Modern Fiction from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Random House, 1951. First Edition. First printing, trade issue. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover, decoratively stamped in green on spine and front cover; green topstain; dustjacket; 437pp. A bit of dusting to boards, else a tight, Near Fine copy, with top-stain deep and even. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.75 on front flap), spine very mildly sunned… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1945. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm). Orange-brown cloth stamped in black on spine; [vi],247,[1]pp. Sound with a slight forward roll, edges rubbed, cloth faded at spine and upper portion of front board: Very Good. First American edition of Nancy Mitford's first great successful novel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Green cloth spine over paper-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; dark gray top-stain; 241pp. Tight. clean, and unmarked copy, Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwraper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), lightly toned on spine panel with small chips at head and heel; Very Good+. A late work by… Read more about this item

Aliso Viejo: James Cahill, 1996. First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Signed, limited to 200 copies, this being letter "R" of 26 lettered, specially bound copies. Octavo (22.5cm); black cloth stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 160pp; (4)pp. A Fine copy in publisher's slipcase. "The Specialists are five ex-soldiers, all trained in jungle warfare, each with a deadly specialty.… Read more about this item

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, (1917). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's embossed green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 345pp; color frontispiece and three unnumbered leaves of plates. Tight, straight, and clean, with a bit of aging to text paper. A Very Good or better copy in the original publisher's cloth. Very nice copy… Read more about this item

Alton, Hampshire: Clarion Publishing, N.d. [1996]. First, Limited Edition. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by both author and illustrator on colophon (from a total edition of 499 copies). Octavo. Printed paper-covered boards; 20pp; illus. Fine. Issued without dustwrapper. There were simultaneous issues of 99 (containing an additional plate) and 50 (hors-commerce) copies, as well as 200… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus & Co, 1963. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm); Black cloth over black paper-covered boards; dark gray topstain; titles in white and green on spine; xii,274pp. Inscribed on verso of front free endpaper: "For Hilton Kramer - Regards," signed by Sontag, undated but contemporary with publication. Laid-in is a Farrar, Straus & Cudahy "compliments of… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon, 1945. First English Language Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red linen over black cloth, with applied spine label; 494pp. Offsetting to endpapers and mild toning to text; neat ownership signature; else tight and Near Fine in the original cloth, with portions of the original dustwrapper laid in. Printed bookplate of Charles Carpenter inside front cover. … Read more about this item

London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First Separate Edition. First impression. Octavo; (21.5cm.); stiff cream-colored card wrappers, printed in black; 23pp. Covers slightly toned and soiled, with faint stains and small losses to paper at spine ends; just VG. A variant issue, lacking Vanessa Bell's cover decorations; identified by Woolmer as an assumed proof. Published as no. XII in the Hogarth… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 305pp. Ownership signature at head of title page ("J. Vinton Summer"), erasure to front endpaper, still a tight, clean copy, Very Good. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap), lightly soiled with some rubbing at spine ends and flap-folds; Very Good. … Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Canongate, 2006. First Edition. First impression. Signed on title page by Faber. Octavo; paper-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; publisher's slipcase; 199pp. Fine, unread copy in unclipped dustwrapper and unworn slipcase. A sequel of sorts to Faber's bestselling The Crimson Petal and the White (2002).

New York: Third Press, Joseph Okpaku Publishing Company, [1975]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); light blue cloth, with titles stamped in metallic purple on spine; dustjacket; [8],167pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (pricecd $10.00), with light wear, sunning to spine, some yellowing to extremities, and a small tear and attendant… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Crescent Publications, 1978. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publlisher's slip laid in. Octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; iv,155pp. A few faint streaks to rear cover, else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket, showing light wear, and some pronounced foxing to extremities. Self-published novel about the difficulties faced by a… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); dark olive-brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; [vi],[2],3-261,[1]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else a fresh, Fine copy. In the original dustjacket, priced $1.25 at mid-spine; gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with a few tiny nicks,… Read more about this item

London: Max Goschen, 1915. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; gilt titles; xx,340pp; illus. Slight external wear, with a private shelf label at base of spine; internally tight and unmarked, though with some scattered mild foxing; Very Good. A sound reading copy.

London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First Edition. First impression. Generic bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in at title page. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 454pp. Subtle toning to text, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original, unclipped dustwrapper, priced £9.95 at base of front flap. The seventh Adam Dalgliesh novel.

New York: International Publishers, [1941]. First Separate Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); yellow wrappers printed in black, stapled; [6],7-48pp. Wrappers lightly rubbed, toning and wear to spine, with a few small stains to upper margin of front wrapper, and a few closed tears to lower joints; Very Good. First separate appearance of Wright's justly admired and much-anthologized short story, originally published… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First Edition. First printing. Signed by Fast on the title page. Octavo; red cloth-covered boards stamped in white and black on spine and front cover; black topstain; 389,(2)pp. An absolutely fine copy. In the original dustwrapper (unpriced, as issued); retaining the original advertising band. Single tiny scuff at upper front flap-fold, else Fine.… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1930. First Edition. First impression. Signed by Tomlinson on the front endpaper. From the library of Hollywood filmmaker and noted bibliophile Frank Capra (1897-1991), with his pencil signature to front endpaper, with additional annotation, apparently in his hand, noting two errors in the text. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket,539pp. A few faint specks of foxing to upper… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 237pp; frontispiece and 27 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). A bright, Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, priced $1.50 on spine panel; slightly rubbed, with small losses at extremities; still quite presentable - Very Good. Hall's second book, a non-fiction account of… Read more about this item