Search Results: Titles starting with F from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Montana Historical Society, 1981. First Edition. First printing. Landscape octavo (25cm). Dark red cloth, in grey dust jacket; 192pp; black and white illustrations. Bumped at head and tail, generally clean: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $29.95), lightly rubbed, Very Good. #61677.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Tan cloth boards, stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 340pp. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "Paul Jordan Smith - his book - Wessel Smitter - his Friend / W.H.S. / Feb. 1939." Mild toning to boards, with a couple of small spots of discoloration; jacket lightly edgeworn; a tight, VG copy overall. A worker's life and hard times in the Detroit auto industry, written by a one-time Ford employee. The inscribee, Paul Jordan-Smith (1885-1971), was a California journalist and editor who achieved notoriety in 1931 as the founder of the so-called "Disumbrationist School of Aesthetics" - an artistic hoax which took in a number of well-known art critics who responded positively to his exhibition of intentionally bad, and technically inept, paintings. HANNA 3285. COAN p.87.

New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation & Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm Ltd, [n.d. but 1973]. Limited Edition. Unnumbered copy, of 1000. Elephant folio (50cm). Halfbound in brown faux leather, with brown cloth over boards, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; unpaginated; 50 full-page color plates. Fine. A facsimile of the 1838 original by John Lindley (1799-1865), a distinguished botanist and early orchidologist. Note: this volume is large and heavy; additional shipping charges may apply.

Tucson: Mineralogical Record, 1997. Limited Edition. No. 33 of 150 copies. Quarto (28cm). Bound in faux black leather, backed in maroon calf, titled in gilt on black spine label; grey endpapers; xliv, [2], [2], 150, [2], 108, [10], 35, [3], 20, [2]pp; 21 color plates. A fresh copy, with very minor dirt to lower edge of text block at front corner, erased pencil mark to flyleaf, else Fine. Facsimile of Wulfen's Abhandlung vom Kärtner Bleispate (Vienna: 1785), a description of minerals found at Bleiburg (in Carinthia, Austria) that is one of the "finest examples of hand-colored mineral illustration." Among the minerals is the popular and eponymous wulfenite. This volume also includes a fascimile of the 1791 Latin translation of Wulfen's book, an English translation, a facsimile of an 1810 biography of Wulfen, a 1986 article on the Bleiburg site, and an introduction by Wilson.

St. Paul, MN: New Rivers, 1981. First edition. One of a total 750 copies, all published in illustrated oversized wrappers. 108 pp. Specially signed by the author. Errata slip laid in. Top tip bumped, else fine.

New York: Doubleday, 1989. First edition. Advanced excerpts from nine novels on the Doubleday Fall 1989 list in printed green and gray wrappers. Includes Mosher's STRANGER IN THE KINGDOM and Payne's EARLY FROM THE DANCE. 139 pp. Fine in Wraps.

Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1990. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in slipcase; 8vo. 236 pp. Limited edition. Edited and with an introduction by James Reidel. Fine copy.

Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1968. First edition. [10 pp.] Small chapbook; one of 30 sewn-bound, signed and numbered (#30) by the poet (of a total edition of 500). A volume in the Santa Barbara Poetry Series edited by Jack Shoemaker of North Point and Counterpoint fame. Designed by Alan Brilliant, printed by Bill Horton. With a fine copy of the paper/regular issue. Fine in stapled wrappers and printed dust jacket.

Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1968. First edition. 12m; wrappers; [10 pp.] Small chapbook; one of 500 copies in the regular issue (there was a simultaneous issue of 30 numbered and signed). A volume in the Santa Barbara Poetry Series edited by Jack Shoemaker of North Point and Counterpoint fame. Designed by Alan Brilliant, printed by Bill Horton. Very good in stapled wrappers and printed dust jacket.

London: Next Editions, 1981. First edition. Illustrated wrappers; spiral bound; 8vo. A Play written for Radio and first broadcast in Jan. 1981. Reproductions of seven paintings including the cover by Guy Vaesen. US price sticker on back cover, small smudge, else about fine (in removable protective mylar covers). Scarce.

London: Faber and Faber, 2011. First Edition. First printing (number line ending in "1")Black cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 66 pp. Inscribed to a publisher/printer (US) (& his wife) noted for his Poetry publications, and signed "Love, Wendy". Top tips bumped, else fine in like dust jacket, the crown lightly thumbed (in removable, archival protective jacket).

London: Faber and Faber, 2011. second printing. Cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 66 pp. Second Printing. Inscribed to a US poet associated with New Formalism, signed "Wendy". Fine (one corner page turned) in fine dust jacket (protected by a removable archival Jacket).

New York: Birth Press/Pup Press, 1959. First edition. Stapled orange illustrated wrappers. Small 8vo. Pup Press was an affiliate of Birth Press edited by Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs. Light creasing, but Near Fine in Wraps (in removable protective mylar covers).

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 54 pp. Review copy with slip laid in of the poet's first collection. Issued simultaneously in paperback. Pope is a professor at Duke. Fine copy in like dust jacket.

Pittsburgh: Fantasy, 1940. First Edition. 76 pp. Poems by William Carlos Williams ("Perfection"), Eugene Jolas, Winfield Townley Scott , John Wheelwright, Charles Henri Ford, and Federico Garcia Lorca among others as well as prose work including an essay on Patchen. Issue number in pencil and lightly soiled wrappers. Very good in wrappers, with light wear and soiling, interior clean.

Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1978. Octavo (26cm). Six volumes, complete. Blue binders titled in white; noncontinuous pagination. A few volumes bumped at heads, slightly dusty, with a few leaves creased at gutters, but largely clean: Very Good.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. First edition. An Advanced Reading Copy (uncorrected proof) in glossy wrappers with publisher printed sheet laid in. New pub date corrected with label on back cover. The poet's fifth collection. Fine.

Merylhurst, OR: Breeitenbush Publiications, 1984. First edition. 75 pp. An uncorrected proof copy of this volume of poems, with printed pub sheet laid in, wrapper in untrimmed proof covers. Also, tipped in a handwritten review by Lewis Turco (unsigned). Published by James Anderson, Hamill himself an important poetry publisher, (with Tree Swenson) co-founder of Copper Canyon. Turco's embossed stamp on the title page, offsetting on unprinted sheet from the note, otherwise fine in a worn (oversized) dust jacket. Good association.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1999. First edition. 96 pp. An uncorrected proof of this collection of new poems. Light spotting to the top edge, otherwise fine in tan wrappers.

Stinson Beach: Enkidu Sur Rogate, 1960. First Edition Thus. First complete edition, preceded by a mimeograph edition for performers and audience at the Six Gallery reading, and a White Rabbit publication of the first act only. Yellow illustrated wraps. 71 pages. One of 750 total copies. An about very good copy in yellow wrappers that are moderately soiled, with some wear at the base of the spine and with a small owner signature to the front free endpaper. Signed by Duncan in Chicago in 1982 opposite the title page. Bertholf A7c.