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

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1889. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Rebound in modern grey cloth, titled in gilt; modern white endpapers; L, 415pp; 4 folding maps, 15 plates. Sturdy, with slight spotting to cloth, one or two small smudges, stamp reading "SCI" to f.f.e.p., else clean: Very Good.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1917. First Edition. First printing. 16mo (14.5cm). Original red cloth, titled in black; [220]pp; 4 color plates, black and white in-text halftones throughout. A straight copy, rubbed, with two circular stains to front board, one plate neatly detached, else sound: Good or better. War Department, Document No. 611. A wartime veterinary manual on the care and treatment of horses, produced for the U.S. Military at the Mounted Service School, Fort Riley, Kansas, shortly after America's entry into World War I.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. First printing of the Goodman translation. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 481pp. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a tight, Fine copy in original dustwrapper. Yale Judaica Series, XXV.

Brussels, Belgium: [SABENA], 1966. Quarto (27cm). Two-tone pictorial paper wrappers; 127pp. Spine creased and well-sunned; some bumping and rubbing to edges and leading corners; mild handling wear and soiling throughout. Very Good or better, a sound copy. A 1966 issue of the SABENA Revue, a biannual in-flight magazine produced by SABENA, Belgium's former national airline. This issue celebrates the scenery of Canada (on the cusp of Montreal's EXPO '67), mostly through color and b/w photo-illustrations, plus some short articles and commentary in French, Dutch, and English. With introduction by H.E. Lester B. Pearson, prime minister of Canada at the time. Spectacular period advertising throughout.

New York: Baker & Taylor Company, 1905. Octavo (20cm). Green cloth stamped in gilt, black, and grey, top edge gilt; 302,[2]pp; 2pp publisher's ads at rear; frontispiece and in-text illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. Ownership inscription and rubber stamp of Robert E. L. Miller to front free endpaper. Rubbed, with some color on front flaking off, front joint cracked, internally clean: just Very Good. Sabin (1870-1952 was a popular author of Western fiction for boys. [62397].

[Paris]: Economica / Centre Georges Pompidou, [1988]. First Edition. Quarto (30.5cm.); publisher's cloth in maroon photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaginated; black and white photographic stills throughout. Corners bumped, several closed tears to upper jacket panel with subsequent wrinkling and bubbling of lamination. Near Fine in Good or better jacket overall. Text entirely in French. Massive and detailed reference to 1950s French feature films.

London: Imago Publishing Co, [1950]. First German Language Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in grey price-clipped dust jacket printed in brown; [6],174pp.; frontispiece, photographic plates throughout. Tiny loss at jacket spine foot, else Near Fine. Text entirely in German.

Leipzig: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's black cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],184pp. Boards a bit rubbed, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. At head of title: "Imago-Bucher V." Psychological treatise on day dreams, text entirely in German.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1967. First English Language Edition. Octavo. Maroon cloth hardcover; 387pp. Front endpaper slightly darkened from a laid-in clipping, else tight and fine in a crisp and unfaded dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.50 on front flap); Near Fine. The first English-language publication of this selection of the German-Jewish poet's work, following her Nobel Prize in 1966.

Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1966. Viertes und funftes tausend". Octavo. Black linen-covered flexible boards, with applied spine label; dustjacket; 386,[16]pp. Front endpaper and flyleaf slightly darkened from a laid-in clipping, else tight and fine in a crisp and unfaded dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.50 on front flap); with publisher's wrap-around band announcing Sachs' Nobel Prize; Near Fine. Text entirely in German.

New York: Russian Information Bureau in the U.S., 1919. First Edition Thus. Staple-bound pamphlet; original printed wrappers; 25pp. Mild soil to wrapper edges; internally clean; Very Good or better overall. The Russian Information Bureau, managed by C.A.K. Martens, was the official propaganda and diplomatic wing of the Bolsheviks in the years preceding their recognition by the American government. Martens was deported, and the Information Bureau disbanded, in 1921. A shorter version of this pamphlet, with a slightly different title, was issued in 1918.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968. First Edition. Small quarto (26cm). Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 174pp; illus. Signed on verso of half-title by Sackheim and Ch'en Yung-Sen, with Ch'en's chop. Trivial fading to spine and board edges, else fine in lightly rubbed and dusted jacket. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front pastedown. A collection of early Chinese poems, chosen and translated by the Shahns' friend Eric Sackheim. Includes ten tipped-on leaves of calligraphic plates by the noted Taiwanese calligrapher Ch'en Yung-Sen. Signed copies are uncommon.

Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, (1990). First Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; 430pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper, else tight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine. No. 6 in the publisher's series "Ancient Near East Texts and Studies.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. First Edition. First Impression, one of 12,050 copies. Octavo (19cm); light bluish-green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [10],11-296,[4]pp. Sunning to spine, cloth lightly foxed, upper corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with faint foxing to text edges, and some more pronounced foxing to a few preliminary and terminal leaves; Very Good, lacking the dustjacket. A copy of the publisher's bifolium pamphlet, "Two New Novels" (advertising John Hampson's Saturday Night at the Greyhound and C.H.B. Kitchin's The Sensitive One) is laid in. WOOLMER 270.

New York: The Feminists, [1969]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); self-wrappers staplebound at top left-hand corner; 3 leaves printed from typescript. The Feminists organization rubberstamp to top edge of p. [1] as issued. About Fine. Brief history of the "Equality Issue," including the splintering from the National Organization for Women to form the more militant group The Feminists. OCLC locates 3 copies as of April, 2016, at Central Connecticut, Northwestern, and Waterloo (Canada). Additionally, Kalamazoo College has a digital scan of a variant edition.

Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1968. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed paper wrappers; 5pp. Minor dusting, toning to margins, Near Fine.

Paris: Présence Africaine, [1965]. First Thus. 12mo (17.5cm.); original white pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; 90pp. Pages uniformly toned, else Fine. Novella by Senegalese author Sadji, a leading member of the literary movement Négritude. His fictional works were very much inspired by local African folklore, his earliest book being the educational reader La Belle Histoire de Leuk-le-Lièvre (1953), which he co-wrote with the founder of the Négritude movement Léopold Sédar Senghor. Tounka, the author's first story, is an interpretation of the Senegalese griot folktale describing the arrival of the "unknown people," (historically the Lebou people, originally from the hinterlands who migrated to the Senegalese coastline). The story, in a considerably altered form, was first published in the journal Paris-Dakar in 1946 and again, in book form, in Dakar, in 1952. (Albert S. Gérard, European-Language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa I, p. 217.).

Paris: Présence Africaine, [1958]. 1972 Printing. 12mo (18cm.); original white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 252pp. Fine. Novel of a young woman who seeks her fortune in the city of Dakar, only to return to her mother's local village vegetable stall a fallen woman, ravaged with smallpox scars.

[Washington, DC]: Resource Center on Sex Roles in Education / National Foundation for the Improvement of Education, [1977]. First Edition. Quarto (27cm.); publisher's white printed staplebound wrappers; v,[1],64pp.; tables throughout. A hint of dust-soil, else Fine. Published for the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education. Text separated into two sections, for teachers and students respectively.

Washington DC: Resource Center on Sex Roles in Education, National Foundation for the Improvement of Education, [1977]. First Edition. Quarto (26.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial staplebound card wrappers; vi,45pp.; illus. throughout. Fine condition. Published for the Resource Center by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.