Search Results: Titles starting with K from Voewood Rare Books

New York: KasparovChess Online 2000, 2000. First edition. Presentation copy: 'To Bernard [Cafferty? the expert on Soviet Chess], best wishes G. Kasparov. 17.11.2000. New York'. 8vo. pp. [vi], 202. Illustrations. Numerous diagrams. A chess game played on the internet against the world that Kasparov describes in the form of a diary. Original black cloth, lettered in silver in an unclipped pictorial dust-wrapper, lettered in white red and black. Fine.

London Vizetelly and Co. 1887, 1887. First edition. 1887. Rebound in the late 19th century calf without the original paper covers - this edition was issued in paperbound format only. Full calf with gilt decoration around the edges of the front and back covers. Five raised bands on the spine with gilt decorated compartments. Dark brown leather label in second compartment with title in gilt (mistakenly written as "King Solomon's Wifes"). A fine copy. "This parody on 'King Solomon's Mines' was for many years attributed to Andrew Lang. In 1921, however, writing to the SKETCH in August concerning a caricature of Haggard by 'Maat' which had appeared in its issue for Aug. 3, Ernest Vizetelly gave the name of the author of 'King Solomon's Wives' as Sir Henry Chartres Biron who wrote it when he was a young barrister."

n.p. n.p. 1914, 1914. A diary kept by Oberjäger W. Werkberth a Corporal in the 4th Company Garde-Jäger-Bataillon covering the period 2nd August to 9th September 1914. Handwritten in pencil in a small notebook bound in half black linen with paper covered boards. There are sixty-eight numbered leaves with Weckberth's diary entries on both sides. The first leaf (unnumbered) has the title and year with, on the verso, a list of dates and places beginning with "15.8.14 Dinant" and ending with "8.9.14. Bois Tronces. Gefangen...1.30 nachm", indicating his being taken prisoner at 1.30 in the afternoon. In total there are 138 pages of handwriting. As one would expect from a wartime diary the handwriting shows signs of haste, Weckberth clearly keen to record his experiences as speedily and freshly as possible. Helpfully, there is, in a separate small notebook, an English translation although this is an edited version as some quite long sections of the German diary do not… Read More

Leipzig: Ernst Oldenburg 1931, 1931. Special issue 12 of Alfred Koch's leading naturist magazine Körperbildung-Nacktkultur. 221x142mm. pp. 54, [10]. 24pp with 43 black and white photographs. In original paper covers illustrated with a naked couple dancing on the beach. Scuffing to four of the images with a little loss but otherwise a nice copy of a rare volume. Adolf Koch was one of the leading proponents of the Freikörperkultur and developed his own method of nude gymnastics. This issue of Körperbildung-Nacktkultur translates as "Pleasure in the Body" and contains, in addition to numerous photographs showing people taking pleasure in their bodies, articles on the Korperkultur movement in England and America, the practical work of Koch's gymnastics school and "Sex-Appeal und Nacktkultur".