Burnside Rare Books

London: F.B. Kitto, 1869. First British edition. Inscribed by A.K. Tolstoy to "C. Heath Esq. from his sincere friend the author" on half-title, but not signed. Charles Heath was an English language and literature instructor at the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in Saint Petersburg, who later became one of the tutors.....

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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.....

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Chicago: Literary Times - Cyfoeth Publications, 1965. First edition. Copy number 3 of 5 [from an edition of 500] of Bukowski's private "Author's Edition," with a typescript signed by Bukowski stapled in at the center. According to Aaron Krumhansl, "As late as the early 1970s Bukowski still retained multiple copies.....

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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.....

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New York: The John Day Publishing Company, 1931. First edition, first printing, first issue with "The John Day Publishing Company, Inc." on copyright page. Error "flees" that was present in the first three printings on p. 100, line 17. [vi], 375, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt.....

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1939. 309 pp. First edition, first printing. Near Fine, with light tobacco smoke odor to pages and light bruising to spine ends. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price intact, a 1.75-inch tear to the top of the front panel near the spine joint.....

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London: The Egoist Ltd., 1917. First edition. 40 pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps printed in black. From the library of Modernist poet and publisher John Rodker, with laid in typed correspondence between Rodker's daughter Joan and a British bookseller regarding the sale of some of Rodker's books, with an.....

More info about Prufrock and Other Observations

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.....

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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.....

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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.....

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New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition, first printing in correct dust jacket. Signed by Ezra Jack Keats, inscribed to book designer Jane Byers Bierhorst, "with whom its been pleasant working." They would collaborate on later books. 34 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with white and red lettering.....

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[np]: [H.H. Smith Publications], 1928. Signed deluxe limited first edition, No. 5 of 100 copies printed on Van Gelder mould made paper in the "Edicion Imperial." Signed by Addison Mizner on limitation page. [39] pp. Frontispiece portrait and 184 plates from photographs. Folio finely bound by the James McDonald Co.....

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