Search Results: Authors starting with K from Black Swan Books, Inc.

Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1997. Reprint; Third Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's black cloth binding, with pastedowns on each board; there are no ownership marks of any kind in the book. Bilingual. Near Fine binding.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. Large quarto; in the publisher's blue cloth binding with pale but bright blue titling, with dustjacket; 431 pages, with illustrations, many in color; there are no marks of any kind in the book.~~A lovely First Edition copy of this important monograph on the work of the artist who pioneers abstraction in contemporary art. Published just a few years after the opening of the USSR to the west. Fine binding / Fine dust jacket.

Shanghai, China: Chung Hwa Book Co., LTD, 1935. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. Ex-library, with all of the unusal marks. No pencil or ink markings in text. Very Good binding / no dust jacket.

La Plata: Tallers de Publicaciones del Museo, 1894. Disbound. Good binding. 18" x 14"; portfolio with 62 pages of text and 18 fine engraved plates; presumed complete; the very delicate paper portfolio is quite rough--covers are detached and edges chipping; library stamp to the cover and the title page, only; the pages are a bit edgeworn and soiled, however the plates, but for light edgewear, are bright and clean; scarce anthropological study;. Good binding.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's blue cloth binding; xvii, 332 pages; a clean copy with no marks of any kind.~~The author describes the destruction and ruination resulting from the Civil War as "our own Pompeii". Near Fine binding.

[Maine?]: [Melissa Sweet], 1985. Three booklets consisting of a garden quotation and a hand-colored pop-up illustration; "The tray case was made by Arno Werner, Master Bookbinder; with a sheet laid in; the binding is a blue hinged box quarter bound with a gilt morocco spine; the spine of the case is lightly sunned; the covers of the booklets are pink handmade paper", and they are tied with a silk ribbon.~~Ms. Sweet is a children's book illustrator; this is one of her earlier works.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Keeler Brass Company, 1988. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A photographic illustrated trade catalog for the Keeler Brass Company from 1893 to 1988. Mainly brass knobs and handles for furniture and cabinets. Gray cloth with gilt lettering. Slight foxing to the edges of the textblock. Very Good binding.

San Francisco: Smith Elder and Company, 1904. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. First edition of Keeler's important book which was a kind of manifesto for the view that houses should be designed which were integrated with nature and "infused with the art spirit." This is considered his most significant book (see Ed Henry; Shelly Ridout and Katie Waddell. Berkeley Bohemia: Artists and Visionaries of the Early Twentieth Century; 2008). ~~Charles Keeler moved to San Francisco in 1891 as a young man, and shortly after became director of the Natural History Museum. Having met architect Bernard Maybeck on the commuter ferry, they became friends and Maybeck agreed to design a home for Keeler in the Berkeley Hills. It was a momentous occasion -- the first of a number of Bay Area homes designed to blend in with the natural setting. This was new style of residence and this book became its manifesto. Keeler's most important book [see Herny, Berkeley Bohemia]. In the publisher's tan cloth… Read More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Quarto; in teal cloth backed in green cloth with titling to the spine, with dustjacket; xvii, 281 pages; with illustrations; there are no ownership (or other) marks of any kind in the book.~~"The Shang divination inscriptions are fundamentally important to any study of the genesis of Chinese culture and nature of early Chinese language.". Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.

New York: The Dial Press, 1970. First Edition. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed with Drawing. 8vo; in the publisher's black cloth, with dustjacket; 32 unnumbered pages, with illustration; printed in red and in black; with a splendid drawing of Matilda by the illustrator of the book, Steven Kellogg; the dustjacket has shelfwear and has been price-clipped; it is bright and is now protected with a new mylar cover.~~A variation on "Wolf! wolf!" Matilda appears to love telling lies and when she needs help the most (the house is burning down) no one believes her. In tradition of children's minatory tales from the Victorian era -- "Peter ate lye; Peter died!"~. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.

