Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (143 results)

First Edition. First edition. [xii], 111 pp. Very Good with a single red underline to one word, "elixir," and Good+ dust jacket with price clipped, new price of $1.00 stamped on front flap, chipped at extremities with tape reinforcements to verso, spine sunned.

Seller Inventory # 140938273

Condition: Very Good. A single pictorial sheet (12.5" x 7.5") with a rounded top flap, folded a total of four times and illustrated in black, orange and blue, to create a postcard with space for stamp in corner. Very Good with light evidence of erased penciled address and notes on lines of postcard panel, rubbing along crease in middle of panel. Edges lightly worn. An illustrated ad for early 20th century American restaurant chain B/G Sandwich Shops, which paved the way for McDonald's by offering fast lunches, courteous service with tipping discouraged, a uniform design to various locations, and not selling alcohol. The ad contains the short piece "What is a B/G Sandwich Shop?," a photo of a typical restaurant, and plenty of boosterism declaring the chain to be 'Purely American." A neat little slice of America's rapidly-evolving food culture.

Seller Inventory # 140937539

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. x, 514 pp. Wraps. USMA Library Bulletin No. 10. Very Good, front wrap a little corner-creased, slight curve, wraps a little toned. An uncommon chronicle of Poe's military stint by an Associate Librarian at West Point.

Seller Inventory # 140938266

Condition: Near Fine. [ca. 1870] Single handbill printed on recto only measuring roughly 6" x 5.25", announcing "Duncan Clark's / Jan. 13th / Lady Minstrels." No stranger to trouble with the law, what manager Clark advertised as a traveling "Lady Minstrel" show contained several men in drag. A performance which audiences across late 19th-century America found risque at the time, the Shreveport Times, hailed Clark's show was "the most obscene aggregation that has ever disgraced the American stage." In Chicago, audiences were outraged by Clark's show for it's female performers dressing too revealing and dancing too suggestively, though law enforcement singled out the drag aspect of the show to crack down upon.

Seller Inventory # 140940600

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, review copy with publication date stamped on front flap in red "Apr 2 1940." viii, [iv], 284, [1] pp. Publisher's pale green cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Very Good with foxing and toning to cloth, contents clean and bright, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, chipped at extremities. A fictional evocation of the American West by a two-time Pulitzer-winner for History writing.

Seller Inventory # 140941017

First Edition. First edition. xvi, 398 pp. with thirty plates. Bound in publisher's cloth lettered in red. Good+ copy with foxed spine, a few small spots of biopredation, slight lean to spine, occasional thumbsoil. A noteworthy sociological work about the homeless and those who travel for seasonal work.

Seller Inventory # 140944129

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 247 p. Brown cloth with black lettering. Frontispiece and endpapers illustrated by Tony Sarg. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Spine panel toned, wear at head and tail of jacket. Twainesque humorist Irvin Cobb's account of his move from the city to a farm in Westchester County, New York.

Seller Inventory # 150806005

First Edition. First edition. xxii, 409 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Signed by series editor Louis Adamic on front free endpaper, dated 1948. Very Good with stain to top edge, in a Good dust jacket, chipped and creased with closed tear in front panel repaired with tape on verso, verso slightly dampstained, sticker scar to spine panel. Adamic was the foremost advocate of diversity in his day, a Slovenian immigrant who wrote and edited many books-- this one different in that Japanese-Americans had been a very stigmatized group in American society during WWII (in addition to their internment by the federal government during the war), and this volume asserted their essential American-ness to what one can safely assume was a largely hostile reading public.

Seller Inventory # 140941571

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 a hint of toning to spine panel, else Fine. A history of the American southwest by the book designer and writer.

Seller Inventory # 140944685

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First cloth edition. (Apparently issued the same year as a wrappered issue from God's Bible School in Cincinnati, OH. Priority unknown.) 158pp. Pearlescent blue cloth with gilt lettering. Signed by author on front free endpaper in blue ink, "Yours for God and Humanity, William D. Upshaw." Near Fine with slight soiling and shelf wear. No jacket, perhaps as issued. A memoir by a major figure in the American temperance movement, who ran against Roosevelt on the Prohibition Party presidential ticket in 1932. Scarce cloth issue with no copies found in OCLC.

Seller Inventory # 171215001

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: About Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 357 pp. Original cloth with navy lettering. Near Fine with slight mottling to cloth, dust-soiled edges, in About Very Good dust jacket with darkened spine panel, soiling, faint dampstaining along top edge of front panel wear at head and tail. A collection of stories of antebellum life by former slaves, compiled by a Republican politician and journalist who was a lifelong friend of aviator Charles Lindbergh.

