Search Results: Literature from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Irvine, CA: Suntup Editions, 2021. Artist Gift Edition. Artist Gift Edition. One of 1,000 copies thus signed by artist Jim Burns. 328, [4] pp. Full cloth smyth sewn binding with two-hits foil stamping over cloth boards, in foil stamped dust jacket, housed in die cut silver paper covered slipcase. A Fine copy. In publisher's foam packaging, includes bookmark.

London: Harvill Secker, 2011. Limited Edition. Fine. A beautifully produced limited edition, signed by Haruki Murakami and one of just 111 copies. Three volumes. Covers printed on Somerset paper using a Swiss-made 1963 Gietz Art Platen hand-fed letterpress and bound onto page blocks, edges of each book hand-colored and housed in a clear perspex slipcase wrapped in a cloth covering and sewn closed, in original cardboard box with limitation statement on top panel. Fine, with cloth wrapping unopened and still sewn shut, in a Very Good box which is a bit worn with a few dings and scratches. A beautifully produced limited edition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Haruki Murakami in Japanese above his rubber-stamped name on a tipped in sheet. Near Fine with light rubbing to boards, faint reading creases to spine, light bumping to corners, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. A fantastic copy.

New York: Random House, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good. Cloth lightly soiled. Small stain and small abrasion to top edge of page block and top edge of rear board. Hinge at rear slightly exposed, folding map intact. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price of $2.50 intact, with toning and light soiling, rubbing at extremities and edge wear with chipping; the largest chip is smaller than 1/3-inch x less than 1/2-inch at the top of the front panel. A little worn, but still a nice example of the George Salter dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1936. Signed Limited First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing. One of a limited 300 numbered copies specially bound & signed by the author. Bound in publisher's original patterned paper boards over green cloth spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Very Good+ with tanning to covers and spine, top corners rubbed through, former owner bookplate to front free endpaper and contents tanned. A lovely copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First edition. First edition. ("A" and seal on copyright page. Second state jacket has orange lettering to spine panel. Not an advance copy, so error corrected on pg. 21.) [xii], 308 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, spine panel slightly sunned.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First edition, first printing, presentation issue. (Error "Papadopohi" on p. 21 uncorrected, as are two errors on pp. 24 and 80.) One of only 25 "advance" copies printed from uncorrected sheets and specially bound for presentation, as noted by David A. Randall (head of Scribner's rare book department at the time) on paste down before his signature. xii, 308 pp. Publisher's dark blue buckram cloth stamped in gilt. Fine with bright gilt. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase. A rarity and perennial "stopper" for Hemingway collectors in excellent condition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. ("A" and seal on copyright page. First state jacket has yellow lettering to spine panel.) [xii], 308 pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with gift inscription to former owner on front free endpaper, in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with wear and bit of creasing along top edge, chip and wear along back panel bottom edge. Hemingway's penultimate novel.

Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. (Shaberman 17; he was uncertain about date. Apparently some copies also have tissue-guarded author frontispiece and ads at rear. This one doesn't; priority unknown.) 423 pp. Original brick red cloth with gilt lettering. Good condition with cloth thoroughly mottled with age, frayed at head and tail, spine lettering rubbed. Front hinge splitting at edges, still intact, though. Tiny contemporary owner inscription on front flyleaf. Light occasional internal foxing.

Hartford, CT: The American Publishing Company, 1876. First Edition, Second Printing. Near Fine. First edition, second printing, BAL issue A, printed on laid paper. Bound in publisher's blue cloth decorated in black and gilt; all edges gilt. Contents on verso of preface, with the following mispagination present: p. [IX] mispaged XII; p. [X] mispaged XIII; p. [XII] mispaged XVI. Near Fine with light fraying to cloth at corner and spine ends, spine darkened. Front and rear inner hinges slightly exposed, owner name and small bookplate to front endsheet. Pages toned. A fantastic copy of the classic American novel, housed in a custom half-leather slipcase, with leather dried and lacking some chips and cloth lifted along bottom edge. BAL 3369.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Good, lacking the dust jacket. Foxing to spine, edge of page block and pages. Lean to spine. Fraying to head of spine, and lightly to corners. This book was the basis for the movie bearing the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Light rubbing to extremities; light staining to top edge of page block. Light foxing to pages, chip missing from bottom corner of last page. A lovely copy of the book served as the basis for the movie bearing the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn.

Norristown, PA: Blackrose Editions, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 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.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing with "(1)" at end of text. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in black; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with uneven fading, wear and soiling to covers, with short splits to crown and bottom of spine joints. Endsheets browned, former owner name to front free endpaper, light creasing to rear free endpaper, pages tanned and with a few creased corners. Slight musty odor to pages. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, making Wharton the first woman to win.

New York: Random House, 1982. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Signed by Wole Soyinka on title page. [vi], 230, [2] pp. Black cloth over green paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with former owner's name written on front free endpaper, light reading wear, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with faintly sunned spine panel. The Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright and poet's autobiography of his childhood, one of his most popular books.

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993. First edition. First edition, complete in six volumes. (First printings of each volume with the publication date and the first edition statement 第1刷発行 or 第一刷発行 on the colophon. Prior to these deluxe tankobon or separate editions they were published in Yangu Magajin anthologies, as is typical for manga.) Complete in six volumes. Bound in publisher's wraps with dust jackets. Text in Japanese. Near Fine overall with age-toning to contents, light shelf wear. Vol. 1 edges slightly foxed,spine creased, jacket has tiny tear at foot. Vol. 3 & 4 jackets spines are sunned. A few small stains to edge of Vol. 5.The Japanese manga that inspired the classic 1988 animated film. Uncommon as a complete set in its first printings.

London: Constable, 1964. First Edition. First edition. 180 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Slight bowing to boards, former owner's name written on front free endpaper, in a Near Fine dust jacket, tiny tear along bottom edge of front panel, vertical crease to spine panel. A nice copy of the British author's second experimental novel, which features two "textual windows"-- strips cut out of pages 149-152.

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Paolo Coelho on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's dark blue paper-covered boards over dark blue spine cloth lettered in silver. Several early page gathering slightly protrude beyond front board by a few millimeters in slight but apparent binding error, Else Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial shelf wear.

London: Hurst & Blackett, 1867. First THUS. Hardcover. Signed by George MacDonald on half title, inscribed to George Bogue. First one-volume edition. (With correct printer info of J. Childs and Son. Shaberman 20.) 440, (4)pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine stamping, front blindstamped. Good+ with a cocked spine, cloth worn and a bit frayed along edges, exposed tips, some foxing and thumbing, hinges very tender. Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll called this novel "very enjoyable, and the character of Annie Anderson is one of the most delightful I have ever met with in fiction." A scarce signed work by the Scottish Victorian novelist who helped create the genre of fantasy.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1962. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. Signed limited edition; number 167 of a limited 199 copies signed by Lawrence Durrell. Bound in publisher's marbled paper-covered boards over blue cloth spine lettered in gilt; lacking acetate wrapper and slipcase. Near Fine with light rubbing to binding, minor sunning to spine. Evidence of bookplate removal to first blank sheet. Three-quarter-inch exposure to front inner hinge at bottom. Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, containing the novels Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea; Signed by the author.