Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (21 results)

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Vol. XVIII, Parts I & II. Complete in two volumes. [iv], 340; vi, 341-760 pp. Wraps. Very Good or better with chipping to fragile wraps, especially to the spine and edges of Part II, outer wraps of that volume split along spine but binding intact; contents clean and occasionally unopened. Rare in nice shape. Part II includes the article "Legends of Paul Bunyan, Lumberjack" by K. Bernice Stewart & Homer Watt, which compiled anecdotes and interviewed Wisconsin lumberjacks about the legendary mammoth North American logging figure frequently seen with his blue ox, Babe. It was the first scholarly examination of the folklore around Paul Bunyon. William Laughead's commercialization of Bunyan for the Red River Lumber Company that same year helped make him the icon he is today.

Seller Inventory # 140939763

First Edition. First edition. 192 pp. Bound in publisher's cream-colored cloth with dark brown lettering. Near Fine with dust-soiling to cloth, in a Good+ dust jacket with a chip to the bottom corner of the front panel, wear at extremities, unclipped ($4.95). The world of Greek mythology brought to life by The D'Aulaires. A classic children's book.

Seller Inventory # 140943898

First Edition. First edition. 155, [[7] pp. Bound in publisher's black and brown cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, worn along edges, a little foxed, price-clipped. The world of Norse mythology brought to life by The D'Aulaires. A classic children's book.

Seller Inventory # 140943899

First edition. First edition, first impression. 128pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket a little toning and small scuff to spine panel, price clipped in a rectangular shape. An early work by the perennially popular English philosopher and interpreter of religious/spiritual practices around the world, on the Christian tradition of Easter and its roots in European paganism.

Seller Inventory # 140946083

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

Hardcover. First edition. First American edition. xvi, 204 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with white and red lettering. Near Fine with former owner's name on front free endpaper in Very Good+ dust jacket, price-clipped, light rubbing. A nice copy.

Seller Inventory # 140945438

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, first issue with "business" on page 40, line 11, and adverts at rear dated 5G. 4.86 and 5B. 4.86. Bound in publisher's original cloth ruled in blind with titles in gilt on the spine; with folding map at front. Very Good with light lean to spine and darkening to spine cloth, cloth soiled, front inner hinge repaired and rear inner hinge partially exposed, pages toned.

Seller Inventory # 140941285

First edition. First edition. Presentation copy signed by David MacRitchie on a slip affixed to the front free endpaper by the publisher, next to their own printed note for complimentary copies. MacRitchie has inscribed it to a James Macbeath of Kirkwall, likely the ironmonger and Celtic scholar. xxii, 77, [2] pp. with 22 plates. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with light soiling to cloth, slightly bumped corners. An uncommon signature from British folklorist David MacRitchie on one of his two works advancing the theory that fairy lore and various megalithic structures, burial places, and mounds around the UK were evidence of an extinct race of Mongol dwarves or little people that Brits had displaced but lived beside until the 11th century, called the Picts or Fians. Such "lost race" ideas were surprisingly popular in Victorian times. These stories would later be re-examined by Jacques Vallee in his 1969 book Passport to Magonia, which traced continuities between ancient stories of fairy encounters and kidnappings and those of 20th century alleged UFO contactees and abductees.

Seller Inventory # 140945800

Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Signed by author on front free endpaper, inscribed "With cordial regards to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Williams from [signed] Marshall McLuhan." First American edition. (Published simultaneously with Canadian edition according to copyright page.) vii, 157 pp. Original black cloth lettered in silver. Very Good with cloth worn near head, in unclipped dust jacket with chip at head, smaller chips at extremities, lightly soiled. A signed copy of the Canadian philosopher's first book, published with his name as Herbert Marshall McLuhan.

Seller Inventory # 140938261

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition in English. (iv), 197 pp. Late 19th Century three quarter leather over marbled paper, spine lettered in gilt. A Good or better copy with edges well-rubbed and cloth and leather mostly rubbed off or chipped there. Lacking front free endpaper. Last signature of pages at rear protrudes slightly and rear hinge split. An early English-language publication of the Danish folklorist's work, including "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Mermaid" and "The Emperor's New Clothes.".

Seller Inventory # 180423007

First Thus. First Stockdale edition, first issue with the long "s" throughout, and list of subscribers. xi [1], 225; [2], vii, 187, [1] pp. Two engraved title-pages with vignette, "Gay Monument" frontispiece and 68 illustrations (including 12 etchings by William Blake). Later full calf polished with gilt borders, gilt decorated spines; marbled endpapers and edges. Very Good with joints expertly repaired and strengthened, some general light wear and scuffing to calf, offsetting to endpaper edges, illustrated bookplates of author and bibliophile Louise Ward Watkins, and Frances and Jourdan Hoyt, scattered light foxing to interiors. The first edition of Gay's classic Fables to have etchings by William Blake, who is listed as one of the subscribers at the rear.

