Washington: Privately Printed, 1907. Privately printed first edition, one of two printings comprising a total of 100 copies. vi, 451 pp., laid paper with wide margins. Quarto, bound in publisher's blue cloth, tan morocco title label to spine, laid endpapers. Very Good with light mottling and soiling to cloth, moderate..... More
New York: Privately Printed, 1927. First edition, limited issue. One of 500 copies. xvi, 170, [8] pp., illustrated with plates protected by loose tissue guards. Bound in publisher's navy blue cloth boards with decorative gilt stamping, top edge gilt, cartographical endpapers. Near Fine with light rubbing to covers and minimal..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for Hall and Sellers; J. Crukshank; and Young and McCulloch, 1787. First American edition of John Adams' influential treatise on government. Association copy owned by John Beckley, his signature and that of Mary Anne Beckley to title page. xx, [3] - 390 pp., laid paper, collated complete. Duodecimo..... More
Honolulu, HI: Committee of Invitation, 1856. 5.8"x7.25. Single sheet with scalloped edges and decorative embossed borders, with text printed in gold and blue. Near Fine with minor soiling, light toning and old folds. One of the earliest printed works commissioned by Chinese immigrants in what is now the United States..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First American edition, first printing. xii, 349 pp. w/ two color photos. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with faint soiling to boards in Near Fine dust jacket, worn at spine ends, a little toned, unclipped ($7.95)..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1935. First edition. xii, 483 pp. Publisher's crimson cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good unclipped ($3.00) metallic gold dust jacket, chipped along edges with a bit of wrinkling and dulling to spine panel, some scuffs. Faint stamp to front free endpaper, book..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. First edition, first printing. x, 322, [2] pp., illustrated with wood engravings. Bound in publisher's olive green cloth stamped in darker green and lettered in gilt. Good+ with lean to spine, moderate rubbing to cloth and spine gilt, and light dampstaining to upper front..... More
![Item #140947913 The Works of Aristotle. Volumes 1-8 [of 10]. Aristotle, Thomas Taylor, Frances...](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140947913.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1748030807)
London: Printed for the Translator by Robert Wilks, 1801, 1807-1812. First edition in English of the works of Aristotle, one of 50 sets printed, and boldly signed by the translator Thomas Taylor in ink at the end of the first volume. All volumes bear the armorial bookplates of noted bibliophile..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce - Little, Brown & Company, 1952. First edition. Signed by Merle Armitage on paste down, inscribed to former owner. 318, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's blue and red cloth, spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with slightly bumped corners, in a Very Good+ dust..... More
[Fresno, CA]: Academy Guild Press, 1964. Deluxe edition. Presentation copy signed by Merle Armitage on page near front in red marker, inscribed to former owner Dave Bohm and dated 1976. [30], 99, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's cloth with red and black lettering. Fine in an attractive dust jacket with..... More
![Item #140948875 First on the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins [and] Edwin E....](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140948875.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1766516802)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. First edition, first printing. Signed by Neil Armstrong on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner. xiii, [1], 434 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth titled in gilt on spine and in blind on front board. Near Fine with light rubbing to..... More
[New York & Dallas]: Associated Press, Dow Jones & Company Inc., UPI, 1963. Six teletype scrolls from November 22, 1963, printed with financial news from Dow Jones intermingled with breaking news of the Kennedy assassination and its immediate aftermath from the Associated Press & UPI. Printed in blue ink, all..... More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914. First edition. lxiv, 590pp. with 40 maps, 78 plans. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering, marbled edges. Near Fine with small tear near joint at folding map frontis, name written on half title, in a Poor dust jacket (not pictured), incomplete with gaps between..... More
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1906. First edition. xl, 135 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with lean to binding, spine slightly sunned, minor soiling to cloth; contents lightly toned at edges. Scarce. The biography of Josiah Warren, founder of Philosophical Anarchism in the United..... More
London: Printed for Thomas Northcott, 1691. Second edition. [181]-236 pp. Complete text but does not include Appendix: "Robert Barclay, His Vindication[...]" other copies were apparently bound with. Disbound with paper tape on spine. Very Good with slightly worn corners, small stains on last page and a small marginal checkmark there..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls / Sabra Books, 1971. Limited issue first edition, copy #426 of 2000. Signed by Ben-Gurion under his frontis photo. xxii, [ii], 862pp, black and white photo illustrations. Bound in publisher's padded dark blue leather stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, pale blue watered silk endpapers..... More
New York: Mother Earth Publishing Assocation, 1912. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alexander Berkman on the front free endpaper with a dazzling and inspirational full-page inscription to a former owner, "Don't try to be of the herd. You are an individual, dif-ferent from all others. There would be more..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1940. First and only edition. xiv, [2], 127, [1] pp. Staple-bound in publisher's printed wraps. Good condition with light soiling and moderate edgewear and several creases to rear cover; wraps detached from textblock. Light toning to contents and bookseller ticket to first page. Edward..... More
Oakland & San Francisco: The Black Panther Party, 1967-1980. An extensive collection of 237 numbers in 234 issues (Volume 2, Numbers 15-17 are printed in a single volume and Volume 6, Numbers 13 and 14 are as well). Intermittent run spanning from the first volume to the final volume (the..... More
![Item #140945158 [Black Panthers] The People Will Free the Panther 21, By Any Means Necessary....](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140945158.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687138874)
[New York?]. circa 1969-1971. Silk-screen poster, 17" x 22, thin fragile yellow paper printed in red and blue. Near Fine with minor wear on bottom edge. The Panther 21 was a group of twenty-one Black Panther members who were arrested and accused of planned coordinated bombing and long-range rifle attacks..... More
![Item #140945159 [Black Panthers] Black Panther Peace & Freedom / Free Huey Newton / Seale /...](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140945159.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687151271)
California: [No Publisher], 1968. Original silk-screen poster, black and pink printed on white, measuring 17.5" x 23; Good+ with surface loss where rolled, light wrinkling and wear, staple holes to corners. Organizing poster advertising a joint effort of the Black Panther Party and the left-wing Peace and Freedom Party, to..... More
Oceanside, CA: Black Unity, 1970. First issue of the ephemeral newspaper which borrowed art from Emory Douglas on the front cover. [8] pp. Tabloid format. Very Good with toning, light creasing and slight rubbing. An anti-war, pro-Black Panther Party newspaper put out by G.I.s at Camp Pendleton calling for the..... More
New York: Harmony Books, 2008. First edition. Signed by Abraham Bolden on the half title with a warm, lengthy inscription to the former owner, dated April 26, 2010. [x], 306 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth and boards, spine lettered in silver. Fine in Fine dust jacket. The autobiography of the..... More
Chicago: Edward Bonney, 1850. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with 13 inserted plates and engraved title-page. [5, sic] - 196 pp. Sammelband with 23 issues of The Cabinet of Literature, Instruction, and Amusement, Vol. 1 No.1 through Vol. 1 No. 23 [New York: Theodore Burling, 1828-29]. Bound in contemporary half calf..... More
New York: Random House, 1974. First edition. Signed by Daniel J. Boorstin on the front free endpaper and inscribed in the year of publication to the former owners, "For Nancy and George with love from Daniel / May 23, 1974 / New York City". xviii, 136 [1] pp. Bound in..... More