Spanish Civil War from Lorne Bair Rare Books

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

New York: H. Havel, 1937. Single, original tabloid issue, 46cm x 31cm (about 18" x 12"); 8pp; illus. Old horizontal fold at center, likely as issued; minor nicks and short tears in margins; partially unopened; Very Good. Excellent single issue of this important American anarchist journal, which ran from 1933 to 1940 despite its publisher and editor… Read more about this item

New York: H. Havel, 1937. Single, original tabloid issue, 46cm x 31cm (about 18" x 12"); 8pp; illus. Old horizontal fold at center, likely as issued; minor nicks and short tears in margins; partially unopened; Very Good. Excellent single issue of this important American anarchist journal, which ran from 1933 to 1940 despite its publisher and editor… Read more about this item

New York: Modern Age Books, 1939. First Edition. Wrappered Issue. Quarto (28cm); pictorial card wrappers; 21pp [text] + 70pp illus. Modest rubbing to joints and extremities, some faint creasing to wrappers, with a few faint scuffs to front cover; Very Good. Reproductions of Quintanilla's subtle pencil sketches of scenes from the Spanish Civil War; this was probably the most… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1944. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22.5cm). Red cloth, titled in gilt; viii,287,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Straight, lightly rubbed, spine dulled, corners bumped, small loss to upper corner of t.p.: Very Good. Presentation copy given to Sydney Foott by Members of the Directorate of Organisation, R.A.A.F. Head-Quarters, with typed note laid down facing… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus, 1985. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (23cm); green cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 378pp. Small remainder mark bottom edge, else a tight, fine copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £9.95 on lower front flap), lightly creased at extremities; Very Good or better. Historical novel set in Wales and incorporating events in… Read more about this item

Madrid: Gráficas Reunidas U.H.P., [1938]. Original illustrated poser, offset printed in colors on beige stock, measuring 68.5cm x 100cm (27" x 39.25"). Light wear and toning to extremities, a few old folds smoothed-out, with several tiny nicks and small edge tears, a few tiny splits at intersection of folds, and a small loss toward lower margin, just above the… Read more about this item

[New York]: New Directions, 1963. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm); green cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 246pp. Small spot of fading to cloth at base of spine, else a Fine copy in the publisher's pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95), a half-shade darkened on spine, still bright and Near Fine. Three of the plays collected here were previously collected… Read more about this item

London: Enitharmon Press, 1980. First Edition. First printing, trade issue. Octavo; cloth boards, dustjacket; 144pp. Fine, unmarked copy in lightly rubbed pictorial dustwrapper designed by Julian Trevelyan. Gascoyne's London notebooks documenting the formative period of the London Surrealist Group and his opposition to fascism in the Spanish Civil War. There was a simultaneous limited issue of 95… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 260pp. Tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; near-new. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in.

New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc, 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (18.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 47pp. Light wear to lower spine-fold, touch of dustiness to rear wrapper; Very Good+ or better. Pamphlet by the British-born American journalist and editor of the Daily Worker, discussing "the glorious story of the Soviet Union's steps to aid Spanish democracy against… Read more about this item

[Barcelona: P.S.U. / U.G.T., n.d. but ca. 1937. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); bifolium printed on newsprint, photo-montaged upper panel. A hint of wear and toning, else Near Fine. Promotional handbill issued at the height of the Spanish Civil War delineating the platform of the short-lived Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, the Catalan referent of the Communist Party of Spain,… Read more about this item

[Calatayud: by the Author, 1946]. First Edition. Octavo. Printed Japan paper wrappers; [28pp]. Bit of creasing to covers, else Very Good. Encomium in praise of Franco and the fascists, written by a prominent legal scholar shortly after the end of WW2.

Barcelona: Postermil, S.L., 2007. Second Edition. Quarto (34cm x 26.5cm). Paper over boards (hardcover) with illustrated end papers; 640pp; illus. Very Good copy; gentle shelf wear and soiling to bottom text block; bumped corners. Spanish language only. History of the Spanish Civil War told through 2000 political posters. 2432 color reproductions; detailed indices and timeline of graphic artists, themes,… Read more about this item

New York: Universal Distributors, 1937. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 16pp; illus. Fading to wrapper edges, else a tight, VG or better copy. Pro-Republican propraganda, celebrating the capture of several hundred Italian Fascist forces at Brihuega and emphasizing the humane treatment Italian soldiers were receiving at the hands of their captors. With eight full-page photographic illustrations… Read more about this item

Zaragoza: Editorial Heraldo de Aragón, 1938. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 158pp. General wear to wrapper extremities, including short tear at spine foot, some soil to rear cover, else Very Good and sound. A Fascist's personal account of the Spanish Civil War's Aragon Offensive in the spring of 1938. Dedication page reads : "Saluda a… Read more about this item

Cadiz: Establecimientos Cerón y Libreria Cervantes, 1939. First Spanish Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's pictorial wrappers signed in image "Juan Luis"; 180pp.; two leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Wrappers rather worn and foxed, chipping and shallow losses at spine ends affecting text without loss of sense, else an About Very Good, unopened copy. Last volume of… Read more about this item

London: Kate Sharpley Library, 1994. First English Language Edition. Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; [44]pp; illus. Photocopied text with facing portraits. Fine. Translation of a Spanish-language work first published in Barcelona in 1991.

New York: New York University Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xxx,345pp.; map endpapers. Dust jacket a hint worn, corners bumped, remnants of price sticker to upper jacket panel, else Very Good and sound. Authors covered include Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Koestler, André Malraux, George Orwell, and others.

New York: Insight Books, 1987. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth; dustjacket; 358pp; illus. Fine copy in lightly worn jacket. Interviews with Spanish Civil War veterans by MacDonald, a long-time left wing journalist and founder (in 1953) of Spanish Refugee Aid.