Burnside Rare Books

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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New York: The Viking Press, 1940. First edition, first printing. Publisher's coarse blue cloth binding decorated in red. Near Fine, with light toning to spine cloth and previous owner name inked to front free end paper. In a Near Fine dust jacket with publisher's original price intact, light edge wear...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First edition. 234, (1) pp. Original light green cloth lettered in black. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear with a bit of rubbing to front panel, unclipped and unfaded. A very neat, clean, unsophisticated copy. The crime author's third novel...

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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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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: 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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