Search Results: Authors starting with K from Church Street Books

London: Heinemann, 1965. Tight, clean copy with minor spotting on page edges. Top edges red. DJ showing minor shelfwear at extreminites, but a nice copy. Ref: 06488. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/G++. Illus. by R K Laxman. 14.5x22cm.

Berlin: Deutscher Verlag, 1933. Text in German, blue covers with dark-blue lettering and glider illustration on upper board 252pp with b/w illustrations. Covrs have moderate wear, joints and hinges very weak, but holding, 2cm splits at top of joints, pages yellowed, dusty edges and foxing throughout. Previous owner's sticker on front pastedown. Decent reading copy. Ref:104055. First Edition (?). Cloth. Acceptable/n/a. 12x19.5cm.

New York: Vintage Books, 2009. Well-researched account of Jewish documents uncovered in the Warsaw Ghetto, razed by the Nazis in 1943. Card covers, 523pp inc index, plus adverts. Book shows only minimal signs of use, no spine creases. Relatively heavy book may requires extra postage. Ref:093477. First P/back Edition. Card Covers. VG+/N/a. 15.5x23.5cm.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1972. Kavanagh's second novel inscribed "To Pat from Patrick Sept 1972" on ffep and also signed on title page. Orange covers with gilt lettering to spine, 227pp. Covers have lightly bumped corners, dusty page edges and top fore corners of four leaves (pp177-184) have been badly cut in production. Intact DJ has modest wear to extremities and sunning to spine and top edges. But overall a very decent copy. Ref:082666. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. VG-/VG-. 13.5cmx20.5cm.

London: Chatto and Windus with the Hogarth Press, 1968. Slim hardback in the Phoenix Living Poets series, with red covers and gilt lettering to spine and motif to front, 48pp. Apart from foxing to top page edges, book has no obvious faults. Price-clipped DJ has modest rubbing to extremities. But overall a VG copy. Ref:081955. Second Impression. Cloth. VG+/VG-. 14.5x22cm.

Middlesex: Kestrel Books/Penguin, 1974. Tells the story of the beginnings of archaeology. No.12 in the "Explorer" series. Illustrated boards, 48pp with b/w and colour illustrations. Covers have virtually no wear, but light bumping to head and foot of spine. Unclipped DJ has corresponding bumping. Overall a VG copy. Ref:114725. First Edition. Illust. Boards. VG+/VG+. Illus. by Mark Peppe. 15.5x21.5cm.

New York: W W Norton & Co, 1994. Introductory textbook in logic. Card covers, 678pp inc index, answers etc, with b/w diagrams. Covers show just lightest signs of use with no spine creases. Internally very tight with neat previous owner's name on half-title and a couple of small asterisks in contents column. Overall a VG copy. Heavy copy may require extra postage. Ref:103784. Second (expanded) Edition. Card Covers. VG+/N/a. 16.5x23.5cm.

Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1870. Includes works by Marlowe, Ben Jonson and John Webster among others. Green faux leather covers with bevelled edges and gilt, 549pp plus 10pp publisher's adverts. Gilt top edges. Frontis portrait of Jonson with Globe Theatre vignette on half-title. No previous publishing details, so presumed 1870 1st edition. Covers have modest general wear, slightly more to head and foot of spine and top of lower joint has 7cm split. Binding a little cracked at hinges, but holding well. Prelims foxed and page edges and pages generally taned. Spine slightly dulled. Heavy book may require extra postage. Ref:114741. First Edition (?). Buckram. Good/N/a. 16x24cm.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961. Translation of Plato's "Politicus", with introductory essays and footnotes. Card covers, 244pp inc index. Covers slightly discoloured, with modest general shelfwear. Page edges foxed, otherwise internally clean and tight. Ref:114720. First P/back Edition. Card Covers. G+/N/a. 14x21.5cm.

