Search Results: Titles starting with K from Flamingo Books

Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1989 Surrey Beatty & Sons (Chipping Norton, Australia), 8 5/8 x 12 inches tall b rown cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, copiously illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs and drawings, vi, 457-835 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with mild bumping to all four tips and the lower edge of the front cover. Blind emboss name stamp to lower margin of title page from the prior owner, Dr. Jim Dolan, who served as General Curator at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park for decades. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP07~ [4.0P] Volume 2 of this two-volume comprehensive review of… Read More

Taschen America Llc, 1999-04-01. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. 1999 Taschen (Cologne, Germany), 10 3/4 x 13 inches tall lime green hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, white lettering to front cover and spine, black endpapers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of Blossfeldt's photographs, 359 pp. A near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a very good dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP19~ [7.5P] A serious man who earned his living as a teacher, Karl Blossfeldt (1865- 1932) seems an unlikely candidate for aesthetic canonisation. But his photographs of plants, taken in their thousands over more than thirty years, reveal a formally rigorous talent whose precision and dedication bridge the nineteenth and twentieth century worlds of Image making as do his contemporaries… Read More

Univ of Washington Pr, 1990. hardcover. Like New/Like New. 9x1x11. 1990 Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center in association with the University of Washington Press (Los Angeles, California), 9 3/8 x 11 5/8 inches tall hardcover in publisher's dust jacket, copiously illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs and reproductions of artwork, xvi, 230 pp. A new copy, still sealed in publisher's clear wrap, which is a bit soiled and torn. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~JJJ~ [5.0P] This catalog, which accompanied a Malevich exhibition at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center in Los Angeles, is an excellent introduction to the artist. Paintings, drawings, watercolors, stage design, costume design, and experimental architectural models are on display. The technical quality of the reproductions is fine, allowing the luminous nature of the art to present itself. A helpful… Read More

Corvina Press, 1975-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1975 first English edition Corvina Press (Budapest, Hungary), 5 1/8 x 7 1/2 inche tall grey cloth hardbound in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, white lettering to front cover and spine, 373 pp. A very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket, nicely preserved in a clear archival sleeve. ~SP14~ Kazohinia is a novel by Sandor Szathmari (1897-1974). It appeared first in Hungarian (1941), was published in Esperanto in 1958 and in this first English translation in 1975 (more widely reprinted under the title 'Voyage to Kazohinia' in 2012). It is a utopia/dystopia modelled partly on Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and therefore pertains to both utopian and travel genres.

Mendocino Historical Research Inc. (Mendocino, Cal. Very Good. 1981 first edition Mendocino Historical Research Inc. (Mendocino, California), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall stapled paperbound in orange printed covers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, 32 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Slight bumping to lower tip of spine. Very slight stain to verso of front cover. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce local/family history and genealogy. OCLC (No. 25889377) locates only two copies at institutions worldwide. ~X~ [1.0P] Explores the Kelley / Kelly family of Prince Edward Island, who settled in Mendocino, California in the 1850s. Their landmark home, teh Kelley House, became a history museum for the Medocino coast. Contents: Prince Edward Island; Introduction; William Henry Kelly (1821-1895); Eliza Owen Kelly (1825-1914); Peter Kelly (1785-1865); Emma Shirley 'Daisy' MacCallum (1859-1953); Alexander MacCallum (1852-1908);… Read More

Windmill Publications, 2000-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2000 Windmill Publications (Mt. Vernon, Indiana), 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches tall red buckram cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt ruling and lettering to front cover and spine, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, index, [4], 201 pp. Purchase receipt from publisher laid in. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this uncommon local history. ~NN~ [2.5P] The 1952 sesquicentennial history of Kent, an unincorporated community in Stephenson County, northwestern Illinois. About 70 pages are devoted to Kent local families of note.

To. Very Good. In Japanese. 2005 first Japanese edition, Kaneko Shobo (Tokyo, Japan), 6 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches tall hardbound in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, white paper-covered boards, black lettering to spine, powder blue endpapers, vii, 238 pp. plus colophon. Very slight rubbing to covers and minor bumping to lower tip of front cover. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~CC~ Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the Rorschach. Complete coverage of administration, scoring, interpretation, and reporting. Expert advice on avoiding common pitfalls. Conveniently formatted for rapid reference. The Rorschach test, also known as the Rorschach inkblot test, is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both.… Read More

Huntington Press, 2009-06-01. Second. Paperback. Very Good. 2009 Huntington Press (Las Vegas, Nevada), 6 x 9 inches tall trade paperback, xii, 373 pp. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP24~ [2.0P] Kill Everyone took the poker world by storm when it was first released in 2007. Its perfect blend of real-time experience, poker math, and computational horsepower created new concepts and advanced strategies never before seen in print for multi-table tournaments, Sit-n-Go's, and satellites. In this revised and expanded second edition, Kill Everyone adds even more ammunition to a tournament-poker-player's arsenal. In addition to groundbreaking analysis of fear-and-fold equity and equilibrium, plus the presentation of optimal strategies for the bubble, the end-game, and heads-up play, this second edition adds 50 pages of incisive commentary from the hottest tournament-poker player in the world, Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier,… Read More

Baltimore MD: Wooddy, 1833-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 1833 first edition, William Wooddy (Baltimore, Maryland), 341pp., 5 x 8 inches tall x 1 inch thick full leatherbound with gilt lettering to red leather spine label. Half of first front free-endpaper (a blank) lacking with moderate foxing throughout and some staining and pencil notations to endpapers. Covers moderately worn, with rubbing, bumping, edgewear and a bit of cracking along spine. Otherwise, a very good copy of this scarce issue. ~NN~ [2.0P] An early American (Baltimore, Maryland) issue of this defense of Christian Universalism (Unitarian Universalism historically grew out of the Christian Universalism movement), by Charles Warfield, who built and operated The Branch Tabernacle on St. Paul's Lane in Baltimore for the initial years of the church, from about 1831, when the Rev. O.A. Skinner was the first pastor.

