Search Results: Titles starting with A from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Kirksville, MO: Published by the Author for SAPS. Near Fine. [ca. late 1940s, early 1950s?]. Issue #1, the Ray Nelson Issue. A science fiction fanzine published for SAPS mailing number 20. Side-stapled sheets. Near Fine with some expected toning and light general wear. Scarce. AJ7316 "is the liscense number of our almost paid for Oldsmobile which has a complete printing plant in the trunk and an interior which is usually filled with all manner of Fannish paraphanilia [sic].

Los Angeles: Published for the Author for FAPA, 1947. Near Fine. Volume V, Number 1, published Fall, 1947 for Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA). Side-stapled sheets. Near Fine with toning and light wear, small ink check-mark to top corner of front cover.

Los Angeles: Published for the Author for FAPA, 1948. Near Fine. Volume V, Number 2, published Spring, 1948 for Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA). Four sheets stapled at the top corner. Near Fine with general toning and wear, small ink check mark to top margin of first sheet.

Los Angeles: Published for the Author for FAPA, 1946. Near Fine. Volume IV, Number 2, published Spring, 1946 for Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA). 12pp. Stapled sheets. Near Fine with toning light general wear, faint indentations to paper at left margins.

Los Angeles: Published for the Author for FAPA, 1949. Near Fine. Issue #19 overall, published for Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA) in Spring 1949. Side-stapled sheets. Near Fine with toning light general wear.

Los Angeles: Published for the Author for FAPA, 1946. Near Fine. Volume IV, Number 4; Summer, 1947, published for Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA). Side-stapled sheets. Near Fine with toning light general wear.

Los Angeles: E. Everett Evans, 1951. 12 issues of the FAPA fanzine: Vol. II #2 (Spring 1944); Vol. III, #2 (Spring 1946), & #4 (Fall 1945); Vol. IV #2, (Spring 1946), #3 (Fall 1946), & #4 (Summer 1947); Vol. V #1 (Fall 1947), & #2 (Spring 1948);issue #19 overall (Spring 1949) & #20 (Summer 1949); #21 (Feb. 1950) issue; #22 final (May 1951). Stapled wraps. Very Good+ overall, light wear.

Los Angeles: Published for the Author for FAPA, 1950. Near Fine. Issue #21, published for Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA) in February 1950 according to Pavlat-Evans bibliography. Side-stapled sheets. Near Fine with toning light general wear.

Los Angeles: Published for the Author for FAPA, 1949. Near Fine. Issue #20 overall, summer 1949. Published for Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA). Side-stapled sheets with yellow covera. Near Fine with light toning, faint creases and light general wear.

Portland, OR: [War Manpower Commission], 1940. 22.5" x 48" poster lettered in red and blue. Near Mint. Bright with very little wear, stored rolled-up by an Americana collector. Tiny sticker on verso has been removed with a little loss. A WWII propaganda poster notifying pulp and paper mill workers in the Pacific Northwest that their industry is considered an Essential War Industry. Red, white and blue design.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 247 p. Brown cloth with black lettering. Frontispiece and endpapers illustrated by Tony Sarg. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Spine panel toned, wear at head and tail of jacket. Twainesque humorist Irvin Cobb's account of his move from the city to a farm in Westchester County, New York.

Los Angeles: Published for the Author. First Edition. Very Good. Undated [ca. 1940s]. One sheet printed on both sides. A 2-page, one-shot fanzine published by Al Ashley in the 1940s about Charles Burbee. Very Good with toning and several short edge-tears.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. First American edition. First American edition. first printing. 94pp. Bound in publisher's green pebbled cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with rubbing to gilt, spine ends worn, small spot of whiteout and bookstore label on rear paste down. Lacking dust jacket. Uncommon. Three of the famous physicist's editorials and lectures on the subject of Zionism, with an introduction by the translator and selected bibliography.

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: Random House, 1936. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth red bands to boards and spine, spine and upper board lettered in gilt; top edge stained red. Near Fine with slight wear to cloth, rear inner hinge slightly exposed. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with lightly chipped crown, toned spine and light edge wear. A superb copy of William Faulkner's historical novel of the American South before, during and after the American Civil War.

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.

Printed at the Joint Expence of the Glasgow and Edinburgh Societies instituted for the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Edinburgh, 1791. First Edinburgh Edition. Very Good. Rare first Edinburgh edition, published same year as the London edition, of eye-witness testimony on the horrors of the British slave trade, containing a very early engraving of the famous large folding plate of slaves packed into the hold of the slave-ship Brookes. The famous engraving is one of the most powerful and influential images in the history of social justice and the fight to abolish slavery. It served as a gruesome test of the Britain's "humane" Slave Trade Act of 1788, also known as Dolben's Act, which limited the number of enslaved people that British slave ships could transport, based on the ships' tons burthen. Very Good. Small 8vo, bound in somewhat recent quarter calf and marbled boards, with light fading to the spine. Folding frontispiece map of the west coast of Africa in with 2 x 0.5" loss along one edge neatly… Read More

New York: Tiber Press, 1960. First Edition. Fine. Complete in four folio volumes, each measuring 17½" x14¼". Each volume with three full-page color silkscreen prints and additional prints at title page and upper cover, original cloth-backed illustrated boards. First Edition. No. 47 of 200 copies. Each volume signed by the poet and artist on the limitation page. A Fine set, bright and sharp, in publisher's thick acetate jackets, housed in cloth slipcase with light shelf wear. A visionary collaboration between the leading lights of the New York School of poetry and four second generation abstract expressionist artists, produced at the height of their creative collective powers. A heady encapsulation of the New York literary and visual avant garde at the dawning of the '60s.

Ft. Eustis, VA: Ordnance Department, Army Service Forces, 1946. Complete in three volumes, all "Reproduced by Technical Information Branch, BUAER, Navy Department," marked "Restricted.". [1], 572; [1], 573-1147; [2], 1149-1762 pp. printed on rectos only, in March 1946. Along with related documents Index to Volume I, II, II, [1], 98 pp; and Glossary of English Guided Missile Terms, unconventionally paginated, approx 100 pages. All five of these volumes are mimeographed typescript on rectos only. 10½" x 8", printed boards, tied through punch holes in spines with shoestring. Very Good with light foxing and soiling.A sixth document is included from a rocketry project involving German scientists: Report No. 55289 "Project Hermes": Investigation of Unsymmetrical Forces Due to Jet-entrained Air Produced During Launching of the V-2. Aeronautics and Ordnance. General Electric. Prepared by A.B. Gregg Jr. [2], 20 leaves. Mimeographed typescript + figures & graphs, 3 full page halftone photographs. Dampstaining… Read More

New York: James F. Carr & Robert S. Wilson, 1964. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Wieners on copyright page and inscribed, "To my Friends only a generation ago." 72 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in rare original unprinted jacket, torn and chipped, Fair. The poet's second book.