Conservatism from Lorne Bair Rare Books

N.p., n.d. (1949). Anonymously authored, untitled report. Folio; 60pp, mimeographed from typescript on legal-size sheeets (14" x 8-1/2"); ca. 15,000 words; stab-bound into plain card wrappers. Issued without imprint or attribution. Final ca. 30pp extensively highlighted in blue and red pencil; pencil annotation at bottom margin of p.30 suggests that this copy may have been the property of one… Read more about this item

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1948]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth with spine titles stamped in black and gilt; dustjacket; vi,190pp. Straight and tight, with a few spots of marginal discoloration to text, still Very Good or better. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap), lightly chipped with a few closed tears, darkened… Read more about this item

Chicago: Robert Packard & Company, 1929. First, Limited Edition. First printing. One of an unspecified number of signed copies in the limited first edition. Octavo (23cm). Leather-backed patterned paper boards; 171pp. Tight, clean copy with a bit of fading to boards at margins, mild rubbing to board edges, with corner tips just exposed; Very Good or better, lacking the… Read more about this item

N.p.: Heads Up!, [1998]. First Edition. Octavo. Printed day-glo pink wrappers (softcover); 116pp; illus. Fine, in original wrappers. A compelling blend of drug advocacy and consesrvative politics, combining a user's guide to hallucinogenic mushrooms, with philosophical digressions on abortion ("I don't think there is anyone more fascist than a person who takes the life of an infant… Read more about this item

London: Christopher Johnson, 1951. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 200pp. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Faint dampstaining to cloth on front board; moderate foxing within; Good only. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 15s net at base of front flap), bit foxed and soiled with ca 1/2" x 1" chip from upper front… Read more about this item

London: Martin Secker, 1918. First Edition. First impression; limited issue. No. 82 of 100 signed copies on Japon. Octavo. Paper-covered boards with printed spine label; 116pp. Two tiny punctures to paper at rear hinge, else a fine, tight copy in the original, rather fragile, publisher's boards. Squire was editor of the London Mercury, an amazingly prolific popular critic and… Read more about this item

Washington DC: New Republic, 1953. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; [24]pp. Text darkened but not brittle; a few pages dogeared at corners, still complete, sound, about VG. Exposé of questionable financial doings by the head of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Separately issued offprint from the New Republic for March 30, 1953. … Read more about this item

Paulden, AZ: Gunsite Press, 1990. Second printing. Octavo (23cm). Pictorial card wrappers (softcover, as issued); 702pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine. Hard-to-find anthology of Cooper's early columns from Guns & Ammo magazine.

[Cincinnati: Circuit Riders, Inc., 1962]. Broadsheeet, 43cm x 58.25cm (17" x 23"). Printed on both sides of a single sheet of newsprint; recto reprints a petition originally published in the New York Times for Feb 22, 1962; verso is commentary by Circuit Riders, Inc., a Cincinnati-based Christian-Nationalist conservative movement. Horizontal fold; mild toning to margins; Very Good. … Read more about this item

Chicago: We The People!, [1964]. Prospectus. Printed both sides of a single sheet, 43cm x 28cm (17" x 11"). Text (recto) in three columns with graphic vignettes; text (verso) in four columns with single inset portrait. Old folds; faint creases to margins; Very Good or better. Prospectus for this long-running right-wing monthly, edited by prolific far-right gadfly… Read more about this item

Royal Oak: The Radio League of the Little Flower, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. Printed, tan card wrappers; 244pp. Broadsheet, "Preamble and Principles of the National Union for Social Justice" laid-in (as issued). Mild external wear, still a tight, Very Good or better copy. The original American right-wing radio troll.

Los Angeles: Freedom Clubs, 1952. Offprint. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"); bifolium; 4pp. Two horizontal mailing folds (as issued), else Fine. Reprinted from the December, 1952 issue of the National Republic. Right-wing attack on attempts to block passage of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, which established immigration restrictions in order to "... safeguard the country from communism, "Jewish interests", and undesirables… Read more about this item

[Washington]: Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy, 1981. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's white staplebound wrappers printed in blue; 10pp.; text printed in blue throughout. Postally used on rear wrapper with rubberstamp date to upper cover, rear wrapper rather creased, else Very Good and internally fresh. "The substance of this paper was first presented as the keynote address… Read more about this item

Dallas: H.L. Hunt Press, 1960. First Edition. First Printing. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [2],183pp.; illus. including photographs and facsimiles. Light shelf wear, spine a shade sunned, cancel "Amendments which have been suggested for the Constitution of Alpaca" stapled to front free endpaper with minor subsequent rust stains, else Very Good or better. Copyright page lists this as… Read more about this item

Washington DC: by the Author, 1911. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 21pp. A few tiny flecks of soil to covers, else about Fine. Attack on Oregon Senator Jonathan Bourne (1855-1940) and the system of "direct legislation" advocated by Bourne and others in the years leading up to passage of the 17th Amendment (1914).

[Waukesha: 1970]: by the Author. Sole edition. Quarto. Stapled wrappers; [16pp]. Gentle toning to page edges, else Fine. Self-published exposé of left-wing bias in Wisconsin higher education, in the form of a series of reprinted letters between John C. Love, a conservative Waukesha attorney, and Reza Rezazadeh, chair of the History Department at Wisconsin State University-Platteville. Love accuses Rezazadeh… Read more about this item

[Montgomery, AL: National Wallace Campaign], 1972. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); single leaf folded into eight-panelled pictorial brochure. Vertical fold, old ink note to rear panel, else Very Good. Campaign literature supporting the segregationist Governor of Alabama in his unsuccessful bid for the Presidency on the Democratic ticket. OCLC locates two separately catalogued copies as of April, 2020, at UC… Read more about this item

London: Conservative Political Centre, 1966. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 14pp. Fine. On legal rights and responsibilities of British citizens below the age of majority. Brittan went on to serve as Home Secretary in Margaret Thatcher's government.

Lawrence: Conservative Political Centre, 1948. Third impression. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 38pp; illus. Covers a bit soiled and toned; text complete and unmarked; Very Good. A "re-statement in terms of the post-war world of the principles on which Conservative policy should rest..." (from foreword).

London: Conservative Political Centre, 1954. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm). Pictorial stiff card wrappers; 55pp. Light rubbing to covers, else clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. Post-War study of British city planning from a Conservative viewpoint, emphasizing slum clearance, containing sprawl, and preserving agricultural properties.