Search Results: Authors starting with K from Classic Books and Ephemera

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1987. Hardcover. Fine. Hafftka, Michael. [2], 53, [5] p., 4 leaves of lithographed plates; 30 cm. Sewn and bound in vellum paper wrappers with yapp edges and the author's name printed in black on the spine; sewing bands are visible on the wrapper sides. Clamshell box is covered in light grey cloth with a small printed label on the spine bearing the author's name. Edges of box are black; lined with black felt. This is number 198 of a limited edition of 800 copies. Set in monotype Walbaum at the Out of Sorts letter foundery in Mamaroneck, N.Y. and printed on mould-made Magnani paper at the Shagbark Press in South Portland, Me. The lithographs were printed on hand-made Japanese paper at Trestle Editions, N.Y. City. The book design was by Benjamin Shiff. Hand-sewn and hand-bound by Carol Joyce. Signed by the artist at the colophon. In Fine/Fine Condition.

Nijkerk, Netherlands: G. F. Callenbach, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good -. 160 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. White cloth with blue and black spine and cover titles and illustration. Top page edges light blue. Illustrated dust jacket. No date of publication; WorldCat assigns 1955, which is consistent with the birth year of the former owner. Gift inscription in Dutch on front free endpaper. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: slightly cocked; gift inscription on front free endpaper; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: spine is sunned; lightly soiled; upper edge is chipped; color illustration is bright.

Berlin: Volksverband der Bücherfreunde -- Wegweiser-Verlag, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. 381, [2] p.; 19 cm. Half polished calf with gilt-stamped spine title; pink and blue paper over boards. Top page edges red. Pink ribbon bookmark. This was the second volume issued in the tenth year to members of the Volksverband der Bücherfreunde. The author, Marta Karlweis (1889-1965), was an Austrian novelist. In Very Good Condition: rubbed, especially joints and corners; clean and tight.

Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1939. Paperback. Very Good. [4], 40, [8] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Grey wrappers with paper label on front wrapper, printed in brown: "Rowfantia, An Occasional Publication of the Rowfant Club, Number XII, December 1939." This is number 14 of a limited edition of 150 copies printed on Hazelbourn paper by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine, in Dec. 1939. The Rowfant Club was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1892 and remains a club for those interested in book collecting and publishing; however, membership requires a penis, which seems unrelated to either book collecting or publishing. In Very Good Condition: 1-cm. closed tear from fore-edge of front wrapper; discoloration on back wrapper and at lower fore-edge of last few leaves; otherwise, clean and tight.

Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 1998. Paperback. Near Fine. [8], 109 p.; 28 cm. Paperback. IVPS, vol. 19. For use by therapists working with teens who have been emotionally, physicallly, or sexually abused. In Near Fine Condition: curves up slightly; clean and tight.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1952. Paperback. Very Good +. 24, [28] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Illustrated front endpapers. Catalog of an exhibition of the work of American artit Leon Karp (1903-1951). Includes biographical essay about the artist by Joseph T. Fraser, Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In Very Good+ Condition: spine and upper edges of cover are sunned; cover is lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight.

Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1993. Paperback. Near Fine. xxxiv, 540 p.: illustrations; 27 cm. Paperback with paper label on front cover. In Near Fine Condition: white mark at tail of spine; otherwise, clean and solid.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. Hardcover. Very Good -. ix, [1], 244 p., frontispiece portrait: facsimile; 19 cm. Dark red cloth with gilt spine title and gilt facsimile author's signature on front cover. No dust jacket. Copyright 1919 with no additional printings noted. Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926), prominent American labor leader and Socialist, had been convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 for his opposition to American pariticpation in World War One and was serving a 10-year term when this biography was published. President Harding commuted his sentence in 1921 but he died in 1926 of health problems that began during his time in prison. In Very Good- Condition: cover is lightly rubbed and soiled; 1-cm. tear at head of spine; pages are lightly browning but clean and tight.

