Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (10 results)

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by author on title page. xii, 212 pp. Original crimson cloth. Fine in Fine dust jacket with Seattle bookstore signed label on front panel, peeling slightly. An attractive copy. A biology work (not a cryptozoology work but relevant to the field) by a Seattle and Adelaide, Australia-based paleontologist, writer, and professor. It examines mass extinctions and the species that persist despite them, so-called "living fossils" like the coelacanth. Ward is the originator of the Medea hypothesis, a cheery counter-Gaia hypothesis that argues multicellular life is, as Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis argues, indeed a superorganism, but that is inherently suicidal, always hovering on the brink of inevitable doom.

Seller Inventory # 140939782

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition. xiii, [1], 125 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with former owner's name on front free endpaper, a little foxing to edges, edge-rubbing to cloth, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, a little rubbed and shelfworn. A book about Scotland's answer to Bigfoot (decidedly more spectral in demeanor than its American counterpart), Am Fear Liath M�r or Greyman, said to haunt its second highest peak, Ben Macdui. An engaging exploration of the paranormal more than a work of cryptozoology, per say.

Seller Inventory # 140939896

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. 80 pp. Original illustrated wraps. Text in German. Slightly toned spine and a little foxing to edges and back wrap, else Fine and unread with publisher's ad laid in. A neat illustrated paperback. A work that anticipated modern cryptozoology, preceding Bernard Heuvelmans' foundational book On the Track of Unknown Animals by eight years. Heuvelmans himself acknowledged his debt to Krumbiegel, writing of this book that roughly 12 undiscovered species were postulated by the author, including the king cheetah of modern day Zimbabwe, sea serpents, Sumatra's fully black tapir, a Venezualan ape, the "water lion" of Angola, the small spotted bushbuck of West Africa, the fossil Chirotherium of Germany, New Zealand's otter-like waitoreke, and more. Never translated into English.

Seller Inventory # 140939793

First edition. First edition. 192 pp. with twelve pages of b/w photos. Bound in publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with former owner's inscription on front free endpaper, in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket, well-rubbed, spine sunned. A major early work on the cryptid bigfoot AKA the sasquatch.

Seller Inventory # 140945631

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

First Edition. First edition. Signed by Marian T. Place on title page. 156, [1] pp. Publisher's green cloth with black spine lettering. Near Fine with former owner's bookplate page facing title page, tiny stain on front free endpaper, in Near Fine dust jacket with tiny nick in top edge of jacket, light wear. A young adult book on the North American cryptid Bigfoot, uncommon in such nice shape and signed.

Seller Inventory # 140940969

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. 193, [4] pp. Illustrated wraps. Near Fine, slightly rubbed, partly unopened. An important work on jazz. With lengthy and warm presentation inscription by Heuvelmans to Richard Garnett (his bookplate on verso of front wrapper) "ce dernier vestige de ma folle jeunesse [this last vestige of my crazy youth], [signed] Bernard Heuvelmans Paris, Noel '58." Uncommon signed. A book on jazz by a Belgian-French author better known as the Father of Cryptozoology.

Seller Inventory # 140939781

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

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 158 pp. Original dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Presentation bookplate from former owners to college on paste down and gift inscription from a different former owner "from one former lumberjack to another" on front free endpaper, else Fine. In a rare example of the dust jacket, Very Good with tears along folds at head and tail, small piece of archival mending tissue on verso over removed tape, rubbing along edges. The jacket is interesting bibliographically in that it lists the publisher as R.W. Hickey on the spine panel and front flap; the book itself, as all other copies we're aware of, lists no publisher. Apparently the assumption was that it was self-published. 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 # 140939794

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Charles Fort on the page following the front free endpaper in black ink, inscribed to previous owner. That owner's regifting below. [x], 411 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in yellow. Very Good with rubbing to spine lettering, slightly bumped corners, lacking dust jacket. A very rare signature from the reclusive pioneer of anomalous and paranormal research. The Fortean Society was founded with the release of this book, Fort's second to last; he died the following year. His namesake and spirit lives on via the British newsletter The Fortean Times.

Seller Inventory # 140941442