Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (33 results)

Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Limited edition. Copy #123 of 125, signed by Sarah Chamberlain. Bound by Barbara Blumenthal in decorative boards, with a morocco spine stamped in black. Fine. A lovely book of poems by the notable French-born author Hilaire Belloc illustrated with seventeen charming wood engravings by Chamberlain.

Seller Inventory # 140946416

Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. First thus. Signed by the artist Sarah Chamberlain on the colophon page, # 84 of 125. Bound in printer's decorative boards with paper spine lettered in black. Fine. A beautifully illustrated fine press edition of the classic fairy tale The Three Bears.

Seller Inventory # 140946358

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 24 (1, colophon) pp. 15 3/4" x 10 1/4", quarter turquoise morocco and gray linen, front cover with a gilt-stamped morocco panel after Killion's woodcut, spine lettered in gilt. One of 226 copies, unnumbered. Signed by Everson, woodcut illustrator Tom Killion, and book designer/publisher Adrian Wilson on colophon. Very Good with sunned spine. No jacket, as issued.

Seller Inventory # 180529026

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Copy 45 of 150 numbered copies issued along with 26 lettered copies; signed by Bukowski in black ink on back cover with heart-shaped sun, dog, flower (?), and lil' Buk doodles. 10.5" x 15" Large single sheet folded to create four pages. First book publication of a story originally published in Story magazine in 1944. Near Fine with very faint stain on top edge of front cover. A nice copy. Includes Bukowski's recollections of the publication of the story on the rear cover and a reproduction of one of Story editor Whit Burnett's letters on front cover as well as the complete story.Also includes the publisher's prospectus for this limited edition, signed by Bukowski on the front cover (number 1 of 15 such copies), hand-drawn Buk with jug doodle on verso.

Seller Inventory # 170314006

Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Issued in an edition of 190 copies. Bound in publisher's mauve Japanese silk stamped in silver, in silver slipcase with title label on spine. Fine, in a Near Fine slipcase with mild shelf wear. A beautifully designed book, and the third title published by the Arion Press.

Seller Inventory # 140938272

Condition: Very Good. Kysela, Frantisek (illustrator). First Thus. 35 p. Paper-covered boards. In Czech. Three chromolithographs after Kysela mounted on black paper with the original patterned tissue guards. Very Good condition. Outer wraps worn along edges, tips slightly exposed. Rebacked, with remnants of paper spine label scratched. All tissue guards intact. A scarce Czech-language edition of Alcofrado's Letters of a Portuguese Nun with beautiful illustrations in the late, Viennese-influenced art nouveau style, Jugendstil.

Seller Inventory # 150706002

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. First edition thus. Number 155 of 200 copies.The type is handset Bulmer and Stylescript, with Monotype Bulmer for the introduction and index of first lines. [26], 154, [12] pp. Bound in publisher's red-brown goatskin spine and red-brown floral brocade cloth over boards; contained in a slipcase with the same leather covering the protruding curved edges with red-brown paper sides and brocade cloth. Near Fine with light fading to spine and minor soiling to slipcase. A lovely Arion Press printing of Shakespeare's famous sonnets with an introduction by literary critic Helen Vendler of Harvard University.

Seller Inventory # 140946406

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First edition. Set of four etchings in different colors, each designed and signed by Ferlinghetti, with colophon leaf, housed in red cloth slipcase. Numbered 9/20. Fine. A rare item from the City Lights founder and poet, with only one institutional holding according to OCLC / Worldcat.

Seller Inventory # 180225003

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Signed Limited Edition. First edition. One of a limited 250 copies signed by Italo Calvino. Contains ten pieces, all which feature Mr. Palomar, seven of which would later appear in the 1983 complete Italian and the 1985 English editions; the remaining three have not been reprinted since. [iv], 25, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's original black paper-covered boards over marbled spine cloth; in glassine wrap reproducing the frontis woodcut of Calvino printed in white; errata slip laid in. A Fine copy with slight offsetting to front board from the white print of glassine. Glassine is Near Fine with light wear and small chip at rear panel This is the thirteenth of twenty five books published by William Targ from his home in Greenwich Village, during his retirement from publishing. Well-respected in the publishing field, Targ was best-known for publishing The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Designed and printed by hand at the Grenfell Press, on Fabriano Roma, an all-rag handmade sheet. With woodcuts by L. Grenfelli.

Seller Inventory # 140946184

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First edition, hardcover issue, unlettered copy issued alongside a 26 copy lettered run. (Krumhansl 104b.) Handbound in gray paper boards over dark gray cloth. Signed by Bukowski on rear colophon with self-caricature with jug. A Fine copy. Printed in Santa Barbara by Graham Mackintosh. Contains Bukowski's poem "Click, Click." and 24 photos for a 1987 German exhibition.

