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

Austin, TX: Quagga, 1960. First Edition. Decorated, stapled wrappers; 8vo. 35 pp. Richard Wilbur has signed at his contribution a translation of the sonnet "Anteros" by Gerard de Nerval. Other contributors include Vassar Miller, John Tagliabue, Frederick Will, Kenneth Hokins and C. A. Trypanis. Staples rusty else easily very good.

Reno, NV: Camels Coming, 1967 & 1968. First Edition. Stapled mimeographed sheets printed on rectos only in illustrated covers; 4to. Three issues (all published) each devoted to a specific poet(s): Q1 seven poems by Cesar Vallejo trans. by Clayton Eshleman and two by Jose Hierro trans. by CE and Cid Corman; Q2 seven poems by Morris; Q3 a long poem by Will Inman - "A Generation of Heights: Hoofs With Paths Ingrown". Staples rusty, good copies only, though complete and with little wear. ClayPhillips p.291 lists iss.1 only. For the three issues:. Morris also published the mimeo CAMELS COMING at the same time.

New York: William Morrow, 1991. First edition. 105 pp. Uncorrected proof of the poet's fourth book published in The National Poetry series. A book that went into multiple printings, and first established him as one of the preeminent (and certainly most popular) poets of his generation. Fine unmarked copy in beige printed wrappers. Quite scarce, in fact decidedly rare, and printed well in advance of the scarce first printing.

Brockport: BOA Editions, 1995. First edition. An uncorrected proof in yellow printed wrappers; printed material laid in. Fine.

Madison, WI: Quixote, 1968. First Edition. Spiral bound photographic wrappers, printed on varied colored papers; small 4to. 96 pp. Cover and other material related to college theater (Bennington, Nude Playwrights et al.), contributors include poets T. L. Kryss, Doug Blazek, Ed Ochester, James Bertolino, and many others; interviews with Rexroth, Creeley Olson (on Black Mountain) and others; stories and reviews. Edleson's magazine was quixotic to be sure in format, content and numbering: this issue Numbered Vol. III, No. 9 or so". Clay/Phillips p. 291. Very good and scarce.

Madrid: Ediciones Comunismo, [1927]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp. Stock toned and a bit brittle, top inch of spine split; ownership rubberstamp to upper wrapper of the "Liga Comunista de America (Oposicion de Izquierda), 84 East 10th St., New York, N.Y." Near Very Good. OCLC locates one holding in North America, at Yale.

New York: Putnam, 1966. First American Edition. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine, some light scuffing and bumping to extremities and dulling of the gilt, a strong, solid copy in a clean, bright pictorial dustjacket with some marginal wear, creasing to upper edges, and a couple of small closed tears, two pieces of old tape reinforcement to the verso of the jacket. A very good copy with some light signs of wear. 198pp. [4pp.] Index to rear. Internally clean, with two sections of black and white photographs. Quant's autobiographical account of her fashions successes, inspirations, and failures.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black paper-covered boards decorated in metallic speckled pattern; titled in white on spine;dustjacket; 211pp. Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $21.00), also Fine. Short story collection, winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1993.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); beige cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 223pp. Light foxing to top edge, else Fine in a Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with a hint of dustiness to rear panel. Collection of 16 stories, showcasing the talents of four South African writers: Alex La Guma, James Matthews, Richard Rive, and Alf Wannenburgh. With a 4pp introduction by Alan Paton.

New York: Grand Jury Project, 1976. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); disbound (as issued) newsprint self-wrappers printed in red and black; illus. throughout. Light chipping to extremities, uniformly toned due to inferior paper stock, else Very Good and sound. Quarterly issued by the Grand Jury Project, an organization devoted to jury reform, articles chiefly covering cases of corruption and the practice of imprisoning witnesses who refuse to testify, often members of minority groups. This issue announces the release of Jill Raymond, who spent a year in jail for refusing to testify on the whereabouts of Susan Saxe, one of the few women on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted list.

Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing Co, [1997]. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's white pictorial glossy card wrappers; xiii,[14]-72pp. Wrappers a bit toned along extremities, light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by Smallwood on title page: "To: Davis [?] / a lifelong friend -- You are God's gift to humanity / Love / Catherine / 10/28/00." Includes a number of case studies and "Smallwood's Five-Point Empowerment Program.

[Mexico City: La Internacional, n.d., ca 1970s]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 23pp. Pages trimmed and bound unevenly (as issued); mild age-toning; Very Good. Spanish-language translations of Mandel's "Revolutionary Marxism and the World Revolution" and Lowy's "Why the IV International?" Issued without date or imprint, but with an advertisement for "La Internacional," the official organ of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT), a Mexican Trotskyist party on verso of last leaf of text.

