Search Results: Authors starting with K from Monroe Bridge Books

Bombay State: The Publication Committee for Prof. D. G. Kale's Book on Cotton Printing, 1957 [4], xiii, [3], 451pp, [23 pages of advertising], bound in red cloth, with the binding and hinges tight. Complete with all 90 mounted fabric samples, illustrated throughout. Spine lightly sunned. Includes *Block Printing *Stencil Printing *Screen Printing *Roller Printing *Preparing Cloth For Printing *Styles of Print, along with Recipes for Dyes and more. NO PERSONAL LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Corner loss on one page, not affecting the text.

Carlsbad, California: Hay House, Inc., 2004 xxxvii, [1], 241pp, [7], bound in glossy illustrated stiff paper covers, with the binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. "The first section of the book tells the tales of three great figures in American Indian Culture". "The Second section offers yarns from the Lakota that relates to dire consequences in store for those who choose to live a life of self-centered pursuit". Covers show light edge wear.

Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1987 Translated from the Newspaper Ke Au 'Oko'a by Mary Kawena Pukui. Arranged and edited by Dorothy B. Barrere. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 51. ix, [1], 165pp, bound in brown cloth, with binding and hinges tight. The dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover, and is NOT price-clipped. Previous ownership, with small signature of Melissa Schrift, Author and Professor of Anthropolgy at East Tennessee State University.

NY: Academy of Political Science, 1958 IN GOOD CONDITION. Stapled booklet - reprinted from Political Science Quarterly Vol. LXXIII, No. 3, September 1958. 12 leaves in original stiff covers, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, with hand written letter on the Author's stationary, signed, and laid-in. Pages age darkened, lower damp mark to pages. In a protective mylar sleeve.

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1958 180pp, [1], bound in blue cloth, with gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight. Complete with 18 photographic illustrations, as called for. The Kalahari Desert, also known as The Big Thirst, is the backdrop for the author's adventure driving cattle from Ghanziland, through the lion infested Kalahari, to South Africa. From the personal collection of Lorna Marshall (1898-2002], a well known anthropologist that lived among the !Kung people of the Kalahari Desert, and author of several books based on her studies, with small pencil notations on the endpapers. The Dust Jacket shows light edge wear, is NOT price-clipped, and is now housed in a protective mylar cover.

Corvallis, Oregon: Self Published, 1985 SCARCE - NO COPIES IN OCLC. This is a copy of the typed manuscript, bound by the author, WITH HIS SIGNED INSCRIPTION on the Dedication Page "Best Wishes to / Chloe Curtis-Cherkassky / May 31, 1997 / Edward Kaplan". Edward Lynn Kaplan (1920-2006) was an American mathematician, obtaining his PhD at Princeton Univeristy in 1951 where he worked with Feller and Wilks. He is the author of the book "Mathematical Programming and Games" published in 1982. He was also appointed Professor of Mathematics at Oregon State University, where he specialized in linear programming. Includes correspondence between Kaplan and Chloe Cutis-Cherkassky, laid-in. POETRY.

NY: Glasgow Museums / Abbeville Press Publishers, 1996 OVERSIZED Exhibition Catalogue for the 1996-1997 exhibition at Glasgow Museums - McLellan Gallerys, The Museum of Art in NY, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.. 383pp, printed on fine glossy paper, binding and hinges tight, NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Illustrated throughout.

MacAdam/Cage, 2003 This ADVANCE READING COPY soft cover is in NEAR FINE CONDITION. 269pp in original stiff wraps has small pen mark on cover. TIGHT, CLEAN COPY. A comic coming of age novel.

NY: William Morrow & Company, 1946 SCARCE. [6], 405pp, bound in tan cloth, top edge red, with binding tight. Covers age darkened and showing edge/corner wear, hinges cracked, ownership label on front free endpaper, occasional interior spotting.

Poznan: Zwiazek Literatow Polskich, 1992 IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. 40pp, bound in original illustrated stiff wraps, stapled book. Inscription and signature of the Author on the title page. Slight age darkening to covers. POETRY, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

Reading, Mass.: A Merloyd Lawrence Book / Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1993 [14], 413pp, bound in half cloth, with binding and hinges tight, illustrated throughout. From the personal collection of Author and Anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, with the Author's handwritten letter addressed to her, laid-in. Book shows foxing to top page edges, slight bow to covers.

NY: The John Day Company, 1965 318pp, bound in creme cloth, binding and hinges tight. Book shows foxing, dust jacket price-clipped, with edge wear/tear.

Delhi: Book Faith India, 1995 IN VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket also in VG++ Condition, protected in a mylar cover. xv, [1], 719pp, bound in original green cloth, gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Early Tibet through the eyes of a wandering Japanese Buddhist monk.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1971 IN FINE CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket in Good Condition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the translator on the ffp. Text in French, with English translations in back. CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED.

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1926 vii, [1], 136pp, bound in half paper vellum and cloth, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Some pages uncut, occasional foxing. PLAYS & POEMS.

Springfield, MA: Zone Art Center, 1991 IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. Unpaginated, oblong format, in original stiff wraps with plastic spiral binding. ILLUSTRATED poetry and stories, inspired by unusual triptychs created by Kearns and displayed on buses. This book is 9 writers that responded to the the images in poetry & prose. Includes folding illustrations.

NY: Random House, 2014 xxi, [1], 192pp, [4], hardcover. Other than author's signature on the front free endpaper, there are NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped, and is housed in a protective mylar cover. Autobiography.

London: Castell Brothers This soft cover, booklet, is in VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION, showing age darkening. Unpaginated, in original stiff wraps and stiff pages, with gilt edges all around. A Christian momento booklet, string bound with brown/gold lettering and Victorian illustrations throughout.

NY: Grosset & Dunlap Early reprint of the 1930 edition. Glossy frontis-piece, iv, 200pp, [4], bound in blue cloth with orange silhouette, endpapers also show an orange silhouette, top edges red. front flap lists 18 titles to The Mystery at the Moss Covered Mansion, back flap lists Beverly Gray College Mystery Series to Beverly Gray, Reporter. The back of the dust jacket list Judy Bolston to The Unfinished House. Illustrated by Russell Tandy. The book shows occasional foxing, pages slightly age toned, NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. The dust jacket shows some edge chips, is NOT price-clipped, and is now housed in a protective mylar cover.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket in Fair Condition, protected in a mylar cover. iv, 200pp, bound in blue cloth with navy color Nancy Drew holding a spyglass on front cover. Illustrated endpapers show Nancy Drew watching a suspicious man digging a hole. Last title listed on the dj flap is "The Witch Tree Symbol". Top edge factory stained blue, lower edge white (foredge shows a splash stain). Dust jacket has wear and chips along the edge, with upper/lower edge of backstrip absent (on dj). BINDING & HINGES TIGHT. NO LABELS, NOR INSCRIPTIONS.