Search Results: Titles starting with K from Stellar Books & Ephemera, ABAA

[KATY] Corporate History of Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company as of the Date of Valuation, June 30, 1918: Prepared in Accordance with the Requirements of Valuation Order no. 20 Issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission, May 13, 1915, PLUS Corporate History of Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company circa 1910 PLUS 2 Sets of Inventory of Tools 1918. Circa 1910 Corporate History held by one rusted paperclip on 8.5 x 11 inch typed red-lined paper plus 4 handwritten sheets. With annotations and corrections. No pagination. Fair Condition. Two sets of typed inventory reports on soiled and ragged 8.5 x 11-inch paper. Fair Condition. 1918 Corporate History is 104 pages, printed on recto only on 8.5 x 11 in paper. With thin cardstock wrappers with two wire brads. Document is a mimeograph copy with moderate toning and chipping to edges. Fair Condition. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway (known as the MKT or KATY line) incorporated September 25, 1865, as the Union Pacific Railway Company,… Read More

Karnak Lavenue des Spinx non le Pylone (Avenue of the Sphinxes, or The King's Festivities Road) Egypt Albumen Photo. Photo measures 8.5 x 11 Inches mounted on board, 14 x 15.125 inches. Manuscript title in black ink. Previously framed with remnants of mounting glue around edge of board. Verso is blank save for two modern white labels with written numerals. Photograph is glued to board around edges; becoming loose at bottom edge. Decent exposure. Slight reflective glare from indoor lighting on scans. Very Good overall. Striking photo of a solitary person walking along the Avenue of the Sphinxes which connects the Karnak Temple to the Luxor Temple, 1.7 miles distance. The Avenue recently was re-opened after decades of renovation. The foreground shows several of the 250 others ram-shaped heads with stories high temples in the background.

Visalia, California: Burnette G. Haskell, 1891. Newspaper. Very good/None. Kaweah Commonwealth Vol. 2, No. 20 April 4, 1891 (New Series), Kaweah, California, 1891. First edition, bifolio 4pp., 16.25 x 11 inches. Minor edge wear and bent corner. Slight toning. Paper previously folded in half. Very Good. Newspaper issue from 1891 from the Kaweah Cooperative Colony Company, originally founded in 1886 for the purpose of demonstrating the advantages of complete cooperation in in social and industrial life. One of numerous American cooperative communities which sprouted in the second half of the 19th century. The Kaweah Colony applied for 53 land patents covering 12,000 acres surrounding the forks of the Kaweah River in eastern Tulare County, California. With financial support from Kaweah Clubs in Los Angeles, Denver, New York and the Bay area, funds were raised to found the colony and begin construction on an 18-mile road providing access to rich timber stands. The colony members also built a print… Read More

Visalia, California: Burnette G. Haskell, 1891. Newspaper. Kaweah Commonwealth Vol. 2, No. 4 (New Series), Visalia, California, 1891. First edition, bifolio 4pp., 16.25 x 11 inches. Minor edge wear and bent corners. Slight separation beginning at head and foot of fold. Slight toning. Very Good. Newspaper issue from 1891 from the Kaweah Cooperative Colony Company, originally founded in 1886 for the purpose of demonstrating the advantages of complete cooperation in in social and industrial life. One of numerous American cooperative communities which sprouted in the second half of the 19th century. The Kaweah Colony applied for 53 land patents covering 12,000 acres surrounding the forks of the Kaweah River in eastern Tulare County, California. With financial support from Kaweah Clubs in Los Angeles, Denver, New York and the Bay area, funds were raised to found the colony and begin construction on an 18-mile road providing access to rich timber stands. The colony members also built a print shop,… Read More

Des Moines, Iowa: The Kenyon Company, 1917. Good. Kenyons Complete Indexed Pocket Map and Shippers' Guide to Colorado, The Kenyon Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1917, 4 x 6.25 inches, 17 pp. Staple-bound booklet; wrappers lightly worn, creased, toned to edges; interior pages and map lightly toned; multicolored map, colors bright; map and pages clean, unmarked; 2-inch closed tear to left edge of map through bit of Utah, Colorado section not affected; good condition. Map measures 18 x 13.75 inches. Rare booklet containing a beautiful color map of Colorado, showing all Colorado towns, cities, post offices, railroads, rivers, and more. On the back of the map is an "Index of Colorado with latest Census and Shipping and Postal Guide". Also included in the pages preceding the fold-out map is a list of all Colorado towns and populations, current to 1917. The Kenyon Company was an American printing and publishing firm in operation from about 1874-1930; they specialized in maps, atlases, calendars, and… Read More

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Twin Palms Publishers, 1999. Danny Lyon. Knave of Hearts by Danny Lyon, Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1999. Signed, Limited Edition. 10 3/8 x 12 1/ inches. 140pp. Book and slipcase in fine condition. Dark blue cloth binding with black imprint on front and spine in matching slipcase. Signed and numbered 99/200 on colophon page which states there were 150 limited edition sets produced yet the manuscript notation states 99/200. From the publisher: "Knave of Hearts is a visual memoir in which Danny Lyon recounts his adventures as a photographer. It is illustrated with his color photo-montages and unpublished pictures from his three classic photodocumentary The Bikeriders, Conversations with the Dead, and The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. The autobiographical text tells his family's history, beginning with the 1905 revolution in Russia, and covers the unrest of 1960s America and the social radicalism of New Mexico in the 1970s. In words and photographs Lyon… Read More

Kodiak Alaska Photo Album circa 1951 from Navy Photographer Thomas Schlientz All photos corner mounted on black leaves contained in commercial album with black comb binding. Album and photos in very good to fine condition. Estimate that 21 photos are missing with 123 photos present. 88 photos measure 4 x 5 inches, 21 are approximately 7 x 7 to 8 x 10 inches with 4 of miscellaneous sizes. Photographer Thomas Schlientz was a Navy photographer in the early 1950's before managing John K. King Books in Detroit for 35 years. The album opens with a circa 1940's folding color pictorial map of Kodiak Alaska followed by some wonderful aerial views of what we assume are Kodiak Island and Navy installations in Alaska. There are some stunning larger images of volcanoes including one emitting a plume; perhaps these are along the Aleutian Chain. Several of these volcanic shots have catalog numbers in the negative and possibly are from 1944. Sadly, the photos are not annotated in the album, nor on the verso for… Read More

Kompositions-Skizzen (Composition Sketches) of German Artist Richard Graef Circa 1918 Homemade string-bound folio measuring 9 x 12 inches with 20 pages plus wrappers. Wrapper has title and initials in brown, green and orange. One loose leaf plus several loose sketches. Contains 44 original study sketches of various mediums including pencil, colored pencil, ink, and watercolor. If the year noted on several of the pieces is any indication, Graef was nearly 40 years old when he completed some of these. I would have thought much, much younger. Richard Graef (1879-1945) was a German painter, graphic artist, draftsman and illustrator born in 1879 Oberweißenbach near Selb. He was a student of H. v. Hayeck in Dachau and received further education in Paris. Graef worked for the Munich magazine "Simplicissimus", initially in Crossen an der Oder based in Dachau from 1934. He was a member of the Association of German Graphic Artists and the Reich Association of Fine Artists in Germany. (askART). 9 pieces… Read More