Lorne Bair Rare Books

Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, lightly worn at extremities; faint vertical crease to front cover; Very Good.

More info about Judios Sin Dinero [Jews Without Money

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

Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth in blue printed price-clipped dust jacket; xvii,[1],554pp. Jacket extremities rather toned, tiny chips including loss at spine crown affecting a couple of letters without loss of meaning; overall Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Text divided into three sections: "The Youth of Bentham (1776-1789)"; "The Evolution.....

More info about The Growth of Philosophic Radicalism [Ben Shahn's Copy

Reprint. Octavo (20.5cm); light blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; red topstain; 342pp. Subtle darkening to cloth at spine and edges, light offsetting to endpapers and a few tiny nicks to rear pastedown; Very Good+ to Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, with shallow chipping.....

More info about Glibson

First Impression. Octavo (19cm); original printed wrappers; [7],8-384,[4]pp. Light wear to extremities and base of spine, with a tiny tear and attendant crease at right edge of front wrapper; page untrimmed; Near Fine, lacking the scarce pictorial dustjacket.

More info about La Croisade De Lee Gordon (Lonely Crusade

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

More info about A Women's Poetry Reading. All Women Are Welcome To Read Their Poetry

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); dark blue cloth, blocked and titled in burgundy and gilt on spine and front cover; viii, 448, [8]pp ads. Neat, contemporary owner's name and date to front endpaper (a "Dr. L.W. Truman"). Mild external wear, with light rubbing to corners and spine ends; hinges very lightly.....

More info about Comrade Yetta

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); blue-gray cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in silver and black on spine and front cover; viii,412,[8]pp ads. Gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn, with some faint moisture staining to lower front and rear covers (though contents unaffected); previous owners ink name to front endpaper, with some.....

More info about Equality

Broadside, 44cm x 57cm. Printed offset in black on white uncoated lithograhic paper; text in two columns beneath headline in Gothic type. Minor wrinkling at margins, else Fine.

More info about Original Broadside: Post Mortem Ante Facto

Octavo (18cm). Printed buff wrappers; 891pp + ads. Covers and text mildly toned; still a tight, lightly worn copy of the unusual wrappered edition. Simultaneously reprinted in cloth by Sinclair; initially published by John C. Winston & Co. in 1915.

More info about The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest

Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; 312,[3](ads)pp.; added color lithographic title page. Light shelf wear, miniscule damp spot to upper cover, spine a shade darkened, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and bookplate to front pastedown, late 20th-century bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, else Very Good or better.

More info about My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and Philosophical Novel

Large quarto (35cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 34pp; illus. Light toning and handling to wrappers, oxidation to lower staple, with upper staple lacking; Very Good+.

More info about The Masses - Vol.VIII, No.12 (October, 1916

Octavo. Publisher's blue-gray cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; blind-stamped decorative borders to front board; red edge-stain; frontispiece portrait; x,[1]-512,[1]pp. A typically worn copy; boards evenly rubbed and soiled, with board exposure at upper corners and mild fraying to spine ends; both hinges thinly cracked (but holding); text clean.....

More info about Instead of a Book by a Man Too Busy to Write One. A Fragmentary Exposition of Philosophical...

Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine; dustjacket; 383pp. Paper-clip indent to first few leaves of text, else a tight, straight and unmarked copy, VG or better, in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and soiled with a few small nicks at extremities. A Very Good, quite handsome.....

More info about Soviet River

Octavo; pp. [6],264pp.; [*]4 A-Q8 R4; woodcut title page vignette, head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary red imitation morocco, double ruled in gilt, flat spine decorated in gilt. Extremities rubbed with boards occasionally exposed, contemporary blue ribbon marker detached but present. A Very Good, attractive copy.

More info about Télephe en XII livres

First printing. Title leaf a cancel (as with all copies, per Blanck). Octavo (19cm). Original pictorial cloth boards, stamped in colors on spine and front cover; ix, 319, (4)pp; illus. Previous owner's bookplate pasted inside front board; cloth slightly rubbed at crown and heel; spine design slightly dulled; a tight.....

More info about When God Laughs and Other Stories

12mo (17cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 10pp. Shallow chips and tiny losses to wrapper extremities, the whole a bit toned and dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Publisher's advertisements printed on pp. [11] and [14] (rear wrapper).

More info about The Thirty-Six Trades of the State

Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; 80pp. Discoloration to board edges; ownership signature to front endpaper (Mary Elizabeth Raub); a Very Good copy. The prolific radical poet's rather uncommon first book, a collection of aesthetic verse displaying only glimpses of the vigorous, polemical tone of Lowenfels's later work.

More info about Episodes & Epistles. Poems by W.L

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

Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, with gilt decorative device to center of rear board; dustjacket; unpaged. Number 120 of 250 hand-numbered and signed copies in the "Grayson Books" series of limited editions. Prelims foxed; jacket toned on spine with small losses; Very Good.....

More info about At Bay (Signed, Limited edition

First Printing. Octavo (ca.21cm); cream linen, titled and blocked in navy blue and gilt on spine; dustjacket; 246pp. Hint of spotting to upper rear fore-edge, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with some pinpoint rubbing to extremities and a tiny bruise to lower front joint. Gorham's first novel.....

More info about The Gilded Hearse

Edition and printing not stated. 4-pp leaflet (single folded sheet); text on all four pages. Mild age-toning to paper, still Very Good. Ephemeral recruiting brochure, with invitation and instructions for joining the Socialist Party, likely distributed at Russell's speaking engagements during his U.S. Senate campaign of 1913-14. A popular muckracking.....

More info about Join The Party

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 (19.25cm.); original green decorative cloth embossed in gilt; [8],615,[1],[7](ads)pp. Cloth rather worn and textblock rather loose in binding, spine gilt quite dulled, else a Good and sound copy. Inscribed and signed by Upton Sinclair on front free endpaper: "To Mother / with Love / Xmas, 1918 / Upton."

More info about In the Heart of a Fool [Inscribed & Signed by Upton Sinclair to His Mother

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

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

More info about Parachute Shop Blues and other writings of New Orleans [Title from cover: Parachute Shop Blues...

Bifolium (35.5cm); cream wrappers, with text and illustration printed in dark blue; [4]pp. Modest wear and handling, with several tears and attendant creases (though none encroaching into words, music, or design); Very Good.

More info about We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years. Poem by an unknown Proletarian. Music by Rudolph Von...

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

4-pp leaflet, 14cm x 9cm. Printed in black on newsprint. Paper somewhat age-darkened, but still supple and well-preserved; Good to Very Good. Prints the text of Labadie's poem "What Shall We Do?," which originally appeared in the Detroit News for Oct 22, 1902. Concludes with a brief agitational paragraph: "Capitalism.....

More info about What Shall We Do?

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 Printing. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in red and black pictorial price-clipped dust jacket signed in image by "Suba," black topstain; [10],166pp. General edge wear to jacket extremities, including small loss at spine crown not approaching text, some minor dust-soil, corners gently bumped, else Very Good or better in.....

More info about No More Peace! A Thoughtful Comedy

Archive of six TNS (typed notes, signed), five TLS (typed letters, signed), and one Western Union telegram from Upton Sinclair to the Paris literary agent and translator Jean-Robert Lamour (better known by his pseudonym, Yves Malartic). Together with ten of Lamour's retained carbons of communications to Sinclair and others. Correspondence.....

More info about Archive of Correspondence to and from J.R. Lamour [aka Yves Malartic

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

12mo. Black cloth boards, lettered in red on spine and front cover; original patterened glassine dustwrapper (unprinted); [40]pp; 2 inserted leaves of plates (reproducing lithographs by Orózco. Upper board edges slightly sunned, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the scarce publisher's spiderweb glassine, chipped along upper edge and with.....

More info about Bowery Parade and Other Poems of Protest

Quarto (29.5cm). Side-stapled sheets; pictorial thick paper wrappers; 18pp (printed recto-only). Mild external soil and some aging to text; Very Good or better. Uncommon work by the prolific Anglo-American musician/producer/illustrator/author, long-time radio host at KPFA, the Oakland, California affiliate of Pacifica Radio, and proprietor of the Strange Faeces Press.

More info about The Gospel According to Night. The Book of Ben Part One

First Printing. Octavo (22cm); taupe cloth, with titles stamped in navy blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,560,[4]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, some faint spotting to lower edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, with a hint of sunning to spine, several tiny closed tears to.....

More info about We Fished All Night

Octavo (24cm). Originial red cloth with laid on cover and spine titles; 29pp; boldly inscribed to Richard and Margot Archer on first free endpaper. One of 400 copies. Sunning to cloth of spine, else fine. A long poem on the theme of southern poverty and civil rights. Issued as Morning.....

More info about In Egypt Land

Octavo (19.5cm). Pictorial paper wrappers; 139pp. Bilingual text, with Spanish-language portion translated by Sergio Mondragón. One thousand copies printed. Inscribed on half-title: "For Sid Finkelstein who knows how to read as well as write," signed, dated 1965. Covers sligthly rubbed; spine a shade sunned; text gently tanned; Very Good. Poems.....

More info about Land of Roseberries / Tierra de Moras. Drawings by David Alfaro Siqueiros

Quarto (28cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 44pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, short split to wrappers at lower spine-fold, with some oxidation to staples, a few faint patches of foxing to front wrapper, with previous owners last name in grease pencil at upper front wrapper; contents with subtle tanning to.....

More info about The Masses - Vol.IX, No.3 (January, 1917

First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 300pp. Hint of sunning to spine, with rubber-stamped 'C' on rear pastedown; very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, spine-sunned, with light edgewear and a few tiny nicks at the crown; Very Good+.

More info about Biddy Brogan's Boy