Seller Inventory # 180225005

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Limited edition, signed by the artist Ida Applebroog on the colophon #140 of 200. Bound in original green cloth, color pictorial cover label, gilt-lettered red paper spine label, green cloth slipcase with red paper over covers and paper spine label. Light foxing to top edge, else Fine in a Fine slipcase. A beautiful Arion Press edition of this Christmas classic with intriguing illustrations by contemporary artist Ida Applebroog. Applebroog's signature cartoon-like versions of iconic scenes are immediately recognizable without context. Designed under the direction of Andrew Hoyem at the Arion Press.

Seller Inventory # 140946363

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. De luxe edition. Includes color print "Violet Interior" signed in pencil by Tony Bevan, #35 of 75 in wallet. Book #31 of 75. Signed by Pinter and Bevan on rear limitation page. First edition. Fine in Fine original slipcase. Poetry by the Nobel-winning playwright, director, and actor.

Seller Inventory # 161207001

Condition: Very Good+. Third Edition. Third edition. #31 of 108 copies on Arches paper. [8], 48, [1] pp. Hand-painted veined vellum binding with hand-inked title and small flower decoration to spine, hand-painted green and gold ruled border to front and rear boards, bevelled fore-edge, gilt and multi-toned maroon marbled endpapers. Original wraps bound-in including spine as stub. Inscribed "Happy 1927 Aunt Martha + Uncle Levin [?] from [signed] Caresse / a Paris" on blank preceding front wrap. Beneath that Martha apparently regifted the book to one "L.B.J." (clearly not the Texan president!). Very Good+ with toning to vellum, boards slightly bowed; some loss to spine ends, small edge chip to front wrap. A fascinating production of what would later become Crosby's famed Black Sun Press.

Seller Inventory # 140937292

First edition. First edition, signed by the artist, Jim Dine, on the limitation. #115 of 150 numbered copies from a total edition of 180. 44 leaves. 42 lithographs by Jim Dine. Folio. 55.7x38 cm (22" x 15"), leaves loose in red cloth portfolio box with companion essay contained in recessed pocket of portfolio's inside cover. Fine. Actor and comedian Robin Williams's copy, although unmarked. "Biotherm" is the last long poem of New York School poet Frank O'Hara, whose accidental death in 1966 at age 40 deprived America of one of its most vital and innovative poets. The poet and critic Bill Berkson, to whom the poem is addressed, provided an essay and compiled a glossary to explicate the references in the poem and to recount the circumstances of its writing. Bibliography of the Arion Press 32.

Seller Inventory # 140945727

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher's wraps in glassine, with six color lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Copy #196 of 370 of the European edition, and of that, one of 300 printed on Rives paper. Very Good. Foxing to wraps and to pages, often quite heavy. Previous owner bookplate to front free end paper. Six color lithographs present, with tissue guards present but often merely laid in. Snag to glassine at foot of spine.

Seller Inventory # 170913006

First Edition. First edition. Copy #39 of 150 copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen to be sold at the bookshop of Harry F. Marks in New York. [viii], 55, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps in glassine, housed in gold foil chemise with ribbon ties. Near Fine in glassine with a very small tear at the foot, in a Very Good chemise, rubbed along hinges with a little chipping to foil, a little fraying to ribbons at ends. The rare first story collection by a prolific, critically-acclaimed modernist American author, published by expatriate Harry Crosby's Black Sun Press.

Seller Inventory # 140943481

Condition: Fine. Collector's Edition. Collector's edition bound in genuine red leather, decoratively stamped in gilt, with silken endpapers and ribbon placeholder. Complete in nine volumes. Fine, still in publisher's shrink wrap with minor splits in wrap. A beautiful set of Wilder's genuine portrait of Midwest frontier life.

Seller Inventory # 140946059

Softcover. First Edition. First edition, first printing. One of 777 unnumbered copies, signed by Charles Bukowski in silver paint pen and dated 5-25-63. [vi], 99, [2] pp. Multi-colored letterpressed sheets bound into stiff white wrappers, in decorated cork lined wrap-around dust jacket. Fine. A truly excellent, crisp copy with hardly any wear. Gift card of Philip Boatwright, editor of Steppenwolf, laid in. An early Bukowski poetry collection, lovingly produced by Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb at their Loujon Press.

Seller Inventory # 140944625

lxxxiv, [iv], 428, [14] pp. Photogravure frontispiece; other illustrations by New. Bound by master bookbinder Bernard Kiernan in full olive morocco with green & black leather inlay & gilt decoration, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, signed on the rear turn-in. Spine a touch sunned and start of slight foxing, tiny stain to prelims, else Fine. Housed in light green cloth slipcase, slightly soiled and stained. The classic fishing book handsomely bound by Kiernan (1922-1967). He died at age 45, very well-esteemed in the trade but obscure; his bindings are very rare. The text taken from the fifth edition, the last edition with Walton's own revisions.

