Titles starting with S from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931. First Edition.. Small octavo (19.5cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 136pp. Tight, VG copy in a nice example of the pictorial jacket, clipped on all four flap-corners, lightly rubbed at folds and extremities; Very Good. Cozzens' classic fictionalized account of the wreck of the S.S. Vestris. HANNA 835. ... more information

New York: American Tract Society and the New York Sabbath Committee. Early Edition.. (1862). Original publisher's cloth; 635pp. Probable first American Edition (printed from the original stereotype plates); early issue with publisher's advertisement laid down inside front cover. Preface dated 1862. Moderate soil & rubbing to covers; text foxed with sporadic light staining; Good or better overall. ... more information

New York: Macmillan, 1931. First American edition.. 12mo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 87p. Monastery ownership stamp; ink signature; else unmarked. In original printed dustjacket, slightly worn. ... more information

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. First Edition.. White cloth; illus.; 159pp. A clean, bright and tight copy. Dustjacket shows light toning to edges, else insignificant wear to extremities. ... more information

New York: Doubleday / Crime Club, 1971. First edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 161p. Fine, in attractive, uncipped jacket with light rubbing & toning to extremities. ... more information

New York: Claridge Publishing Corp, 1951. First Edition.. Octavo (20cm). Pictorial wrappers; 128pp; illus. Wrappers lightly rubbed and foxed; text clean and unmarked; Very Good. Issued simultaneously in cloth. Anthology of labor writings by Meyer Levin, Edward McSorley, Oscar Ameringer, John Beecher and others. Full-page illustrations by Raymond Zalstein. ... more information

New York: George H. Doran, 1919. First American Edition.. Cloth boards; dustjacket. Touch of fading/discoloration at crown of spine, else a lightly worn copy, VG or better. In the scarce dustjacket, worn with losses at spine ends, chips to extremities; Good only. Uncommon title by Clotilde Graves, Irish author. ... more information

New York: The Broadway Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition.. Original pictorial cloth boards; 440pp; illus. INSCRIBED: "Alice Merritt / from/ William Neely Freeman" on front endpaper. Spine slightly darkened; brief rubbing to covers and joints; thin split at base of rear hinge (internal); Very Good.A somewhat disjointed satire of the American upper crust, the jist of which can be summed up in the heading for Chapter Six: "Glory be to thee, O Money!" The author go... more information

Paris: No Publisher, 1953. First, Limited Edition.. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 77pp. One of 300 numbered copies. Clean and unmarked; about fine. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. First edition.. 12mo. Original Green Cloth, 456pp. Very good in very good dustjacket. Mild soiling and spotting to page edges, binding tight. Minor rubbing to spine and board extremities. Slight rubbing to recto of dustjacket, small tear to upper edge of fron panel, chipping to crown of spine. Brief soiling to upper edges of dustjacket flaps, dampspotting to verso of dustjacket at spine. Hanna 1614: "Struggle between a woman industrialist, a pacifist, and her male ma... more information

Winston-Salem: Wachovia Historical Society, 1953. First Edition.. Tan, pictorial, staple-bound wraps; illus.; 85pp. A few small nicks to extremities of cover, else a clean and tight copy filled with bright and clear photographs, including those that fold-out. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. First American Edition.. Blue pictorial cloth (hardcover); dustjacket; 192pp; illus. Bit of mottling to cloth; name elided with black ink inside rear board at gutter (quite unobrusive), else a clean, tight copy in attractive pictorial jacket by Clifford & Rosemary Ellis (price-clipped). New Naturalist Series no. 16. ... more information

New York: International Publishers, 1940. First Edition.. Cloth boards; dustjacket. Fine and unmarked in lightly dusted jacket. Unusually bright copy of the author's first published story collection, a collection of stories on revolutionary themes. Le Sueur, who died in 1996, was well known for her important early work in the women's rights movement as well as for her many volumes of juvenile literature, which she continued to publish into her 90s. ... more information

Zürich: Friedrich Schulthess, 1866. First edition.. Linen-backed marbled boards (hardcover); 482pp. Ownership signature of "Othmar Dangel, Geometr." to title page, dated (18)81. Moderate external wear; scattered foxing, heavier to preliminary leaves & title page; Very Good overall. ... more information

Munich: Winkler-Verlag, 1961. Red cloth; 879pp. Lower spine end sunned, else a clean and tight copy. Dustjacket worn along upper edge with spine sunned. Slip case sunned and splitting along an upper edge. Text in German. ... more information

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. First Edition.. Octavo (24cm). Brown cloth boards, lettered in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 529pp. Gift inscription to half-title page, else clean, tight and unmarked in moderately rubbed jacket; Very Good or better. ... more information

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. First Edition.. Octavo (24cm). Brown cloth boards, lettered in silver on spine and front cover; 495pp. Clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine, lacking the dustjacket. ... more information

Cambridge: Houghton Library, 1966. First Edition.. Pictorial wraps; illus.; 39pp. A clean, bright and tight copy, the full title being "An Exhibit of Books and Manuscipts from the Johnsonian Collection Formed by Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde at Four Oaks Farm.". ... more information

Washington, D.C: The Smithsonian Institution, 1934. First Edition.. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 57pp; 6 pls. Clean and unmarked in lightly edge-rubbed wrappers; a Near Fine copy. Six halftone plates, incl. portr. frontis. ... more information

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1957. First Edition.. Green cloth; 122pp. Minimal wear to extremities, else a clean, bright and tight copy. Dustjacket sunned along spine with minor wear to extremities. ... more information