Search Results: Authors starting with F from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

London: Studio Vista, 1970. First Edition. Near Fine/Fine. First edition, cloth issue. 112 pp. Publisher's cloth lettered in silver. Slightly musty smell, else Fine in Fine dust jacket. Uncommon. Published only in the UK. Guitarist John Fahey's biography of another great and also often-overlooked guitarist with a singular style, Mississippi bluesman Charley Patton. Patton's songs, recorded in a spate of sessions in two short years (1929-1930) and then in two sessions in 1934, are legendary amongst blues aficionados for shedding light on the barely-recorded or documented early 20th century Delta Blues primordial murk. The recordings still possess that uncanny quality that makes hairs stand at attention on the back of one's neck and arms. His influence on a younger generation of musicians who popularized the genre such as Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson, and Howlin' Wolf was profound.

New York: Grove Press, 1967. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with former owner names written to front pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing.

London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. First British edition. 255 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine, top edge foxed, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, rubbed and a little worn along edges, slight creasing to top of front panel,unclipped (36 s net). A foundational work of post-colonial theory by the late West Indian-born psychiatrist and public intellectual.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed limited issue; one of 26 deluxe lettered copies signed by John Fante and handbound by Earle Gray. Near Fine with faint foxing to top edge of textblock, in a Very Good publisher's clear acetate wrap, lightly roiled, rubbed, with a few small creases and tiny nicks. A very nice copy of a memoir by the Italian-American author of Ask the Dust.

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1939. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition. 235 pp. Bound in publisher's oatmeal cloth stamped in brown. Very Good+, lacking dust jacket. A little thumb-soiling to contents, tiny stains to fore edge, corners slightly bumped, small sticker shadow to front free endpaper. A nice copy. A great novel of Los Angeles, hailed by Charles Bukowski as a major influence.

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1939. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's oatmeal cloth stamped in brown; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Light lean to binding. Cloth lightly soiled and spine-toned. Thin strip of worming to gutter of front pastedown. A great novel about Los Angeles, hailed by Charles Bukowski as a major influence.

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1939. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's oatmeal cloth stamped in brown; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with lean to spine, former owner name in color pencil and erased inscription to front free end paper, and small nicks to several pages at top edge. A great novel about Los Angeles, hailed by Charles Bukowski as a major influence.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Fante on the front free endpaper and inscribed "For Dick Quine, Whom I love, respect, admire, applaud and whistle at - with unspeakable enthusiasm. / John Fante / Aug 8, 1956 / Malibu." Quine was an American actor-turned-director. Bound in publisher's original pale green cloth, Very Good with toning to spine and foxing to cloth. Pages toned, endsheets foxed and offset from binder's glue. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with ligth edge wear, toning and light stains to spine.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 178 p. Greenish powder-blue cloth with blue lettering. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Two strips of wear on fep from removed bookplate. Jacket bright and unclipped with light toning to spine panel but hardly any sunning, chipping at foot, wear and tiny closed tear at head, light rubbing. Fante's fourth book in a lovely jacket.

New York: The Viking Press, 1940. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Fante on a tipped in sheet. Publisher's coarse blue cloth binding decorated in red; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light lean to binding, slight toning to spine, dust-soiling, spotting to plum topstain, bookseller ticket to rear paste down and pages toned. A collection of short stories by the Italian-American L.A. author, who was hailed by Charles Bukowski as a major influence.

New York: The Viking Press, 1940. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Publisher's coarse blue cloth binding decorated in red. Near Fine, with light toning to spine cloth and previous owner name inked to front free end paper. In a Near Fine dust jacket with publisher's original price intact, light edge wear, light toning to rear panel and light fading to the spine panel. A very sharp copy in a lovely dust jacket, scarcely found in such nice shape. A collection of short stories by the Italian-American L.A. author, who was hailed by Charles Bukowski as a major influence.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. First Thus. Near Fine. First thus. (One of 400 unnumbered trade copies.) [x], 178, [3] pp. Paper covered boards with black cloth backstrip. Near Fine in original clear acetate wraps.

