Modern Fiction from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: The Viking Press, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); original pictorial library cloth boards; red topstain; dustjacket; [ii],[8],9-188,[2]pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Kelly - Stay Gold! S.E. Hinton." Tiny rubber-stamp at upper front endpaper reading "Dept. of School Libraries," hint of a forward lean, else bright and fresh, with the topstain… Read more about this item

[New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1963]. Facsimile letter, with text printed in blue on white wove paper; folded horizontally to create a small chapbook (measuring 6 3/8" x 5 1/8"); [8]pp. A Fine copy. A well-made facsimile of an autograph letter from Fitzgerald to Maxwell E. Perkins, dated September 18, 1919. The item was never offered for sale, with… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); original reddish-brown paper-covered boards; [viii],[2],3-215,[1]pp. Spine ends nudged, light wear to extremities, with two small spots of board exposure to upper front board; subtle offsetting to pastedowns, else contents clean; Very Good+. A nice copy of the fifth Lew Archer novel. BRUCCOLI A10.1.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); original pictorial boards; publisher's original printed acetate dustjacket; [xiv],[8],9-523,[7]pp. Two shallow indentations at lower spine, else Fine in an unclipped dustjacket (priced $23.00), showing modest surface wear; about Near Fine. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's debut novel, published in a run of 75,000 copies.

New York: Random House, 1962. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; red cloth, with titling and rule stamped in gilt and orange on spine and front panel; red topstain; dustjacket; 305pp. Very Near Fine, with top-stain bright and unfaded. Dustwrapper is unclipped (priced $4.95 on front flap), clean and crisp with a tiny (1/8") closed nick at base of… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907. First Edition. First printing, verso of title page dated July, 1907. Octavo (20.5cm). Publisher's gray cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt and colors; x,401pp; frontispiece and three inserted leaves of plates. A lovely copy, gilt bright on spine and front cover, with minimal rubbing to pictorial elements. Very Near Fine, and unusual thus.… Read more about this item

New York: New Directions, (1945). First Edition. First printing, one of 2520 copies printed. Octavo; cloth-backed patterned boards; 348pp; title page printed in brown and black. Touch of wear at bottom board corners; mildly sunned at extremities; still a straight, attractive, Very Good or better copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Collects Fitzgerald's last works and periodical pieces, all… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. First Edition. One of 600 copies. Inscribed and signed in full "with best wishes" to Jordan Massee Jr., dated May, 1939. Octavo (21.25cm); gray paper-covered boards and brown cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [x],145,[1]pp. Spine lettering dulled, else a tight, Near Fine copy, lacking the original glassine and… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); beige linen, blocked and titled in red and black on spine, with Hemingway's facsimile signature stamped in black on front cover; brown topstain; dustjacket; [x],471,[1]pp. Typical offsetting to pastedowns from binder's glue, previous owner's printed bookplate to front pastedown; top-stain mildly faded, spine titling mildly rubbed; contents… Read more about this item

Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1984. First, Limited Edition. Octavo; dark green leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt to spine and covers; all edges gilt; 307pp, [5]; illus. Signed by Updike on the first blank page. Single, small spot of foxing to fore edge of signature page, else a tight, Near Fine copy with minimal evidence of use.… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); navy blue and red paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-326,[2]pp. Contemporary owners penciled signatured and address to front endpaper, spine ends pushed, some dust-soil and rubbing to topstain, with circular rubber stamps of the Circulating… Read more about this item

Cleveland: World Syndicate Publishing, 1920. First Thus. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's textured red cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board, ruled in blind. Dustjacket. 218pp.Light wear to the cloth, most notably at the spine ends with some softening and bumping, bright, with a little dulling of the rather cheap spine gilt. A very good copy in a clean… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.d., 2010. Limited edition broadside. One of 250 copies, signed by both King and Lukens. 20" x 14", printed in colors on cream stock. Tiny crease at upper left corner and right margin, else Fine. Prints the entire short story "Birth of a Green Man," with color illustration by Jean Lukens. Apparently, from King's website, a… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. First Printing, first state, with extraneous line at the top of p.270 struck-through by Kosinski himself, using the same pen he used to write the inscription. Octavo (21cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and author's name in blind on front panel; brown topstain; dustjacket; [xii],272,[4]pp. Lengthily inscribed by… Read more about this item

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960. Book Club Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publihser's pale green rexine covered boards titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 270pp. Very light wear to the binding, some isolated scuffing and shelfwear to the extremities, in a dustjacket with some light, shallow wear to the edges and a little toning to the… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); beige linen, blocked and titled in red and black on spine, with Hemingway's facsimile signature stamped in black on front cover; brown topstain; dustjacket; [x],471,[1]pp. Some offsetting to pastedowns from binder's glue, hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock, with a few pinpoint rubbed spots on… Read more about this item

New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1925. First Edition. First printing, limited to 2000 numbered copies of which this is no. 492. Octavo (24cm). Sized brown buckram over beveled boards; top edge gilt; dustjacket; 140pp. Fine copy in the scarce dustwrapper, complete but with losses at spine ends and flap-folds, with old paper reinforcements to verso; Good or better and not… Read more about this item

N.p.: [Jack London Amateur Press Club], N.d.. 12mo. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 6 unnumbered leaves. Fine. Undated reissue (ca. 1940s) of the privately printed edition of 1932. An uncommon bit of London juvenilia, a poem of 17 stanzas written around 1899 and originally published in the San Francisco Call in 1899. The manuscript was rediscovered in 1932 and printed… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. First Printing, with Scribner's seal on copyright page and no legal disclaimer on p.[x]. Octavo (19.25cm); black cloth, with title labels mounted to spine and front cover; [x],[2],3-355,[3]pp. Pencil ownership signature of Albert Chapman to front pastedown, dated 1929; original bookseller's ticket tipped in at front endpaper (Old Corner Bookshop, Boston).… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston / The Viking Press, 1981-1987. First Editions. First Printings. Three octavo volumes (23.5cm); variously colored paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt, copper, and black on spines; patterned endpapers; dustjackets; xviii,332; [xii],[2],3-306; [x],258pp. Volumes 1 and 2 are signed by Burroughs on the title pages; Volume three is signed on the… Read more about this item