Lorne Bair Rare Books

Ten volumes; quarto (28cm.); staplebound photo-illustrated wrappers; unpaginated; color photographic illus. throughout. Monthly wall calendars compiled of images taken from the UFO Photo Archives in Tucson. Includes the years 1990-1999. Unlocated in OCLC as of January, 2018.

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Five folio issues (42cm); printed card wrappers, stapled; 48; 32; 32; 48; 48pp; illus; text is in English and German. Issue No.1 stated "Second Edition", remaining issues in the First Edition. All issues signed in pencil by previous owner at lower right corner of front wrapper (Kurt V. Müeller), with...

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Limited to 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Quarto (29cm.); original linen-backed decorative boards, green printed dust jacket; [14]pp. & 30 leaves of color plates with printed tissue-guards. Spine faded to tan, else Fine in Very Good or better jacket.

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Quarto (28cm). Green cloth boards lettered in red; dustjacket; 16pp text, 240 plates. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To my favorite American artist, Ben Shahn, from a fellow-artist, Joseph Solman," undated. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front pastedown.

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Two quarto volumes (28cm). Original blue-gray cloth, lettered in gilt on spines and front covers; lxxv,654; xxxv,229pp. Cloth boards slightly discolored at extremities; scattered foxing within; Very Good.

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Large broasheet supplement, 26-5/8" x 19-1/2" (ca 67.5cm x 50cm); on newsprint, printed both sides. Text on recto in eight columns, below printed headline; verso is a full sheet of advertisements. Minor edgewear; two small closed punctures to paper in upper portion (no loss); two brief repaired tears to margins;...

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Original lithographed poster, 27-3/4" x 18". Printed in colors on heavy coated stock. Mild soiling, surface-rippling, and creasing; no losses or folds; Very Good Plus / B+. Unbacked.

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First Impression. Octavo; light brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 318pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with some minute wear at spine ends and a shade of sunning to spine.

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Octavo (19cm). Navy blue cloth, stamped in colors on spine and front cover; vii, 240, [4]pp; frontis; 5 inserted leaves of plates. Spine ends and board corners a trifle rubbed, else a straight, tight copy, Very Good or better, with titling strong on spine and cover. A collection of seven...

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Small quarto (26cm). Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 174pp; illus. Signed on verso of half-title by Sackheim and Ch'en Yung-Sen, with Ch'en's chop. Trivial fading to spine and board edges, else fine in lightly rubbed and dusted jacket. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on...

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Quarto (26.75cm.); original green printed cloth; xxvii,[3],224pp.; photographic frontispiece, 38 photographic plates, photo-illustrated endpapers. Minor shelf-wear, spine a hint cocked, foxing to frontispiece, else Very Good or better. Salt-water fishing stories by the brother of Zane Grey, who is prominently featured in this collection.

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Octavo (18.5cm.); original brown pictorial cloth embossed in black, decorative spine in black and gilt with the mysterious "American News Co." at spine foot; 258pp.; illus. title page. Spine a bit cocked, shallow losses to ends; additional rubbing to extremities; soiling to textblock throughout. About Very Good.

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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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Square octavo (19cm). Staple-bound card wrappers; unpaginated; [74+4]pp; illus. Minor external wear and soil, else Near Fine. A fascinating, hand-produced photobook comprising a wide-ranging photoessay of Roma culture. According to the afterword the photographs were taken between 1968-72 "while traveling in the United States, Western Europe, and North Africa." Privately...

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Small quarto (24.5cm); mimeographed sheets, saddle-stiched and bound into pink printed wrappers; 70pp; text is in Chinese. Sunning to spine, light wear and dustiness to wrappers, with a few short tears and splits to joints; Very Good.

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Octavo (21.5cm.); original half cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; [8],274pp. Jacket spine ends dampstained to verso, topstain unevenly faded, general light shelf-wear, else Near Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on title page: "For Beth, With Love / Barbara (Michaels)."

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Offprint. Octavo (22.75cm); beige wrappers printed in black; 4pp. Holes punched at left edge, with light dustiness along spinefold, else Near Fine.

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Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 3. Octavo (22cm.); original full red gilt-lettered morocco, top edge gilt; [8],448pp. About Fine. Signed by the author on colophon. Seventh novel in the author's Testament of Man series, set during the Maccabean revolt.

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Octavo. Cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; 348, (3)pp; portraits, plates. Slight external rubbing and shelfwear; corners nudged; still a solid, Very Good copy.

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Six issues; quarto (28cm.); all bound in pictorial staplebound wrappers, with publication sequence running as follows: Vol. 1, nos. 1-4 (1971/2); Vol. 2, nos. 1-2 (1972). Fine.

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16mo (13cm). Original side-sewn mulberry wrappers with printed cover label; 16pp. Warmly inscribed on endpaper by Corman: "For Ben Shahn / Who knows / How words / Shape up / Always," datemarked Kyoto, 1965. With Corman's mailing address added in different ink below. Fine copy.

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First edition, small octavo (19cm.); original blue decorative cloth stamped in gilt and black; 150pp.; engraved author portrait frontispiece; edges a bit rubbed with boards minimally exposed, spine a touch cocked; Fine interior in Very Good, quite attractive binding.

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Octavo. Tan linen boards with black spine label; variously paginated. One of 126 copies, hand-signed and numbered by Patchen on colophon (inside front cover). Trivial external wear, with a few pin-point spots of soil to binding; else fine, lacking the dustjacket but with what appears to be a publisher-supplied acetate...

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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...

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