Fantasy - Lost Race - Science Fiction from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); dark blue cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [4],5-316,[4]pp. Fine in an unclipped dustjacket (priced $12.95) with light foxing to verso, mild edgewear, and a closed tear on bottom of rear flap; Very Good… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); red cloth spine over black paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[8],9-296,[6]pp. Small spot on 31-32pp., else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $16.95) with faint wrinkle on bottom of rear panel; Near Fine. Castaneda's seventh novel creates a "sorcerer's world" through… Read more about this item

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); white cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine and facsimile signature on front cover; dustjacket; [xiv],[2],3-417,[1]pp. Trivial wear, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $12.95) with light surface wear and scratches; tiny closed tear on the bottom of front panel;… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth spine over paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-286,[2]pp. Fine in an unclipped dustjacket (priced $17.95) with trivial wear, else Fine. Castaneda's eighth novel. [82113].

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1974. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.25cm); burgundy paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-254,[2]pp. Forward lean, lower corners bumped (though still sharp), with some trivial dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £2.25 net), hint of sunning to spine, with some trivial wear to extremities… Read more about this item

Chicago: Advent Publishers, 1959. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm); grey cloth, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-160pp. Slight lean, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), shelfworn, sunned at spine and extremities, with some shallow losses and small tears along the upper edge; Very Good. An examination of science-fiction as a… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Collins, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.5cm); blue and light cream paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in blue on spine and decorative element embossed on front cover; dustjacket; 225pp; black & white photographs throughout. A Fine copy in an unclipped dustjacket (priced U.S.A. $25.00, Canada $35.50), Near Fine. Castaneda's tenth book, a practical manual to… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); maroon cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 316pp. Small ink stamp on rear pastedown, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $9.95) with light sunning, tiny scuff to rear panel; Near Fine. The American anthropologist's fifth novel.… Read more about this item

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1978. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); mustard yellow cloth, with titling stamped in metallic green on spine and Berger's facsimile signature on front cover; topstain; dustjacket; [xii],499,[1]pp. Gift inscription on front endpaper. With some faint foxing on upper and right edge of textblock and noticeable wear to lower right corner of… Read more about this item

New York: Franklin Watts, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); mustard yellow cloth and blue paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in red and blue on spine; dustjacket; x,179,[3]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $16.95), with light surface wear and faint creases to upper and lower rear panel. An early novel by the science fiction and… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First Edition. First impression. Small octavo (20.5cm). Publisher's slate-blue buckram, titled in gilt on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; 204pp. A tiny (

New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. First Edition. Small Octavo. 16cm. Original publishr's buff card wraps titled and decorated in black and red to spine and covers, with the rear panel being a list of other publications from Gottsberger, who seems to have done a good line in translated German popular literature. 112pp. [8pp.] ads to rear. Light edgewear… Read more about this item

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1953. Limited Edition. Number 53 of 300 numbered and inscribed copies. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. Some light sunning and wear to extremities of the cloth, with a few little spots of soilng in places, a strong copy in a bright, clean pictorial dustjacket with some shallow wear and… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton. First Trade Edition. Quarto. 28.5cm. Twentieth century full green morocco leather with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and floreate gilt ruling to boards. Top edge gilt. 197pp. Clean and bright, a very handsome copy with little to no external wear. Internally clean with some very light occasional spotting, marbled endpapers (with original pictorial endpapers… Read more about this item

New York: Walker and Company, 1969. First thus. First printing of the first American hardcover edition (originally published in paperback, 1954; in cloth in the UK in 1955). Octavo. White cloth hardcover; rose-pink topstain; fore edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 164pp. Spine ends bumped, else a tight, Near Fine copy, with the topstain even and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped,… Read more about this item

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960. Book Club Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publihser's pale green rexine covered boards titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 270pp. Very light wear to the binding, some isolated scuffing and shelfwear to the extremities, in a dustjacket with some light, shallow wear to the edges and a little toning to the… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston / The Viking Press, 1981-1987. First Editions. First Printings. Three octavo volumes (23.5cm); variously colored paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt, copper, and black on spines; patterned endpapers; dustjackets; xviii,332; [xii],[2],3-306; [x],258pp. Volumes 1 and 2 are signed by Burroughs on the title pages; Volume three is signed on the… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1964. First Edition. First Printing, one of 10,000 copies. Octavo (20.75cm); red-orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[11],12-187,[3]pp. Signed by Burroughs on the half-title page. Touch of softening to spine ends, hint of offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned, showing modest shelfwear and dust-soil, with a… Read more about this item

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's vivid orange cloth titled in black to spine and front board. Dustjacket. Light inoffensive bumping to spine ends, an exceptionally bright, clean copy, in a strong, attractive dustjacket with some light toning to the spine panel. The verso of the printed dustjacket is a WW2 Ministry of Defense… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Co, 1950. First Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's blue cloth titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. 256pp. Light wear to extremities, bumping to spine ends and a generally slightly dusty feel to it, in a bright, clean dustjacket with some spotting to the rear panel, shallow chipping and fraying to the upper edge, and a five… Read more about this item