Search Results: Authors starting with K from Bytown Bookery

New York: Crown Publishers. Very Good+. 1979. Hardcover. 0517535475 . Green linen covers in Near Fine condition. A sound binding, the pages are bright & unmarked. The DJ is clipped and in Very Good condition. " Brilliant, full-page color plates throughout," ; 11.2 X 8.7 X 0.9 inches; 59 pages .

Chicago, Illinois: Poetry Magazine. Very Good. 1941. First Edition. Paperback. A Very Good Paperback magazine. The pages are tightly bound and clean. Wear to the spine ends and corners, edge wear. ; 7.75"; 58 pages .

Garden City Park, New York: Doubleday & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Green boards with black lettering on spine. Book Club Edition. DJs are very good with some edgwear, sunning on spine and staining. From the flap " A contemporary masterwork - bold and living in its characterization, striking its force and clarity, immense in the every-sided examination of its every situation." A tumultuous novel of passion and pride. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Bond Street Books. Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 0385662181 . Tan Hardcovers in Fine+ condition, tight, bright & unmarked with sharp corners. The DJ is unclipped and in Fine condition with light cover rubbing. "The Successor is a powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha. The man who died was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator. The world was so certain that he was next in line that he was known as The Successor. And then, shortly before he was to assume power, he was found dead. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered?"; 8.5 X 5.7 X 1.0 inches; 224 pages .

Gallimard. Fine+. 2005. Paperback. 2070773965 . French text. Fine++ with a sound binding. Pristine pages. Very light edgewear. "L'hôtel Waldhaus dans le village de montagne suisse de Waltenberg est au centre de l'action de ce roman épique, qui se déroule en Europe de la guerre mondiale jusqu'à l'effondrement de l'Union soviétique. Voici l'histoire d'amour entre Hans Kappler, un romancier allemand, et Lena Hotspur, une chanteuse américaine ; et de l'amitié de Hans avec Max Goffard, un journaliste français. C'est aussi l'histoire de la façon dont Michael Lilstein, un chef du parti communiste allemand clandestin avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et un survivant d'Auschwitz, devient responsable du réseau d'espionnage est-allemand." ; 7.8 X 5.4 X 1.5 inches; 720 pages .

Gallimard. Very Good. 1948. Paperback. A Very Good+ Paperback. Page are tightly bound, previous owner's name stamp on the title pages, the balance of the book is unmarked. Wear to the cover edges and spine ends. No. 717 of 1299 published. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 187 pages .

Quality Paperback Book Club. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1988. Paperback. 0805208488 . Trade Paperback with glossy covers, a crease on the front bottom corner and some wear to the spine end and the edges. A very clean & bright interior which includes Kafka's drawings and excerpts from his diaries during the period in which he wrote The Trial. ; Book Club Edition; B&W Illustrations; 0.7 x 7.8 x 5.2 Inches; 281 pages .

MIUNENUITS. Very Good+. 1997. Pocket Book. 2910233146 . French. A smaller sized stapled Paperback in Very Good++ condition. Tight, bright & unmarked. ; 5.6 X 4.0 X 0.2 inches; 48 pages .

New York: Schocken Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1975. Trade Paperback. 0805208496 . Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. Trade paperback with light soiling to the text blocks, and corners, back cover corners are slightly upturned and there is wear to the spine ends and hinges. Very clean interior with a solid binding. "Kafka's stories--bleak, painfully comic, enigmatic--are invariably about man's alienation from daily life, but he creates a rich variety of worlds, from the absurdity of the hunger artist in his cage, to Gregor Samsa's vividly imagined transformation into a cockroach, to the profoundly ironic view of capital punishment in "In the Penal Colony." ; Schocken Classics; 0.8 x 7.9 x 5 Inches; 317 pages .

Chicago, Illinois: The John C. Winston Company. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1931. Hardcover. Blue hard boards, faded gilt lettering on the spine and corner/spine bumping, scuffing. The front free end-paper has been neatly removed, the interior is clean with a solid binding. The DJ is unclipped ($1.25) it is taped together at the spine hinges, has a 2 inch piece missing off the spine bottom, is faded and has chipping on the edges,. "This book is Kagawa's exposition of the Christian religion as it was both taught and lived by Jesus." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 127 pages .