Seller Inventory # 140941779

First edition. First British edition of Heaney's translation, first printing. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. xxx, 106 pp. Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with spine lettering stamped in gilt. Fine and unread in Fine unclipped dust jacket. The Old English epic poem, translated and brought into modern times by the Irish poet and Nobel laureate.

Seller Inventory # 140944799

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Joseph Campbell on the title page in sharpie, "For James Wagner with all good wishes Joseph Campbell 5/27/78." xx, 730pp. Bound in publisher's blue buckram stamped in purple and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with minor wear at extremities in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with rubbing. An attractive, signed copy of this classic treatise on myth since the Dark Ages. The fourth and final volume of the Masks of God series.

Seller Inventory # 140946007

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's russet cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with a deep scratch to topstain, former owner name to front free endpaper, tanning to pages with some corner-creases and uneven tanning to the bottom textblock edge. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with fading to the spine, soiling, toning and wear. A classic introductory text to mythology, widely read and enjoyed to this day; very uncommon in its first printing.

Seller Inventory # 140944904

Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, first issue binding. Rear ads dated Autumn 1912. vi, [ii], 292, [30, ads], [1] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth, blindstamped front, gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with slightly rubbed and sunend spine, old bookseller's ticket to front free endpaper. A very nice copy of a book generally found in rough shape. An early examination of lycanthropy in folklore and popular culture by the prolific early 20th century British paranormal researcher Elliott O'Donnell.

Seller Inventory # 140944260

Reprint. Later reprint. Signed by Joseph Campbell and inscribed to a former owner on the colophon page. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wraps. Very Good, light creasing and wear to covers, covers curled outward, light soiling to textblock edge. The author's best-known work, an influential mythology book, which inspired Star Wars and 2001, among other popular works. Signed copies are scarce.

Seller Inventory # 140945732

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition. (Stated "First Edition" on copyright page with no later printings indicated.) Red cloth with black lettering. Very Good with tape ghosts to boards and endpapers, rubbing to edges, slight bowing to boards, contents clean and unmarked. In Very Good+ unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket with some wear and slight curling along edges; no Caldecott medal sticker as called for. An attractive copy of one of the scarcest Caldecott Medal winners to find in its first printing.

Seller Inventory # 140938549

First edition. First edition, first printing. xiv, 497 pp. Bound in publisher's russet cloth stamped in gilt. Fine with bright gilt, tiny vintage bookseller's ticket to front free endpaper, in a Very Good example of the rare dust jacket, spine panel sunned, small tears, edge wear, price intact ($3.95). A classic introductory text to mythology, widely read and enjoyed to this day; very uncommon in its first printing.

Seller Inventory # 140942875

The saga of mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle's involvement in the famous "fairy photographs," one of the greatest photographic hoaxes of all time, unfolds in three issues of the popular British magazine The Strand. Ironically, the creator of arch-logician Sherlock Holmes was publicly duped by two cousins, aged 9 and 16. Publisher's pictorial wraps; house in a custom blue cloth clamshell case backed in navy sheep and lettered in gilt. December 1920 issue - "Fairies Photographed," pages [462]-468. March 1921 - "The Evidence for Fairies," pages 199-206. February 1923 - "Epilogue," page [49]. Very Good overall, given the fragility of the magazines. Chipping at extremities, creased spine Rear wrap of March 1921 detached; penciled name on front wrap. This is the first serial issue of Doyle's writing on the Cottingley fairies, which garnered the photos immense popular interest. Work by Aldous Huxley, P.G. Wodehouse, and other top writers of the day also featured. Rare.

Seller Inventory # 140943038

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing of Frazer's groundbreaking wide-ranging comparative study on mythology and religion. A presentation copy, signed and warmly inscribed to a former owner by James George Frazer on the first blank page of Volume I. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original green cloth with spines lettered in gilt and ornate mistletoe design blocked in gilt on the upper boards, edges uncut. Near Fine with light rubbing to cloth, corners bumped. Hinges a little tender, preliminary and terminal pages foxed. A monumental work in which Frazer set out to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific though through the lenses of such cultural practices and symbols as fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god and the scapegoat. He proposes that mankind progresses from magic through religious believe to scientific though.

Seller Inventory # 140941342