Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (7 results)

Original illustrated cardboard box with decorated wooden tray inside with alternating black and clear cellophane(?) window, eight double-sided cards. Sliding the cards through the window creates the illusion of movement. Scant text in Japanese. Window torn in half jaggedly with some loss. Cards a little toned. Tray separated in half. Sticker wear to box, a little stained. An interesting set of cards with simulated motion, about which we could find no information. The illustration style, at least in the American context, suggests the 1920s or '30s, but it may be more recent than that.

Seller Inventory # 140941867

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. [vi], 186 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver, brown endpapers. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with spine panel red lettering mostly gone, wear at extremities, rubbed. A rare history and explanation of wargaming published by the magazine Strategy & Tactics, whose staff was billed as "the largest professional body of game designers and developers working in the field of commercial conflict simulation design.".

Seller Inventory # 140940299

Condition: Very Good. [ca. 1960s?] A deck of vernacular hand-drawn fortune telling cards, seemingly copied from a deck of Teuila Fortune Telling Cards. 44 die-cut cards numbered numbered to 45 (card #3 is missing) measuring 2" x 3.5" with illustrations on rectos only in graphite and colored pencil, numbered at the bottom in graphite and occasionally ink. Very Good, soiled, toned, and with a heavy horizontal crease to the center of the entire deck leaving cards fragile. This deck starts with drawings of people, and moves on to show some familiar items such as a wheel, a bag of money, and a heart with Cupid's arrow, as well as some more esoteric ones such as a maid with a plate, bugs, and a turkey. Provenance: This deck came out of a New Age bookstore in the Great Lakes region that closed in the 1980s. The only note with them was a scrap of paper saying "antique.".

Seller Inventory # 140942574

Wraps. Uncorrected proof. Uncorrected proof of the first British edition. 190 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. About Very Good with cocked and slightly rolled spine, light wear to extremities, bumped corners, toned with age, former owner's name on half-title. The scarce UK advance issue of pool-sharking novel that inspired the classic 1961 film.

Seller Inventory # 140944802

First edition, early issue or printing but not the first. (Title and copyright pages dated 1893. Reference on copyright page to Supplement copyrighted in 1896.) 316, [4] pp. Publisher's leather over boards, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt; plain wraps inexpertly glued over spine and part of front and back wraps with the handwritten spine title "Tarot." Fair with aforementioned rebinding, cracks and splits to binding, chipping to endappers, tidemark to plain wraps, chipping to leather covers, marginal notes in ink to six or so pages, first blank has penciled notes. A rare occult cartomancy / tarot book.

Seller Inventory # 140944641

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. First edition. 214 , (1) pp. Original red cloth and gray paper covered boards, spine stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with bumped corners in edge-chipped and lightly soiled dust jacket, two mends on verso, and yet unsunned and unclipped, Good+. The inspiration for the 1961 Robert Rossen film starring Paul Newman as "Fast Eddie" and Jackie Gleason as "Minnesota Fats.".

Seller Inventory # 140937140

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Bobby Fischer on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's printed laminated boards, lacking a dust jacket. Near Fine with toning to covers and pages, spine sunned, wear to laminate at spine joints and short superficial split at the bottom of the front joint.

Seller Inventory # 140941965