Search Results: Authors starting with K from BRYAN BUNCH BOOKS

New York: Scientific American Library, 1993. First edition. Harcover blue cloth. Like New/Like New. History and etions of Supercomputing along with uses such as exploring quantum theory, biology, and geophysics. Many brilliantly colored photographs and other artwork. Number 43 of the Scientific AMerican Library

The most readable historian tells how this extraordinary couple kept our spirits up during no ordinary time.

London: Cassell and Company, 1904. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. Photographs by the Keartons. Richard Kearton and his brother Cherry in the very early days of photography became famous for their wild-life photography. WIld Life at Home was originally published in 1898, although this copy is from 1904. There are very few copies of the book available. Gilt lettering still bright on front cover (somewhat faded on spine). The cover is somewhat loose from the pages or this would be near fine. There is an inscription in ink on the first endpaper "Clarence Schmidt from Mrs. Higgens, June 1907."

The definitive edition of Keats' poetry. Spine faded but book is in great condition shape, tight, with all the pages complete, binding in excellent condition, and no internal markings.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953. First printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Kelly, Walt. Very small chip missing at corner of cover

There is a short list of page numbers on the front endpaper and corresponding underlined passages on about a dozen pages

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. First edition. Trade Paperback. LIke new. unnamed. A book-length poem 75 numbered pages Inside cover is praise from Denise Levertov and others. Several interesting woodblock designs are on front and back covers and scattered throughout book

Toronto: George N. Morang, Co., 1903. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Spine faded, but otherwise fine. Version with black Viking ship, white sail, on front cover.

New York: Doubleday and McClure, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. This is the first issue with first issue points: page 90 line 12 fifteen feet was changed in later issues to fifteen hundred feet; page 153 up 7 lines tacked was changed in later issues to packed. Cover and pages in very good condition, but gold stamping on cover has faded.

A noted historian of mathematics explains how the discoveries of the 19th and 29th century in the foundations of geometry, arithmetic, and set theory have changed our view of what the essence of mathematics is.

Upper Saddle RIver, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. A comprehenisive coverage of the critical foundation of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic and a broad overview of the applications of each. Written at a graduate-sfcchool level, the book is alwso suitable for self-study. Like new.

A rare epic poem from the 20th century. This copy is in excellent shape with just slight signs of wear.

Ten plays, scenes from an opera libretto, and six short plays for improvisation. Five of the plays have been produced in NYC.

A facsimile reprint of the 1881 Chatto & Windus edition, A General Account of Life in Ancient Greek & Rome on rather cheap paper. 543 b&w woodcuts.

Signed by the author on the front endpaper, this is otherwise a like-new copy, dust jacket NOT price-clipped. Korda is a well-known fiction author and prominent editor. His short biography of Grant is eminently readable. "Michael Korda has delivered a jewel of a short life of Ulysses S. Grant, a general deadly on the battlefield and unprepossessing off it. As a biographer Korda is Grant-like himself: unambiguous, decisive, clear. The book is a joy to read." --Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove