Recent Arrivals from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Charles Jackson on the front free endpaper. [viii], 244 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Offsetting to front free endpaper, else Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket, slightly sunned foot, light wear, small scrape to rear panel, price intact ($2.50). An… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1983. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Walter Tevis on the half-title. 243, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's original black paper-covered boards over black cloth spine decorated in white. Very Good with foxing to edges and endpapers, very slight impression to prelims, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. The basis for the Netflix… Read more about this item

Mannheim: J. Bensheimer, 1891. First edition. First edition. [ii], xvi, 280 pp. with 27 tissue-guarded plates. Bound in contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Text in German. Boards chipped along edges, bumped corners and a few spots of wear to leather, contents Near Fine and bright with very little foxing. Uncommon in such nice… Read more about this item

London, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. First British edition. First British edition, first printing. Signed by James Clavell on the half title, inscribed to New Zealand-based novelist Diana Moorhead in green sharpie, "This is for Diana Moorhead,- the pretty lady - also an author, who knows...... James C Auckland Oct 23 - 1975" with Japanese characters. Very… Read more about this item

Boston: Atlantic- Little, Brown & Company, 1983. Signed by Mary Oliver on the half title. viii, 88 pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps. Second printing. Very Good+ with very slightcrease to front wrap, light wear. A signed copy of the American poet's Pulitzer-winning collection.

London: Printed for the Author and Sold by J. Murray, J. Debrett, and J. Kerby, 1794. First edition. First edition. Complete in two quarto volumes. [iii]-xv, [i], 397; [iii]-xv, [i], 449, [1], [14] pp. with all 15 maps and eleven plans present. Bound in contemporary marbled boards with recent quarter leather, spines lettered in gilt. Lacking half titles. Very… Read more about this item

London: The Macmillan Company, 1899. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. viii, 400, (2, ads) pp. Publisher's dark green ribbed cloth ruled in blind, with titles in gilt on spine, top edge gilt. Very Good, with light edge wear. Cloth with slight fading to spine cloth, light soiling and cup ring to upper board. Armorial bookplate… Read more about this item

San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1956. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first issue with Lucien Carr listed on the dedication page and a period after Harlem on the rear cover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg on the title page and inscribed "Allen Ginsberg - Dec. 15, 1975, G.B.M. - for Kirby Congdon - Ah." with doodles of… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1963. First Edition. Very Good+/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Rechy on the front free endpaper in ink, "Best wishes John Rechy." 410pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in silver, black topstain. Very Good+ with lean to binding, slightly bumped corners. Former owner's address sticker remnants at front pastedown.… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First edition. First edition. xii, 332 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with spine lean, foxing to top and fore edges, slight waviness to pages, in a Very Good+ dust jacket, toned with age and lightly worn, unclipped (21s net). A posthumously-published collection of stories for Chandler's compatriots in the… Read more about this item

Montreal: Ingluvin Publications, 1971. Signed by singer-songwriter, poet, and author Leonard Cohen in the bottom margin of the title page, dated 2002. He contributes the story "Barbers and Lovers" to this Canadian literary magazine. It would only be published in book form in 2022 in the posthumous book A Ballet of Lepers, retitled "The Shaving Ritual." 88 pp. Bound… Read more about this item

New York: Targ Editions, 1981. Signed Limited Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. One of a limited 250 copies signed by Italo Calvino. Contains ten pieces, all which feature Mr. Palomar, seven of which would later appear in the 1983 complete Italian and the 1985 English editions; the remaining three have not been reprinted since. [iv], 25, [3] pp.… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printings. Two volumes bound in publisher's pale blue cloth stamped in black, lacking the dust jackets. Near Fine with typical sunning to spine and edges, small stain at bottom edge front board of volume I. Contents lightly toned with minor offsetting from frontispieces. A very… Read more about this item

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1914. Presentation copy signed by Helen S. Woodruff and seven other noteworthy female authors who were hostesses at a luncheon given on February 1, 1918: mystery writer Mary Robert Rinehart, famous children's authors Frances Hodgson Burnett and Kate Douglas Wiggin, Maria Thompson Daviess, playwright Eleanor Gates, Alice Hegan Rice, and one other female… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1941. First edition. First edition. Signed by Margery Allingham in ink on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner and dated 1956. 276 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with silver lettering. Very Good, spine lean,a little dust-soil and two small stains to back board, lacking dust jacket. An uncommon signed nonfiction book from… Read more about this item

New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples, 1919. Fine. First separate edition. [4]pp. Top-folded leaflet. Printed in brown on pale cream stock. Near Fine with a few soft vertical creases. A separate two-column, closely set reprinting of a lengthy excerpt from Johnson's article, based on its appearance in The Crisis, September 1919. The verso of… Read more about this item

London: Martin Secker, 1929. First English Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition in English, first printing. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with fading to cloth at foot, heavy foxing to textblock edge, preliminary and terminal sheets and lighter so to contents throughout; contents tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First Edition. First edition, first printing of T. S. Eliot's charming collection of poems about feline psychology and sociology. Bound in publisher's original pale yellow cloth printed in red. Very Good with light soiling and irregular toning to cloth; top edge dust soiled. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown with heavy foxing to endsheets.… Read more about this item

New York: The Century Company, 1918. First Edition. Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Good with moderate soiling, staining and light wear to cloth; top edge dust soiled with foxing to all edges. Contents lightly toned. Intended to be a complete guide to women… Read more about this item

[London]: Mathews, Miller, Dunbar, 1974. First UK edition, cloth issue. First UK edition, cloth issue. (Does not feature the names of the various graffiti artists or publication info; uncertain priority relative to the more common softcover British edition.) Bound in publisher's navy boards. Fine in original dust jacket with sunned spine panel and light shelf wear, else Fine. Rare.… Read more about this item