Lorne Bair Rare Books

Twenty-four letterpress broadside poems, each 16cm x 11cm (5-1/2" x 4-1/4") or the reverse. Loose, as issued, with no enclosing envelope. Printed in different color inks on various cardstocks; each with imprint on verso. Together comprising Issue No. 2 of Merlyn Gorky, a short-lived radical left literary-political journal (there appear.....

More info about Merlyn Gorky vol. 1 / no. 2: "24 poemcards" [many signed

Small octavo. Original red cloth boards; dustjacket; 62pp. INSCRIBED on front endpaper to the author's parents-in-law, Ben and Bernarda Shahn: "To Ben and Bernarda / Regards, Regards, Regards / Dugan." Light foxing to endpapers and page edges, else just minor wear, in the original pictorial dustwrapper, moderately foxed and soiled.....

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Octavo (20.5cm.); contemporary blue cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers; 145,[4]pp. typed on rectos only. Cloth very slightly worn, spine a hint sunned, shallow loss to front free endpaper fore-edge, shallow creasing to three leaves, else Very Good or better. Occasional autograph corrections in the author's hand throughout.....

More info about Siebzig Gedichte [Typescript, with author's corrections

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.....

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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.....

More info about Heavily Revised First Draft Typescript of "The Voice of Bugle Ann" [WITH] First separate edition...

Octavo (20.75cm); blue-gray buckram, with titling and decorations stamped in maroon on spine and front cover; maroon topstain; dustjacket; [12], 211, [3]pp; illus. Signed on tipped in leaf preceding the half-title page, dated 22 days prior to publication: "John Fante / Sept.1, 1940." Decorative bookplate to front pastedown, slight forward.....

More info about Dago Red [Signed

One of 275 signed copies, signed by Benet on limitation page. Octavo (22cm.); full burgundy morocco; later custom cloth chemise and slipcase; 80pp; illus. Fine in original glassine; slipcase lightly sunned on spine, VG or better.

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Autograph in black ink on cover of 4-pp House Calendar. "Randy / Peace / Jesse Jackson," dated 3/30/04. A clear and bold autograph.

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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.....

More info about The Buccaneers: A Story of the Black Flag in Business

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.....

More info about The Alphabet of Creation. An ancient legend from the Zohar with drawings by Ben Shahn [Signed,...

Brief TNS on Eastman's personal W. 13th St. letterhead, addressed to "Josephine", dated November 25, 1945. Old folds, else Fine, with bright, clear autograph: "Dear Josephine: Thanks so much for the news -- sad as it all was -- in your letter. It was nice to hear from you. I......

More info about Typed Note, signed, to "Joesphine" [Herbst?], dated November 25, 1945

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.

More info about Can These Bones Live. With Forty-two Drawings by James Kearns and a Preface by Sir Herbert Read

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...

More info about Small Professional Archive of a Member of the International Seamen's Union of America

12mo (17cm.); publisher's cloth tape-backed pictorial card wrappers, glassine dust jacket; [6],62pp.; text printed in red and black throughout. Glassine toned with a few tiny chips and closed tears, front hinge cracked, Wakeman's pencil underlining and checkmarks throughout text, additional extensive notes to blanks (see below), else Very Good overall.....

More info about The Soul of Man Under Socialism [Thaddeus Burr Wakeman's Copy

Limited to 600 copies of which this is no. XVIII of 45 copies specially bound with a leaf of the fair copy manuscript. Large, slim quarto (28.5cm.); original red cushioned silk, upper cover and spine embossed in gilt, marbled endpapers; original acetate dust jacket; typographically decorated title page printed in.....

More info about Spanking the Maid [Limited Deluxe Edition, Signed

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.

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Octavo (24cm.); cloth boards; dustjacket; 603pp; illus. Clean, Very Good copy of the first edition, in lightly worn, unclipped dustjacket, Very Good or better.

More info about Enjoyment of Living [Inscribed with TLS

First printing. Quarto (30cm). Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 95pp (chiefly illus). Signed on title page by both Inge Morath and Arthur Miller. Tight, Near Fine copy in crisp, unclipped dustwrapper, Near Fine. Portraits of literary and art-world luminaries including Arthur Miller, Phillip Roth, Cocteau, Stravinsky, Marilyn Monroe, etc.

