Lorne Bair Rare Books

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.....

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Limited to 250 copies, signed by Duncan on colophon. Original sewn printed wrappers; 28pp; title page decoration by Kermit Sheets. Trivial fading to wrapper edges, still Fine.

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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.....

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Autograph letter, signed, on recto and verso of single cream laid sheet (22x14.5cm.); approx. 85 words; dated 26 West 61st, N.Y., Dec 8th, and simply addressed to "Parker," presumably Stanton's friend and fellow-suffragist Parker Pillsbury (1809-1898), who, with Stanton, had co-edited the women's rights newsletter "The Revolution" twenty years earlier.....

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Quarto (27cm.); original black card wrappers printed silkscreen in yellow and white; [48]pp. & [23] blank leaves for photographs. Wrappers rather worn with several chips and closed tears, upper cover lettering partly effaced, all mounted photographs have been removed, else About Very Good. Yearbook issued by the CCC Jakersville Camp.....

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Complete report consisting of nine pieces: one (1) Quarry Co. printed envelope labelled in manuscript "Pinkerton Reports + Bill!"; one (1) two-paged typescript bill "For Services and Expenses in the case of Striking Employees" (totalling $95.35); and seven (7) typescript reports of varying length (1.5 - 7 pp. printed on.....

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Collection of fourteen letters on 31 leaves, both autograph and typescript, by Puerto Rican Nationalist Julio H. Velàzquez and his mother Julia, all addressed to benefactor and friend Anna Melissa Graves (1875-1964). General wear from handling, some mail folds, one leaf dampstained but still legible, two letters from Julia appear.....

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Small square octavo (21cm x 18cm). Issued as Origin 8. Original plain wrappers in patterned, printed dustjacket; unpaged [63pp]. Inscribed by Olson on front endpaper: "for Ben & Bernarda Shahn / with love / Charles Olson," undated. Dustwrapper and endpapers toned and foxed, else Very Good. "Charles Olson" hand-lettered on.....

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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.....

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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.....

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Quarto (34cm). Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; this is Bernarda Shahn's file copy, unsigned but with Shahns' estate label tipped on to front pastedown. Near fine, essentially unworn copy in crisp dustwrapper, mildly darkened on spine.

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Octavo (23cm). Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt pictorial device to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 467pp; illus; pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Young on half-title: To Ethel Clyde, With Best Wishes From Her Friend / Art Young," undated. Also laid in is a brief.....

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Original photo postcard on thick photographic paper, ca 5-1/2" x 3-1/2"; printed on verso with divided back and blank endicia. Postally unused. Inscribed below portrait: "Ever Yours / Roscoe," undated.

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12mo (17cm). Red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt; dustjacket; [41]pp. A fine copy in lightly rubbed and unclipped jacket.

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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.

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Stated "Second Edition, February 1921." Limited to 400 signed and numbered copies. Tall octavo (25cm). Paper-backed boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 266pp +index. A very good copy in the extremely uncommon dustwrapper, fashioned from the same stock used for the book's endpapers, hand-titled in Nearing's.....

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Small octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in pale orange printed dust jacket; [10],110pp. Some light shipping to jacket extremities, the whole a bit finger-soiled, some spotting to textblock edges, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Original photographic author portrait (12.75x10.25cm.) signed at the bottom edge by the author laid in.....

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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.....

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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.....

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First Printing. Octavo (18cm); pale blue vertically-ribbed cloth, with printed title labels on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 221,[3]pp, with photographic frontispiece portrait of Debs. Warmly inscribed by Karsner to author and drama critic Walter Prichard Eaton on the front endpaper: "For Walter Prichard Eaton, whose pen is true, whose.....

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Oblong 12mo (9.5x15cm.); contemporary panelled sheep; [220]pp. Boards scuffed with brief exposure at corners, leather a bit dried and starting to crack at spine edges, a few leaves rather browned, one separated but present; Very Good overall. Filled to completion, though generally entries made on rectos only.

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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.....

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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.

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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.....

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

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Small quarto (24cm). Original pictorial paper-covered boards; 687,xxvi,[2]pp; illus. Presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "To Charles Thro," signed by both Julia and Paul Child. A Good copy with ample evidence of use, including exterior soil and wear and staining/rippling to a few obviously well-loved recipes. Not a pristine copy.....

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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......

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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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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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Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 190pp. Inscribed by the author on half-title: "For Janet / Jim Moore", undated. Mild external rubbing; internally clean, tight and unmarked - a Very Good copy.

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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.....

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Original black linen-covered boards with paper cover label, 9.5cm x 12.5cm; unpaged (24 leaves). Warmly and lengthily inscribed to Ben Shahn on second blank, in Folon's miniscule hand: "Mr. Ben Shahn, Un grand merci pour votre lettre et pour l'autorisation concernant Sacco-Vanzetti. Bien entendu, il faut r'conter le docteur mais.....

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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.....

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Number 230 of 385 signed and hand-numbered copies. Royal octavo (25cm). Publisher's full morocco gilt; silk endpapers; 435pp; folding map. Shallow chips to leather at spine ends; scuffing and wear to joints, board edges and corners with thin crack beginning at lower 2" of front joint; slight fading to moiré.....

More info about A King's Story. Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor [Signed, Limited First Edition

Autograph letter, signed, on first and second panels of single bifolium sheet (25.5cm.); approx. 370 words. Previous folds, the whole rather wrinkled, postally used on rear panel, else Very Good.

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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.....

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Octavo (23cm). Cloth-backed boards; 126pp. With presentation inscription from Hermann Broch to Ben and Bernarda Shahn: "To Bernarda and Ben with all good wishes in friendship / Hermann," dated "New Year, 1948." Mild external dusting and wear; Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.

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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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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.

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