Lorne Bair Rare Books

Vol.1: newspaper; 38pp.; (40cm x 29cm) Vol. 2: 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 Issues No. 1 & 2 of.....

More info about Merlyn Gorky volume 1 / . Numbers 1 & 2: "newspaper" and "24 poemcards" [many signed

Octavo (19.5cm); purple cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamed in pale metallic green on spine and front cover; 248pp. Forward lean, small stain to lower left corner of front board, with a hint of sunning to spine; clean throughout; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn and.....

More info about Circus Parade

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; x,253pp.; photographic frontispiece. Gentle sunning to upper board edges, touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock and lower board edges; clean internally, but for a tiny stain to rear endpaper; Near Fine.....

More info about We, the People: A Play in Twenty Scenes

Octavo (22cm). Stiff decorative card wrappers; silver foil dustjacket; 8pp. Presentation copy, with mounted photographic portrait of Balabanoff (5" x 3") inside front wrapper, inscribed in ink: "For my dear friends F&T Lewis, with many, many heartiest wishes!," dated 1939. Jacket worn and partially detached; text block loose in wrappers;.....

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Octavo (22cm). Tan cloth boards, lettered in maroon on spine, with vignette illustration on front board; dustjacket; 554pp. Tight, Near Fine copy; red top-stain deep, even and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, rubbed at extremities with a few closed tears and slight fading to red portions on spine; Very.....

More info about Imperial City [Signed Copy

Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; [18pp]. Text continues onto rear wrapper. Early collection by the author of the acclaimed novel Danger Song (1967). Fine in original wrappers. Uncommon; OCLC gives 4 locations only.

More info about Poetry for my Friends [from half-title: Greens and Blues and All the Rhythms in Between

12mo. Printed card wrappers; 147pp. Mild external wear, with some pinpoint rubbing at wrapper edges; Near Fine.

More info about The Cassava Ghost (A Play in Three Acts

Single quarto issue in printed thick paper wrappers; 26pp. Faint vertical crease; single ink stamp to front cover ("Bancroft Library / Mooney Papers / Withdrawn"). Else unmarked, and a clean, fresh and attractive copy. The New Quarterly, a magazine devoted to proletarian prose and poetry, and edited by the Chicago.....

More info about "On Two Sides of the Desk" [in] The New Quarterly, v.I, no.2 (Summer 1934

Octavo (23.75cm.); publisher's grey cloth; viii,206pp. Boards rather rubbed and worn at extremities, corners bumped, spine darkened, three-inch crack at top of rear hinge, else About Very Good. Prospectus flyer tipped to front pastedown. MILES 197: "Probes the problem of how far a radical may go."

More info about Free Speech for Radicals

Original red cloth boards, lettered in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 329pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in slightly soiled dustwrapper. Dates on title page and copyright match (1909), however, jacket states "Third Edition."

More info about The Bomb

Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 336pp. Brief (.

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Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the editor, this being copy no.38. Octavo (24cm); beige buckram, with gilt-stamped leather title labels mounted to spine and front cover; maroon topstain; dustjacket; publisher's original slipcase; xx,662,[2]pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, price-clipped, with some.....

More info about The Fourteenth Chronicle: The Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos [Limited Edition, Signed

12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth (white over blue), upper cover lettered and ruled in gilt, unadorned spine; [8],44pp. Some minor shelf wear, white portion of cloth binding rather soiled and toned along spine, short closed tear to title page fore-edge not approaching text, old ink spot affecting first few leaves.....

More info about The Ballad of Reading Gaol

First printing. Cloth issue. Octavo; black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 111,(1)pp. Fine, in a fine, original and unclipped dustwrapper. An apparently unread copy.

More info about With Walker in Nicaragua and Other Early Poems 1949-1954

First printing of the 1935 Revised Edition. Octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket; xvii,341pp. Mild dusting to text block edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.50 on front flap); sllightly rubbed and edgeworn, Very Good. Hicks' major work, first published in 1933 and a milestone.....

More info about The Great Tradition: A Marxist Interpretation of American Literature

First Printing, a reissue of the 1954 edition published by The Dial Press. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver and metallic red on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; [iv],[2],3-475,[1]pp. Generically inscribed by the author on the frnt endpaper "Best wishes / John O. Killens / 12-14-72." Fine in.....

More info about Youngblood [Signed

First Printing. Octavo (21cm); beige linen, with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover; patterned endpapers; dustjacket; [vi],298pp. Medium-sized booksellers label to front pastedown, else Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, shelfworn and spine-sunned, with several tears and attendant creases, a few shallow losses along lower edge, with shallow loss.....

More info about Horse Shoe Bottoms

Second (Revised) Edition. Small octavo (19cm). Printed paper wrappers; 192pp. Front wrapper stained; pencil scrawl to rear wrapper and somewhat less boldly to front wrapper. Contents tanned but not brittle; a solid, complete, Good copy.

More info about Vol. I. A Plain Analysis of Socialism. Second Edition (Revised

12mo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 246p. Clean, tight copy in lightly dusted jacket; Very Good or better.

More info about The Iron Flood

First printing. Octavo. Publisher's deep red ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on spine; xvii+278pp; 3pp ads. Bit of sunning and wear to cloth backstrip, slight soil to upper edge of text block, else a tight, VG or better copy. Small bookseller label (W.B. Clarke, Boston) at base of front pastedown.....

