Search Results: Titles starting with K from B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA

New York: Henry Holt and Company,, 1956 Illustrated with photographs. First edition, second printing (published the same month as the first printing). Inscribed by Roger Maris on front free endpaper: "Good luck / Roger Maris." Publisher's green cloth, with spine stamped in red; in its original green dust jacket designed by Ben Feder, with baseball and elephant illustrations to front panel, lettered in black and red. Near fine book, with very light wear to spine ends and corners, light toning to spine ends and board edges, Global Certified Authentic sticker to front free endpaper, and a small patch of staining to fore edge of text block; very good unclipped dust jacket, with shallow chipping to head of spine, a small closed tear to head of spine reinforced with a strip of tape, a touch of chipping to top of rear panel, and minor splitting to ends of front flap fold. Overall, an excellent copy, inscribed by the MLB great. In The Kansas City Athletics, Kansas City Star sports editor… Read More

London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1976 Foreword by Magnus Magnusson. First edition, first printing. Personal copy of mountaineer George Lowe, with his bookplate adhered to the front pastedown. Inscribed by Lowe on the front free endpaper: "George Lowe. / 1982." Publisher's pale gray cloth, lettered in gilt; in the original pictorial dust jacket designed by Behram Kapadia, illustrated with color Arctic landscapes, lettered in white. About fine, with very minor bowing to the front board, else fine; unclipped dust jacket, with some faint toning to the spine, light rubbing to the spine head, else bright and clean. A near fine copy with Lowe's ownership inscription. Karluk is an account of Vilhjalmur Stefansson's 1913-1916 Canadian Arctic Expedition written by the expedition's magnetician and meteorologist. Specifically, it focuses on the Karluk, the flagship of the expedition, which became stuck in an ice floe in route to an early rendezvous point and sunk shortly thereafter.… Read More

Richmond: The Hogarth Press, 1919 Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Second edition. One of 500 copies, printed for the Hogarth Press by Richard Madley. Original black wrappers hand-painted in royal blue, chocolate brown, and orange. Some shallow chipping and tears to edges of wrappers, else bright and fresh, uncut pages. Overall, a lovely copy in the original fragile wrappers. Housed in a custom folding box. Kirkpatrick A3b. Woolmer 7. Kew Gardens is a short story that was heavily influenced by the post-Impressionist style of art that was adopted by members the Bloomsbury Group. It was first published separately in May 1919 by Leonard and Virginia’s own Hogarth Press in an edition of 150 copies, bound in wallpaper wrappers which were supplied from Roger Fry’s Omega Workshops. This second edition was produced one month later using similar hand-painted wrappers in an edition of 500. The third separate edition (1927) was also limited to 500 copies, some being signed by both Virginia and Vanessa… Read More

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1927 Early edition. Publisher's three-quarter black cloth and blue paper-covered boards with white paper spine label lettered in black. About very good with some light wear to extremities, toning to spine and page edges, both hinges starting, small bookseller's sticker to front free endpaper. Presents well. Yost 31. The King's Henchman is a story inspired by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a set of manuscripts written in the ninth century that detail the history of the Anglo-Saxons in England. Millay's story tells of the travels of Aethelwold, a henchman to the fictional king of England, who falls in love with the woman that the king is supposed to marry and finally kills himself out of guilt for denying them both a marriage to each other. This story was first written as the libretto for an opera commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. American composer Deems Taylor enlisted Millay as his librettist upon the suggestion from his wife.… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960 First edition, “first and second printings before publication.” Inscribed by Dahl on front free endpaper: “For Erik Graham with best / wishes from / Roald Dahl.” Publisher’s lavender cloth, pink designs outlined in black to front board and spine, titles in pink and black, deckled fore edge of text block; original dust jacket designed by Charles E. Skaggs with blue and red hearts to front panel and spine, titles lettered in white, photo of Dahl and his wife taken by Eli Wallach to rear panel. Very good book with light toning to spine and edges, a bit of spotting to edges, and a small spot of light dampstaining to rear board; near fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning to spine, a 1” closed tear and a closed tear with a tiny nick to top edge of front panel, and 1” closed tear to top of rear flap hinge. Overall, a very attractive copy, scarce as inscribed by the author. Kiss Kiss brings together eleven of Roald Dahl’s… Read More

Berlin: Ullstein, 1930 First German edition. Publisher's light beige cloth, lettered in red and black. About very good, with some toning to the front board and spine, some light soiling to the boards, spine very lightly cracked inside the front cover, lacking the front free endpaper, front flyleaf with a closed tear to the top half of the margin, some light spotting to the front flyleaf and title page, otherwise bright and clean pages. König, Dame, Bube (King, Queen, Knave) is the German edition of Nabokov's second novel, which was first published in Russian in 1928 under the title Korol, Dama, Valet. Nabokov wrote this novel while living as an émigré in Berlin, and, like many of his earliest works, it was published under his pseudonym V. Sirin, after the mythological Russian bird. Specifically, König, Dame, Bube tells the story of a young German man named Franz who moves to Berlin to work for his wealthy uncle, only to become involved in a love affair with his aunt.… Read More