Published by Geoffrey Bles, London, 1930
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First British edition. iv, 315 pp. Publisher's light blue cloth with navy lettering. Cloth very faintly stained, foxing to edges and prelims, still a clean, straight Very Good+ copy in very nice shape. Lacking the dust jacket. The basis of the 1932 film with a dynamite ensemble cast directed by Edmund Goulding.
Seller Inventory # 140937944
Published by The Bodley Head, London, 1971
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First British Edition. First British edition. 136 pp. Original cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, toned. The basis of the 1979 film.
Seller Inventory # 140938593
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1951
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. 158 pp. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in silver. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, alittle chipped at head, small nick to fore edge. A British thriller, which inspired a film directed by Robert Parrish in 1953.
Seller Inventory # 140940556
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1932
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. [viii], 450 pp. Publisher's orange cloth with blue lettering. A very sharp and unread Fine copy in a Fine gold foil dust jacket with just a little shelf wear, unclipped. A beautifully designed novel that inspired a film in 1934 directed by G.W. Pabst.
Seller Inventory # 140940548
Published by Little-Brown Company, New York, 2006
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. 193 pp. White cloth lettered in silver and gray paper-covered boards. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. An excellent country noir novel, the basis of the 2010 sleeper hit directed by Debra Granik, starring Jennifer Lawrence.
Seller Inventory # 140938465
Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1976
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition. [xii], 208 pp. Original black cloth with silver lettering. Very Good with a little foxing to slick black cloth, foxing and a little staining to fore edge, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with slight foxing and two clear pieces of tape to verso, light wear. The Vietnam vet's memoir that inspired the 1989 Oliver Stone film by the same name starring Tom Cruise.
Seller Inventory # 140940157
Published by Vintage Books, New York, 2013
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected Proof. Uncorrected proof, issued before the first edition. Signed by Tao Lin on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner with a small bug drawing, dated 1/20/13. [viii], 258, [1] pp. Wraps. Very Good with a few faint stains to wraps, light shelf wear. The author's third novel, the inspiration of the 2018 film High Resolution.
Seller Inventory # 140940797
Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1964
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected Proof. Uncorrected proof copy, issued before the first edition. [vi], 234 pp. Wraps. Very Good with lean to spine, edges rubbed, a few small stains and stray marks to wraps. Rare.
Seller Inventory # 140941315
Published by William Morrow and Company, Inc, New York, 1969
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First American edition. 222, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth and orange boards with white and red spine lettering. Offsetting from jacket onto front board, else Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with fading to red, unclipped ($5.95). This novel of the siege of an English country house was inspired by the real-life escape of convict "The Mad Axe Man" Frank Mitchell in Devon. It in turn inspired the violent, classic 1971 film Straw Dogs directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Dustin Hoffman.
Seller Inventory # 140945589
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York, 1976
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. viii, [2], 587 pp. Original black cloth and paper-covered boards, spine titled in gilt. Near Fine with remainder mark on bottom edge, light rubbing, gift inscription on front free endpaper, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear. The bestselling novel that inspired the 1977 TV miniseries by the same name.
Seller Inventory # 140938350
Published by Grove Press, New York, 1964
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. First edition. 304 pp. Publisher's black cloth and red paper-covered boards, spine lettered in red. Very Good+ with a few small stains to textblock edges, in a Very Good jacket with a small closed tear to the front panel, tape reinforcements to the verso. Selby's dark masterpiece, which was the basis of the 1989 Uli Edel film starring Jennifer Jason Leigh. Street gangs, severe loneliness, and sheer human cruelty are the scourges of the Brooklyn of this novel, not celeriac-based entrees or text neck.
Seller Inventory # 140942956
Published by William Heinemann Ltd, Melbourne, 1957
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Australian edition. [vi], 312 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with lean to spine, foxing to edges, in an About Very Good foxed and slightly soiled jacket, unclipped (15s). The novel of nuclear apocalypse written by a British immigrant to Australia, adapted twice as film.
Seller Inventory # 140944666
Published by George H. Doran Company, New York, 1912
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Good, with tidemarks to front and rear endsheets, light waviness to pages and slight tide marks to boards, previous owner book plate to front paste down and name to front free end paper, edge tear to page 7 repaired with tape. Presents well enough from the outside, else just a good place holder.
Seller Inventory # 160904002
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1968
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American edition. First American edition. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt and red metallic lettering to spine, red topstain. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing, a little toning to spine, slight crease to front flap, unclipped ($6.95). The novel of political intrigue that inspired a film by the same name, first published in Greece in 1966, then banned a year later.
Seller Inventory # 140944849
Published by Doubleday Page & Co, New York, 1903
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition, first printing, first state. (Stated "First edition" on copyright page with J.J. Little device underneath; title page is integral.) Bound in publisher's trade binding of crimson cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+, slight lean, spine a little dulled, gilt ruling rubbed, name stamped on front free endpaper. Lacking dust jacket. The follow-up to The Octopus, set in the trading pits of Chicago. Adapted into a theatrical production and a silent film.
Seller Inventory # 140945885
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1950
ISBN 10: 0670700835 ISBN 13: 9780670700837
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. (Precedes the British edition.) 157 pp. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with red backstrip lettered in black. Very Good with bumped corners, former owner's name on front free endpaper, rubbing to edges of cloth, small stain on half title page. In Good price-clipped dust jacket with closed tear to front panel, sunned spine panel, split starting along spine/ back panel fold, light soiling and edge wear. Greene's novelization of his own screenplay for the 1949 film noir directed by Carol Reed.
