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

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1975. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and inscribed to a previous owner in 2003. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with upper board lettered in blind and titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Near Fine wit ha faint scratch to the front cover and several pages lightly bent. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a corresponding scratch to the front panel, light sticker (?) reside to the top of the rear panel, and light edge wear.

Los Angeles: [No Publisher], 1976. First Edition. First and only issue of an underground paper edited by Eve's Hollywood author Eve Babitz and featuring work by a diverse group of Californians in her orbit at the time including actors Steve Martin, Carrie Fisher, and Ronee Blakley, as well as songs by The Eagles ("Hollywood Waltz") and infamously Manson-adjacent producer Terry Melcher. Loose sheets, varicolored and slightly stiff, as well as illustrations by Vanhamersveld on white paper, housed in an illustrated envelope, hand-numbered. Copy #29 of an unknown limitation, undoubtedly scarce. From the collection of writer Michael Elias, who is featured in one of the photos herein. A series of four photos by Elisa Leonelli entitled "Insect Fear" is included in a separate manila envelope. Fold-out poster also included. Includes photos (one of Ed Ruscha), poems, and short stories. Contents complete. Near Fine. Main envelope edge-worn, its gummed flap attached to verso of one illustration. Similarly one… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Eve Babitz on the front free endpaper, with her lipstick kisses and a brief inscription to the former owner. [viii], 178, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's tan boards with cream colored half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with small spot of wear at foot, another to back panel. The L.A. author's follow-up to her debut, Eve's Hollywood. Uncommon signed, let alone kissed.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in magenta and silver. Very Good with light soiling to cloth, light worming to textblock edge. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, trimmed a little too tall for the book with some associated edge wear, and light rubbing. A lovely copy of Babitz's confessional L.A. novel, which was recently re-issued by the New York Review of Books.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in magenta and silver. Near Fine with light wear to cloth at top of front and rear covers in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with faint fading to the pink lettering on the spine and light shelf wear. A lovely copy of Babitz's confessional, semi-autobiographical L.A. novel, which was recently re-issued by the New York Review of Books.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Eve Babitz on the half-title, inscribed to former owner, "Dear Gregg, Here's to Hollywood and Pickwick, Love, [signed] Eve Babitz." xxii, 296, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in magenta and silver. Near Fine with foxing to edges, in an age-toned, lightly worn dust jacket, price-clipped, spine panel a little sunned. A signed copy of the late writer's confessional, semi-autobiographical L.A. novel.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed with a warm contemporary inscription by Richard Bach one year after publication. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with covers decorated in blind and spine lettered in white. Near Fine with faint toning to top and bottom edges, pages lightly toned and with a faint storage odor. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and light edge wear; faint but large staining to blindside.

London: New English Library, 1983. First British Edition. Near Fine. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's yellow printed wrappers. Near Fine with light curl to book, light shelf wear, old price sticker to front cover and pages toned as usual. A scarce title written by Stephen King under pseudonym, out-of-print.

London: New English Library, 1983. First British Edition. Near Fine. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's yellow printed wrappers. Near Fine with slight wear to covers and toning to pages. A scarce title written by Stephen King under pseudonym, out-of-print.

New York: Signet, 1979. First edition. First edition. [x], 245, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. About Very Good with creased spine, light shelf wear, small stamp along top edge, staining to back wrap.The second book published under the Richard Bachman pen name, actually begun by Stephen King 13 years before publication in 1966 when he was a college freshman.

Elizabethtown, PA and various locations: [No Publisher], 1980. A collection of 16 typed transcriptions and interviews presented to the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship Retreats in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The organization that sponsored these retreats, Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, was an interfaith research group on occult and paranormal phenomena established by psychic Arthur Ford in 1956. Lecturers include an interesting cross section of figures in New Age thought, parapsychology, and, curiously, politics including Cleve Backster (a CIA interrogator who became fascinated by paranormal phenomena and began experimenting on plants and their intelligence and reaction to psychic phenomena) and J.B. Rhine, a botanist who became a prominent parapsychologist. Ruth Carter Stapleton was the youngest sister of President Jimmy Carter who was active in Christian healing ministries. Walter Houston Clark (1902-1994) was a professor of the psychology of religion at Andover Newton Theological School and an… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. / The Crime Club, 1941. First Edition. Very Good+/Near Fine. First edition. [viii], 274 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with navy spine lettering. Very Good+ with foxing to edges, offsetting and lean to spine, slight curve to back board, bookplate on paste down. In a Near Fine example of the rare dust jacket with light shelf wear, a few small puckers along gutter, pencil checkmark to spine panel, unclipped and unfaded. A mystery set in a funeral home, with a female assistant sleuth helping out her detective father by going undercover as an older lady. Barnett Mystery Women p. 25.

Akron: The Emily H. Davis Art Galley of The University of Akron, 1976. First Edition. Spiral-bound. Near Fine. First edition. Publisher's oblong spiral-bound brown stiff card wraps with titles printed in black. Near Fine with light corner wear. One of conceptual artist Baldessari's earliest works, with each page depicting three squares; on the left and right are two men in profile and facing each other, and between them is a common household item, or "murder weapon." These so-called murder weapons include items, often benign sometimes not, such as a banana peel, a brush, a drill, and matches, etc.

New York: The Dial Press, 1974. First Edition. First edition. [viii], 197 pp. Bound in publisher's reddish orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn. An attractive copy of the novel by African American expatriate author James Baldwin that inspired the 2018 film by the same name.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Advance Reading Copy. Advance reading copy, issued to reviewers before publication of the first edition, with alternate artwork not used in the first edition. [x], 303, [1] pp. Perfectbound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Very Good, dampstain to front wrap; spine sunned, creased, and rubbed along edges. Slight curling to front wrap, wear at corners. Small marginal tidemark to upper margins of prelims. A rare prepublication copy of the celebrated African American author's first book.

Cambridge, MA: Credo, 1962. Original pressing. Credo 1. Good album with some scratches in a Good sleeve,creased corner, stain on front cover.An uncommon album of the African American author James Baldwin being interviewed by sociologist Studs Terkel, recorded at WFMT in Chicago. Baldwin's thoughts on race have been referenced widely with the advent of the Black Lives Matter movement.

New York: The Dial Press, 1963. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed by James Baldwin on the half-title page, the author has also written his New York City address on the facing page. Bound in publisher's original cream cloth stamped in red. Near Fine with light wear to corners, a few small spots to the topstain and tanning to the pages, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with wear to the extremities and creases to the rear flap, fading to the red print on the spine. The African-American novelist's powerful thoughts on race in the U.S. in two essays, an instant bestseller. Signed first printings are scarce.

New York: Dial Press, 1964. First edition. First edition. xviii, 121, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with blue lettering. Former owner's name on front free endpaper, else Fine in Very Good dust jacket with rubbing and edge wear, unclipped ($3.95).

London: Michael Joseph, 1957. First British edition. Hardcover. First British edition, first printing. 221 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with yellow and white stamping on the spine. Near Fine with offsetting to endpapers, in a Very Good+ dust jacket, red rose on spine panel sunned, light wear. Baldwin's second novel, which dealt with gay issues long before they were considered acceptable fodder for literary fiction by mainstream America.

New York: The Dial Press, 1962. First edition. First edition, first printing. [viii], 436 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with white lettering. Slight bowing to front board, else Fine in a very Near Fine dust jacket, bright and clean with very light shelf wear, unclipped ($5.95). A truly excellent copy of an important, ahead-of-its-time novel dealing with homosexuality, bisexuality, extramarital affairs, and interracial love. Rare thus.