New York: Wright & Owen, 1831. Stated second American edition. 12mo (18.5cm). In original cream paper-covered boards, backed in light green muslin, with original printed paper label to spine, largely intact; plain endpapers; viii [9] 10-120pp. Ink ownership inscription of H. A. Fletcher to title page. Temoin on final leaf of text. Straight, tight, and clean, with general mild wear to boards, spine faded, one or two minor chips to spine label, with some foxing (heaviest on endleaves): Very Good. Includes an 8-page preface by Frances Wright and Robert Dale Owen. The uncommon second American printing of Shelley's revolutionary epic poem, published by the radical utopian duo of Frances Wright and Robert Dale Owen. A favorite book among the Owenites, and unofficially adopted in the 1830's as the "Bible of the Chartists," Queen Mab was first issued privately by Shelley in 1813. It remained unnoticed by the public until a London piracy of 1821. That same year another piracy, with a false New York imprint,… Read More

London: Eveleigh Nash, 1910. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's maroon gilt-lettered cloth; 319pp.; color frontispiece. Some general shelf wear to cloth extremities, mostly at spine ends, some foxing to textblock edges, else Near Very Good and sound. Preceded by the American edition by two days. BLEILER (1972), p. 137.

London: Chatto & Windus, n.d. [1886]. First Edition. First printing. Bound in unbleached linen, pictorial vignette to both boards, titled in black on spine, all edges gilt (BAL Binding A); blue-green coated endpapers; 58pp; color relief illustrations throughout, drawn by Kate Greenaway and engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. A clean copy, cloth lightly rubbed, front free endpaper detached, three-inch crack to rear hinge: Good only. Bookplate of William West. BAL7337.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First American Edition. First Printing. 12mo. Publisher's beveled-cloth boards, titled in gilt on spine; ewer device in gilt to front board; brown clay-coated endpapers; [1-9],10-232pp. Cloth on spine a half-shade faded, with spine ends just starting to fray; else a very fresh, tight copy, Near Fine. First American edition of Swinburne's first two verse dramas, both originally published in London, 1860.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1946-1955. First American Edition. First Printings. Octavo (19.5cm); The first ten volumes of The Queen's Awards; all bound in various color cloth with the Queen vignette on the cover and spine; dustjackets; 380pp., 403pp., 368pp., 313pp., 242pp., 247pp., (review copy); 263pp., 286pp., (review copy); 276pp., 262pp. All volumes are Very Good+ or better; dustjackets are Very Good to Near Fine. The first three volumes are uniform in style with jacket design by Oscar Ogg. The remaining 7 volumes are uniform in the new style jackets by Samuel H. Bryant. [The format and series title changed starting with the eleventh book.] First apperance of many stories by authors such as Kenneth Miller (Ross MacDonald), William Faulkner, Jack Finney, Stanley Ellin and many more.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Maroon cloth, titled in gilt, with original orange jacket; plain endpapers; [xx],190pp; publisher's ads to jacket rear and rear flap. Straight, gently rubbed: Very Good. Jacket price-clipped, rubbed at edges with large chips at head and tail, a few 2-inch tears, spine browned, tape repairs to verso of front flap fold: Good only.

[Meurthe-et-Moselle: Union Departementale des Syndicats Force Ouvrière, ca. 1980s]. First Edition. Quarto (29cm.); original cream pictorial wrappers (a touch dust soiled) lettered in black, unadorned spine; [1],114 leaves printed from typescript; facsimiles. Very minor shelf wear, else About Fine. With the Union's rubberstamps to front fly leaf and illegible signature, possibly of the Union "Secrétaire Général." Reproduction of over one hundred historical documents regarding resistence activities of the Mouvement Syndical Confédéré in eastern France during the Nazi occupation. Not in OCLC as of November, 2014.

[Paris: Maurice Devries, n.d., ca. 1920?]. First Edition. Slim folio (31.75cm.); original string-bound simulated limp pig over cloth; [4]pp. & 9 facsimile documents (including a few bifolia) mounted to stiff stock printed in green and ruled in gilt. Several facsimiles separated but present with tiny pieces of perished tape. Still, About Very Good overall. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label inside upper wrapper. Collection of autograph letters by various noted French figures requesting financial aid. Includes pieces by Baudelaire, Verlaine, Nodier, Daumier, Lamartine, and Louis Pasteur. OCLC locates 2 copies in North America as of May, 2016, at Stanford and Vanderbilt.