Recent Arrivals from Lorne Bair Rare Books

[Buffalo]: Dept. of Further Studies, [1965]. First edition. Single quarto issue. Staple-bound corrugated paper wrappers with sculptural inclusion of a length of sisal baling twine penetrating front wrapper; unpaginated, printed rectos only. Mild toning to wrapper edges, else clean and complete, Very Good or better. Final issue of this short-lived and rather uncommon poetry journal issued from the… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 1993. Eleventh Printing. Seven octavo volumes (23cm); patterned paper-covered boards and maroon cloth backstrips, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spines; publisher's matching cloth slipcase; illustrated throughout by Joan Hassall. A few tiny spots of soil to rear cover of Emma, otherwise a Fine set. Slipcase lightly shelfworn, else Near Fine. Handsome edition… 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

New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); bluish-grey paper-covered boards and turquoise cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and authors initials embossed onto front cover; light blue topstain; dustjacket; [4],xvi,198,[6]pp. Topstain faded, with a faint, tiny splash mark to heel; contents fresh; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95), showing light wear… Read more about this item

Buffalo, NY: Lemar International, 1969. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm); original pictorial wrappers; 24pp; illus. Toning to extremities, a few splash marks and one small loss to front wrapper, a few tiny tears, with some yellow underlining to text on pp.12-13 and 18-19, and a section of text cut out from p.19-20; Good. Debut issue of one of the… Read more about this item

Nyack, NY: CONAME, [ca 1972]. 5 manila envelopes (12"x9") with printed labels, containing a total of 29 reprinted articles and 6 introductory sheets. All housed within large manila envelope (13"x9.5"), labeled in manuscript. External envelope rubbed and worn, with some dustsoil: Good only. Internal manila envelopes slightly rubbed, with minor rust to metal closures; enclosed articles with mild foxing… Read more about this item

New York: The Ecco Press, 1983. First Edition Thus. Octavo (20.75cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [viii],[2],3-53,[3]pp. Light surface wear to wrappers, else Near Fine. Reissue of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first collection of poems, originally published by the New American Library in 1968.

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

New York: The Ecco Press, 1990. First Paperback Edition. First printing. Octavo (22.75cm); original glossy pictorial card wrappers; [15],16-68,[4]pp. Previous owner's circular embossed stamp to lower right corner of front endpaper, some trivial surface wear to wrappers; Near Fine. The Nobel Prize-winning author's fifth collection of verse, winner of the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry.

New York: The Ecco Press, 1980. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (21cm); original glossy pictorial card wrappers; [xii],[3],4-48,[4]pp. Trivial surface wear, else a clean, Near Fine copy. The Nobel Prize-winning author's third collection of poetry.

San Francisco: Andrew Hoyem, 1976. First Edition. One of 150 copies not for sale. Broadside, 12-1/16" x 8-7/8". Right and bottom edges untrimmed. Poem of five stanzas, printed in black and aqua on cream stock with four woodcut vignettes by Valenti Angelo. Faint and trivial wrinkling at lower right margin, else Fine. Sleeved with this copy (as added by… Read more about this item

Somerville, NJ: Clark S. Yowell, (1928). First Edition. Octavo pamphlet, 15pp. Only 90 copies printed. This copy has at some point in its history been bound into an octavo hardcover volume with ca. 100 blank leaves, presumably to provide shelf presence. Red cloth over cloth-covered boards, title faintly stamped on spine; Very Good. An elusive pamphlet; the… Read more about this item

Tucson: David Stuart King, 1968. First, Limited Edition. No. 231 of 250 signed copies. Octavo; gold-toned cloth-covered boards with printed felt wrapper and slipcase; 310pp; illus; folding frontispiece map. A fine, unmarked copy in fine slipcase. Uncommon thus.

Jefferson, IA: The G.S. Turrill Publishing Co, 1901. First Edition. First printing. Large octavo (25cm). Original yellow-tan cloth, titles printed in black on front cover; viii,128pp; illus. Some dusting and wear to cloth; occasional thumbsoil to text; still a sound, straight and unmarked copy, Very Good. A well-preserved copy of this elusive photographically-illustrated title, documenting Yellowstone and western… Read more about this item

Edina, MN: Beaver's Pond Press, 2007. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Pictorial glazed boards (hardcover); no jacket (as issued); 177pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy, free of markings or detectable wear.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1935). Indeterminate later printing, ca. 1950 based on jacket price. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 720pp. Tight, square copy with faint red pencil underlining to much of the text; ownership signature to front pastedown; Very Good. In the original dustwrapper, priced $7.50 on front flap. A sound working copy of a foundational text of… Read more about this item

Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co, 1980. First Edition. First printing; edition of 350 copies. Octavo. Cloth hardcover in original brown, unprinted dustwrapper; 107pp; photographic illus. Fine copy, with prospectus laid in. No. V in the publisher's series "Hidden Springs of Custeriana.

N.p. [Richmond?]: Adjutant General of Virginia, 1953. First, Limited Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Large octavo (26cm). Green cloth hardcover; 298pp. Reproduced from typescript. Mottling to cloth, else tight and straight, free of markings or significant wear, Very Good. This copy lengthily inscribed on verso of front free endpaper, "To Captain Roland S. White, C.O., Headquarters Company, Third Battalion,… Read more about this item

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1927. First Thus. Volume One (only) of the Hitchcock Edition of Somerville and Ross, no. 255 of 500 numbered copies. Boldly signed in black ink by Edith Somerville to half-title. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover with gilt-lettered spine labels; xxv,212pp; illus. Very Good copy, with some chipping to spine labels and a bit of rubbing… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1892. First English Language Edition. Translated from the Fourth German edition. Octavo. Blue buckram gilt; xxxvi,521pp. Mild ex-library indications, including bookplate of Lancaster (PA) Theological Seminary, stamped "withdrawn." Text generally clean and sound; a Good or better working copy.