Titles starting with 1 from Lorne Bair Rare Books

v.p: v.p, v.d. First editions.. Octavo. Morocco-backed marbled boards. Three German works on political economy, bound together with original cover wraps removed. From the library of pioneering economist & social scientist Ludwig Sinzheimer, with his ownership signature to first leaf of each title. Mild rubbing & wear; white ink spine number at base of spine; scattered pencil marginalia presumably in Sinzheimer's hand; else clean and tight. ... more information

New York: by the Author, 1957. Later Printing.. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers; 60pp; illus. Covers stained and soiled; moderate internal wear; Good. Publisher's imprint has been elided with black marker and replaced with the hand-stamp of "Henry's Book Store," on 149th Street, New York. Rogers (1883-1966), born in Jamaica, was among the first African-American scholars to re-examine European history from an Afrocentric perspective. The current work, which went into many printings, p... more information

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1950. First edition.. Octavo. 126p. Light wear; about Fine. The entire series, bound together (as issued); the six reports were also issued individually. ... more information

London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1957. Second Printing.. Octavo. Black cloth (hardcover); 175pp; illus. Clean and unmarked, Very Good or better in rubbed & edgeworn dustjacket with 1" chip at top ege of front panel. ... more information

New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Second Printing.. Small quarto (25cm). Tan cloth boards, stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; 152pp. Boards heavily soiled; jacket fairly bright but with ca. 3/4" losses at head and heel of spine; internally fresh and unmarked. A serviceable reading copy. Classic photo-essay, with text by Wright, documenting the lives of African-Americans at the end of the Great Depression. The photographs, chosen and arranged by Edwin Rosskam, are by many of the leading FSA... more information

New York: Rae D. Henkle, 1930. First Edition.. Octavo (20cm). Orange cloth boards stamped in red ink; dustjacket; 205pp. Endpapers slightly darkened at gutters, else a tight, fine copy in the original pictorial jacket, unclipped and just lightly edge-rubbed, easily VG or better. Future utopia in which a team of scientists, in order to salvage Mankind, creates a giant computer which functions by tapping into the combined brain-power of the world's 17 billion citizens. The result is an idealize... more information

Easton, Maryland: Privately Published, 1955. First Edition.. Green paper-covered boards (hardcover); no jacket (as issued?); 168pp; illus. Scattered foxing; Very Good or better. ... more information

New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc, 1959. First Edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 384pp; includes bibliography. Moderate stain on rear panel; sticker ghost on front dustjacket flap; else bright, textually unmarked copy in good dustjacket. ... more information

Baltimore: Isaac Friedenwald Press, 1888. Octavo. Original printed wrappers, 21pp + 2pp ads. Very good with some darkening to spine. Faint crease down center from a previous fold. Pages and text clean with no marking or spotting. ... more information

ca 1890s. Photogravure print of four frontally nude women embracing. Anonymously published, and without any identifying markings (as is typical for such images). Mild toning to margins; image Near Fine. ... more information

ca 1890s. Photogravure print of two frontally nude women embracing. Anonymously published, and without any identifying markings (as is typical for such images). Mild toning to margins; image Near Fine. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. First edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; 350 pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy in unworn dustjacket. ... more information

Charleston, WV: John Henry Memorial Committee, 1973. First Edition.. Octavo (21.5cm). Staple-bound, pictorial wrappers; [32pp]; illus. Fine. Memorial booklet for the first annual John Henry Memorial Blues Festival, held Fitzpatrick's Park in Beckley, WV in 1973. The three-day festival included performances by more than 20 traditional musicians from the Appalachian region, including Johnny Shines, Nimrod Workman, Uncle Homer Walker, C.C. Richardson, and many others. Rare; not located via OCLC;... more information