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

New York: Random House, 1930. Near Fine. Kent, Rockwell. First edition, signed limited issue. A stunning presentation copy, inscribed by Rockwell Kent to William Kittredge, the director of design and typography at The Lakeside Press. Kittredge commissioned Kent to design and illustrate the iconic three-volume aluminum slip-cased 1930 Lakeside Press edition of Moby Dick, which was hailed as a triumph of Machine Age book design. Kittredge's bookplate (rather well designed, of course) on front paste down, and his business card laid in, chipped at one corner. First edition. Number 560 of a limited 900 copies signed by Kent at rear. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with elaborate silver stamping to front cover and spine, in blue paper covered slip case with matching limitation number on title label on spine. Near Fine with light fading to spine and light general wear to slipcase.

Milwaukee, WS: Published by the Author for FAPA, 1948. Very Good. Volume 1, Number 1. Cover title is indeed "Stein Song" yet in small print Bob Stein reassures you the title of the mag is actually Neo. Published for FAPA. Original side-staples sheets. Very Good with toning and wear.

New York: Doubleday, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first state. (Juliar's first state with correct number, 31, on last page of text.) 214 p. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. Toning with age, bumped corners. Jacket worn at head, orange lettering faded on spine, rubbing, price intact ($3.50). A nice copy.

New York: Essential Books, 1945. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in original course grey cloth with navy blue stamping; lacking the dust jacket. Signed by Weegee on the dedication page and inscribed to a former owner in the year of publication. Near Fine with light wear and toning to cloth at extremities, light soiling, toning to pages.

New York: Grove Press, 1959. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by William S. Burroughs and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Very Good with soiling and light wear to binding. Pages toned with light soiling to several early pages. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket with original $6.00 price present and without publisher's zip code on the rear panel, which is edge worn with tears and small chips, fading to spine and a small stain at the foot. A nice copy, signed by the author.

New York: Grove Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Very Good with light mottling to cloth, dulling to spine lettering, bumping to spine ends, and foxing to page block. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket with publisher's price of $6.00, and without publisher's zip code on the rear panel, with a short closed tear at the head, light edge wear, general signs of use, and some light staining visible mostly from the blank verso only. A nice copy.

New York: The Grove Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ first issue dust jacket with publisher's price of $6.00, and without publisher's zip code on the rear panel. Light foxing to cloth on front cover, bumping to top corners, light foxing to edge of page block, small patch of discoloration to top edge of rear board. Gilt stamping on spine is sharp and bright, black top stain is vibrant. Dust jacket shows light rubbing to panels and at extremities. A rather handsome copy.

New York: The Grove Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition, first printing. xvi, 255 pp. Very Good+ with scuffing to front cloth, former owner's stamp on front free endpaper, in Near Fine correct dust jacket with publisher's price of $6.00, and without publisher's zip code on the rear panel; hardly any sunning to red of spine panel, light wear.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. Second state with the original price of 1,500 France stamped over with the new price of NF 18. In Very Good condition, lacking the dust jacket. Clean text. Binding seems repaired with glue, with glue stains at gutter of front and rear end papers. Wraps show light soiling, a few small chips and light wear. Toning to spine, stain to rear. A lovely copy overall.

Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1971. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Signed by Iceberg Slim on the first page in red sharpie, "My best wishes to Chuck + his rib, Sandy [signed] Iceberg Slim (R. Beck." 248, [1], [7, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with creased and slightly leaning spine, light wear. A nonfiction collection by the author of Pimp.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Isaac Asimov and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with spine stamped in red. Near Fine with light lean to binding, light toning to pages, else very sharp and bright. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, light soiling and light fading to spine. Scarce.

New York: Harcourt, Inc, 1999. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Jose Saramago on the half title. [x], 238pp. Bound in publisher's gold paper boards lettered in silver. Fine in a Fine unclipped jacket. A crisp copy of this Nobel Prize winning novel by the Portuguese author.This English translation by Margaret Jull Costa won won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1930. First edition. First edition. [viii], 344 pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine, lacking dust jacket, light wear and edges slightly foxed, front hinge overopened. An attractive copy of the author's second novel, which he repudiated and would not allow to be reprinted.

