Search Results: Titles starting with K from 100 POCKETS

St Petersburg, Russia: Ex Libris/Simpozium, 1999. Hardcover. New/Near Fine. HARDCOVER. Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed blue boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/faint creasing & closed tear to lower front edge. Russian translation of The Cabala, debut novel (1926) of American playwright and novelist Thornton Niven Wilder (1897 - 1975) who won three Pulitzer Prizes. This a gracefully written and deftly ironic story of the sophisticated but decaying Italian nobility of post World War I.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1956. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Hard Cover/Flexible Boards. Fine/Very Good. Stated 3rd Printing, 1961. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated flexible green cover w/red spine lettering/Fine. DJ/VG; Strong & sound w/rubs to leading edges & short losses to upper/lower spine edges. Kubuki, a form of traditional Japanese drama of highly stylized song, mime & dance, was initially performed by women in early 17th century --- by century's end, actors were only male. Typically scenes extracted from historical narratives, full appreciation presumes knowledge of the story at large which this excellent volume provides.

Christchurch, New Zealand: Kaiapoi Petone Group Textiles Ltd. Kaiapoi Pattern #117 . Soft Cover/Leaflet. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/As New. 4-page leaflet with edge & tape residue. Patterns for womens' raglan cardigans with round or V-neck, cable Aran sweater, and boy or girl raglan pullowevers.

Christchurch, New Zealand: Kaiapoi Petone Group Textiles Ltd. Kaiapoi Pattern #372 . Soft Cover/Leaflet. Very Good/None as Issued. Near New, showing light edge & surface wear. 4-page leaflet. COVER ART: "Cardigan interpreted in red"; photo. Knitting instructions for a loose-fitting cardigan, which we now favour, or for larger sizes --- bust 38 to 44 inches. V neck cardigan with lace panels.

Christchurch, New Zealand: Kaiapoi Petone Group Textiles Ltd. Kaiapoi Pattern #967 . Soft Cover/Leaflet. Very Good/None as Issued. Near New w/light edge & surface wear & inked notation to page 3. 3--page leaflet. COVER ART: "Boy's & girl's raglan sweaters with Fairisle Trim"; photo. Classic, vintage, V, or round, neck raglan sweaters.

Christchurch, New Zealand: Broadway Books. Kaiapoi Pattern #762 . Soft Cover/Leaflet. Very Good/None as Issued. Near New w/light edge & surface wear. 3--page leaflet. COVER ART: "V, and crew, neck cardigans interpreted in taupe and pink"; photo. Classic, vintage, V, or round, neck raglan women's cardigans fashioned in brushed mohair.

Christchurch, New Zealand: Kaiapoi Petone Group Textiles Ltd. Kaiapoi Pattern #935 . Soft Cover/Leaflet. Good/None as Issued. Text/soil spot to page 1 and inked marginalia to page 4. Softcover/Good; strong with edge & surface wear, and faint creasings to corner tips. 4-page leaflet. COVER ART: "Cardigans interpreted in blue, pink and tweedy beige"; photo. Classic, vintage, V, or round, neck raglan cardigans for boys and girls.

Christchurch, New Zealand: Kaiapoi Petone Group Textiles Ltd. Kaiapoi Pattern #353 . Soft Cover/Leaflet. Good/None as Issued. Tired but intact 2-page leaflet with edge & surface wear, and, has additionally been folded in half. Superlative pattern for a boy's raglan cardigan with optional, well sized and well placed side pockets, and, would be flattering for girls as well. Sized for chests measuring 22 to 32".

New York, NY: Hill & Wang, 1960. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Clean, strong, As New. Mustard yellow linen boards/VG w/light edge wear. First published 1958, Denmark under the title Kalahari Atomtidens Stenalder. Monograph. Field study of the Skeleton Coast, the Namib and Kalahari Deserts of southwest Africa. The author lived with Bushmen for several months. Text augmented with photographs, some in color. Fine copy in lesser dustjacket..

New York, NY: Alfred Publishing, 1973. First Edition . Paperback/Sheet Music. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Stapled sotftcover/VG; strong & sound w/soiling (coffee/tea stains?) Book Two of a series of five for piano from Jon George. This issue Two of simple pieces is oriented towards encouraging greater independence of the hands while using compound meter, triplets, and sycopated pedaling. 15 pgs, 13 compositions.

[Stockholm]: Bonniers, 1973. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED COPY. No loan pocket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG. Collection of spare, epigrammatic verse by the Finnish, ethnic Swedish poet, BaronBo Carpelan (1926 - 2008) who wrote in Swedish with many works translated to Finnish in short order.

