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![[Original typescript, signed] A Letter To Ché Guevara](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/25930.jpg?v=1529353479)
Hand-typed manuscript on two 11" x 8-1/2" sheets of onionskin typewriter paper. Poem of 88 lines, dated in type "10-11 October 1967," inscribed in black ink in margin: "for Israel Young / from Will Inman," dated 23 November 1967. Old fold lines; marginal stain to first leaf; Very Good.
Octavo. Blue, cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 160pp. Signed "Helen & Scott Nearing" on front endpaper, in both hands as usual. Mild wear to board edges and spine ends, still a tight, VG copy in the original dustwrapper which is rubbed and slightly faded, just VG.
![American Voices [Inscribed Advance Copy]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/32204.jpg?v=1529353685)
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...
Professional archive of a "Probationary Member" of the ISUA from 1937 to 1938, comprised of nine printed pieces, nearly all accomplished in manuscript or rubberstamp. Some old folds to the two discharge certificates, minor wear from handling, else a Very Good or better collection. Contents as follows: 1. Probationary Member card...
Oblong 4to (27cm x 29cm); dustjacket; 235pp; 208 illustrations, including 40 tipped on color plates. Includes bibliography. From the library of Ben & Bernarda Shahn, with estate bookplate inside front cover and with Bernarda Shahn's ownership signature on front endpaper. Mild signs of use, including faint thumb-soil to a few...
12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 199pp; illus. Mild external wear, else Near Fine. Account of Czech "Blue Berets," members of the United Nations peacekeeping forces, written by then Czech Ambassador to the U.S. Stankslave Suja. With a lengthy ink inscription (in Czech) on front endpaper, dated 1985.
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.
Small octavo. Original red cloth boards; pictorial dustjacket; 219pp. Warm and lengthy presentation inscription on front endpaper to Ben Shahn: "For Ben Shahn, non writer, from Michael Ayrton, also a non writer, this Book (which contains enough misprints to justify the claim of illiteracy but, I hope, contains enough sense...
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...
Brief 1-pp TNS on Eastman's personal Croton-On-Hudson notepaper, addressed to a "Miss Mendham", dated March 30, 1938. Old folds; holograph additions in Eastman's hand; Very Good. "I shall be delighted to have you use some of my poems in your Verse Speaking Festival...perhaps the poem called "Battle Fields" in my...
![Original Photographic Portrait of Marian Anderson [Inscribed]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/38267.jpg?v=1529353907)
Original photograph, measuring 20.25cmx x 25.5cm (8" x 10"); inscribed in ink: "To Mr. Harry L. Aiken / Sincerely / Marian Anderson." Mild handling and some trivial surface wear, with "MARIAN ANDERSON" nealy rubber-stamped on verso; a well-preserved example.
![Enjoyment of Living [Inscribed with TLS]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/11989.jpg?v=1529353128)
Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 603pp; illus. Clean, Very Good copy of the first edition, in lightly worn, unclipped dustjacket, Very Good or better.
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...
![Two pieces of correspondence between Lee Ash and a Brother Lucien-JH[?]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/27620.jpg?v=1529353550)
Two letters stapled together at top left-hand corner; the first written and signed in type by American Notes & Queries founding editor Lee Ash addressed to the Reverend Brother Constantin, Provincial of the District of Saint-Louis de Gonzague, requesting a review copy of the Catalogue of the Haitian Library of...
Gray cloth boards, lettered in blue on spine and front cover; yellow top-stain; dustjacket; 348pp. Scattered spotting to upper edge of text block, else a straight, tight, near fine copy in a VG+ dustwrapper, price-clipped by publisher with stamped remainder price on front flap, with a hint of darkening to...
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...
Octavo (24cm). Grey cloth boards, dustjacket, signed, vi + 176pp, illus. Signed by all nine Quecreek miners on first free endpaper. Near Fine. Uncommon thus, signed by all nine survivors.
![The Alphabet of Creation. An ancient legend from the Zohar with drawings by Ben Shahn [Signed, Limited Edition]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/28628.jpg?v=1529353590)
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 slipcase.
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.
Autograph in black ink on front cover of the "South Carolina Picture Book" (Columbia: South Carolina Film Office, ca 2004). Reads: "Randy / Peace / Jesse Jackson," dated 3/30/04.
