Burnside Rare Books

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: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1926. [xiv], 159, [3, blank] pp. Publisher's pink paper over boards with blue cloth spine, pink paper spine label. First American edition, limited issue. One of 200 numbered copies in the large paper issue printed on Japanese vellum, signed by both A. A....

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First American edition, first state (or printing) with bowing hobbit on title page, maps at endsheets in opposite order as per list of illustrations, and Chapter VII heading on page 118 incorrectly listed as Chapter VI. 310pp. Original tan cloth lettered in blue and illustrated...

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Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1962. First edition stated. Publisher's grey cloth over boards with titles on spine. Signed by John Ashbery on the title page, inscribed to former owner. Grolier Book Shop ticket to front free end paper, rubbing to poet's name on spine, else Fine. In a Near...

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New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition, second state; number 637 of 1,000 numbered copies, with "mount in" on page 41. In publisher's stiff black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper board. Near Fine, with slight fading to spine cloth, and gilt bright. Pages toned. Gotham...

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, first printing, first issue, first state with gun embossed in gilt on front cover. Near Fine with very slight lean to spine, foxing to edge of page block and a small stain to the top edge. In a Near Fine dust jacket with slight...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Signed limited first edition. Copy #A of five lettered copies printed on rag paper, issued alongside a limitation of 95 numbered copies and signed by Kahlil Gibran. Publisher's patterned foil covered boards over ochre spine cloth. Rubbing to coves, and edges rubbed through. Spine...

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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: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. xii, 308 pp. Publisher's dark blue buckram cloth stamped in gilt. 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...

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London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858. First edition, first printing. xxxii, 750, (2, ads) pp. Recent full leather binding, ruled and decorated in gilt, five spine compartments with title in gilt over crimson morocco. Very Good. First five leaves filled-in along fore edge, as are a few terminals. Owner...

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New York: William Morrow Company, 1971. Inscribed to former owner on page facing title page, signed "Luke Rhinehart." First edition. Near Fine in toned Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with creased front flap, a few tiny slightly-soiled nicks and a tiny tear near foot. xi, 305 pp. Black paper-covered boards...

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition. Copy #108 in Author's Autograph Edition of only 150 copies, signed by the famous aviator on limitation page in black ink. Above that publishers' name is handwritten by someone, possibly her husband George Putnam, who worked with her in writing the book...

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