Search Results: Authors starting with K from Elk Creek Heritage Books

New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition with complete number line including the number one. Hard cover in very good condition with orange boards, red spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition with only ghost of shelf & edge wear; not price clipped.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Hyperion Books, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. Stated: First Paperback Edition. Trade paperback in very good condition. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Wraps clean and un-creased. Spine un-creased. 290 pages. * By the author of the baseball classic ""The Boys of Summer."" From the book, "". . . more than sportswriting, more than memoir - it's a chronicle of a generation. . . . joyful memoir of sports and sports writing - of a time when the writers and the players spent their days laughing on the road together and their nights drinking in bars together. . . ""

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 2004. Soft cover. Fine. 4th Printing Stated Fourth Printing: July 2004. Soft cover in fine condition; appears unread. Text block clean & tight; no writings; no markings to note. Wraps shiny & bright; no creases; no signs of use. * From a review by Paul G. Hiebert of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, ""Walter C. Kaiser helps us regain the big picture of what God is doing in human history. His challenge helps us put mission back into the center of our lives and ministries, demonstrating clearly that God's mission to the world is the central theme binding Old and New Testaments together. For us to focus on anything else is to miss what God has done and continues to do in human history.""

New York: Scribner, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First edition per complete number line including number one. Hardcover in very good condition. Text block clean & tight; no writing; no markings noted. A 3 1/2"" w x 4 1/4"" h green sticker on front free end paper indicating book was ""a selection from the JP Morgan Private Bank Summer Reading List 2007..."" Dust jacket very good, showing only light shelf wear; not price clipped.

New York: Broadway Books, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2nd Printing First Edition; 2nd Printing per number line. Hard cover in very good condition. White boards with red spine cloth containing silver colored lettering. Navy blue end papers. Text block clean & tight with no writings, underlinings, or markings noted. Dust jacket in very good condition with only ghost of shelf & edge wear. Not price clipped. Concludes with a Bibliography and an Index. 392 numbered pages.

New York: Simon and Shuster, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2nd Printing Winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Stated: Second Printing. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and gold gilt spine lettering; gold gilt decorative squares on four corners of front board. Dark gold end papers. Facsimile signature of Samuel L Clemens and Mark Twain on front free end paper.Text block clean and tight. No markings, no writings noted. Contains a section of 8 leaves/16 pages of glossy black and white photographs. Dust jacket in very good condition; light shelf wear and age toning; shadows of light wrinkles on top front panel; not price clipped (price is at bottom of front flap. * From the book, ""Set against the richly drawn background of the Gilded Age, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain follows the two currents that flowed through its subject's life: one, as Kaplan said in his acceptance speech, ""away from Hannibal, Missouri, toward the world of wealth, fame… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Touchstone Books, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st Printing Stated: First Touchstone hardcover edition August 2008. First Printing per complete number line with number one. Dark yellow boards with red spine cloth and gold spine lettering in very good condition. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. 294 pages. Dust jacket very good with only hint of shelf & edge wear and light line of rubbing on back from top to bottom where spine cloth meets boards underneath; not price clipped.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: The Viking Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 3rd Printing Stated Third Printing, February 1969. Black boards in very good condition. Front board has, lightly embossed, ""The Issac Ray Award Book."" Silver and red spine lettering bright & crisp. Red dust jacket good with edge and shelf wear and is slightly chipped. Red color of spine is faded and /or age toned a darker red. Inside of jacket shows marks of dried damp stain. Not price clipped. Red end papers with former owner's name on front paper. Top text block edge stained red. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Concludes with Reference notes to the chapters and an Index. 305 pages. From the book, ""Dr. Menninger takes our penal system apart to show why it doesn't work and what could be done to set it right.""

Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Books, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition, no other printings noted. Hard cover in very good condition with deep yellow boards, green spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing. At top of front free end papers is the shadow of a smudge, as if a penciled name had been erased; no other markings noted. A small volume: 5 1/4"" wide x 7 1/2"" tall; 214 numbered pages. Dust-dulled top text block & all text block edges show some light foxing. Dust jacket good with shelf & edge wear, closed tear at top of back panel; small chip at bottom back panel; edge wear to head & heel of spine and top front panel. Not price clipped, however what appears to have been price is blacked out. * From a review by Maxine Hong Kingston on the front flap, ""For the sake of humanity, we need to read Wayne Karlin on war and peace. Studying the holocaust of his immediate… Read More

New York: Penguin Group, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in very good condition with blue boards, cream spine cloth and gold spine lettering. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in very good condition; not price clipped. * By the Author of the Midford books.

Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1995. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Soft cover in very good condition with only ghost of shelf & edge wear. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. 221 numbered pages. * Based on a memoir by Efronia Katchadourian. Translated by Herant Katchadourian. From the back cover, "" . . . a story of forbidden love, . . . all the more poignant for being true. . . . the history of women in a little-known place and time, and a contribution too to the story of Turkish-Armenians before and after World War I. . . . . Best of all, the book is a page-turner.""

John Wiley & Sons Inc & Casey Research LLC, 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition with black boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition. * From the book, "". . . . Rumbling underneath the surface of the short-term dramas that enthrall us from day to day is a slowly moving trend that threatens to completely unravel U.S. power and stability. At its helm is Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader who has too often been satinized and simplified in the American media. And at its center is the very stuff that makes the world go: energy. . . . argues that Putin's dream to restore Russia to its former glory revolves around taking control of the world's energy resources. . . . it could mean the rapid collapse of the American way of life. . . .""

University of California Press, 1998. First Paperback Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Stated First Paperback Printing 1998. Soft cover in very good condition with only ghost of shelf wear to the colorful wraps. Former owner's name, place, & date on verso of front wrap and his initial stamp at top of half-title page in red ink. Otherwise interior text block clean & tight; no markings, no other writing noted. Black & white photographs throughout. Concludes with Notes to Chapters, Bibliography, and an extensive Index. 418 numbered pages. * From summary on back, "". . .a powerful examination of how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years, together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile-dependence. . . .provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass transportation. Demonstrating that there… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line. Inscribed by author; signature not authenticated, see photo. Rose boards with gilt lettering in very good condition with a less than half inch wrinkle/bump at top back, one inch from text edge and some rubbing along cloth spine. Text block clean & tight with no markings, other than author inscription. DJ very good with gentle shelf & edge wear; not price clipped.

Gordonsville, VA, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Original copyright 1959, originally in German. Translated from the German by Ivo Jarosy. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Wraps very good and appears unread.

New Yoirk: Hachette Books, 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and red spine cloth with gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted but for black marker dot - remainder mark on top text block. Dust jacket very good with only a ghost of shelf wear; not price clipped. Appears unread. * From the book, "" . . . [takes] us inside fifty years of law enforcement leadership, offering chilling stories of sixteen terrorist plots after 9/11, and sharing his candid insights into the challenges and controversies cops face today."" A quote from Walter Isaacson, ""A critically important book for anyone who cares about the justice and security issues we face today.""

Little Brown and Company, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition with black boards, brown spine cloth and silver gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Contains a section of glossy black & white photographs. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""Jack Kennedy had it all. and he used it all - his father's fortune, and his own beauty, wit, and power - with a heedless, reckless daring. There was no tomorrow, and there was no secret that money and charm could not hide. . . .award-winning investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh shows us a John F. Kennedy we have never seen before, a man insulated from the normal consequences of behavior long before he entered the White House. . . .By the end of his life, Jack Kennedy's private recklessness was beginning to edge… Read More

New York: Villard Books, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition with number line beginning with number two which, per Villard's convention for first edition identification, indicates it is a First Printing. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards, gold spine lettering, and gold gilt design on front board; light shadow of bump to front bottom corner. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in very good condition; has been price-clipped. * From the book, ""Now, for the first time, bestselling author, journalist, and social historian Laurence Leamer bridges that distance in what is unquestionably the most warmly empathetic and intimate study of the Kennedys to date. Monumental in scope and extraordinary in sensitivity.. . . chronicles five matrilineal generations in our nation's premier political dynasty. Not merely distinguished cultural history, it is a story of epic sweep, brimming with… Read More

Viking Peguin, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Published in 1988 by Viking Penguin. There was also a Limited Edition published. Hard cover in very good condition with blue boards, navy spine cloth, and silver gilt spine lettering. Facsimile signature of author in silver gilt on front board. Interior text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Top stained red; light foxing on side text block. Dust jacket very good; not price clipped. * From the jacket, "". . . the narration by Daniel Quinn, orphan, of his adventure-ridden quest for true love and the answer to the elusive riddle of his own fate. . . "" Begins in Albany in 1849. "". . . Both wonderfully evocative of its period in detail and language and indelibly contemporary in its artistic means and intentions, . . . . a spellbinding work of utter mastery. . . .""

New York: Viking Penguin, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated: First published in 2005 by Viking Penguin. In addition, contains a complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition with lavender boards, black spine cloth, and silver gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""Michelle Kennedy recounts with humor and honesty how a few bad choices and missed chances pushed her below the poverty line and into a different life than she'd ever imagined. She shares each unvarnished detail of how, using her wits, a little luck, and a lot of courage, she survived disaster and, finally, triumphed.""