Titles starting with U from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 30pp. Pencil date and mild soil to covers, else about Fine. ... more information

Carlisle: South Mountain Press, 1986. First edition.. Octavo. Green leatherette (hardcover); 232pp; maps; illus. Fine in dustjacket. ... more information

New York: R.R. Bowker, 1963. Second edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); 652pp. Covers slightly dusted; text clean, tight and unmarked. ... more information

London: Victor Gollancz, 1942. Red cloth; dustjacket, 72pp. Minimal wear to spine ends and edges, pages foxed, else a tight copy in a fair jacket displaying sunning along spine and edges as well as several chips and small tears. 12mo. ... more information

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. First Edition.. Quarto. Blue cloth; illus.; 238pp. A clean, bright and tight copy. Dustjacket shows insignificant wear to extremities. ... more information

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1900. First Edition.. Octavo. Original printed wrappers; 34pp. Shallow chipping to wrapper margins; front cover split 1" at upper joint; text lightly tanned but unopened. ... more information

Munchen (Munich): Werner Fritsch, 1967. Reprint.. Octavo. Paper-covered boards; x+117pp. Paper slightly tanned, else clean, tight and unmarked. Facsimile of the 1826 Koblenz edition. Landmark study in which Muller demonstrated that "optical perceptions can arise without an adequate external stimulus. When the stimulus is mistakenly assumed to have originated outside the body, the result - depending on the situation - is the reporting of religious or magical visions, or the seeing of ghosts" (DSB ... more information

Kiev: Technika Publishers, 1975. First Edition.. Laminated pictorial boards (hardcover); 230pp; illus. Mild wear and creasing; chip to upper edge of several pages; Very Good. ... more information

Frankfurt am Main: Ullstein GmbH, 1971. First Edition.. Octavo; blue cloth; illus.; 240pp. Lightest of wear to lower spine end, else a tight and unblemished copy. DJ shows light wear to lower edge, else better than VG+. Includes a portfolion collecting facsimile letters. ... more information

North Brookfield, MA: Sun Hill Press, 2000. First Edition.. One of 1000 copies. Octavo; printed wrappers; 30p. Fine, unworn copy. ... more information

Caiano: Comune Di Poggio a Caiano, 1991. First Edition.. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers (softcover, as issued); 59pp. Trivial dusting to covers; about Fine. ... more information

(Rome): (Arti Grafiche Wanzer), (1972). First Edition.. Octavo. Original printed wrappers; 433, (7)pp. Light wear; Very Good. ... more information

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. Second Printing.. Oblong Quarto. Original pictorial laminated boards (no jacket, as issued); 428pp. Together with three 7" LP records in sleeve, housed in pictorial slipcase, lightly worn. A nice example, about Fine. ... more information

Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1974. First Edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 225pp; illus. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Price-clipped jacket and remainder mark. Else a tight copy in a very good dustwrapper with a clean and unmarked text. ... more information

Charleston: West Virginis Publishing Co, 1940. First Edition.. Octavo. Blue ribbed cloth; 202pp. An unusually bright, Near Fine copy. Novel of West Virginia politics. Not in Hanna. ... more information

Lahore: The Times Publishing Company, [1929]. First Edition.. Octavo (25cm). Publisher's blue cloth boards; 214pp; illus. Ownership signature to title page, dated 1929. Mild external wear; one binding signature slightly pulled; a Good, tight copy.A strident rejoinder to Katherine Mayo's Mother India (1927), which had created a furore among Indian intellectuals by criticising many aspects of traditional Indian culture, particularly the subjection of women and the inequities of the caste sy... more information

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. First Edition.. First Edition. Tan cloth (hardcover); 256pp. Fine in dustjacket. ... more information

Manassas: Manassas Museum, 1994. Reprint.. Octavo. Gilt-decorated cloth; frontis; 149 pp. As new. ... more information

Chicago: American Publishing House, 1902. Second Edition.. Original pictorial cloth (hardcover); 361pp; illus. Rear cover stained and soiled, else just light wear to board edges; some pencil scribblings to endpapers. Text remains fresh and unmarked, joints & hinges tight; Good or better overall. WORK p.401 (notes only this edition). Uncommon history of African-American soldiers in all American wars, but with heavy emphasis on the actions of the 9th & 10th Cavalries and the 24th & 25... more information

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First Edition.. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 224pp; illus. Small ownership label to front endpaper, else a Fine, unmarked and unworn copy in like dustjacket. Oblong Quarto. ... more information