Search Results: Modern Fiction from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 pale green paper over olive cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and green foild on spine; dustjacket; 245pp. Bookplate signed by Irving loosely laid in. Previous owner's name and date on front endpaper, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with a few rubs along the edges, and two creases along front flap; Near Fine. The author's third novel.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; orange cloth, titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; 473pp. Tight and clean, with just mild external wear and soil; spine cloth sunned, with fading to spine lettering; Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. The second volume in Dos Passos' acclaimed "USA Trilogy.

Verona: Stamperia Valdonega, 1998. First, Limited Edition. One of the first 50 copies on Magnani paper, casebound, of a total edition of 300 signed copies. Octavo (24cm); blue cloth boards with paper label title on cover; acetate dustjacket; 130pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy in a Fine DJ and slipcase. A selection of the author's letters to Sandy Campbell, Broadway actor and Windham's lifetime partner, written from Italy in 1948. Illustrated with mounted photograhic plates. A typically lovely book from the Stamperia Valdonega.

New York: Random House, 1980. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with publisher's slip, promotional photograph of Irving, and two pages of publicity material laid in. Octavo (24cm); black cloth and paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xvi, 718pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $15.95), with mild shelfwear and a short tear to lower front flap fold. Volume collecting Irving's first three novels, uncommon as an advance.

New York: Dell, [1959]. First Edition. First Printing. 12mo (16.25cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, all edges green; 160pp. Some light edge wear, hairline crack to hinge at pp. 4/5, else Very Good or better. "Novelization of the TV series based on Huggins' character [Stuart Bailey]" (HUBIN, p. 215).

Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1982. Small slim quarto (23.5cm.); original card wrappers in marbled dust jacket, printed paper label mounted to upper panel, disbound as issued; 21 leaves; portrait plate. Fine, with the printer Alan Anderson's manuscript corrections in red ink throughout.

New York: B.W. Dodge, 1909. First American Edition. Octavo (20cm). Pictorial deep blue textured cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 360pp. Publisher's presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "Best wishes of the publisher (see title page) and his wife / Xmas 1909." First issue, with gilt stamping to cloth (later issues stamped in red). A fine, bright copy in the original dustwrapper, lightly worn, a trifle darkened on spine, Very Good.

New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1931. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original mustard yellow pictorial cloth embossed in blue, blue topstain; [6],306pp. Light shelf-wear, spine slightly cocked, else Very Good, albeit lacking jacket. Rather scarce murder mystery novel with only 12 listings in OCLC as of July, 2016. HUBIN, p. 88.

Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xxii,214,[4]pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket, with some pinpoint wear to extremities. "The first book-length study to explore the impact of Charles Chesnutt's sophisticated, innovative narrative..." (from front flap).

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. Quarter maroon cloth over yellow textured boards; dustjacket; maroon top-stain, 215pp. Fine condition. African-American author's third book, covering "poverty, drug addiction, prostitution, venereal disease, murder, bureaucratic indifference, race riots..." (upper jacket flap).

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1929. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); purple cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 355,[1]pp ads. Light wear to spine ends, top edge dust-soiled, with mild biopredation to text edges; contents clean; Very Good. Dustjacket is price-clipped, showing moderate wear, some dust-soil, several splash marks to spine, with a semi-circular stain to base of spine (extending onto lower rear panel), a few shallow losses, with some nicks, tears, and attendant creases; Very Good. Sixth novel by the English travel writers and explorer - a romantic adventure novel set in North Africa. Basis for the 1928 British silent film The White Sheik, starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Warwick Ward, and Jameson Thomas.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Gray cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 126pp. A fine copy but for a small shadow left by the laid-in publisher's review slip on the front endpaper. In the original dustwrapper, bottom flap corner clipped by publisher but $2.95 price remaining at upper corner; touch of creasing to base of rear panel, still Very Good to Near Fine. Nice copy of this somewhat uncommon late-career novel for young adults, a cautionary tale of the evil effects of LSD. By the prolific pulp and sci-fi author K.F. Crossen. Under the same pseudonym (derived from "mechaber," Hebrew for "author"), Crossen penned the popular series of Milo March mysteries between 1952 and 1973, and this is the only non-March novel to use the "M.E. Chaber" pseudonym. Interestingly, the fifth March novel (The Splintered Man, 1955) also used LSD as a central plot device, one of the earlier appearances of synthetic hallucinogens in fiction.

New York: Henry Holt and Company Publishers, [1946]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [10],388pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and rubbed with a few short closed tears, toning to spine, minor dust-soil to rear panel, else Very Good and sound. "A novel about farms and farm empires" - upper jacket panel. Set in Iowa during the Depression, describes the "development of a corporation farm by those who were foreclosing mortgages on the land of small farmers...[Ends] with an argument for farm co-operatives" - COAN, p. 39; HANNA 802.

[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1954]. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); original simulated cloth in blue and green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 204pp. Small piece of repair to jacket spine crown, price clip affecting one word with minor loss of meaning, else Very Good and sound. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. The Canadian author's first book, set in Valencia.

New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1961. First English Language Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket, green topstain; [4],182pp. Light shelf wear, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Israeli author's first novel.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1947. First Edition. Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 12. Octavo (20.5cm.); original full red gilt-lettered morocco, top edge gilt; [6],335pp. A few unobtrusive scratches to top edge gilt, else Fine. Signed by the author on colophon. Printed by the Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho. The fourth in the 12-volume "Testament of Man" series. BLEILER (1972), p. 115.

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. Second printing (before publication). Octavo (19.5cm). Blue cloth, in grey and orange dust jacket, grey topstain; [xii],[380]pp; publisher's ads to dust jacket rear panel, and blurbs to both flaps. Sound, gently rubbed, with a slight forward lean: Very Good or better. Dust jacket unclipped (priced $2.50 below blurb); browned on spine and along edges, mildly rubbed at edges with one or two tiny tears: Very Good. Early reprint. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse.

London: Michael Joseph, 1966. First Omnibus Edition. Thick octavo (22.25cm); blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-758,[2]pp. Portion of textblock with slightly darkened text edges, due to the use of different paper stock; base of spine gently nudged, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced 30s net), with a hint of sunning to spine and some trivial wear to extremities. A sharp copy of the second Hornblower omnibus.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (23.25cm.); original cloth in grey and white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [10],1978pp. Minimal shelf wear, spine a bit faded, else Near Fine. Publisher's broadsheet advertisement laid in.

[Phoenix, NY]: Frank E. Richards Publishing Co, [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original pictorial card wrappers; [4], 219pp.; illus. A bit dust-soiled, else Fine. Juvenile novel recounting the experiences of Jacques "Ebony Jack" Duval, a black man from Massachusetts lured to the West in the antebellum years.