Lorne Bair Rare Books

Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [10],309pp. Minor rubbing to jacket extremities, cloth foxed, else Very Good or better.

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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...

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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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Large octavo (24.5cm). Original printed card wrappers; 128pp. Wrappers somewhat worn, with triangular losses to rear cover costing a few words of promotional text; spine abraded, with titling partially rubbed away. Occasional mild creasing to contents, but generally clean and free of markings; just Good. Text entirely in English.

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First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 64pp. Mild wear to extremities, hint of sunning to spine-fold, with a vertical crease along right side of front wrapper; Very Good+.

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Brief 1-pp TNS on Eastman's personal Croton-On-Hudson notepaper, addressed to a "Miss Mendham", dated March 30, 1938. Old folds; holograph additions in Eastman's hand; Very Good. "I shall be delighted to have you use some of my poems in your Verse Speaking Festival...perhaps the poem called "Battle Fields" in my...

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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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Limited Issue, one of 1,000 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.492. Octavo (21.25cm); light gray linen, with titles stamped in blue on spine and front cover; blue-violet topstain; dustjacket; [xii],466,[4]pp. Light offsetting to endpapers, else Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.75), with...

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Octavo (18cm). Red cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt; spine lettered in green; [6],529,[1],[2](blank),[4](ads)pp. Mild signs of use to boards, spine a touch faded, some light insecting to fore-edge, textblock edges unevenly discolored; still, Very Good overall.

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16mo. Printed wrappers; 75p. Faint soil and creasing; text clean and unmarked. Text entirely in French. Scarce work. Not found via OCLC.

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Presentation copy, inscribed to Lowenfels's daughter and son-in-law, Michal and Norman Kane: "for Michal and Norman / with thanks for the help," dated 1960. Discoloration to endpapers, else a tight, fine copy in crisp, unworn jacket.

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

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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...

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Small octavo (20cm). Blue cloth boards, blocked in black and silver ink on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii, 412, (6)pp; portr. frontis. The Seventh Edition, dated 1903 (originally published 1897). Tight, Near Fine copy in the scarce early dustwrapper, toned and chipped at edges, still Good or better.

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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.

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Octavo (19.5cm.); brown textured boards, with titles stamped in gilt on the spine and in black on the front panel; dustjacket; 280pp. Spine panel slightly toned (though gilt is still bright), with some fading to the upper boards edges and a few small scrapes to the upper edge of textblock;...

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Pale sea-green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 283pp; page edges and margins tinted yellow. Corner chip to front free endpaper, else a tight, clean copy, just lightly soiled on boards; Very Good or better.

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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.

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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...

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Octavo (20cm). Printed wrappers; 447pp; illus; one folding plate. Text tanned and slightly brittle; wrappers complete, slightly faded at margins; Very Good. We have never previously encountered this fragile issue in wraps, presumably issued simultaneously with the cloth-bound issue, probably as a "budget" edition as the text is printed on...

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One of 1,200 copies. Octavo (20.75cm); dark blue-green buckram, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; teal topstain; dustjacket; 271; 90pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $5.95), with some light wear to spine ends and extremities, and touch of dustiness to front panel on Jefferson's Birthday.

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12mo (19cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, yapp edges; 206pp. Some chipping to wrapper extremities, spine a bit toned, else Very Good, internally fine and fresh. Collection of radical and experimental short stories by the author of The Underdogs (1915).

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Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound, illustrated card wrappers; 67pp. Tiny crease to front wrapper corner, else fine.

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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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Limited to 650 copies of which this is no. 10 of 100 illustrated with original lithographs by George Biddle. Folio (31cm.); original red maroon-backed papier-peint boards, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, others uncut; unpaged; mounted frontispiece and four leaves of plates; 5 additional half-page plates mounted to leaves of text...

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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+.

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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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Octavo, red cloth; 517pp. Very Good. An undistinguished reprint, except that this copy bears a taped-in accession slip from the Danbury [CT] Federal Correctional Institution: "This item has been approved for quarters for the following inmate only [completed in type]: Name: Marzani. No. 7333-Ct. Date: January 15, 1950." Signed in...

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Reprint. Octavo (20.75cm); dark red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [viii],280pp; illus. Slight forward lean, spine ends gently nudged, with a handful of small stains to right edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is edgeworn, spine-sunned, with.....

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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....

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Large Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Mild toning and trivial wear to wrappers, else Near Fine.

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Octavo (21cm). Red linen boards, titled in black on spine and front cover; yellow top-stain; 213pp. Bit of soiling to upper edge of text-block, with consequent dulling to top-stain; very minor thumb-soil within; in all a tight, straight copy, VG+ to Near Fine. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper.

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Small octavo (20cm). Salmon cloth boards, blocked in brown and gilt on spine and front cover; viii, 412, (8)pp. Tight, clean Near Fine copy, just lightly dusted at upper edge of text block. Lacking the scarce jacket.

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Octavo (19.5cm.); original half cloth over decorative boards in orange dust jacket; [10],484pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine a bit darkened with very shallow losses to ends, else a Very Good to Near Fine, vibrant copy. Novel of the son of Austrian immigrants who grows up to a....

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Octavo (21cm). Green cloth boards; dustjacket; 572pp. Purple top-stain slightly faded, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped and with minor spots of rubbing at flap-folds and spine ends; Very Good Plus.

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First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue denim paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 460pp. Inscribed by the author on the second blank page, inside an original drawing of a wine goblet with a caricature inside: "For David + Carol / Whose cup of kindness hath cheered me...

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Quarto (30.5cm); publisher's tall comb-bound sheets (rectos only), with publisher's typed labels mounted to front wrapper, and original publisher's seal along lower edge; [vi],105pp. Light wear to extremities, some mild curling to wrapper edges, with seal broken at an early date; Very Good+.

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Paperback original. Octavo (20.5cm); illustrated card wrappers; 125, (2)pp; author portrait and promotional blurb at rear. Light shelfwear and rubbing to extremities, with wear to base of spine; unread, Very Good+ or better.

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Quarto (29.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and dustiness to wrappers, else Near Fine.

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One of 200 copies, signed; this copy additionally inscribed "To Walter Russell / with the compliments and regards of Bob Lafferty," dated 1930. Tight, Near Fine copy.

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