Original 2pp typed letter on two sides of a sheet of hotel letterhead, dated 31 July 1967. Addressed: Dear Ben [Shahn], signed in ink "Ed Locke." Three old folds, else fine.
Octavo (22cm). Dun cloth boards, lettered in gilt; 200pp. Presentation inscription from Dugan to his mother-in-law, Bernarda Bryson Shahn, on front endpaper, dated 1971. Fine copy in lightly aged dustwrapper. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front pastedown.
Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers; 15pp. Limited to 500 copies. This copy nicely inscribed on inside cover to Ben and Bernarda Shahn, dated 1966: "a Bernarda e Ben / tanti auguri / da Bruno e Lidia," with an original humorous drawing of the author/artist holding a fountain pen between his toes...
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 (23cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in blue, gray and red; original Seymour Chwast dustjacket; 209pp. The dedication copy, inscribed on dedication page, below the printed dedication to Ben and Bernarda, "with all my friendship / Ed." A fine copy in slightly worn and spine-darkened jacket.
Octavo (23.5 cm). Tan cloth boards; dustjacket; ix, 237pp. Presentation copy from the author to Shahn's widow Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with lengthy holograph note laid in, dated May, 1985. Fine copy. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front endpaper.
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.
![A Gallery of Children. Illustrations by Saida (H. Willebeek Le Mair) [Signed, Limited Edition]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/17693.jpg?v=1533940031)
Folio. White linen boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover. One of 500 copies, signed by A.A. Milne on limitation page and printed on fine wove paper. Boards a trifle spotted; mild foxing to endpapers; small engraved bookplate to front pastedown; a very attractive copy, VG to Near...
Folio (50cm). Number 207 of an unspecified number of copies. Printed paper portfolio containing 21 loose sheets, including one page of letterpress and 20 halftones after original works by the author. Inscribed on front cover: "A Ben Shan [sic] / mio maestro e mi [illegible]," signed by the artist and...
![Patchen's First Will & Testament [Inscribed Copy]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/40298.jpg?v=1530138583)
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...
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.
Oblong quarto (ca 19cm x 31cm). Hand-silkscreened boards; unpaged (8 leaves), each with hand-set text and an original silkscreen illustration. Number 5 in a total edition of 7 copies, signed by the artist on colophon. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with their estate label laid in at colophon.
![Fellow Countrymen: Collected Stories [Inscribed to Evelyn Shrifte]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/35182.jpg?v=1529353806)
First Impression. Octavo (21.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in navy blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x,439,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author to his American publisher, Evelyn Shrifte, on the front endpaper: "To Evelyn / With love / Jim." Upper and lower rear boar corners gently tapped (though still...
Octavo (23.5cm). Cloth-backed boards; 155pp. Presentation inscription on front endpaper from Nobel laureate George Wald to Ben Shahn: "To Ben Shahn / the "eminent artist" (p.49) / George Wald," undated. Covers soiled and stained; text clean and unmarked; about Very Good. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn...
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.
Octavo. Brown cloth; dustjacket; 63pp. Tiny scuff to base of front board; spine ends lightly rubbed; a tight, Near Fine copy in the original Rockwell Kent dustwrapper, toned on spine and with a few nicks to extremities; Very Good. Prospectus laid in. This copy inscribed and signed on half-title: "For...
Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 159pp; illus. Inscribed by Van Der Zee on half-title, "to Gerald," dated 1976. Previous owner's embossed stamp to front free endpaper, else a tight, Near Fine copy in unclipped but slightly soiled dustwrapper, Very Good. Early monograph on the work of this pioneering African-American photographer. Uncommon signed.
Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's decorated tan cloth, lettered in brown on spine and front cover, with pictorial paste-on below title; 236pp; frontispiece illustration by Bert Knight. Mild cover wear and soil, else Near Fine, with ink ownership signature of Victor H. Metcalf (prominent California lawyer & politician; Sec'y of Commerce under...
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...
Octavo (21cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 310pp. Warmly and lengthily inscribed to a young Stephen Sondheim in year of publication: "To Stephen Sondheim: novelist and musician - With all good wishes," followed by a lengthy quotation from Proust's The Past Recaptured. Bottom board edges rubbed; abrasions along...
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