Women from Lorne Bair Rare Books

N.p.: Women's Army Corps Veterans Association (WAC Vets), 1983. First Edition. Octavo. Decoratively gilt-stamped green card wrappers (softcover); 288pp. Mild external rubbing, but a well-preserved, Very Good or better copy, free of markings or notable wear. Anecdotes and vignettes by WAC veterans of WW2.

Westport: Greenwood Press, [2000]. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; 128pp. Fine copy, free of markings or wear; issued without dustwrapper. In the publisher's series "Contributions in American History.

San Francisco: Stolen Paper Review Editions, 1966. Second or later printing, in same year as first. Original pictorial card wrappers, overprinted in blue; 6pp; pale blue first and final leaves; publisher's list at rear; $1 price on rear wrapper. A hint of fading at margins of blue sheets, very faint thumb crease to fore edge; Near Fine. Famously banned… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1944. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 224pp; frontispiece and seven unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Near Fine, unmarked copy in original dustwrapper, all four corners clipped bty publisher but price intact (priced $2.00 on front flap), slightly rubbed at extremities; Near Fine. Printed bookplate inside front cover. An… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1990. First Edition. First printing. Signed by Gilchrist on title page. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 391pp. Tight, straight copy; small spot of fading at base of spine, else fine. In original dustwrapper, price clipped, lightly edge-rubbed, Very Good or better.

New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1930. Second printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; blue-green top-stain; xvi,521,[5]pp; illus. Tight, square, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. A guide to stylish domesticity for the new upwardly-mobile American woman, a follow-up to her epochal Etiquette: the Blue Book of Social Usage (1927) and one… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills: Another Mother for Peace, 1971. Octavo (23cm). Yellow softcover titled in black on front; [4],123pp; black and white illustrations throughout. Datebook from Another Mother for Peace an anti-war advocacy group founded in 1967 in opposition to the Vietnam War. AMP sold various merchandise stamped with the group's logo, which included the slogan "War is not… Read more about this item

New York: Times Books / Random House, 1994. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xxii,631pp; illus. Fine, aparently unread copy in Near Fine, unclipped dustwrapper. A fresh and attractive copy.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First Edition. Advance Reading Copy, comprised of bound uncorrected proofs. Octavo; pictorial card wrappers; 278pp. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Touch of curling to wrapper edges; publisher's typed labels affixed, internally about Fine. Uncommon advance issue of the Chinese-American author's first book, which would go on to be an enormous… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. Generic bookplate, signed in ink by the author, loosely laid-in. Octavo (21cm); brown boards titled in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 263pp. Very Good in the original boards, leaning slightly and a touch soiled at base of spine. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped and with a faint ring-stain to… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. First American Edition. Octavo (23.5cm). Purple cloth backed in black cloth, titled in gilt, black topstain, in gold dust jacket; [x],349,[1]pp. General mild shelfwear, with very slight rubbing to edges, pushing at tail: Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $6.95), chipped at lower front edge, rubbed, with creases to both flaps: Very Good only. First American… Read more about this item

Karlsruhe: C.F. Müller, 1956. First, Limited Edition. No. 117 of an unspecified limitation, signed by the author and dated Heidelberg, Dec. 1956. Quarto. Brown cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 137pp; illus. Some very faint marginal foxing to prelims, else a Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and with a few scattered spots of foxing; Very Good+. … Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red cloth, titled in gilt and black on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [x],241,[5]pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, with the pale yellow top-stain even and unfaded. In the notoriously fragile die-cut dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly rubbed at spine ends, extremities, and with a trace of wear along… Read more about this item

Scarsdale: Bradbury Press, 1977. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red linen hardcover; dustjacket; 298pp. Tight, square and unmarked, Fine but for some very faint dusting to upper edge of text block. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.95 on front flap), with a trace of rubbing at spine ends but still very Near Fine, with color deep and… Read more about this item

New York: Coward-McCann, 1957. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Tight, square, and Near Fine in the original dustwrapper, priced on front flap, slightly soiled and edgeworn, Very Good. Account of American imperial adventures throughout the Caribbean and Latin America in the years between the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. Includes… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover, with titles in colors on spine and front cover; xiv,[1]-428,[4]pp; large folding map bound in ahead of text (as issued). Tight and straight, with a few faint stains to boards; front hinge thinly cracked (holding strong); Very Good. Lacking the dustwrapper, but a not-unattractive copy.… Read more about this item

[New York: Fashion Academy, 1938]. Slim octavo. Cloth-backed patterned boards, titled in gilt on spine with applied embossed copper foil title label to front cover; 48pp; illus. Mild edgewear; slight oxidatin to foil cover device; internally clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good, lacking glassine wrapper. Laid-in and in fine condition is an 8-pp folding, illustrated brochure titled "A Visit… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, [1916 & 1917]. First Editions. First printings, with correct letter codes on versos of title pages. Octavo. First title in deep green cloth; gilt titles; top edge gilt; x,356pp; frontis; 11 unnumbered leaves of plates. Second title in brick red cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; x,338pp;… Read more about this item

New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1938. First Edition. First printing. Brown cloth hardcover; brown publisher's top-stain; dustjacket, 296pp. Tight, straight and unmarked with a touch of fading to cloth on spine, VG or better. Original pictorial dustwrapper, chipped and in pieces, laid in. Memoir of the author's childhood on a South Dakota pioneer homestead.

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1978. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); original black simulated cloth; dustjacket; [6],62pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $4.95). The Pennsylvania-born author's first book, a collection of autobiographical, fictional, and poetry pieces primarily about African American women. OCLC notes 9 holdings.