Dystopias from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); blue-gray paper and black cloth-covered boards, with blocked and titled in grey and gilt on spine; dustjacket; x,147,[3]pp. Light wear to extremities, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears and some mild… Saber más sobre este artículo

Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; [8],277,[3]pp. Fine in bright, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $3.00 on front flap). The author's first novel, a cold-war classic set in a genteel suburb of New York following an apocalyptic nuclear attack. Source for the 1954 television drama Atomic Attack which starred Phyllis Baxter and Walter Matthau.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Random House, (1952). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover, with foil-stamped decorations in colors; dustjacket; 438pp. Small spot of abrasion at upper edge of rear board; mild ageing to endpapers; still a tight, Very Good or better copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), bright and whole with a few small… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Atheneum, 1965. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); green paper-covered boards over brown cloth backstrip, titled in blind on cover and gilt on spine; yellow topstain; yellow dustjacket by Lawrence Ratzkin; 190pp. Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95) with evidence of price sticker removal on the upper front panel; mild sunning to spine; Very Good+. … Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: The Feminists, n.d., ca. 1969. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); self-wrappers staplebound at top left-hand corner; 6pp.; printed from typescript on green stock. Light wear to extremities else Very Good or better. The Feminists organization rubberstamp to top edge of p. 1 as issued. Described in The Feminists publication catalog as "a pornographic study of pornography." Dystopic tale… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: The Feminists, n.d., ca. 1969. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); self-wrappers staplebound at top left-hand corner; 6pp.; printed from typescript on tan stock. Fine condition. Described in The Feminists publication catalog as "a pornographic study of pornography." Dystopic tale set at the fictional Eastgate Finishing School for Boys where the pupils must go around naked at all times… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. Book Club Edition. Octavo (20.75cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in dark purple on spine; dark yellow topstain; dustjacket; [8], 295, [1]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Pinpoint wear to spine ends and corner tips, lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with contemporary date (6/6/53) in ink to upper… Saber más sobre este artículo