Lorne Bair Rare Books

One of 150 copies printed at the Grace Hoper Press by Sherwood and Katharina Grover. Quarto; hand-sewn cream-colored wrappers, with titles printed in orange on front cover; [12pp]. A Fine copy.

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Broadside, 44cm x 57cm. Printed offset in black on white uncoated lithograhic paper; text in two columns beneath headline in Gothic type. Minor wrinkling at margins, else Fine.

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Hand-painted banner, 8.5cm x 65cm (ca 3-1/4" x 26"). In red and black on a white background. Archivally framed; old stains and tape adhesions; Good. Not examined out of frame.

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Octavo (19.5cm); rust-colored cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 281pp. Mild wear; page edges dusted; jacket lightly rubbed and uniformly soiled on front and rear panels; Very Good.

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Third edition. 12mo; cloth boards; dustjacket; 222pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, free of markings or significant wear. In the uncommon dustwrapper, complete and unclipped but with a long closed tear extending vertically along most of front panel, thus Good only. Along with Hayek's Road to Serfdom, one of the most...

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Limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is no. 457. Quarto (32cm). Japan vellum boards with blind-stamped spine and cover titles; slipcase; ten pages of text, twelve lithographic plates with facing letterpress descriptions; includes an original pencil-signed lithographic frontispiece by Day and a gravure portrait of the artist by...

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Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 261pp. First printing, with (1) present on final page of text. Gilt a trifle oxidized, else a fine, tight copy in scarce original dustwrapper, lightly nicked at extremities but unusually bright and unfaded, VG+ to Near Fine...

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Quarto (28.5cm.); original brown blind- and gilt-embossed cloth; unpaged; illus., mostly photographic, a few in color. Boards a bit rubbed, else Near Fine. Scarce WW2-era year book honoring current and former members of the Union, including those who were serving the country as well as members who served in WW1.....

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Pictorial cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket. Clean, tight copy, VG or better with mild darkening to endpapers, faint "J" (remainder?) stamp to jacket flap and front pastedown, and old inked price to front endpaper. In the scarce jacket, unclipped (priced $2.00), lightly rubbed and with shallow chips to spine ends, single...

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"First Edition of 1,000 Printed in September, 1915," octavo (19.25cm.); original brown cloth double ruled and printed in dark brown; [10],240,[4](ads)pp. Fine. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author and his wife Jessie to renowned Americana collector Dr. William C. Braislin, with author's own photographically illustrated bookplate on front pastedown.

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Octavo (19.5cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in red and blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; blue top-stain; 206pp. Slight discoloration to cloth on spine, else a fine, tight copy, with top-stain deep and even. In an especially crisp example of the dustwrapper, unclipped and with just a hint of...

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First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in dark blue on spine and front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; [12], 300pp. With a brief, 1-page autographed letter, signed, on Hotel Algonquin (New York) stationary folded twice and tipped onto front endpaper: "To Margaret K. Forey / My greetings across...

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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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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.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [10],419pp.; frontispiece, 2 plates. Some shelf wear to jacket extremities, including a few tiny losses, faint blemish to upper panel, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. SMITH G-519.

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Twelve tabloid issues of 8pp each. Horizontal folds (as issued); light wear; Very Good. Bi-monthly publication of the Toronto Women's Caucus, which emerged as a feminist wing of the League for Socialist Action and the Young Socialists' Alliance in 1970. Despite a tiny circulation, Velvet Fist was notable for its...

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Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in blue and grey pictorial dust jacket; [6],361pp.; pictorial endpapers. Losses to jacket extremities, some affecting text at top edge of upper panel without loss of meaning, faint dampstainging to rear panel; contemporary ownership rubberstamp of a H.E. James on p. [vi], else Near Fine in.....

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First State of the text, with "8" in publication date indistinct and slightly raised, and with the "s" in "as" present in the last line of p.88. Octavo (19cm); publisher's black and red patterned boards with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 309pp. Top edge slightly dusty, with...

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Original canvas strike banner. Dimensions 61cm x 36cm (ca 24" x 14-1/2"). Printed in red and blue inks on white canvas, with brass grommets for hanging. Light soil and foxing; old horizontal crease; Very Good.

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Two volumes bound in one; 12mo (18.5cm.); contemporary crimson morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine; x,[11]-251,[1],234pp. Boards rather rubbed and joints crudely recased with too much glue, textblock spotted and rather soiled throughout. An About Very Good copy overall. This title preceded by the London edition, published in three volumes.....

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Small octavo (20cm.); original blue blind-tooled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ix,[1],100pp. Minor shallow dampstain to first few leaves else Near Fine.

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First printing with publisher's advertisements ending on p. [10]. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's dark blue blind-embossed cloth, yellow glazed endpapers; xi,[12]-390,[4],9,[1]pp. Spine a bit cocked, boards and extremities rather shelf-worn, spine gilt effaced at foot; some foxing and faint tide-mark affecting first half of textblock; contemporary ownership inscription on early blank.....

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Limited to 315 of which this is no. 127 of a hundred copies printed on vélin d'Arches. Folio (33cm.); publisher's blue cloth-backed board chemise in matching paper-covered slipcase, text and plates loose as issued; [2],233pp. & 68 etchings, tissue guards present, with an additional 20 etchings in text. Some inevitable...

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First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); brown cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in red and black on spine and front panel; red topstain; dustjacket; 272pp. Previous owners name and blindstamp to half-title, with some light rubbing along lower board edges; Near Fine. In the scarce dustjacket designed by Ziene Simonet; price-clipped...

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