Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (46 results)

First edition. First edition. x, 414 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with white spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket with trivial rubbing to laminate of rear panel. A major entry in the vast corpus of Kennedy assassination literature as well as foundational work in the field of parapolitics. The author is a Canadian poet, former diplomat, and retired professor of literature largely responsible for introducing the oft-abused term "deep state" to American parlance. It originated in the byzantine intrigues of 20th century Turkish politics.

Seller Inventory # 140945822

First Edition. First edition. xii, 595 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth and blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with shelf wear, faint mark along top edge, in a Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light wear, flap price cut off. A wide-ranging look at the JFK assassination that was one of the inspirations for the Oliver Stone film JFK. Also one of the better-known books critical of The Warren Commission Report. A journalist by trade, the author taught popular classes on the Kennedy assassination at University of Texas at Arlington for three decades.

Seller Inventory # 140943901

First edition. First edition. xiv, [16, photos], 474, xvii, [3] pp. Finely rebound by Asprey in full morocco with five raised bands, gilt spine lettering and ornate turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Near Fine. An expose of fascist networks active in the Middle East after WWII by muchraking anti-fascist journalist John Roy Carlson, an Armenian-American journalist whose bestselling book Under Cover brought similar networks in the US before and during WWII to light. Scholars of terrorism post 9/11 have called attention to some of the figures in this book as early proponents of Islamic fundmentalism and third-positionism. An unusual, obscure choice for such a luxurious binding, but for the intrepid collector of parapolitical literature and the history of political extremism perhaps it's ideal.

Seller Inventory # 140944789

Paperback. First edition. First edition. 172, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Near Fine with minor shelf wear, faint hint of a vertical crease to the front wrap. The 1970s were a golden age of fringe books inspired by Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods, the flying saucer subculture, and Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision. This book is perhaps the high watermark of that era. In it the author argues that the moon is a gigantic hollow space vehicle parked like a derelict truck in earth's orbital field by aliens. (Perhaps that behavior explains why they feel so at home visiting earth's rural areas?) Features on the moon are analyzed in a style prefiguring that of Richard Hoagland, well-known for his Mars face discovery. This book proved a big enough hit to inspire a sequel, Secrets of Our Spaceship Moon, which is mainly remembered today as that other book about the moon being a spaceship.

Seller Inventory # 140945754

Photocopied manuscript. 105 pp. Bound in clear front wrap with black paper spine and rear wrap. Near Fine, price ($8.00) written on front wrap, scuff to back wrap. Uncommon in this format. A highly speculative manuscript on the assassination of John F. Kennedy written by a Texas lawyer named David Copeland, about whom little is known, under a pseudonym. It has had defenders such as radio host Mae Brussell, whose archive published an edition of the manuscript sometime after her death, and quite a few critics such Lobster editor Robin Ramsay and Jim DiEugenio, who regard it as disinformation.

Seller Inventory # 140946267

Original 13" x 9" poster printed in three colors. Single-sided. Very Good with wear and creasing along edges (more so along right). A poster by the Cuban communist propaganda organization OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa & Latin America) showing a fist holding two flags (one of them Nicaragua's) punching through a logo for the CIA. Title in Spanish, English, and French along the top.

Seller Inventory # 140946512

First Edition. First edition. 168 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Fine. A bright, unread copy. A rare work alleging that alien abductions have been used as a cover by the American military for secret experimentation on human beings. Mind control, psychological warfare, and the imprinting of false memories are discussed.

Seller Inventory # 140943878

Paperback. First thus. Signed by Mike Ruppert on the title page in black ink, inscribed to former owner. First thus. (First printing with this title; a paperback original.) 238 pp. Very Good+. Front cover lightly creased, scuffs to fore edge. Light shelf wear. A rare signed work from the late peak oil theorist, former LAPD narcotics investigator, author, and activist Michael C. Ruppert. He was the subject of the 2009 documentary Collapse.

Seller Inventory # 150102022

Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition. Signed by author on title page in black sharpie, warmly inscribed to former owner. 316 pp. Illustrated wraps. Very Good+ with light edge wear. The acclaimed director of such indie films as Sid & Nancy, Repo Man, Walker and Straight to Hell wrote this look at the parallel lives of President John F. Kennedy and his reputed assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. It succeeds as a concise, well-organized overview of the vast corpus of JFK assassination conspiracy research. Cox's insight is especially valuable about the early '60s radical right and (not surprisingly, given that his profession) the photographic record of Oswald's life propagated throughout the media upon his arrest.