Seller Inventory # 140944632

Condition: Near Fine. Deluxe Signed Limited Edition. Deluxe Limited edition, numbered 435 of 500 copies. Signed by Christopher Tolkien on the limitation page. Finely bound in a handsome gilt-edged leatherbound traycase. Near Fine with light scratching to inner tray. A bright copy of this collector's edition of two narrative Norse mythology poems likely written around 1930 by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Seller Inventory # 140946070

Shakespeare Head edition. Volume one with clipped and mounted sheet with five lines of manuscript in Trollope's hand from an essay on International Copyright, "shall be ready enough to welcome as additional blessings justice for literature between those countries and our own, but with America! As regards literature, American and England" [are one]. Complete in 14 volumes. Frontispieces, some in color. Bound at the Riverside Press in three-quarter brown morocco and cloth, spines gilt, top edges gilt. Near Fine with spots of wear and rubbing to cloth, hint of sunning to spines, some leaves unopened. An attractive set.A desirable fine press edition of Trollope's novels, including his autobiography.

Seller Inventory # 140945567

Stiff Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First American Revised Edition. First American edition of the revised version. Number 27 of just 32 copies privately printed on Japan vellum in July, 1903 by Thomas B. Mosher for presentation to his friends. Bound in publisher's yapped-edge stiff wraps printed in black and red. Near Fine. Lightly toned and lightly edge-worn, with previous owner bookplate (Thomas Fox Jeffress) to front paste-down. Precedes the public edition, which was published in October, 1903. Wade 12.

Seller Inventory # 140938599

Condition: Fine. Limited edition. Limited edition. First thus, revised with a new introduction. One of 275 copies signed by Allen Ginsberg on the title page. [iv], 43, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's decorative tan linen, with wrap-around artwork in nine colors, edges untrimmed. Fine with prospectus laid-in at front. A beautiful production of the poem that defined a generation, printed by Robert Grabhorn and Hoyem on hand-made paper, and bound in cloth with a drawing by Robert La Vigne. Comprises the original text as it was published in 1956 with minute revisions by the author and the addition of a related poetic fragment, "The Names," written in 1957, and first published in the Paris Review, Spring 1966; here collected with "Howl" for the first time.

Seller Inventory # 140945988

Condition: Near Fine. Signed Limited Edition. Two volumes. First editions thus, limited to only 1500 numbered copies and published for the members of the Limited Editions Club of New York. Both books signed in ink by "The Original Alice" in Wonderland, Alice Hargreaves (n�e Liddell); Reportedly only about 1,000 copies of this title were signed by her, a few years before her death. With original illustrations by John Tenniel re-engraved by Frederic Warde and Bruno Rollitz; the first volume is signed at the rear limitation page by Warde. Bound in publisher's original red and blue (respectively) full leather heavily decorated in gilt, with all edges gilt; in publisher's original blue and red cloth slipcases. Near Fine with light rubbing to leather at spine ends and light fading to spine. In Very Good spotted, toned and edge-worn slipcases. A beautiful set.

Seller Inventory # 140940667

Hardcover. First Thus. First Beardsley edition. Complete in two volumes each measuring 9.25" x 7.5". Finely bound by Birdsall in gilt-ruled and elaborately ornamented midnight blue levant with arts & crafts gilt-tooled faery vignettes on green, red, and orange morocco onlays, spine with elaborate lady in the lake vignettes over onlays, raised bands, morocco lettering pieces, gilt-rolled dentelles, filleted edges, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, original pictorial cloth panels bound in. One of 1,500 copies of the regular issue, from a total run of 1,800. Near Fine with light rubbing along bottom edge; endpaper cracked at front hinge of Vol. 1; leaves mildly toned as usual. Bookseller label of Harry F. Marks to rear pastedown of Vol. 1. From the collection of actor and comedian Robin Williams and his wife.An exquisite fine binding with arts & crafts tooling perfectly attuned to the illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley within. The first appearance of the famous illustrator's first important work. "In Le Morte D'Arthur Beardsley learnt his job, but the result is no bungling student's work. If he had never illustrated another book, this edition of Morte D'Arthur could stand as a monument of decorative book illustration" (in The Twentieth Century Book, pp. 148-149). Beardsley was 20 years old when Dent first commissioned him with this project.

