Honey for the Bears
by BURGESS, Anthony
New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1964. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); taupe cloth, with titling and rule stamped in black and red on spine; dustjacket; 255,[1]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95), lightly shelfworn, with several tiny tears, and a few shallow chips to base of spine and lower rear... Read More
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Find the Woman
by BURGESS, Gelett
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1911. First Edition. First printing. Crown octavo (19cm). Publisher's ribbed brown cloth, titles blocked in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 342pp; frontispiece and four inserted leaves of plates after illustrations by Hanson Booth. Ink initials to front endpaper, else tight, straight and Near Fine in the uncommon dustwrapper, rubbed and faded with a few closed... Read More
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The Lark no. 4 [August]
by BURGESS, Gelett [ed.]
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Stapled pamphlet in white wraps, printed in blue; 16pp; publisher's ads to rear; 1 plate, plus cover illustration by Florence Lundborg. Contemporary note to p.15. Lightly browned, with moderate edge wear: Very Good. Single issue of perhaps the most whimsical and iconoclastic of the "little magazines"... Read More
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![The Lark Number XII [April 1896]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/048/156/1454156048.0.m.jpg)
The Lark Number XII [April 1896]
by BURGESS, Gelett [ed.]
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1896. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Stapled pamphlet in tan cover wraps, printed in black on one side of the sheet; 16pp; publisher's ad to rear; 2 plates plus cover illustration. Partially unopened. Sound, with light edgewear and a few chips: Very Good. Single issue of perhaps the most whimsical and iconoclastic of... Read More
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The Lark Number 7 [November 1895]
by BURGESS, Gelett [ed.]
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Stampled pamphlet in tan bamboo paper wraps, printed in black; 16pp; publisher's ad to rear; 2 relief illustrations, plus illustrated cover. Sound, chipped at foredge: Very Good. Single issue of perhaps the most whimsical and iconoclastic of the "little magazines" that appeared in the 1890s, with... Read More
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The Lark No. VI [October 1895] [SIGNED]
by BURGESS, Gelett [eds.]
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Stapled pamphlet in white wraps, printed in black; 16pp; ad for The Purple Cow to rear; 2 plates and cover illustration. Signed by Frank Gelett Burgess in pencil below his illustration. Lightly toned, with chips to edges, small hole to front cover, else Very Good. Single... Read More
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The Lark Almanack 1899
by [BURGESS, Gelett, ed.]
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1899. First Edition. First printing. Tall octavo (26cm). Original tan paper wraps, printed in dark orange; 32pp; publisher's ads inside front and rear wrapper. Wrapper lightly toned and chipped at edges, detached from textlock but otherwise sound: around Very Good. An almanac and collection of illustrated nonsense verse, associated with Burgess' magazine of... Read More
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The Lark Number IX [January 1896] [SIGNED]
by BURGESS, Gelett [ed.]
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1896. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Stapled pamphlet on tan bamboo paper, printed in black on one side of sheets; 16pp; 3 plates plus cover illustration. With silhouette portraits of "Les Jeunes," the nickname for the main contributors, with Frank Gelett Burgess' signature in pencil beneath his portrait. Lightly toned, partly unopened: Near Fine.... Read More
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Too Good Looking
by BURGESS, Gelett
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1936. First Edition. First printing. Blue linen over boards, titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 351pp. Mottling to cloth, else tight and straight in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap), very mildly edge-rubbed; Very Good or better. Attractive copy of this nearly forgotten late novel by the... Read More
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The Progress of the Pilgrim Good-Intent, in Jacobinical Times
by [BURGES, Mary Anne]
Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge, 1801. Second American from the Fifth English Edition. Octavo (20cm.); removed; vi,[7]-119pp. Textblock heavily browned and slightly chipped along extremities, else Very Good and sound. Anti-Jacobean novel, written as a continuation to John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and first published anonymously in 1800 by the Scottish author and botanist Mary Anne Burges (1763-1813). SHAW & SHOEMAKER 255.... Read More
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Address, Delivered Before the American Institute of the City of New-York, at their Third Annual Fair, Held at Masonic Hall, October, 1830
by BURGES, Tristam
New-York: John M. Danforth, 1830. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 34pp. Some brief foxing and light wear, else Very Good and sound. Address delivered by the Federalist Representative from Rhode Island at a gathering organized by the American Institute which promoted American agriculture and the arts. At the time Burges was himself deeply involved in the promotion of a... Read More
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The Slide Valve: Practically Considered
by BURGH, N.P.
London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1870. Third Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, and ruling and decorations blind embossed to covers; 121pp. Previous ownership inked to front endpaper. Modest shelf-wear, tiny loss of cloth to spine ends with traces of amateur repairs, light creases to pages, and... Read More
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The Indicator Diagram: Practically Considered
by BURGH, N.P.