Seller Inventory # 140937734

First edition. First edition. Signed by Marlin Hawkins on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. 388 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine, former owner's name on paste down, in Very Good dust jacket with a few scratches to front panel, light wear, small closed tear in top of rear panel. The frank autobiography of Conway County, Arkansas sheriff and political fixer Marlin Hawkins (1913-1995), published on the eve of fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton's ascent to the White House. A minor classic in the sub-genre of true stories of American political corruption and crime, as well as a fine example of a memoirist saying the quiet part (that is, the thing that many officials keep quiet about) out loud.

Seller Inventory # 140945427

Signed by Art Bell on the title page, inscribed above that in pencil in an unknown hand to the former owners. 230, [2] pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver. Second edition. Fine in Near Fine with light rubbing, nice shape overall. The autobiography of the original host of the megahit (reputedly 15 million listeners at its height) late night radio show Coast to Coast AM, which helped bring the UFO subculture to the mainstream in the mid-'90s. This volume was published roughly a year before Bell gained national notoriety for broadcasting reports that the Hale-Bopp comet had a UFO following it; these reports reputedly inspired the Heaven's Gate cult to commit suicide. Bell's radio show lives on, now hosted by George Noory.

Seller Inventory # 140945503

First edition. First edition. Signed by Peter Dale Scott on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. viii, 279pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with silver lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, lightly worn, spine a bit sunned. A parapolitical examination of the Iran Contra affair co-written and signed by Canadian poet, author, and diplomat Peter Dale Scott.

Seller Inventory # 140945936

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. viii, 275 pp. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($4.00). Spine panel sunned, jacket rubbed along edges with a few small chips and nicks. A bestselling expose of the use of psychological techniques in advertising. Its influence has extended far beyond the book's original context-- laughably sexualized and manipulative ads for cigarettes, cars with fins, pills for "harried housewife syndrome" etc.-- to inform the way consumers see ads to this day. As media critic Mark Crispin Miller noted in the 50th-anniversary reissue's foreword, no other "popular critique of advertising moved the public, or changed their views of that essential corporate craft, as deeply or enduringly.".

Seller Inventory # 160517002

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Hosty on front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner and dated in the year of publication. viii, 328 pp. Original paper-covered boards lettered in metallic red. Near Fine with bumped bottom front corner, in Fine unclipped dust jacket. The autobiography of the Dallas-based FBI Special Agent who investigated alleged JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet-born wife Marina before the assassination. Hosty received a mysterious note from Lee he recalled as being a warning to stay away from Marina (others at that FBI office recalled its contents very differently) that he later destroyed at the behest of a superior. He also later participated in the multi-agency interrogation of Oswald, about which a negligible paper trail survives. An uncommon signed work by a major figure in the JFK assassination mythos.

Seller Inventory # 140937733

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 336, (1) pp. Original blue cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, worn at tips with light dampstain mostly visible on verso. A political thriller by the author of Seven Days in May about a sitting US president gone insane, making deals with the USSR. While the fictional president, Mark Hallenbach, is a liberal Democrat, a number of readers and pundits have recently compared him to President Donald Trump, leading to a resurgence of interest in the novel.

Seller Inventory # 140937990

First Edition. First edition. 144 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated boards. Very Good with some light dampstaining and foxing to boards. Richard Shaver is best-known as the author of The Shaver Mystery, a series of fantastical stories in Amazing Stories that captivated science fiction readers in the late 1940s. Shaver, however, hadn't intended to write fiction. His vivid, delusional autobiographical accounts had been edited and packaged as fiction by the editor of that publication, Ray Palmer. The two men would have a long friendship. Decades later after Shaver had faded into obscurity, the first volume of his friend's long-promised memoirs was finally published and Shaver was dismayed to find that his book, The Ancient Earth - Its Story in Stone, had been included in its entirety in this book, spanning 2/3 of its contents, but that he had not received any credit on the covers or main title page. The unusual images in rock that Shaver found, photographed, and co-created are profiled within it, many in color. He believed he was uncovering a secret pictorial history of the world. This artistic pursuit occupied him until the end of his life. He gradually gained some recognition as an Outsider or folk artist, but this book would be his only one published during his lifetime, albeit hidden within another book like an unexposed geode.

