How-To Books from Lorne Bair Rare Books

San Francisco: Sundance Press, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 43,[3]pp. Mild external soil, visible on lighter portions of rear wrapper, else Near Fine. How-to manual, a comprehensive guide including indoor and outdoor cultivation."There is more to growing marihuana in the United States than just sticking the seeds in the ground. The plant is extremely… Read more about this item

San Francisco: And/Or Press, 1977. Seventh And/Or printing (preceded by three printings from Level Press). Octavo (21.25cm); illustrated card wrappers; 94,[2]pp; illus. A bright, Near Fine copy of a book usually found well-used. Detailed manual for the indoor / outdoor cultivation of marijuana, including sections on growing systems and light charts.

Portland, ME: Sanborn and Carter, 1846. Fiftieth Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); one quarter black paper with brown paper sides, gilt on spine; iv,228pp. Comprehensive dampstaining, wear and soiling; pinholes to spine hinges; board extremities rubbed and chapped, corners bumped. Textblock foxed and damped; stray marks throughout; Ben & Bernarda Shahn bookplate on front pastedown. Good or Better. A c.1840's… Read more about this item

Portland ME, Philadelphia: Merrill & Whitman, J.B. Lippincott, 1855. Tenth Edition. Octavo (19cm); one quarter brown leather with printed paper covered boards; xv, 17-240pp. Leather portions chapped, spots of material loss along/near extremities; paper also rubbed w/ some material loss, also soiled, dampstained, and toned; leading corners fraying. Textblock comprehensively foxed; Ben and Bernarda Shahn estate label tipped to… Read more about this item

Boston: The P.R. Warren Co. Printers, 1906. Edition not stated. Octavo (21.5cm); dark green cloth, stamped in black; 303pp. Boards worn with scuffs and small gouges, extremities chapped; patches of material bleaching on rear; interior toning to margins; first signature somewhat loosened from rest of textblock, else pages are clean and tight. Period ads throughout. Very Good. This… Read more about this item

London and New York: Routledge, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); glossy paper pictorial wrappers; viii,370pp. Wrappers mildly scuffed, with slight bumping to leading corners, heel and crown of spine; interiors have mild handling wear, otherwise clean. Near Fine overall. This book is intended to be an introduction to reading, writing, and speaking modern Icelandic. Beginning with lessons on… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); pictorial paper-covered boards, in color pictorial dustwrapper; ix,319pp. Crown of spine (boards) slightly sunned; dustwrapper has light surface wear and scuffing, mild bumping to heel of spine; marginalia in pencil throughout interior, else clean, Near Fine overall. Chinese-American chef and television show host Ken Hom shares some of… Read more about this item

N.d.: K.T. Boland, 1901. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); dark green publisher's cloth, decoratively stamped in blind and gilt; 448pp.,frontis.,64 plates. Minor soiling, scuffs and wear throughout; spine heel and crown pushed; gilt faded; dust-soiling to textblock edges; ownership inscription on ffep; Very Good or better, sound. Intended as a companion for women at all stages of her adult… Read more about this item

Waverly, NY: Mei Foo, 1940. First Edition. Limited to 5000 copies. Octavo (21cm); yellow paper wrappers w/ red print lettering, green print pattern of Chinese characters reading "Mei Fu"; 104pp. Light offsetting and soil to wrappers, minor handling wear; Very Good or better. W.J. Sosnoski taught himself how to read Chinese while stationed in Shanghai some twenty years… Read more about this item

Chicago: Popular Mechanics Press, 1925. Edition not stated. Octavo (24.5cm); brown publisher's cloth, stamped in black; 104pp. Cocked spine; surface wear, minor rubbing and dings to boards; mild soiling throughout, with foxing to textblock edges; ownership signature on ffep. Very Good. This is but one volume of many published by Popular Mechanics at the time, advertised as using… Read more about this item

Deer Lake, PA: Bacon and Freeman, 1975. First, Limited Edition. Number 433 out of 800. Quarto (28cm); black paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt; 200pp. Boards rubbed and scuffed; crown of spine bumped; interiors foxed on pastedowns, endpapers, and along textblock edges. Very Good. Described as the sixth in Chandler's (proposed) series of ten books on Perry County, in… Read more about this item

Duluth, MN: The Liberated Cook Press, 1981. Edition not stated. Octavo (28cm); ivory plastic comb binding with aqua/pictorial paper wrappers; 96pp. Comb binding missing several teeth, repaired with tape; mild soiling and handling wear, sticker+residue on rear wrapper; interiors clean. Very Good. The Liberated Cook was a column written by Ojakangas for the Duluth News-Tribune, and this book… Read more about this item

[Australia]: Privately published, 2016. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); gilt-stamped, grey publisher's cloth-backed boards in pale pink pictorial dustwrapper; 115pp. Front pastedown and title page stamped, else Fine, like new. Surplus duplicate from the Library of Congress. This book introduces simple conversational sentences and words in Mandarin Chinese, providing Chinese characters with their ISO Chinese-Pinyin (Romanized) readings to aid… Read more about this item

Oroville, CA: The George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation, Inc, 1977. First Revised Edition. Octavo (21cm.); white pictorial paper wrappers; 101pp. Text block edges have some toning and soiling, with additional light soiling and handling wear throughout. Sound, Very Good. Wrappers are foxed on front panel, with sunning very evident on rear. Mild soiling overall, plus surface and corner wear, but… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1911. First Edition. Demi octavo (18cm). Original olive-green cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 231pp; 8 inserted leaves of plates by Arthur William Brown. Bit of dusting to upper edge of text block, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the scarce pictorial dustwrapper, lightly nicked at spine ends… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First edition, paperback issue (there was a simultaneous, and notably scarce, issue in boards). Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 108pp. Mild external rubbing and wear, else a tight, straight copy, Very Good or better. Text clean, fresh and unmarked. Laid in are four early publications of the Maryland Citizens Coalition for Cable Communications,… Read more about this item