Seller Inventory # 140939005

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. [xii], 238 pp. Publisher's green cloth with orange lettering, photo mounted on front board. Fine with tiny emboss of "The Rock and Gift Shop of Sioux City, Iowa" on front free endpaper, clean and bright, in Very Good dust jacket with a few small chips and tears along edges, rubbing to front panel, unclipped ($2.50). A memoir of circus life by a prolific writer who later specialized in true crime writing. He was a friend and confidant of FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover who wound up dead in 1940 after investigating German espionage in Mexico; the official cause of death was suicide but his wife and others felt it was foul play.

Seller Inventory # 140940576

First edition. First edition. [xii], 243 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth white spine lettering. Near Fine with slightly musty smell and a little dust-soiling to edges, in Very Good dust jacket with small tear in front panel, dust-soiling and toning, light wear, unclipped ($3.95). Stories from the New York waterfront by the popular New Yorker essay writer.

Seller Inventory # 140945280

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. viii, 472 pp. Publisher's half leather with black patterened cloth, gilt ruling and lettering, marbled edges and endpapers. Vol. IV compiling 1836 and 1837 articles. Very Good with rubbing and wear to tips, contents toned and a little foxed. Profusely illustrated. Uncommon in collectible condition. John Russell's short article, "The Piasa: An Indian Tradition of Illinois" pp. 101-102 was first published in the August 1836 issue of The Family Magazine and is collected herein, its first book publication. Bookseller John J. Dunphy writes in an article for the Illinois History website, "Piasa legend is pure fiction!": The work purported to be the retelling of an Illini tribe legend, although scholars have long noted that Russell later admitted to his son that the story was simply fiction that had been inspired by the account of those eerie bluff paintings seen by Marquette and Jolliet. All the classic elements of the Piasa Bird legend we know today are present in Russell's story: the winged monster who lived in a bluff cave and fed on Indians, the brave Illini chief Ouatoga who offered himself as live bait to attract the Piasa, and the 20 warriors who emerged from cover to let fly poisoned arrows that killed the monster. Russell concluded the story with his alleged discovery of a cave in the bluffs that was heavily littered with "sculls [sic] and other bones." This spurious finding of the monster's lair, replete with the remains of its victims, gave what seemed to the readers of that day as 'blood-chilling credibility to Russell's chronicle. Reprinted in a number of frontier newspapers, such as Alton's Telegraph the story became a minor classic that many readers obviously mistook for the factual retelling of a Native American narrative. Dunphy goes to dismantle the article's claims of truthfulness. The Piasa bird or dragon has become a minor but fascinating character in American folklore and cryptozoology.

Seller Inventory # 140939796

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Presentation copy signed by Thomas L. Preston on the front free endpaper in the year of his death, 1903, to former owners, also named Preston. 170 pp. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt, spine stamped in blind. Very Good with rubbing along edges,slightly bumped corners, a few tiny marginal markings. The author enlisted with the Confederacy at age 47 and served for year before focusing his efforts on the University of Virginia as a rector there. Uncommon signed.

Seller Inventory # 140941612

Nimaha edition signed by Edward Bok on a page facing the half-title, copy #350 of 1250 thus. xxvi, 473 pp. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards with green cloth backstrip, paper title label. Spare title label laid in at rear. Very Good with wear to tips, label a little toned and scuffed, front hinge starting. Unopened copyright page. The Dutch-American author and editor's Pulitzer-winning autobiography.

Seller Inventory # 140942793

First edition. 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 jacket, chipped at head and tail, unclipped. A photographically-illustrated guide to the railroads of the USA circa 1952, written and designed by Merle Armitage.

Seller Inventory # 140944696

First edition. First edition. Signed by John Schott in pencil on a slip visible through a window in the rear board; an unnumbered copy issued alongside a run of 350. Bound in silk with black lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket, housed in Near Fine publisher's silk slipcase with faint soiling from being stored next to a leather volume. Photos of America's storied highway Route 66 with an essay by Britt Salvesen.

Seller Inventory # 140945639

First edition. First edition. [x], 392 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with green spine lettering. Fine in dust jacket with sunning to spine, else Fine and unclipped. A very neat copy. An important examination of technology and nature in American literature. The author's first book, uncommon in its first printing.

Seller Inventory # 140945643

Vol. XLIX No. 1 January 1866 - Vol. L No. 6 December 1866. 12 issues complete with all plates present. Bound in publisher's half morocco with cloth sides, lettered in gilt, robin's-egg blue endpapers. Very Good with wear along edges, bumped corners, tiny marginal wormtrack at front, some edgewear to plates, occasional foxing, mustiness. A profusely illustrated American lady's magazine, some plates (typically the fashion ones) hand colored. Includes short stories, patterns for needlework and sewing instructions, recipes, and more. Really evokes the postbellum American world; a visually-striking publication.

