Mexico from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. First Edition. First printings. Three large octavo volumes (27cm). Blue cloth hardovers; xxxvi,436; xviii,476; xxxviii,428pp; maps; illus. All three volumes complete, clean, and unmarked; a Fine set. In the original publisher's slipcase, slightly worn and soiled with bumps at bottom corners; Very Good.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848. Twelfth Edition. Two octavo volumes (23cm). Publisher's vertically-ribbed green cloth, stamped in gilt on fronts and spines; plain endpapers; I: [i]-iv,[2],[v]-[x],[9]-424pp; II: [x],[7]-474pp; vol. I with frontispiece, map, 21 lithographic plates, and in-text wood engravings; vol. II with bifold frontispiece and 45 plates and wood engravings. An attractive set, lightly rubbed with minor… Read more about this item

Mexico: Blas Vanegas Arroyo, 1919. Broadside, printed in black on newsprint (measuring 40cm x 60cm), with text in six columns, large engraving at center, beneath five smaller ones. Faint horizontal fold smoothed out at center, a few tiny tears along margins, expected toning; Very Good or better. Well-preserved example of this large Calavera broadside attributed to Manuel Manilla (see… Read more about this item

Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1934. First, Limited Edition. Number 78 of 895 numbered copies. Second state, with corrected text on p.52, that leaf a cancel. Octavo. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on spine; t.e.g.; unprinted acetate jacket and publisher's slipcase; 81pp. A Near Fine copy, a shade sunned on spine as usual. In the original slipcase, slightly toned… Read more about this item

N.p., n.d. [Hopedale: 1848?]. 16mo (15cm). Sewn self-wrappers; 12pp. A worn copy, stain on first leaf bleeds (with diminishing effect) through entire text; marginal loss to final leaf, not costing text; still, complete and Good. Issued without imprint, but likely printed at Adin Ballou's Hopedale Community, where Wright was a resident (but see note below). Date of composition is… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; xx,163,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine ends and upper board edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), gently sunned, lightly shelfworn and dust-soiled, with… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1993. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xix, 296pp. Bilingual text in English and Spanish. Illus. in b&w and color throughout. A tight, clean, near-new copy. Minor shelf wear to jacket, spine mildly sunned. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Published in conjunction with exhibition of the same name at Yale University Art… Read more about this item

Santa Ana, CA: Friis-Pioneer Press, 1982. First Edition. First printing. Signed by both authors on front free endpaper. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover; gilt spine and cover titles, 247pp. A fine copy, free of markings or notable wear.

New York: Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. First American edition. Octavo (22cm). Dull orange cloth, titled on spine, tan topstain; cartographic endpapers; [x],279,[1]pp; title page illustration and black and white plates. Rubbed at spine ends and corners, slight spine fading, generally Very Good. Greene's account of his travel to Mexico, where he investigated the effects of… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt and orange to spine and front board, clean and strong, in a bright, striking pictorial dustjacket. A near fine copy. 287pp. Internally clean. Scarlet endpapers. A classic of esoteric exploration, magical enlightenment, and some specifically Mexican mysticism.… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; maroon top-stain; 642pp. Tight, straight and unmarked, with top-stain deep and unfaded; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap), lightly sunned and edge-rubbed with a short closed tear to upper margin of front panel; Very Good. An epic novel of… Read more about this item

New York: Coward-McCann, 1957. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Tight, square, and Near Fine in the original dustwrapper, priced on front flap, slightly soiled and edgeworn, Very Good. Account of American imperial adventures throughout the Caribbean and Latin America in the years between the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. Includes… Read more about this item

Chicago: Arthur H. Clark Co, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; blue publisher's top-stain, fore- and bottom edges uncut; 344pp; illus. Fine copy, in the publisher's original unprinted kraft-paper dustwrapper. Illustrations by the author. No. VII in the Frontier Military Series.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1952. First Edition. First printing. Limited issue; no.390 of an unspecified number of "Advance Presentation Copies" signed by the author. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 220pp. Tight, clean, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 at base of front flap); lightly dusted with a few scuffs at joints and extremities; Very Good. … Read more about this item

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 237pp; illus. Straight, tight, and unmarked; a Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, also Near Fine. On the Flores Magon brothers and the anarchist plot to use a violent revolution to establish an anarchist Tejano republic in the states of… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, [1916 & 1917]. First Editions. First printings, with correct letter codes on versos of title pages. Octavo. First title in deep green cloth; gilt titles; top edge gilt; x,356pp; frontis; 11 unnumbered leaves of plates. Second title in brick red cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; x,338pp;… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Khaki boards, titled in blue on spine and front cover; xxviii,221pp; frontispiece and 23 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones) from original photographs by the author. Moderate external wear and soil; ink catalog numbers to title page (but no ex-library indications); about Very Good. Reminiscences by an ex-National Guard… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt, [1947]. First Edition. First printring. Octavo. Orange pictorial cloth; dustjacket; 233pp; illus. Tight and straight, free of markings; Very Good or better. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap) but slightly rubbed and chipped on both front and rear panels; just VG. Memoir of a Mexican-American citizen who joined the Mexican revolutionary… Read more about this item

Austin: Eakin Press, 1976. Second printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 158pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and a half-shade faded on spine panel, Very Good. A biography of Napoleon Bonaparte "Peaceful" Mitchell, a seventeen-year old Tennesseean in the Army of Texas in 1836, one of thirteen men in Davy Crocket's Tennessee Volunteers who… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1974. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed, cloth-covered boards (hardcover); 454pp; illus. Clean, tight and straight; Very Good or better. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, slightly faded on spine, lightly soiled; Very Good. A standard work, well-researched and illustrated with reproductions of contemporary images.