Burnside Rare Books

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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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.....

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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: 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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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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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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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.....

More info about Johnny Got His Gun

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.....

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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.....

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Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2000. 2000-2017. 124 Volumes [100 titles + five multi-volume deluxe sets, and duplicates of several titles, several labeled AP for Artist's Proof.] A complete run of the celebrated series, which features 100 uniformly sized books of various colors, giving each artist a 16-page canvas to exhibit.....

More info about One Picture Book Series: Complete Set #1-100

Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900. First edition, first state of plates and text. (Bienvenue pp. 4-5.) Bound in publisher's full green cloth, boards and spine decoratively stamped in green and red; "B" binding with publisher's name in red at foot, full "O" in as last letter. This is 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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