Search Results: Titles starting with K from Island Books

Harrap,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition, with 25 plates on 12, several maps and charts (a number full-page) in the text and a large folding plan on japon; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, copy in dustwrapper. Still the best account of the Royal Navy's attempt to match the Kaiser's U-boats in WWI. The twin-funnelled 'K-class' boats were the biggest and fastest submarines of WWI but met with a series of tragic mishaps; of the seventeen craft commissioned not one survived disaster. Fisher was moved to exclaim 'I have not yet mastered on what basis our submarines harm the enemy more than themselves!' SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.342

The Mountaineers, [Seattle WA],, [1992]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1987]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured plates, and maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

Penguin, [Harmondsworth],, [1952]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. King Penguin 67. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Folio Society,, 2021. 8vo., First Edition thus, text in blue and black, with frontispiece, coloured plates and 3 double-page spreads; blue patterned cloth, backstrip lettered in blue and orange, printed endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1978]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, small signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Dent,, [1907]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus; original series binding of blue ribbed cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, dark tops, pictorial endpapers, a near fine set. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Includes glossary of Finnish names. EL 259, 260; Seymour 579.0, 580.0.

Stourton Press,, 1983. 8vo., First Edition, title in blue and black, with illustration; green buckram, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 350 COPIES (THIS COPY No. 86). WITH AN A.L.s FROM THE PUBLISHER AND RELEVANT CUTTING LOOSELY INSERTED.

Guild,, [1985]. 8vo. with plates; black cloth backstrip lettered in silver a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser p.146.

Arms & Armour,, [1997]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Macmillan,, [2015]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper

Ian Allan, [Shepperton],, [1975]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published two years after the German edition.

Gyldendal, [Copenhagen,, 1996]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, text in English and Danish, with titles in red and black, numerous photographs (many full-page) in the text and photographic endpapers in blue; navy blue cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Vol. I: Breve 1931-1950; Vol. II: Breve 1951-1962. The correspondence between Blixen and Robert K Haas is used with permission of Random House Inc. Already very scarce, especially in this condition.

Dent,, [1934]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 7 plates; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, black top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

Sherratt & Hughes,, 1915. 8vo., with illustrations (a number full-page) and decorations throughout, free endpapers lightly browned; pale green cloth blocked and lettered in darker green, lower board a little faded, lower hinge reinforced else a bright, clean copy. Bright copy of a delightful goblinesque fantasy first published in 1895.

A&C Black,, 1910. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with mounted coloured frontispiece and 15 mounted coloured plates, free endpapers mildly browned; green cloth upper board lettered in gilt with mounted coloured illustration, a very good, bright copy. Inman 412.

Bolton Art Gallery, Bolton,, 1975. 8vo., First Edition, with full-page illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-browned else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.

John Murray,, [2016]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Jonathan Cape,, [2007]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; black cloth, gilt back, maroon endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Girl's Own Paper Office,, [c.1939]. 8vo., with coloured frontispiece, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION