Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (98 results)

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by Delta Willis, inscribed to evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould who wrote the introduction, "with love and admiration," New York, October 1989, the year of publication. xii, [2], 352 pp. with eight pages of color photos. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed, with a very nice association.

Seller Inventory # 140939682

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Ruth Suckow, inscribed to prolific British-born writer John Cowper Powys and his wife, signed in Claremont, California and dated May 17, 1959. Near Fine with light wear in unclipped with dust jacket, spine panel sunned, rubbing along back panel, Very Good+. The author's final novel, signed little more than six months before her death; she is often remembered as a regionalist novelist for her books set in Iowa. A nice association.

Seller Inventory # 140939602

First edition. First edition. Signed by Anselm Hollo on back wrap, inscribed to Black Mountain School poet Larry Eigner, "in admiration of his work," in year of publication. 4 pp. Single sheet folded in half. Very Good, lightly worn.

Seller Inventory # 140944691

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by the author and inscribed to prominent conservative thinker Daniel Bell, "For Dan Bell, in love, friendship, & gratitude [signed] Irving." xi, 493 pp. Original cloth and paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt. Near Fine with a little foxing to top edge in Fine unclipped dust jacket. A very nice association between two major architects of the philosophy of neo-conservatism.

Seller Inventory # 140938784

Condition: Good. Signed by co-editor Dudley Nichols, director and screenwriter of Stagecoach, Bringing Up Baby, Scarlet Street, and For Whom the Bell Tolls, and inscribed to director Francis D. Lyon (nicknamed "Pete") and his wife, dated Nov. 1, 1959, two months before Nichols' death. xvii, [1], 334 pp. Perfectbound wraps. A Good copy with chipping along edges of spine, sunning there too; back wrap creased and chipped with tiny tear and sticker remnants. A nice association between Hollywood figures.

Seller Inventory # 140940745

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Roger Lewin and inscribed to evolutionary biologist and author Stephen Jay Gould, "Steve, You'll recognize the 'message' in here, I think! Very Best wishes, [signed] Roger November 1987." From Gould's library. A nice association between historians of the sciences. 348 pp. Yellow half cloth lettered in black. Fine in Fine dust jacket. This book won the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, as did Gould's Wonderful Life.

Seller Inventory # 140938958

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Inscribed by Roger Lewin to evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, "Steve, many thanks for your help - and for your kind comments. [signed] Roger November 1992." From the library of Gould. xii, 208, [1] pp. Original cloth and paper-covered boards, spine lettered in silver. Crease to front board upper corner, else Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. A nice association between two prolific science writers.

Seller Inventory # 140939849

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by Larry Eigner in pencil and inscribed to John Martin, publisher of Black Sparrow Press, and his wife Barbara, who designed the press's books. Eigner had a severe palsy that made writing by hand difficult; typing wasn't much easier, he used only his right index finger and thumb to do so. A nice association. First edition, one of unnumbered 400 copies in the trade issue in wraps printed on rag paper. 38, [2] pp. Wraps. Fine. Eigner is associated with the Black Mountain and Language schools of poetry. A number of his books were published by Black Sparrow.

Seller Inventory # 140940332

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: About Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Lionel Trilling on on the front free endpaper, inscribed to British critic and editor Raymond Mortimer, dated September 30, 1947. [viii], 310 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in orange. Very Good+ with bump to front board, light wear, bookseller wrote inscribee's name in pencil on fep in easily-erasable pencil. In About Very Good unclipped dust jacket with chipping along edges, rubbing. A nice transatlantic association between an American writer, Trilling, and a British critic, Mortimer, who hobnobbed with many of the most prominent English writers and aristocrats of his day.

Seller Inventory # 140941207

Condition: Very Good. Signed by author Jakob Wassermann on the front free endpaper in blue ink, inscribed in German "fur Paul Berne herzlichst [signed] Jakob Wassermann Hollywood, [illegible] 1927." Paul Bern was the German-born film scenarist for this very novel who signed a contract with Wassermann at a luncheon with his boss at MGM, Irving Thalberg, and others according to a Jewish Daily Bulletin article of April 5, 1927. They write, "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer plans to produce 'The World's Illusion' on a lavish scale. Herr Wassermann is making a tour of the United States before returning to Europe to begin his next novel." Wassermann probably accidentally misspelled Bern's name. Apparently the film was ever made. [vi], 383 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with orange stamping, red topstain. Tenth printing of the first American edition. First volume only; lacking the second volume. Very Good with faint horizontal dampstain to front board, contents slightly toned. Intriguingly another inscription in black ink beneath that in another, very odd hand reads in German "mit [illegible] [illegible] fur [illegible] von Paul Bern Beverly Hills"; it doesn't seem to resemble the examples of Bern's handwriting we could find online-- including the famous suicide note that many believe was not actually his handwriting. Perhaps it was written by an assistant of his or someone on his behalf? Regardless of whomever wrote the second inscription, this is a very interesting signed copy-- likely with an intriguing Hollywood association. Bern's death on September 5, 1932 has been hotly debated for years; he was married to star Jean Harlow at the time. Signed books by Wassermann are uncommon, too.

