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Burton, John. Trackless winds. Johnck & Seeger, 1930.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed by the author. Clean, tight copy. Minor wear, stains and fading to spine. Deckled-edged pages.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Burton, John. Trackless Winds. Johnck & Seeger, San Francisco, CA, 1930.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First trade edition from 1930. Signed, inscribed, and dated by the author on the frontispiece. Grey paper boards quarter bound with grey cloth. Dark grey lettering on cover. Toning to edges of boards and spine; shelf wear to edges with boards exposed at corners; minor scratching and soiling. No dust jacket. Binding is tight. Interior is clean except for a few spots of foxing, mostly to endpapers. Small pen mark on rear pastedown. Some pages remain uncut. Frontispiece is a photogravure of the author taken by Ansel Adams. This book is a collection of 32 poems by California poet John Burton.
Seller: Back of Beyond Books WH, Moab, UT, U.S.A.
John Burton. Trackless Winds. Johnck & Seeger, San Francisco, California, 1930.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown boards with a brown spine. Boards are worn and have some dampstain. Frontis piece by Ansel Adams. Interior is clean except for a continuation of the dampstain from covers, a darkening along the bottom edge of several pages. Signed by the author Jan. 1941
Seller: Green Mountain Books & Prints, Lyndonville, VT, U.S.A.
Burton, John. Trackless Winds. Johnck & Seeger, 1930.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: 64 pages. Frontispiece photogravure with tissue guard of author by Ansel Adams. Inscribed by the author on page 35: 'To my good friend ________, with affectionate greetings, John Burton February '33.' First edition (first printing). A very good copy in paper over boards and blue cloth covers. Lettering in blue at top of front cover. Edge and corner wear. Tanning of margins and fading of spine. No dust jacket.
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$128.76 + shipping
Description: [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10]; 64; [6]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, grey paper over boards, blue titles to upper. Untrimmed pages. Photogravure frontispiece of Burton by illustrator. Inscribed by author in black ink to frontispiece. Minor spotting throughout, sunning to spine and top edge, rubbing to edges, exposing board in parts. A very good copy.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
[ADAMS, Ansel]. BURTON, John.. Trackless Winds.. San Francisco, Johnck & Seeger, 1930., 1930.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Small 4to. Frontispiece photogravure portrait of Barton by Ansel Adams. Original 1/2 blue cloth over gray boards (spine faded, rubbing). Good-very good. Scarce. 64 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. No dust jacket. 32 collected poems. Notable for Adams' rare portrait. Signed and inscribed by Burton below frontispiece portrait: "For Fred Pierce With affectionate greetings John Burton, April '31"
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Burton, John. Trackless Winds. Johnck & Seeger, San Francisco, 1930.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paper-covered boards, lettering stamped in gilt on upper board. Number 25 from a limited edition of 100 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page, and with a frontispiece portrait of the author by Ansel Adams. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., with his bookplate on the front paste-down. Additionally inscribed by Burton in the margins of his portrait, to Fairbanks (1909-2000), an American actor (his credits include "Gunga Din") and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
BURTON, John and Ansel Adams. Trackless Wind. Johnck & Seeger, San Francisco, 1930.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, presentation issue (also issued in quarter cloth and paper covered boards with a reproduction of the Adams' portrait). Frontispiece photogravure portrait by Ansel Adams. Tall octavo. Japanese vellum over boards gilt. A little foxing to the boards and endpapers, near fine. Nicely Inscribed by the poet, as well as Signed by Adams underneath the portrait.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.