Continental Europe from Lorne Bair Rare Books

London: Macmillan, 1883. First Edition. First printing. Precedes the American edition. Octavo (20cm). Bound in plain blue publisher's cloth, titled in gold on spine; [viii], 376pp. Sturdy and clean, with bump to lower front board and minor damage to cloth at upper rear joint, but generally fresh: Very Good. Binding A (first state), with "James" printed in… Read more about this item

New York: Daily Worker, 1933. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Photo-montage wrappers after John Heartfield; 24pp. Mild cover soil; slightly mis-folded; Very Good or better. Transcript of Dimitroff's statement in self-defense before Germany's Supreme Court, made in Leipzig in December 1933, against accusations that he had participated in the Reichstag fire. Foreword by William L. Patterson, who at this… Read more about this item

London: Hakluyt Society, 2004. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm). Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt, in blue typographic dust jacket; plain endpapers; [xviii],331pp; black and white plates. A straight, fresh copy, lightly pushed at head and tail, Near Fine. Jacket with small crease at front upper edge, slight edgewear: Very Good. Hakluyt Society Series III Volume 14.

Montreal: International Labour Office, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 20pp. Slight creasin to covers, else Near Fine and unmarked. Description of the activities of the ILO, a United Nations agency charged with maintaining fair working standards worldwide. This bulletin issued shortly after the temporary transfer of the Organization's world headquarters from Geneva to… Read more about this item

New-York: T. and J. Swords, 1825. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; iv,[5]-48pp. Extremities very slightly chipped and toned, else Very Good and sound. Later work by the Episcopal bishop, based on his travels through Europe from 1823 to 1825. SHOEMAKER 20917.

London: Routledge, 1991. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards, lacking dust jacket; ix, 319pp. Textblock mildly cocked, minor shelf wear to boards, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Very Good.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards titled in gilt on front board and spine; ix, 278pp. Minor damp rippling to first quarter of textblock, mild foxing to edges of textblock, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Very Good.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. First Edition. Octavo. Paper covered cloth boards in dust jacket; 280pp. Publisher's slip laid in. Some minor dust soiling to bottom edge of boards. Mild shelf wear to bottom edge of dust wrapper, otherwise a clean, tight, near-new copy. Fine. Volume 50 in publisher's series "Campaigns & Commanders.

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. Octavo. Black paper-covered boards in dust jacket; xv,301pp. Text block slightly cocked, otherwise tight, unmarked, near-new copy. Minor shelf wear to dust wrapper. Fine. In publisher's series "Eighteenth-Century Worlds.

[Breendonk: Amicale des Postiers Prisonniers Politiques Rescapés], 1945. Original broadside pictorial diploma (24.5x32cm.) printed lithograph on cream stock in red, gilt, and black, accomplished in manuscript and rubberstamp. Minor foxing else a fresh, Fine example. Exceedingly uncommon diploma awarded to a survivor of the Nazi prison camp at Fort Breendonk outside Antwerp. The camp generally held political prisoners, members… Read more about this item

[Berlin: 1848]: Vereins Buchdruckerei. Broadside, 27cm x 20cm (ca 10-3/4" x 8"). Printed in blackletter on white wove stock. Slightly toned, with old vertical and horizontal fold-lines; creased at margins; Very Good. Satirical broadside in the form of a fictional speech by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, in which he (ironically) expresses support for the demands made by liberal parliamentarians… Read more about this item

Lugduni: Laurentii Arnaud, Petri Borde, Joannis, & Petri Arnaud, 1679, 1665, 1678. First Edition. Three volumes in one; folio (36.5cm.); full blind-tooled contemporary pig skin, spine in six compartments, metal clasps, all edges stained blue (not contemporary); [6],263,[31];[6],293,[39];[18],684,[88]pp. (a4 A-2A6 2B3; ã4 A-2E4; ã4 6 A-2S6 2T4 2V4 2X-3L6 3M4 3N-3T6 3V4); woodcut initials, head and tail pieces. Slightly… Read more about this item

Anvers: Guil. van Merlen, 1877. Offprint. Octavo (25cm.); publisher's green printed wrappers; 26pp. Wrappers slightly chipped and toned along extremities, spine starting to perish, faint soil spots, else Good or better, internally fine. Inscribed and initialed by the author on front cover. Paper on the history of the slave trade by the Belgian Egyptologist, first published in the "Bulletin… Read more about this item

Paris: Les Essais, 1960. Offprint. Octavo (26cm.); disbound self-wrappers as issued; 8pp. Light wear and a hint of toning, else Fine. "Chronique sur la politique parue dans la revue 'Les Essais' janvier-février 1960.

London: United Kingdom Council of the European Movement, [1964]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial paper wrappers; 19pp. Mild external wear; Near Fine. On the formation of the European Economic Community (EEC), by the Foreign Minister of the Netherlands and a chief architect of the European Union. Scarce; not separately catalogued in OCLC.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 20cm.); publisher's dark olive buckram, upper cover and spine lettered in black; x,[11]-216pp. Spine very slightly cocked, a hint of dust-soil to textblock edges, else Near Fine. "[A] study of the industrial situation and of conditions in...China, Japan, and India in the Far East, Germany and the Ruhr,… Read more about this item

[Barcelona: Imp. Llorens, 1871]. First Edition. Original pictorial letterpress broadsheet (31.5x22.5cm.); top third of recto adorned with original woodcut, text printed in double columns. Faint fold lines, a few tiny chips to extremities, light soil, else Very Good to Near Fine. Fortune-telling broadsheet regarding the fate of France following the Siege of Paris in September, 1870. The author, a… Read more about this item

Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1985. First English Language Edition. Slim 12mo (17cm.); publisher's green pictorial card wrappers; 91pp. Light shelf wear, else Very Good or better.

New York: The Waterloo Press, 1909. Edition not stated. Octavo ( 18cm); green cloth, stamped in gilt, photo-illustration of author tipped on front; TEG; 70pp, frontis, 16 plates. Smudging, rubbing and wear to boards; front illustration has small chip. Textblock foxed, with smudges and handling wear; bindings slightly shaken; author signature on frontispiece. Overall, just about Very Good. … Read more about this item

Lausanne: Société Typographique, 1777. Second Edition. Two volumes in one; small 12mo (16cm.); slightly later paper-covered boards, manuscript private library spine labels, all edges speckled red; [2],viii,248; [2],iv,250pp. Spine a bit sunned, corners bumped, light spotting to boards, tiny rubberstamps of a Donaueschingen library to both title page versos, else a Near Fine, internally fresh copy, half titles present.… Read more about this item