A Grail Publication, 1948. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 1948 'A Grail Publication' / St. Meinrad's Abbey (St. Meinrad, Indiana), 5 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches tall blue cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, illustrated with drawings by Pauline Eppink, 68 pp. Slight to moderate soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce work. ~SP25~ [1.0P] Tells the story of St. Margaret of Hungary (1242-1270), a Dominican nun and the daughter of King Bela IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina. She was the younger sister of Kinga of Poland (Kunegunda) and Yolanda of Poland and, through her father, the niece of the famed Elizabeth of Hungary. Her feast day is celebrated by the Dominican Order. Raised by Pope Pius VII to a festum duplex, it is the day of her death, January 18.

Klamath Basin Genealogy Society. Good. 1987 Klamath Basin Genealogy Society (Klamath Falls, Oregon), 8 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches tall paperbound in grey printed covers, [4], 220 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with a tiny bit of 'cover curl' to the fore edge of the front cover. Former library copy, with Klamath County label taped to top of front cover, abrasion to lower cover where a label was removed and library/discard stamps to top margin of verso of title page and blank rear free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce and useful genealogy reference. ~SP04~ [2.0P] The second of two volumes documenting those buried in cemeteries in the Klamath Basin, Klamath County, southern Oregon. Volume I covered Linkville Cemetery in Klamath Falls, Oregon, while this volume covers all other cemeteries in the county. With decedents listed alphabetically by cemetery, this is an invaluable resource for the genealogical researcher. Following an… Read More

Konz, 1998-01-01. Paperback. New. In German. 1998 u.p. (Konz, Germany), 9 x 11 7/8 inches tall paperbound, new in publisher's plastic shrink-wrap, complete with companion audio CD, 105 pp. ~SP19~

G. Hwbkw Verlag, 1975-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 1975 G. Hwbkw Verlag, blue 9 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches tall, softbound, 125 pp. with additional information at end of copy. Black lettering to front cover and spine. Spine has two tears at either end, but all holds well. Front cover has scratches and curling to corners of pages. Back cover has creases at the left side. Otherwise, very good - clean, unmarked and bright. ~B~

Bayer. Staatssamml. fur Palaontologie & Histor. Ge, 1986-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. In German, with abstract in English. 1986 Bayerischen Staatssammlung fur Palaontologie & Historische Geologie (Munich, Germany), 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches tall paperbound in slick blue printed wraps, 58 pp. plus 10 full-page photographic plates with descriptions on facing pages. Slight soiling and edgewear to covers. Prior owner name to front cover. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~WWW~

John Cumberland, 1826-01-01. Pamphlet. Acceptable. No date (but these Cumberland editions were published 1823-1831), John Cumberland (London) 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches tall, with no wraps or covers, removed from a larger volume of English plays but separately paginated, with its own title page and engraved frontispiece after R. Cruikshank of a scene from Act IV of the comedy, 72 pp. This extract is split between pages 60 and 61, with a trace amount of foxing to frontispiece, title page and the final page. But otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Includes an introduction by 'G--D,' English writer George Daniel (1789-1864), with notes on costumes, cast of characters from the Theatre Royal production, stage directions, exits and entrances and relative positions of the characters. ~MMM~ Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer. A barrister, journalist, actor, and playwright, he edited 'Gray Inn Journal' between 1752 and… Read More

Springer, 2000-12-31. Hardcover. Very Good. 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers (Dordrecht, The Netherlands), 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches tall hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), index, xix, 171 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to coverswith minor bumping to the lower tips. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP02~ [1.5P] This book presents a specific and unified approach to Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, termed IFN for Information Fuzzy Network methodology. Data Mining (DM) is the science of modelling and generalizing common patterns from large sets of multi-type data. DM is a part of KDD, which is the overall process for Knowledge Discovery in Databases. The accessibility and abundance of information today makes this a topic of particular importance and need. The book has three main parts complemented by appendices. Part I (Chapters 1-4) starts with the topic of KDD and DM in general and makes reference to other works in the field, especially those related to the… Read More

E. Kulp, 1988-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1988 E.Kulp (New Paris, Indiana), 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches tall paperbound in light brown printed covers, illustrated with black-and-white photographs and facsimiles of family documents, 88 pp. Annotated by the prior owner throughout with pencil and ink marginal notations of ancestral reference numbers and a few corrections, likely of utility to those doing genealogy research. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce genealogy. ~NNN~ [1.0P] Follows 11 generations of descendants in the Kolb / Kulp / Culp family. Contains related family names, including: Martin, Horning, Musser, Weiler, and others. The first generation listed in this work is Dielman Kolb of Wolfsheim, Baden, Germany. He was born in 1648 and died in either 1712 or 1713, aged 64 years, and was buried at Manheim, Germany. He married the fifth child of Peter Schumacher and she died in 1705, aged 53 years, and was buried at Wolfsheim. They had eight children. Joseph… Read More

Americana Germanica Press, 1917-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1917 signed and inscribed first edition Americana Germanica Press (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 6 3/4 x 10 inches tall, 141 pp. Green embossed hardbound with gilt lettering to spine. Signature of author of front free endpaper. Tips and spine caps are bumped with edgewear to sides of boards. Otherwise, a clean, bright, signed and unmarked copy.~FFF~