Literature from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

London: Arco, 1956. First English-language edition. First English-language edition, first printing. 199 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with a spots of foxing to edges, offsetting to endpapers, in a Near Fine dust jacket, spine and rear panels' orange dulled, light wear, unclipped (12s. 6d. net). The German Nobel laureate's second published book,… Read more about this item

London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1967. First edition. First edition, first printing. (Despite the author living in the US, there was no equivalent American edition. A revised and expanded version of a Chinese-language novella, The Golden Cangue the author had published in 1955.) [vi], 185 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with silver lettering. Very Good, foxed top edge,… Read more about this item

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc, 1984. First American edition. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Jorge Luis Borges on title page. 173 pp. Bound in publisher's quarter tan cloth and green boards, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with a small closed tear to the back panel near the head, else Fine. The… Read more about this item

Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1971. First edition. First edition, first printing. Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with red spine lettering. Very Good, foxed cloth and endpapers, in a Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket, lightly shelf worn, foxing to verso. The rare first separate published book by experimental musician, artist, and performance artist Laurie Anderson,… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Edition, Illustrated Issue. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, hardcover, signed and illustrated issue. # 61 limited of 100 signed copies each with an original painting by Bukowski bound in. Additionally signed by Bukowski on the rear limitation page. (Krumhansl 74e.) 283 pp. Bound in yellow paper covered boards over blue cloth backstrip… Read more about this item

Berlin: Im Propylaen-Verlag, 1928. First Edition. Very Good. Uncorrected proof of the first edition, with text in the original German language. Bound in publisher's yellow wraps lettered in black. Very Good with lean to binding, chintz cloth repair reinforcing spine, light soiling and faint creases to covers. Cover partly detached from block with adhesive binding a little brittle… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1979. First Edition. First edition. x, 180, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's cream-colored boards with maroon cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light edge wear and former owner's name on front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light soiling and minor edge wear. An uncommon posthumously-published collection of… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine lettered in white, red topstain. Near Fine with slight toning to spine and top edges of boards, minor soiling to rear board and trivial rubbing to tips. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with… Read more about this item

New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc, 1972. First edition. First edition. Signed by David Morrell on the title page. 252 pp. Bound in publisher's boards with black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in metallic red and orange, blue topstain. Very Good with slight lean to spine, a little staining to top edge, former owner's name on half title, in… Read more about this item

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing of this Harlem Renaissance cornerstone. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. Bookplate of American writer and illustrator Katharine Sturges (1890-1979) and her husband Clayton Knight on front pastedown, parents of Hilary Knight, who is best-know… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Charles Jackson on the front free endpaper. [viii], 244 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Offsetting to front free endpaper, else Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket, slightly sunned foot, light wear, small scrape to rear panel, price intact ($2.50). An… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1983. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Walter Tevis on the half-title. 243, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's original black paper-covered boards over black cloth spine decorated in white. Very Good with foxing to edges and endpapers, very slight impression to prelims, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. The basis for the Netflix… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's orange cloth decorated in black; top edge stained orange. Near Fine with dust soiling to top edge. Foxing throughout contents with several corner creases. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with tattering at edges with partial split at rear… Read more about this item

London, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. First British edition. First British edition, first printing. Signed by James Clavell on the half title, inscribed to New Zealand-based novelist Diana Moorhead in green sharpie, "This is for Diana Moorhead,- the pretty lady - also an author, who knows...... James C Auckland Oct 23 - 1975" with Japanese characters. Very… Read more about this item

New York: Covici Friede, 1935. First Edition. Very Good. First edition; advance copy in proof sheet form and exceedingly scarce thus. Provenance: from the estate of John Steinbeck's sister, Mary Dekker Steinbeck. Bound in publisher's original tan wraps with "Tortilla Flat" in pencil on upper wrap and in felt pen to spine. 317pp. printed on rectos only, this… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing, second issue with the shorter cloth binding of 7 3/16". This American edition (published January 5, 1886) preceded the London edition issued in wrappers by four days and the cloth issue by eleven days. The smaller binding issue was comprised of unsold copies initially… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's half brick cloth lettered in silver over black paper boards. Near Fine with slight lean to binding; trivial sunning to upper and lower edges, small abrasion to front board. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a crease to… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933. First Edition. Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original cinnamon cloth with spine lettered in brown. Good with lean to binding; darkened spine with soiling and wear to cloth. Former owner's name to front free endpaper. C. S. Lewis' first work of prose fiction to be published, following a… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Very Good+/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. [x], 206 pp. Bound in publisher's gray boards stamped in blind over black spine cloth lettered in silver. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, sunning along top edge of boards and foxing to top of textblock edge. Evidence of bookplate removal to front… Read more about this item

New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2009. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, limited issue. Number 485 of a limited 750 copies signed by Paul Harding, issued by Powell's Books to Indiespensable subscribers. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. A great copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel.