Ilderim: A Syrian Tale in Four Cantos
by Henry Gally Knight
London: John Murray, 1816. Very Good. London: John Murray, 1816. First Edition. Octavo. 74 + [8]pp. advertisements, with half-title, collated and complete. Bound in full contemporary calf with gilt stamping to spine. Boards show general scuffing; wear to edges and spine; surface cracking to spine with evidence of prior repair and binding holding. Contemporary ownership inscription of a... Read More
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Dying Echo: Adventure and Death in the Ancient Maya Cities of Yucatan
by Kathleen Moore Knight
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1949. Very Good-/Good. Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Edition Stated. Octavo (20cm); publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.25); 185pp. Dust jacket margins quite chipped and worn with smallish loss along bottom edge of upper panel... Read More
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Rasselas: A Tale by Dr. Johnson [and] Dinarbas: A Tale Being a Continuation of Rasselas
by Samuel Johnson; [Ellis Cornelia Knight]
London: C. and J. Rivington [et al.], 1823. Good. London: C. and J. Rivington [et al.], 1823. 12mo; 266pp. Two full-page engravings, one for each of the tales. Original printed publisher's boards with paper spine label and advertising list on back. Textblock untrimmed, but all pages opened. About 2/3 of spine label in place, the bared crown... Read More
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The Book of Birds (Class Aves)
by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
London: John W. Parker, 1839. Good. London: John W. Parker, 1839. Fourth Edition. 12mo (14cm.); publisher's brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; viii,[2],160pp.; woodcut frontispiece and text illus. throughout. Cloth rather rubbed and worn with brief splitting along upper spine edge and exposure at corners, brief damp spots to rear cover, hinges rather crudely reinforced, front free endpaper torn and... Read More
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[Drop title] Prospectus for the Knoxiana
by [Knox College] J.B. White et al [eds.]
Galesburg, IL: Knox College, 1850. Near Fine. Galesburg, IL: 1850. Small broadside dated Galesburg, June 26, 1850. Very light wear to margins, else a Near Fine example. Prospectus for a proposed students' monthly to be issued out of Knox College, "conducted solely by the undergraduates of the Institution." "It is difficult for us to define precisely the... Read More
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The Aesthetic Theories of Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer
by Israel Knox
New York: The Humanities Press, 1958. Very Good. New York: The Humanities Press, 1958. Reprint. Octavo; 219pp. Black cloth boards with spine lettered in gilt; dark topstain. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges; spine dulled; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good.
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Segelfoss Town
by Knut Hamsun; J. S. Scott [trans.]
New York: Knopf, 1925. Very Good. New York: Knopf, 1925. First American Edition. Octavo (19.3 cm); 368pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in dark blue cloth with red and green stamping. Red top stain. Fore and bottom edge deckled. Boards generally soiled and shelfworn with rubbing to corners and margins. Endsheet gutters starting. Previous owner inscription to... Read More
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Poems from 1952 and 1953 [Signed Limited Review Copy]
by Kenneth Koch
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. Very Good. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. Limited Edition numbered "For Review 9/15." Octavo (24cm); sewn paper wraps; 16pp. Covers lightly shelfworn, with a patch of fading to front. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Publisher's review slip laid in. The stated run was of 300 copies -- 50 in hardcover (actually... Read More
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Bertha and Other Plays [Signed and Inscribed]
by Kenneth Koch
New York: Grove Press, 1966. Very Good +. New York: Grove Press, 1966. First Edition, stated First Printing. Trade paperback (20cm); 134pp. Publisher’s wraps with green, black, and orange text; $1.95 price intact. Wraps bumped and toned; small instance of water damage at spine tail, visible from both front and rear panels. Binding sound. Textblock toned with some... Read More
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The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective
by Kodwo Eshun [ed.]; Anjalika Sagar [ed.]; Gill Henderson [fwd.]
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007. Good. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007. First Edition. Oblong quarto (11.5 x 8.5"); 23pp. Photos throughout. Photo-illustrated boards with green cloth spine and black lettering. Boards heavily rubbed with exposure at corners and spine ends, with splits starting at bottoms of both joints. Spine cocked. Creasing to back pastedown along gutter. Staining along... Read More
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Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy Part One [Inscribed and Signed]
by Yusef Komunyakaa
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. Very Good+/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2004]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's boards in unclipped dust jacket; viii,132pp. Dust jacket a bit dust-soiled, remnants of old price sticker to front flap, corners nudged, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author... Read More
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The Chameleon Couch: Poems [Inscribed and Signed]
by Yusef Komunyakaa
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2011]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's boards in unclipped dust jacket; [12],115pp. Light shelf wear, corners and spine ends rather bumped, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page. Poetry... Read More
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Illustrations to Goethe's Faust
by [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Paul Konewka
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. Very Good -. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First Edition. Slim quarto (30cm); publisher's terracotta pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, glazed endpapers; unpaginated; twelve leaves of plates. Cloth rubbed at corners and spine ends, longish closed tear to front free endpaper, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound.