Strasburg, Germany: Johann Beck, 1716. Near Fine. 32 p.; 19 cm. Signatures: A-D4 (4to). Woodcut head- and tailpieces, and initial letter. Disbound but still sewn together. This is the inaugural thesis of Georg Cristoph Kast at the University of Strasbourg on the subject of hemmorrhoids. Entirely in Latin. In Near Fine Condition: very slightly soiled.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine. [6], 97, [1] p.: entirely black-and-white illustrations; 22 cm. Black paper spine with red spine title; grey paper over boards with red and black cover title as a sign held by blind-stamped men in 19th-century dress. No dust jacket, as issued. Stated First Edition. Paper wrap on back cover. Illustrated endpapers with material related to the Lake Erie Soda-Water Company System. Added title page in Yiddish. A graphic novel inspired by Mordecai Manuel Noah's attempt to establish a Jewish homeland in Grand Island, New York in the 1820's. In Near Fine Condition: corners lightly rubbed; clean and bright.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975. Paperback. Very Good. xxiv, 208 p.; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Part of the Praeger University Series. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly rubbed; spine is crased; pages are clean and tight.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. viii, 507 p.: illustrations, tables; 24 cm. Black cloth with silver spine title. Red endpapers. No dust jacket. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly soiled; former owner's name on front free endpaper; otherwise, clean and tight.

New York: Random House, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. Stated First Printing. [10], 204, [4] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. White cloth spine with red spine title; black paper over boards with blind-stamped illustration on front board. Dust jacket with photograph of the author on the back section by christopher Cerf. A collection of short fiction, some of which appeared previously in small press magazines. Scarce. Book is in Near Fine Condition: faint "H" stamped on blank page following front free endpaper; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: edges are rubbed; ends of spine chipped; closed 2-cm. tear from lower edge of back section; very lightly soiled.

New York: Oxfod University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Fine/very good -. xviii, 374 p.: illustrations, tables; 22 cm. Light brown cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The author "brings to light a wealth of material by and about domestic servants" from the Civil War to World War I. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: rubbed; loss at tail of spine; creasing and chipping at edges; solid.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. x, [2], 274 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Blue cover with silver spine title; publisher's emblem blind-stamped on front cover. Blue endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Stated First Edition. The first biography of Moe Berg (1902-1972), American Major League Baseball catcher and coach, as well as spy before and during World War Two. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: minor loss at head of spine; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: loss at head of spine; rubbed and lightly soiled; closed 2-cm. tear from upper edge of front section; closed 1-cm. tear from upper edge of back section.

Paris: Imprimerie de Vaugirard, 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine. [116] leaves: illustrations; 20 cm. Light blue cloth spine with gilt-tooled spine title: Marques de Porcelaine Russes. Marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Small armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Count Alexandre Orlowski. Original front wrapper bound in, with "369" handwritten in upper right-hand corner. The entire text was lithographed from a hand-written document. No date of publication is given. Name from end of text has been transcribed as M. A. Kouknoff and Alexandre Kukhnov. More likely H. Kaukhnoff. Library records give dates from 1925 to 1929 as the year of publication. This very scarce catalog of the marks of Russian porcelain factories includes brief histories of the factories as well as drawings of the factory marks. In Near Fine Condition: joints are slightly rubbed; light pencil marks on front wrapper (indicating the part of the title used for the spine title); clean and tight.

Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. [8], 152 p.; 20 cm. Black and brown cover with gilt spine title; brown endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and bright.

London: Penguin, 2005. Paperback. Near Fine. xxiv, 168 p.20 cm. Paperback. First published in 1868. Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818-1907) was born a slave and purchased her own freedom at the age of 37; she proceeded to become a successful dressmaker in Washington, D.C. One of her clients was the First Lady, Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882), with whom she developed a close relationship. "Their intimacy informs this extraordinary book, which is at once a slave narrative, a candid private view of the Lincoln White House during a violent turning point in American history, and the story of a friendship that continued after Lincoln's assassination." -- back cover. In Near Fine Condition: edges slightly rubbed; clean and tight.

New York: Crescent Books, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 254 p.: maps, illustrations, tables; 37 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. Map guide on endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. With: 35 x 18 cm. card bearing color key to map symbols. "This Atlas plots, on the ground, at sea and in the air, the exact course of the war . . . Every theatre of war is delineated." -- dust jacket. Includes glossary and index. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and bright.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1953. Paperback. Good. ix, [3], 242 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Stanford Anthropological Series no. 1. Former owner's name stamped on front cover and page edges: Robert Hudgens West. Inside front cover: "Bob West Feb. '57." In Good Condition: cover is rubbed; front hinge weak; pages are clean and solid.