Art from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1971. First edition. First edition, first printing. Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with red spine lettering. Very Good, foxed cloth and endpapers, in a Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket, lightly shelf worn, foxing to verso. The rare first separate published book by experimental musician, artist, and performance artist Laurie Anderson,… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1979. First edition. First edition, first printing, trade issue. Signed by Andy Warhol on the half title in sharpie. 143pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth-backed gold boards, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with remainder mark to bottom edge, slight bump to bottom corners, in a Very Good dust jacket, a little wrinkled with foxing… Read more about this item

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing of this Harlem Renaissance cornerstone. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. Bookplate of American writer and illustrator Katharine Sturges (1890-1979) and her husband Clayton Knight on front pastedown, parents of Hilary Knight, who is best-know… Read more about this item

New York: William Helburn, Inc, 1920. Very Good. Bound in publisher's half grey buckram wrapped over tan paper boards with black cotton linen ties; 20.5 x 15", portfolios. Complete with 104 loose black and white photographic plates; 11pp of text. Very Good, ex-library; light soiling to covers with minor fraying to corners and ties. Some thumbing to plates… 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

Milan: Poligrafia Italiana, 1909. First edition. 92pp. Bound in publisher's oblong stapled wraps. Text in Italian, French, and English. Very Good+, toned with age, lightly edge worn with a few small tears along bottom edge of rear wrap. Nice shape overall. Rare. An entire quadruple-size issue of the periodical Poesia dedicated to the nascent modernist cross-disciplinary movement Futurism, edited… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Fine/Near Fine. 29th printing. Signed and inscribed by Yoko Ono on the front free endpaper "NYC, '03". Bound in publisher's black hardcover lettered in orange foil. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light scuffing to panels. Yoko Ono's conceptual art book book originally published in 1964.

Munich and New York: Edition Schellmann, 1986. Limited Edition. Near Fine. Limited edition. Signed in pencil by Keith Haring and facsimile signature of Brion Gysin posthumously stamped on the limitation page. Numbered 121 of 200. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt; house in black slipcase. Near Fine with light rubbing to case; light soiling to bottom… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by the then Prince Charles, now King, on the title page dated 1994; slightly smudged. Bound in publisher's dark gray cloth stamped in silver with royal emblem to upper board. Near Fine with Near Fine price-clipped jacket with light wear at extremities.… Read more about this item

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925. First Edition. Very Good/Good. First edition in the rare dust jacket. A preeminent association and presentation copy of this cornerstone of the Harlem Renaissance signed by three of its contributors, Harlem Renaissance heavy-weights and NAACP leadership W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson and inscribed by Walter White on the… Read more about this item

Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 1999. First edition. First edition. Signed by Robert Crumb in pencil on publisher's bookplate on front free endpaper, copy #272 of 400 thus. Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's boards with black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine. The doodles and sketches of America's most famous underground comix artist, the seventh volume in the series.

[np]: [Detroit?], 1967. Single color screenprint, entirely unmarked, measuring 31" x 11.5" Originally purchased from a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania estate that had many posters from the Haight-Ashbury scene of the 1960s and '70s. Presumably made by a graphic artist in connection with the 1967 Ford strike, but entirely without attribution. Very Good, toned with age, somewhat unevenly; staple holes in… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990. First edition. First edition, signed by the artist, Jim Dine, on the limitation. #115 of 150 numbered copies from a total edition of 180. 44 leaves. 42 lithographs by Jim Dine. Folio. 55.7x38 cm (22" x 15"), leaves loose in red cloth portfolio box with companion essay contained in recessed pocket of portfolio's inside… Read more about this item

Paris: Emile Lévy, 1923. First edition. First edition. Complete in two imperial folio volumes, immense illustrated boards with cloth ties containing loose sheets. Copy #49 of 200 total. Text in French. Ex-art museum library copies with tiny call numbers written on spines, card pocket on paste down, tape stains to cloth and tape on inside of boards; despite this… Read more about this item

Paris: Albert Lévy, 1923. First edition. First edition. Complete in two imperial folio volumes, immense illustrated boards with cloth ties containing loose sheets. Copy #52 of 300 total. Text in French. Ex-art museum library copies with tiny call numbers written on spines, card pocket on paste down, stamps on the verso of each color plate; despite this Very Good… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., Publishers, 1889. First edition, deluxe issue. First edition, deluxe issue. Two tremendous folios, three quarter leather with black sides, ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Complete in two volumes. Very Good+ with flaking and rubbing along edges of leather, occasional foxing to plates, crease to front tissue guard of vol. 1.… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1969. First edition. First edition. Signed by Helen Frankenthaler on the page with the artist's portrait, inscribed in the left margin to former owner while visiting Portland State Univeristy, dated May 18, 1972. 72 pp. Bound in publisher's white boards with black spine lettering. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket, with a… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919. First Edition. Near Fine. An unusually nice copy of the first edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's tan boards tamped in dark brown over brown spine cloth. Near Fine with rubbing through boards at corners, slight fading to spine cloth with light wear at ends. Contents tanned and lightly thumbed. A fantastic… Read more about this item

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. Very Good with with rubbing to boards especially at edges, two indentations to rear cover at spine and a light crease the rear board at the top corner. Former owner bookplate… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: The Printmint, 1971. First edition. First edition. [2], 32, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. Near Fine with light creasing and shelf wear. The first and only printing of a surreal, cosmic, sex-themed comic book by Spanish-American underground comix legend and rock poster designer Victor Moscoso, called by Underground Comixjoint his "greatest underground comic work ever,… Read more about this item