Immigration from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Cleveland: The Helman-Taylor Company, 1900. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Deep green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 459pp; illus. A tight, clean and unmarked copy, page margins slightly age-toned else close to Fine but with the final gathering of leaves darkened as usual. An attractive copy. An important source for the history of… Read more about this item

Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Company, 1854. First Edition. 12mo. Publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine; pale yellow coated endpapers; frontispiece portrait; 124pp. Ex Marietta [Ohio?] Public Library, with early paper spine label, bookplate, and pocket at rear; else a tight, Very Good or better copy, slightly foxed on the frontispiece but otherwise quite well-preserved. LCP… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Friends of Irish Freedom National Bureau of Information, 1920. First edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed self-wraps; 12pp. Light soil; hand-stamp of the Montgomery Count (PA) Historical Society to front cover and first text leaf; Very Good. Vigorous attack, by an Irish nationalist, on Wister's anglophilic and anti-Irish tract, The Straight Deal, or the Ancient Grudge (1920). … Read more about this item

[San Francisco: P.P. Tornich, ca 1922]. Three vintage silver-gelatin prints, approx. 7-1/2" x 9-1/2" (one slightly smaller) on commercial mounts, ca 11" x 14." The prints show mild surface wear but are clean and retain excellent contrast; moderate soiling to mounts; Near Fine. One mount printed with the photographer's address (110 Congo Street, San Francisco) at lower right; one… Read more about this item

New York: Schocken Books, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 347pp. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Fine, unmarked copy. In the original dustwrapper, unpriced on front flap, lightly rubbed, Near Fine.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xviii,[1]-287pp; charts, figures. Tight, clean, Very Good or better copy in the original printed dustwrapper, slightly toned on spine panel and extremities; Very Good. Ink ownership signature of Bernice V. Freeman, long time Princeton University librarian.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover in dustjacket; 276pp; illus. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Small reviewer's "check" mark in ink to front free endpaper, else Fine in a slightly spine-sunned, else Near Fine dustjacket.

Albany: State University of New York Press, (1983). First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial cloth hardcover, no dustjacket, as issued; 240pp; illus. A fine, apparently unread copy. In the publisher's series, "SUNY Series in Modern Jewish History.

Salem, MA: Higginson Book Company, [1996]. Four quarto volumes. Cloth-backed printed wrappers (softcovers); v.I, Part 1: pp 1-360; v.I, Part 2: pp.361-739; v.II, Part 1: pp.740-1103; also containing "Our Prudhon Family," pp.1-32; v.II, Part 2 [continuation of "Our Prudhon Family"], pp.33-64; subsequent chapters individually paginated. All volumes illustrated with photostatic facsimiles from original photographs. Complete and fine, with no… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: William Smith, [1844]. Original hand-colored lithograph, 14.5" x 11.5" (sheet); printed area ca 12.5" x 8" including caption. Trimmed at upper and lower margins, two or three short tears at edges, with general minor toning: Very Good or better. Image foreground depicts a fallen Shifler, bleeding from a wound to the chest, surrounded by three comrades as he… Read more about this item

[Baltimore]: Genealogical Publishing Company, [1992]. First American Edition. Octavo (24cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 188pp; includes bibliography. Mild evidence of use, including slight bowing to covers, still a tight, Very Good or better copy in the pictorial dustwrapper. This is a revised and much-expanded version of the article "History of Transportation" which appeared as the introductory volume in Coldham's nine-volume… Read more about this item

New York: New York University Press, 1999. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 273pp. Fine and apparently unread; a new-appearing copy.

New York: Macmillan, 1924. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 196pp. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper to the prominent religious scholar Moses Jung: "To Dr. Moses Jung / with my esteem and friendship," signed, dated 1946. A tight, Very Good or better copy in worn dustwrapper, rubbed and soiled with conspicuous triangular loss at… Read more about this item

New York: Orcutt Co, [1898]. Lithograph in colors, 49cm x 32.5cm (19" x 12-3/4"). Printed on thin coated stock, text in three lines below large central image of a bearded laborer. Small marginal loss at left (away from printed area); a few small marginal tears, small area of ink (?) specks at left of image. Overall Very Good. The… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Freedom Clubs, 1952. Offprint. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"); bifolium; 4pp. Two horizontal mailing folds (as issued), else Fine. Reprinted from the December, 1952 issue of the National Republic. Right-wing attack on attempts to block passage of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, which established immigration restrictions in order to "... safeguard the country from communism, "Jewish interests", and undesirables… Read more about this item

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1954. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in blue; 15pp. Ex-Yakima Valley Junior College with their usual markings, extremities a bit worn, upper cover toned to grey; Good to Very Good overall. Transcript of an NBC radio discussion on the history of immigration in America by George Bobrinskoy, Peter Hryhorowycz,… Read more about this item

Quakertown, PA: Gedruckt von Stauffer u. Schelly, 1890. First Edition. Small 12mo (15.5cm.); publisher's burnt orange decorative wrappers; 42pp. Wrappers a bit creased with chip at spine crown and one-inch split to spine foot, else Very Good, internally sound. Text entirely in German blackletter. Scarce collection of religious poetry and lyrics, Mennonite Historical only in OCLC as of June,… Read more about this item

Boston: Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston, [1961]. Broadside, 17" x 11". Printed in blue ink on white wove stock, recto only. Original vertical and horizontal folds; a few inconspicuous nicks to extremities; Very Good or better. The observance included performances by Cantor Gregor Shelkan and the Children's Chorus of the Y.L. Peretz School. Signed in type by the… Read more about this item

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1996). First Edition. Inscribed on title page: "Best wishes as you study those Danish and English ancestors," signed and dated in year of publication. First printing (not issued in cloth). Octavo; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 251,(2)pp; illus. Faint crease to front endpaper, else Fine. Memoir of the author's great-great-grandmother, a mid-19th century emigrant… Read more about this item

New York: Council Against Intolerance in America, 1939. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's green card wrappers; 116pp.; staplebound bibliography pamphlet in chemise mounted inside rear cover. Light wear and a hint of toning, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to title page and rear cover, else Very Good and sound.