Seller Inventory # 140907134
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1969
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. [iv], 183 pp. Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with orange cloth backstrip with black and white spine lettering, black topstain. Near Fine in a bright dust jacket with foxing to verso, small stain to front panel, unclipped ($5.50). The author's first and only novel, a gritty story of two boxers in Stockton, California. It inspired the acclaimed 1972 John Huston film by the same name.
Seller Inventory # 140945548
Published by Stein & Day, New York, 1970
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. 317 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth and boards, front board stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with wear at head, light rubbing, unclipped ($7.95). The story of British yacht racer Donald Crowhurst, who figured out a foolproof way to cheat his way to victory in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race around the world. There was just one hiccup: he then went insane. The story of Crowhurst's deterioration and suicide would be pieced together from his log books. This book inspired the 2017 film The Mercy starring Colin Firth.
Seller Inventory # 140945827
Published by Suntup Editions, Irvine, CA, 2021
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Artist Edition. Artist edition, signed by the artists Benz and Chang. Hardcover with jacket in slipcase in unopened publisher's shrink-wrap. One of a thousand copies thus.
Seller Inventory # 140942578
Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 1967
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American Edition. First American edition. [viii], 277 pp. Bound in publisher'slcloth and boards lettered in gray and purplish gilt, purple topstain.Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with sunned spine panel, price-clipped. A collection of the Argentine experimental writer's short stories including "Blow-Up," upon which the 1966 Antonioni film was based. Later printings of the collection have adopted that story as the title.
Seller Inventory # 140944299
Published by Crown Publishers, New York, 1972
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Hardcover Edition. First hardcover edition, preceded by the 1962 paperback edition, with some textual differences. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with spine lettered in metallic red. Softening to spine ends, else Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed at the extremities and with a small stray ink mark to the front panel. Served as the basis for the 1974 film bearing the same name.
Seller Inventory # 140939020
Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 1967
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition. [viii], 277 pp. Original cloth and boards lettered in gray and purplish gilt, purple topstain. A small stain to top edge, else Fine, pages a bit toned with age, in a Near Fine dust jacket with very little of the sunning that usually afflicts the spine, light shelfwear, unclipped ($5.95). A collection of the Argentine experimental writer's short stories including "Blow-Up," upon which the 1966 Antonioni film was based. Later printings of the collection have adopted that story as the title.
Seller Inventory # 140940826
Published by Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1947
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. [viii], 177 pp. Publisher's slick tan cloth, spine lettered in red. Near Fine with bookplate on front free endpaper, in a spine-sunned, unclipped Very Good dust jacket, small closed tear near head, a little rubbed. The basis of the 1948 film noir by the same name.
Seller Inventory # 140942205
Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and New York, 1960
ISBN 10: 0965773604 ISBN 13: 9780965773607
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Book club edition. 255 pp. Bound in black cloth with white lettering. Fine with small sticker shadow to front free endpaper, in Very Good dust jacket, closed tear to front panel with associated crease, single piece of archival mending tissue on verso; rubbing to spine panel, small chip and tear to bottom of back panel. A pleasant copy of the classic American novel in an early book club printing with a photo of the author on the rear panel taken by her friend, In Cold Blood author Truman Capote.
Seller Inventory # 140942354
Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1988
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Uncorrected advance proof. Uncorrected advance proof, issued to book reviewers and booksellers before publication of the first edition. Signed by Tobias Wolff on title page, inscribed to Oregon radio host Mel Waggoner. [xii], 292 pp. Bound in publisher's blue wraps. Fine. A sharp, unread copy. Rare in this format. An autobiographical coming-of-age novel that inspired a 1993 film with Robert DeNiro and Leonardo Di Caprio set and largely filmed in Concrete, Washington.
Seller Inventory # 140944503
Published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1958
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. First edition. Signed by Art Buchwald on front free endpaper, inscribed to Goddard Lieberson, president of Columbia Records, dated Feb. 1960. [viii], 211, 3] pp. Bound in publisher's clot, stamped in gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, ink transfer from signature to front flap, tiny crease near head, unclipped ($3.50). The American humorist's first novel, which inspired the 1960 Columbia Pictures comedy film Surprise Package directed by Stanley Donen, starring Yul Brenner and Noel Coward.
Seller Inventory # 140944926
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1966
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed and warmly inscribed by John Nichols on the front free endpaper dated October 11, 1988. [vi], 317pp. Bound in publisher's blind stamped cloth with gilt lettered spine; top edge stained yellow. Very Good+ with light wear at extremities, minor rubbing to spine's lettering. Contents bright and fresh. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing at extremities; faint writing in pen at the top edge of the front flap. The first printing of the author's second novel, after a very successful debut with A Sterile Cuckoo. It inspired a 1988 film and a memorable snarky comment from private investigator Brian Wolfe on the TV show Nathan for You.
Seller Inventory # 140945949
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 218 pp. with printer's note at end. Red cloth with black lettering, red top stain. Near Fine in Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket. Very slight lean to spine. jacket spine panel a bit darkened, light edge wear. A nice copy of the author's fourth novel, which was the basis of the 1956 film noir Slightly Scarlet.
Seller Inventory # 160427013
Published by Signet, New York, 1962
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Signed
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed by author on title page, inscribed to former owner. 224 pp. Wraps. Second printing of the paperback edition. Very Good with newspaper clippings pasted onto last page margin and verso of rear cover, small grease pencil number on back cover, light wear. The 1962 movie tie-in edition for the John Frankenheimer film by the same name that year, starring Burt Lancaster.
Seller Inventory # 180612010
Published by New Directions, New York, 1949
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition, first printing. In Very Good condition, lacking the dust jacket. Foxing to prelims and terminals, as well as to cloth on spine and top of the rear board. Spine lightly darkened. A nice copy.
Seller Inventory # 140905132