Burnside Rare Books

Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1845. [ii], 64 pp. Later dark red half-morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, original plain brown front wrapper bound in, marbled endpapers. In German. First separate edition. Association copy, signed by the author on the verso of front wrappers to historian and philologist Heinrich Leo: "Herr Prof...

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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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London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. First edition, first printing. [3]-207, (8, ads) pp. Recent full speckled calf binding, ruled and decorated in gilt, with gilt stamping on spine and title in gilt over crimson morocco, bound without first blank. Near Fine. Small faint stain to edge of page...

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New York: New Directions, 1940. First edition. Inscribed by John Berryman on front paste down to novelist Frederick Boyden, "so much skill, much faith - [signed] John Berryman[,] Boston 16 Dec 1941." 221 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket that is rubbed...

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New York: The Modern Library, 1996. Signed by Hunter S. Thompson with a fantastic menacing inscription reading, "Let me know if you need anybody croaked. I know people-- people down there that can do things. HST" and dated "Jan 19'98 - WC." WC being Woody Creek, Colorado, where the author...

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New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition, second state; number 637 of 1,000 numbered copies, with "mount in" on page 41. In publisher's stiff black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper board. Near Fine, with slight fading to spine cloth, and gilt bright. Pages toned. Gotham...

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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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London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, first printing, first issue, first state with gun embossed in gilt on front cover. Near Fine with very slight lean to spine, foxing to edge of page block and a small stain to the top edge. In a Near Fine dust jacket with slight...

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Eureka, CA: Hearse Press, 1960. Publisher's white saddle stitched wraps printed in black and red on the front cover. Near Fine, with irregular toning to rear cover. Bukowski's scarce first book, which was published by a small California press in an edition of 200 copies. First Edition.

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition. Copy #108 in Author's Autograph Edition of only 150 copies, signed by the famous aviator on limitation page in black ink. Above that publishers' name is handwritten by someone, possibly her husband George Putnam, who worked with her in writing the book...

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Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1958. First edition. (Preceded the Farrar, Straus & Cudahy trade edition by a few days.) Signed by author on title page in black ink. 214 pp. Original cloth-backed boards, decorated in purple and yellowish orange. Near Fine with very light wear to tips and name...

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New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. First edition. Signed by John Ashbery, inscribed to previous owner. Publisher's pink and brown decorated wrappers. Very Good with toning to wraps, light chipping and cracking at fragile yapped edges, short split started at top of spine. A nice copy of the fragile...

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