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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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, 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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Midgeville, GA: Georgia State College for Women, 1943,1944,1945. Three rare yearbooks documenting the creative college years of acclaimed Southern writer Flannery O'Connor. Her linocut illustrations (which received renewed attention with a Fantagraphics collection in 2012) are very prominent in the 1944 & 1945 volumes, making up the endpapers of the...

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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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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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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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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...

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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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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: 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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