Search Results: Titles starting with S from KM Books

Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Various . Very minor bump on one corner of cover; inscription on ffep. DJ has 1/2 inch chip and several closed tears.

United States: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1979. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fritz Eichenberg. Bump bottom spine and some handling marks; pencil notation of price on title page; further booklet and price list laid in. 20pp and 12 illus. Included: catalogue price list from 1977 illustrating various prints.

San Francisco, Calif: Self Published, 1955. 1st Edition . Spiral Bound. Good. Don Freeman. A rare item self-published by Freeman in a very small edition - prior to this copy I had not seen another copy for over 4 years. This copy comes from the personal estate of a long time Santa Barbara dealer. Front cover heavily toned along with edges of the first 5 or so leaves; front cover with some water stains and bottom corner is missing and 3 or so holes tearing at the wire binding. Back cover with some staining. Interior is clean except last 14 leaves have minor staining at the bottom edge that does not go into the image ranging from 3/4 inch going down to a tiny dot. A near wordless story (it has a sentence introducing the happy Skitzy and another sentence introducing the unhappy one) Published by Don Freeman at John D. Hooper Lithographers, 343 Front St., San Francisco, Calif. 14 x 11 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches) From the back cover of the 2008 reprint: .the delightful tribute to creative and… Read More

Boston MA: Lee & Shepard, 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. This is a diatribe by the very talented Linton largely against the style of the even more talented Timothy Cole (see Linton's P.S. at the end of the book regarding their meeting). Cloth cover is wearing at top/bottom of spine and on corners. Toning on cover. Front gutter is starting and appears to be missing ffep.

New York: 1936 Random House, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Slip case-no DJ. Lynd Ward . Signed by Illustrator(s). Signed and #1010 out of 1250 copies printed from the blocks. Book: VG+. Spine is moderately toned as is typical; foil cover has light scratches and wear, which is also typical -caused by removing the book from the slipcover. Bottom edge has very minor bump. Gutters inside cover have toning that is typical and probably a reaction of the glue the binders originally used. Pages are clean and intact. Signed in pencil by Ward and numbered 1010 in black ink. SLIPCASE: VG- light toning, some marks and stains, wear most noticeable with rub marks on the gold foil strip. Corners and bottom edge starting split; invisible tape used to reinforce bottom edge and about 1 1/2 " of invisible tape applied to cover with some skinning where it appears as if an attempt was made to remove it (tape was not for any structural reasons-presumably someone taped a note on the case).

London: B T Batsford, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. book fine; dust jacket very good with two small tears corners abraded .

USA: Brookdale Press, 1939. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Slip case-no DJ. Richard Floethe. signed by author/illustrator. Colophon states limited to 150 copies, printed by Lithography, hand colored and signed by the artist; #48. One of the very few early wordless novels that is a happy story. A summer romance (story of artist fleeing his studio for the summer, sails, falls in love, summer ends, girl departs, artist returns to studio in the city). 21 cm., paper covered boards with sailboat image on front cover, 31 ff., 30 lithograph images hand-colored in shades of pink and blue printed recto; verso blank. Book is very good to near fine with contents bright and binding firm. Covers are lightly toned with handling marks. Slip case is intact but starting to split and has portions missing top and bottom. Inscription opposite title page in blue pen by Floethe. Richard Floethe - (1901 - 1988) was a prolific artist of considerable stature. He found early success in New York City as… Read More

Brno, Czech Republic: K.V.U. Alsem, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová . Svédové pred Brnem : Kniha drevorytu [The Swedes Besiege Brno: A Book of Woodcuts] As new except for ex libris of prominent Czech composer, Frantisek Pícha (Pichy). The colophon at the back of the book indicates a print run of 100 copies with 10 on handmade paper and 90 on Chamois Special paper. This copy is on the Chamois Special paper. The colophon also states it was printed letterpress ie which suggests that it was printed from the woodblocks. -Printed French-fold with the fore edge tinted black. Leaves unopened, as designed. -Quarto [26.5 x 19.5 cm] in a linen type cloth -gilt-stamped title on spine -bound-in red silk ribbon marker -Half-title page; title page; pages numbered 5 through 19 of text in Czech; 36 prints unpaginated; two pages listing title of each print. -Story documents the failed… Read More