Conspiracy from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Signed by Frank Kitson on the title page xii, 211 pp. with illustrations. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with tape stains to cloth, light foxing to edges, former owner's name written on paste down, in a Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Peoples Temple Christian Church & Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, 1977. Twelve issues of the newsletter for Rev. Jim Jones' cult Peoples Temple when it was based in San Francisco. Vol. 1, Numbers 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 12 (plus a variant nearly identical but with "2nd Nov. Issue" on masthead), 13, 14, 16; Vol.… Read more about this item

Portland, OR: John R. Kennedy, 2004. First edition. 48 pp. Stapled yellow wraps. Good+ with sticker shadow over handwritten price on front wrap, a little bleed from dampstain to a few pages, faint vertical crease to rear wrap. A contemporary 'zine about a Portland-area Muslim man, Brandon Mayfield, who was wrongfully charged by the FBI and held for two… Read more about this item

[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1990. First thus. Likely first edition in book form. [vi], 64 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Fine. An uncommon unattributed edition of a text that circulated widely as an electronic document and photocopied manuscript throughout conspiracy theorist and UFO circles in the 1990s. For a number of years it was the best-known document suggesting some… Read more about this item

Havana, Cuba: OSPAAAL, 1985. Original 13" x 9" poster printed in three colors. Single-sided. Very Good with wear and creasing along edges (more so along right). A poster by the Cuban communist propaganda organization OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa & Latin America) showing a fist holding two flags (one of them Nicaragua's) punching through… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1964. First Edition. First edition. Signed by all seven members of what is popularly known as The Warren Commission: Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, Richard B. Russell, John Sherman Cooper, Hale Boggs, future president Gerald R. Ford, ex-CIA chief Allen Dulles, and John J. McCloy with General Counsel J. Lee Rankin's signature in the… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1964. First Edition. Good+. First edition. Complete in 26 volumes all bound in publisher's navy cloth stamped in gilt. Good+ with subtle sunning to spines, slight lean to various volumes, minor bumping to corners and edges. Dampness staining to various volumes bleeding slightly into contents. Lacking the summary report. The complete Warren… Read more about this item

[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1980. Photocopied manuscript. 105 pp. Bound in clear front wrap with black paper spine and rear wrap. Near Fine, price ($8.00) written on front wrap, scuff to back wrap. Uncommon in this format. A highly speculative manuscript on the assassination of John F. Kennedy written by a Texas lawyer named David Copeland, about whom… Read more about this item

Cleburne, TX: Cover-Up, 1976. First edition. First edition, copy #1276 of 3000. Signed by J. Gary Shaw on his author bio page, with the recipient's name whited out, dated 12-31-77. xvii, 227pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Bicolumnar text. Very Good with shelf wear, back cover worn; contents free of marking. A decent copy of a book often found… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1964. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Complete in 26 volumes plus summary report, all bound in publisher's navy cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with subtle sunning to spines, slight lean to various volumes, minor bumping to corners and shelf wear, moderate creasing to summary report volume. Former owner's armorial bookplate to… Read more about this item

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. First edition. First edition. x, 414 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with white spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket with trivial rubbing to laminate of rear panel. A major entry in the vast corpus of Kennedy assassination literature as well as foundational work in the field of parapolitics.… Read more about this item

New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1975. First edition. Paperback. First edition. 172, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Near Fine with minor shelf wear, faint hint of a vertical crease to the front wrap. The 1970s were a golden age of fringe books inspired by Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods, the flying saucer subculture, and Immanuel Velikovsky's… Read more about this item

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. First edition. First edition. Signed by Christopher Simpson on the half title, inscribed to the former owner on behalf of a third party. xviii, 398 pp. with 16 pages of b/w photos. Bound in publisher's boards with dark navy cloth backstrip lettered in silver. Near Fine with a little offsetting to front board,… Read more about this item

New Orleans: Paper Chase Press, 1998. Signed by Art Bell on the title page, inscribed above that in pencil in an unknown hand to the former owners. 230, [2] pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver. Second edition. Fine in Near Fine with light rubbing, nice shape overall. The autobiography of the original host of the megahit (reputedly 15… Read more about this item

Morrilton, AR: Marlin Hawkins, 1991. First edition. First edition. Signed by Marlin Hawkins on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. 388 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine, former owner's name on paste down, in Very Good dust jacket with a few scratches to front panel, light wear, small closed tear in top… Read more about this item

New York: Street & Smith Publications, 1944. First edition. First edition. Vol. XXXII, No. 1. 178 pp. Wraps. A Good only copy with chipping to front wraps and along spine, head and tail worn, edges a bit soiled, contents well-toned with age. An uncommon issue of Astounding Science Fiction containing the story "Deadline" by Cleve Cartmill. Although set… Read more about this item

Sedona, AZ: Light Technology Publishing, 1991. First edition. First edition, copy #219 in the hand-numbered limited issue. Signed by William Cooper on the paste down with a short inscription, also signed on p. 4 with a red stamp as was typical for this edition. Rear paste down hand numbered as well. [x], 500, [2] pp with fold-out chart at… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Feral House, 2006. First edition. First edition. (Paperback original, first printing with full number line on copyright page.) xxiv, 286, [2] pp. Very light shelf wear, else Fine and unread. The rare, out-of-print autobiography by the author of the seminal conspiracy essay "King-Kill/33," which first appeared in Feral House chief Adam Parfrey's anthology Apocalypse Culture. In that… Read more about this item

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1953. Signed by Edward Hunter on the paste down, inscribed to Harlan A. Westrell, likely CIA chief of counterintelligence in the Office of Security and friend of Watergate burglar James McCord, in Washington D.C., August 1, 1957. viii, 341 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with red and silver lettering. Fourth printing of the… Read more about this item

New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998. First edition. First edition. Signed by Gary Webb on the half title, inscribed to the former owner with Webb's AOL email address. xxviii, 548 pp. with eight pages of b/w photos. Fine in Fine dust jacket. An attractive copy. A very rare signature.Journalist Gary Webb's still-controversial expose of CIA drug dealing and its… Read more about this item