Jakarta: Ichtiar Baru - Van Hoeve, 1975. Printed Leatherette. Very Good/No Jacket. 4 5/16 x 3 3/16. This small English/Indonesian, Indonesian/English dictionary employs the Improved Orthography that had been recently promulgated by the Ministry of Education and Culture, and contains a vocabulary quite sufficient for travel and everyday use. 426 two-columned pages, of which 237 are English/Indonesian, and 189 are Indonesian/English; about 49 definitions per page. Covers are clean and sound, though the lettering has faded slightly; text is strong, but carries occasional light checkmark pencilings.

Moskva. USSR: Izd.vo Literatury po Stroitel'stvu, Arkhitekturye i Sroitel'nym Materialam, 1961. 2-e Ispravlennoye . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/AS New . Boards w/cloth binding/VG; strong with rubs to edges & corners, and surface wear. Fold-out, betweem pgs 336/337 (BRAND NEW). 592 pages, with tables, illustrations, diagrams & figures. Hydraulics. Remarkable engineering study of watercourses for transport of fluids, goods and waste. The principal topics are: 1, Sistemy i skhyemy kanalizatsii; 3, Osnovye polokheniye po proyektrovaniyu kanalizatsii; 3, Kanalizatsionnaya set'; 4, Ochistka stochnykh vod; Kanalizovaniye promyshlennykh predpriyatii; and 5, Proyektirovaniye i izyskaniya, 592 pages, with tables, illustrations, fold-outs and figures.

Munich, Germany: Schneider - Buch, 1974. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW, showing faint margin discoloration. Illustrated boards/NF, also showing trace discoloration. PO name to front cover verso. Story of Kapt'n Konny and friends diving for oil. 8th, and final volume, of Captain Konny's seafaring adventures series, begun in 1954 by German children's author Rolf Ulrici (1922 - 1997). Ulrici also wrote under the pseudonymens of Rex Corbett , Hans Korda , Hans Rodos . He wrote among others.

New York, NY: Karabella Yarns. Karabella #KK541 . Soft Cover/Leaflet. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. 2-page leaflet. Knitting instructions for baby girl's lacy cardigan & hat. Included are 3 lace patterns ... substitute lace stitches for perfect cardigan for little boys.

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts, 2001. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Four conflicting voice torment a young woman. A failed suicide attempt lands Karen in a hospital where a firm but understanding psychiatrist helps integrate the entities into her own personality.

New York, NY: Greenwillow Books/William Morrow, 1984. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. EX-LIB. Text/Near New. DJ/NF; under library mylar. Last volume in a trilogy --- sequel to Raising a Mother Isn't Easy, and Karen's Sister. We first met our young narrator Karen when she was eleven. At that time she was actively on the look out for a suitable mate for her adoptive mother (single-single, like never been married). For, as Karen told us, she's been practically taking care of Mom since her arrival from Korean at the tender age of four and a half, and truly needed help in getting better organized (it was Mom, after all, who always said having Karen around gave her life order). Now that Karen's family of three (a new adopted sister also from Korea) have been swelled by a step-father and three step-siblings, orderliness is foreign. For a school project Karen analyzes her home for a "Time Efficiency Study" targeting, as it turns out, primarily her… Read More

New York, NY: Greenwillow Books/William Morrow, 1983. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/BRAND NEW. DJ/NF; under library mylar. Volume II of a trilogy (following Raising a Mother Isn't Easy, and before Karen and Vicki). Precocious Karen, barely a teen, native of Korean and adopted at the age of four and a half, lives with her single mother (single-single, like never-been-married). Karen has failed multiple attempts to find a husband for her mother, who has just adopted five year old Meghan, also from Korean, who is a handful; top that off with a visiting Grandmother, also a handful. Then ... Megan's mother announces her engagement to a fellow is bringing along three children of his own! Our charming young heroine is as reflective as ever. Fiction but real life! Author Elisabet McHugh has six adopted children (four from Korea), two dogs, and seven cats!

Moscow, USSR: Progress Publishers, 1973. First Edition, 2nd Printing, 1977 . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/book shop label to front cover verso. English translations from V.I. Lenin's Collected Works prepared by Progress Publishers. 64 pgs. Contents: The Three Sources & Three Component Parts of Marxixm followed by a biographical sketch of Karl Marx and an Expostiion of Marxism, and, biography of Frederick Engels.

London, UK: Centaur Press, 1961. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/Bright, clean, As New. 1961, First Edition, First Thus. Black linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF w/rubs to all corner tips & faint creasing to rear inner flap. Maps to endpapers. Bookshop stamp to first title page; PO name to Title Page. LAID-IN: 3 maps issued by The Tourist Department, Nepal. Introduction to the heritage & history of Kashmir. Author James P. Ferguson, fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, is fluent in Hindi & Urdu. Text in 6 parts: I, Introduction; II, The Periods of Kashmir History; III, Ancient Kashmir; IV, The Mughul Gardens; V, Early Travellers; and, VI, Conclusion.