Seller Inventory # 140945788

Limited edition. Limited edition. One of only 300 paper copies. 3 volumes in 2. Printed in Troy and Chaucer type, chapter headings in red. Numerous woodcut border decorations and initials. Bound in publisher's limp vellum, yapped fore-edges. spines lettered in gilt, fore and bottom edges of leaves untrimmed. Near Fine with light wear and soiling to vellum, untrimmed edges browning, occasional light foxing but overall quite clean; colophon with offsetting from item previously laid in. Original ties clipped at fore-edges. Bookplates of William Harris Arnold. A lovely Kelmscott printing of the 15th century French courtly romance written by Raoul Lefevre, chaplain to Philip III, Duke of Burgundy. The Caxton translation was first printed by him c.1475, considered the first book printed in the English language. Beautifully decorated with woodcuts designed by William Morris. Morris wrote of it, "The book will be ornamented very richly with woodcut ornaments entirely designed by myself; no labour or expense will be spared on them and there will be much variety in them. The semi-Gothic type designed by me (with special regard to legibility) will appear in this book for the first time." The paper was handmade by James Batchelor, with watermark of a bouquet with Morris's initials. Peterson A8.

Seller Inventory # 140945810

Condition: Near Fine. Trade issue bindings in 3/4 levant morocco lettered and ruled in gilt, housed in publisher's clamshell boxes with separate suites of loose signed etchings in chemises: 72 signed pencil plates in the first volume, 92 signed pencil plates in Through the Looking-Glass. Both volumes signed by Barry Moser on the rear colophon numbered #278 & #170. Both Near Fine with light fading to spines and modest shelf wear and soiling to cloth slipcases. Alice in Wonderland has a few trivial tape stains to the verso of a few plates. Barry Moser's most popular productions for his Pennyroyal Press, both major achievements in 20th century fine press book design. The first two Pennyroyal Press illustrated editions of classics.

Seller Inventory # 140946217

First Edition. First edition of The Macklin Bible, a masterpiece of book design that has been called "the last of the great Bibles." Complete in six volumes. Elephant folios 19" in height, 15.5" in width, spines typically around 2.5". Full red morocco, covers with elaborate gilt borders, spine with double raised bands gilt in seven compartments, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Sturdy bindings are holding well despite the demands of the heavy textblocks. Very Good, ex-libris from the John Wilson Collection of Multnomah County Library with small bookplates on paste downs, a few penciled notes to versos of title pages but otherwise unmarked. Wide margins. Bindings scuffed and soiled, rubbed along joints, wear at heads and tails. Contents generally bright with typical offsetting from engravings; many tissue guards still present. Handwritten 2pp. 1889 note from London bookseller Henry Sotheran tipped-in to Vol. 1, wherein he apologizes for the lack of The Apocrypha, which was published in 1816. A tremendous, lovely picture book with remarkable full-page engravings, engraved chapter heads, and text in double columns with Roman font, 29 lines to the full column. Reading it is an immersive physical and mental experience. Please note that this set will require substantial additional shipping charges if mailed outside of the United States. Contact us for further details.

Seller Inventory # 140943722

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher's variously-colored buckram with leather spine labels, gilt top stains. Complete in 23 volumes plus cloth slipcased original steel plate by Phiz for the illustration "Mr. Moddle is both particular and peculiar in is attentions" from Martin Chuzzlewit, a print pulled from it, as well as a letter of authenticity signed by an officer at Chapman & Hall, Ltd. Also includes clothbound Nonesuch Dickensia and wrappered Sample Pages: The Nonesuch Dickens booklet. Very Good+ overall with slight sunning to spines, a few head and tails slightly frayed (especially Printing Plate case and foot of David Copperfield), slight shelf wear, a few spine labels slightly chipped. An attractive set. An attempt by renowned British private press The Nonesuch Press to create the definitive collection of the works of Charles Dickens with their signature fusion of technologies from different eras of publishing, using hand press type and the original printing plates and wood blocks for many of the illustrations herein. The plates and wood blocks were then dispersed one per set, creating a limitation of 877. The pleasant rainbow of colors by the bindings, the thoroughness of the scholarship, etc. made The Nonesuch Dickens an immediate hit with book collectors, and it remains so to this day.

Seller Inventory # 180310005

Condition: Fine. Signed Limited Edition. First illustrated edition. 373 pp. Copy number 1492 of a limited 1,500, signed by Henri Matisse. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt with, top edge speckled brown. Fine, with just the faintest rubbing to the gilt-covered relief on the front cover, in Near Fine publisher's slipcase with slight soiling and slight wear, bubbling to paper on one face. A beautiful copy, in much nicer condition than as normally found. A visually striking production which combines James Joyce's modernist masterpiece with twenty-six illustrations by Matisse, including six hand-printed etchings and twenty lithographs.

Seller Inventory # 140946387