Comprises: The Lark, Vol. 1, No. 1. Pictorial wrappers. Signed by Burgess on the front cover. The first published appearance of Burgess and the first appearance of his famous Purple Cow poem with illustration. Wm. Doxey, 1895. (Rear cover detached, edges chipped). * Vivette or the Memoirs of the Romance Association. 2 copies (1 is signed & inscribed by Burgess). Author's first book. 16mo. Red cloth, lettered in gilt. Copeland & Day, 1897. * The Nonsense Almanack for 1900. 4to. Pictorial wrappers. Stokes, [1899]. * The Romance of the Commonplace. Cloth-backed boards, lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Paul Elder & Morgan Shepard, [1902]. (Long and warm gift inscription). * The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne. Cloth-backed gold patterned cloth over boards, paper cover label. Stokes, [1904]. * The Maxims of Methuselah. Cloth-backed pictorial paper over boards. Stokes, [1907]. * Why Men Hate Women. Illus. by Herb Roth. Cloth-backed patterned boards, paper labels. Payson & Clarke, [1927]. * Bayside Bohemia: Fin de siècle San Francisco & its Little Magazines. 4to. Cloth. One of 375 copies. Book Club of California, 1954. * Gelett Burgess: Behind the Scenes, Glimpses of Fin de Siècle San Francisco. Woodcuts by Shirley Barker. 4to. Cloth-backed decorative boards. One of 400 copies printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem. Prospectus, laid in. Book Club of California, 1968. Together, 10 vols. 16mo. to 4to. Original bindings. First Editions.