Search Results: Authors starting with P from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Los Angeles: Pablum-Fed, 1996. Original two-page laser-printed letter, signed in ink. Addressed to "All Things Considered," dated March 12, 1996. Old folds, else fine; includes original mailing envelope hand-addressed in blue ink. A lengthy (two-page) screed to addressed to National Public Radio, Washington, D.C., from one Casey Peters, who signs as "Spokesperson" for PABLUM-FED - an acronym for "People Against Being Led Under Media-Forced Exitpoll Democracy." The letter complains that East Coast news outlets, by providing early election returns from polling places east of the Mississippi, impact turnout and voting patterns for West-Coast voters. "Our group, PABLUM-FED, is dedicated to the proposition that voters have a greater right to cast an untainted ballot than television viewers and radio listeners have to know the projected results of presidential elections before the last polling place closes." The letters was sent to several other American news outlets, including Ballott Access News,… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 155pp. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Fine and unmarked, in the original dustwrapper, lightly rubbed at extremities, else Near Fine. Collected early poems by the widely acclaimed Mexican poet and novelist, winner (among many other awards) of the 2009 Miguel de Cervantes Prize for lifetime achievement. The current collection won the 1969 Mexican Premio Nacional de Poesía; following scattered appearances in journals, it was the first collection of Pacheco's poems to be published in English.

New York: Campaign for Peace and Democracy/East and West, 1984. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); printed wrappers, stapled; 16pp; illus. Modest wear, toning, a few faint corner creases and faint foxed spots to right margin of front wrapper; contents clean; Very Good. Debut issue of Peace & Democracy News, produced by the Campain for Peace and Democracy/East and West, an organization founded in 1982 whose principal purpose "has been to bring together members of the peace movement, trade unionists, environmentalists, feminists, and minority rights activists around the perspective of independence from both superpower blocs" (p.1).

Washington DC: New Mobilization Committee, 1969. First Edition. Original illustrated poster, offset printed in red and black on white stock, measuring 38cm x 59cm (ca 15" x 23"). Mild handling, a few vertical creases smoothed out, with a handful of small closed tears to the margins; unbacked; Very Good+. Poster issued in advance of the New Mobe's November, 1969 March on Washington, with the illustration printed by permission of the artist.

New York: Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Harbor / Staten Island Disarmament Campaign Coalition, 1986. Original illustrated poster, offset printed in colors on white stock, measuring 45.5cm x 60.75cm (18" x 24"). A few faint folds smoothed out, staple holes along left and right margins, with a few faint creases and small stains; Very Good. Poster produced by the New York-based Coalition for a Nuclear Free Harbor, promoting a July 4, 1986 event billed as "an alternative to the July 4th parade of warships led by the Battleship Iowa, flagship of the proposed NY nukeport." Not found in OCLC.

[Philadelphia: Greater Philadelphia Committee Against Peacetime Conscription, n.d., but ca. 1947]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound self-wrappers printed in blue; [12]pp. Upper cover rather unevenly toned, else Very Good and sound. Post-World War II arguments against universal military training; upper cover illustration signed in image by Bernard Seaman, depicting Uncle Sam presenting the U.N. with a document reading simply "Disarmament," while holding behind his back another document which reads "We gotta have conscription!!!" One separately catalogued copy in OCLC as of August, 2018, at the IISH.

Boston: American Peace Society, 1847. First Edition. First printing. Brown cloth, blindstamped, titled in gilt; pink endpapers; 252pp. Presentation bookplate of the American Peace Society to front pastedown. Straight, tight, and unfaded, paper lightly browned, with occasional spots, pencil notes to endpapers: Very Good. The structure and outline of the book are very similar to Thomas Upham's Manual of Peace (reprinted with an introduction by Beckwith in 1842), but the text is substantively different. SABIN 4262.

Washington DC: May 6th Coalition, 1979. Original illustrated poster, offset printed in two colors on pale gray stock, measuring 47.75cm x 63.5cm (18.75" x 25"). Some wear, handling, and mild toning to extremities, pin-holes to corners, with short tear to lower margin, affecting a few letters, and short tear to upper left margin, not afffecting image; Very Good. Poster issued by the May 6th Coalition in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident on March 28, 1979. Center image features an illustration of a woman holding a baby and a crowd of people in front of nuclear cooling towers, directly above text reading: "The people put nuclear power on trial! March on Washington, Sunday May 6, 1979. Not listed in OCLC (though we note another poster with the same title); we find an example at OMCA.