Hyperion. Near Fine. 1997. 1st Edition. Paperback. 0786883162 . Trade Paperback. A Near Fine copy, a tight binding with a bright, unmarked text. Stated First Edition. Moisture wear to the first few pages bottom right hand corner. "Before a baseball player's salary resembled the Pentagon's budget, before a doubleheader was something brokered between lawyers and publicists, there was the "gilded era of baseball". In "Memories of Summer" Kahn recalls growing up with baseball--afternoons and evenings at the ballpark--laughing and talking with the likes of Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle--and not a publicist in sight." ; B&W Photographs; 9.10 X 6.10 X 0.90 inches; 290 pages .

Nomotta Yarns. Very Good. 1952. Magazine. Stapled Magazine Format in Very Good+ condition. Pages are tight, clean & unmarked. Edgewear and cover rubbing to the covers. Fully illustrated with black & white photos and diagrams. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 49 pages .

Anchor. Near Fine. 2005. Paperback. 1400033721 . Trade Paperback in very good++ condition. Tightly bound, unmarked with light cover and edgewear. "The author describes the extraordinary advances that have transformed cosmology and remade the understanding of the universe. Leading physicists now envision the universe as one of countless "bubble universes" only millimeters away from each other. "; 1.2 x 8.2 x 5.4 Inches; 428 pages .

Boston, Mass: Little, Brown & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. Cloth. 0316482218 . Black cloth with 'Kissinger' in bold red/gilt lettering to the spine and cover. In very nice conditon, a solidly bound copy with a pristine interior. Th DJ is in very good condition, the spine has a bit of rubbing on it and there is a small stain on the back spine hinge. Has been protected by a plastic covering. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 577 pages .

McGraw-Hill Co. of Canada. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1971. Trade Paperback. 0070949522 . Trade Paperback with rubbing and edgewear to the covers. One ink mark on the title page, otherwise a very clean & unmarked interior with a solid binding. "This book has a very specific practical purpose. It provides as simple as possible the basic information about Canada's population; e. G. Its growth, distribution, components of change, and characteristics of individuals and families." many black & white illustrations of charts, graphs, maps and tables throughout the book.; McGraw-Hill series in Canadian sociology; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 354 pages .

Millionaires in Motion. Very Good. 1992. Paperback. 096294470X . Trade paperback in good + condition, tightly bound, an unmarked interior with creasing to the spine and cover corners. Good reference copy. ; 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 Inches; 274 pages; Box 5 / shelved .

Ecco. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060501367 . Green / black hard covers, this copy is in fine condition. A First Edition, First Printing copy, (number line). The DJ is unclipped with light cover wear. "Ken Kalfus's mesmerising novel is about two events that become milestones in the history of the modern media: the death of Tolstoy and the murder of Lenin. One yound filmmaker was there. The story begins in 1910, as Leo Tolstoy lies dying in Astapovo, a railway station in provincial Russia. "; 1.09 x 9.26 x 6.44 Inches; 295 pages .

Forge Books. New. 2007. Mass Market Paperback. 0765352265 . Mass Market paperback in New condition. "When Maggie's dear mentor Roger, the executive director for the Creative Artist's Union, is found dead in a bathroom, it makes big time news--especially when it's revealed that he was wearing a ladies' silky red garter belt and bra. Maggie is determined to find Roger's killer." ; 6.60 X 3.90 X 0.90 inches; 340 pages .

Gallimard. Very Good+. 1958. Paperback. A Very Good Paperback. The pages are tightly bound, clean & unmarked. The majority of the pages are uncut along the top edges and some with the foreedges uncut. "La Naissance de Kumâra développe, en un long poème orné en sanskrit, le thème du monde menacé par un terrible démon que, seul, un descendant du grand dieu Shiva pourra détruire. Encore faut-il que Shiva tombe amoureux, lui qui s'absorbe dans l'ascèse sur les hauteurs de l'Himalaya ! "; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 176 pages .

Ballantine Books. Very Good. 1983. Paperback. 0345308700 . Mass Market Paperback in Good+ condition. The binding is tight, pages are unmarked. There is some creasing to the spine and cover edgwear and scuffing. ; 6.80 X 4 X 0.70 inches; 198 pages .