Lawrence Durrell: Comprehending the Whole
by Julius Rowan Raper [ed.]; Melody L. Enscore [ed.]; Paige Matthey Bynum [ed.]
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995. Very Good/Very Good. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; [xiv], 193pp. Illustrated dust jacket over white faux leather boards with black lettering. Jacket is crisp with light edgewear but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. ... Read More
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Theobald oder die Schwärmer. Eine wahre Geschichte
by Heinrich Stilling [Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling]
Libanon, PA: Jacob Stöver, für J. Schnee, 1811. Good. Libanon, PA: Jacob Stöver, für J. Schnee, 1811. Erste amerikanische Auflage [First American Edition]. Two volumes in one; 12mo (16cm.); contemporary roan-backed boards; 272; 192pp. Ex-Lancaster Theological Seminary with their usual markings, spine leather rather crudely touched up, boards quite rubbed and worn with exposure and some... Read More
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A New Translation with Notes, of the Third Satire of Juvenal. To which are added, miscellaneous poems, original and translated
by Juvenal; [John Duer, attr. trans.]
New-York: E. Sergeant, 1806. Very Good-. New-York: Printed for E. Sargeant, No. 39 Wall-Street, opposite the United-States Bank, 1806. First American Edition. 12mo (18cm.); full contemporary sheep, green gilt-lettered spine label; xxvi,190,[4]pp. (collated complete with half title, errata, and table of contents in rear). Leather quite dried with subsequent flaking along spine, margins rather scuffed, small circular blemish... Read More
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![Contract Ethics: Evolutionary Biology and the Moral Sentiments [Inscribed to Stephen Jay Gould, with additional ALS]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/157/767/1483767157.0.m.jpg)
Contract Ethics: Evolutionary Biology and the Moral Sentiments [Inscribed to Stephen Jay Gould, with additional ALS]
by Howard Kahane
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1995. Very Good. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1995. First Paperback Edition, published simultaneously as hardcover. Signed by the author to paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould on title page with inscription "For Stephen Jay Gould, Howard Kahane." Additional handwritten signed letter to Gould laid in. Octavo; xiii, 151pp. Illustrated paper... Read More
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Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology
by Charles H. Kahn
New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. Very Good. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960 [1964 Printing]. Quarto; publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xiii,[5],249pp.; photographic frontispiece, illus. Light shelf wear, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, very brief pencil marginalia to a couple leaves, else Very Good and sound.
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Briefly Close: Conversation in Jazz
by Kakha Tolordava; Marta Tabukashvili [design]; Rusudan Gorgadze [ed.]
Tbilisi, GE: Bakur Sulakauri Publishing, 2009. Very Good/Very Good. Tbilisi, GE: Bakur Sulakauri Publishing, 2009. First Edition. Quarto. 232 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Text in Georgian and English. A series of interviews with jazz artists who had been invited to play in Georgia by Eastern Promotion, a group that has promoted music in the Caucasus region since... Read More
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![Symposium on the Body's Left Side [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/752/564/1699564752.0.m.jpg)
Symposium on the Body's Left Side [Limited Edition, Signed]
by George Kalamaras
Woodstock, NY: Shivastan Publishing, 2011. Very Good. Woodstock, NY: Shivastan Publishing, [2011]. First Edition, Limited to 200 copies printed on lokta paper handmade in Kathmandu, Nepal, of which this is no. 130. Octavo (22.5cm); publisher's maroon pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in gilt; 22pp. Spotting to covers, else Very Good. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page,... Read More
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![Down for the Count: A Toby Peters Mystery [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/140/897/1496897140.0.m.jpg)
Down for the Count: A Toby Peters Mystery [Signed]
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; [x], 178pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $12.95 price intact; bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with faint edgewear and a bit... Read More
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![Murder on the Yellow Brick Road [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/436/399/1458399436.0.m.jpg)
Murder on the Yellow Brick Road [Signed]
by Stuart Kaminsky
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [10],197pp. A hint of shelf wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by the author on title page. Fictitious murder mystery set on the film set of The Wizard of Oz.... Read More
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![Rostnikov's Corpse [U.S. title: Death of a Dissident]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/586/005/1549005586.0.m.jpg)
Rostnikov's Corpse [U.S. title: Death of a Dissident]
by Stuart Kaminsky
London: Macmillan, 1981. Very Good/Very Good. London: Macmillan, 1981. First British Edition (precedes the U.S. edition]. Octavo; [x], 239pp. Illustrated dust jacket over cream boards with silver lettering to spine. Jacket is price-clipped at bottom corner of front flap, with publisher's £2.97 price sticker above. Jacket is crisp and clean, with some very light rubbing along top edge.... Read More
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![The Village of the Water Spirits: The Dreams of African Americans [Signed and Inscribed by Both]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/230/603/1567603230.0.m.jpg)
The Village of the Water Spirits: The Dreams of African Americans [Signed and Inscribed by Both]
by Michael Ortiz Hill; Mandaza Augustine Kandemwa
Putnam, CT: Spring Publications, Inc, 2006. Very Good. Putnam, CT: Spring Publications, Inc., 2006. First Edition. Signed by Hill and Kandemwa with brief inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 192 pp. Illustrated wraps. Light edgewear to covers. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good; scarce signed.
