Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (21 results)

First edition. First edition. Signed by Ross Macdonald on the rear colophon, copy #145 of 350 numbered signed copies. xvi, 67, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's boards with red cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine, small bump to bottom corner. Essays on literature in history by the acclaimed Canadian-born crime author also known as Kenneth Millar.

Seller Inventory # 140946080

First edition. First edition. [xii], 243 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth white spine lettering. Near Fine with slightly musty smell and a little dust-soiling to edges, in Very Good dust jacket with small tear in front panel, dust-soiling and toning, light wear, unclipped ($3.95). Stories from the New York waterfront by the popular New Yorker essay writer.

Seller Inventory # 140945280

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original slick black cloth with white spine lettering. Very Good or better with light lean to binding and light wear. In a Very Good price-clipped first state dust jacket with a white border around the photograph on the rear panel; Very Good with edge wear, wear at corners and spine ends, light rippling and a small stain to the front panel. HST's follow-up to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas that looked at politics in the Nixon-era through a gonzo journalist lens.

Seller Inventory # 140940198

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: About Very Good. Signed by John Howard Griffin on half-title. [x], 176 pp. Publisher's off-white cloth stamped in black. Seventh printing of the first edition. A Near Fine copy in an unclipped dust jacket with chip at foot, else Very Good with rubbing and edge wear, spine panel a little dulled. The author's best-known work, in which he darkened the color of his skin and traveled the Deep South; an influential civil rights book. Uncommon signed.

Seller Inventory # 140940234

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black paper boards over black spine cloth lettered in silver Near Fine with light lean to binding, a thin strip of sunning to top and bottom edge of boards, light spotting to top of textblock edge and former owner name to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with red print on spine vibrant and uncommon as such; light toning and light edge wear. A nice copy of the author's most well-known work.

Seller Inventory # 140944030

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. [x], 206 pp. Bound in publisher's gray boards stamped in blind over black spine cloth lettered in silver. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, sunning along top edge of boards and foxing to top of textblock edge. Evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light toning to edges and slightly rubbed; red lettering on spine is bright and unfaded, vertical crease to front panel. The first appearance in book form, following two 1971 issues of Rolling Stone, of Hunter S. Thompson's drugged-out travelogue to/rampage through Las Vegas, with its iconic splattered ink illustrations by Ralph Steadman. It inspired the 1998 Terry Gilliam film by the same name.

Seller Inventory # 140946207

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. [viii], 279 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with silver and red stamping, black topstain. Fine, pages toned with age, in a Fine dust jacket with no fading but light tanning to flaps. An excellent copy of HST's first book.

Seller Inventory # 140941866

Signed by Hunter S. Thompson in sharpie on page 130 at his article, "The Curse of Lono," an excerpt from the book published that same year. Interestingly the Playboy excerpt featuring very different artwork than the book, by John Kurtz showing a blood-sweating fish against the green hills of Hawaii. Near Fine, in excellent shape with hardly any wear. Rare signed excerpted version of Thompson's early '80s exploits in Hawaii in a holiday issue of the famous adult magazine Playboy. Lono, the book, was published to uniformly negative critical response, though it's always been this bookseller's favorite work of Thompson's for its insight into an odd assortment of things like deep sea fishing, marathon running, Hawaii, Hawaiian mythology, and the drug habits of a middle-aged, post-Fear and Loathing Hunter S. Thompson.

Seller Inventory # 140945254

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. First printing of the Modern Library Edition. Signed by Hunter S. Thompson on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with imprint in blind on the front cover and gilt titles to the spine. Near Fine. From the library of Peter Matthiessen though not marked as such, with some underlining in Matthiessen's hand. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed and with a short tear to the bottom of the front joint. One of the author's best-known novels.

Seller Inventory # 140941300

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Bound in publisher's red pebbled cloth with titles printed in black on upper board. Very Good with edge wear, heavy fading to spine and edges, light staining to rear cover, light foxing. Hinge at front endpaper is slightly exposed and split started to front free endsheet at top end. An African American publisher and journalist who wrote under pseudonym for various New York City papers, especially including The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The author seemingly published this collection of his work after The Brooklyn Daily Eagle decided to cease publishing Fulton's work. Additionally, Fulton was the author of the book Recollections of a Sleeping Car Porter.

Seller Inventory # 140943084

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Reprint; perhaps either a later printing of a book club edition, though neither is specified and the jacket flap is priced. Signed twice by Hunter S. Thompson: once signed and inscribed to a former owner in gold marker on the black front free endpaper and signed again in felt-tipped pen on the following page. Bound in publisher's black leatherette binding with spine lettered in white. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with wear at the extremities and fading to the red print on the spine; foxing and toning to blindside.

Seller Inventory # 140943684

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 2 Volumes. First edition, first printing. Original ribbed maroon cloth, blindstamped front boards, gilt lettered spines, gilt topstains. Complete in two volumes. Very Good with soiling and edge wear to cloth, fading to spines and a small area of spotting to cloth at front cover of Volume I. private ex-libris bookplate to front pastedowns, front and rear inner hinges cracked in Volume I and bookseller ticket to rear pastedowns. The crusading American journalist, feminist hero, and iconic muckraker Ida Tarbell's masterwork, a thorough expose of the mammoth Standard Oil Company's history and tactics. It has been called "the greatest work of investigative journalism ever written." Tarbell's writings led to the passage of antitrust legislation and then the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 for violating that legislation.