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Seize the Night [Signed]
by Dean Koontz
London: Headline Feature, 1998. Very Good/Very Good +. London: Headline Feature, 1998. First U.K. Edition, with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],408pp. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, front hinge starting to crack but holding, textblock very lightly toned at margins, else Very Good and sound overall. Signed by the author on title page. ... Read More
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Nightmare Journey [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Dean R. Koontz
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; [6],217pp. General edge wear to jacket extremities, textblock uniformly toned, else Very Good and sound. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Dystopian science fiction... Read More
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Blood Risk [Bookplate Signed by Koontz Laid in]
by Brian Coffey [pseud. of Dean Koontz]
New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company / Black Bat Mystery, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1973. A Black Bat Mystery. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Dean Koontz laid in. Octavo; 160 pp. Pictorial dust jacket with $5.95 price. Red cloth boards with silver lettering stamped on spine. Jacket shelfworn with rubbing along edges and spine ends... Read More
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![The Mosheeach or Messiah [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/701/304/1339304701.0.m.jpg)
The Mosheeach or Messiah [Inscribed and Signed]
by Isidore Koplowitz
Banner Job Office: Athens, GA, 1907. Very Good. Athens, GA: Banner Job Office, 1907. First Edition. First Printing. Small, slim octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; [2],89,[3](ads)pp. Some light shelf wear, brief soil to rear cover, hair-line crack to front hinge, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on front flyleaf: "To his friend... Read More
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La Ciudad Hidroespacial [Limited Edition]
by Gyula Kosice
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Anzilotti, 1972. Near Fine. [Buenos Aires]: [Ediciones Anzilotti], [1972]. First Edition Limited to 2000 copies. Slim oblong octavo (17x25.5cm.); original pictorial wrappers; [32]pp.; illus. throughout. Wrappers very slightly toned along margins, else a Fine example. Exhibition catalog to the Czech-born Argentinian sculptor's space age installation known as the Ciudad Hidroespacial, a series of maquette... Read More
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Origens e Expansao da Fotografia no Brasil Seculo XIX
by Boris Kossoy
Rio da Janeiro: Edicao FUNARTE, 1980. Very Good. [Rio de Janeiro]: Edição FUNARTE, 1980. First Edition. Slim oblong quarto; publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; 125pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Moderate wear and dust-soil, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Uncommon exposition on nineteenth-century Brazilian photography, generously illustrated. Text entirely in Brazilian Portuguese.
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Kossuth and the Hungarian War: Comprising a Complete History of the late Struggle of the Hungarians for Liberty: With Notices of the Leading Chiefs and Statesmen who distinguished themselves in council and on the field
by [Hungary] [Hungarian Revolution of 1848] Louis [Lajo] Kossoth
New Haven, CT: Published by H. Mansfield, 1852. Very Good. New Haven, [CT]: Published by H. Mansfield, 1852. Reprint. Octavo. 288pp. Black and white illustrations including frontispiece. Publisher's gray-green blind-stamped cloth with gilt decoration to spine; pale yellow endpapers. Light wear to edges; spine sunned. Binding sound. Mild spotting to interior; overall Very Good. History of Kossuth and... Read More
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The Swan Thieves [Signed Limited Edition]
by Elizabeth Kostova
New York / Asheville, NC: Little, Brown and Company / The Captain's Bookshelf, 2010. Near Fine. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010. Limited First Edition, signed by Kostova and numbered 100 of 180 copies specially bound for The Captain's Bookshelf (Asheville, NC) on limitation notice at front. Octavo; 564pp. Bound in wine-colored cloth with small mounted Monet... Read More
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A Matter of Honor: General William C. Wesmoreland Versus CBS
by Don Kowet
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author without inscription on half title. Octavo; [xiv], 317pp. Black dust jacket with original $16.95 price intact; book in mustard paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. Jacket shows a small chip at... Read More
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The Black Badge: Confessions of a Caseworker
by Frank Gell; Don Kowet
New York: Harper & Row, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Stated First Edition. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); xiii, 226p. Original dustjacket with $5.95 price; book in mustard paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. Jacket shows a few small... Read More
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Dirac: A Scientific Biography
by Helge Kragh
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1990]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's boards in blue photo-illustrated dust jacket; x,389pp. Old price rubber-stamp to front free endpaper, else Just About Fine. Biography of Paul Dirac (1902-1984), who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 with Erwin Schrödinger for their work... Read More
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith [Signed]
by Jon Krakauer
New York: Doubleday, 2003. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Doubleday, 2003. First Edition Stated. Large octavo (24cm); xxiii, 372pp. Quarter bound boards in grey cloth and cream paper with silver stamping to spine wrapped in publisher's pictorial dust jacket. Endsheets colored maps. Deckled edge. Map at pages [xv-xvi]. Jacket lightly bumped at margins with minor creasing... Read More
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