NY: The Dial Press, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Paper covered boards have just a bit of rubbing to the bottom edge. The dustjacket has some sunning to the top row of the title (the orange lettering has faded a bit to a kind of mustard color) and a bit of rubbing to the spine. The dustjacket is price-clipped and is protected with a new mylar cover. Very Good+ binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Near Fine binding. Number XXIII of 35 numbered deluxe copies bound in full blue Nigerian goatskin by Wetherby Woolnough, with Whittington marbled endpapers, out of an edition limited to 240. Signed by the translator and the illustrator. With illustrations by Richard Kennedy, and an etching by him numbered and signed in pencil and loosely inserted. With some fade to the spine; housed in the publisher's slipcase. Near Fine binding.

Westport, Connecticut | London: Praeger, 1999. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A First Printing copy of Skoug's Czechoslovakia's Lost Fight for Freedom, 1967-1969, An American Embassy Perspective. With no marks of any kind. Spots of gumminess to the edges of the textblock. A Very Good copy. Green cloth with lettering in gilt. Very Good binding.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. A novel of period African-American life, with quite heavy doses of "dialect" throughout. There is a name on the front pastedown and an inscription -- "to a gentleman from Santa Clause, 1927" -- on the first blank. The dustjacket is present and has paper tape reinforcement on the verso; it is now protected with a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

New York: Pynson Printers, Inc, 1927. Limited Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Quarto, in brown half morocco over marbled boards, housed in the publisher's paper covered slipcase; this is #2 of 200 copies signed by illustrator Rockwell Kent; the binding has minor rubbing and the slipcase a bit of soiling.; all edges of the textblock are rough cut.~~Overall, a nice copy of this uncommon Rockwell Kent title. Very Good binding.

New York: Random House, 1931. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. This is #249 of 1850 copies, signed by Rockwell Kent. In pictorial cloth with silk endsheets.. There is a new mylar cover. There is minor loss to the spine extremities. Printed by the Pynson Printers. Very Good binding.

Two issue of the short lived anti-Mormon newspaper, Salt Lake Daily Review. Billing itself as "Independent in all things, neutral in nothing", the papers ran from August 9, 1871 through February 14, 1872, daily except Sunday. These two issues are for December 4, 1871 and January 16, 1872. The first newspaper is nearly complete separated at the fold; the second with loss of 1/2 x 2" at the inner edge affecting a bit of the text.~~Each newspaper carries notices of the trial of Brigham Young at the time; Young was being tried under an 1862 law that prohibited polygamy in the territories; though he had married more than twenty wives, he was acquitted. ~~The lead in the December 4 paper was "Adultery Must be Put Down" and states "We are not aware that Utah has ever been ceded to Brigham Young or to the Mormon Church," In the Court Proceedings section of the December 4 paper, is given an account of wrangling in the court re Young's failure to appear: "The court inquired of Mr. Hempstead if he could say… Read More

London: John Stockdale, 1813. Second Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Two quarto bindings; in later blue morrocco over grey|blue cloth, with raised bands with decorations and lettering in gilt; Volumes One with title page, Volume Two with title page and half-title; the volumes have 40 plates (2 folding colored plates, 1 folding sepia plate; 26 full page colored plates; 11 full page sepia plates, and I plain (uncolored) engraving; [NOTE: This copy appears to be lacking a single color plate of a Russian Nurse].~~There is next to no foxing, though 2 or 3 plates have several quite small spots.~~The author and artist, Sir Robert Ker Porter; was appointed historical painted to Tsar Alexander I. Very Good binding.

William Byrd Press, 1929. Revised and Final Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 16mo. (6 1/4" x 5 1/8"); the publisher's binding in red cloth; with no ownership or other marks in the book; [12], 13-334 pages, followed by a bibliography; with illustrations, including a double page "Sketch Showing Three Notched (Or Three Chopt Road) East of Charlottesville").~~The Revised and Final Edition of a Richmond item we see only from time to time; full of interesting anecdotal stories. Much information on Richmond businesses and families. There's even quite a nice recipe for "Egg Nogg" (see page 137). Quite an enjoyable read. (Haynes 9995). Very Good binding.

Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd, 1933. Very Good binding. Volumes I through VI, comprised of 23 parts housed in six chemise style portfolio binding. Weekly issues of Automobile Engineering beginning October 1, 1932 straight through to March 4, 1933. Each issue is in Very Good wrappers; one (only) has some loss to the spine. Very Good binding.