Seller Inventory # 140941305

First edition. First edition. Signed by W.W. Jacobs, inscribed to fellow English author Arthur Morrison in the year of publication. Morrison was the author's neighbor and an author of realist fiction. viii, 327, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with red, blue, and black pictorial stamping. Very Good with darkened spine, light wear. A novel by William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943), best known for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw," which was parodied by The Simpsons and inspired the Stephen King novel Pet Sematary.

Seller Inventory # 140945795

Presentation copy signed by Helen S. Woodruff and seven other noteworthy female authors who were hostesses at a luncheon given on February 1, 1918: mystery writer Mary Robert Rinehart, famous children's authors Frances Hodgson Burnett and Kate Douglas Wiggin, Maria Thompson Daviess, playwright Eleanor Gates, Alice Hegan Rice, and one other female author. Woodruff has additionally inscribed the title page to the former owner. An Alabaman, her novels are forgotten now; she notably donated all profits from them to charity. [viii], 270 pp. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with gilt lettering. Good only with gutters colored-in with ink, faint "X" written on spine, slight lean, light wear and dust-soiling, lacking dust jacket. A very special copy with signatures from a number of important early 20th century American women authors.

Seller Inventory # 140946150

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. Signedby Adrienne Rich and inscribed to poet and Queens College professor Stephen Stepanchev on title page and signed by Rich. First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 71 pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt. Slight bowing to back board, else Fine in Fine dust jacket. A nice association between two poets.

Seller Inventory # 180618005

Signed by Francois Jacob on the half title, inscribed to noteworthy biologist and professor Elizabeth (Betty) Kutter. Kutter wrote own her last name along the fore edge. viii, 326 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with slightly bumped bottom corner. A nice association between two biologists. Francois Jacob was a Nobel-winning French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription.

Seller Inventory # 140946543

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Signed by James Alan McPherson on upper corner of front free endpaper. Late University of Virginia professor David Levin's copy with his name written underneath author signature; he and author were colleagues in the UV English Department. [x], 275 pp. Original cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with a small faint stain to fore edge, a little dust-soiling to edges, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with small chips at head and tail, rubbed. A signed association copy of the first book by the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Seller Inventory # 140938467

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Gian-Carlo Rota on half-title, inscribed: "To Andy / with best wishes / [signed] Gian-Carlo / Cambridge / November 26, 1995." This "Andy" is Harvard mathematician Andrew Mattei Gleason, best known for his work on Hilbert's fifth problem. xliii, 624, [2] pp. Original brown cloth with white spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine jacket with tiny stain on back panel. A rare signature from mathematician and philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota (1932-1999), a distinguished MIT Professor in those fields. A nice association copy between mathematicians in two dueling distinguished Cambridge, Massachusetts universities.

Seller Inventory # 170909009

First Edition. First edition. Signed by Clifford Odets in the year of publication, inscribed to actor Fredric March and his wife, "For Mr. + Mrs F. March, with the appreciation of the Group Theater. Sincerely, [signed] Clifford Odets 1/18/36." xiii, [i], 204 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good, edges foxed, in Very Good dust jacket, dulled spine panel, light wear and stain at foot. A great association between playwright Odets, with one of his more difficult plays, and Hollywood actor Fredric March, a major star of his day. Odets' thanking March for his patronage of the experimental Group Theater collective, who put on this play, is a nice bit of Great Depression-era theater context too. The Group Theater would last ten years total; their biggest success would be the following year with Odets' play Golden Boy.

Seller Inventory # 140941960

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by Robert Nozick and inscribed to evolutionary biologist, paleontologist, and writer Stephen Jay Gould in the year of publication, "June 1997 For Steve, An author of many elegant and stimulating essays-- and one that was extremely helpful to me. Affectionately, [signed] Bob." An unmarked copy from the library of Stephen Jay Gould. xiii, [2], 400 pp. Publisher's dark gray cloth with gilt spine lettering. First edition. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A nice association between two National Book Award winning authors (Nozick for Anarchy State & Utopia and Gould for The Panda's Thumb) and Harvard professors.

