Authors starting with S from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968. First Edition.. Small quarto (26cm). Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 174pp; illus. Signed on verso of half-title by Sackheim and Ch'en Yung-Sen, with Ch'en's chop. Trivial fading to spine and board edges, else fine in lightly rubbed and dusted jacket. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front pastedown.A collection of early Chinese poems, chosen and translated by the Shahns' friend Eric Sackheim. I... more information

Lebanon, PA: Lebanon County Historical Society, 1963. First Edition.. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo; printed wrappers; pp204-271; illus; maps. Mild external soil; Very Good. ... more information

Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1964. First Edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 153pp. Fine, unmarked copy in very mildly aged dustwrapper; Near Fine. ... more information

Canoga Park, CA: By the Author, 1981. First Edition.. Quarto (28cm). Comb-bound pictorial wrappers; 83p. Inscribed by Sawyer on title page "On the nite of the speaking of these to B------ who did not steal this book / Paul." Hint of toning to covers, still about Fine. Sawyer a long-time L.A. poet and Unitarian minister, famously a friend of Kesey's, infamous for hosting, at his Unitarian Church, the fourth of Kesey's Acid Tests (January 1966). Scarce; OCLC locates only one copy ... more information

Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1930. First Edition.. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 470pp; 13 pls. General wear to covers, with minor chips and stains to extremimties; scattered mild foxing to contents, but overall tight and clean. ... more information

Boston: John W. Luce, 1912. First Edition.. Octavo. Burgundy cloth; 302pp; maps (1 folding). Ex-library, with spine label, perforations, front hinge cracked (but holding). A serviceable reading copy. ... more information

New York: George Braziller, 1979. First Edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 414pp. Neat ownership signature, else Fine in barely edge-rubbed jacket, Near Fine. ... more information

New York: Angel Hair Books, 1973. First, Limited Edition.. Quarto (26cm). Original pictorial staplebound wrappers, unpaginated. Minor creasing to upper edge of front wrapper, minimal rubbing, internally fine. One of 950 copies. Cover design by James Rosenquist. ... more information

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1939. First Edition.. Quarto (26cm). Terra-cotta cloth over boards, stamped in blue; 190pp text; 78 leaves of plates. Inscribed on half-title: "To Ben Shahn with kindest regards, Laurence Schmeckebier," dated 1951. A lightly worn copy, lacking the dustwrapper; Very Good. Schmeckebier's book was the first full-scale study of the Mexican muralists in English, and is still one of the best. Schmeckebier (b. 1906) was a sculptor and art adminis... more information

Detroit: Radical Education Project, 1969. First Edition.. Small quarto (25cm). Staple-bound, glossy illustrated wrappers, printed in blue; 48pp; illus. Mild external rubbing; VG to Near Fine. Publisher's stamp to front wrapper (as issued). This is the Detroit edition, slightly expanded to include a section of gun laws (there was a simultaneous San Francisco edition of 40pp).Complete guide to acquiring, handling, shooting, and maintaining firearms, intended as a manual of self-defense for &quo... more information

Chicago: Daily Worker Publishing Company, [1927]. 12mo. Staple bound pamphlet; 30pp. Published as no 11 of The Little Red Library. Moderate wear and rubbing to edges; else good or better copy. ... more information

New York: Soviet Russia Today, 1948. Staple-bound pamphlet; 15pp. Pencil date to sunned cover, else near fine. ... more information

Mill valley: Strawberry Press, 1990. First Edition.. Oblong quarto (23cm x 29cm); cloth boards; dustjacket; 294p. Inscribed by the artist on front endpaper to artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn: "Dear Bernarda / Congratulations on your retrospective! this book is the result of my retrospective last year / with love Leah Dubin Schwartz," undated but obviously contemporary. Fine copy in fine dustwrapper. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front pastedown.
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(Ithaca): History of Science Society, 2002. Octavo; printed wrappers. Fine. ... more information

Summit, NJ: Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc, 1946. First Edition.. Octavo. Illustrated wrappers; pp. 338-372. Includes a brief bibliography. Light dusting & soil; text clean and unmarked. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911. First Edition.. Octavo (23cm). Red cloth boards, stamped in gilt on front cover and spine; 144pp. A bright, Near Fine copy, with just trivial faint soiling to boards; engraved bookplate of physician/bibliophile William H. Spohn to front pastedown. Text tight and unmarked. The first commercial ediion of Taylor's signal work on industrial productivity, the management bible which brought about the overwhelming shift to "piece-rate" manufacturing i... more information

London: J.B. Cramer, N.d. Thirty-second edition (ca. 1920). Mild external rubbing at joints and spine ends, else a tight, attractive copy. ... more information

(New York): (Regal Productions), (ca 1940?). Original brad-bound wrappers, with "Rialto Service Bureau" label at upper left. Very Good. Undated feature-length screenplay, apparently never produced. A noir police procedural set in Hell's Kitchen, based on a story by the prolific B-movie producer George Hirliman. Robert Wilmot (aka "Wohlmuth") was a veteran Austrian filmmaker who emigrated to the U.S. after the Hitler's Anschluss of 1938; he appears never to have met with great su... more information

Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1995. First Edition.. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers; 160p; illus. Clean, unmarked copy, about Fine. ... more information

Ottawa: Fayard, 1958. First edition.. Two octavo volumes. Original printed wrappers; 523p. External soiling; mended tear to front wrapper of v. 1; internally complete, clean and unmarked. Text in French. ... more information