Titles starting with F from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Girard, KS: E. Haldeman-Julius, 1948. First Edition.. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Original printed wrappers; 32pp. Wrappers and text toned at margins, else a fresh, Very Good copy. Attack on Hoover's FBI, with special attention to its anti-labor activities; makes the expected and not wholly unwarranted comparisons between the FBI and the Gestapo. Issued as Vol. 2, no 7 of the Haldeman-Julius monthly "The Critic and Guide.". ... more information

Montreal: Palestine National Liberation Movement, 1971. Tabloid (40cm). Printed on newsprint; 8pp; illus. Horizontal fold (as issued); slight darkening to paper; Very Good. Official English-language propaganda organ of the Palestine National Liberation Movement. Single, early issue of this ephemeral PLO publication. Primary article is a lengthy interview with Abou Ammar (Yasser Arafat), who states: "The year 1971 will be that of epics. In its course, the fate of the whole Arab naion, and not... more information

London: Faber & Faber, 1999. First Edition.. Paper coverd boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 531pp. An as-new, unread copy. ... more information

New York: Wings Books, 1989. Reprint.. Folio. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 320pp, chiefly illus. Fine, unworn copy in bright dustjacket. Near-new. ... more information

New York: Rizzoli, 1979. First American Edition.. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 172pp; 51 color & 119 b/w plates. INSCRIBED by Theo Faberge (grandson of Peter Carl Faberge) on halftitle, dated 1982. Book clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine, in bright, unworn, though price-clipped dustjacket. Oblong quarto. ... more information

New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. First Thus.. Tall octavo. Green cloth (hardcover); 210pp. Single paper-clip stain to center of front endpaper, else fine in fresh attractive dusjtacket with a hint of sunning to spine. Lovely book, very well produced, with fine reproductions of the 19th-c. Grandville engravings. ... more information

Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1983. First Edition.. Red cloth (hardcover); dustjacket; 391pp; 168 halftone illus, 32 fullpage color plates. Faint eraser mark to front endpaper, else a clean, tight, unmarked copy, Near Fine, in taperepaired jacket. 168 items from this major textile collection pictured and described in detail. Exhaustive reference. ... more information

Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co, 1942. First Edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 604pp. Mild soil and a few faint splash-stains to boards, upper edge of text block, and jacket edges, else a tight copy, about VG. Pro-Fascist novel of the Spanish Civil War, by a conservative American Jesuit priest. With a dramatic jacket illustration of a loyal black-shirt, eyes to heaven, lifting the Spanish flag. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition.. Octavo. Original decorated cloth; 396, [10]pp. Mild wear to board edges; old bookseller's notations to front endpaper, in pencil but somewhat heavily rendered; still Very Good or better. Uncommon strike novel with romantic overtones, published anonymously. BLAKE p. 214. WRIGHT III: 2235. ... more information

Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2009. First edition.. Octavo; cloth boards; dustjacket; 227pp. An asnew copy, free of markings or wear. ... more information

San Francisco & Washington DC: Bedford Arts/Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1990. Second Edition.. Quarto. Yellow cloth; illus.; 140pp. Owner's name covered by white-out on front free endpaper, else a clean, bright and tight copy. Dustjacket shows minor wear to extremities. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition.. Near Fine. First Edition. Tan cloth (hardcover); 110pp; A clean, tight and unmarked copy, about Fine, in bright dustjacket with brief closed tear to front panel, Very Good. ... more information

Paris: Gallimard / Nouvelle Revue Francais, 1978. First Edition.. Octavo. Printed wrappers (softcover). Mild wear, corners bumped; ownership signature. First trade edition in French. ... more information

London: Cassell & Co, 1931. First Edition.. Cloth boards (hardcover); 318pp. Mild rubbing to spine ends and board edges, else a clean, tight, unmarked copy. ... more information

(Denver): Committee of Coal Mine Managers, 1914. First Edition.. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers; 72pp. Covers lightly stained and soiled; old dampstain to margin of text block (text unaffected); Good. Collects fifteen weekly bulletins issued jointly, between June and September 1914, by the chief officers of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., the Victor-American Fuel Co., and the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. Preceded by a preliminary account of the events immediately preceding and inclu... more information

New York: Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy, 1951. First Edition.. Octavo. Staple bound pamphlet; 11pp. Uneven fading; else a very good copy with no interior markings. ... more information

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1992. First Edition.. Octavo. Clothbacked boards; dustjacket; 296p. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else Fine in unworn jacket. ... more information

New York: Schocken, 1981. First American Edition.. Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 127pp; illus. Fine copy in lightly edgeworn jacket. First American Edition stated, though jacket is unpriced. To our knowledge, however, there was no book club issue of this title. ... more information

New York: Westbury Publishing Co, 1926. Small quarto (24cm). Staple-bound self-wrappers; color pictorial covers; 32pp. Text tanned; covers slightly brittle, with small losses at extremities; still a complete, relatively bright copy, Good or better. Single issue of this popular weekly dime novel series, published continuously from 1908 to 1928. According to Cox (Dime Novel Companion, 2000) all of the stories were authored by James Perkins Tracy, using the pseudonym "A Self-Made Man." Cox... more information

London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Co. First Edition.. N.d. (ca 1937). Maroon cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 142p; photo illus. Clean, tight copy, VG or better, in lightly rubbed photo-pictorial jacket. Thoroughly-illustrated survey of passenger liners from the Golden Age of ocean travel, providing construction details, home ports, and dates of service for each. Quite scarce in jacket. ... more information