Search Results: Authors starting with K from Chartwell Booksellers

New York: New Directions , 1963. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. (580 pages, with black and white illustrations). A very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket with fractional loss at the spine head. The book has a flare of discoloration at the head and foot of the spine. The contents are fine, with a former owner’s name dated on the front end paper in ink.

New York: Library of America , 2011. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. As-new, in an unclipped dust jacket. The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1987. First Thus (In a limited edition of 800 numbered copies) . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to (54 pages, illustrated with four tipped-in black & white lithographs). As-new copy of this elegant rendering of Kafka’s excruciating work, hand-sewn and hand-bound in vellum paper over parchment boards, housed in a linen-covered clamshell box. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, with lithographs by Michael Hafftka. Number 673 of 800 numbered copies signed by the artist on the colophon page. A virtually mint copy.

Spain: Turner (Throckmorton Fine Art), 2002. First Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). As New. 8v (152 pages, illustrated). As new, without dust jacket, as issued, still in publisher’s original shrink-wrap.

New York: Farar, Straus & Girouox, 1984. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jackets. Very Good. 8vo (105 pages). A very good First American edition, in a price-clipped dust jacket. One of Yourcenar’s earliest works, here translated into English for the first time since being published in 1929. A clipping of Yourcenar’s N.Y. Times obituary is laid-in.

Harry N. Abrams. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. folio (358 pages; color and black and white illustrations). This is a very good copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket. There is a gift inscription written in blue ballpoint pen on the front free endpaper. Else fine.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. As-new, as issued, without dust jacket, still in publisher’s original shrink-wrap.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2002. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 4to (272 pages). As-new, in dust jacket.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. A very good copy, in dust jacket.

China: Georgia O’Keefe Museum, 2014. First Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (183 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white and color photographs and reproductions). As-new, without dust jacket, as issued, still in publisher’s original shrink-wrap.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2004. First Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 4to (223 pages,, 278 photographs in duotone). This is a very good copy of the First Edition in an unclipped dust jacket.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. The political, economic, cultural, etc. impact of the U.S. post-war occupation. A very good copy, without dust jacket (257p., notes, biblio., index).

New York: Association Press, 1949. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. By the commander of one of the five midget submarines that participated in the attack, who later became the first Japanese POWs of the war. First hand Japanese accounts of World War II in English are few, and this important source is quite rare in any condition. This is a very good copy, without dust jacket, covers slightly soiled, corners slightly worn, gold star on front free endpaper. (133pages)

N.P.: Privately Published, 1969. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo. From the author’s recollections, notes and letters: training Stateside, then 2nd Div. at Chateau-Thierry & Soissons, recovery in a military hospital & attache in Paris during the Peace Conference. A very good copy, light shelf wear, corners slightly bumped, in chipped & worn dust jacket. (289p., many illus., 15 maps, appendices, index.)

New York: Grove Press, 1991. First American Edition (Za676). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (368 pages). A marvelous reference work. This is a First American edition copy, in dust jacket, virtually mint.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2002. First American Edition (Za676). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (202 pages). A well-written, incisive, brief biography by the renowned military historian; not uncritical but firmly in Churchill's corner. This is a virtually mint copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Dorchester, England: Veloce, 2009. First Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. (112 pages with index; illustrated with black and white photographs; color and black and white drawings). Vintage photographs and drawings illustrate this history of the Russian motor vehicle industry prior to World War I.

DC: Smithsonian Institutiion Press, 1982. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. Traces the rapid technical development of American air power under Roosevelt. A very good copy, in dust jacket. (148p., 68 illus., index.)

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo. Introduced in 1937, 53 subs served in WWII. With extensive modifications, the T-Class served until 1977. A very good copy, in dust jacket with slight wear to corners and adhesive residue from removed labels (160p., circa 200 photos & diagrams, appendices, biblio., index).

New York: Grove, 1989. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (162 pages). As-new copu of the First American edition copy in an unclipped dust jacket. The contents are fine.