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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.
Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in Art Deco dust jacket designed by Calman, printed in yellow, hot pink, and dark blue, black toptain; vii,[8]-330pp. Jacket extremities quite chipped and worn with a number of closed tears and small losses, none approaching text, the whole quite dust-soiled, cloth boards a bit darkened.......
First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); beige buckram, with printed title label applied to spine; reddish-brown topstain; dustjacket; [10],210pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), with light wear to extremities, some faint creasing along front panel edges, and a sharp vertical fold slightly...
!["Skinny's Turkey Dinner" [in] The International Socialist Review, Vol. X, No. 5 (November, 1909)](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/17424.jpg?v=1529353225)
Octavo (23cm). Original pictorial wrappers; pp 385-472. Slight cover wear and soil; light wear to spine; occasional creasing; Very Good.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
15 tabloid issues (29cm); offset printed in black on newsprint; each issue 12pp; illus. Includes Vol.1, Nos.3-17. Original folds, with light toning to extremities; Near Fine overall.
Octavo (21cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xiv],303pp. Small, faint damp mark to lower left corner of front cover, else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket designed by Ernst Reichl is unclipped (priced $2.50), with a hint of sunning to spine and...
Small octavo (20cm). Salmon cloth boards (Blanck's first binding), blocked in brown and gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; viii, 412, (8)pp. Tight, clean Near Fine copy, just lightly dusted at upper edge of text block. In a Very Good example of the scarce dustwrapper, darkened on spine panel...
![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...
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.
Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 14pp. Covers slightly worn; front cover stamped "With compliments of American Ethnological Press." Very Good.
Octavo. Green cloth; dustjacket; 341pp. Bright, Near Fine copy with deep blue topstain. In the scarce dustwrapper, lightly worn at extremities, a bit faded on spine (still perfectly legible); easily on the better side of Very Good.
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...
Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's first issue green cloth in white, green, and brown dust jacket, brown topstain; [4],285pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and worn with a few tiny chips, bottom fore-edge corner of rear cover bumped with last few leaves showing subsequent faint creasing, else Very Good in Near Very Good...
![Two Plays: Juno and the Paycock [and] The Shadow of a Gunman](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/20582.jpg?v=1529353281)
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...
![Parachute Shop Blues and other writings of New Orleans [Title from cover: Parachute Shop Blues and other poems by New Orleans poets]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/24969.jpg?v=1529353445)
Octavo (21cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 82pp. Trivial external dusting, else a fine, unread copy.
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.
Octavo (22.75cm); yellow and black printed wrappers, stapled; 120pp; illus. Starting oxidation to staples, with faint dustiness to wrappers; Near Fine.
Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound, illustrated card wrappers; 67pp. Tiny crease to front wrapper corner, else fine.
Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 403pp. Light overall wear, with fading to board edges; in complete dustjacketwith shallow chips at extremities, with old adhesive wax residue to verso -- attractive enough on the shelf, but just Very Good thus.
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...
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+.
Octavo (21cm). Cloth-backed boards; paper spine label; dustjacket; 73pp; illus. One of 250 signed copies, signed by the author on limitation page. Very fine in bright, unworn dustjacket.
![The Twelve [Limited Edition, Signed by the Illustrator]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/27735.jpg?v=1529353555)
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...
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.
Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and toning to extremities, else Near Fine.
Wrappered issue (issued simultaneously in cloth, in the publisher's "Town and Country Library" series). Small octavo. Salmon thick-paper wrappers, printed in black; 257,[3]pp. Minor external wear; faint marginal damp-mark to upper corner of last two leaves (away from text); a Very Good or better copy in the original printed wrappers...
First Printing. Octavo. Quarter maroon cloth over yellow textured boards; dustjacket; maroon top-stain, 215pp. Faint dampstain along bottom edge of rear jacket not affecting boards, else Very Good to Near Fine. African-American author's third book, covering "poverty, drug addiction, prostitution, venereal disease, murder, bureaucratic indifference, race riots..." (upper jacket flap).
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...
Slim octavo (21.5cm); pale blue and black printed wrappers, stapled; 46, [2]pp. Mild toning to and some scattered staining to wrappers; contents clean; Very Good.
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."
Quarto (27.5cm). Original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 34pp. Text edges browned, but not brittle; toning along spine fold and cover edges, with a faint vertical crease along center of front cover and foxing along the upper margin of same; Very Good. The issue includes contributions by Max & Crystal Eastman, Robert...
Small octavo (19.5cm.); cloth boards and white printed dustjacket; 215pp. Dusting to upper edge of text block, else Fine. In scarce dustjacket, rubbed and slightly soiled, Very Good.
Small octavo; morocco-backed sage green boards in publisher's slipcase; ix, 200pp; folding frontispiece facsimile. Number 78 of 575 hand-numbered copies printed by Richard W. Ellis at the Georgian Press. Hint of rubbing to spine ends; slipcase slightly worn; Very Good to Near Fine.
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.
Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in grey dust jacket lettered in reddish-brown; [8],293pp. Minor bumping to spine ends; very occasional and mild foxing to preliminaries, contemporary bookseller rubberstamp to rear free endpaper; else about fine, with gilt bright on spine and no internal soiling or wear, in solid dustjacket with mild...
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