Titles starting with I from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1932. First Edition.. Original pictorial gray cloth; no jacket. Boards slightly grubby; brief, mild foxing and bookseller's tickets and stamp to endpapers. A solid but by no means pristine copy of the truly uncommon first edition of Burns's classic, the basis for the great 1932 film starring Paul Muni in the role of James Allen, a wrongfully imprisoned convict who blasts his way to freedom with six sticks of dynamite. ... more information

Pasadena: by the Author, 1935. First Edition.. First edition, author's issue (there was a simultaneous trade edition by Farrar & Rinehart). Octavo. Tan cloth boards; dustjacket; 215, ix pp. Cheap text paper tanned, as usual; front hinge thinly split, with neat repairs; Very Good. In the original photo-pictorial dustwrapper, just lightly worn, with small loss at crown of spine (not approaching title), VG or better. Tipped in at front endpaper is a custom-printed gift card for the book, stating:... more information

New York: The Communist Party, 1947. First edition.. Staple-bound pamphlet. 12mo; printed wrappers (softcover); 16p. Light soil; text tanned, minor chips to edges. SEIDMAN D-128: "...denunciation of the House Un-American Activities Committee..". ... more information

New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition.. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 259pp. Fully fine copy in unworn jacket. Uncommon thus. ... more information

New York: Angel Hair Books, 1972. First Edition.. Quarto (25.5cm). Original photographic staplebound wrappers, unpaginated (22 leaves). One of 800 copies. Minimal signs of usage to wrappers, internally fine. A sequel to the author’s memoir, following the same format of a compilation of sentences beginning with the words, “I remember…”. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown, 1945. Second Printing.. Octavo (20.5cm). Red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine with blind-stamped device on front cover; 309pp; illus. Ex-libris Art Shields, with his custom engraved bookplate inside front cover. Solid, VG copy in rubbed dustwrapper. Sympathetic post-war view of the Soviet Union; includes 8 leaves of plates (halftones). From the library of Art Shields (1888-1988), the radical journalist who covered the Daily Worker labor beat for more than forty years. ... more information

New York: PIoneer Publishers, 1937. First Edition.. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial wrappers; 24pp. Mild foxing to cover margins, else VG or better. 12mo. ... more information

Chicago: I.W.W. General Office, N.d. [1937]. 4-pp leaflet, printed on newsprint; 18cm x 13cm. Paper slightly darkened; Very Good. IWW organizing leaflet in Spanish; possibly a translation of MILES 4238. Not located via OCLC. ... more information

New York: Pantheon / Bollingen Series LXXIX, 1965. First Edition.. Red cloth; 244pp. Endpapers stained from bookplate removal, rear hinge thinly cracked at last index page; Good or better. ... more information

New York: Angel Hair, 1968. First Edition.. Quarto, 29cm (11" x 8-1/2"). One of 500 copies in the regular issue (there were also 26 deluxe copies). Glossy illustrated wrappers; [60]pp. Mild toning to wrapper edges; Near Fine. Covers designed by Philip Guston. ... more information

Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1986. Special Edition, Outward Leg 1986. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 281pp. Fine in lightly edgerubbed jacket. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. First Edition.. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/2"). Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 341p. Mild discoloration to boards; jacket lightly worn with small nicks at extremities; Very Good. Sexual degeneracy and voodoo experimentation among American expats in 1950s Haiti. YOUNG 1029. ... more information

New York: Basic Books, 1987. First Edition.. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Tan cloth; 259pp. Clean, tight, unmarked copy, about fine in barely edgeworn dustjacket. ... more information

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. First American Edition.. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 301pp. An as-new copy in fine, unworn jacket. ... more information

Kent: Kent State University Press, 1974. First Edition.. Plum cloth (hardcover); x, 158pp. Fine in red pictorial price-clipped dustjacket. Comprehensive bibliography of Stravinsky's musical publications. ... more information

Lewiston: Blue Moon and Confluence Press, 1984. First Edition.. Octavo. Tan cloth (hardcover); 119pp. Stated "limited" cloth edition, but actual limitation not stated (probably 500 copies). First collection by this New Mexico writer. Mild dusting to page edges, else clean, tight and unmarked in mildly rubbed dustjacket. Western States Book Award winner for 1984. ... more information

Bari: Edizioni Dedalo, 2005. First Edition.. Wrappers (softcover, as issued); 516pp. Pencil notation to title page, else Fine. ... more information

Firenze: Libreria Rafanelli Polli, 1907. First Edition.. 12mo (17.5cm). Sewn pamphlet. Original printed wrappers; 24pp. Moderate soil to covers; brief splits at spine-fold; slight marginal toning to text; Good. An attack on the Church's continued teaching of miracles, with special reference to the legend of San Gennaro (St. Januarius), the patron saint of Naples, whose dried blood is said to "come to life" three times each year. Rare; no holdings noted in any OCLC member institution... more information

Firenze: Sansoni, 1970. Offprint.. Original printed wrappers; pp394-416. Mild toning to wrapper margins, else fine. Inscribed by author on front endpaper. ... more information