Cambridge, MA: Published by the Author for SAPS, 1948. Very Good. The first three issues: Volume 1, Number 1; Volume 2, Number 1 (Whole Number 2); Volume 2, Number 2. Very Good. Toning and light wear. An early sci-fi fanzine published for SAPS.

New York: Published for the Author, 1853. Second Edition. Very Good. [Boston: Published for the Author, 1854]. Second edition, early issue with title page dated 1853 with a New York imprint, and front wrapper resetting title page within an ornamental border dated 1854 and with a Boston imprint. BAL 19381 describes an 1853 dated title like the present but dated 1855 on the front wrap--that issue, however, has different pagination as it includes a new introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Bound in publisher's original wraps; front wrap is detached and rear is started, spine is fragile, barely visible erased name at top of front wrap, Very Good. Originally a Dutch-speaking slave in New York, Truth escaped to freedom with her infant daughter in 1826. Two years later, she sued her former owner to recover her son and became the first black woman to sue a white man and prevail. After gaining freedom, she would preach about abolition and human right for all. "A legend in her own time, Truth's indomitable… Read More

Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. First Edition. Good. First edition, first printing. xvi, 125 pp. Publisher's original brown cloth binding stamped in blind, with titles in gilt on upper board. Good. Lean to binding. Cloth worn at extremities and shallow chipping to spine ends. Owner name in pencil to front free endpaper and bookplate to verso of first blank sheet with slight loss to leaf at bottom corner there, staining to preliminary sheets, contents toned and with sporadic staining. Title page starting to detach at bottom third of binding. The first edition of the first book by Frederick Douglass, describing his years in captivity in Maryland and his eventual escape and involvement in the abolition movement.

[Philadelphia]: Margo Wine, 1950. A 1950s day-glo advertising board for Margo-brand sherry featuring African American crooner Nat King Cole. Cardboard sign printed in black, white, green, and pink. Measures 11.75" x 9". Good+ with small tear to bottom edge, bumped and worn corners, light wear (heavier on verso), original adhesive strips on verso still intact. An eye-catching piece of ephemera, showing one of America's best-known Black entertainers of the 1950s. Among Cole's many achievements was that in 1956 his TV show was the first nationally broadcast television show hosted by an African American.

[Various Places]: National Fantasy Fan Federation, 1957. 32 issues of the long-running sci-fi and fantasy clubzine spanning from 1945 to 1957. All issues staplebound, 8.5" x 11". Issues include Jan. 1945 issus (unnumbered); Vol. 4 nos. 4, 5, 7-11,18; Vol. 5 nos. 1, 2, 4, 9 Vol. 6 nos. 2, 3; Vol. 7 nos. 1-6; Vol. 8 nos 1,3-5; Dec. 1950 issue (unnumbered); Vol. 9 nos 2, 3, 5; Feb.-March issue of 1957 (unnumbered); Vol. 16 no. 4 part 2 and no. 5. Very Good condition overall. Some issues have a vertical crease down the middle or horizontal folding crease, light wear.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Bernard Malamud and inscribed to previous owners, "For Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Glanner for a most pleasant hour / Cordially / Bernard Malamud." Bound in publisher's gray cloth-covered boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with a shallow strip of fading to cloth at top and bottom edges, light soiling. Pages lightly toned. In an unclipped dust jacket with unnecessary tape reinforcements made to the top and bottom edge of the blank verso, light soiling and light wear, but otherwise Near Fine. Malamud's debut novel based on the bizarre shooting and comeback of Philadelphia Phillies player Eddie Waitkus. It served as the basis for the 1984 film bearing the same name, starring Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated first edition, first printing. Very Good with sunning to cloth at edges and light wear at corners and spine ends, in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket with wear at spine ends, a bit of edge wear, light rubbing and two small patches of sticker residue to the rear panel. A very nice copy.