The Fatal Kiss Mystery
by Rufus King
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. Very Good. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in black; vii,[1],264pp. Light wear to cloth margins, spine a bit toned, faint soil to rear cover, endpapers foxed, contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown, else... Read More
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The Case of the Constant God: Lieutenant Valcour's Most Exciting Case
by Rufus King
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Very Good/Very Good -. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); vi,[2],270pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including shallow losses at spine ends rather crudely tape repaired... Read More
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Murder in the Willett Family
by Rufus King
Garden City, NY: The Crime Club Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1931. Very Good. Garden City, NY: The Crime Club Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931. First Edition, stated, with with "Subscribers Edition" stamped to boards and printed to title page. Octavo. 318 pp. Red cloth boards stamped in black. No dust jacket. Light... Read More
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Holiday Homicide
by Rufus King
New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1940. Very Good. New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, yellow topstain; [8],275pp. Moderate wear to cloth margins with brief exposure at corners, spine a bit toned, light spotting to topstain, endpapers darkened, else a Very Good, sound copy. ... Read More
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Valcour Meets Murder: A Lieutenant Valcour Mystery
by Rufus King
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1932. Very Good. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, [1932]. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth stamped in red, red topstain, map endpapers; xi,[1],306pp. Light wear to cloth margins, spine and upper cover unevenly sunned, spine a bit cocked, else a Very Good, sound... Read More
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![Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology [with] Spectrum: A Second S.F. Anthology](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/190/892/1615892190.0.m.jpg)
Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology [with] Spectrum: A Second S.F. Anthology
by Kingsley Amis [ed.]; Robert Conquest [ed.]; Frederik Pohl [contrib.]; Robert A. Heinlein [contrib.]; Philip K. Dick [contrib.]; Isaac Asimov [contrib.]
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. Very Good +; Very Good +/Very Good +; Very Good +. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1961 & 1962. First Editions. Octavos (20 cm); publisher’s cloth in bright yellow dust jackets printed in black and plum, retaining original prices and white promotional bands; 304pp; 271pp. First volume has “File Copy” stamped on front and... Read More
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The Patriots
by Sidney Kingsley
New York: Random House, 1943. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1943. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21cm); [viii]181pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; boards in gray cloth with red and blue lettering and decoration to spine; gray topstain.. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few very shallow nicks; spine and fore-edge toned. Boards... Read More
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Men in White
by Sidney Kingsley
New York: Covici Friede, Publishers, 1933. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: Covici Friede, Publishers, 1933. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); 137pp. Photo frontis and stage production stills throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; boards in tan cloth with red lettering to spine and single-serpent caduceus on front; red topstain. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and... Read More
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![St. Paul's Manner of Preaching, Recommended for Imitation, in a Sermon Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Daniel Hall to the Pastoral Care of the Church in Sag-Harbor, Long Island: Sept. 21, 1797 [Inscribed by the Author]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/925/310/1599310925.0.m.jpg)
St. Paul's Manner of Preaching, Recommended for Imitation, in a Sermon Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Daniel Hall to the Pastoral Care of the Church in Sag-Harbor, Long Island: Sept. 21, 1797 [Inscribed by the Author]
by Walter King
Norwich, CT: Thomas Hubbard, 1798. Very Good. Norwich: Thomas Hubbard, 1798. First Edition. Stitched self-wrappers; 30,[2]pp. ([A]-D4, collated complete). Light soil to title page, textblock uniformly a bit toned, else a Very Good and sound example. Inscription at head of title page: "Eunice Stone, from the author." Concludes with a delightful appendix describing and promoting the town... Read More
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![Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/388/567/1699567388.0.m.jpg)
Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock [Inscribed and Signed]
by Galway Kinnell
Boston / Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1964. Near Fine/Near Fine. Boston / Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1964. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Slim octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); vi,58pp. Jacket spine a shade toned, else a Near Fine example. Inscribed and... Read More
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![Poems, 1956 - 1973 [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/717/564/1699564717.0.m.jpg)
Poems, 1956 - 1973 [Signed]
by Thomas Kinsella
Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1979. Fine/Fine. [Winston-Salem, NC]: Wake Forest University Press, [1979]. First Thus. Octavo (22.5cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped terracotta printed dust jacket; 191pp. Just About Fine. Signed by Kinsella on front free endpaper. Collection by the Irish poet gathering together works previously published in the 1973 volume "Notes from the Land of... Read More
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Debits and Credits
by Rudyard Kipling
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Very Good/Very Good -. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 354 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$2.00" price and orange printed wrap-around present. Dark green boards stamped in black and gilt. Dust jacket and wrap-around are heavily chipped with long tears... Read More
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The Sun and the Rainbow: Approaches to life though Sri Aurobindo's light. Essays, letters, poems, short stories
by K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran)
Hyderabad: Institute of Human Study, 1981. Very Good. Hyderabad: Institute of Human Study, 1981. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cream wrappers printed in red; xii,213pp. Light shelf wear, spine a bit creased, else Very Good. Quite uncommon collection of essays, most of which were first published in the monthly cultural review "Mother India." No copies in retail and... Read More
