Search Results: Authors starting with K from Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1932. First Edition. A good+ copy with wear to the edges, light foxing, and a small wormhole.. First edition of this post-crash guide to beating the stock market. Kelly was a well-known author, biographer, and business speculator. "Kelly and Burgess have cut through to the heart of the matter in their development of market rules and in their comments on the nature of psychology and market behavior" (Zerdon, Best Books on the Stock Market). Scarce.

Derby: Printed by Henry Mozley, 1830. Very good in plain drab blue wraps, with a patch of staining mildly across all pages.. Scarce provincially-published chapbook. 48mo. 8pp. 5th edition. Scarce with one copy located on OCLC as of March 2024 (and only three copies total of all editions).

Cambridge: Macmillan & Co, 1855. First Edition. Very good in publisher's blue cloth recased with original backstrip laid down, spines darkened, dampstain to lower board of vol. III, prior owner signatures to endpapers, contemporary bookseller ticket, some soiling to half title in vol. II, housed in a morocco clamshell box.. Triple decker first edition, in publisher's cloth, of one of the bestselling books of the nineteenth century, which is largely disfavored at present due to the virulent anti-Catholicism and racist depictions of South Americans. Kingsley's historical novel celebrates England's victories over Spain in the Elizabethan era and follows an Elizabethan privateer, Amyas Preston, who set sail with Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, and other privateers to the so-called New World. 8vo. 3 vols. viii, 303pp., [1]; vi, 367pp.; vi, 373pp., [1], 16pp. (publisher's catalogue with first issue misspelling on pg. 7). Parrish, pg. 26. Sadleir 1340.

London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1866. Very good in publisher's gilt stamped red morocco cloth, recased with spines laid down, some staining to boards, bookplates in each volume and prior owner stamp/inscription in each, and blind stamp for "W H Smith & Son Library, 186 Strand" being Smith's short-lived lending library but without other indications of library ownership (Sadleir's copy had the same blind stamp).. First edition in book form, in publisher's cloth. Hereward was an enigmatic Anglo-Saxon landholder from Lincolnshire, who "was elevated by a historical novel written by Charles Kingsley . . . into one of the most romantic figures of English medieval history: an outlaw and national hero famous for his determined resistance to the Norman invaders of 1066, and a forerunner of the greatest outlaw of English popular mythology, Robin Hood." Dalton, The Outlaw Hereward the Wake (2009). It is even believed that Tolkien read Hereward and used several of its distinctive word choices in his… Read More