Seller Inventory # 140938700

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, signed by Norbert Wiener on the front free endpaper and warmly inscribed to former dean of residence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Frederick G. Fassett, "in token of many years' friendship." Wiener was a mathematician and professor at MIT, and is best known for his book, Cybernetics. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles stamped in green and silver on the spine. Near Fine with cloth lightly sunned through lettering on the spine, pages toned with corners a little bumped, small stain to front free endpaper. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a sunned spine, some edge wear and light rubbing. A nice association copy.

Seller Inventory # 140940368

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed by Eric Ambler to film director Roy Ward Baker, dated August 16, 1946. Ambler was Baker's superior in the British army at the time, shortly thereafter penning the screenplay for his first feature, The October Man. They would collaborate in 1958 on the Titanic thriller A Night to Remember, Baker's best-known film. Second edition, early printing. 224 pp. Very Good in a Very Good jacket with a chipped head, sunned spine panel, some rubbing and edge wear. Pages toned with age, cloth a bit grubby and spine-sunned. A nice association between the espionage novelist and an accomplished director.

Seller Inventory # 140938431

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Robert Nozick and inscribed to evolutionary biologist, paleontologist, and writer Stephen Jay Gould, "For Steve, Fondly [signed] Bob." An unmarked copy from the library of Stephen Jay Gould. xvi, [2], 226 pp. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A nice association between two National Book Award winning authors (Nozick for Anarchy State & Utopia and Gould for The Panda's Thumb) and Harvard professors.

Seller Inventory # 140938683

First edition. First edition. Signed by James Merrill, inscribed to Key West, Florida-based poet and publisher Kirby Congdon at the colophon: "Kirby Congdon from James Merrill - Thirty years late! Key West, 1985." [2], 10 pp. Marbled wrappers with printed cover label. Text printed on handmade paper with watermark of F. J. Head. No. 154 of 210 numbered copies; 60 for sale and 150 for friends of the poet and printer. Very Good+ with mild toning to wrappers; interior with scattered foxing, toning to edges. A early chapbook by the American poet with a nice association.

Seller Inventory # 140945048

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed by W.VO. Quine on front flyleaf and inscribed to his friend distinguished mathematician Stephen C. Kleene, a co-creator of computability theory, "for Steve Kleene / in admiration and / warmest regard / Van [his nickname]." Kleene is mentioned numerous times in this autobiography. First edition. xii, (2), 499 pp. Purple cloth with white lettering. Near Fine in a Good somewhat worn, thoroughly spine-sunned, unclipped jacket with a tear in the back panel. Slight lean to spine. A very nice association between two major figures in mathematical logic.

Seller Inventory # 161120008

Condition: Fine. Presentation copy of the limited edition signed by artist Grant Wood to the man who inspired this very edition. xviii, 367, [3] pp. Gray linen with orangish yellow and blue stamping, housed in original slipcase. Fine in Very Good+ slipcase missing original title label, slightly chipped, with Monthly Letter of the LEC laid in (small ink notation by relevant passage and penciled note). Illustrated with nine tinted plates after drawings by Grant Wood. Limited edition, copy lettered "L.L.V." (alongside 1,500 numbered copies) signed by artist Grant Wood, a special presentation copy for the former owner, whose initials are L.L.V., and who inspired this very edition with a simple letter to the publisher. Signed letter from the Director of The Limited Editions Club, George Macy, to Mr. L.L. Vance of Minneapolis mounted on rear paste down. In it Macy writes,"Today I am sending you a special copy of Main Street illustrated by Grant Wood. This is because it was your suggestion that we make this book. For some time, we could not remember who did make the suggestion originally; only the other day a member of the staff quite remarkably remembered your name. We would be glad to have your comment on the book." The Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club is laid in; in it the brief story of Vance's letter to the publisher that Main Street be illustrated by Grant Wood is relayed. Therein Vance is referred to as "Somebody living in the Middle West," his name being temporarily forgotten. A unique association copy with a serendipitous story.

