Caroline. Briefe an ihre Geschwister, ihre Tochter Auguste, die Familie Gotter..
by [Karoline Michaelis Schelling] George Waitz [ed.]
Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1871. Good. Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirse, 1871. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo; 20th-century red library cloth, gilt-lettered spines; xiii,[1],385; iv,384pp.; engraved portrait frontispieces. German text throughout. Ex-Wilson College Library with their usual markings, cloth rather unevenly toned along extremities and spines, textblock uniformly brittled and toned due to inferior paper quality, title... Read More
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Abacus
by Mary Karr
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. Near Fine/Very Good +. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. Stated First Edition (hardcover issue). Octavo. 54 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $17.00 price present. Maroon boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is gently rubbed along edges with some light toning. Trace of a 1" shallow abrasion to front... Read More
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[Miniature] Az ember tragédiája / The Tragedy of Man / Die Tragödie des Menschen / Трагедия человека : Részletek [Excerpts]
by Imre Madách; János Kass
Budapest: Képzőművészeti Alap Kiadóvállalata [Fine Arts Fund Publishing Company], 1975. Very Good. Budapest: Képzőművészeti Alap Kiadóvállalata [Fine Arts Fund Publishing Company], 1975. First Edition. Miniature smaller than 32mo (6x4x1cm); unpaginated [136pp]. Illustrated with 15 etchings by János Kass. Text printed in four parallel languages: Hungarian, English, German, and Russian. Black leather with gilt lettering on spine and... Read More
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The Romance of English Literature
by Kate O'Brien [ed., intro.]; W.J. Turner [ed.]; Elizabeth Bowen; Graham Greene; Kenneth Mathews; E.L. Woodward; Lord David Cecil; Sir Herbert Grierson
New York: Hastings House, 1944. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Hastings House, 1944. First Edition. Octavo; 324pp. Illustrations throughout, 48 in color. Printed red, white, and blue dust jacket with $5.00 price intact; book in yellow cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket chipped at head of spine, with a few closed tears along edges and some general... Read More
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Jock's Castle
by Katharine Gibson; Vera Bock [illus.]
New York: Longmans Green & Co, 1940. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Longmans Green & Co., 1940. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 139 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Gray boards stamped in red. Illustrated endpapers. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped along edges with general rubbing and amateur tape repair to verso. Boards show light shelfwear.... Read More
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Journal of Katherine Mansfield
by Katherine Mansfield; J. Middleton Murry [ed.]
London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1927. Very Good/Very Good. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1927. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey printed dust jacket retaining original price (7/6 net); xv,[1],251pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, small soil spot to upper panel, spine panel toned as are endpapers, slight spine lean, brief foxing to textblock edges, else Very... Read More
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Novels & Novelists
by Katherine Mansfield; J. Middleton Murry [ed.]
London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1930. Very Good+/Very Good. London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey printed dust jacket retaining original price (7/6 net); [8],308pp. Dust jacket spine panel darkened, textblock lightly toned, else a Very Good or better copy. The late New Zealand author's collected criticism, covering works by Jane... Read More
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Life Magazine and the Power of Photography
by Katherine A. Bussard [ed.]; Kristen Gresh [ed.]
New Haven: Princeton University Art Museum, distributed by Yale University Press, 2020. Near Fine/Near Fine. New Haven: Princeton University Art Museum, distributed by Yale University Press, 2020. First Edition. Large quarto (33 cm); 331pp. Illustrated throughout. Boards full bound in bright red cloth with white stamping, wrapped in pictorial jacket. Red pictorial endsheets. Jacket lightly bumped at edges... Read More
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The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield
by Katherine Mansfield; J.M.M. [J. Middleton Murry] [ed.]
London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1939. Very Good/Very Good. London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1939. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey printed dust jacket retaining original price (7/6 net); viii,243pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and cloth margins, jacket spine a bit toned, textblock margins foxed, slight spine lean else Very Good and sound.
