Burnside Rare Books

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First edition, limited edition. From an edition of 250 hardcover copies, signed by Charles Bukowski though unnumbered and out of series. Fine, with just a hint of toning to the cloth spine. A very sharp copy, lacking the acetate wrapper. Bukowski's first published novel...

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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1886. First American edition, scarce single-volume issue. (First complete translation into English as well, following the British partial translation of 1854. This issue not mentioned in Line. Apparently same sheets as two volume issue but with different font spine lettering, plain endpapers, and no ads;...

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Midgeville, GA: Georgia State College for Women, 1943,1944,1945. Three rare yearbooks documenting the creative college years of acclaimed Southern writer Flannery O'Connor. Her linocut illustrations (which received renewed attention with a Fantagraphics collection in 2012) are very prominent in the 1944 & 1945 volumes, making up the endpapers of the...

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Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First edition. One of limited 100 numbered copies with an original painting by Charles Bukowski tipped in, also signed by him on the limitation page. (Krumhansl 74e.) 283 pp. Bound in yellow paper covered boards with a blue cloth backstrip. Fine in original acetate...

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Sauk City: Arkham House, 1939. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Staining from the remnants of clipping pasted to title page and associated offsetting to the adjacent pages, else Fine, with sharp gilt and bright, clean cloth. In a fantastic example...

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London: William Heinemann, 1963. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with foxing to edges of page block on early pages and intruding into margins throughout, otherwise clean internally with straight binding and sharp spine gilt. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities, foxing and...

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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1926. [xiv], 159, [3, blank] pp. Publisher's pink paper over boards with blue cloth spine, pink paper spine label. First American edition, limited issue. One of 200 numbered copies in the large paper issue printed on Japanese vellum, signed by both A. A....

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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1886. First American edition, first state ads at rear. 456, (1, ad) pp. Original dark yellow cloth lettered in maroon and gilt, floral endpapers. Very Good with spine lettering dulled, cloth at head and tail chipped, small stain and scratch to spine, a bit of...

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New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1939. First edition, first printing. Publisher's dark blue coarse cloth stamped in gilt. Pages slightly musty, previous owner details to front free end paper, light offsetting to endsheets, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear and small...

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New York: David McKay Company, 1974. First edition. An intriguing inscription, dated 9/25/74: "Dear Guy, Thanks for the ideas in creating my most progressive work. Please allow me to dedicate my next piece to you. Very Best [signed] Michael Shaara." Fine in lightly worn dust jacket, near fine. A lovely...

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1978. Signed by Stephen King and inscribed to former owners on front free endpaper, dated 11/12/93. Complimentary copy from publisher with laid in slip. First edition stated, first printing with code S52 in gutter of last page. xxii, (2), 336 pp. Publisher's black...

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. Inscribed by King to a pacifist children's author on front free endpaper "To: / Mrs. Eleanor Brainard / With best wishes / and warm Regards / [signed] Martin L. King Jr." Brainard wrote the 1937 anti-war children's book Broken Guns and a 1940 children's...

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