Social History from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Watertown [NY]: Ingall's & Stowell's Steam Press, 1852. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (20cm). Publisher's embossed brown cloth gilt; 288pp. Slight external wear, with some roughness to cloth at spine crown; final two pages faintly printed; pronounced foxing to endpapers but text generally tight, fresh, and clean; a Very Good copy. Early ownership signature on title page of "Jos.… Read more about this item

Taipei: Literature House, Ltd, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Brown cloth spine over pale blue linen-covered boards; 112pp; illus. Slight bowing to boards; still a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy. Lengthy presentation inscription to front endpaper from a Betty Spencer, who from context appears to have been acquainted with the author and an avid member of the… Read more about this item

[Decatur IL: ca 1944-45]. A compact and substantial archive, comprised of 30 signed original drawings, one printed poster, and a large printed sample-book of wartime production advertisements for the Caterpillar Military Engine Company (a wartime subsidiary of the Caterpillar Tractor Company) of Decatur, Illinois. Drawings are on art board, in pen-and-ink (but one, a pencil sketch) measuring about 13"… Read more about this item

New York: Published and for sale at 5 Beekman Street, 1860. First Edition. 12mo. 20th-c. binding of tan calf over paper-covered boards; marbled page edges; 95,[1]pp. About fine and complete; the pamphlet appears to have been offered without cover wrappers (in any case, not noted by Blanck). Uncommon first edition of this late tract by the important abolitionist… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-410,[6]pp. Base of spine gently nudged, with a touch of sunning to spine ends, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 25/- net), gently spine-sunned, showing modest shelfwear, a few tiny nicks and… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); evergreen cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [iv],[8],9-347,[1]pp. Small, faint dampstain to upper left corner of rear cover, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped, showing light wear, mild dust-soil, a few small tears and creases, and a corresponding… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1920. Octavo. Half crushed pigskin over decorated paper-covered boards (hardcover); 134pp; illus. Trace of rubbing to spine leather, but still a tight, Near Fine copy. Embossed ownership stamp to title page ("Felix Kieburg"). Text entirely in German. Attractively-produced compilation of Praetorius' writings on the folklore of the Bohemian mountain-spirit called "Rübezahl," extracted from his original… Read more about this item

Fort Barrancas, FL, 1943. Quarto (28cm). Side-stapled, illustrated paper wraps; 10pp. Printed by mimeograph. Clean, complete, and sound - a Very Good or better copy. Single issue of this uncommon post newspaper, published by and for enlisted men at Fort Barrancas, Florida during the Second World War. Features a terrific cover illustration by Cpl. Frank Carrano, of… Read more about this item

Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co, (1904). First Edition. Narrow 16mo (15.5 cm x 7cm). Original linen-covered boards, decoratively titled in black on front cover; 133pp; red-dyed page edges; illus. Rear cover drink-stained, causing cosmetic damage only, extending onto rear endpapers and bottom margin of final dozen or so leaves. Notwithstanding this evidence of use, a complete, sound and… Read more about this item

Boston: The New Ideal Publishing Company, 1889. Eleven pamphlets bound in a single volume, with spine title "Evolution Essays vol.I." 12mo (19cm); half-morocco over brown cloth; variously paginated. Marginal water-stain to first nine and final dozen leaves; externally rubbed and worn; complete and Good. Essays by prominent lecturers applying Darwinian concepts to a wide variety of subjects,… Read more about this item

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1962. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black and white paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; viii,88pp. Endpapers, text edges, and upper board edges foxed; lightly edgeworn; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), shelfworn, with shallow losses and several tears, and rear panel split from rear… Read more about this item

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976. First Edition. First printings. Three large octavo volumes (24cm); red cloth spines over ivory linen; lxv, 537; xviii, 542-1031; xvi, 1036-1553pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper of each volume, else fine and fresh, with minimal evidence of use. In the publisher's slipcase, lightly rubbed and soiled, still Very Good or better. … Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Row, 1981. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 204pp. Miniscule spot of rubbing to cloth at base of spine, else a fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $13.95 on front flap), mildly toned at flap-edges but still very Near Fine. A very nice copy. Andrews' first… Read more about this item

New York: Greystone Press, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's original illustrated paper covered boards. Dustjacket. 62pp. Bright and clean wit some very light wear to extremities and spine ends, a very good, pretty copy in a vivid pictorial dustjacket with some shallow marginal chipping and fraying, and a couple of closed tears. Shows very well. Internally clean. A… Read more about this item

[Chicago: Privately Published], 1933. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover; xxii,423pp. Mild wear to corners and spine ends, else a tight, Very Good or better copy. Presentation bookplate from Joseph Levin to Rebbetzin Matle Kaplan, Memorial Libarary of Cong. Anshe Motele; private ink ownership stamps of the Talmud Tora & Religious School of Anshe Motele Congregation [Chicago] to endpapers.

New Haven: Proctors Products, N.d. (ca. 1935). Quarto. Bifolium (4pp); illus. Old folds from mailing, mild soil; Very Good. Brief illustrated trade catalog of products marketed to Civilian Conservation Corps members, including rings, watches, jewelry and other accessories.

Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co, 1915. First Edition. First printing. 12mo. Coarse-woven pale blue cloth, pictorial titles stamped in white; x,[1]-263,[5]pp; frontispiece and 14 unnumbered leaves of plates, 12 halftones printed in cyan, also three mounted color lithographs of fish. Hinges thinly cracked, but holding; printed (generic) bookplate to front endpaper; slight flaking of lettering on spine;… Read more about this item

N.p., n.d. [Washington, D.C: GPO, c.1933]. Original window poster, 27-1/2" x 21". Offset lithograph, printed in two colors. Original horizontal and vertical folds; splits at left and right margins, a few small losses, including about a 1/4" loss to paper at fold and at center; another small (ca 1/2" x 1/4") loss at upper margin; a few small stains.… Read more about this item

New York: The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc, 1939. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.75cm); original photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; pp.227-254; illus. Light wear, handling, and dust-soil to wrappers, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and old rubber-stamps from Yale University's Social Sciences Department on wrappers and a few internal pages; complete; Very Good. Complete issue of this long-running African American… Read more about this item

New York: The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc, 1941. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.75cm); original photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; pp.243-270; illus. Light wear, handling, and dust-soil to wrappers, with a few tiny nicks and tears, a 1.75" split to lower spine-fold, and old rubber-stamps from Yale University's Social Sciences Department on wrappers and a few internal pages; complete; Very Good. A… Read more about this item