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First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 300pp. Small, vintage booksellers ticket to lower rear pastedown, with some offsetting to same from binders glue, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), spine-sunned and edgeworn, with several small nicks to spine ends and corners...
Original cloth; 188pp. Tasteful custom bookplate of "Thelma and Bob" inside front cover, spine lightly sunned; a tight, clean, solid copy, Very Good or better, lacking the scarce jacket.
Octavo (19cm); red cloth with titles and design stamped in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 268pp, [4] ads. Split at front hinge neatly mended; Very Good, clean throughout, with bright cloth and the spine gilt unrubbed. Dustjacket is slightly toned at the spine, with light, general wear at the extremities...
![The Hungered One: Early Writings [Uncorrected Proof]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/38720.jpg?v=1529353923)
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+.
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...
Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and toning to extremities, with a few tiny tears to wrappers; Near Fine.
![The Garden of Priapus [Messaline]. Illustrated by Arthur Zaidenberg](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/31236.jpg?v=1529353648)
Octavo. Brown cloth; dustjacket; 169pp; illus. Number 816 of 1000 numbered copies. Tight, clean copy in original pictorial jacket, lacking the publisher's glassine jacket protector. The jacket has been reinforced on verso at some early date with kraft paper, but is otherwise remarkably fresh and bright. Front endpaper clipped at...
First Printing. Octavo (20cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; 416, vi, [2]pp. Slight forward lean, scattered foxing to text edges, lower corners bumped, with some rubbing to lettering (though still quite legible); Very Good, sound copy.
First Impression. Octavo (20.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; vii,861pp. Spine ende gently nudged, some offset to front endpaper, with a crack to gutter at terminal leaf; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 9/6 net), gently spine-sunned and lightly shelfworn, with some dustiness and a....
Quarto (28cm). Staple-bound pictorial wrappers; 15pp; illus. Contributions by Paula Golden, Maurice Sugar, Anita Pavlow; numerous illustrations in text, including two cartoons by Ben Yomen. Covers soiled and slightly creased; still a Good, complete copy.
Quarto (27cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 34pp; illus. Tanning to text edges; mild wear and soil to covers, with a few partial splits to spine-fold; Very Good.
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...
Octavo (22cm). Stiff decorative card wrappers; silver foil dustjacket; 8pp. Presentation copy, with mounted photographic portrait of Balabanoff (5" x 3") inside front wrapper, inscribed in ink: "For my dear friends F&T Lewis, with many, many heartiest wishes!," dated 1939. Jacket worn and partially detached; text block loose in wrappers;...
Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 263pp. A brilliant copy, fully Fine in a nearly flawless dustjacket. Rarely seen thus.
Small octavo (19cm.); original green printed staplebound wrappers; [2],119pp.; text in double column. Spine cocked, wrapper rectos fading and extremities foxed and a bit worn; contemporary ownership signature at head of title page. About Very Good. Fictional account of the rise of Henry Ford. AHOUSE A62a; HANNA 3232 (erroneously stating...
![A World To Win [Inscribed]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/008614.jpg?v=1529353116)
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."...
(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...
![Proletarskaia Revoliutsiia i Renegat Kautskii [The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/28998.jpg?v=1529353601)
Octavo (23cm). Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 144pp. Mild external wear; triangular loss to leaf 107/108, resulting in brief loss to text (not affecting sense); Very Good.
12mo. Printed card wrappers; 147pp. Mild external wear, with some pinpoint rubbing at wrapper edges; Near Fine.
First Printing. Octavo (21cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in black and brown on spine; dustjacket; 166, [2]pp. Top edge slightly dusty, else Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $5.95), with light shelfwear, sunning to spine, and bubbling to the laminate on the front panel (as is...
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.
![Bricks Without Straw [Inscribed & Signed by the Author & Sixty-Two Guests at a Party Thrown by Dave Thompson and Barney Dreyfus, March 11, 1939]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/39048.jpg?v=1529353939)
Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's red cloth, decorative spine stamped in black and gilt, red topstain; [6],365pp. Cloth rather discolored from damp and soil, most heavily so to rear cover, spine cocked, brief and shallow loss of cloth and board at top edge of rear cover. Good to Very Good only. Inscribed...
Quarto (27.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 34pp; illus. Extremities worn, text slightly tanned, with dustiness and small tears to wrappers; faint damp marks to front wrapper; Very Good, complete copy.
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;...
Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and toning to extremities, with a few tiny tears to wrappers; Near Fine.
Quarto (30.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Mild wear and toning to extremities, with a few tiny nicks and chips to edges; Very Good+.
Quarto (27.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 50pp; illus. Wrappers edgeworn, soiled, and creased, with toning to extremities; text edges heavily tanned, with chipping, tears, and creases to margins, and some scattered internal foxing/soil; Good, complete copy.
12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth (white over blue), upper cover lettered and ruled in gilt, unadorned spine; [8],44pp. Some minor shelf wear, white portion of cloth binding rather soiled and toned along spine, short closed tear to title page fore-edge not approaching text, old ink spot affecting first few leaves...
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.
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); rough blue cloth with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 244pp. Laid into this copy is a half-page typed letter, signed, addressed to literary editor Aaron Asher (dated October 21, 1959). Hint of a lean, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly...
Octavo; gilt-pictorial cloth; 465pp. Text block edges mildly dusted; top-stain faded, else Fine in the scarce and fragile pictorial dustwrapper, lightly edge-worn, mildly eroded at spine-ends, but unclipped and quite handsome.
Nineteen consecutive quarto issues in original wrappers. Staple-bound self-wraps; 24pp per issue. Mild toning and soil to outer pages on some issues; occasional mild creasing, but no serious wear – generally Very Good or better overall.
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."
16mo. Printed wrappers; 75p. Faint soil and creasing; text clean and unmarked. Text entirely in French. Scarce work. Not found via OCLC.
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.
![Biddy Brogan's Boy [Inscribed in the Year of Publication]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/29503.jpg?v=1529353608)
First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 300pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To Doug Rigg - with the friendship of Jim Tully / Canoga Park, Cal / Oct 1942." Owner's bookplate to front pastedown, with mild wear to spine...
![[Text in Yiddish] De Ayzerner Knafel (The Iron Heel)](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34191.jpg?v=1529353757)
Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; 380pp. Some minor shelf wear, textblock a bit shaken, small loss at fore-edge of last leaf of text not affecting text, else Near Very Good and sound. WOODBRIDGE 65. See also BAIRD 1538; BLEILER (1972), p. 183; COEN, pp. 96 & 152; HANNA 2225; NEGLEY 703; RIDEOUT, p. 293, for the first (1908) edition.
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.
First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [iv],380pp. Some trivial softening to spine ends, hint of offset to pastedowns, with a few nearly invisible splash marks on rear cover; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned...
Octavo (22cm); purple cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; purple topstain; dustjacket; 230pp. Hint of sunning to upper board edges and topstain, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with light wear and a few small nicks to extremities and gentle sunning to spine.
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