Lorne Bair Rare Books

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

Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's grey-green decorative cloth embossed in darker green, pictorial plate mounted to upper cover; 343pp.; frontispiece, two plates. Boards a bit rubbed, front hinge just starting, else a Very Good and sound copy, much better than usually seen.

More info about The Winning of Sarenne

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

12mo (19.25cm.); original red cloth, red printed paper label mounted to upper cover; [12],139pp. Some edge wear, small hole to spine cloth, else Very Good, internally near fine. Includes works by Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, and others, compiled and translated by Emily Dickinson's niece and editor.

More info about Russian Lyrics: Songs of Cossack, Lover, Patriot and Peasant, done into English verse

Octavo. Printed wrappers; 32p. Covers slightly worn and soiled; text tanned at margins; Very Good. Boschi (1871-1956) was a militant anarchist and close associate of Malatesta. We find only three institutional holdings for this uncommon Anarchist fable; the first edition was published in 1933 and is held only by the.....

More info about Le Avventure di Una Piccola Capra (Novella

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

Green cloth boards stamped in white; 363pp; frontis. Light wear to tips of corners and spine ends; brief splits to front hinge (internal); bit of offsetting to title page from color frontispiece. A solidly Very Good copy. HANNA 1096: "...young bank employee, falsely convicted of embezzlement, spends two years in.....

More info about The Alibi

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

Large quarto (34.75cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 22pp; illus. Oxidation to staples, a few faint creases to wrappers, else a bright, very Near Fine copy.

More info about The Masses - Vol.IX, No.1 (November, 1916

Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in black and tan decorative dust jacket, red topstain; [10],364pp. Dampstaining to bottom edge of jacket only showing through to rear panel with some bleeding to endpapers; spine toned with shallow loss to spine head. Still, a Very Good copy. Labor novel set in a distributing.....

More info about Gas-House McGinty: A Novel

Octavo (22cm). Publisher's gray cloth boards, decorated and lettered in black on front cover with pictorial paste-on; 57pp; frontispiece and two inserted leaves of plates with tissue guards. Light bumps to corners, light wear; Near Fine, with stamped ownership signature of John G. Hughes to front endpaper.

More info about The Sale of an Appetite

Octavo (24.25cm.); original black morocco-backed pictorial boards in paper-covered slipcase; xliv,341pp.; woodcuts throughout. Slipcase a bit rubbed and discolored from dust-soil, ownership signature to front free endpaper else Near Fine in Very Good slipcase. Posthumously published writings of the Communist journalist and author Mike Quin (1906-1947) who also wrote pulp.....

More info about On the Drumhead: A Selection of the Writing of Mike Quin. A memorial volume

Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's olive green pictorial cloth boards, stamped in colors on spine and front cover; [iv], [1]-415 + 2pp ads. Color frontispiece by Arthur W. Brown. Rubbing and wear to joints and extremities, a few faint stains scattered to boards, and both hinges starting, mended with clear tape; a......

More info about The Grapple: A Story of the Illinois Coal Region [&c

Cloth-backed boards; acetate dustjacket. One of 200 Special copies, bound in boards by Earle Gray. Fine copy in original acetate dustjacket.

More info about The Break-Up of Our Camp. Stories 1932-1935 (Volume One of the Collected Stories, Edited By...

Second edition. Octavo (23cm x 17cm). Pictorial paper wrappers; 117,[8]pp. Slight raggedness and small losses to paper on spine, partially obscuring title, else a fresh, Very Good or better copy. With a Preface by Gino Piastra and an "Introductory Monologue" by "Right" (pseud?). Text entirely in Italian. Extremely uncommon anarchist.....

More info about Lo Sciopero dei Risaiuoli. Dramma Rivoluzionario in 4 Atti Con Prologo D'Introduzione. 2e Edizione

Cloth boards; dusjtacket; 318pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in unclipped dustjacket, slightly soiled and edgeworn, Very Good or better.

More info about The Golden Village

octavo (20.5cm). Gray cloth boards, spine stamped in blue; dustjacket; 350pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped, Very Good to Near Fine.

More info about A Long Day In A Short Life

First printing. Octavo; orange cloth, titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; 473pp. Tight and clean, with just mild external wear and soil; spine cloth sunned, with fading to spine lettering; Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. The second volume in Dos Passos' acclaimed "USA Trilogy."

More info about 1919

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. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 250pp. Warmly inscribed by editor Rigney to David Meltzer (contributor to the work) and his wife: "To David & Tina Meltzer with my deep appreciation for their very real help in producing this book - Francis Rigney." Undated, but clearly.....

