Recent Arrivals from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1927. First Thus. Volume One (only) of the Hitchcock Edition of Somerville and Ross, no. 255 of 500 numbered copies. Boldly signed in black ink by Edith Somerville to half-title. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover with gilt-lettered spine labels; xxv,212pp;illus. Very Good copy, with some chipping to spine labels and a hint of rubbing to… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1892. First English Language Edition. Translated from the Fourth German edition. Octavo. Blue buckram gilt; xxxvi,521pp. Mild ex-library indications, including bookplate of Lancaster (PA) Theological Seminary, stamped "withdrawn." Text generally clean and sound; a Good or better working copy.

Chambersburg: In der Druckerei der Hoch-deutsch-reformirten kirche, 1845. Second edition ("Zweite Auflage"). Octavo (20cm). Publisher's embossed cloth with gilt spine titles; 560pp. Withdrawn library copy, with stamp to front pastedown, bookplate at rear pastedown (Catawba College), but no other institutional markings. A sound, generally clean volume, with scattered foxing mostly to text block edges and endpapers; Very Good. Text… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm). Nineteenth century half-morocco over cloth; 430+127pp. Ink stamp of the Madras Literary Society at title page gutter; binder's ticket of P. Shunmugam, Madras, on front pastedown. Hinges (internal) slightly stressed, but holding; reinforcement to leather at spine crown and corners; a few innocuous blue pencil marginalia, but… Read more about this item

[West Burke, Vermont: Janus Press, for Barre Publishers], 1970. First, Limited Edition. Number 566 of 900 signed copies. Octavo (23cm). Loose folded sheets (unpaginated), printed on Japanese paper in black and red; in printed paper portfolio and slipcase, as issued. Woodcut illustrations printed from the original blocks cut by Helen Siegl. A fine copy.

New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in red and silver on spine and front panel; black topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[3],4-278,[2]pp. Hint of foxing to endpapers and right edge of textblock, else Near Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.95), with only a bit of trivial… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. First Printing, first state, with extraneous line at the top of p.270 struck-through by Kosinski himself, using the same pen he used to write the inscription. Octavo (21cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and author's name in blind on front panel; brown topstain; dustjacket; [xii],272,[4]pp. Lengthily inscribed by… Read more about this item

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960. Book Club Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publihser's pale green rexine covered boards titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 270pp. Very light wear to the binding, some isolated scuffing and shelfwear to the extremities, in a dustjacket with some light, shallow wear to the edges and a little toning to the… Read more about this item

New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1925. First Edition. First printing, limited to 2000 numbered copies of which this is no. 492. Octavo (24cm). Sized brown buckram over beveled boards; top edge gilt; dustjacket; 140pp. Fine copy in the scarce dustwrapper, complete but with losses at spine ends and flap-folds, with old paper reinforcements to verso; Good or better and not… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Camel's Coming, 1972-75. First Edition. Three to five leaves stapled at one corner; 4to. The successor to a poetry magazine Morris published in the 60's; the second series focused on reviews, mostly small press. Clark Coolidge, Joseph Bruchac, A. D. Winans, among those given a fair amount of space. Very good copies, and quite uncommon. For 5… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black glazed cloth boards, titled in white on spine, with decorative elements embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; [14],15-506,[6]pp; illus. With Thompson's bold signature in black Sharpie following the front endpaper, and inscribed and extra-illustrated by Steadman on the half-title page using a red paint pen, dated 24.10.92.… Read more about this item

Knotting: Sceptre Press, 1980. First edition. Chapbook. Award-winning author's first book, a single poem, published two years prior to her first novel. One of 125 numbered copies. Fine in printed stapled wrappers. Quite scarce.

N.p.: [Jack London Amateur Press Club], N.d.. 12mo. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 6 unnumbered leaves. Fine. Undated reissue (ca. 1940s) of the privately printed edition of 1932. An uncommon bit of London juvenilia, a poem of 17 stanzas written around 1899 and originally published in the San Francisco Call in 1899. The manuscript was rediscovered in 1932 and printed… Read more about this item

Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1933. First edition. First printing. Deluxe issue. One of 200 specially signed copies, of a total edition of 500. Octavo. Maroon cloth; dustjacket; 87pp. Tight, straight and clean, Very Good or better. In the original printed dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), slightly soiled with small chips and stains; just VG. Inscribed by the author,… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. First Edition in English. Five uniform octavo volumes (23cm). In the publisher's deep green grain-patterned cloth, blind-embossed on covers, titled in gilt on spines; printed terra-cotta endpapers; xxxvi, 578, [24]ads.; xi, 676; xi, 635; xiv, 641, [24]ads.; xii, 694pp; text illus; fifteen folding maps; one folding woodcut; 60 inserted leaves of… Read more about this item

Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1933. First edition. First printing. Deluxe issue. One of 200 specially signed copies, of a total edition of 500. Octavo. Maroon cloth; dustjacket; 87pp. Tight, straight and clean, Near Fine. In the original printed dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), quite clean with a brief closed tear to rear panel just a bit of dusting… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. First Edition. Two large quarto volumes in cloth-covered boards and dustjackets, comprising the fourth volume in the series (it was eventually extended to five). Fine in the original, unclipped dustwrappers and publisher's cardboard slipcases. The fourth volume of this magisterial visual survey of African representation in Western art, produced under the auspices… Read more about this item

Belfast: The Honest Ulsterman, Sept./Oct. 1971. First Edition. Stapled wrappers; 8vo. 36 pp. Signed by Paul Muldoon at his contribution the poem "Faces," an early appearance. Very good.

New York: Published and for sale at 5 Beekman Street, 1860. First Edition. 12mo. 20th-c. binding of tan calf over paper-covered boards; marbled page edges; 95,[1]pp. About fine and complete; the pamphlet appears to have been offered without cover wrappers (in any case, not noted by Blanck). Uncommon first edition of this late tract by the important abolitionist… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1993. First edition. Uncorrected proof copy in blue printed wrappers of the second novel by the poet/novelist. Very well reviewed on publication. Very faintly faded spine, else fine.