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Featured Member
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Winchester, VAhttp://www.lornebair.com
The history, literature, and art of American social movements, including Civil Rights, Feminism, Labor History, Radical Politics, and Counterculture.
Selections from Member's stock
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The CarretaFirst Editionby TRAVEN, B. (novel); Basil Creighton (translation)
London : Chatto & Windus , 1935
offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Playdays: A Book of Stories for ChildrenFirst Editionby [JUVENILE LITERATURE] JEWETT, Sarah Orne
Boston : Houghton, Osgood and Company / The Riverside Press , 1878
offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
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My Pretty PonyFirst Editionby KING, Stephen (text); Barbara Kruger (illustrations); Whitney Museum of American Art (compilation by)
[New York] : Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Book , [1989]
offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
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![Merlin: A Poem [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/767/717/1678717767.0.m.jpg)
Merlin: A Poem [Signed]Signed First Editionby ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington
New York : The MacMillan Company , 1917
offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
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National Book Award in Fiction, 1971 Acceptance Remarksby BELLOW, Saul
New York 1971
offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
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![Thomas Wolfe at Washington Square; The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Homer Andrew Watt [2 vol. set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/154/645/1678645154.0.m.jpg)
Thomas Wolfe at Washington Square; The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Homer Andrew Watt [2 vol. set]First Editionby WOLFE, Thomas and Homer Andrew Watt (letters); Thomas Clark Pollock and Oscar Cargill (text; editors)
Washington Square, New York : New York University Press , 1954
offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
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