Recent Arrivals from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

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: 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

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

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

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. First edition, first state with MCMXXVIII on title page and matching date on copyright page. xii, 388pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in white. Very Good+ with worming to front joint and right edge of board. Light staining to top edge; contents are slightly toned. In… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1902. First English edition. First British edition. Signed by Peter Kropotkin on the front free endpaper, presentation copy inscribed to William Morris Colles in the year of publication. Colles was a British literary agent and the founder and managing director of The Authors' Syndicate, Ltd. xx, 348pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering.… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1920. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Hugh Lofting on the half-title and inscribed, "Sincerely Yours: Hugh Lofting: New York: Nov. 11 '21." [x], 180 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth stamped in blue with pictorial onlay to front cover; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Chromolithographic frontispiece with… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1931. First edition. First edition, first impression. xii, 278pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine, light wear, small stain to first page of text, in a Very Good dust jacket, toned, spine sunned, wear at head and tail, price-clipped. Rare in jacket. The Irish author's debut uncommon collection of… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1926. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. [vi], 310 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth lettered in blue; lacking dust jacket. Near Fine with slight lean to binding; toning and minor scuffing to spine with light crushing to ends. Former owner's contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. One of the Canadian… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1984. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jana Jacobs and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page, "Best wishes to Brian Newman Portland May 2004". Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Very Good with light bowing to boards, minor rubbing to cloth… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1851. First Edition. Very Good. First American edition of Melville's epic novel, in first issue binding and completely unrestored. In original gray cloth with publisher's device stamped in blind. xxiii, 635, [6 ads]. Very Good. Cloth lightly soiled and worn at the extremities, spine toned. Pages heavily foxed as common, owner details to… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Edition, Illustrated Issue. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, hardcover, lettered, signed and illustrated issue. Copy letter "Q" of limited 47 signed copies each with an original painting by Bukowski tipped in, of which 26 were lettered. Additionally signed by Bukowski on the rear limitation page. (Krumhansl 74f.) 283 pp. Bound in yellow… Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 1963. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by David Ogilvy on the front free endpaper, inscribed "Max / from David / with love" [vi], 172, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt and upper board stamped in blind. Near Fine with light wear at corners… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1963. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with light lean to binding, spotting to textblock edge. Light tanning to contents and endsheets lightyl foxed. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light wear, tanning and foxing, vertical… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1924. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black ribbed cloth, ruled and stamped in gilt, lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear to covers, faint fading to spine cloth and pages lightly tanned. A fantastic copy. A dystopian novel which was first published here… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth Bishop on the title page, inscribed to British artist Kit Barker and his wife, Ilse. Their collection of correspondence with Bishop is held at Princeton. Kit Barker, the inscribee, was a British artist. Of Ilse Barker, The Guardian wrote in her obituary, "In the… 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