Search Results: Authors starting with K from Boojum and Snark Books

Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1992 First edition. As new. Accordion-style screen book of Frida Kahlo self-portraits. Paper-covered boards, color-illustrated front board, 6 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, unpaginated.(3214045). 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New.

Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine of The Ministry of Health of The Estonian S.S.R.; Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland; Tallinn; 1984. Proceedings of the Third Scientific Syimposium, Tallinn, October 19-20, 1983. Brown cloth-covered boards, 9 3/4 x 7 inches, 145 pp., figures, tables. In English and Russian, side-by-side. Near fine. Rare. (3214034). F. Hardcover.

Temple Emanu El, Houston, 1957 First edition. Dark red cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering (moderately faded), 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 96 pp. About good. "This volume is a collection of the Bible's best, those passages from our Jewish sacred literature which every Jew should know, arranged and edited for public reading in the synagogue. It has grown out of conviction and experience".(3214013). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Veda; Bratislava; 1977. Scarce. With the ownership ink-stamp of Dr. Michael DeBakey on the front pastedown. Hardcover with dustjacket. Yellow cloth-covered boards, 9 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches, 158 pp., bibliography, index, tables, 88 figures (including numerous electron photomicrographs). In Solvak. Summary in Russian, English and German. Book very near fine. Dustcover very good. "The ultrastructure of control autonomic nerves was studied by means of electron microscopic techniques in the cat, dog, and guinea pig and compared with the ultrastructure of normal human autonomic nerves. The development of changes occuring in the ligated autonomic nerves was followed up at different distances from the site of ligation, and that both proximally and distally." (3214023). F. Hardcover.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Igaku-Shoin; New York., 1994 First edition. Glossy boards with color-illustrated front board, 10 1/4 x 7 3/8 inches, 116 pp., index, numerous photo-illustrations (mostly in color). Very good (a moderate amount of text underlining). Scarce. An excellent reference for pathologists who must examine placentas. Contents: Examination Procedures (Site, Indications for Histology, Fixation, Technique of Gross Examination, Placental Weight, Histologic Sectioning, Reports); Basic Placental Anatomy and Development (Early Development, Trophoblast, Circulation, Placenta Accreta, Placenta Previa, Placental Shape, Placental Maturation); Umbilical Cord (Development, Length, Insertion, Single Umbilical Artery, Infection); Fetal Membranes and Surface (Layers, Subchorionic Hemorrhage, Extrachorial Placentation, Amnion Nodosum/Squamous Metaplasia, Amniotic Rupture, Cysts, Infection, Meconium, Hemorrhage, Thrombosis, Fetus Papyraceous); Lesions of the Villous Tissue (Calcification, Color,… Read More

David McKay, New York, 1971 A very nice copy of the first edition in dustcover. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 244 pp. Book and dustcover very good. (1722RO119). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

C. V. Mosby, St. Louis, 1940 Scarce first edition (1940), SIGNED by both authors on the front free endpaper. In scarce dustjacket. Dark green cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 8 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches, 327 pp., glossary, index, b/w photo illustrations. Book very good. Moderately worn and chipped dustcover, about good. (1722RO122). Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Schocken Books, New York, 1981 First edition/first printing. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches, 205 pp., bibliographical notes, index. Book fine. Dustcover very good minus (moderate rubbing and edgewear, predominantly at spine ends; spine mildly sunned; 1/4 inch chip at lower spine end; in mylar cover). The first history of the United Jewish Appeal. (K081). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

Delinger's; Fairfax, Virginia, 1972 Second printing. Printed/illustrated boards, 8 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches, 128 pp., numerous b/w illustrations. Near fine (slight edge wear).(3214045). 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Everton Publishers; Logan Utah, 1971 Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches, 264 pp. Book near fine, dustcover very good plus. Dustcover in mylar jacket; not price-clipped. "A Survey of American Church Records is an invaluable addition for the libraries of serious students of American genealogy and for genealogical libraries throughout the United States." (K046). Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Leslie Frewin, London, 1967 First edition. Red boards, gilt spine lettering (bright), 8 x 5 1/4 inches, 83 pp., numerous b/w illustrations (cartoons). Book near fine. No dustcover.(3214026). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Raven Press, New York, 1980 First edition. Volume 11 in the Aging Series. Maroon cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, 258 pp., index, illustrations. Book fine. Dustcover very good-. (1722RO123). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research; Washington, D.C.; 2000. Printed wraps, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 60 pp., numerous figures and tables. Ex-library, with usual markings, else very good plus. (3214034). F. Soft cover.

B. Herder, St. Louis, 1970 Paperback, 7 x 4 1/4 inches, 220 pp. Near fine (moderate sunning, spine and covers; pages clean and binding tight). Scarce. (1722RO082). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.

Madigan Army Hospital; Tacoma, Washington; 1950. Brown stapled wraps with a decorative gold braid, printed front cover illustrated with a turkey, rear cover with a cancelled 3 cent stamp and postmarked from Tacoma, Washington on November 25, 1959; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Two printed pages internally: one is "A Thanksgiving Message" from Maxwell G. Keeler, Brigadier General, MC, Commanding. The opposite page is the Thanksgiving Menu, which begins with Fruit Cocktail and Toasted Crackers, and ends with Cigarettes and Coffee. Very good (small stain, front cover; stain, fore-edge). (3214055). F. Soft cover.

J. B. Lippincott; Philadelphia; 1928., 1928 First edition thus ("The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1893" was first published alone, in book form, in 1917). Red cloth-covered boards, printed front board and spine labels, 7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches, 251 pp. Book very good. Dustcover fair (rare in any condition). Scarce. Contents: The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1893; Louis Pasteur; Personal Recollections of the Late Silas Weir Mitchell, M.D.; Sixty Years of Surgery, 1862-1922; What It Costs to Become a Doctor; An Episode of the Second Battle of Bull Run; Reply at the Dinner Tendered on My Eighty-Fourth Birthday, January 19th, 1921; The End of the Road (A charming poem by Frances E. Pope). (3214006). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair.

'Testimonial Edition', Baltimore, 1909 First edition. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, 8 x 5 1/2 inches, 386 pp., index, authors quoted. Ex-library (George Washington University Department of Medicine), with usual markings (but no card pockets or other papers pasted to the endpapers). Else VG- (moderate edgewear, mostly at spine ends; cracked rear gutter, but underlying binding still intact). Fascinating medical history (rabies in Baltimore, Maryland), experimental pathology, anatomic/clinical pathology, and case studies (particularly with regard to treatment). (1722RO068). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Thomas Todd, Boston. Dark purple, printed, stapled wraps, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches, 16 pp. Fine. 'A paper presented by Helen Keller at the First Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Association for Promoting the Interests of the Adult Blind, January fifth, 1904 / Perkins Hall, Boston'. (3214016). F. Soft cover.

D. Appleton, New York, 1908. First edition. A very nice copy, much better than usually found. Half leather, brown cloth, gilt spine lettering (bright), 10 x 7 1/8 inches, 662 pp., index, 163 illustrations ("for the most part by Max Broedel and A. Horn). Externally there is moderate edgewear, mostly confined to the spine ends and tips, with some erosion of leather in these locations, virtually all split-thickness). Binding tight and square. Pages are in beautiful shape, clean and white. (3214017). F. Hardcover.

Mr. and Mrs. Harris Kempner; Stinehour Press; 1967. Scarce. Gray cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches, unpaginated, b/w photo illustration tipped in as frontispiece. The letters that Lt. Kempner wrote home to his family after going to Vietnam. Kempner was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1942, and was killed in Vietnam in 1966. VG. (3214010). F. Hardcover.