Lorne Bair Rare Books

Octavo (19.5cm); dark teal cloth, with printed paper title label mounted to upper spine; floral patterned endpapers; [ii],[3],4-557,[1] +[6]pp ads, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Elkanah Watson. Inscribed by the editor on the preliminary blank page: "Miss Belle C. Strickland / with respects of W.C.Watson / 1 January 1889." Modest.....

More info about Men and Times of The Revolution; or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson, Including the Journals of Travels...

First printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm). Publisher's black cloth, titled in gilt on front cover; a.e.g.; 41pp. Slight rubbing and fading to board edges, else Near Fine. Laid in (as found), an 1850 manuscript forage return document for four horses and a mule, with a receipt for "Thirty seven 1/2 bushels.....

More info about Col. Henry L. Kendrick, U.S.A.; Born, Lebanon, N.H., January 20th, 1811; Died New York, May 24th,...

First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light grey cloth, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [7],8-96pp. Signed by the author with his Chicago address at lower front pastedown (possibly one of his own copies), and lengthily inscribed by him on the front endpaper: "Jan. 6, 65.....

More info about My Country and I: The Interracial Experiences of an American Negro with Essays on Interracial...

Quarto. Comb-bound manuscript with clear acetate covers; variously paginated. Xerographically reproduced from typescript. Inscribed on cover sheet: "For Nathaniel / one of three copies of the uncorrected MS - " signed, dated 2/5/87. Fine, with Tarn's editorial markings throughout and occasional author's corrections in ink. Bartlett's magisterial study of William.....

More info about William Everson: The Life of Brother Antoninus [Bound Manuscript, Inscribed to Nathaniel Tarn

First Printing. Octavo (24cm); sandy grey paper-covered boards and brick red cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine and in maroon on front cover; dustjacket; xviii,[4],5-355,[3]pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Sandy and Ed, In respect to Kirine and Emily who have help like.....

More info about Down The Line: Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin [Inscribed

First Printing. Octavo (24cm); dark grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,[3],4-360,[4]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper ("To Sam Pointer / Virginia Foster Durr"), and signed directly beneath by editor Hollinger F. Barnard, and author Studs Terkel, who wrote the foreword. Fine.....

More info about Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr [Signed by All Three...

Second Printing, with "B C D E" code but no "First Edition" on copyright page. Octavo (24cm); black paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in metallic blue on spine; dustjacket; [x],[3],4-310 + [16]pp of inserted black & white plates at center. Signed by Warhol on the upper.....

More info about POPism: The Warhol '60s [Signed & Inscribed

First printing. Signed and inscribed "for Ralph de Toledano" on applied bookplate on half-title (as usual). Octavo; red cloth hardcover, dustjacket; 341pp. Light wear, with small abrasion to cloth at base of front board; Very Good. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $12.50 on front flap), toned at margins with.....

More info about The Real War [Inscribed to Ralph de Toledano

First impression. Inscribed on front endpaper: "For Mrs. Vincent Astor / with all best wishes / from Edith Sitwell." Octavo; green cloth boards, dustjacket; 233pp. Slight offsetting to endpapers from dustwrapper flaps, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 15s. net at base of front.....

More info about A Notebook on William Shakespeare [Presentation copy to Mary Benedict Cushing

Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over gold cloth boards, with paper title label to spine. Dustjacket. 58pp. Light rubbing to corners and minor bumping to spine ends with a little scuffing of the cloth in places; internally clean with Macleish's signature to the upper corner of the front flyleaf.....

More info about The Hamlet of A. Macleish

First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); white cloth spine over black paper-covered boards, titled in black to spine; dustjacket; 312pp. Light bumping to spine ends and a little sunning/discoloration to the extremities; internally clean, signed by Sontag to the half title. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.75) with some toning to the.....

More info about Death Kit

One of 2000 copies on Velin de Lana (this copy unnumbered; presumably one of a few hors-commerce author's copies). Inscribed on second flyleaf: "à Son Excellence Monsieur Duff Cooper / ce message d'amité franco-britannique, en respectueux et fidèles souvenirs." Octavo (25cm). Morocco-backed marbled boards; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; 2.....

More info about Le Mariage Du Ciel et de L'Enfer [...] suivie de Deux Études sur William Blake par...

First impression. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Edward J. Ortion, who was complimentary and kind in asking for my autograph," signed, datemarked Paris, 1930. Tight, square copy; endpapers darkened; Connelly's portrait clipped from dustwrapper and laid down to rear endpaper; text clean and unmarked. Very Good overall, lacking the dustwrapper.....

More info about Green Pastures: A Fable. Suggested by Roark Bradford's Southern Sketches, "Ol' Man...

Octavo (21cm.); publisher's brown cloth in yellow and red decorative dust jacket, red topstain; [6],467pp.; pictorial endpapers printed in red. Crown gently nudged, some pinpoint wear to gilt titling on spine, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned and lightly dusty, with light wear to extremities, and.....

More info about Sons [Inscribed and Signed to Amy Schwartz Oppenheim

First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Nora and Ralph de Toledano / with sincere admiration and good wishes," signed, dated July 1959. Tight, clean and unmarked copy, Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Military memoir of the noted American naval officer who, following his long military career, became a proninent.....

More info about Wedemeyer Reports! [Inscribed to Ralph de Toledano

First printing. Mustard-tan pictorial cloth (hardcover); 253pp. Spotting and light soil to boards; internally clean and tight. A very good copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed on front endpaper: "For Dan Edwards / I think you an' this Pooch would have been pretty good friends - anyway you are salty enough.....

More info about The Pooch [Inscribed Presentation Copy to Medal of Honor Recipient Dan Edwards, with Original...