Search Results: Authors starting with K from Monkey House Books

Teaneck: Eurasia Press, 1989. Trade paperback.. Good.. Tenth Anniversary Edition. World's best-selling guide to the People's Republic of China. 800 pages, index. Includes special sections on archaeology, cuisine, handicrafts, and others. Still an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the world's most populous nation. Spine curled from use, slight musty odor.

Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1912. 2nd Edition. Hardcover, dark green cloth boards, black-stamped cover. Good/No Jacket. 374 pages, index. Plant production, animal production, farm management, reference tables. School text with b/w illustrations, moderate wear, some pencil.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University School of Landscape Architecture, 1934. Softcover. Good. The Schools of Landscape Architecture & City Planning, Harvard University. Preliminary Edition. 8-1/2x11"", tan card covers with black paper tape spine. Covers somewhat worn, bumped, and darkening. 209 pages, printed recto only. Photo-lithograph print reproduction of the author's manuscript by Edwards Brothers, Inc. Ann Arbor. Includes author index. A few ink notes. Covers biographies, history, general (essays and poetry), improvement and conservation, teaching, theory, practice & procedure, construction & maintenance, elements & materials, structures, types of landscape design, planning and zoning. Photos available upon request.

Huntington: The Heckscher Museum, 1982. Softcover booklet. Fine. Exhibition catalogue, June 20-August 1, 1982. Documents parallel developments in 20th century modern art in the United States and Canada. Essay on Robert Henri & The Eight by William Innes Homer and The Group of Seven and Emily Carr by Marcia Allentuck. Biographies, list & illustrations from the exhibition. 52 pages, very light edgewear. The Canadian Group of Seven, formerly known as the Algonquin School, were active from 1920 to 1933; their works were representative and focused on Canadian landscapes and nature. The Eight, later absorbed by the Ashcan School, strove to establish a new American art independent from traditional European aesthetics and focused on everyday people and scenes of city life.

New York, Milan: Montparnasse Editions, 1988. Trade paperback. Fine. General Editor, Allen Mandelbaum. 56 pages, light shelfwear. Born in Pennsylvania in 1945, Kauffman is a novelist, poet, mixed media artist, and poet.

New York: Warner Books, 1984. Softcover, mass market paperback. Good/No Jacket. In the time of crusaders and knights, a stout-hearted young girl disguises herself to engage in many adventures. 514 pages, moderate cover wear and creasing.

Scott Foresman Executive Excellence Library, Scott Foresman Professional Books, 1991. Gray boards, black cloth gilt-stamped spine. Very Good+./Dust Jacket condition very good+.. Pages unmarked, edges slightly darkened. Dust jacket tight, light edgewear.

Cleveland: Economy Book League, 1934. Green textured flexible covers, gilt titling. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Tale of the 1849 gold rush days in San Francisco, ""a story for red-blooded readers."" 218 pages, clean & square, edgewear.

New York: Young Scott Books, 1968. Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket condition Good . Photographs by Martin Iger.. Children's non-fiction, reference. 48 pages, for elementary grades. B/w photos. Ex-library in wraps, with pocket.

Freiburg: Verlag von Walter Momber, 1922. Green boards, beige cloth spine, black and gilt decorated cover and spine. Good Minus./No Dust Jacket. Text in German Frakturschrift. 150 pages, somewhat tanned & brittle. Gift inscription in ink, dated 1932. Decorative endpapers. 1-5. Tausend. Front hinge cracked. Whole and complete but flawed.

Cleveland: Vista Books, 1994. Large format softcover. Good Plus.. Local Cleveland history and memories, national issues and trends, local events. B/w illustrations & photos. 110 pages, edgewear, small green mark on lower left corner. Textblock clean & unmarked. First Edition, so stated.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895. Hardcover, green cloth, decorative cover. Very Good. 115 pages, love story set in a late 19th century boarding house for young men. Illustrated. Small ink stain at head of spine. Bangs, 1862-1922, was an American author, satirist, humorist, and editor. He worked for various literary magazines and published many articles and poems before he published his novels. He is best known for his humorous fantasy novels A House-Boat on the Styx (1895), Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1907), and the short story collection The Enchanted Type-Writer (1899).

New York: Crown Publishers, 2000. First Edition. Large format hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition good. Photographs by Eddie Adams. Interviews with activists in more than 35 countries covering such issues as children at war, environmentalism, religious freedom, sex slavery, and more. Edited by Nan Richardson. An Umbrage Editions Book. 256 pages, jacket edgewear, taped repair. Heavy book may require additional postage.

1994. Softcover, magazine. Very Good. Volume 7, number 2. Aerial warfare, Zeppelin raids over London, Monitor & Merrimac, Rabaul in South Pacific, Seminoles vs. Louisiana Volunteer Regiment. 66 pages. Light wear.

Houston: Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., 2011. Softcover. As New/No Jacket. Two people find themselves trapped reliving their memories as if for the first time. Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award. Rogers is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, mainly as an outlet for childhood trauma and to help those with similar experiences. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. 150 pages.

Brooklyn: Albert T. Huntington, 1908. Olive cloth boards. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrated. First issued June 1908. Covers pregnancy through age 2, general care, dietary, illnesses, record-keeping. Includes a mother's inked memoranda of her 1913 infant.150 pages. Covers worn, frayed, soiled, lightening at spine. Some toning and light spotting to pages.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Light blue cloth boards, silver-stamped spine and small pictorial cover.. Good/No Dust Jacket. Second printing, July 1944. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier. Fictionalized account of the French Resistance in World War II. This is a true account fictionalized for security, accurate but unrecognizable. From the preface, ""There is no propaganda in this book and there is no fiction."" Cover depicts a soldier with rifle looking at the Eiffel Tower in the distance. 159 pages, clean and unmarked. Wartime publication restrictions. Dampstain along edge fep and areas of the front cover. Top edge red. Owner's name neatly inked ffep. Spine darkened.

Chantilly, Virginia, 2015. Softcover. Very Good. For professional communications skill-building. Basic principles, lectures arranged thematically by type of word (meaning and purpose). 36 lectures, glossary, review questions. 283 pages, light cover wear.

Petaling Jaya: Suara Initiatif Sdn Bhd, 2017. Softcover. Fine. Compilation of recent writings by the Malaysian public intellectual on the important issues confronting Malaysian society. Soong offers an independent voice and believes strongly in the need for an informed electorate. Soong, born in 1950, is a political writer, social activist, former member of Parliament, and current director of the human rights organization SUARAM. He has written many political and historical books on Malaysia, including May 13: Declassified Documents on the Malaysian Riots of 1969, Racism & Racial Discrimination in Malaysia: A Historical & Class Perspective, and The Malaysian Civil Rights Movement.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1913. Green boards, gilt-stamped cover & spine. Good Plus./No Dust Jacket. Frontispiece by W. H. D. Koerner.. By the author of The Inner Shrine. 547 pages, several b/w illustrated plates. September printing. Wear & slight fraying to edges. Pages clean & square, hinges good, no major flaws. Episcopal clergyman Basil King was born in England in 1859, educated in Canada, and became an American citizen. His novels are concerned with problems of conscience and conduct.