London: J. Wallis and C. Stonehouse, 1776. "The most material circumstances of naval history from the Norman invasion to the conclusion of the last war". Volume 1 of four from a scarce edition published nine years earlier than the standard 1785 one. John Campbell's name is absent from the title page although the author acknowledges him in his foreword for blazing the "Biographia Nautica" trail (First 1742). This edition also lacks illustrations apart from frontis engraving showing Britannia, goddess Minerva, the funeral urn of Sir Charles Saunders and other significant details - explained in a separate note - and "An Anglo-Saxon Ship" at p29. Half-leather covers on marbled boards with five raised bands and gilt on red spine panel, 520pp. General wear to extrems, both joints and upper hinge cracked, but holding well. Page edges discoloured with age, foxing to prelims and occasionally throughout. Pp309-310 is torn, with part missing, rfeps are missing, Pencilled note on… Read More

London: W & R Chambers Sequel to The Little Knight. Light maroon covers with maroon illustration and lettering to front and spine, 136pp. B/W frontis by W S Stacey. ND, but early 20th Century. Neat presentation inscription on ffep dated 1922. Endpapers yellowing and very mild foxing. Head and foot of spine has modest bumping, but overall a very good, tight copy. Ref:071206. Cloth. VG/N/a. 12.5x18.5cm.

Maidstone, Kent: Kathryn Kersey, 2003. 160-year history of the Kent village school. Card covers, 229pp inc index, b/w illustrations. Signed by author on half-title. Very light, small crease to lower, rear fore corner, otherwise book looks unread. Superb copy. Ref:081842. Signed by Author. First Edition. Card Covers. Near Fine/N/a. 20.5x29.5cm.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1967. In the English History series concentrating on key moments. Card covers, 94pp inc index, with b/w illustrations. Covers have only the lightest shelfwear and very slightly sunned spine. But book looks basically unread. Ref:114833. First Edition. Card Covers. VG++/N/a. 13x19.5cm.

Exeter: Wheaton, 1963. Histroy of gliding and how to make and fly model gliders - written for younger readers. Blue covers with black and illustration on upper board, 48pp with b/w drawings with colour-wash. Covers have very light bumping to head and foot of spne but virtually no wear. Page edges dusty and foxed, as are prelims, previous owner's stamp on front pastedown, otherwise internally clean and tight. Unclipped DJ has light rubbing at extrems. Overall a VG copy. Ref:104000. First UK Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG. Illus. by Larry Kettelkamp. 18.5x23.5cm.

London: BCA / Vermilion, 2000. Advice on treating your own back problems, from an Australian physiotherapist. Black covers with gilt, 204pp inc index. Book has no obvious faults, in unclipped DJ which shows minimal signs of use and a couple of small marks (inside). Ref:093462. Reprint. Cloth. Almost as New/VG+. 15.5x24cm.

London: Cassell, 1994. Cassell Military Paperback series. Very minor creasing to cover, otherwise in almost unread condition. Ref:06331. P/back. VG++/N/a. 13x20cm.

Wymondham, Norfolk: Les King and Geo. R. Reeve Sporting life of a Norfolk man, forword by Duncan Forbes. ND but presumed first edition. Signed by author on title page. Card covers, numerous b/w illustrations, 186pp. A few very light signs of use, but overall a very good copy. Ref:104303. Signed by Author. First Edition (?). Card Covers. VG/N/a. 15cmx21cm.

London: MacMillan, 1879. Volume VI in the "Works of Charles Kingsley" series. Green half-leather covers with marbled boards, four gilt-decorated raised bands on spine, with gilt rules and lettering, title on maroon leather panel, 519pp. Covers have moderate wear and bumping to extrems, light foxing throughout. Overall an attractive copy. Ref:103830. Reprint. Half Leather. VG-/N/a. 13x18.5cm.

London: The Dolmen Press, 1973. B/w card covers, 79pp. The lightest rubbing to edges, no creases. A nice copy. Ref:081990. First Edition. Card Covers. VG/N/a. 15.5x22cm.

London: MacMillan, 1903. Red covers with gilt and gilt elephant's head/swastika emblem on upper cover, 289pp plus 2pp of adverts, gilt top edges. Covers have moderate general wear and bumping to extrems, particularly head and foot of spine which is lightly sunned. Page edges dusty, neat "Ex-libris" sticker on front pastedown, prelims lightly foxed, otherwise internally clean and tight. An honest copy. Ref:114947. Repint. Buckram. G+/N/a. 13.5x20.5cm.