Seller Inventory # 140941874

Signed by Adam Parfrey, contributor and editor, on the title page in red ink. xii, 458 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Second printing of the first edition. Near Fine with bumping to top corner, some sticker schmutz on rear cover. Uncommon signed.The follow-up to Parfrey's original anthology Apocalpyse Culture, first published in 1987 by his initial publishing concern, Amok Press, and then heavily revised when reprinted by his imprint Feral House. The book had a huge cultural impact, acting as a gateway drug for many readers, introducing them to wild fringe ideas and obscure figures that, pre-internet, they probably never would have encountered otherwise. This sequel is in many ways a stiffer drink, attempting to encompass some of the profoundly disturbing weirdness the internet had begun to unleash on culture. It ends, fittingly enough, with a satirical short story by the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, about the foolhardiness of embracing identity politics in the face of technological apocalypse and human extinction.

Seller Inventory # 140944948

Signed by Edward Hunter on the paste down, inscribed to Harlan A. Westrell, likely CIA chief of counterintelligence in the Office of Security and friend of Watergate burglar James McCord, in Washington D.C., August 1, 1957. viii, 341 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with red and silver lettering. Fourth printing of the new and enlarged edition. Very Good+, lacking dust jacket. An interesting association.An extremely influential text that examined propaganda and indoctrination techniques in Maoist China, inspiring the novel/film The Manchurian Candidate, generations of American Cold Warriors, and even American interrogators in the War on Terror.

Seller Inventory # 140945038

First edition. First edition. Vol. XXXII, No. 1. 178 pp. Wraps. A Good only copy with chipping to front wraps and along spine, head and tail worn, edges a bit soiled, contents well-toned with age. An uncommon issue of Astounding Science Fiction containing the story "Deadline" by Cleve Cartmill. Although set on another planet, it apparently describes isotope separation and a weapon similar to the (then) top-secret atomic bomb, causing an uproar within the highest levels of the American government. According to one recent source, "the story was discussed at Los Alamos, where Edward Teller noted that Cartmill had described aspects of their research in detail." Military Intelligence enlisted Cartmill's mailman as a confidential informant. The FBI investigated the author as well (commanding him to not write about such matters) and the magazine's editor, John Campbell, and other authors connected to the magazine such as Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. Rumor has it that many copies of the magazine were bought up by the government and destroyed to preserve the intense secrecy of the Manhattan Project.

Seller Inventory # 140945342

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Eustace Mullins on dedication page, inscribed to former owner. Near Fine with tiny stain to fore edge; a very clean and sharp copy. An anti-globalist world history by a disciple of Ezra Pound who is best-known for his book The Secrets of the Federal Reserve.

Seller Inventory # 140938611

First Edition. First edition, hardcover issue. Signed twice by Richard Hoagland, once on title page, personally inscribed to former owner on half title with his nickname, "Dick," dated 4/21/91. xxvi, 348 pp. with 32 pages of b/w photos. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. The author's first book, which introduced readers to the famous "Face on Mars" in the Cydonia region. The preliminary pages of this edition have The Face in their bottom corner of all odd numbered pages, which rotates when flipped through like a flip-book. The best-known work advocating the idea that NASA is covering up structures, cities, and other forms found on Mars and the Moon.

Seller Inventory # 140944019

First edition. First edition. (Paperback original, first printing with full number line on copyright page.) xxiv, 286, [2] pp. Very light shelf wear, else Fine and unread. The rare, out-of-print autobiography by the author of the seminal conspiracy essay "King-Kill/33," which first appeared in Feral House chief Adam Parfrey's anthology Apocalypse Culture. In that essay Downard argued that the assassination was a sort of Masonic occult rite or "working" by pointing out a proliferation of symbols and seeming coincidences. This memoir only covers Downard's early years but contains enough hair-raising events and strange conjectures to keep devotees of The Downard Mystery (to take a page from Richard Shaver) entertained.

Seller Inventory # 140945045

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. First American edition. [iv], 167 pp. Original black cloth with pale blue spine lettering. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, chipped at head and tail, a little rubbed. The German novel that inspired Stanley Kubrick's controversial, cult-hit film Eyes Wide Shut, itself an inspiration for a wide variety of recent anti-elitist conspiracy theories including QAnon.

