Burnside Rare Books

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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New York: George Braziller, 1962. First American edition. 211pp. with note at rear, containing two original lithographs and many color plates. Near Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn along top edge, bright and unfaded. Very slight foxing to edges, cloth slightly rubbed along top edge. A lovely...

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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: The Limited Editions Club, 1983. Folio. Copy #533 of 1,500 bound in full black aniline leather in cloth slipcase, signed by John Hersey, Robert Penn Warren and Jacob Lawrence. Near Fine with light surface wear to leather, in a Near Fine slip case with slight frays to cloth...

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[No place]: Essomarine Oils/ Penola Inc. 1934. First edition, first printing dated 1934 on inside of rear cover (Younger & Hirsch). Very Good. Light edge wear, toning and light foxing to wraps, with a small erased price to the top corner of the front cover. Contents lightly toned. A very...

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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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New York: The Viking Press, 1949. New York: The Viking Press, 1949. 139 pp. First edition, first printing, first state in first issue jacket. All first points present: stated "First published by the Viking Press, Inc. in March 1949" at top of copyright page with "American Book-Stratford Press" mention below;...

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New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1963. Signed. Multi-colored letterpress sheets in heavy stock card wraps with cork lined front cover. First edition, first printing and one of 777 copies. Full page holograph doodle from Bukowski, signed and dated October 10, 1963, with star burst flourishes with the word "poems" staggered around...

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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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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1959. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with light shelf lean, foxing to endsheets and top edge of page block, previous owner name stamp to front free end paper, silver stamping remains sharp and bright. In a Near Fine dust jacket with publisher's price...

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New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1972. Limited edition; copy #1766 of 5000. Near Fine, with light toning and light foxing to cloth, light rubbing to title stamping on spine. In a Near Fine dust jacket with publisher's price intact, toning to spine, light soiling and light rubbing at extremities. Complete...

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New York: Maecenas Press - Random House, 1969. Signed by Salvador Dali. Folio. Publisher's leather backed linen clam shell case with perfectly intact leather straps and horn claps. Limited edition, copy #1271 of 2,500, signed by Salvador Dali on the title page, containing twelve color illustrations, each with an original...

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