Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (34 results)

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. 199 pp. Original gray cloth lettered in green. Fine in Fine dust jacket. An excellent copy.

Seller Inventory # 140937588

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Signed by author on card tipped in to verso of front wrap, dated October 13, 1989; invitation from author and wife also tipped-in below that. First edition. Near Fine in custom slipcase with leather spine label lettered in gilt. An examination of the design of six American art museums by the director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.

Seller Inventory # 140938291

Second edition, first printing. (The first English language edition.) Bound in publisher's black leatherette with pink edges, pink stamping, pink and black internal bookmarks. Text in German and English. Includes CD in unopened pouch at rear. Sticker schmutz on rear board and a hint of mustiness, else Fine. Berlin-based graphic designer Judith Schalansky's guide to Blackletter (AKA Fraktur or Gothic) fonts, reproducing 300 of them with an abbreviated history. The accompanying CD includes 137 of these fonts (including four created exclusively for this book) are included for free private and restricted commercial use.

Seller Inventory # 140944622

Spiral-bound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 155 pp. Spiral bound stiff printed wraps. First edition, stated. Very Good. Wraps show toning, edge tears to yapped edges at rear, pages lightly toned and with a short tear to the "Memoranda" page at rear. Very scarce.

Seller Inventory # 160926007

First edition. First edition. viii, 224, [2]pp.Bound in publisher's black wraps with hole-punches. Very Good+, hinge at front cracked but binding holding, light toning with age. One of the more popular survivalist/counterculture works by American writer Kurt Saxon (pen name of Donald E. Sisco), a how to book for home manufacturing of things and general mischief based on 19th century manuals. Saxon is best-known for his book Poor Man's James Bond, a classic in the clandestine how to/ Loompanics sub genre of nonfiction. Journalist Kyle Mizokami wrote on the site War is Boring: "Saxon claimed to have been invited to appear on David Letterman. As Saxon tells it, he volunteered to demonstrate recipes from his book Granddad's Wonderful Book of Chemistry, including the spontaneous combustion of mercury, potassium and sodium, and his 'burning ice cube' trick. Unfortunately, during rehearsals one of his tricks ended with a boom and a producer yelling, 'Am I bleeding? I can't hear. Can I get this stuff off my pants?' Letterman allegedly cancelled Saxon's appearance.".

Seller Inventory # 140945956

First edition. First edition, first printing. x, 321, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Very faint diagonal crease to prelims. A bright, attractive copy. This volume consists of horror master H.P. Lovecraft's hitherto uncollected writings with short pieces about him and an early bibliography of his works.

Seller Inventory # 140945600

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [1961]. No additional printings listed, but recto of rear cover shows a list of publisher's titles dating up until 1961, suggesting either unbound sheets of the first printing were bound into later issue/variant wraps, or possibly this is a later printing. Original pale blue wraps printed in dark blue. Very Good with toning to wraps at spine and edges, light soiling, light wear at joints. Corners bumped. Previous owner name to first page, and ink notations to text to a handful of pages. An attractive copy of Chomsky's first published book, which changed the field of linguistics immensely. It's best known for the meaningless and yet grammatically coherent sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.".

Seller Inventory # 140939066

First Edition. Volumes 1-9 complete. Bound in publisher's navy cloth, spines stamped in gilt and red. First edition. (First printings with the earlier volumes all lacking additional printing statements and the latter few having complete number lines.) Near Fine overall, a few bookseller pencil notations to prelims but contents free of markings, light wear. Vol. 4 back cloth and vol. 2 front cloth a little stained. Vol. 2 & 6 spines rubbed. Two of the unprinted jackets included, worn. The one and only BAL. Still the standard bibliography for American literature and a necessity for booksellers, even if some of the authors included have become ridiculously obscure with time (unless, for instance, the name Christopher Pearce Cranch rings a bell to you, or Thomas Allibone Janvier, Jones Very, etc.).