Seller Inventory # 140943950

First edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Christopher Hitchens on the title page, inscribed to former owner. xii, 436 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow and black boards with black spine lettering. Slight wrinkling to terminals and hint of foxing to edges, else Fine in a dust jacket with dampstaining to verso, slight wrinkling. A uncommon signed copy of the contrarian journalist and pundit's memoirs.

Seller Inventory # 140945625

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Hunter S. Thompson on the title page. Bound in publisher's original black paper covered boards over black cloth spine decorated in white. Very Good with abrasion to rear cover, and blue ink stain to top edge of rear pages, intruding on text. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning, general wear and faint tide marks. Volume I of the Gonzo Papers, signed by HST.

Seller Inventory # 140940531

First Edition. First edition. Signed by A. J. Liebling, inscribed to former owner on front free endpaper. 284 pp. with tipped-in erratum slip. Publisher's gray cloth lettered in dark green. About Very Good with surface-level insecting to front board, a little toning to contents, dust jacket price-clipped with dulling to spine panel, splits along both flap folds' versos repaired with archival mending tissue. A rare signature from the American journalist, known for his columns in The New Yorker as well as his sportswriting. This collection is of his best New Yorker columns as "The Wayward Pressman" that critically and humorously examined the American press.

Seller Inventory # 140940966

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards over blue spine cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with toning, soiling and rubbing through to edges. Shallow tidemark to base of rear board. Offsetting to title page and frontis illustration from tissue guard, pages toned with marginal marks in pencil throughout. A pioneering work of photojournalism documenting New York City's poor lower class living in squalid conditions at the turn of the century.

Seller Inventory # 140945960

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Tom Wolfe on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's white cloth with titles stamped in metallic multi-colors on the spine. Very Good with some foxing and soiling to covers, textblock edge and endsheets. In a very Good unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, toning, a crease to the rear panel, light tidemarks to the edges; foxing to the blindside.

Seller Inventory # 140943978

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: About Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Signed by A.J. Liebling on the front free endpaper. [x], 306 pp. Publisher's black boards stamped in crimson with tan cloth backstrip lettered in black. Near Fine, former owner's bookplate on paste down, light wear and foxing, in an About Very Good dust jacket with a faded spine panel, chipped at foot, creasing and closed tears along top edge, foxing, unclipped ($3.95). A rare signed copy of Liebling's critically-acclaimed pieces on boxing for The New Yorker. Called one of the best sports books of all time by Sports Illustrated.

Seller Inventory # 140941134

Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, copy #2 of 150 numbered copies signed by both Thompson and Steadman, additionally inscribed to former owner (a supporter of the printer, Joe Petro) with a face made of the "T" in his first name by Steadman and lots of his famous ink blots all over. 51 pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards with ribbed black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt over black morocco spine label. Fine in original acetate. An excellent copy of a semi-autobiographical story issued in a small limitation.

Seller Inventory # 140941443

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Tom Wolfe on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's white cloth with titles stamped in metallic multi-colors on the spine. Near Fine with light toning to boards at edges, fading and a few small droplets to the topstain. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light general wear. A fantastic copy.

Seller Inventory # 140943759

First edition. West Indian-born journalist and Black Power activist Hubert Harrison's signed and extensively annotated copy of a work by a white historian of the "Imperial school" on the close of World War I and its implications for Africa and other colonized lands. The book's author, George L. Beer, was a racist opponent of both colonialism and African self-government, writing that "the negro race has hitherto shown no capacity for progressive development except under the tutelage of other peoples." The book's owner, though, is considered "The Father of Harlem Radicalism." He worked as an editor for New Negro magazine and Marcus Garvey's newspaper, Negro World. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, "Hubert Harrison / New York Feb. 29th 1924 / - The New York World - "; another inscription to title page partially effaced. This copy represents him talking back to G.L. Beer and imperialist ideology, a candid rejoinder and critique. Harrison's notes are very revealing and insightful, and are certain to reward scholars of his thought. For instance his annotation to a passage about Germany's battles with the subjects of its African colonies, Harrison notes, "The Belgian victims in the Congo at the same period was over five million." He critiques all colonial powers as well as the United States for its hypocrisy and the brutality of its treatment of its Black citizens. He's erudite and occasionally funny too. For instance, a passage in the introduction mentioning the author's aversion to a League of Nations (a proto-U.N.) for fears that it will become a global super-state is simply annotated by Harrison in the margin, "Rats!" Readers can see his uncensored opinions and personal observations throughout this copy. First edition. xliv, 628 pp. with folding color map, six map plates and one map textual illustration. Bound in publisher's dark crimson cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Good with stained cloth, especially back board; fraying to ends, light dampstaining to contents. This copy offers unique insights into Hubert Harrison's politics and personality. His early death and a lack of critical attention to his work have made him an unjustly obscure figure in the history of African American political activism and journalism.

Seller Inventory # 140944393