Fat Cats from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1920. First printing. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 32pp. Slight soil & edgewear; Very Good. On monopolies, large-scale capitalism, and concentration of wealth. Nearing writes from a more or less doctrinaire Marxist perspective; he had joined the Socialist Party in 1918. EGBERT II:262.

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1925. First Edition. First printing. Folio (41cm). Original deep brown cloth over tan linen gilt; xxx,99pp; illus. Slight wear at base of spine; mild rubbing at bottom board edge; slight thumbsoil to endpapers, else internally clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good to Near Fine overall, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Neat ownership signature in… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. Four bound volumes. Large quartos (37cm); uniform half-morocco over pebble-grained cloth. Original pictorial cover wraps bound in. Comprises the first four volumes (26 issues) of this lavishly illustrated periodical. Slight rubbing to bindings at corners and joints; second volume with a tiny chip to leather at crown; contents complete, clean and unmarked.… Read more about this item

St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Company, 1902. First Edition. First printing. Thick octavo; publisher's deluxe binding of full gilt-tooled morocco; aeg; 340pp; chiefly illus. A fine copy in the publisher's binding. More than 2000 photographic portraits (halftones), printed four-to-a-page. A classic pay-to-play publishing venture, featuring likenesses of more than 2000 prominent Minnesotans of the period (all men), each… Read more about this item

[Boston: Tavern Club, 1896-1933]. Forty-seven assorted items of finely printed Tavern Club ephemera. Formats and content vary, including broadsides, pamphlets, announcement cards, annual reports, keepsakes, and other printed items. Condition uniformly fine; a few with brief pencil annotations. Includes (by chronology): 1. (Handbill). Tavern Club. Narrenabend, March 29, 1895. A Rehearsal of "A Wintry Tale"...written by… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. Reprint. Octavo (20.5cm); light blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; red topstain; 342pp. Subtle darkening to cloth at spine and edges, light offsetting to endpapers and a few tiny nicks to rear pastedown; Very Good+ to Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, with shallow chipping, tears, and creasing… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. First Edition. 12mo. Publisher's pictorial gray cloth; 165pp; illus. Slight fading to spine lettering, else a tight, Near Fine copy. With 5 inserted leaves of plates by F. Vaux Wilson. A lowly cashier climbs the social and business ladders, all on the strength of a new suit of clothes. This was the first of the… Read more about this item

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1904. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's decorated tan cloth, lettered in brown on spine and front cover, with pictorial paste-on below title; 236pp; frontispiece illustration by Bert Knight. Mild cover wear and soil, else Near Fine, with ink ownership signature of Victor H. Metcalf (prominent California lawyer & politician; Sec'y of Commerce under Theodore… Read more about this item