Burnside Rare Books

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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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. First edition, first printing. In publisher's blue cloth binding stamped in darker blue. Near Fine, with light lean to spine and evidence of bookplate removal from the front free end paper. In a Near Fine dust jacket with publisher's price intact though revised in...

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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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New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1974. First edition. Inscribed, "Too Jim[,] your visit was very neo boa * Love * [signed] Eve Babitz XOXOXO p.s. you forgot your book" on half title. xix, (2), 297, (1) pp. Black cloth lettered in pink. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket...

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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First edition stated, first printing. Very Good+ with a bit of browning to boards, fading to spine ends, foxing to edge of page block and spotted staining to several early pages. In like dust jacket with publisher's price intact, diagonal creases to the...

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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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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First edition, first printing, presentation issue. (Error "Papadopohi" on p. 21 uncorrected, as are two errors on pp. 24 and 80.) One of only 25 "advance" copies printed from uncorrected sheets and specially bound for presentation, as noted by David A. Randall (head of...

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New York: The Viking Press, 1940. First edition, first printing. Publisher's coarse blue cloth binding decorated in red. Near Fine, with light toning to spine cloth and previous owner name inked to front free end paper. In a Near Fine dust jacket with publisher's original price intact, light edge wear...

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New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition. 214 pp. Publisher's crimson and white cloth, lettered in crimson. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a bit of sunning to the spine panel, line of rubbing to back panel and light shelf wear. A lovely copy.

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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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Baddeck, Nova Scotia: Published by the Author, 1909. 19 pp. printed on rectos only. Carbon typescript brad-bound in "Carter's Ideal Manuscript Cover," gray wraps with typed title. Inscribed to biologist Charles Davenport at the top of the front cover, signed "compliments of Alexander Graham Bell." One of an unspecified but...

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San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1956. First edition, first issue with Lucien Carr listed on the dedication page and a period after Harlem on the rear cover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Publisher's black wraps printed in blue with...

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