Recent Arrivals from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

New York: Random House, 1979. First edition. First edition, first printing, trade issue. Signed by Andy Warhol on the half title in sharpie. 143pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth-backed gold boards, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with remainder mark to bottom edge, slight bump to bottom corners, in a Very Good dust jacket, a little wrinkled with foxing… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951. First American edition. First American edition. Signed by Josephine Tey on the front free endpaper, warmly inscribed in a miniscule hand "For Felicity, with love, Josephine Tey." [vi], 210 pp. Bound in grey cloth with turquoise stamping. Very Good+ with lean to spine, light shelf wear, in a Very Good dust jacket with… Read more about this item

New York: HarperPerennial, 1997. Hardcover. Signed by Howard Zinn on the half title, inscribed to former owner and dated 1997. Revised and updated edition. [x], 675 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Near Fine, toning to contents, very little wear. The late radical historian's best-known work, which has reportedly sold over two million copies.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1955. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Milton Mayer, inscribed to former owner (evidently a fellow employee of The Progressive magazine): "From one member of The Progressive's family to another - Milton Mayer." Mayer had a long-running column at the leftwing magazine. xii, 346 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with red spine… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: The Graduating Class of Los Angeles High School, 1939. Bound in publisher's embossed decorative cloth. Very Good+, some light wear to cloth with a bit of fraying at spine ends; with several well-wishes by Bukowski's classmates in ink and in pencil on endpapers and other leaves to a student at Los Angeles High School, Phyillis Mc[Carthy?]. Illustrated… Read more about this item

New York: Funk & Wagnalls / Sabra Books, 1971. First edition. First edition, copy #107of 2000 signed by Ben-Gurion underneath his frontis photo. xxii, [ii], 862pp. Bound in publisher's padded blue leather decorated in gilt with gilt topstain, housed in plain blue cloth slipcase. Tiny scuff at foot, else bright and Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, lightly shelfworn.… Read more about this item

New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh & The Dial Press, 1932. First edition. First edition, first printing. xxii, 257 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with blind stamped emblem to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Near Fine with a little dulling to spine lettering,light wear, in a Very Good or better dust jacket with slight chipping and rubbing along… 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: 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

Mannheim: J. Bensheimer, 1891. First edition. First edition. [ii], xvi, 280 pp. with 27 tissue-guarded plates. Bound in contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Text in German. Boards chipped along edges, bumped corners and a few spots of wear to leather, contents Near Fine and bright with very little foxing. Uncommon in such nice… 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

Boston: Atlantic- Little, Brown & Company, 1983. Signed by Mary Oliver on the half title. viii, 88 pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps. Second printing. Very Good+ with very slightcrease to front wrap, light wear. A signed copy of the American poet's Pulitzer-winning collection.

London: Printed for the Author and Sold by J. Murray, J. Debrett, and J. Kerby, 1794. First edition. First edition. Complete in two quarto volumes. [iii]-xv, [i], 397; [iii]-xv, [i], 449, [1], [14] pp. with all 15 maps and eleven plans present. Bound in contemporary marbled boards with recent quarter leather, spines lettered in gilt. Lacking half titles. Very… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley, 1833. Second Edition. Near Fine. Second edition (the first was published in 1816). Bound in period-style full tree calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards, red morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. Near Fine with short tear repaired at base of title page, trivial foxing to contents throughout. A beautiful copy of the last novel published in… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Saul Alinsky on the front free endpaper and inscribed" To Francine Goldberg. With gratitude: Saul Alinsky." xxvi, 196 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering, red lettering on front board. Near Fine with slight lean to binding in a Near Fine unclipped dust… 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

New York: Columbia University Press, 1930. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing. viii, 333, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's ribbed navy cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with light shelf wear; trivial staining to cloth. Dust soiling to top edge; former owner's name on front free endpaper. Light toning to contents, which are free of markings.… Read more about this item

Seacaucus, NJ: University Books, 1972. First Hardcover Edition. Very Good+/Near Fine. First hardcover edition, first printing; preceded by the 1969 Avon paperback original. 272pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in black. Very Good+ with slight edge wear and faint sunning to top edge of boards. Former owner's name and satanic emblem doodle on front free endpaper; reading… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First Edition. Very Good. Two volumes, both are first editions (stated), first printings. Signed by Julia Child and her husband Paul Child on the half titles in each volume and inscribed to the same former owner, "Bon Appetit to Ernesta"; Volume II's inscription reads, "Joyeux Noel to Ernesta". Bound in publisher's original… Read more about this item