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Original typed letter, signed, on single side of a sheet of white wove stock (28x21.5cm), "No War on Children" rubberstamp at top left-hand corner. Faint mail folds, light toning, else Fine. Letter written on behalf of the Committee by its co-Chair, addressed to a Seldon (no last name provided) regarding.....
Brief 1-pp TLS on Eastman's personal Croton-On-Hudson letterhead, addressed to a "Mr. Simon", dated November 14, 1941. Single holograph correction in Eastman's hand. Mailing folds; slightly toned at margins; Very Good.
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Quarto (25cm). Cloth boards; 180pp; illus. BEN SHAHN'S COPY, warmly inscribed by Rodman to Ben & Bernarda Shahn in year of publication: "For Bernarda, who generously "forgot" my worst lapses, and to Ben, who won't (conveniently) stop "remembering" - with my love, Selden," datemarked Roosevelt, NJ, 1951. Mild wear; spine.....
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Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 160pp; illus. Presentation from the author to Ben Shahn on front endpaper, dated 1963: "To Ben Shahn / With Admiration / Millard Lampell." Tight, near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, slightly darkened on spine else near fine.
Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 156pp. Wrappers and text slightly aged, but else a straight, tight, Very Good copy. Inscribed and signed on front endpaper to fellow psychoanalyst Heinz Hartmann, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Excellent association copy.
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Square octavo; staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; [22pp]. Cover design by Ben Shahn. Presentation inscription on half-title from Kahler's widow, Alice L. Kahler, to Shahn's widow, the painter and illustrator Bernarda Bryson Shahn, dated 1988. A nice association; Kahler and Shahn taught together at Black Mountain College in the 1950s.
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Octavo (18.75cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [ii],99,[11]pp. With a full-page contemporary inscription from Le Prade to U.S. Attorney General A. Michell Palmer on the front endpaper: "To A. Mitchell Palmer - The poets of the world appeal to you for the liberation.....
More info about Debs and the Poets [Presentation Copy, Inscribed to A. Mitchell Palmer
1. Undated [ca. Spring, 1934]. One-page typed letter, signed "Tom Wolfe" in pencil; 356 words. Old folds smoothed out, three tiny stains, else Near Fine. 2. July 27, 1934. Two-page typed letter, signed "Tom Wolfe" in pencil; 1,001 words. Old folds smoothed-out, paperclip impressions to margins, with mild signs of.......
Octavo (24cm.); cloth boards; dustjacket; 603pp; illus. Clean, Very Good copy of the first edition, in lightly worn, unclipped dustjacket, Very Good or better.
Original silver-gelatin photograph, 13-1/4" x 7-1/4" on larger card mount, in gilt-edged glazed frame ca 19" x 12" overall. Inscribed on mount, below image, in the First Lady's hand: "To Deke De Loach on a Memorable Day - with our affection and appreciation," signed by both and dated Christmas, 1965.....
Small octavo (21cm). Green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 61pp. Inscribed on leaf facing copyright page, below dedication: "For Ben & Bernarda / Love, Dugan," undated but apparently contemporary. Mild surface rubbing to dustwrapper, else a fine, fresh copy.
Octavo. Original blue paper-covered boards backed in cream linen; paper spine label; TEG; 448pp. Number 74 of 500 signed and hand-numbered copies in the limited first edition. Light soiling to cloth on spine; title label darkened and minutely chipped; still a handsome copy, tight and straight with board edges and.....
Octavo, illustrated card wrappers; 136pp; illus. Presentation copy from McCaffery to Jackson Mac Low, inscribed on half-title with small original drawing, dated 1975. Minor external wear; Near Fine.
Octavo (23.5cm). Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 148pp; illus. Inscribed by Rodman on half-title to artist Bernard Bryson Shahn: "for Bernarda, whose genius is now coming into the foreground / Affectionately, Selden," datemarked Roosevelt, NJ, 1978. Boards yawning very slightly, else Near Fine in original illustrated dustwrapper. From the library of.....
