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

London: John Stockdale, 1793. First Thus. First Stockdale edition, first issue with the long "s" throughout, and list of subscribers. xi [1], 225; [2], vii, 187, [1] pp. Two engraved title-pages with vignette, "Gay Monument" frontispiece and 68 illustrations (including 12 etchings by William Blake). Later full calf polished with gilt borders, gilt decorated spines; marbled endpapers and edges. Very Good with joints expertly repaired and strengthened, some general light wear and scuffing to calf, offsetting to endpaper edges, illustrated bookplates of author and bibliophile Louise Ward Watkins, and Frances and Jourdan Hoyt, scattered light foxing to interiors. The first edition of Gay's classic Fables to have etchings by William Blake, who is listed as one of the subscribers at the rear.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947. First Edition. Very Good/About Very Good. First edition. 224 pp. Original cloth. Very Good with foxing to blue cloth, internally bright and clean, in an About Very Good unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket with some edge chips and small tears, dampstain visible on verso. Winner of the third Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1948.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. Original dark green cloth, title on spine blocked in black with gilt lettering. Second printing of the first edition. David Riesman's copy of his own book with his numerous marginal corrections in pencil, presumably for a possible Modern Library reprinting of the book mentioned in one of the included letters. Almost all the notes are minor grammatical and editorial changes. Very Good in in a Good dust jacket with some chips, sunned spine panel, sticker scar to back panel. Includes a small archive of correspondence from Riesman, co-author Nathan Glazer, and others. Most letters are folded in thirds with some toning and light edge wear. 1. Two page ALS from Nathan Glazer to David Riesman dated June 26, 1956. Glazer discusses the re-editing of Faces in the Crowd, cutting pages 567-678 wherein "Three Graduate Students" are discussed. "But almost everywhere else we run into problems," he continues, pointing out the difficulties in cutting more pages. 2. Two page… Read More

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Trade Hardcover Issue. Near Fine/Near Fine. First trade edition, first printing, hardcover issue. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards over black cloth spine with paper title label. About Fine with several page corners incorrectly cut in binder's error, in a Near Fine publisher's unpritned acetate jacket, lightly rubbed and with several small creases near one spine end.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. Deluxe Signed Limited Edition. About Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Signed limited edition; copy #32 of 75 deluxe copies with an original painting by Bukowski bound in at the front; additionally signed by Bukowski on the limitation page at rear. Hand-bound by Earle Gray in publisher's original paper-covered boards over red spine cloth with paper title label. Very slight lean to spine, and a small corner of the spine title label is lifting, else Fine. In publisher's original unprinted acetate jacket, lightly shelf-worn. A beautiful copy.

Boston: Fag Rag, 1984. 23 issues. Nos. 5, 6, 7/8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16/17, 18, 19, 20, 21/22, 23/24, 25, 26 (with Fall 1979 Boston Gay Review laid inside), 27/28 (2 copies), 29, 40, 41 + Fag Rag/ Gay Sunshine "Stonewall 5th Anniversary" Issue. Near Fine overall; light reading wear, generally bright. A Boston-based gay newspaper.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First Edition. Author's Presentation Binding. Near Fine. First edition, one of 50 copies bound in full red cloth stamped in gilt specially for Ray Bradbury's personal use (Currey's B binding). Signed by Bradbury on the front free endpaper and inscribed "To John one of 50 specially bound copies of F451 for Presentation! [signed] Ray Bradbury 3/29/98." Near Fine, lacking the dust jacket. Subtle abrasion to inscribed page. A very bright and clean copy. A very uncommon format of one of Bradbury's best-known works, even scarcer than the asbestos binding, of which 200 copies were issued.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First edition. Softcover. First edition, first printing; paperback issue, published prior to the hardcover. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the title page in black sharpie, dated Oct. 21, 1980. [iv],199, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with light wear along edge, remainder stamp to bottom edge, a little over-opened at title page. The classic American dystopian novel. Also includes stories "And the Rock Cried Out" and "The Playground.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First Edition. Asbestos Binding. Fine. First edition, #106 of 200 copies with limited issue asbestos binding, hand-numbered and signed by author on colophon. [viii], 199, (3) pp. Johns-Manville Quinterra asbestos binding, lettered in red. Fine, with light wear to crown heaviest to the rear, light bumping to bottom corners, trivial soiling. Two tiny spots to the textblock edge. Issued without a dust jacket. The classic dystopian, anti-censorship novel, plus two short stories "The Playground" and "The Rock Cried Out." A sought-after signed limited edition extremely uncommon in such stellar condition.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first hardcover trade issue. Advance review copy with publisher's slip and prospectus/newsletter laid in. Bound in publisher's red cloth with titles stamped in yellow on upper board and spine. Notation inked to front free endpaper and pages toned, Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight fading to the red ink on the spine and a small nick at the crown.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first hardcover trade issue. Bound in publisher's red cloth with titles stamped in yellow on upper board and spine. Near Fine with light rubbing to corners and spine ends, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with only slight fading to the spine (much less than normally encountered with this title), light wear at the crown, light rubbing and light edge wear. A lovely copy of a book difficult to locate in such nice condition.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First Edition. Asbestos Binding. First edition, limited issue asbestos binding, signed by Ray Bradbury and hand-numbered by him on colophon, either #200 or #210 [? middle digit is unclear] of a stated 200 copies thus, possible overrun. [vi], 199, (3) pp. Bound in publisher's Johns-Manville Quinterra asbestos binding, lettered in red. Very Good with slightly rubbed and foxed binding, dulling to spine letters, small crack in front gutter, small stain to front board. Internally clean and fairly bright. No jacket, as issued. The classic dystopian, anti-censorship novel, plus two short stories "The Playground" and "The Rock Cried Out." A sought-after signed limited edition with a very fitting novelty binding that dares prospective censors, "Just try burning this one!