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Signed Autograph Letter to Stephen
by [Kerouac-iana] Katya
N.p., 1980. Very Good. N.p.: ca. 1980? One-page illustrated autograph letter (28x21.5cm.) signed from Katya to Stephen. Wrinkling from handling, small abrasion to paper not compromising text, else Very Good. Free of mail folds, leading us to assume either this bizarre epistle was never sent or was passed to Stephen in the middle of study hall,... Read More
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The New Moosewood Cookbook [Signed Bookplate]
by Mollie Katzen
Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2000. Very Good +. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2000. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Katzen mounted to verso of front cover. Quarto. 234 pp. + advertisements. Black and white illustrations and color photographs. Illustrated wraps. Light rubbing to edges with mild curling to corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very... Read More
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Alfred Werner: Founder of Coordination Chemistry
by George B. Kauffman
Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1966. Very Good. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1966. First Edition. Large octavo (23.5cm); publisher's grey card wrappers printed in orange-red, French flaps; xv[1],127pp.; frontispiece. Light shelf wear, wrappers a bit dust-soiled, brief pencil notes to upper cover; Very Good and sound overall. Study of the life and work of Swiss chemist Alfred Werner (1866-1919), awarded the... Read More
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Once in a Lifetime: A Comedy
by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1930. Very Good. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1930. First Edition with publisher's seal to title page. Octavo. 236 pp. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; lacks dust jacket. Bookplate of Theater director George Seaton to front pastedown. Light shelfwear to boards; chipping to crown; spine faded and gilt dulled. Binding... Read More
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Up the Down Staircase [Signed]
by Bel Kaufman
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1964. Very Good +/Very Good +. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Octavo (21.5 cm), [x], 340pp. Tan publishers dust jacket with pink, orange, and black printing, author photo on back, and price intact ($4.95). Boards full bound in sandy gray with orange and purple stamping on the spine. Dark orange... Read More
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Zambia's Economic Revolution: Address by His Excellency the President Dr. K.D. Kaunda at Mulungushi, 19th April, 1968
by Kenneth David Kaunda
Lusaka, Zambia: Zambia Information Services, 1968. Very Good. Lusaka, Zambia: Zambia Information Services, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. 55 pp. Black and white photographs. Printed paper wraps. Light edgewear to wraps. Binding sound and pages unmarked.
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Rei Kawakubo: Comme des Garcons / Art of the In-Between
by Rei Kawakubo
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. Very Good. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. First Edition. Two volumes; the first volume a slim quarto accordion-folded 12-paneled brochure accompanied by a narrow quarto staple bound pamphlet; color photographs throughout the former, floor plans in the latter. Light wear along margins, else Very Good and sound. Albums... Read More
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Joanna Godden Married and Other Stories
by Sheila Kaye-Smith
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1926. Very Good/Very Good. London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1926. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket; [6],297pp. Evidence of neat splitting along jacket spine edges with extensive old tape repair to verso not showing through externally, spine panel a bit darkened, shallow loss at spine crown, two small paper... Read More
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A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, by the Late John Kay, Miniature Painter, Edinburgh; with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes
by John Kay
Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1842. Very Good. Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1842. Two volumes in four. Tall octavos. Amusing black and white caricatures throughout. Vol. I, Part I: 90 plates incl. 4 folding; Vol I, Part II: 74 plates incl. 1 folding; Vol. II, Part I: 91 plates incl. 5 folding; Vol. II, Part II: 65 plates incl. 5 folding.... Read More
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Kay Thompson's Eloise
by Kay Thompson; Hilary Knight [illus.]
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. Second Printing. Slim quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.95); 64pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket margins including a few tiny chips, light dust-soil to rear panel, boards very slightly bowed, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.... Read More
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Saint Francis [U.K title God's Pauper]
by Nikos Kazantzakis
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First US Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (22cm); 379pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in marbled olive paper and black cloth with gilt and black lettering and decoration; red topstain. Jacket edgeworn with an inch tear along bottom front fold... Read More
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Where's Daddy?: The Mythologies Behind Custody-Access-Support [Inscribed to Stephen Jay Gould]
by K.C.
Richmond: Harbinger Press, 2000. Very Good/Very Good. Richmond: Harbinger Press, 2000. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author to paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould on full title with inscription "To Steven [sic] Jay Gould, many thanks for your inspiration, KC." Octavo; xiii, 236pp +4pp publisher's blank order forms. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $26.50... Read More
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A Study of the Strategy and Tactics of the Peninsular Campaign up to and Including the Battle of Salamanca Illustrating the Principles of War
by A. Kearsey
London: William Kelly, 1928. Very Good. London: William Kelly, 1928. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's red printed card wrappers; 87pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear from handling, spine panel a bit toned, hinges starting, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the Modern Military History Series. OCLC locates just two copies as of June, 2024, one... Read More
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Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade
by H.R.F. Keating
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1966. Very Good-/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1966. First American Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in bright pink pictorial dust jacket by Charles and Cuffari retaining original price ($3.95); 223pp. Moderate chipping and wear to jacket margins, cloth rubbed, especially at corners, with fraying to top edge of... Read More
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A Conrad Memorial Library: The Collection of George T. Keating [Limited Edition]
by [Joseph Conrad] George T. Keating
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. Very Good. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First Edition, Limited to 501 copies of which this is no. 155. Large, thick octavo (26.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, white embossed paper medallion inlay to upper cover, printed paper spine label (duplicate bound in rear), top edge gilt, housed in black cloth... Read More
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The Vanishing Gold Truck
by Harry Stephen Keeler
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1941. Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1941. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 317 pp. Gray boards stamped in yellow. Lacks dust jacket. Boards toned and worn along edges with brief exposure and minor fraying. Binding is sound. Toning to endpapers, but pages unmarked.
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