Search Results: Titles starting with K from BRYAN BUNCH BOOKS

New York: Knopf, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Only flaw is slight stain (coffee?) on back of frontispiece portrait of Mansfield

Like new.

Boston: Ginn& Company, 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. Richard Doyle. Very bright for 1886! Paper pasted over board on front cover is worn at corners. Previous owner's name and short inscription on endpapers.

Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1900. Later printing. Hardcover cloth. Good. "An Interesting and Accurate Account of the Most Valuable Facts in Natural History from Original Research and Careful Study of the Most Reliable Works in Various Languages forming A PICTORIAL ENCYCLOPEDIA and Complete Library of the Marvels of Animated Nature, about one thousand elegant illustrations by the best artists, produced at a cost of over $50,00o" reads the description on the title page. Miriam Florence Squier Leslie was an American publisher and author. She was the wife of Frank Leslie and the heir to his publishing business which she developed into a paying concern from a state of precarious indebtedness. Cover is partly disconnected from pages and very faded, but all 450 pages are there, most with wonderful engravings of animals interspersed into the text. 8.5 by 11 trim.

This \cCopy would be fine except for inch-long water-stain on front cover.

A rare epic poem from the 20th century. This copy is in excellent shape with just slight signs of wear.

London: Geoffrey Bless, 1925. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Slightly cocked and minor wear and staining on cover; brown cloth with bright red type. Inscription in ink on endpaper "New cover and Robert's, Prague July 1926, Rushmore"

In a wildly romantic novel, Capek hypothesizes a material that can cause great explosions, which he names krakatit, after the volcano Krakatoa. It is exploded with high-frequency radio waves. Many readers have identified krakatit as the first nuclear explosive. Because Capek is famous for introducing the word robot. this novel is also seen as a bleak prediction of the future.