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![East Goes West [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/366/108/1584108366.0.m.jpg)
East Goes West [Signed]
by Younghill Kang
Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1965. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1965. Reprint. Signed by Younghill Kang with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 401 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Red boards stamped in black. Unclipped dust jacket worn along edges with some minor chipping; soiling and surface scratching. Boards lightly edgeworn with patchy... Read More
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Cordelia
by Garson Kanin
New York: Arbor House, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Arbor House, 1982. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on half title to writer and columnist William Safire with inscription "To Bill, with all the best -- Garson." Octavo; 236pp. Pictorial dust jacket with original $13.95 price; book in brown paper... Read More
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Born Yesterday: A Comedy
by Garson Kanin
New York: Viking Press, 1946. Very Good+/Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1946. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00), grey topstain; 141pp.; photographic frontispiece. Moderate wear to jacket extremities including a few small chips and closed tears, 1.5" closed split to rear jacket spine edge, spine panel toned, corners tapped,... Read More
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Lamps on the Prairie: A History of Nursing in Kansas
by Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Kansas
Emporia, KS: Emporia Gazette Press, 1942. Very Good/Good. Emporia, KS: Emporia Gazette Press, 1942. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket printed in white and black; 292pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Chips and several long closed tears to jacket extremities, rear jacket flap significantly split along fold, spine sunned, upper board gilt a bit discolored,... Read More
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Andersonville
by MacKinley Kantor
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1955. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The World Publishing Company, 1955. First Trade Edition. Thick octavo. 767, [1]pp. Printed dust jacket. Blue cloth stamped in gilt; dark topstain with a faint "Property of U.S. Navy" stamp. Unclipped dust jacket lightly worn along edges with light chipping and a couple short tears; general... Read More
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![Paper Airplane [with lengthy inscription from Ted Berrigan to Tom Carey]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/851/560/1699560851.0.m.jpg)
Paper Airplane [with lengthy inscription from Ted Berrigan to Tom Carey]
by [Ted Berrigan; Tom Carey] Allan Kaplan
New York: Harper and Row, 1971. Good/Very Good. New York: Harper and Row, 1971. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in blue pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); 99pp. Jacket edgeworn and creased with light color bleed to spine verso. Boards unfortunately quite water-spotted and soiled, with a light bow to front board and wear along edges.... Read More
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Ausgewählte Schriften
by Ernest Kapp
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co, 1968. Very Good +. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1968. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey cloth, front cover and spine lettered in black; 337pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece tipped in. Light soil to top textblock edge, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. ... Read More
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Rates of Exchange
by Allan Kaprow
New York: D'Arc Press, 1975. Near Fine. [New York? D'Arc Press, 1975.] First Edition. Large, slim folio (41cm); publisher's black staple bound card wrappers lettered in white; [8]pp.; photographic illus. throughout. About Fine. Artist's book featuring scenarios by the performance artist Allan Kaprow. The "activities" here include "Reflecting," in which one records oneself asking a series of... Read More
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Essays on Struggle: Position and Analysis
by M. Ron Karenga [Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga]
San Diego, CA: Kawaida Publications, 1978. Good. San Diego, CA: Kawaida Publications, 1978. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); 102pp. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Covers edgeworn with a small chip at top front corner, a few creases along fore-edge, and a quarter-sized spot of soiling at bottom front. Dampstain to bottom corner of rear cover continuing diminishingly through textblock, overlapping text... Read More
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![Constantinople: The Patriarchal Cathedrals [WITH] Chalcedon: The Historic Bishopric of Bithynia [Two Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/284/556/1570556284.0.m.jpg)
Constantinople: The Patriarchal Cathedrals [WITH] Chalcedon: The Historic Bishopric of Bithynia [Two Volume Set]
by Alexandros Kariotoglou
Alimos, Greece: Militos Editions, 1996. Very Good +. [Alimos, Greece]: Militos Editions, n.d. [but 1996]. Two volumes; folios; publisher's blue gilt-lettered paper-covered boards housed in original paper-covered clam-shell box; color photographic illus. throughout. Clamshell splitting along bottom edge with a bit of bowing. Lavishly-illustrated guides to the Byzantine art of the churches of Istanbul. Bilingual text... Read More
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Reise Sr. Hoheit des Herzogs Bernhard zu Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach durch Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1825 und 1826
by Karl Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Weimar: Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1828. Very Good-. Weimar: Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1828. First Edition. Two volumes bound in one; octavo (22.5cm.); contemporary imitation tree calf boards recently rebacked with original green gilt spine label retained, all edges stained yellow; xxxi,[1],317; iv,[2],323,[5](ads)pp.; thirteen leaves of plates, chiefly maps and views, eight of them folding. Ex-library with brief rubberstamps to a few... Read More
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Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy
by Karl Jaspers; Ralph Manheim [trans.]
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. Very Good +. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 208 pp. Brown cloth boards with spine lettered in gilt. No dust jacket. Touch of rubbing to edges of boards and spine ends nudged. Binding sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper but pages otherwise unmarked.... Read More
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![My Struggle: Books One through Book Six [Six Volume set, complete]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/971/486/1699486971.0.m.jpg)
My Struggle: Books One through Book Six [Six Volume set, complete]
by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken [trans.]
Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2018. Very Good +/Very Good +. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2013-2018. Volume I a 2nd printing and the rest all first printings. Six square octavo volumes. Illustrated dust jackets; multi-colored cloth boards. Mild rubbing to edges of unclipped dust jackets with a couple minor nicks; light shelfwear to boards. Bindings sound and pages unmarked.... Read More
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Can Theories Be Refuted? Essays on the Duhem-Quine Thesis
by [Karl Popper, contr.] Sandra G. Harding [ed.]
Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1976. Near Fine/Very Good. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1976. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey and white dust jacket; xxi,[1],318pp. Jacket extremities lightly rubbed and toned, spine panel more so with faint damp-spotting, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. ... Read More
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