Seller Inventory # 140941932

Condition: About Very Good. Early American edition. (One of 14 English language editions identified by George Monteiro in his review of the book in Luso-Brazilian Review; perhaps the third American edition reprinting the British first edition, which was also the first English language edition.) [vi], xvi, 60, [2] pp. Publisher's wraps. About Very Good with foxing and soiling to wraps, separation starting along spine and front wrap; foxing to endpapers, lightly to main body of text. An uncommon edition of the famously bizarrely and humorously mistranslated English phrasebook for Portuguese speakers, which first appeared in Paris in 1836. Perhaps as early as the 1850s Mark Twain became aware of the book; he wrote an introduction to the first American edition in 1883. Its nonsense still amuses. Take for instance its hitherto-unknown category of "Insects-reptiles," which consists of "Asp, aspic," "Morpion," "Fly," "Butter fly" and of course "Serpent." The "Familiar Dialogues" are equally goofy-- English conversations one would theoretically have with a tailor or while hunting, etc. that despite the possibility of infinite universes with infinite possibilities quantum physics postulates may exist, still definitely never, ever occurred anywhere except within the pages of this book.

Seller Inventory # 140941548

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light soiling and light wear to cloth; contemporary female ownerships on front free endpaper. Intended to be a complete guide to women in regards to voting, their government and commerce, featuring a frontis chart summarizing American legislation affecting women and children. With an introduction by Carrie Chapman Catt.

Seller Inventory # 140945977

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A sample book of approximately 200 tattoo designs in various sizes, mounted on thin cardboard in a 12� x 11�" maroon binder, held in place by loose mylar overlays. Very Good with some stickers on cover (one more recent) and tape. Appears to be a reference book for Colorful Al's House of Tattoo in San Rafael, California. Its founder "Colorful Al" died in 2009 in an accidental gas line explosion; some individual sample sheets from his estate have appeared for sale online since, and the work herein seems very similar to them. There is only a single reference to "Colorful Al's" (and no other parlor or artist's name) inside.Features skull designs, grim reapers, Asian dragons, naked ladies, topless Native American princesses, eagles, naval-themed designs, cartoon characters like Betty Boop and a duck somewhere between Donald Duck and Woody Woodpecker, animals, devils, flowers, tigers and more. Overall the sample book looks like late '70s in origin, maybe early '80s at the very latest. A great reference capturing an unironic but modern era of tattooing and California counterculture.

Seller Inventory # 180320001

Condition: Good. First Edition. First trade edition. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards over darker blue spine cloth. Good, with oily stain and damage to rear cover, else light soiling and surface wear to covers. Previous owner bookplate to inside of front cover. The first trade edition of the notorious writing guide.

Seller Inventory # 140940428

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in silver, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good with light staining and wear to cloth, former owner bookplate and label to front free end paper, pages toned and creases to several terminal leaves. Next to the Bible, this ranks as the best-selling book in America in the twentieth century.

Seller Inventory # 140942936

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First trade edition. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards over darker blue spine cloth. Very Good with toning, darkening, mellow staining and edge wear to covers, toning to pages. The first trade edition of the notorious writing guide.

Seller Inventory # 140942088

A scarce early index of science-fiction fanzines (Imag-Index) its supplement, and four issues of yearbooks, bound together. [3], 71; [4, Supplement]; 19 [Yearbook of 1938], unpaginated [1939 Yearbook]; [2], [32],[4] [1940 Yearbook]; unpaginted [1941 Yearbook] pp. Bound in custom green cloth with gilt spine lettering, marbled paper sides. Yearbook of 1938 is the second edition, published in 1959. About Very Good with wear and fraying at foot, worn extremities, light wear to contents. No copies found in OCLC or major scifi fanzine collections online. Forrest J. Ackerman and Morojo reviewed Imag-Index in their fanzine Voice of the Imagi-Nation: "Almost unheralded comes IMAG-INDEX, LA's latest contribution to fandom. Presenting Table of Contents of every pro sci-fic mag from '26 to '38. 72 mimeod pages between stiff covers, priced at only 50c!" The price has risen since then but it's become more than a little scarce over the past 82 years.

