Burnside Rare Books

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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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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London: Mark Perry, 1976. Complete run of issues 1 through 12. Includes Alternative T.V.'s "Love Lies Limp" flexi 7" with #12 on SG Records. No supplements. Mimeograph stapled magazines, mostly single-sided. Very Good to Near Fine. Scarce issue #1 folded, a little toned, with a few small stains on wraps...

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London: William Heinemann, 1963. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with foxing to edges of page block on early pages and intruding into margins throughout, otherwise clean internally with straight binding and sharp spine gilt. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities, foxing and...

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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. Advance reading copy of the first edition. Self-bound in the iconic black and white dust jacket. Very Good. Reading creases to spine, light rubbing to wraps and several small dots of red ink to the bottom edge of the front wrapper, name and...

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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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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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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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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Signed "Elizabeth Bishop - Poetry Forum - February 1st, 1978" on title page. First edition, first printing. (viii), 54 pp. Original blue cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine in an edge-chipped about Very Good dust jacket, a hint of restoration along verso top edge, spine...

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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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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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