Lorne Bair Rare Books

Small octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards, decorative paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine, black topstain, white dust jacket printed in green; [6],198pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled with some minor chipping, short closed tear to top edge of upper jacket panel not approaching text, tiny piece of tape repair...

More info about Two Plays: Juno and the Paycock [and] The Shadow of a Gunman

Original typescript, 5pp on ruled bond. Typed rectos-only. Light soil; single horizontal fold; Very Good.

More info about "Trash?" [Anonymous manuscript poem of 149 lines (5pp) in the voice of a Depression-era refugee

Slim octavo (25cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 24pp; illus. Oxidation to staples, with attendant bleeding onto wrappers, else a clean, Very Good+ copy.

More info about For Mayor of Berkeley - Jerry Rubin: The Program

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...

More info about Government

Quarto (30cm). Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp; illus. Issue for 1919 in clean, unmarked condition, Very Good or better. Issue for 1923 worn, with wrappers darkened and stained, contents slightly age-toned, with corner-creases and occasional thumb-soil; complete and just Good. Annual souvenir of the Workers' International Industrial Union.

More info about First of May Magazine. A Journal of Constructive Revolution [2 Annual Issues

Quarto (28cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 16pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, some toning to front wrapper and upper edge of rear wrapper; Very Good+.

More info about Frox - Vol.III, No.5 (April 17, 1970

Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in red and black dust jacket; [8],260pp. A few losses to jacket extremities, including to lower edge of upper panel affecting the "W" of "Howard W. Roper," and 2-inch loss to spine crown affecting all words of spine title except "Hell." Some additional uneven fading to...

More info about Beauty Lies Beyond Hell!

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.

More info about All Here Are On Vacation. Poems from Martha's Vineyard

Octavo (23cm). Original pictorial wrappers; pp 385-472. Slight cover wear and soil; light wear to spine; occasional creasing; Very Good.

More info about "Skinny's Turkey Dinner" [in] The International Socialist Review, Vol. X, No. 5 (November, 1909

Octavo. Gray cloth boards, stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 309pp. Tight, fine copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper, Very Good or better.

More info about Trial by Ordeal

First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; gray-green topstain; dustjacket; 345pp. Some trivial wear to board edges, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned, with light wear to extremities and a few short tears tape-mended on verso; Very Good+.

More info about Time, Forward!

Octavo (19cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 409pp. In Johnson's first binding of plum cloth. A very tight, fresh copy with just a few small spots of discoloration to edges of text block; Near Fine. In an attractive example of the very scarce jacket, lightly dusted overall and with a few brief...

More info about Erik Dorn

Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 14pp. Covers slightly worn; front cover stamped "With compliments of American Ethnological Press." Very Good.

More info about A Cure for Unemployment

Octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards, lettered in black on front cover and spine; red top-stain; dustjacket; 317pp. Clean, tight copy, Very Good to Near Fine, in Very Good example of the uncommon pictorial dustwrapper, with a few tiny losses at extremities and soil to lighter portions of rear panel.

More info about From Broadway to Moscow

Octavo. Original brown decorated cloth (hardcover); 312pp. Straight, clean copy, unsoiled and unmarked, in crisp jacket with a bit of wear and heel and crown. A slow-witted but gentle Czech immigrant participates in, then quells a bakery strike. Striking jacket design by Karl S. Woerner. HANNA 3824. BLAKE p.246. COAN p.215.

More info about Hunky

12mo. Original red cloth boards; gilt titles; 64pp. Slight flaking to cover gilt; contemporary gift inscription; Very Good.

More info about The Confession of a Rebellious Wife

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth with titles and design stamped in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 268pp, [2] ads. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with a few tiny nicks at spine ends and three faint splash marks on the spine.

More info about Ditte: Girl Alive

Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 332pp. Page edges dusty, else a tight, straight copy, near to Fine, in the very scarce dustjacket, toned and chafed on spine with brief closed tears, losses at corners and heel of spine; nibbling to upper spine, just into lettering of title; Good.

More info about Democracy

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

First Argentinian edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; pictorial dustjacket; 199, (v)pp. Text browned but not brittle; a few brief marginal comments in red ink; dustwrapper clean and quite attractive. Translation by Angel Pumarega. We find no evidence of an earlier Buenos Aires edition; OCLC notes only a single location (BN...

More info about Diez Días que Conmovieron Al Mundo!

