Titles starting with B from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Friends of the Printing Week Project, 1957. First Edition.. Cloth backed boards; illus.; 32pp. A bright, tight and clean copy. 12mo. Private Press. ... more information

New York: Schirmer Books, 1997. First Edition.. Cloth backedboards; dustjacket; 279 pp; illus. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else Fine in dustjacket. ... more information

San Francisco: Peregrine Press for the Porpoise Bookshop, 1956. First, Limited Edition.. Half-title, Title-page, and 12 lithographic images, loose in black paper portfolio as issued. First three leaves with trivial creasing at bottom edge; still fine in a nicely preserved portfolio. Suite of a dozen images illustrating the artist's perennial theme: the spiritual barenness of an increasingly militaristic and technological society. Important early work by this prolific and highly-regarded San... more information

New York: A. S. Barnes and Co, 1955. Black cloth; 842pp. Insignificant wear to extremities, else a near fine copy. Dustjacket shows general wear to extremities. ... more information

New York: Coventry House, 1932. First edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; 47p; illus. Light wear, scattered foxing; lacks jacket. Anonymously-written poems to fan the flames of discontent among Bonus Army marchers. With three full-page woodcut illustrations and several text illustrations. From the press of first amendment pioneer Samuel "Broadway Sam" Roth, who may well have also written the poems and drawn the frontispiece. Roth's roster of imprints (in addition to Coventry House) incl... more information

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1935. Reprint.. Staple-bound pamphlet; 48pp. Pencil date to cover sunned along edges, else near fine. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884. First Edition.. Small octavo. Original cloth boards; paper spine label; 199+16pp. Spine sl. rubbed, with label faded & barely legible. Endpapers lightly foxed, but text clean and unmarked. A good, solid reading copy. Saltus' first book. ... more information

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. First edition.. Small octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 190 pp. Clean, tight and unmarked in lightly edgerubbed jacket. ... more information

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974. First Edition.. Quarter cloth, boards; 270pp; illus. Clean, tight, unmarked copy, about Fine in clean, price-clipped dustjacket with closed tears to extremities. ... more information

Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2006. First Edition.. Octavo. Printed wrappers; 336 pp. Brief pencil notation to title page, else a fine, unread copy. ... more information

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968. First edition.. Octavo. Blue cloth (hardcover); 230pp; illus. Clean and unmarked; about Fine in mildly edgeworn dustjacket. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1944. Two large octavo volumes. Cloth boards; 1097+1179pp. Neat ownership signature at front of each volume, else just light wear; texts clean and unmarked; Very Good. ... more information

London: Scolar Press, 1974. First Edition.. Quarto. Blue cloth; illus.; 363pp. Wear to spine ends and corners, edges of boards rubbed, else a clean and tight copy. Dustjacket has tears at spine ends and corners and a stain to front. ... more information

Chicago: Donohue, 1909. Reprint.. Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 303pp. Minor wear; text slightly toned; Very Good, retaining the scarce illustrated dustwrapper which is nearly Fine with just trivial dusting and a tiny chip at bottom edge. "Popular Copyright" reprint of Moffett's novelization of his own stage play, produced and published in 1908. A muckraking tale of the lower depths (in this case, the slums of New York), with vaguely socialistic and reformist overtones. HA... more information

Cincinnati: Fillmore Music House, 1915. Reprint.. Octavo (20.5cm). Original cloth-backed boards, printed in red; 160pp. Moderate soil and wear to covers; small chip to paper at upper front board; internally clean and unmarked. A tight, solid copy, approaching VG overall. Nicely preserved copy of this standard temperance hymnal, including such classics as "Whisky Steals the Wise Man's Brains" and "Song of the Distillery." Originally published in 1887; this copy bears the st... more information

New Market: The Henkel Press, 1926. First Edition.. Octavo. Printed wrappers; 24pp; two maps (one drawn by Wayland). Mild wear; Near Fine. An uncommon later Henkel imprint, and one of Wayland's earliest published works. ... more information

Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2006. First Edition.. Unused and unread; a new book. ... more information

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1970. First Edition.. Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in black and white on cover and spine; dustjacket; 225pp. Fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and gently faded on spine, VG.Colter's first book, a collection of short stories set mostly in Chicago's African-American communities, "from the ghetto existence to the elite monde of the Hyde Park-Kenwood black community." Winner of the first Iowa School of Letters Award... more information

New York: Schirmer Books, 1996. First edition.. Octavo. Quarter cloth (hardcover); dustjacket; 304pp. Fine in jacket. ... more information

Cleveland: International Fiction Library. Reprint.. No date (ca. 1930). Black cloth (hardcover); dustjacket; 355pp. Mild wear; pages tanned as usual; about Very Good in somewhat chipped & edgeworn example of the striking pictorial jacket. A labor novel set in the Alabama coal fields. ... more information