London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1871. Second Edition. Octavo (19cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, and blind ruling to covers; 164pp; fold-out frontispiece illustration with drawings throughout. Modest shelf-wear, with slight spine lean, corners and spine ends gently nudged, indentations to board edges, and marginal creases to interior; Very... Read More
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Images of the Buddha in Thailand
by BURIBHAND, Luang Boribal and A.B. Griswold
[Bangkok: Chatra Press, 1957]. Second edition (revised). Staple-bound pamphlet, 23cm x 16cm. Pictorial wrappers; 23pp text; 20 separately-numbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Mild external soil, still a tight, unmarked, Very Good copy. Brief treatise, for English-language readers, on the evolution of devotional sculpture in Thailand, by an important Thai Buddhist scholar and long-time curator of the National Museum... Read More
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I Want to Take Picture [Signed]
by BURKE, Bill (photographs; text; design)
[Sante Fe, New Mexico]: Twin Palm Publishers, [2007]. Second Printing. Folio (39cm); pictorial paper-covered boards; photographic endpapers; [n.p]; black-and-white photographic (halftones) and colorful illustrations throughout. Signed by photographer on front endpaper. Light shelf-wear and soil, with faint surface scratches to front cover; Very Good. Collection of photographs from Burke's travels in Southeast Asia in the 1980s. [85855].
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Purple Cane Road [Limited Edition, Signed]
by BURKE, James Lee
New Orleans: B.E. Trice, 2000. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 150 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.116. Octavo; purple cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's cloth slipcase. Fine, unread copy, still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap. Handsome edition of this Dave Robicheaux novel.
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![Dixie City Jam [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/268/363/791363268.0.m.jpg)
Dixie City Jam [Limited Edition, Signed]
by BURKE, James Lee
New York: Hyperion, 1994. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 1,525 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.113. Octavo; black cloth, with titles and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's black, gilt-stamped slipcase; 367pp. Hint of sunning to spine, with a few rubbed spots to cloth; Near Fine. Slipcase rubbed,... Read More
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![Half of Paradise [with Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/764/941/823941764.0.m.jpg)
Half of Paradise [with Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by BURKE, James Lee
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; tan cloth, blocked and titled in dark brown and white on spine and front cover; burgundy topstain; dustjacket; 312pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Subtle fading to topstain, with a small rubbed spot to same, else a tight, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95), gently... Read More
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![Goodnight, Irene [Advance Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/764/528/1427528764.0.m.0.jpg)
Goodnight, Irene [Advance Review Copy]
by BURKE, Jan
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. First Edition. ARC. Octavo (24cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 257pp. Fine, apparently unread, with bookplate signed by the author loosely laid-in at title page. Advance review copy of the author's first mystery novel, set in suburban Los Angeles and introducing her female detective character Irene Kelly.
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Goodnight, Irene
by BURKE, Jan
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (25cm). Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 254pp. Fine, unread copy in fine, unworn dustwrapper; a new-appearing copy. With bookplate signed by the author loosely laid-in at title page. The author's first mystery novel, set in suburban Los Angeles and introducing her female detective character Irene Kelly.
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Collected Poems 1915-1967
by BURKE, Kenneth
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth spine over patterned boards (hardcover); dustjacket; xviii,[1]-296,(4)pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, price-clipped and very lightly edgeworn; Very Good or better. The philosopher-poet's only collected volume of verse, including "107 previously uncollected and unpublished poems.
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Towards a Better Life. Being A Series of Epistles, or Declamations
by BURKE, Kenneth
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. Second edition. Octavo; cloth boards; dustjacket; xxiv,219pp. Fine in crisp, Near Fine dustwrapper. Reissue of Burke's long out-of-print experimental novel, originally published in 1931. With a new Foreword by Burke for this edition.
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Search for Accord
by BURKE, Lily
New York: Comet Press Books / Milestone Book, 1959. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [6],277pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with shallow loss at spine foot touching text without loss of sense, the whole rather dust-soiled, especially on rear panel; Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Uncommon novel by a native... Read More
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Limehouse Nights
by BURKE, Thomas
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1917. First American Edition. First Printing, with "Published August 1917" on copyright page, and no mention of further printings. Octavo (19.75cm); tan cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; [10],11-311,[1]pp. Some wear to spine ends and extremities, gentle sunning to spine, with some mild discoloration to board edges,... Read More
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London Lamps
by BURKE, Thomas
London: Grant Richards, 1918. First Edition. First impression. Narrow octavo. Orange cloth hardcover; 48pp. Boards slightly grubby, but still a tight, straight copy, internally free of markings or wear - Very Good, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Somewhat uncommon collection, Burke's first book after his successful (but controversial) Limehouse Nights.
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