passed vacancy law ("leegstandswet"), which allowed home owners.....

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