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![The Travelling Library: Three Poems [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/039/565/1699565039.0.m.jpg)
The Travelling Library: Three Poems [Limited Edition, Signed]
by David Kirby
Washington, DC: Orchises, 2001. Very Good. Washington, DC: Orchises, 2001. First Edition, Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 70. Octavo (22cm); publisher's purple cloth, gilt-lettered spine, in leatherette slipcase with pictorial paste-on to upper panel and limitation spine label; [10],80pp. Cloth rather spotted, brief soil to first couple leaves, else Very Good. Signed by the... Read More
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![[Prospectus] "Siberia" Frankenstein by UNESCO](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/588/670/1716670588.0.m.jpg)
[Prospectus] "Siberia" Frankenstein by UNESCO
by Charianne Kircher
Los Angeles: Charianne Kircher, 1960. Very Good. Los Angeles, CA: Charianne Kircher, ca. 1960. Pictorial mimeographed flyer (28x21.5cm). Uniformly toned and foxed, else Very Good. Date of publication based on Kircher's address listed as Los Angeles, 26, placing this sometime before 1963 and the introduction of the zip code. An unusual prospectus for what appears to be... Read More
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The Conservative Mind from Burke to Santayana
by Russell Kirk
Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery Company, 1953. Very Good/Very Good -. Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery Company, 1953. Second Printing. Octavo (24cm); publisher's cloth in maroon price-clipped dust jacket printed in black and white; [10],458pp. Dust jacket quite chipped and worn with several closed tears and subsequent creasing, spine panel faded to tan, textblock uniformly toned, contemporary ownership gift inscription... Read More
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An Autumn Holiday in the United States and Canada
by John Kirkwood
Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1887. Very Good. Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1887. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue decorative cloth, upper cover embossed in black, gilt-lettered spine, dark brown glazed endpapers; 272pp. Light shelf wear, corners and spine ends a bit bumped, front hinge cracked but holding, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Memoirs of a single... Read More
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A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace 1812-22
by Henry A. Kissinger
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. Very Good +/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. First Edition with publication date on title page. Octavo; publisher's cloth in red price-clipped dust jacket; xi,[1],354pp. Moderate wear to dust jacket margins including a few short closed tears, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, else a Very Good, bright and sound example... Read More
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![Redneck Secrets [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/736/649/1576649736.0.m.jpg)
Redneck Secrets [Limited Edition, Signed]
by William Kittredge
Tucson, AZ: Sylph Publications, 2006. Fine. Tucson, AZ: Sylph Publications, 2006. First Thus, Limited to 50 copies of which this is no. 4. Small, slim octavo; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards; [8],17pp. Fine condition. Signed by the author on limitation page. Issued as Sylph Chapbook No. 9.
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![The Van Gogh Field and Other Stories [Inscribed to Madeline DeFrees]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/583/868/1699868583.0.m.jpg)
The Van Gogh Field and Other Stories [Inscribed to Madeline DeFrees]
by William Kittredge
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press / Breakthrough Books, 1978. Near Fine. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press / Breakthrough Books, 1978. First Edition. Octavo; 147pp. Publisher's teal cloth stamped in red; red endpapers; no dust jacket as issued. Publisher's promotional sheet laid in. Mild rubbing to boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; a Near Fine copy of the... Read More
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Klaus B. Hendricks: A Life Remembered
by [Klaus B. Hendricks] Mogens S. Koch [ed.]
Kobenhavn, Denmark: Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts / School of Conservation, 2002. Very Good. København, Denmark: Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts / School of Conservation, 2002. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers; 158pp.; illus. throughout, including color photographs. Light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Collection of papers on photograph and paper conservation,... Read More
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The Dark Road
by Clifford Knight
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc, 1951. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1951. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 218 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. Gray boards stamped in red. Dust jacket shows a number of shallow chips and tears with adjacent creasing along edges, and some general rubbing... Read More
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The Affair of the Fainting Butler
by Clifford Knight
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. Very Good -. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. First Edition. Octavo. 261 pp. Dark gray boards stamped in black. Lacks dust jacket. Boards lightly faded along edges with general rubbing and scuffing. Spine a bit cocked. Binding is sound. Small chip with faint paperclip impression along top... Read More
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![Beyond the Barrier [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/293/568/1492568293.0.m.jpg)
Beyond the Barrier [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Damon Knight
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1964. First Edition (stated). Octavo; publisher's cloth in reddish-orange pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; 188pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities including short closed tear at spine crown with brief tape repair, small label to title page gutter edge with subsequent offsetting... Read More
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The Affair of the Golden Buzzard
by Clifford Knight
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1946. Very Good/Good. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1946. First Edition. Octavo. 236 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Gray boards stamped in black and red. Dust jacket worn and chipped along edges and flaps with amateur tape repair over closed tears to front panel. Discoloration and spotting to verso. Good... Read More
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