Burnside Rare Books

London: Spencer Blackett, 1890. First edition, second issue with typo "13" for "138" in contents and "w shed" for "wished" on page 56, line 16; "Griffith Farran & Cos. Standard Library" on spine. [Green & Gibson A7 a.i.]. [4], 283, [1] pp. sans ads at rear, as was the case.....

More info about The Sign of Four

New York: Random House, 1958. First edition, first printing. Signed by Truman Capote on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's canary yellow cloth with gilt titles blocked in black on the spine. Near Fine with spine stamping rubbed, backstrip faintly creased and pages toned. In a Near Fine.....

More info about Breakfast at Tiffany's

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890. First edition, first printing, first issue. Title pages dated 1890, the word "Psy-chology" hyphenated on ads pages facing title pages; definitive errors present on p. 10 of Vol. 1 ("the seat of intellectual power") and p. 101 in Vol. 2, "object of some.....

More info about The Principles of Psychology (American Science Series, Advanced Course

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American edition. Inscribed by Ambler to Norman Nolan on page facing title page at the Mystery Writers of America awards (Ambler won the Grand Master award) in New York, April 25, 1975. From the Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction. [xiv], 281, [1].....

More info about A Coffin for Dimitrios

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. Ads dated September 1854; no priority as per BAL 20106. Map has faint S.W. Chandler & Bro. imprint. 357, 8 [ads] pp. with map facing p. 307. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, original yellow endpapers. A Fine copy with.....

More info about Walden, or Life in the Woods

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition, first state; number 126 of 1,000 numbered copies; with stamped number 5mm tall, the "a" in the word "water" missing on page 22 and "mountain" spelled correctly on page 41. In publisher's black cloth over flexible boards, lettered in gilt on the.....

More info about The Waste Land

New York: The Viking Press, 1933. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth binding stamped in orange and green. Fine, with faint touches of edge wear to cloth, in a unclipped dust jacket with a small chip to the crown and a faint patch of rubbing to the.....

More info about God's Little Acre

New York: Tiber Press, [1960]. Complete in four folio volumes, each measuring 17½" x14¼". Each volume with three full-page color silkscreen prints and additional prints at title page and upper cover, original cloth-backed illustrated boards. First Edition. No. 47 of 200 copies. Each volume signed by the poet and artist.....

More info about Abstract Expressionism

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black and white Art Deco style boards over white cloth spine lettered in black. Near Fine with toning to pages and top and bottom edges of covers. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket.....

More info about The Sound and the Fury

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. Uncorrected galley proofs of the first edition. 136 unbound sheets printed on rectos only plus one final blank sheet; without illustrations. Textual pages dated 23.11.87 at tops; question marks in the heading of the Contents page indicate no printer had been appointed yet; chapter pages on.....

More info about Matilda

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. First edition, first printing. Signed by Carlos Bulosan, warmly inscribed on front free endpaper to poet Dion O'Donnol who wrote the foreword to the 1942 book Chorus for America in which Bulosan appeared (the very first Filipino poetry anthology published in America.), "With.....

More info about America is in the Heart: A Personal History

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1868. First American edition, wrappered issue. 223, [1] pages. Frontispiece (included in pagination) with in-text illustrations throughout. Publisher's light brown printed wrappers, perfect-bound; text block edges trimmed. Very Good, with rubbed and edge-worn wrappers, a few stains and inked signature to front wrap; rolled.....

More info about The Moonstone: A Novel