Burnside Rare Books

Montreal: Published for McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, 1956. First edition, first printing. 79 pp. Original black cloth with silver lettering. One of approximately 400 copies. Signed by Leonard Cohen on the front free endpaper, warmly inscribed to his aunt Marion, dated June 1956. Laid in print-out of email...

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with faint bruising at spine ends, light toning to pages and vintage bookseller ticket to rear paste down, in a Very Good dust jacket with price intact, toning to spine and edges, light soiling and light edge wear...

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San Francisco: Sound City Productions, 1966. Original pressing black vinyl LP with purple label in original sleeve with original unprinted inner sleeve. Sleeve EX: b/w front cover in great shape with no fading, unprinted back cover lightly foxed. Record also EX, shows no scratching, a little light rubbing. An excellent...

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London, Shrewsbury, and Birmingham: Howell, James & Co.; Adnitt and Naunton and others, 1864-1915. Complete set of 42 volumes in original green cloth of slightly varying shades with gilt stamping. 150-300pp. (Lake and Wright p. 331). A Near Fine set with mostly sharp gilt, clean interiors, and sturdy bindings. A....

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London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776-1788. Complete in six volumes. All First Editions except volume 1, which is a Second Edition. Large quarto. Full contemporary mid-brown calf with early 20th century rebacks (vol. 1 fully renewed at the same time) and replaced endpapers, raised bands, red lettering piece and...

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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1954. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the front free end paper, inscribed to former owner in "Glen Canyon 1981". Very Good with light rubbing at tips, small indent to spine near bottom, light lean to spine, previous owner book plate...

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New York: McClure, Phillips & Company, 1905. First edition, first printing. First issue binding. Near Fine with slight shelf lean, spine cloth slightly darkened, inner hinge a bit tender. A very striking copy of the author's second book.

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New York: New Directions, 1952. First edition. Signed limited edition. Number 43 of 100 copies, signed by Dylan Thomas on the limitation page; with tipped-in Marion Morehouse photo of the author to title page. Browning to bottom portion of spine, else Fine, in a Very Good publisher's slipcase, with a....

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Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1973. First edition. xxiii, 267pp. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+ with foxed edges and a few of former owner's penciled notes, in slightly soiled and shelf-worn unclipped dust jacket. Binding a little strained from laid-in letters. A collaboration of two titans in the...

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London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Inscribed in black ink to former owner who correspondended with the author about The Antiphon in the early sixties: "With regards to / Nancy Mazzocco, / and the author's thanks, / [signed] Djuna Barnes / May 1961." Second edition, early printing. 239pp. Original purple cloth...

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(New York): Lorenz & Ellen Gude, 1964. First edition. Side-stapled 8.5" x11" sheets, printed on rectos only, with terminal blank leaf present, which is missing in most copies; no stiff leaf at rear, which may have not been included on most copies. Unnumbered copy from a stated run of 300...

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London: Peter Owens, 1973. Copy #70 of a limited 100 deluxe copies signed by Salvador Dali. Publisher's gilt stamped vellum and marbled boards, slipcase and with 20-page Postface booklet laid in. Near Fine with slight yellowing to vellum. Near Fine slipcase shows 1/8-inch loss of paper at an opening joint...

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