New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First Edition. Asbestos Binding. Fine/Fine. First edition in perhaps the nicest example of this dust jacket extant in the world today; a rarity that practically glows. Number 25 of 200 copies with limited issue asbestos binding, hand numbered and signed by Ray Bradbury on the colophon. Approximately 50 copies of which were sold in trade dust jackets though not called for, and this is one of those copies. [viii], 199, (3) pp. Johns-Manville Quinterra asbestos binding, lettered in red. Fine, with light ambient toning to the boards, light offsetting to the front free endpaper and contents lightly tanned. In a Fine dust jacket, with absolutely no fading (we have never seen one without fading); two micro-tears to the edge, a minuscule crease to the top corner of the rear panel and trivial rubbing at the folds. The classic dystopian, anti-censorship novel, plus two short stories "The Playground" and "The Rock Cried Out." A sought-after signed limited edition with the dust… Read More

Princeton, NJ: D. Van Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1959. First edition. First edition, first printing. xii, 458 pp. Bound in publisher's pale orange cloth with brown cloth backstrip, lettered in brown and white. Very Good+ with some foxing to cloth along fore edge,slight concavity to spine, in Very Good dust jacket, slightly bumped corners, head and tail worn, scuff to spine panel, small closed tear to front panel, unclipped ($7.50). Scarce.The correct first printing of financial journalist and author Henry Hazlitt's thorough refutation of Keynes's General Theory. The libertarian institution Mises Institute writes of the book, "Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the century. [...] In economic science, Keynes changed everything. [...] But Hazlitt, the nation's economics teacher, would have none of it. And… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Signed by A.B. Guthrie on the dedication page. [x], 262 pp. Publisher's boards with green cloth backstrip lettered in black. Fine in dust jacket with small nick to bottom of front panel, else Fine and unclipped. A sequel to the author's novels The Big Sky and The Way West .

The Macmillan Company, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good, lacking dust jacket. Shelf lean. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities, darkened at spine and edges. Previous owner rubber stamp twice at prelims. Several reading creases at page corners. A nice copy.

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.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 375 p. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Spine a bit cocked, book musty, scuffed fore edge. jacket chipped along top edge, worn at tips. Price intact ($8.95). A nice copy of a prison autobiography by the On the Yard author.

Madrid: Imprenta de Antonio Gonçalez de Reyes, a costa de Francisco Laso, 1714. [32], 318, [2] pp. Period limp vellum with leather ties, title written on spine in ink. In Spanish. Very Good overall, covers worn, wrinkled, top corner of front cover chipped, two of the four leather ties broken; some internal wear and aging, pp. 21-28 with damage and holes to the text, quite substantial to 21-24, marginal hole in pp.19-20; final leaf has margin reinforced and a few pencil marks. Rare early edition of these posthumously published poems of Sor Juana, the "Mexican Phoenix," a philosopher, poet, book collector, and nun who contributed to the Spanish Golden Age. The illegitimate daughter of a Spanish captain, Sister Juana grew up in her maternal grandfather's hacienda among his considerable library. Eschewing marriage, she entered a Hieronymite convent in 1669. Skilled in both Latin and Nahuatl as well as theology and logic, her radical thinking on church hierarchy and women's roles caused the Catholic… Read More

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc, 1971. First edition. First edition, first printing. [ii], 412 pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth with white spine lettering. Fine, pages toned with age, in a very bright, unclipped ($6.95), and unfaded dust jacket with a few laminate scratches that are only visible in raking light, else Fine. A lovely copy of a true crime book about a very ugly crime, the murder of Sharon Tate and four others in Los Angeles on the night of August 8th 1969. Sanders, a musician and poet, raised a lot of questions about Manson, some of which related to an obscure occult group called The Process Church.