Spain from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. First Edition. First printings. Three large octavo volumes (27cm). Blue cloth hardovers; xxxvi,436; xviii,476; xxxviii,428pp; maps; illus. All three volumes complete, clean, and unmarked; a Fine set. In the original publisher's slipcase, slightly worn and soiled with bumps at bottom corners; Very Good.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Original quarto issue in pictorial coated wrappers; 128pp; illus. Slight external rubbing and wear, with faint creases at corners. Text fresh and unmarked; a Very Good copy. Eastman's somewhat breezy 4-pp article recounts his detention in a Madrid jail for having participated in a meeting of the Left Opposition, at the… Read more about this item

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1922. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); pale yellow paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with printed title labels mounted to spine and upper front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; [8],9-245,[1]pp. Spine ends nudged, gentle sunning to heel and upper board edges, light wear to extremities, with some more pronounced wear to corners; contents… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First Edition. First Printing, one of 10,300 copies. Octavo (24cm); black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine, and author's facsimile signature on front cover; [xii],517,[1]pp, with color frontispiece by Juan Gris, and humerous halftone plates. Light wear to spine ends, touch of oxidation to spine gilt, with upper right… Read more about this item

Santiago de Compostela: Ramón Piñeiro, 1995. First Edition. Large octavo. Printed card wrappers (softcover); 609pp. Tight, clean, and unmarked, with a bit of fading to the binding at spine and extremities - Near Fine.

Paris: A. & W. Galignani, 1844. First Continental edition. Second issue (? -see note below). Three octavo volumes (21cm). Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards; xxiv,[1]-308; xiv,[1]-305; xiv,[1]-341pp; 2 folding maps. 3 vols. Very Good, in a well-preserved contemporary binding with some mild abrasions to leather spines and conspicuous but not catastrophic wear to board edges. Text in English.… Read more about this item

Madrid: Gráficas Reunidas U.H.P., [1938]. Original illustrated poser, offset printed in colors on beige stock, measuring 68.5cm x 100cm (27" x 39.25"). Light wear and toning to extremities, a few old folds smoothed-out, with several tiny nicks and small edge tears, a few tiny splits at intersection of folds, and a small loss toward lower margin, just above the… Read more about this item

[New York]: New Directions, 1963. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm); green cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 246pp. Small spot of fading to cloth at base of spine, else a Fine copy in the publisher's pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95), a half-shade darkened on spine, still bright and Near Fine. Three of the plays collected here were previously collected… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus, 1927. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; orange topstain; 295pp+ ads.; offsetting inside front cover; light foxing to textblock; spine ends pushed; topstain faded; Very Good+, lacking the dustkjacket. The Wild Body is a series of short stories by Wyndham Lewis that appeared… Read more about this item

London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Reprint. Lengthy full page inscription from the compiler, Joseph B Gilder, to New York City lawyer Otto C. Wierum on the front free endpaper. Octavo (21cm); green buckram boards titled in gilt on the cover and spine; 107pp. Former owner's bookplate inside front cover [Mary B. and Otto C Wierum]; spine ends and corners… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1935. First Trade Edition. First Impression, one of 5,000 copies. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [iv],268,[4]pp. Wear at crown, some erosion to cloth with resulting board exposure at upper edge of rear cover, and some trivial dust-soil to text edges; Very Good… Read more about this item

[Barcelona: Antonio Bosch / Imp. de Ramirez, 1871]. First Edition. Original pictorial letterpress broadsheet (31.5x21.5cm.); original woodcut illus. to recto and verso, text printed in double column. Tiny creases at corners, faint fold lines, else Near Fine. Uncommon newsheet recounting in highly critical terms the recent destruction following the assault on the Paris Commune, the recto woodcut depicting a… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc, 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (18.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 47pp. Light wear to lower spine-fold, touch of dustiness to rear wrapper; Very Good+ or better. Pamphlet by the British-born American journalist and editor of the Daily Worker, discussing "the glorious story of the Soviet Union's steps to aid Spanish democracy against… Read more about this item

Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1994. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 24cm.); publisher's black pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; xxiv,531pp. Light shelf wear and a few surface scratches, else Very Good or better. Forms part of the series Biblioteca de Historia. Inscribed and signed by the author on p. [v].

[Barcelona: Imp. Llorens, 1871]. First Edition. Original pictorial letterpress broadsheet (31.5x22.5cm.); top third of recto adorned with original woodcut, text printed in double columns. Faint fold lines, a few tiny chips to extremities, light soil, else Very Good to Near Fine. Fortune-telling broadsheet regarding the fate of France following the Siege of Paris in September, 1870. The author, a… Read more about this item

Madrid: Fundacion de Investigaciones Marxistas, 1986. 12mo. Printed card wrappers; 109pp. Clean, tight, unmarked - Very Good. Essays by Andrés Bilbao, J. José Castillo, Daniel Lacalle, others.

Habana: Propaganda Literaria, 1872. First Edition. Small 12mo (16cm.); publisher's orange wrappers printed within decorative border; 84pp.; steel engraved portrait frontispiece. A hint of wear and toning to wrapper extremities, else a Near Fine, superlative copy. Forms part of the author's series of short biographies of literary, artistic, and political giants, this divided into two parts, the first on… Read more about this item

[Valencia]: IVAM Centre Julio González, 1997. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed die-cut pictorial boards; 298pp.; chiefly color illus. Slight spine lean, corners gently bumped, brief paint spots to both covers, else Very Good and sound. Massive and lushly illustrated exhibition catalog. Text in Spanish, with an English translation of Marga Paz's introduction bound in rear.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; x,279,[1]pp. Some offsetting and faint foxing to endpapers, upper edge of textblock slightly dusty, else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped, gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, slightly dusty overall, with the rear flap mis-folded, and several short tears… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press / The Frick Collection, 2011. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm x 23cm). Brown cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in darker brown on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 302pp; illus. Very Good+ copy; two gently bumped corners; very small tear to upper spine hinge; slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. Very Good+ dustwrapper; slight… Read more about this item