N.p., n.d. [Hopedale: 1848?]. 16mo (15cm). Sewn self-wrappers; 12pp. A worn copy, stain on first leaf bleeds (with diminishing effect) through entire text; marginal loss to final leaf, not costing text; still, complete and Good. Issued without imprint, but likely printed at Adin Ballou's Hopedale Community, where Wright was a resident (but see note below). Date of composition is given as Jan. 24, 1848 at close of text; this pamphlet was likely printed soon after that date, as Wright's sequel, titled The Employers of Dick Crowninshield, was composed in March of the same year and makes reference to the current work in its foreword. In typical Wright fashion, a contrarian point of view - here, radical non-resistance - is stretched to its logical limits by unflattering analogy. Wright, the idiosyncratic radical abolitionist, feminist, pacifist, freethinker and proto-anarchist, compares Zachary Taylor's actions at the Battle of Monterey to nothing more than murder for hire, building his analogy around… Read More

New York & Washington: Mobilization Against the Draft, 1980. Offset lithographed poster in colors, 60cm x 45.5cm (ca 24" x 18"). Slight edgewear, with small closed tear and crease at upper right margin (away from central image); Very Good. Striking graphic produced for the anti-conscription rally in Washington, D.C. of March 22, 1980 - a seminal punk-era event that attracted more than 30,000 marchers, many of them young men of high school age who had been mobilized by President Jimmy Carter's proposal to reinstate Selective Service for all U.S. males age 18 and older. The design, striking in its graphic simplicity, marks a clear shift away from the political graphics of the Sixties and Seventies towards a more postmodern, industrial aesthetic that would become a hallmark of much 1980s graphic design. Scarce; not at CSPG; OCLC one copy only (Museum of Modern Art).

New York: Macmillan Company, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by "Bell"; xxix,[5],433pp. General edge wear to jacket and cloth extremities, including a few tiny chips and brief splitting at top inch of upper flap fold, jacket spine a bit sunned, cloth spine gilt dulled, else Very Good and sound. Editor's inscription on front free endpaper: "May 12, 1959 / For Margaret S. Moyer / President of the Allentown Garden Club / With warmest friendship / Vincent Godfrey Burns." Anthology of anti-war poetry, chiefly composed during the Great War and organized by subject: "The Trenches," "Spring in War Time," "Women and War," "Armistice," "The Unknown Soldier," etc. Includes contributions by Conrad Aiken, Witter Bynner, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Stephen Crane, Rose Macaulay, and many others.

Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original black pictorial cloth stamped in red; [10],286pp. Top textblock edge a bit dusty, very minimal shelf wear, else Very Good or better. Late crime novel by the Canadian author. HUBIN, p. 316.

New York: George H. Doran Company, [1922]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; vi,[7]-297pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and worn with a number of closed tears and shallow losses, a couple touching text without loss of meaning; corners gently bumped, some offsetting to endpapers, else Very Good to Near Fine in Good or better jacket. Mystery novel by the Canadian author. HUBIN, p. 316.

Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Hospital, 1956. 2nd printing, containing history from 1938; 1956, by Greim. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a little wear at spine head.

Toronto: The Copp Clark Company, Limited, 1933. First Canadian Edition. Octavo; black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; 300pp. Some trivial wear to upper board edges, with a few faint foxed spots to right edge of textblock; very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unpriced, edgeworn, with light shelfwear, a few short tears and creases; Very Good. Late novel by the Canadian crime novelist, featuring his character Colin Hewitt. HUBIN, p.316.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1991. First Edition. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (In removable mylar protective covers.).

Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 1998. First Edition. Octavo. Black paper boards, lettered in silver on spine; dustjacket; 348pp. Signed by Packer on title page. Fine, unread copy in crisp, unclipped jacket. A new-appearing copy of Packer's third novel.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1983. First Edition. Quarto (31cm x 26cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorical dustjacket; 240pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities. A chronicle of the use and influence of fashion drawings in the last 60 years of the magazine Vogue. Hundreds of illustrations.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2004. First edition. Original illustrated wrappers. This copy is signed by Ron Padgett on the title page. Padgett's memoir of artist/poet Joe Brainard begins with their school years together in Tulsa, OK, and blossoms through their city years, mostly in New York, as well as Joe's and Ron's time in Vermont. Some creasing to covers; bottom of spine bumped. Very good or better. Scarce signed.

San Francisco: 7 Fred's Press, 1971. First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers in classic comix format. Cover by Rory Hayes & Simon Deitch; inside cover adv. for SF Comics Books by R. Crumb; back page illustration by Greg Irons; Tom Veitch/Ron Padgett collaboration; Padgett & George Schneeman collaboration, poems by Charlie Vermont, Andrei Codrescu, Tom Clark, Anne Waldman and others. A good copy, a portion of back cover (approx. 2 x4 inches)lost, staples partially pulled, pages toned as would be expected.