Periodicals from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Chicago: Big Table, 1956-59. First Edition. Five octavo volumes (all published). Original printed card wrappers; Pp. 152; 122; 120; 141; 125. No. 1 slightly darkened on exterior as usual, with a few spots of staining and soil; red ink marking to no. 5; else minor wear and dusting, but still a tight, well-preserved set, Very Good. The complete… Read more about this item

Fort Barrancas, FL, 1943. Quarto (28cm). Side-stapled, illustrated paper wraps; 10pp. Printed by mimeograph. Clean, complete, and sound - a Very Good or better copy. Single issue of this uncommon post newspaper, published by and for enlisted men at Fort Barrancas, Florida during the Second World War. Features a terrific cover illustration by Cpl. Frank Carrano, of… Read more about this item

New York: Crowell Publishing Company, 1923. Single quarto issue in original pictorial wraps. Staple-bound wrappers, 64pp. Mild cover wear and soil, still a well-preserved, easily Very Good copy. Edited by William David Moffat. Photographic cover portrait by W.M. Van der Weyde. The entire issue is devoted to the life and career of O.Henry (pseudonym of William Sidney Porter,… Read more about this item

New York: The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc, 1939. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.75cm); original photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; pp.227-254; illus. Light wear, handling, and dust-soil to wrappers, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and old rubber-stamps from Yale University's Social Sciences Department on wrappers and a few internal pages; complete; Very Good. Complete issue of this long-running African American… Read more about this item

New York: The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc, 1941. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.75cm); original photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; pp.243-270; illus. Light wear, handling, and dust-soil to wrappers, with a few tiny nicks and tears, a 1.75" split to lower spine-fold, and old rubber-stamps from Yale University's Social Sciences Department on wrappers and a few internal pages; complete; Very Good. A… Read more about this item

New York: The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc, 1940. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.75cm); original photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; pp.227-270; illus. Light wear, handling, and dust-soil to wrappers, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and old rubber-stamps from Yale University's Social Sciences Department on wrappers and a few internal pages; a few small passages marked in pencil; complete; Very Good.… Read more about this item

New York: H. Havel, 1937. Single, original tabloid issue, 46cm x 31cm (about 18" x 12"); 8pp; illus. Old horizontal fold at center, likely as issued; minor nicks and short tears in margins; partially unopened; Very Good. Excellent single issue of this important American anarchist journal, which ran from 1933 to 1940 despite its publisher and editor… Read more about this item

New York: H. Havel, 1937. Single, original tabloid issue, 46cm x 31cm (about 18" x 12"); 8pp; illus. Old horizontal fold at center, likely as issued; minor nicks and short tears in margins; partially unopened; Very Good. Excellent single issue of this important American anarchist journal, which ran from 1933 to 1940 despite its publisher and editor… Read more about this item

Newark, NJ: Swingshift, 1951. First Edition. Slim octavo (17.75cm); original pictorial card wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, some faint stress creases to wrappers; contents clean; Very Good+ or better. Proletarian literary and art journal produced by the Writers Workshop of New Jersey, a group comprised of "working artists and writers. And when we say 'working', we… Read more about this item

New York: The Masses Publishing Co, 1916. First Edition. Large quarto (35cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 34pp; illus. Two very faint vertical bends, a few tiny tears to wrapper extremities, else an uncharacteristically fresh, very Near Fine copy. Contents include contributions by Max Eastman, Louis Untermeyer, John Reed, Austin Lewis, Sara Bard Field, and others. Illustrations throughout by Art Young,… Read more about this item

Madison, WI: Madison Women's Center, 1974. First Edition. Tabloid newspaper folded into quarto (29cm.); photo-illustrated self-wrappers; 15pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs. Stock uniformly toned, faint mail fold line, rather large loss to rear wrapper with very minor loss of meaning to the Directory of Women's Services and subscription. Good and sound overall. Issue devoted chiefly to sports and dance,… Read more about this item

Madison, WI: Madison Women's Center, 1974. First Edition. Tabloid newspaper folded into quarto (29cm.); illustrated self-wrappers; 15pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs. Stock uniformly toned, faint mail fold line, evidence one previously removed staple, else Very Good or better. Issue celebrating International Women's Day, featuring articles on "Women in Chile," "In Search of Janis Joplin," and a fantastic woodcut centerfold… Read more about this item

Urbana: Accent, 1941. First Edition. Original octavo issue in staple-bound, printed card wrappers; pp.[131]-192. Mild toning to cover extremities, else Near Fine. Early issue of this "excellent example of the eclectic little magazine" (Hoffman) which ran until 1960 under the editorship of Kerker Quinn. Porter's story "The Source" (WALDRIP & BOWER C90) appears on pp.144-47; other contributors… Read more about this item

New York: The Atlantic, 1953. First Edition. Single quarto issue in original wraps; pp96; illus. Mild rubbing to bound edge, but a clean, sound, Very Good or better copy. Faulkner's contribution appears on pp.27-29. This issue also includes an Albert Camus essay, "What A Writer Seeks." The cover portrait of Faulkner and Anderson is by Erné de Sauré. … Read more about this item

New York: Privately Printed, 1926. 12mo (18cm). Blue paper-covered boards, backed in black cloth; [viii],135,[1]pp; halftone tipped onto frontispiece. Inscription "to my young friend Maria" by John Sanborn Phillips, 1926, on front free endpaper. Generally sound but rubbed, with slight fraying at head; rear hinge almost cracked through, but holding; clean, around Very Good. Memorial compilation for… Read more about this item

New York: American News Company, 1865. Single issue in original pictorial wrappers. Octavo (24cm); pp [529]-656; illus. A well-preserved, Very Good issue; lightly soiling and creasing to wrappers, with pencil ownership signature to front cover; contents fresh, clean and unmarked. Perine's portrait of Catharine II appears as the frontispiece; it remains clean, bright and unfoxed beneath the… Read more about this item

New York: Atlantic Monthly Company, 1927. Single octavo issue in original printed wrappers; 144pp+88 numbered pages of ads; illus. Mild soil and edgewear to wrappers, with pencil ownership signature to front cover; internally complete, clean, and unmarked. Very Good. First appearance of this much-anthologized story - a quite early U.S. periodical appearance for Hemingway. "Fifty Grand" would… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Original quarto issue in pictorial coated wrappers; 128pp; illus. Slight external rubbing and wear, with faint creases at corners. Text fresh and unmarked; a Very Good copy. Eastman's somewhat breezy 4-pp article recounts his detention in a Madrid jail for having participated in a meeting of the Left Opposition, at the… Read more about this item

New York: National Urban League, 1940. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; pp.[33]-64; illus. Wrappers dust-soiled, nearly detached at spine, with a small piece of sticker residue to lower front wrapper, and rubber-stamp of the Knoxville College Library at upper front wrapper and upper margin of p.41; contents complete; Good. Complete issue of this sociological and literary… Read more about this item

New York: Jewish Currents, 1963. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 48pp; illus. Light wear and handling, tiny stain to lower edge of front wrapper; Near Fine. Contents include UN correspondent David Matis's lengthy article "Birmingham Diary: A Reporter's Observations," which contained on-the-ground coverage of the SCLC's Birmingham Campaign. Couched within the article is a full-page… Read more about this item