Search Results: Authors starting with K from Sparrow's Bookshop

Washington Law Book Co, 1883. Hardcover. Very good/None. Book has been rebound and new glue has discolored the front and back endpapers. Very light foxing on top edge. Pages are unmarked and binding is firm. Boards look brand new with very slight wear at spine ends.

Orbit, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, fourth printing. All pages are bright, clean and unmarked. Binding and hinges tight and square. Almost no signs of use or shelf wear. Appears unread.

Alfred A. Knopf, no date given. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Special omnibus book club edition with gutter code, "HB8E". Assumed printed in the late 1960s. Jacket is protected in archival sleeve but previously suffered some rubbing to faces with moderate shelf wear around the edges including chipping, small open and closed tears, and creases. Boards are straight and mostly clean but with some small blemishes to rear board. Corners and spine ends bumped. Tear to bottom edge of first page near gutter. Binding is somewhat loose with slightly slanted spine and a few instances of mildly split binding throughout. Some underlining and marks in margins, none of which obscure text. Newspaper clippings on Kafka taped to the last few pages of book.

W.H. Freeman and Company, 1997. Paperback. Very good/N/A. No markings. Pages and covers are clean and crisp with very minor shelf wear.

Book Find Club, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/None. First edition, third printing. All pages are bright, clean and unmarked. Binding and hinges remain secure. Minor shelf wear to boards, with spine ends softened and corners bumped. Else sharp.

National Geographic, 2016. Paperback. Very good/N/A. Unmarked pages and tight binding. Scuffing to cover.

Random House, 1999. Paperback. Very good/N/A. All pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Very light shelf wear.

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1993. Paperback. Good/N/A. First paperback printing. Moderate underlining and annotations throughout text. Else clean. Binding is tight. Minor shelf wear to covers.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Contains: The Story of Orchestral Music and Its Times, The Story of One Hundred Great Composers, The Story of A Hundred Operas, and the Story of One Hundred Symphonic Favorites. All pages are bright, clean and unmarked aside from previous owner's name and date on all front endpapers. Binding and hinges remain secure. Jackets are heavily rubbed, soiled and worn with chips and scuffing along the edges. All still intact aside from "Great Composers" jacket completely torn along edge of spine.

Doubleday Dolphin, 1977. Paperback. Near fine/N/A. First edition. All pages are clean and unmarked. Very minor shelf wear and some bumping to spine ends.

Harper & Brothers, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. First American edition. Jacket is intact aside from small tears and scuffing around the edges. Boards are solid, the spine is square, and the pages are deckled, bright, and unmarked.

Simon & Schuster, 1953. Paperback. Very good/N/A. Covers are edgeworn, with creasing across top portion and at corners of front cover. Spine is creased, with chips and fraying at ends and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Hinges are starting to seperate, but binding remains square.

Oxford University Press, 1969. Paperback. Good/N/A. About 8 pages in the beginning of the book have minor underlining in pen. All other pages are unmarked. Some age rubbing and wear to covers. Spine is sun-faded and has a few light reading creases.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Jacket is mildly scuffed and edge worn. Pages are clean and unmarked aside from previous owner's blind stamp on front endpaper. Spine ends are softened, but boards are otherwise firm and even. Front hinge is partially cracked at table of contents.

Cranston & Curts, 1892. Hardcover. Good/None. Introduction by Rev. Sheridan Baker, D.D. Pages are lightly tanned, with some foxing. Front endpaper bears previous owner's inscription in black ink, and back flyleaf is marked in light pencil. Text block edges are browned and lightly foxed. Boards are scuffed and soiled, with bumped, worn corners. Spine ends are softened and buckram has frayed to reveal material beneath. Gilt lettering on cover is slightly darkened but unfaded. Binding is starting throughout, and front and back hinges are partially cracked.

Harvard University Press, no date given. Paperback. Good/N/A. 8th printing of this edition, first published in 1982. Cracked spine between pages 118 and 119, but all pages remain intact and attached. Reading creases to spine with wear around the edges. Crease along fore edge of back cover. Shelf wear and corner bumps are present. All pages are clean and unmarked.

Simon and Schuster, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Very good/N/A. First edition. Pages are unmarked except for previous owner's name on front endpaper. Binding is firm. Some color transfer and staining on covers. Rip on front bottom edge and bottom of spine. Corners starting to peel.

One World, 2019. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. All pages are clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Jacket is bright and free of any tears. Small area of wrinkling on back jacket, else the book is in "like new" condition.

Simon and Schuster, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. First edition. All pages are clean, but two remainder marks on bottom page edge. Binding firm, corners sharp, spine ends softened. Jacket is bright and crisp with minor shelf wear.

Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Hardcover. Good/None. Ex-library copy with typical stamps and markings. Else clean. Appears to have been rebound, or at least reinforced at hinges. Binding remains secure. Minor shelf wear to boards and some light scuffing at spine ends.