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(KAHN) ELY JACQUES KAHN, NEW YORK ARCHITECT. New York: Acanthus, 1995. Small 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 120, (3) pages. Fir edition. With an introduction and a list of works designed between the wars by Francoi Bollack and Tom Killian. Fine.

KAHRS, Henry (Company). COLD SIMPLEX STEREOTYPING. New York: Henry Kahrs, (n.d., circa 1903). 8vo. Printed wrappers. 8, (12) pages. First edition. Containing eight pages of instructive information and twelve pages of sample plates, this equipment brochure has a four page revised price list tipped in. Also laid-in are three color printed sample plates, a folded brochure on Granotype engraving and another one page ad for a self inker. Some wear.

(JACKSON) KAINEN, Jacob. JOHN BAPTIST JACKSON, 18TH-CENTURY MASTER OF THE COLOR WOODCUT. (Washington: GPO, 1962.) 4to. Cloth. xii, 183 pages. First edition. With illustrations of Jackson's color woodcuts and chiaroscuros, including te in color; bulletin 222 by the Smithonsian Institution. Fine. (12760).

KAINS, M.G. GINSENG. New York: Orange Judd, 1903. Small 8vo. Publisher's cloth. 144, (3) pages. N.O. Booth's copy with his signature. Cultivation, harvesting, marketing and market value of the plant. Very good.

(BOOKBINDING) KAMPH, Jamie. A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO BOOK-BINDING. New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1982. 8vo. Publisher's cloth spine and boards. (ii), 40, (3) pages. One of 250 copies. A handsome publication, printed and designed by Henry Morris at The Bird and Bull Press, bound by Fritz and Trudi Eberhardt, and illustrated by Rosemary Tottoroto. The author offers advice for the collector on commissioning fine bindings. A glossary of terms is included. With fond memories of the publis visiting the author's farm containing one of the first solor powered book binderies set amidst fields on which a herd of deer grazed. Fine. One of a handful of Review Copies. (37797).

KARLINGER, Hans. ALT-BAYERN, EIN BILDERBAND ZUR HEIMATKUNDE. Munich: Roland-Berlag, 1922. 4to. Cloth. Some sunning to cover, pages browning. A good copy only.

(WRIGHT) KARPEL, Bernard. WHAT MEN HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. volumes. New York: House Beautiful, 1955 and 1959. 4to. 34; 10 pages. First editions. A bibliography arranged by decades from 1900 to 1955 along with the supplemen bringing the bibliography up to 1959. Very good.

KASPAR, Karl. NEUE DEUTSCHE ARCHITEKTUR. Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje, (1956). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. xix, (i), 220 pages. First edition. With text in German and English. Well illustrated with photographs and plans modern German architecture. Ex-library copy, with spine label, bookplate removed but present, dust jacket worn, else a good to very good copy.

KASPAR, Karl. NEW GERMAN ARCHITECTURE. New York: Praeger, (1956). 4to. Cloth. xix, 219, (1) pages. First American edition. With an introduction by Hubert Hoffman, German architecture of the 1940s and 1950s is studied and illustrated, with plans and photographs. First and last page foxed, else very good.

KATZ, Leo. UNDERSTANDING MODERN ART. (Chicago:) the Adelphian Society, (1936.) 8vo. Cloth. (x), 257 pages, plates First edition. Part one of a three part series Orientation for Modern Times "An interpretati of the historical, psychological, philosophical, and scientific backgrounds o modern art," This first part by Leo Katz. Over two hundred and sixty-one illustrations. Some underlining and notes in pencil. Minimal rubbing to tip of spine, else very good.

KAUFFMAN, PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH AMERICAN FOLK ART. New York: Dover, (1964). 4to. Printed wrappers. (ii), 146 pages. Reprint. Illustrated. Front wrappers creased, wrappers sunned, a fair to good copy.

KAUFFMAN, Henry J. THE AMERICAN FARMHOUSE. New York: Hawthorn Books, (1975). 4to. Cloth spine, boards, dust jacket. xi, (i), 265 pages, 14 plates. First edition. American farmhouses and outbuildings that were built during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries are studied; two hundred photographs and plans, and twenty-two color illustrations. Very good in lightly handled dust jacket.

KAUFFMAN, Henry J. THE AMERICAN FARMHOUSE. New York: Hawthorn Books, (1975). 4to. Cloth spine, boards, dust jacket. xi, (i), 265 pages, 14 plates. Second printing. A study of seventeenth through nineteenth century American farmhouses, with t hundred photographs and plans, and twenty-two color illustrations. Very good.

KAUFFMAN, Henry J. THE AMERICAN FARMHOUSE. New York: Hawthorn Books, (1975). 4to. Cloth spine, boards, dust jacket. xi, (i), 265 pages, 14 plates. First edition. American farmhouses and outbuildings that were built during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries are studied; two hundred photographs an plans, and twenty-two color illustrations. Very good in lightly handled dust jacket.

KAUFMANN, Edgar, Jr., editor. THE RISE OF AN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. London: Pall Mall Press, (1970). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. x, 241 pages. Firs English edition. Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Vincent Scully, Albert Fein, and Winston Weisman contribute articles on nineteenth-century American architecture and city planning, with illustrations. Very good in rubbed dust jacket.

KAUFMANN, Edgar, Jr., editor. THE RISE OF AN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. New York: Praeger, (1970). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. x, 241 pages. First edition. Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Vincent Scully, Albert Fein, and Winston Weisman contribute articles on 19th-century, American architecture and city planning, with illustrations. Very good in rubbed dust jacket.

(URBAN PLANNING) HELSINGIN KAUPUNKI. HELSINKI KESKUSTA ASEMAKAAVALLINEN...TOOLONLAHTI TERASSITORI. Helsinki: 1969. Oblong folio (11 3/4 x 20 inches). Wrappers, spiral binding. xvi pages, 42 leaves of illustration. First edition. Part of an urban plan for Helsinki. This volume deals with transportation. Vertical crease in front cover, else very good. Rare. OCLC cites only one copy, that at the University of Helsinki.

KAY, Arthur. TITLE PAGES AND OTHER PAGES. Edinburgh: Private Circulation, 1925. 4to. Wrappers. 8 pages, 12 plates. Reprint from the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society's Publications. An article meant to supplement Pollard's work on one hundred title pages. Fin uncut, unopened copy.

KAY, John. PAPER, ITS HISTORY. London: Smith, Kay and Company, 1893. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. (ii), 100, (1) pages. First edition. Listed in St. Bride's Catalogue on page 487, this book is a general history o paper. The white buckram covers are slightly rubbed, else a very good copy o scarce book.

KEARY, C.F. A GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION OF ITALIAN MEDALS. London: The Trustees, 1893. 8vo. Contemporary printed boards. xvii, 98, (2) pages, 7 plates. Second edition. Catalogue of over three hundred Italian renaissance medals in the British Mus collections. A very good, bright, unopened copy.