New York: Hawthorn Books, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 127 p. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. Clean, bright pages and sturdy binding. Top corners lightly bumped. Beverly Hills ad agency label on front end paper, partially removed. Mylar-protected jacket has light edge wear, rubbing, nick near the head. Price intact ($4.50). A handsome copy.

London: Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1859. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. viii, 496, [3, engraved plates] pp. Original dark green pebbled cloth, gilt spine lettering, yellow endpapers. A Near Fine copy with bumped corners, cloth a little worn at extremities with small scratches, bookseller's ticket on paste down, hinges a bit free but holding, plates at rear slightly foxed. Many pages unopened. An attractive copy of the papers of the famous British scientist.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1861. First American edition. First American edition. viii, 223 pp. Bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth with gilt spine lettering. A Good copy, boards have a few small stains, wear and chipping to cloth along edges, lettering mostly rubbed off, dampstain to endpapers, small bookplate ghost to paste down. A classic illustrated series of Christmas lectures on the composition of flames for children and lay folks.

New York: Arbor House, 1985. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by James Farmer on half title. [xii], 370 pp. Bound in publisher's boards with crimson cloth backstrip, silver spine lettered. Fine in Fine dust jacket with a little rubbing. A signed copy of the Civil Rights activist's memoir; he began the practice of Freedom Rides and co-founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Philip Jose Farmer with a wonderful inscription, "For Walt, one of the fabulous people whom I hope to meet on the banks of The River and with whom I'll embark on the fabulous Riverboat on its 20,000,000 mile journey into forever, [signed] Philip Jose Farmer", Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in blind on upper board and lettered in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with light lean to binding, light soiling to cloth and wear at corners, pages mildly tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear at extremities, scratched indent across pine near center, tanning and light soiling to blindside. The first title in Farmer's Riverworld series and winner of the 1972 Hugo Award.

London: Severn House Publishers, 1985. First British hardcover edition. Fine/Fine. First hardcover British edition. (First published in the US as a paperback original titled The Mad Goblin, then as a British paperback with this title by Sphere in 1983.) Signed by Philip Jose Farmer on title page. [vi], 152 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in basically Fine unclipped dust jacket, back panel a little rubbed.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1952. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. vi, 181 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth with navy spine lettering. Near Fine with light foxing to edges, in a bright dust jacket designed by Lew Keller, a little dust-soiled with a hint of wear at the head, else Fine. The jacket's vivid colors are completely unfaded. A splendid copy of a scarce book. At the height of Red Scare, Howard Fast, an outspoken Communist best-known as the author of Spartacus, penned this suspense novel under the pen name Walter Ericson, afraid that it would be censored under his real name; his fears were not without justification as he had been imprisoned in 1947 for contempt of Congress. In his memoir Being Red Fast calls it "a sort of antifascist mystery." The book was later retitled The Darkness Within. In 1965 it was made into the neo noir Mirage, directed by Edward Dymytryk.

New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. First edition, first printing with repeated line on p. 327, second state binding, jacket lacks 5/57 but is priced at $3.95. Signed by William Faulkner on the title page, inscribed to fellow Southern writer Manly Wade Wellman, "To W M Wellman from Bill Faulkner, Richmond 15 December 1958." A very interesting association as Faulkner notoriously made a stink when he was snubbed for a mystery story award in 1946, losing out to Wellman, a prolific genre writer. Rumor has it that Faulkner was drunk and looking to pick a fight with Wellman (a former college football player) until he realized his size. But the feud appears to have been short-lived; Wellman was an admirer of Faulkner's style and wrote critically on it. Upon Faulkner's death in 1962, though, Wellman was offered his position as writer-in-residence at University of Virginia but turned it down. [viii], 371 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with black lettering an green ruling. Near Fine with small… Read More