More info about War of the Classes

Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's red cloth, decorative spine stamped in black and gilt, red topstain; [6],365pp. Cloth rather discolored from damp and soil, most heavily so to rear cover, spine cocked, brief and shallow loss of cloth and board at top edge of rear cover. Good to Very Good only. Inscribed.....

More info about Bricks Without Straw [Inscribed & Signed by the Author & Sixty-Two Guests at a Party...

Slim 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's grey card wrappers; 58,[2](ads)pp. Several chips to wrapper extremities, none approaching text, textblock starting to separate from binding, else Good, internally fine. Single issue of the individualist anarchist bimonthly magazine. Contents feature Tucker's recurring column "On Picket Duty" and the recurring column of freethinker Benjamin De.....

More info about Liberty, The Pioneer Organ of Anarchism: Not the Daughter But the Mother of Order Vol. XVI, no....

Second Printing (same year as the first). Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; illustrated endpapers; [12],13-309,[3]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author in year of publication the half-title page: "To Erskine and Sara / with never-ceasing affection / Sincerely & fraternally / Michael.....

More info about Jews Without Money [Presentation Copy to Charles Erskine Scott Wood

Variant published by The Movement. Slim octavo (22.75cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; [3],4-14,[2]pp; illus. Light wear and handling, some trivial dust-soil to extremities; Near Fine. A lengthy interview with Newton originally published in the August, 1968 issue of The Movement, in which he discusses the Black Panther Party, cultural nationalism, the.....

More info about Huey Newton Talks to The Movement

Cloth boards; paper spine label; dustjacket; 141pp. Fine, tight copy in bright, Near Fine dustwrapper. Uncommon thus.

More info about The Temptation of Anthony and Other Poems

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); bound in oatmeal buckram, with titles and decoration stamped in black and brown on spine and front panel; gray topstain; dustjacket; 172pp. Some trivial offset to gutters from binders glue, topstain slightly dulled, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, spine-sunned, with a few tiny nicks.....

More info about Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts

Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Some wear and toning to extremities, thin strip of dust-soil to upper edge of rear wrapper, with a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good+.

More info about New Masses - Vol.XXIII, No.6 (April 27, 1937

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; x,253pp.; photographic frontispiece. Light edge wear to jacket extremities, including tiny close tear at top edge of upper panel, spine just a hint faded, tiny dampspot to upper panel, top textblock edge foxed.....

More info about We, the People: A Play in Twenty Scenes

First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (19.25cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 329,[1],[5]pp ads. Crown gently nudged, small circular sticker shadow to upper right corner of front endpaper, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is gently spine-sunned, showing moderate edgewear and dust-soil overall, with several.....

More info about 100%: The Story of a Patriot

Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and toning, several nicks and tears to extremities and along upper margins; Very Good+.

More info about New Masses - Vol.XXIV, No.1 (June 29, 1937

Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket signed in image by Robert Graves, maroon topstain; [10],308pp. A few shallow losses to top jacket extremities, most notably at spine crown, minor toning to cloth spine edges and pastedowns, else a Very Good, straight and sound copy.

More info about Little Steel

Small octavo (19.5cm.); original purple printed wrappers; 240pp. Upper wrapper unevenly faded along fore-edge, spine a hint faded as well, else Very Good or better. At head of title: "Amerikos Lietuviu Darbininku Literaturos Draugijos Leidinys No. 38" (translates as "American Lithuanian Workers Literary Society Publication no. 38"). Author's name appears.....

More info about Pirmoji Lietuvos Proletarine Revoliucija ir Sovietu Valdžia [The First Lithuanian...

Octavo (19cm). Yellow cloth boards, lettered in red and black; dustjacket; red top-stain; 183pp. Near Fine, unworn copy in original, unclipped jacket, a bit darkened on spine and with small nicks and losses to extremities; Very Good.

More info about To Quito And Back

Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in green and yellow; 160pp. Extremities a bit toned and dusty, a few leaves dog-eared, else Very Good or better.

More info about Sarastuksia

Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 303pp. Minor wear; text slightly toned; Very Good, retaining the scarce illustrated dustwrapper which is nearly Fine with just trivial dusting and a tiny chip at bottom edge.

More info about The Battle

Octavo. Publisher's orange pictorial cloth; floral endpapers; [4],[i]-v,[5]-317pp; inserted portrait frontispiece. Mild rubbing to cloth at spine ends; few small spots where cloth is lifting on front and rear boards, still a nice, bright copy with firm joints and hinges, quite fresh internally.

More info about The Rag-Picker of Paris. Translated from the French by Benj. R. Tucker

First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xv,223pp. Copy of prominent latino scholar, author and educator Roberto Márquez, with his ownership signature on half-title. Tight, Near Fine, unmarked copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), mildly spine-sunned, lightly soiled, Very Good+. First title in the publisher's series.....

More info about The Villagers / Huasipungo: A Novel

12mo (18cm). Publisher's red cloth boards, lettered in white on spine and front cover; 428,(2)pp. Lettering mostly rubbed away on spine; front endpaper neatly removed, else a tight, Very Good copy.

More info about The Soul of the World

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

12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 44pp. Text printed in blue ink. Printed on highly acidic stock; front and rear wrappers are detached; the front wrapper with substantial chips along three margins, but lettering not affected. The text remains firmly bound; toning and brittleness is confined mostly to extremities, paper.....

More info about Max Eastman's Address to the Jury in the Second Masses Trial. In Defense of the Socialist...