Octavo (20.5cm.); pictorial cloth with matching pictorial dustjacket; 350pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly worn jacket with brief losses at crown of spine.

More info about The Ghostland

Quarto (30.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Mild wear, toning, and dustiness to wrappers, with a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good+.

More info about New Masses - Vol.XXII, No.7 (February 9, 1937

Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Mild wear and toning to wrapper extremities, with a few short splits along spine-fold; Very Good+.

More info about New Masses - Vol.XII, No.2 (July 10, 1934

39 tabloid issues (43.5cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers. A near-complete run (lacking Vol.1, No.15 only), dated from April, 1970 - February, 1973, with the sequence running as follows: Vol.1, Nos.1-14, 16-21; Vol.2, Nos.1-11; Vol.3, Nos.1-8. Occasional toning and light wear to extremities, some trivial spine wear to a handful of issues...

More info about Liberated Guardian [run of 39 issues, 1970-73

Green cloth boards; dustjacket. One of an unspecified number of publisher's presentation copies, with tipped-on label bearing author's signature to front pastedown. Remainder issue, in Grosset & Dunlap dustjacket but with correct publisher's slug to spine, title page, and copyright page (jacket not supplied; as issued). Endpapers a little grubby...

More info about A Man of Little Faith

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 (21cm); light gray cloth, with titles stamped in brown on spine; brick red topstain; dustjacket; x,488,[12]pp. Small booksellers ticket to rear pastedown, spine ends slightly nudged, lower board corners gently tapped (though still sharp), else Near Fine, with a bright, even topstain. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned and lightly.......

More info about The Goose-Step: A Study of American Education

12mo. (13.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Fine copy.

More info about The Adventures of Agent Truboy

Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers; (14pp). Trivial external wear; Near Fine. Rather elaborate pictorial program for the 1937 season of Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road," for which Henry Hull reprised the role of Lester Jeeter which he had created three years earlier. Copiously illustrated with stills from the production, and reproducing the...

More info about Souvenir Programme. Jack Kirkland and Sam H. Grisman Present Henry Hull in "Tobacco Road" by Jack...

(1891). Original printed wrappers; (iv), 117 (2)pp. Losses to spine; covers chipped at extremities; early ownership signature to title page. Text intact and quite fresh; a Good or better copy of the ephemeral second British edition, issued as No. 12 in the publisher's "Bellamy Library." The author was a nephew...

More info about The Strike of a Sex; A Novel

Slim octavo (21.5cm); printed wrappers, stapled; 16pp. Inscribed by Farrell to New York collector Norman Unger at the upper left corner of front wrapper. Some trivial wear, with minute loss to lower right corner of front wrapper; Near Fine.

More info about Truth and Myth About America [Inscribed

First Printing. Octavo (21cm); lime green cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 542pp. Sunning to cloth at spine and extremities, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), gently spine-sunned and lightly dusty, with a few short closed tears; Very Good+.

More info about The Death and Birth of David Markand: An American Story

Octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket; 454pp. Attractive, bright copy in unclipped and but lightly worn jacket; Near Fine. A particularly nice copy of Warner's first novel, a radical dystopian fantasy in which a tyrannical government is overthrown in a heroic revolution.

More info about The Wild Goose Chase

Quarto (30.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 36pp; illus. Mild wear, toning, and dustiness to wrappers, with a few short tears to same; Very Good+ or better.

More info about New Masses - Vol.XXIII, No.9 (May 18, 1937

Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers; 300pp. Advance copy for reviewers, with publisher's complimentary slip tipped in at title page. Touch of soil to text block edges; brief rubbing to cover wraps; still a Fine, tight copy.

More info about Men Working (ARC

First Printing. Octavo (21cm); tan cloth with titles and design stamped in brown and red on spine and front panel; brick red topstain; dustjacket; 256pp; illus. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped, lightly rubbed overall, with some minor soil and a few edge tears.

More info about El Indio

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...

More info about American Voices [Inscribed Advance Copy

Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial silver foil dust jacket printed in black; [6],285pp. Some general shelf wear to jacket extremities, a few tiny chips and closed tears, some minor scratching to rear panel, else Near Fine in a Very Good example of the uncommon dust jacket. Publication date on...

More info about One Came Out

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. Green cloth boards, lettered in white on spine; dustjacket; 233pp. Light wear and fading to board extremities; jacket faded and with small losses at edges; Very Good.

More info about The Pink Egg