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Oblong quarto (22.5cm x 26cm). Cream linen boards, stamped in black; illustrated dustjacket; 96pp. Bernarda Bryson Shahn's copy, with her ownership signature in block letters to front endpaper. Mild toning and soil to board edges; a few brief tears to the fragile, translucent dustwrapper; Very Good.
Handsome three-quarter length portrait, 14cm x 10.5cm; mounted on gilt-edged card with holograph sentiment in black ink below image, "Yours faithfully / Thos. R. Ferens." Undated, but judging from the subject's age in the photograph, ca. 1890s. Faint surface scratching; some mottling to verso of mount; still Near Fine. Photo.....
![Days of Fear [Two Editions] [WITH] Autograph Note Signed](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/47629.jpg?v=1595908024)
Two volumes as described below: 1. Days of Fear. London: John Murray, [1928]. First Edition. 12mo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white dust jacket lettered in red and green. 175pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, including small coin-sized loss at bottom edge of rear panel touching one letter, else Near Fine...
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One of 150 copies issued as a keepsake by the Press. 12mo. Unprinted card covers; orange dustjacket with applied printed label. Near Fine in mildly spine-sunned dustwrapper. With two laid-in pieces of ephemera (as received): (1) an invitation to a preview reception at the 32nd Annual Exhibition of the Downtown.....
First printing. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed to Mildred Denton, dated 1930. With original b/w photographic portrait of Lloyd laid in, 6-3/4" x 5", inscribed on verso to the same recipient, dated "New Year 1937." Slight forward lean to text block, else a clean, tight copy in publisher's cloth, lacking.....
More info about Eneres or the Questions of Reksa [Inscribed, with Original Photo
Quarto (25cm). Cloth-backed tan linen boards, stamped in gilt; xxxii, 423pp; tipped-in color frontispiece & 68 leaves of plates. Inscribed on front endpaper by artist Ben Shahn to his wife Bernarda, dated 1955. Minor external wear; internally clean and unmarked; Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. From the library of Ben.....
Octavo (22cm). Green cloth boards, lettered in silver and gold; 502pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1940 Dutton edition, inscribed on title page to artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn: "Happy birthday bernarda so you can hear the peoples of the world talk and talk as a jet-setter over all the continents, Love.....
Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's tan cloth, spine lettered in light blue; 432pp. Minor toning to spine cloth, textblock edges a bit dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound, albeit lacking dust jacket. Laid in typescript letter sigend by Diana Klemin, art director at Doubleday, dated March 15, 1962, and addressed to artist.....
![Photo Album: [Text in Russian] "Recollections From My Time in the GDR"](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/49990.jpg?v=1594108626)
Oblong quarto album (20x29cm.); black string-bound cloth over green pictorial felt boards stamped in gilt, original photographic portrait mounted to upper cover; [23] card leaves and [23] tissue guards. Boards a bit rubbed with some brief exposure, a couple of photographs removed, else Very Good overall, used to completion with.....
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Tall octavo. Tan, rough linen boards, stamped in maroon and gilt; publisher's slipcase; [45]pp.; illus in text. Number 394 of 500 hand-numbered copies, signed by the artist and printed at the Spiral Press. Faint scratch to lettering on spine, else a Fine, unworn copy in a lightly rubbed, Very Good.....
Undated (ca 1970s-80s?) holograph manuscript of 112 leaves, comprising a literal translation of Le Diable dans l'Art by Roland Villeneuve (published 1957). Contained in an unlined, cloth-bound sketchbook 18cm x 14.5cm. Moderate wear, including rubbing to covers and a split to binding near center of text block. Apparently incomplete, as.....
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Small octavo (21cm). Green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 61pp. Inscribed on leaf facing copyright page, below dedication: "& for Bernarda with love / Alan Dugan," dated 1989. Judy Shahn has added her own greeting below: "..and with love from me too, Judy." Fine copy.
Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 179pp; illus. Warm and lengthy author's presentation to Ben Shahn on front endpaper, dated 1960. Mild foxing to upper edge of text block, else Fine in lightly soiled and edge-rubbed jacket. First printing of the Revised Edition.
Octavo. Publisher's printed green wraps; 98pp. Signed by Derek Walcott on front endpaper, dated 1993. Hint of sunning to spine; publisher's announcement stapled inside front wrapper; Near Fine.
Two-page autograph letter on single letterhead leaf of Aberg & Himes, City Prescription Drug Store, dated Feb. 20, 1875. Previous mail folds, minor wear from handling, else Very Good and sound.
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32mo (12cm.); original unadorned limp black cloth; 43pp. Top half of spine perished slightly affecting small portion of spine-edge corner of upper cover, additional small holes to cloth of upper cover, rear cover a bit soiled, contents fine. Good or better overall. Illustrated certificate printed on pink stock and accomplished.....
![Heavily Revised First Draft Typescript of "The Voice of Bugle Ann" [WITH] First separate edition...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/43715.jpg?v=1562105431)
Collection consisting of the following pieces: Sixty-one (61) typescript leaves (28x21.5cm.) of the original draft of "The Voice of Bugle Ann," signed by the author on first leaf; [4]pp. typescript essay titled "Original Manuscript of the Voice of Bugle Ann," signed by Kantor on last leaf; five (5) carbon copies.....
Octavo (21cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in white; dustjacket; 327pp. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper to artists Ben and Bernarda Shahn: "for Ben and Bernarda with love / Erich," dated in March, 1957. A Very Good copy in rubbed and edgeworn dustwrapper. From the library of Ben and.....
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Large square quarto (36cm). Red cloth boards, stamped and lettered in gilt; 373pp; illus. Author's copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "Bernarda Bryson Shahn - my copy - retain." Fine, lacking the dustwrapper.
Small octavo. Rust cloth (hardcover); 63pp. Limited to 1,000 copies. A clean and unmarked copy in a moderately dusted, spotted dustjacket, about VG. Jacket illustration by Rockwell Kent. Inscribed on front endpaper: "This advance copy for Mike / who knows I have never lost confidence in her and I hope.....
Octavo (22.5cm). Red cloth boards, stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 177pp. Warmly inscribed by Patchen on front free endpaper: "for Charles M. McKenna / with every good wish," signed and dated 1950. Also laid in is an autograph note to McKenna from Miriam Patchen.....
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12mo (17cm.); original drab pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 32pp. Wrappers separated and staples cleanly removed; still, a Good, complete copy of a very uncommon pamphlet. Accompanied by the original cover artwork (43x27.75cm.), black ink on cream stock, several losses and a few closed tears to margins, none approaching image, old.....
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Oblong quarto (23cm x 29cm); cloth boards; dustjacket; 294p. Inscribed by the artist on front endpaper to artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn: "Dear Bernarda / Congratulations on your retrospective! this book is the result of my retrospective last year / with love Leah Dubin Schwartz," undated but obviously contemporary. Fine copy.....
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Octavo. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 80pp; illus. Inscribed on front endpaper: "For an old friend and ever-present inspiration - Happy Birthday!/ "Mike," dated September, 1968 (Ben Shahn's birthday month). Boards gently faded at margins; light wear to jacket; VG to Near Fine.
More info about All Here Are On Vacation. Poems from Martha's Vineyard
Octavo (23.5cm). Gray paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth, lettered in silver; dustjacket; 57pp. Signed by Marianne Moore on half-title. A Christmas gift from advertising executive Ben Sackheim, with a charming typed card signed by him laid in. Fine copy in very lightly edge-rubbed jacket, Near Fine. From the library.....
More info about Tell Me, Tell Me. Granite, Steel and Other Topics
Octavo. Blue, cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 160pp. Mild wear to board edges and spine ends, still a tight, VG copy in the original dustwrapper which is rubbed and slightly faded with a chip at crown, just VG.
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