Seller Inventory # 140944147

Hardcover. First edition. First edition, first printing, issue with no frontispiece, leaves on spine stem down. BAL's State A with no printer's imprint on copyright page, no priority. vi, 234 pp. Bound in publisher's dark olive cloth with red and black stamping. Near Fine with trivial wear at tips, a little rubbing to red on spine, former owner's name stamped on paste down and front free endpaper. A sharp, attractive copy. In much nicer shape then generally found. The first book publication of the black-humor classic The Devil's Dictionary, which began as a series of newspaper columns. It covers letters "A" through "L"; a sequel was planned but sales were too poor to justify it. The full alphabet would be published five years later.

Seller Inventory # 140945743

Condition: Near Fine. First thus. A complete set of four micro miniature books, each measuring 5x5 mm, various gilt tooled leather bindings. Each housed within a plastic magnifying case and set within red silk pillow interior of a plastic box. On the box lid interior reads the title as written above, in gilt, plus the titles of each of the four books in German. Fine with minor soiling to clamshell box. One of the plastic hinges on the lids encasing a book is broken.From 1952 to 1964 these were the smallest books in the world. Captivating little set of micro-miniature books, with the printing in various languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, etc. The books are titled, I Love You; The Lord's Prayer; The Olympic Oath; The Oath of Freedom. Scarce as a set. Bromer and Edison, p.117.

Seller Inventory # 140945902

First Edition. First edition. One of 500 unnumbered copies signed by Eric Gill & Rene Hague on colophon. American typographer and book designer Jackson Burke's copy with his bookplate on paste down. 121 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine in uncommon original dust jacket, creased horizontally, else Near Fine, bright and unclipped. Two prospectuses laid in. The English typographer and sculptor's influential essay on typography, hand printed on special watermarked paper.

Seller Inventory # 140941773

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert L. Ripley and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original grayish-green cloth stamped in red; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light fading to spine, light rubbing to extremities and several bumped to edges. Pages toned, sporadically thumbed, and light waviness to rear pages. A nice copy, signed by the cartoonist and amateur anthropologist who compiled odd facts from around the world for his newspaper panel, radio and television shows.

Seller Inventory # 140940895

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in near-contemporary half-leather over cloth, recently rebacked. Very Good. Several small edge tears to pages, light foxing to prelims and terminals, light worming to textblock edge. A style guide to British English usage, pronunciation and writing, colloquially referred to as Fowler's Usage, which became the standard for other style guides to writing in English. Immensely influential, this first edition remains in print to this day.

Seller Inventory # 140941821

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. xliv, 724 pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Good with L-shaped tear in cloth at head, tiny piece of tape on verso, faint tape stains on front and back boards. Cloth mottled, especially on back board, a little edge-worn. A few inscriptions on prelims and one on terminals scrawled over and covered in small slips of paper. Front and back hinges weak, starting. Lacking jacket. Described by Christopher Dennistoun as "a magnum opus describing the best possible means of imparting statistical information visually." The author's best-known work. He went on to create the first hedge fund with his Karsten Statistical Laboratory in late December 1930.

Seller Inventory # 180225006

First edition. First edition, first printing, first issue with "Bouverie St" on the illustrated title page; with the farmyard frontispiece. xl, 1112 pp. Complete with 12 color plates. Bound in recent purple cloth with black leather backstrip lettered in gilt, new endpapers. Very Good with foxing to endpapers, occasionally to plates, toning along edges. A lovely copy of the Victorian age's domestic bible.

Seller Inventory # 140945093

Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Fourth Issue. First edition, fourth issue. Signed by Roger Tory Peterson and generically inscribed on the dedication page. Bound in publisher's green pebbled cloth stamped in silver; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good with light general wear to binding. Foxing to endsheets. Pages toned and lightly marked in pen and pencil in margins. Small stains to title page. An influential guide that transformed the world of birding, bringing its joys to the layman.

