Burnside Rare Books

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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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: 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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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: 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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Buenos Aires: Editorial Sur, 1944. 203 pp. First edition, first printing; in the original Spanish language. Publisher's stiff wraps in self-bound aquamarine dust jacket, stamped in dark blue with white titles. Very Good, with light soiling and light rubbing to wraps, with heavier rubbing to bottom of spine and a....

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New York: Tibor De Nagy Editions, 1965. First edition, first printing. Publisher's purple and white striped wraps with titles in red, with the usual offsetting to the title page from the purple stripes. Very Good, with light toning, light staining to the rear cover near the spine. A scarce work...

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London: Reeves & Turner, 1887. Signed first edition of this translation, "ordinary" issue with price on spine label. Complete in two volumes. LeMire A-40.01. vii, [1], 230, [2, ads]; vii, [1], [231]-450 pp. Original paper-covered boards with spine labels printed in black. Very Good with thorough darkening to both volumes'...

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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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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. 356 pp. First edition, first printing with dated title page. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth, with titles stamped in brown. Fine, with light rubbing to the bottom corner of the page block. Several faint specks of foxing and faint offsetting from binder's glue to...

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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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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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