More info about Portraits (Signed by Morath & Miller

Octavo (19.5cm.); original red cloth, printed cream paper cover label; [4],69,[3](ads)pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Expertly rebacked to match, original cloth a bit faded along extremities; frontispiece heavily foxed, recent bookseller label to front pastedown, else Very Good and sound. Errata slip bound in rear. With numerous contemporary holograph corrections throughout.....

More info about A Sketch of the Life of C. Eulenstein, the Celebrated Performer on the Jews' Harps

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.....

More info about Patchen's First Will & Testament [Inscribed Copy

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.....

More info about Golden Sections. With an Introduction by Wyndham Lewis

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.....

More info about Arshile Gorky

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.....

More info about James Van Der Zee

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.

More info about Dr. Sadhu's Muffins

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.....

More info about Hurray for the Worm

Octavo. Gray cloth boards, stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 246pp. Presentation inscription on front pastedown to the noted Wisconsin author and publisher August Derleth: "For August Derleth, whose political stories are more real than the talk at the court house," signed and dated in year of publication. Tight, Near.....

More info about The Pattern of Politics: The Folkways of a Democratic People (Presentation Copy to August Derleth

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.

More info about Autograph Letter, Signed, Addressed to J.F. Byrnes

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.....

More info about Holograph Manuscript Translation of Roland Ville-Neuve's The Devil in Art

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.....

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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.

More info about Original typescript, signed] A Letter To Ché Guevara

Sammelband. 12mo (18cm). Ten pamphlets, all written or translated by Petersen; most published NY: Labor News Company. With ink presentation to front endpaper: "To Olive M. Johnson / Christmas 1935 / Arnold Petersen." Tan buckram with leather spine label. Moderate external wear; first pamphlet's front wrapper lacking, else Very Good.....

More info about Bound Volume of Petersen's Works, with Presentation to Olive M. Johnson

12mo. Cloth boards; viii, 62, iii pp. One of 310 copies. Presentation to Ben Shahn from Lessing Rosenwald on front endpaper: "To Ben Shahn / With Kindest Regards / Lessing," dated 1962. Fine copy. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front.....

More info about Three Erfurt Tales

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.

More info about Operace modré barety

Octavo (24cm). Blue cloth boards; dustjacket; xxiv, 323pp. Lengthy presentation inscription to front endpaper: "To Abraham Lincoln Marovitz - a civic minded citizen, outstanding legislator, great jurist and a friend of Labor / with our compliments Morris Bialis, manager Chicago Joint Board ILGWU," dated 1956. Fine copy in very Near.....

More info about A History of the Chicago Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (Presentation Copy to Abe Marovitz

Octavo. Publisher's printed wrappers; 56pp. Signed by Walcott on half-title, dated 1993. Gentle fading to wrappers at bound edge, else Fine.

More info about The Star-Apple Kingdom (Uncorrected Proof

Octavo (20cm). 19th-c. half morocco over marbled boards (re-backed); 132pp. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To A. Seemuller, [Jr], Esq / with the sincere esteem of S. Yates Levy," datemarked Savannah, October 5th 1857. Also laid-in is a one-page ALS from Levy to William B. Hodgson (see note below). Bookplate.....

More info about The Italian Bride: A Play In Five Acts [Charles Colcock Jones's copy; Inscribed, with ALS

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.....

More info about La Mano Dell'Uomo

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.

More info about Socialists Around The World (signed copy

Printed portrait on thin, coated paper, 19cm x 12cm. Tipped in to folding card portrait case. Inscribed beneath image: "Study Art 1, Sec 8, Clause 5 of the Constitution of the U.S. and help to abolish interest / Yours truly / Jacob S. Coxey Sr.," undated but likely dating from.....

More info about Portrait with Autograph Sentiment, ca 1914

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.....

More info about Constitution, By-Laws, and Rules of Order of Clintonville Council, No. 478, Junior Order of...