Social Fiction from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907. First Edition. First printing, verso of title page dated July, 1907. Octavo (20.5cm). Publisher's gray cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt and colors; x,401pp; frontispiece and three inserted leaves of plates. A lovely copy, gilt bright on spine and front cover, with minimal rubbing to pictorial elements. Very Near Fine, and unusual thus.… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. First Illustrated Edition. Trade issue. Three octavo volumes; (23.5cm.); uniformly bound in cloth in paper-covered slipcase with printed wrap-around paper label; illus. Gentle, uniform toning to spine cloth, else a tight, unworn set, free of markings or notable wear. In the original slipcase, rubbed, with wear and faint staining at edges; just Very Good.… Read more about this item

Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1899. First Edition. First printing, with no printing statement on verso of title page. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's embossed red cloth, titled in gilt with applied photo-pictorial cover illustration; 288pp; illus. Old ink-stains to cloth on front cover and spine; ink inscriptions to endpapers; still a tight, sound copy of the uncommon first edition. … Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Warmly inscribed on front endpaper: "To my dear friend, Danny Rezmerski, God bless you, dear / Fondly," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo; gray cloth hardcover, dustjacket; 194pp. Tight and straight, about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95 on front flap), slightly foxed and soiled on… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. First Edition. First printing, with the J. J. Little device on copyright page. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth, stamped in gilt; plain endpapers; [viii],652pp; map facing first page of text. Straight and tight, with a hint of fading to cloth on spine and a few tiny specks of soil; Very Good+. The… Read more about this item

Perfection Micro-Classic, [1970] n.d.. Reprint. Later Edition. (20.5cm); white illustrated wrappers in orange and black; 37pp.; minor wear only; Near Fine. "I met him first in a hurricane. And though we had been through the hurricane on the same schooner, it was not until the schooner had gone to pieces under us that I first laid eyes on… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); pale gray cloth, with titling and decorative rule stamped in black and green on spine and front cover; burgundy topstain; dust jacket; [vi],266pp. Tiny scuff to lower rear board edge, small patch of sticker pull from upper rear pastedown, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped,… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, [1915]. Code "G-P" (i.e. July, 1915) on copyright page. Octavo (19.5cm). Green cloth stamped in gilt and blind, in cream dust jacket printed in green; [x],389,[1]pp; publisher's ads to jacket rear flap and panel. Lightly rubbed and bumped, with minor marks to textblock edges, but generally sound and clean: Very Good. Jacket rubbed, chipped,… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1927. First Edition. First Printing, second state, with "ducks piped" on p.17, line 32-33. Octavo (19.5cm); vertically-ribbed brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; decorative endpapers; brown topstain; dustjacket; [ii],[10],11-315,[3]pp. Beginning oxidation to gilt, lower corners gently bumped (though still sharp), with some faint, scattered staining to covers; contents fresh;… Read more about this item

New York: Vanguard Press, 1939. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket; 91pp. Tight, straight, and unmarked - a Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.00 at base of front flap), lightly rubbed and soiled with a small nick at upper margin of rear panel; Very Good. One of relatively few contemporary… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1928. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover, titles in orange on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 306pp. Tight and square with just a bit of rubbing at board edges; Very Good+. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, priced $2.00 on front flap, rubbed at folds and spine ends, with a few splits and creases… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Second Printing, with the publisher's seal (though lacking the 'A') on the copyright page, and the length of the alligator mentioned on p.184 reduced to "twenty feet." Octavo (19.25cm); light green cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt and dark blue on spine and front cover; green topstain; dustjacket; [viii],334,[2]pp. Trivial… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. Thirteenth printing. Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth stamped in dull gilt; [10],489,[1]pp; list of titles at front. Bookseller's ticket of the Skylark Bookshop, Washington, DC, to rear. Mild rubbing with just a few spots of foxing, else a pleasing copy, clean, sound, and Very Good. One of the early twentieth-century Revolt Novels, offering a true-to-life portrait… Read more about this item

New York: by the Author, 1920. Illustrated & Definitive Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 336pp. Brief (

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Maroon cloth spine over red cloth-coverered boards; dustjacket; 182pp. Fine, apparently unread copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95), minutely creased on front flap, still Fine and completely free from the marginal toning that is endemic to his title. Rarely found in fine condition. Mitchell's first book,… Read more about this item

New York: Vanguard Press, 1946. First Edition. First printing. First issue, without the tipped-in disclaimer at dedication page. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [8],367pp. Tight, clean, and unmarked; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.75 at base of front flap); c hips and a few closed tears along jacket extremities, spine and flap edges… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; red publisher's top-stain; 482pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, with top-stain clean and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap), crisp, clean and unfaded with a trace of rubbing and a single brief, closed tear to front panel; Near Fine. … Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 293pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap); Very Good or better. Contemporary ink ownership inscription inside front cover. The Rhode Island author's second novel. Like his first, the best-selling Our Own Kind (1946), the present work… Read more about this item

New York: Rinehart, 1959. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; red-orange topstain; dustjacket; 393pp. Text paper toned (as usual) and top-stain slightly faded; Very Good. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.95), moderately rubbed, foxed and soiled with a few small edge chips; just VG. Farris' fifth novel (and first from a literary publisher), set among high school… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 364pp. Tight, clean copy, slightly rubbed at spine ends and with mild evidence of use; Very Good Plus. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $23.00 on front flap), slightly rubbed at extremities, creased at crown of spine panel; Very Good. A clean, presentable copy of… Read more about this item