Burnside Rare Books

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, 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: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition. 214 pp. Publisher's crimson and white cloth, lettered in crimson. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a bit of sunning to the spine panel, line of rubbing to back panel and light shelf wear. A lovely copy.

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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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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...

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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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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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San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1956. First edition, first issue with Lucien Carr listed on the dedication page and a period after Harlem on the rear cover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Publisher's black wraps printed in blue with...

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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: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1974. First edition. Inscribed, "Too Jim[,] your visit was very neo boa * Love * [signed] Eve Babitz XOXOXO p.s. you forgot your book" on half title. xix, (2), 297, (1) pp. Black cloth lettered in pink. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket...

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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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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. Advance reading copy of the first edition. Self-bound in the iconic black and white dust jacket. Very Good. Reading creases to spine, light rubbing to wraps and several small dots of red ink to the bottom edge of the front wrapper, name and...

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