More info about The Real Bohemia: A Sociological and Psychological Study of the "Beats" [Inscribed Presentation...

Two octavo volumes (18.75cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [ii],99,[11]pp. The first copy is inscribed by Eugene Debs to American film actress, screenwriter, and editor Helen Louise Gardner on the front endpaper: "To Helen L. Gardner / With love and greetings, and with.....

More info about Debs and the Poets [Two Copies, Inscribed by Eugene Debs and Ruth Le Prade to Helen L. Gardner

Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 689pp. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges, else about Fine in bright, unclipped jacket with a hint of rubbing and soil at extremities. Crisp copy of Bishop's undeservedly forgotten first novel, a hard-boiled account of drug addiction, prostitution and extreme poverty based on the author's own.....

More info about Down All Your Streets

One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.30. Broadside, with text letterpress printed in black on white deckle-edged stock, measuring 23.5cm x 33cm (9" x 13"). A Fine copy. Facsimile reprint of Caldwell's privately printed 1929 statement concering the suppression of his debut novel, The.....

More info about Broadside: In Defense of Myself [Limited Edition, Signed

First Printing. Slim octavo (21cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; [32pp]. A Fine copy.

More info about Africa in Brooklyn

Stated second American edition. 12mo (18.5cm). In original cream paper-covered boards, backed in light green muslin, with original printed paper label to spine, largely intact; plain endpapers; viii [9] 10-120pp. Ink ownership inscription of H. A. Fletcher to title page. Temoin on final leaf of text. Straight, tight, and clean.....

More info about Queen Mab

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

Large quarto (34.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 20pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, faint finger-soil to upper right corner of front wrapper, with a small tear to left edge of rear wrapper, and a few creases to several page corners smoothed-out; Near Fine.

More info about The Masses - Vol.IV, No.X (July, 1913

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

Tabloid (42cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 24pp; illus. A few tiny tears to left edge of rear wrapper, else Fine, unfolded and without postal markings.

More info about Quicksilver Times - Vol.IV, No.3 (February 15-28, 1972

Quarto (30cm). Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp; illus. Issue for 1919 ; slightly worn, with wrappers darkened and stained, contents slightly age-toned, with corner-creases and occasional thumb-soil; Just Good. Hand-stamp of the SLP / Detroit to front cover. Annual souvenir of the Workers' International Industrial Union.

More info about First of May Magazine. A Journal of Constructive Revolution [1919

Octavo (19cm.); publisher's grey pictorial cloth stamped in tan, green, and blue, gilt-lettered spine; [6],ii,[7]-268pp.; frontispiece. Cloth extremities a bit rubbed, some spotting and minor discoloration, spine rather toned, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front free endpaper, else contents near fine. About Very Good overall. Sinclair's fifth published novel, forming part.....

More info about A Strange Cruise; or, Clif Faraday's Yacht Chase

Tabloid (42cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 24pp; illus. Light wear and dustiness to wrappers, a few small tears, and one faint stain; Near Fine, unfolded and without postal markings.

More info about Quicksilver Times - Vol.III, No.18 (September 26-October 11, 1971

12mo (18cm). Original decorated wrappers; 289,(9),23pp. Covers rubbed and acidic text paper tanned, as usual; still a complete, tightly-bound copy, Good.

More info about President John Smith: The Story of A Peaceful Revolution (Written in 1920

Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, yellow, blue, and green; [4],ii,[7]-250,vpp.; frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped, some light soiling, spine cloth a bit dulled, else Very Good and sound. Slightly later (1928) gift inscription to front free endpaper.

More info about From Port to Port; or, Clif Faraday in Many Waters

Octavo. Bifolium (single folded sheet); 4pp. On newsprint. Paper slightly age-toned, but still Very Good, with minimal evidence of handling.

More info about A Lesson from the Chicken Coop: How One Smart Chicken Squeezed All the Other Chickens Out of the...

Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and toning, some faint, shallow staining along right margin, with several nicks and small tears to same; Very Good.

More info about New Masses - Vol.XXVIII, No.10 (August 30, 1938

First printing. Octavo; blue cloth, titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; 561pp. Tight and clean, with board corners just touched; titling remains bright and unfaded on spine and front cover; Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. The third volume in Dos Passos' acclaimed "USA Trilogy."

More info about The Big Money

First impression. Octavo; cloth hardcover, dustjacket; 208pp. Fine, unmarked copy in a barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper.

More info about Aime Cesaire [Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature

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