Hoboes from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); blue-grey cloth, with pictorial title labels mounted to spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv,178pp, with color pictorial frontispiece and 10 inserted black & white plates of illustrations by the author. Gentle sunning to spine and extremities, some light pencil underlining in text, and some offsetting to p.1;… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1916. First Edition. First printing. 12mo. Ribbed maroon cloth, titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; xii,[1]-205pp + 4pp publisher's ads. Base of spine just a trifle pushed, else a tight, Fine copy in the original cloth.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's deep red ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on spine; xvii+278pp; 3pp ads. Bit of sunning and wear to cloth backstrip, slight soil to upper edge of text block, else a tight, VG or better copy. Small bookseller label (W.B. Clarke, Boston) at base of front pastedown. … Read more about this item

New York: Modern Age Books, 1938. First edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers w/ pictorial dustjacket; 152p; illus. A clean, tight copy in the uncommon pictorial jacket, lightly rubbed and worn but still quite presentable. Extensively illustrated with halftones, uncredited but clearly of WPA/FSA lineage. An explication and defense of federal work-relief programs, written at the height of the Depression by… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18.5cm). Publisher's red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; 349pp; illus. This copy with a 3-pp holograph letter from Henry H. Knibbs laid onto front pastedown. Copy of American journalist David G. Baillie (recipient of the letter), inscribed by him to his son Hugh on front… Read more about this item

New York: Fortuny's, 1941. First Edition. Small octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 205pp. Small adhesive label to front free endpaper; faint scratches to foredge of text block, else a tight, straight copy in the original dustwrapper. Jacket is complete but worn; price-clipped, with closed tears at front flap-fold and shallow losses at head and heel of spine panel… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc, 1927. Reprint. Octavo (20.75cm); dark red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [viii],280pp; illus. Slight forward lean, spine ends gently nudged, with a handful of small stains to right edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is edgeworn, spine-sunned, with… Read more about this item

Toronto: William Briggs, 1904. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green decorative cloth embossed in white and gilt, top edge gilt; 132pp.; photographic frontispiece. Light shelf wear, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper effaced, else Near Fine. Collection of seven short stories by the Canadian author, many involving the titular St. John River in New Brunswick: in one… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 300pp. Small, vintage booksellers ticket to lower rear pastedown, with some offsetting to same from binders glue, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), spine-sunned and edgeworn, with several small nicks to spine ends and corners, and… Read more about this item

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1931. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in red and yellow on spine and front cover; red topstain; 350, [2]pp. Spine gently sunned, boards slightly shelfworn, with a few faint stains and scuffs to front cover; Very Good+. "The final installment in what Tully considered his five-volume autobiographical… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1930. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in dark blue on spine and front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; [12], 300pp. With a brief, 1-page autographed letter, signed, on Hotel Algonquin (New York) stationary folded twice and tipped onto front endpaper: "To Margaret K. Forey / My greetings… Read more about this item

St. Louis: Cosmos Publishing Co, 1903. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, stamped in white on spine and front cover; 169pp. Spine faded, with spine lettering nearly entirely flaked away; else a tight, Very Good copy with no markings and no significant wear. A lively, if slightly sophomoric, picaresque romance of two young men who hit the boxcars… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 300pp. Hint of sunning to spine, with rubber-stamped 'C' on rear pastedown; very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, spine-sunned, with light edgewear and a few tiny nicks at the crown; Very Good+. Tully's final novel, a nostalgic… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1984. First Edition. Octavo (9-1/4" x 6-1/4"). Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 274p. Clean, tight copy, about Fine, in very clean jacket, unclipped and just a touch rubbed at spine ends; Near Fine. Conover's first book, begun as a Master's thesis in anthropology. A classic of participatory journalism, and an important entry in the literature of modern… Read more about this item