Seller Inventory # 140942484

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Good+. Paper covered boards show rubbing, edge wear, toning and soiling, with evidence of erased pencil markings to the rear board. Small horizontal crack backstrip. Offsetting from printed images, light toning to pages. A rather nice copy.

Seller Inventory # 150417019

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Vol. XVIII, Parts I & II. Complete in two volumes. [iv], 340; vi, 341-760 pp. Wraps. Very Good or better with chipping to fragile wraps, especially to the spine and edges of Part II, outer wraps of that volume split along spine but binding intact; contents clean and occasionally unopened. Rare in nice shape. Part II includes the article "Legends of Paul Bunyan, Lumberjack" by K. Bernice Stewart & Homer Watt, which compiled anecdotes and interviewed Wisconsin lumberjacks about the legendary mammoth North American logging figure frequently seen with his blue ox, Babe. It was the first scholarly examination of the folklore around Paul Bunyon. William Laughead's commercialization of Bunyan for the Red River Lumber Company that same year helped make him the icon he is today.

Seller Inventory # 140939763

Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, first printing. [viii], 246 pp. Bound in publisher's white cloth stamped in crimson and black. Foxed cloth, else Fine in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, soiled and lightly worn, spine panel dulled. A first of Steinbeck's bestselling American travelogue.

Seller Inventory # 140943122

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition. [iv], 325, [1, map] pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with foxing to fore edge, contents bright and clean, in a Very Good+ dust jacket, a little worn along head, small chip to top of back panel, a few small tape mends to verso. The famous Hatfield-McCoy feud related by muckraking journalist John L. Spivak, best-known for his antifascist and antiracist journalism in the '30s and '40s.

Seller Inventory # 140940508

Special edition. 28; 40 pp. Two books, bound dos a dos in publisher's wraps. Good with worn head and foot, tidemark, small horizontal tear to front wrap of cookbook side and title page. Rare.Selected recipes from The Creole Cook Book and local sites to see for the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World.

Seller Inventory # 140943814

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper in pencil, "To The Boy from - Pittsbug [sic] Cade - Mille - Falthia [?] Tommie Newell - [signed] Luke S. Kearney." 158 pp. Original dark green cloth stamped in gilt. A Very Good copy, lacking the dust jacket, cloth a little rubbed, binding a bit shaken. Uncommon signed. Contemporary artist Jill Kuczmarski writes of the "The Hodag Legend is most notable as lumberjack lore from the near turn of the century in Northern Wisconsin. The Hodag was made 'famous' by a lumber scout in the late 1800s named Gene Shepard who was first 'attacked by one' and then successfully 'caught one'." Eventually it was revealed as a hoax but the creature lives on in Wisconsin lore. Kearney's book is the first about the subject and one of the best examples of the American folklore of "fearsome critters"-- strange beasts from tall tales, usually told with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Nevertheless some of these stories have interested cryptozoologists hunting for accounts of potential cryptids.

Seller Inventory # 140940638

Hardcover. First Edition. First edition. (Howes M255) 498 pp. Bound in publisher's mustard cloth, front decorated in black, spine lettered in gilt, original beautiful floral endpapers. Near Fine with some light stains to cloth, slightly bumped and frayed corners. A lovely copy of a vivid account of a difficult journey through California's Death Valley in 1849.

Seller Inventory # 171230005

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Fourth Printing. Fourth printing. Signed by Larry McMurtry and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with faint foxing to textblock edge and a former owner gift inscription to the front free endpaper. In a Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket with light wear and light fading, a tiny stain to the spine panel and a small sticker shadow to the rear. McMurtry's first non-fiction book, an homage to the past and present of the Lone Star State, where he grew up a precociously observant hand on his father's ranch.

Seller Inventory # 140944886

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. (States "Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1907." on copyright page. Rare variant binding noted by BAL and Sisson & Martens with no gilt on cover or edges, only two pages of ads at rear.) xii, 224, (ii) pp. Illustrated. Very Good, no jacket. Former owner's bookplate on paste down. Black stamping rubbed, cloth a little grubby, bottom edge a bit worn. The Call of the Wild author's account of hopping freight trains across the USA in 1890, one of the best hobo books of all time.

Seller Inventory # 180314001

Hardcover. First edition. First edition. 320 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with clean, bright pages. Owner's namestamp on ffep and half-title. Spots of mottling to cloth at front. Fraying to cloth at extremities, heaviest at head. A few lightly creased pages and finger smudges. An uncommonly neat, nice copy of a rare sentimental novel by the biographer of Underground Railroad legend Harriet Tubman.

Seller Inventory # 150415001