Seller Inventory # 140940873

Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Revised edition. The second edition of the pocket dictionary of African American slang attributed to the famous Cotton Club orchestra leader. It has been billed as "the first dictionary published by a Black person," but more accurately it is one of the first lexicons of African American slang of the Jazz age. Some of the words and phrases spread like gangbusters to mainstream America: "chick," "freeby," "hot," "in the groove," "mellow," "corny," and "reefer" for example. Some did not, such as the phrase "togged to the bricks" (meaning to be dressed to kill) and "glims" (much better known as eyes). [16] pp. 2.75" x 4.4" Stapled wraps. Very Good with wave along bottom outer corner of booklet, not stained though, smaller corner crease; staples rusted with a little offsetting. Rare, only one institutional copy located in a recent OCLC Worldcat search.

Seller Inventory # 140940151

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with boards ruled in blind; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good or better with light rubbing to cloth and wear at corners and spine ends, endsheets foxed and hinges there slightly exposed, pages toned, small tear to title page. A style guide to British English usage, pronunciation and writing, colloquially referred to as Fowler's Usage, which became the standard for other style guides to writing in English. Immensely influential, this first edition remains in print to this day.

Seller Inventory # 140942099

Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Revised edition. The second edition of the pocket dictionary of African American slang attributed to the famous Cotton Club orchestra leader. It has been billed as "the first dictionary published by a Black person," but more accurately it is one of the first lexicons of African American slang of the Jazz age. Some of the words and phrases spread like gangbusters to mainstream America: "chick," "freeby," "hot," "in the groove," "mellow," "corny," and "reefer" for example. Some did not, such as the phrase "togged to the bricks" (meaning to be dressed to kill) and "glims" (much better known as eyes). [16] pp. 2.75" x 4.4" Stapled wraps. Very Good with scrapes to cover, creased throughout; staples rusted with a little offsetting. Rare, only one institutional copy located in a recent OCLC Worldcat search.

Seller Inventory # 140942406

Hardcover. First Edition. First edition. xliv, 724 pp. Bound in publisher's limp maroon leatherette with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with light creasing to spine, corners slightly bumped, a few light stains to edges, pages toned with age. A very nice copy with bright gilt, text free of markings.Described by Christopher Dennistoun as "a magnum opus describing the best possible means of imparting statistical information visually." The author's best-known work. He went on to create the first hedge fund with his Karsten Statistical Laboratory in late December 1930.

Seller Inventory # 140942528

Condition: Near Fine. First thus. First edition thus; the third of Calloway's dictionaries, basically a third edition of his Cat-ologue.) 16 pp. 2.75" x 4.4" Stapled wraps. Sticker from furniture store to front cover, else Near Fine. A WWII-era African American slang dictionary issued by the famous Cotton Club band leader, with an updated list of words and phrases. Rare, only three institutional copies located in a recent OCLC Worldcat search.

Seller Inventory # 140942404

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 130, [2] pp. with fold-out chart at front. Bound in publisher's paper covered boards with green cloth backstrip, paper title label. A Very Good copy with slightly foxed and rubbed boards, small corner chip to spine label. Tiny edge tear to fold-out chart, crease along bottom right edge. A rare pictorial/verbal primer of Basic English, presenting vocabulary and simple formulations in Basic with accompanying visualizations.

Seller Inventory # 140941776

First thus. First thus. (The third of Calloway's dictionaries, basically a third edition of his Cat-ologue.) 16 pp. 2.75" x 4.4" Stapled wraps. A Near Fine copy, staple rusted, very slight rubbing along spine. Attractive and bright with very little wear. A WWII-era African American slang dictionary issued by the famous Cotton Club band leader, with an updated list of words and phrases. Rare, only four institutional copies located in a recent OCLC Worldcat search.

Seller Inventory # 140942432