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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Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1978. Signed by Stephen King and inscribed to former owners on front free endpaper, dated 11/12/93. Complimentary copy from publisher with laid in slip. First edition stated, first printing with code S52 in gutter of last page. xxii, (2), 336 pp. Publisher's black...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American edition. Inscribed by Ambler to Norman Nolan on page facing title page at the Mystery Writers of America awards (Ambler won the Grand Master award) in New York, April 25, 1975. From the Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction. [xiv], 281, [1]...

More info about A Coffin for Dimitrios

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: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First edition, first printing, presentation issue. (Error "Papadopohi" on p. 21 uncorrected, as are two errors on pp. 24 and 80.) One of only 25 "advance" copies printed from uncorrected sheets and specially bound for presentation, as noted by David A. Randall (head of...

More info about Across the River and into the Trees

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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New York: Tibor De Nagy Editions, 1965. First edition, first printing. Publisher's purple and white striped wraps with titles in red, with the usual offsetting to the title page from the purple stripes. Very Good, with light toning, light staining to the rear cover near the spine. A scarce work...

More info about Love Poems (Tentative Title)

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, 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...

More info about Ham on Rye

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...

More info about The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Everett, PA: Visionary Publishing Co, 1936. First edition. 158 pp. Currey's first binding of black cloth, front and spine lettered in silver with upper and lower case lettering. Fine with typical curl to spine but lettering sharp, none of the rubbing often seen with this book, faint dust soil to...

More info about Shadow Over Innsmouth

New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First edition. Signed in the year following publication by author on front free endpaper, inscribed to Bruce Lane and dated 26 Feb 1951. 253 pp. Original red cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with tiny stain dot to fore edge, light edge rubbing, in Very...

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