Printing Trades from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Boston: Technical Composition Company, 1940. Quarto. Tan linen hardcover; 386pp. Small tear to upper margin of first two preliminary leaves, else Fine and unmarked. A specimen book, containing "Linotype and Monotype faces suitable for book work and available to customers of the Technical Composition Company. There is illustrated also a selection of foundry type for title pages and special… Read more about this item

Berlin: H. Berthold, (1924). Quarto. Textured, paper-covered boards, with titles printed in colors; [92]pp, chiefly illus. Title pages in Hebrew and German; Preface in seven languages, including German, Yiddish, Arabic, English, Hebrew, Polish and French, signed in type by Josef Tscherkassky, Manager of the Oriental Department of Type-Foundry H. Berthold AG. Spine backstrip lacking; general external rubbing and wear;… Read more about this item

Cincinnati: Wm. Dealtry, Compositor; R. Allison & Co., Stereotypers, 1869. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Contemporary brown cloth, titled in faint gilt on spine; plain pastedowns, lacking both free endpapers; xii,420pp; frontis and 5 plates. Straight, sound, and unfaded, but rubbed, with boards exposed at corners, minor dirt to endleaves, both free endpapers lacking, adhesion to final leaf:… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: At No. 118 Chesnut St and No. 8 Franklin Place, 1844. Stated second edition. 12mo (20cm). In brown cloth, blindstamped, and titled in gilt on spine; yellow coated endpapers; [i]-vi [7] 8-282, [5]pp; ad for Adams' "Printers' Furnishing Warehouse" at rear; illustrated with in-text wood engravings, including several pictures of presses, diagrams of different lays of the case,… Read more about this item

Lowell: Lowell Typographical Union, No. 213, 1883. First Edition. Small broadside (20.5x12.75cm.); decorative Union seal at top left-hand corner. Previous mail folds, small loss to top edge not affecting text or image, else a Very Good, nicely preserved piece. Published letter by the Recording Secretary of the Lowell, Massachusetts, Union local, dated Oct. 18, 1883, and addressed "To Sister… Read more about this item

[Paris: Parisien Libéré, 1976]. First Edition. Large quarto (30.25cm.); original linen embossed and lettered in black and orange; [2],199,[14]pp.; illus., text printed in orange and black. Accompanying illustrated pamphlet, self-wrappers, bound in front as usual. Fine. Illustrated account of the strike at the offices of the French daily tabloid Le Parisien Libéré, published today under the title Le Parisien.… Read more about this item

New York: Creative Age Press, 1948. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (ca.21cm); cream linen, titled and blocked in navy blue and gilt on spine; dustjacket; 246pp. Hint of spotting to upper rear fore-edge, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with some pinpoint rubbing to extremities and a tiny bruise to lower front joint. Gorham's first novel, a… Read more about this item