Lorne Bair Rare Books

Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's first issue green cloth in white, green, and brown dust jacket, brown topstain; [4],285pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and worn with a few tiny chips, bottom fore-edge corner of rear cover bumped with last few leaves showing subsequent faint creasing, else Very Good in Near Very Good...

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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.

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Quarto (27.25cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 34pp; illus. Some overall wear, faint creasing and grubbiness to covers, with neat splits at both ends of spine fold, and a particularly well-rendered fountain pen sketch of a seated man on rear cover; Good to Very Good, complete copy.

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Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 339pp. Fine, bright copy in the scarce pictorial dustwrapper, slightly faded on spine (still perfectly legible) else Near Fine. Rollins's extremely uncommon first book, a mystery story told from the point of view of a 10-year-old boy...

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Reprint. Octavo (18cm). Red cloth boards, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; [6],529,[1],[2](blank),[4](ads)pp. Mild signs of use to boards, spine a touch faded, else a Fine copy.

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First Impression. Octavo (19.25cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; 355pp, [1]. Cloth mottled, with spine heavily sunned, though gilt still legible; topstain slightly dusty, with light scattered soil to pastedowns and endpapers, and wrinkling to a few terminal pages; Very Good. The edgeworn...

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Octavo. Original publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth; 412pp + 6p publisher's catalog. Light wear to board edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy with blue-green top-stain just slightly faded.

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12mo. Staple-bound wrappers; 16pp. Discoloration to edges of wrappers, general soil; internally clean & fresh. Extremely scarce eulogy for Barbusse, a communist pacifist writer best known for his WWI novel, "Le Feu". He died in Moscow while working on his final work, a biography of Stalin. No copies located via...

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Octavo (19.5cm); red boards with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 294pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Spine gently sunned, with a small patch of rubbing at the left edge of the front panel; Near Fine. The unclipped dustjacket is lightly chipped at the crown...

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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...

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Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and toning to extremities, with a few tiny tears to wrappers; Near Fine.

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First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); variant orange cloth, with titling and rule stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 242pp. Top edge slightly dusty, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), edgeworn and spine-sunned, with several nicks, tears, and attendant creases to extremities; Very Good only.

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Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 221. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth-backed decorative boards, gilt-lettered spine in contemporary paper covered slipcase (not called for in Sheehy & Lohf); [4],34pp.; two-toned woodcuts by Gannon throughout. Tiny split to spine crown cloth, gilt rather dulled, some light foxing and...

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First Printing. Octavo (20cm); orange cloth, with with titles and design stamped in red and black on spine and front panel; red topstain; dustjacket; 267pp. Some offsett from binders glue to pastedowns, with a barely perceptible degree of sunning to spine, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, with a....

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Octavo (20cm). Original mustard wrappers, printed in black on front cover; 100pp. Mild external wear and soil, else Near Fine.

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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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First Printing. Octavo (19cm); hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; [iv],315,[1]pp. Previous owners ink name to front pastedown, neat rubberstamp "Hill Reference Library St. Paul" to copyright page and upper edge of textblock, with a tiny bump to upper front board, and some.....

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Octavo (22cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 82pp. Fine in fine, unclipped dustwrapper.

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Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers, cord-bound with bailing twine; [66pp]. Wrapper edges slightly bumped, else clean and unmarked; contents Fine.

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Quarto (27.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 50pp; illus. Wrappers detached and split along spine-fold, with toning and dust-soil and rubber-stamps of the Union Theological Seminary library (NY) on front wrapper; text is toned, edgeworn, with small tears and losses to margins; Good, complete copy.

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Octavo (19cm); red decorated cloth boards, stamped in white and black on spine and front cover; 350pp + ads. Frontispiece + 7 inserted leaves of plates after ink sketches by Willliam Glackens. Author's presentation to front endpaper: "To John T. McCutcheon - the "funny cove" referred to on page 341,"...

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First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and publisher's logo embossed to front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; [8],312pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else very Near Fine, with the topstain bright and unfaded. In an attractive example of the dustjacket designed by Edna Reindel;...

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First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); 3/4 crimson paper over quarter beige cloth, with titles stamped in blue and red on spine; dustjacket; 235pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with the barest hint of sunning to spine.

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Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 403pp. Light overall wear, with fading to board edges; in complete dustjacketwith shallow chips at extremities, with old adhesive wax residue to verso -- attractive enough on the shelf, but just Very Good thus.

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Small octavo. Gray-brown thick paper wrappers, printed in gold on spine and front cover; 92pp. Scattered foxing to text, else a straight, sound copy, well preserved in the original wrappers.

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Quarto. Loose sheets in printed envelope, as issued. Small abrasion and pin-hole to envelope's upper extremity, else Fine. This is Willeford's first appearance in print, preceding his first book by more than a year. ('Entrance To An Era'; In Time of This'; 'I Passed Over the River'; 'Basement Pastoral' &...

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First Printing. Octavo (19cm); olive green pictorial cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black and white on spine and front cover; [4],316pp. Slight forward lean, wear to cloth at base of spine, some light foxing to text edges and rough erasure to previous owners name at upper front...

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12mo (18cm). Original blue printed wrappers; 101pp. Small, neat repair to front wrapper at hinge, else a clean, attractive copy with just minor rubbing and wear to extremities.

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First Printing. Octavo. Quarter maroon cloth over yellow textured boards; dustjacket; maroon top-stain, 215pp. Faint dampstain along bottom edge of rear jacket not affecting boards, else Very Good to Near Fine. African-American author's third book, covering "poverty, drug addiction, prostitution, venereal disease, murder, bureaucratic indifference, race riots..." (upper jacket flap).

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Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp. Covers slightly toned at margins, else Fine.

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Cloth boards; dustjacket; 348pp. INSCRIBED by Conroy in shaky hand on front endpaper: "For Andrew McLean / a book written ... many years ago but I hope you'll find it of interest/ best wishes from Jack Conroy with [hospitalization?] for diabetes, Sincerely Jack Conroy / Moberly / Sep. 26, 1978."...

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Octavo. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 167pp. Bit of foxing to endpapers, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, foxed on verso and flap-folds but otherwise quite clean and crisp.

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Octavo (22cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth; 127pp.; frontispiece and one photographic plate. Corners bumped and extremities a bit rubbed, else Very Good or better. Collection of short stories in Yiddish.

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One of 275 signed copies, signed by Benet on limitation page. 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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Cloth-backed boards; acetate dustjacket. One of 200 Special copies, bound in boards by Earle Gray. Fine copy in original acetate dustjacket.

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Quarto (31.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Subtle toning to extremities, a few tiny tears, and a handful of tiny spots to upper edge of front wrapper; Near Fine.

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Crown octavo (19cm). Yellow cloth boards, lettered in red on spine; dustjacket; 256pp. Fine and unmarked in the original printed dustwrapper, mildly toned on spine and with a few tiny edge-nicks; Very Good or better.

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Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 370pp. Tight, near fine copy in the very scarce pictorial jacket, bright and clean but lightly chipped at edges (costing a few characters at upper front panel), front flap partially detached. Scarce novel of Texas sharecroppers during the Great Depression. HANNA 2590. COAN p.63.

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Octavo. Quarter black cloth over red cloth boards, lettered in white on spine; dustjacket; 255pp. Fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, lightly rubbed with a few short, closed nicks at extremities; VG+ to NF.

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Octavo (21cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 82pp. Trivial external dusting, else a fine, unread copy.

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