Burnside Rare Books

London: Oxford University Press, 1935. First edition. (xxvi), 389 pp. Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, gilt topstain. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear, else Fine. A beautiful copy of the author's third book on Tibet. The rare dust jacket has done its job admirably, keeping the...

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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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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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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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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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Boston: The Colored Co-Operative Publishing Company, 1900. First edition. 402 pp. Red cloth decorated in pink, yellow and black, lettered in gilt on spine. A Very Good+ copy with very slight lean, a little bit of fraying to foot, back board with a few small stains, rear hinge split, 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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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Signed limited first edition. Copy #A of five lettered copies printed on rag paper, issued alongside a limitation of 95 numbered copies and signed by Kahlil Gibran. Publisher's patterned foil covered boards over ochre spine cloth. Rubbing to coves, and edges rubbed through. Spine...

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New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1939. First edition, first printing. Publisher's dark blue coarse cloth stamped in gilt. Pages slightly musty, previous owner details to front free end paper, light offsetting to endsheets, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear and small...

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Milan: Mondadori, 1945. First editions. Seven volumes, complete. (Although 10 volumes are listed on the back of each book, only these seven were realized.) Vols. 3-7 white cloth-backed boards, stapled; 1-2 stapled stiff wraps. In the original Italian. Very Good+ overall with all flaps intact, no tears. Occasional very slight...

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Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1962. First edition stated. Publisher's grey cloth over boards with titles on spine. Signed by John Ashbery on the title page, inscribed to former owner. Grolier Book Shop ticket to front free end paper, rubbing to poet's name on spine, else Fine. In a Near...

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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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