Search Results: Titles starting with K from Crooked House Books & Paper

London: Frederick Warne & Co LTD, 1921. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition, green cloth backed in cream cloth with gilt and dark green titles, 4to, not paginated, 20 mounted color Kate Greenaway originals 'hitherto unpublished'; boards edge worn, soiled in places, several small scratches, spine dust soiled, seemingly intentional ripple to fore edge of pages. A charming book of Greenaway's illustrations, all of which she presented to John Ruskin and other personal friends, and collected here in one volume for the first time. Greenaway was a much loved 19th century children's book writer and illustrator. Oversize, additional shipping charges may apply.

Peacock Press / Bantam Book, 1975. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Nielsen, Kay. Trade paperback, 11-3/4" tall, 40 color plates by Kay Nielsen. Moderate soiling to fore edge of pages, plates are clean and bright, binding solid.

New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. First edition stated; full green cloth, 8vo, 309 pages; two dust jackets are on the book, both price-clipped and both with 3/64 at bottom of front flap. Toning in endpapers, occasional scattered foxing; dust jackets both with mild edge wear, one has small chip out at tail of spine. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the House is Shirley Ann Grau's masterwork, a many-layered indictment of racism and rage that is as terrifying as it is wise.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Hardcover. Near Fine. Unsigned binding design by Margaret Armstrong. Hardcover, full red cloth binding with cover decoration in gilt, blue and black; gilt lettering, 7-5/8" tall, 396 pages + publisher's ads, color frontispiece and six black & white plates. Very minor toning to spine and edge of front board. Armstrong has cleverly embedded cannonballs and ramrods into her design in such a way that they are not quite recognizable as such at first glance. An historical romance of the Civil War.

Cemetary Dance, 2011. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9x6x1. Signed by Author(s). Deluxe edition limited to 26 lettered copies, this though is "PC". Black hardcover in pictorial dust jacket, in felt-lined clamshell box. Plate illustration preceding limitation page.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5. Daugherty, James. Tan cloth, 6.5x4.5 inches, 67 pages, black ink illustrations by James Daugherty; spine of dust jacket is a bit sunned.

Menlo Park, CA: River Heritage Press, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 10x7x1. First edition stated with full number line; 274 pages, photographic illustrations. Dust jacket lightly sunned along extremities, now in protective mylar coveer.

E.P. Dutton, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Keats, Ezra Jack. Signed by Author(s). First edition stated. Pictorial boards with orange cloth spine; illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats; square 4to. Minor shelfwear to bottom edge of boards; minor wear to DJ corners; near fine in like jacket; inscribed by Lloyd Alexander on title page, additionally, a 1980 holiday card signed by Alexander is laid in. From the Newbery-winning author and Caldecott-winning illustrator comes this tale, about "the need for the individual to act when life demands action" (in the words of Ezra Jack Keats.)

Dodge Publishing Company, 1899. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover, full red cloth binding with black, white, and green Oriental carpet design to both boards and spine, lettered in gilt to front cover and spine, white lettering to rear cover, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, 8-1/8" tall, 750 pp., portrait frontispiece, plate illustrations by L.J. Bridgman and others. Slight rubbing.

St Louis, MO: Principia Mother's Club, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Rudolph Tandler. Small 4to, 256 pages, pictorial endpapers; Principia 90th anniversary bookplate on verso of front free endpaper, clipped dust jacket heavily rubbed with chipping at extremities, faded spine, now in protective mylar cover.

Dragon Press, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited edition of 500 copies. Hardcover, full blue cloth with ivory paper labels to spine and front cover, 7-3/4" x 5-1/4", 164 pp. Moderate discoloration to paper labels, ownership inscription. Although world-famous for his poetry, Williams' prose should not be overlooked.