Search Results: Authors starting with K from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: Jerome H. Remick. 1918. 4pp.  paper folio: about Good [edge tears & some creases; cover is still suitable for framing] Marvelous wartime cover depicting a soldier in uniform blowing a bugle while Lady Liberty clasps him on the shoulder.  The rays of a stylized sun rise in the background against the legends "Buy Bonds! Buy Bonds!" and "Hear the Bugle Call." A Tin Pan Alley tune for the German born American songwriter Kahn (1886-1941) and the American songwriter Van Alstyne (1878-1951).

New York: Jerome H. Remick. 1914. sheet music. 6pp. paper folio: Good [few edge tears; else G; suitable for framing] Cover photo of Al Jolson smoking a cigarette. This was Jolson’s "terrific hit" in the NY Winter Garden production, "Dancing Around." An early Tin Pan Alley tune for the German born American songwriter Kahn (1886-1941). Grace LeBoy (1890-1983) married him in 1916, and none other than Doris Day played her in the 1951 film "I’ll See You in My Dreams," a biopic based on one of Kahn’s most famous songs.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992 1st ed. INSCRIBED boldly by author on title p. & signed "Laura." 265pp. hardback tall 8vo: Very Good in a Fine dj [couple of small finger smudges on front cover board; edges show some age darkening; else VG] Jacket praise from Rita Mae Brown, Roseanne Barr Arnold and musicians Lee Greenwood and Tanya Tucker.

Philadelphia: Running Press, 2005 2nd ptg. hardcover. 296pp. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. Includes a DVD containing the final interview with Lennon and McCartney.

New York: Random House, 1998 1st ed. 393pp. hardback sm 4to: Very Good+ in a Fine dj [small light colored coffee splash type spot on fore edge; else a nice crisp copy] A review copy with publisher’s promotional material laid in. Jacket praise from President Bill Clinton, anthropologist Wade Davis, et al., for this "true original" by the author of "Balkan Ghosts."

Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing, 2001 1st ed. 95pp. illus. hardback 12mo in laminated pictorial boards w/endpp. maps (of Avondale Estates, Georgia): near Fine/no dj [touch of foxing to endpp; else a nice clean and crisp copy] A book of poems about a suburb of Atlanta.

Nairobi: Westlands Sundries. 1985 1st ed. 128pp. illus. paperback in French flaps: Very Good [top & fore edges are lightly age foxed; else VG] 88 species of birds in Kenya are illustrated in color photographs.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004 1st ed. thus. 418pp. illus. paperback tall 8vo: Good [text is completely age browned; edges are foxed; else a complete & tight copy] Cover praise for the American writer Katz (1933-2010) from Carlo D’Este, Pat Conroy ("a work of great history and art"), et al.

Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2007 1st ed. SIGNED boldly on title p. by author. 217pp. illus. blue cloth oblong sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. A beautifully illustrated volume of travel along an environmentally variegated urban creek.

Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2007 1st ed. 217pp. illus. blue cloth oblong sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. A beautifully illustrated volume of travel along an environmentally variegated urban creek.

London: Penguin, 1978 reprint. 189pp. paperback: Good [age browning; creases; else a clean, complete & tight copy] Originally published in 1948, this postwar novel by the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) is "an idyllic and beautifully evocative acount of life as it was lived in Ireland" during the early 20th century. Kavanagh is noted for his classic autobiography of rural Ireland, "The Green Fool" (1938), and among his poems was "Raglan Road," sung by many a folk troubadour down the years.

Los Angeles: Karo Communications, 1974 1st ed. unpaginated illustrated blue cloth oblong tall 8vo: Very Good in a near Very Good dj [some age browning of blue cover cloth; else VG; dj = few tears; else nrVG] A ballad by the former priest Kavanaugh (1928-2009).

New York: Pocket Books, 1994 1st ed. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 388pp. hardback sm 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [ffep is creased in several places; else F] A very nice inscribed copy of this novel set in New York's Catskill Mountains by the Georgia writer Kay (1938-2020). Jacket praise from Anne Rivers Siddons, Fannie Flagg, et al.

New York: Pocket Books, 1994 1st ed. SIGNED title p. by author. 388pp. hardback sm 8vo: fair in a Fine dj [ffep is creased; top & bottom edges are foxed & smudged; text is untroubled] A reading copy interesting for its authorial signature. A novel set in New York's Catskill Mountains by the Georgia novelist Kay (1938-2020). Jacket praise from Anne Rivers Siddons, Fannie Flagg, et al.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981 1st ed. INSCRIBED warmly on half-title p. by author and signed "Terry." 271pp. green cloth 8vo: near Very Good in a generally Good dj in Brodart poly cover [top edge is foxed and age browned; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] The Georgia author Kay's (1938-2020) second novel after "The Year the Lights Came On."

privately issued, 2010. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 327pp. paperback tall 8vo: Fine.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1974 1st ed. thus. 189pp. paperback: Good [text is completely age browned w/top & fore edge foxing; else a clean, complete & tight copy] An early Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID novel by the English crime fiction writer Keating (1926-2011).

London: Dent/Everyman, 1996. 109pp. paperback: near Very Good [bottom cover corner is lightly creased; text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] An Everyman’s Library selection of poems by English Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821).

New York: Hyperion, 2003 advance reading copy. 290pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [text is age browned; else VG+]

New York: Penguin, 1983 1st ed. thus. 365pp. illus. paperback: Good [text is age browned; some foxing of edges; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A classic account of the Normandy invasion and the Allies' ultimate breakout from the Falaise pocket on the road to Paris.