The Blind, The Halt, The Lame from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Boston: Howe Memorial Committee; Printed by Albert J. Wright, 1876. Octavo (21cm). Original grey paper wraps, printed in black on front; [viii], 127pp; frontispiece portrait. Ex-library, with rubber and embossed stamps to front cover, frontispiece, and title page. A sound copy, light soil and minor chips to wraps, rear wrap creased, internally clean: Very Good. A separate… Read more about this item

Albany: New York State Temperance Society, 1835. Third edition. Octavo (21cm). Sewn, printed self-wrappers; 96pp; untrimmed. External soil and scattered foxing to contents; old damp-stain in gutter throughout; complete and Good. AMER. IMPRINTS 30906.

Rutland: Geo. A. Tuttle & Co, 1855. 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's brown pictorial gilt-stamped cloth; [2],173pp. Partial orange paint ringstain to upper cover, spine cloth sunned, textblock a bit shaken in covers, late 19th-century ownerhsip rubberstamps to front pastedown and endpaper, else Very Good and sound. The blind Vermont author's second published work, aboult Lizza, the daughter of a "Gypsy,"… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Crescent Publications, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated wrappers; 98pp. Top edge of text lightly foxed, else Fine and unread. "The haunting novel of a tormented young woman who has been confined to a wheelchair since the age of two from polio..." The novel mirrors the author's life; Tillman, a Compton, CA woman, suffered an attack of… Read more about this item

New York: Appleton-Century, 1937. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 298pp. Fine, tight copy in original, unclipped dustwrapper, lightly, evenly soiled, still Near Fine. Odd and uncommon working-class novel, concerning a murder and a love triangle involving two blind basket-weavers. The setting is Cape Town; the author was… Read more about this item

Boston: Thomas Todd, (1904). First Edition. 16mo (15.5cm x 8.5cm); staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 16pp. Faint crease to text block, else a fine, unworn example. Transcript of Keller's 1904 address, calling for reform in the area of blind education. A very fresh copy.