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

[Encinitas, CA: ARTRA Publishing Inc, 1988]. First Edition. Hardcover issue limited to 500 copies. Square quarto (25.5cm.); original boards in white pictorial dust jacket; 48pp.; color and plain illus. Very light soiling to upper jacket panel, remainder mark to top textblock edge, else Near Fine. Bookplate signed by Snodgrass laid in.

New York: New York Labor News Co, 1935. Third Printing. Slim octavo (18.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 39,[9]pp. Light wear to extremities, publisher's rubber-stamps to verso of front wrapper and on rear wrapper, else Near Fine. "A personal and political attack on Foster, by a Socialist Labor Party leader, who reviews Foster's early apprenticeship in social-democratic reform, his change to anarcho-syndicalism, his support of World War I, and his subsequent career in the communist movement, where he has successfully negotiated all the switch-backs in the Party line" (SEIDMAN P115).

Cleveland: Bits, 1982. First edition. One of 200 casebound with a cloth spine and felt boards; 8vo. A Bits Chapbook. Printed by Robert Wallace in an edition of 800 copies, this is poet's second book. An attractive publication, about fine sans dust jacket as issued.

Perkinsville, Vt: Raspberry Publications, 1987. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 46 pp. Association copy. Inscribed by Nicholas Boke to the poet Maxine Kumin. In fine condition. Inscribed by Author(s).

Cambridge: Wake, 1953. First Edition. Printed wrappers; 8vo. 147 pp. The final issue here signed by Richard Wilbur who contributes a translation of Valery's sonnet "Helen". Cid Corman has signed and dated this copy; it is presumably his own copy and there are a few pencil notes. Corman with Edgar Lohner contributes four translations of Gottfried Benn poems. Spine toned, edges a bit worn, still very good.

Weymouth, Dorset, UK: Stingy Artist/Last Straw Press, 1986. First Edition. Sewn wrappers with printed paper label; 8vo. One of 151 copies. Spine area sunned, else fine. Bertholf A89.

Weymouth, Dorset, UK: Stingy Artist/Last Straw Press, 1986. First Edition. Sewn wrappers with printed paper label; 8vo. One of 151 copies. Spine area sunned, else a nice, sharp copy. Bertholf A89.

Mamaroneck: Stone House Press, 1985. First edition. 11 pp. One of 125 copies (entire edition) signed and numbered by the author. Wood engravings by John De Pol. Prospectus laid in. Chapbook no. 2. Lightly sunned but still near fine copy in sewn wrappers.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1969. First Edition. First printing. Cloth-backed blue boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 78 pp.; notes. The author's fifth collection for which he was awarded the Bollingen Prize. Near fine with only light wear to the crown and tail of the cloth backing, in a price-clipped dust jacket with a one and a half inched closed tear, but otherwise only light wear. Overall at least very good (in removable protective archival jacket).

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1969. Later printing. Cloth-backed blue boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 78 pp., notes. Early printing (B.10.69). An attractive copy of what is arguably his finest volume. Near fine in a dust jacket that is lightly rubbed and worn at the corners, with one 1/4" closed tear. A small card with the author's signature pasted to the front free endpaper.

New York: Scribners, 1966. First Edition. Light blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Intriguingly inscribed on ffep: "For Dorothy - My latest secret agent/ with admiration,/ Henri Coulette/ 6 November - 72" 1965 Lamont Selection for best first book, judged by stellar group: Dickey, Hecht, Simpson, Snodgrass and Swenson. Lightly worn cloth, soiled and stained (coffee?), but at least good in easily very good complete dust jacket with light wear. Uncomon signed.

New York: Random House, 1945. First Edition. Navy cloth, pasted on labels; 8vo. 259 pp. From the publisher's (Bennett Cerf) flap copy: "Stein proved, that when she wants to, ... she can write straightforward English... WARS I HAVE SEEN, with a few very minor aberrations, is another such book". An easily very good copy with mostly shelfwear in an equally very good dust jacket.

Jamaica, NY: Kelly-Winterton Press, 1999. First Edition. Blue-green mould-made wraps; 8vo. 24 pp. One of 150 (of 176 total); this copy inscribed to another small press publisher/poet on the front end paper. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Prospectus laid in. Fine.

New York: Pantheon, 1994. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in printed light blue wrappers of this collection of stories about his Port William, KY folk. . Spine-faded, and a scratch along the back cover, otherwise fine.

New York: Random House, 1980. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in red printed wrappers, with a typed letter from the poet to his editor at Random House Rob Cowley about his upcoming reading at Bennington College. The letter has multiple folds, and staple holes, though mostly fine; the proof has a couple of paperclip impressions, and the spine is cracked in two places. The poet's third collection. A native Texan he had been living in Vermont for several years when this collection was published.

New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition. Tape-bound proof in plain covers (8 1/2 x 11 in.) 333 pp. Early state preceding bound proofs. (These generally produced for internal use only.) Near fine.

Chicago: WCFL Radio Magazine Co, 1931. First Edition. Quarto. Printed wrappers; 34pp. External rubbing and wear; withdrawn duplicate from the Bancroft Library, with small ink hand-stamp to front wrapper; Very Good. Quarterly journal devoted, oddly, to equal parts technical aspects of radio broadcasting and farmer-labor politics. Current issue contains lengthy feature article by Paul Stephens, outlining the potential of radio for labor organization, as well as technical articles on television and radio servicing and repair. Extremely uncommon; OCLC notes just a single location (Chicago Historical Society).

Chicago: WCFL Radio Magazine Co, 1930. First Edition. Quarto. Printed wrappers; 34pp. External rubbing and wear; withdrawn duplicate from the Bancroft Library, with small ink hand-stamp to front wrapper; Very Good. Quarterly journal devoted, oddly, to equal parts technical aspects of radio broadcasting and farmer-labor politics. Current issue contains several features attacking the Radio Trust as well as technical articles on television and radio servicing and repair. Extremely uncommon; OCLC notes just a single location (Chicago Historical Society).

New York: Segue Foundation/ROOF, 1996. First Edition. Glossy wraps; 8vo. 66 pp. Publisher's news release laid in. Fine.

New Paltz, NY: We Press, 1965. First edition. Side-stapled Illustrated wrappers, mimeograph; 4to. Evidently the second and last issue. Poetry by Carl Solomon, George Montgomery, Barbara Moraff, Rochelle Owens, Walter Lowenfels, Al Fowler, Gerd Stern, Stanley Fisher, Carol Berge (her name and one other added to contents page in holograph) and others. Attractive psychodelic cover by Eugene Hines. Minor Interior coffee stains (mostly two pages), else very good; rare. Not in Clay/Phillips.