Titles starting with W from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth (hardcover); 160pp; illus. Fine in jacket. ... more information

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1972. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gray cloth (hardcover); 420pp. Fine copy; no jacket, as issued. The standard Auden bibliography. ... more information

Chicago: Surgical Publishing Co., 1937. Offprint. Wraps. Near Fine. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 7pp. Mild external soil, else fine. ... more information

New York: Forum Gallery, 2001. First printing. Wraps. fine. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover, as issued); (32pp). 12 works reproduced, in color. Fine. ... more information

New York: The Fellowship of Reconciliation. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Staple-bound pamphlet; original printed wrappers; 32pp. Covers faded at margins; internally fresh; Very Good. Uncommon. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ... more information

London: Freedom Press, 1920. Original Wraps. Very Good. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Sewn pamphlet; self-wraps; 16pp. Bit of soil, light toning to cover, covers loose, else VG. ... more information

New York: International Publishers, 1941. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Staple-bound pamphlet; 32pp. Light foxing to cover and pages, else near fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ... more information

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 389pp; illus; appendices. As-new copy in unworn jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932. Very Good Plus/Very Good Minus. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tan cloth (hardcover); 409pp. Mild wear to board edges, still a VG or better copy in somewhat edgeworn and dusty jacket. ... more information

Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1963. Wraps. Near Fine/Near Fine. Plain wrappers in printed dustjacket; 188pp. Clean and unmarked; jacket lightly toned at edges; Near Fine. 8vo. ... more information

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 359pp. Clean, straight copy in slightly worn jacket with spots of soil to rear panel; owner's name in ink on front panel; Very Good overall. Nice copy of the somehwat uncommon first edition. ... more information

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1930. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth (hardcover); 212pp; color frontis, 6 full-page woodcuts, head- and tail-pieces by Lynd Ward. Mild sunning to spine; brief chip to spine title (not affecting titling); ownership stamp to front endpaper. Still a straight, clean copy, VG or better, and retaining Ward's striking color frontispiece (frequently absent from this title). ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition. Cloth. Very Good +/very good. Octavo. Original orange cloth boards, lettered in black; dustjacket; black top-stain; 188p. A clean, tight copy, on the better side of Very Good, in the exceedingly scarce dustjacket. Jacket with fading to spine; chip at crown (costing author's first name); perforations at flap-folds; just Very Good. Despite the flaws, easily the best copy we have handled of a book we have searched continuously for for nearly fifteen years. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1935. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Good. Tan linen boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 74pp. Tight, unmarked copy in unclipped jacket with 3/4" square chip missing to leading edge, minor chips to spine extremities. Uncommon Odets title, issued the same year as "Three Plays" which rendered "Two Plays" somewhat redundant. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Original cloth; 188pp. Tasteful custom bookplate of "Thelma and Bob" inside front cover, spine lightly sunned; a tight, clean, solid copy, Very Good or better, lacking the scarce dustjacket. Quintessentially bleak novel of the Great Depression, written by a West Virginia drifter who famously scribbled his story down on scrap paper scrounged on the streets, in boxcars, and in hobo jungles. The novel was highly prai... more information

San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1977. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. Original pictorial wrappers; 48pp. Mild dusting to covers, else fine. ... more information

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1979. Later Printing. Wraps. Near Fine. Pictorial wrappers (softcover); 192pp; 106 b/w illus. Negligible dusting to covers, else a tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

Oxford: For R. Pearson, 1817. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. Volume One (of two) only. Early half-calf over marbled boards; [10pp]; lxx, 278pp. Large and detailed folding map of Oxford; engraved frontispiece and seven full-page engraved plates. Offsetting to title page from facing frontis; spine sl. stained with brief splits to joints; scattered mild foxing; generally a well-preserved and internally crisp copy, and including the scarce map, which is in excellent, clean condition. This first volu... more information

Boston: Birkhauser, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Hardcover. As new - an unread, unworn copy. 8vo. ... more information

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967. First printing. Wraps. Near Fine. Broadside. 11-1/2" x 6-1/2"; printed recto only. Near Fine. Broadside no. 19 of the Broadside Press. ... more information