Seller Inventory # 140939711

Condition: Very Good+. 14 issues of the long-running British conspiracy/ parapolitics journal, in a broken run beginning with their first issue in A4 format, #9, then nos. 10, 18, 20-29, 31. Stapled wraps. Very Good+ overall, light wear. Includes a lot of antifascist historical research such as part two of scholar Jeffrey Bale's essay on right-wing terrorism and the extraparliamentary left in post-WWII Europe, Peter Dale Scott (coiner of the much-abused term "deep politics") on the US and the Indonesian genocide, and David Teacher on Le Cercle. Some of the sharpest writers chronicling the hidden or scandalous aspects of Western intelligence services' Cold War endeavors wrote for the newsletter at this time.

Seller Inventory # 140941475

First Edition. First edition. [2], 21 pp. Publisher's stapled wraps. Near Fine, lightly toned with age, faint upper corner crease. Scarce. No copies located in OCLC.An ephemeral document of the "Paul is dead" rumor that swept Beatles fan-culture in the fall of 1969. Paul McCartney was alleged to have died in 1967 under mysterious circumstances and been replaced by a body double. Supposedly this jarring fact could only be alluded to by the surviving Beatles, not expressed openly, via tiny hints and clues in the Beatles' album artwork, lyrics, and interviews (shades of "Q"'s "breadcrumbs" in the recent Q-Anon phenomenon, perhaps?). This booklet runs through many of these clues such as the famous lack of shoes on Paul on the album cover for Abbey Road. By late October 1969 pop culture references to Paul's demise had become a running joke that few took seriously, even though the memory of the rumor managed to live on in the popular consciousness.

Seller Inventory # 140942685

First edition. First edition, copy #1276 of 3000. Signed by J. Gary Shaw on his author bio page, with the recipient's name whited out, dated 12-31-77. xvii, 227pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Bicolumnar text. Very Good with shelf wear, back cover worn; contents free of marking. A decent copy of a book often found in very rough shape. One of the major Watergate-era Kennedy assassination books, which postulates two teams of riflemen in Dealey Plaza as well as a "Decoy Assassin" firing a Mannlicher-Carcano from Oswald's supposed position in the TSBD as a distraction. Lots of b/w photos.

Seller Inventory # 140945963

Signed by Jim Marrs on the front free endpaper with his typical inscription, "Always question authority!" Second hardcover edition. [xii], 625, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth and blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slightly bumped corners, stamp of conspiracy researcher conference JFK Lancer on front free endpaper. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear, unclipped. An uncommon signed copy of the wide-ranging look at the JFK assassination that was one of the inspirations for the Oliver Stone film JFK. Also one of the better-known books critical of The Warren Commission Report. A journalist by trade, the author taught popular classes on the Kennedy assassination at University of Texas at Arlington for three decades.

Seller Inventory # 140943900

Signed by Garrison on map front free endpaper in black ink (situating his signature inside the County Records Building), inscribed to former owner in the year of publication. Fourth printing of the first edition. xvi, 342, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's cloth and boards, gilt spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket, lightly shelf-rubbed. The former New Orleans District Attorney's final work, a memoir of his controversial investigation into the murder of President Kennedy and eventual prosecution of Clay Shaw. It was adapted as the popular Oliver Stone film JFK not long before he died. Rarely found signed due to Garrison's poor health in his final years.

Seller Inventory # 140944144

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First edition. First edition, first printing. [xiii], 322pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in white. Near Fine with minor wear to extremities, previous owner's name rubbed out with old price on front free endpaper. Contents lightly toned with minor foxing to top fore-edge; slight musty odor. In a Very Good+ dust jacket with minor rubbing to edges, slightly toned overall. Tape ghost marks on verso. Edited by psychopharmacologist Ronald K. Siegel, an authority on the subject of hallucinations who performed drug experiments on his "psychonauts." He was an expert witness in the murder trial of Hollywood actor Robert Blake. Co-editor Louis Jolyn "Jolly" West is best-known for his work with the CIA human experimentation project MKUltra, his diagnosis of assassin Jack Ruby, and the killing of an elephant named Tusko with LSD in 1962. A fascinating, subversive treatise on the effects of hallucinogens from a psychiatric perspective. Includes twelve examples of hallucinatory artwork in color.

Seller Inventory # 140945911

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed "With warmest regards. / Gerald R. Ford" on front free endpaper in blue ink. First edition. 508, (2) pp. Red cloth lettered in gilt with navy decorations. Near Fine in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with laminate bubbling along gutters, wear at head. Future U.S. President Gerald Ford's biography of reputed JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, drawing on the work of the Warren Commission, on which he served.

Seller Inventory # 180202006