Seller Inventory # 140939553

Condition: Near Fine. First Paperback Edition. First paperback edition. Signed by John Howard Griffin to his publisher: "For Kurt, With warmest regards, John, Oct. 1962." [ii], 157, [3] pp. Illustrated wraps. Near fine bright copy with just a hint of handling. From the library of Dr. Kurt Enoch (1895-1982), a noted German publisher who co-founding pioneering paperback publishing house Albatross. Forced to flee the Nazis he landed in New York in 1940 and in 1948 co-founded and became President of New American Library (parent company of Signet Books), which became one of the successful and acclaimed post-war publishing houses. He went on to become one of the most highly regarded figures in American publishing. The basis of the 1964 film directed by Carl Lerner, starring James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke, Roscoe Lee Browne, Al Freeman, and Will Geer. From the front cover: "What is it like, really like, to be a negro in the deep south today? Novelist John Howard Griffin darkened his skin and set out to discover by personal experience the night side of American life. This is his startling report." A nice association between the crusading author and his publisher, who together popularized anti-racism in the form of this book.

Seller Inventory # 140940011

First edition. First edition. Signed by H.T. Tsiang on dedication page, interestingly inscribed "To friend Robert H. Thayer [signed in English and Chinese characters] H.T. Tsiang c/o M. Rosener Troika N.Y. City Feb. 2nd, 1932." Thayer is very likely the lawyer who assisted in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case that transfixed the world, starting in March 1932; he was also future OSS head William "Wild Bill" Donovan's protege according to Lloyd Gardner's book on the Lindbergh case, The Case that Never Dies. If the "M. Rosener" mentioned in the inscription was Morris "Mickey" Rosner, an intelligence-connected gangster who also pops up in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, this is a very intriguing association copy. Rosner would take Thayer around to various underworld haunts, according to Gardner. Tsiang's mention of a "troika" (a tripartite group) of himself and these two figures is also interesting. 158 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps with yapped edges. Good only with chipping along edges, creasing to spine, hinges of wraps fragile.The self-published debut novel of Chinese-American experimental author, left-wing political activist, and Hollywood actor H.T. Tsiang. A noteworthy work of Asian American fiction.

Seller Inventory # 140944699

First edition. First edition. Signed by Lola Ridge on the front free endpaper, inscribed to poet and editor Malcolm Cowley with "Greetings and warm regards" from Taos, New Mexico in the year of publication. 104 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with copper foil sides, copper spine lettering. Fine in a Near Fine example of the fragile foil dust jacket, lightly edge worn, spine a little toned, unclipped ($2.00). An interesting association between the Irish-American anarcho-feminist poet and the chronicler of The Lost Generation.

Seller Inventory # 140945799

First Edition. First American edition. Signed by Jane Rule on the front free endpaper, inscribed to poet and compuer science pioneer Josephine Miles, "For Jo[,] Probably illegal "skys of [illegible] vision", but there is a "human show". Jane." 224 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. One of the first novels to deal with lesbian characters in a literary/ romantic context (rather than pulp or erotic), and published in hardcover rather than paperback. The basis of a 1985 film. Uncommon signed.

Seller Inventory # 140946369

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Signed by John Cage on verso of front free endpaper. The copy of Ihab Hassan with his signature, as well, to paste down. His marginal brackets and checks occasionally throughout text; a list of his notes with corresponding page numbers is written on rear free endpaper, these notes could be of historical significance. xii, 276 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine in Very Good, slightly rubbed unclipped dust jacket. A great association between two key figures in the aesthetic turn from modernism towards postmodernism-- prolific writer and academic Hassan would in fact coin the term "postmodernism" in a 1971 paper on literature. Composer John Cage and his writings have been widely cited as a "source for postmodern aesthetics" as Nancy Perloff put it; "The Cagian tension between the written score and the variable performance, the resulting paradox that the score is autonomous, without fixed referent, the treatment of composition as process, the expansion of the possibility for multiple signifiers and critical receptions - such ideas propelled the avant-garde to new terrain," i.e. beyond modernism.

Seller Inventory # 140939746

Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition. Signed by John G. Neihardt on front free endpaper, warmly inscribed to author and authority on Japanese prints Louis V. Ledoux, dated January 1906. Ledoux's bookplate on paste down.Three author's holograph corrections to text, plus his note on title page, "written in 1898," i.e. when he was only 17. 46 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow buckram, front board lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with darkening to cloth (especially spine), small rub or gnaw spot along top of front board, top edge lightly soiled. Scarce signed. The very first book by the author of Black Elk Speaks (the famous memoir of an Oglala Lakota medicine man), a narrative poem based on Hindu mysticism. Only ten copies located in OCLC.

Seller Inventory # 140941487