Sally in Three Worlds: An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young
by Kerns, Virginia
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2021. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. New. 371pp. Octavo [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. "In this remarkable and deeply felt book, Virginia Kerns uncovers the singular and forgotten life of a young Indian woman who was captured in 1847 in what was then Mexican territory. Sold to a settler, a son-in-law of Brigham... Read More
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Die Verblendung des Duluoz: Eine abenteuerliche Erziehung, 1935-46 (Vanity of Duluoz)
by Kerouac, Jack; Translated by Hans Hermann
Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1978. Paperback. 216pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Illustrated wraps. Near fine condition. The covers show light edge wear, and the pages are age-toned. Vanity of Duluoz in German. Jack Kerouac is known for his spontaneous method of writing, using themes such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. His writings have inspired many... Read More
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Visions of Gerard
by Kerouac, Jack
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 151pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. 1/4 black cloth over illustrated boards. Title stamped in gilt on spine. Slight fading towards extremities. Head of spine gently bumped. In a mildly toned dust jacket with a few spots of light soiling, and a handful of short, closed tears... Read More
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You'll Be Okay; My Life With Jack Kerouac
by Kerouac-Parker, Edie
San Francisco: City Lights, 2007. Later printing. Paperback. As NEW. 286 pp. 20.5cm. Black, white and red photographic wrappers. From rear cover: "Edie Parker was 18 years old when she met Jack Kerouac at Columbia University in 1940. A young Socialite from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she had come to New York to study art, and quickly found herself... Read More
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Pull My Daisy
by Kerouac, Jack
New York: Grove Press, 1961. First edition. Paperback. 38[-72]pp. Octavo. White illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with stills from the film. Near fine. Light rubbing to covers. Minor spotting to fore edge of half-title. Text ad-libbed by Jack Kerouac for the film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie.
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Rimbaud
by Kerouac, Jack
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960. Second edition. Very Good. Broadside. Single sheet [5 x 24 1/2"] folded in fifths and printed on both sides. Printed in red ink on yellow paper. With 5 pieces of tape, mostly to the edges. Very lightly soiled. Charters A-14. Kerouac's homage to French symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud originally appeared in... Read More
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Desolation Angels
by Kerouac, Jack
New York: Penguin Books, 2024. Reprint. Paperback. New. 409 pp. Octavo [19.5 cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Desolation Angels covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation... Read More
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The Dharma Bums
by Kerouac, Jack
New York: Penguin Books, 1976. Reprint. Paperback. New. 244 pp. Octavo [19.5cm]. Illustrated pink and green wraps. From the publisher: "Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as... Read More
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Big Sur
by Kerouac, Jack
New York: Penguin, 2024. Reprint. Paperback. New. 241 pp. Octavo [19.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Toted by The New York Times as Kerouac's "grittiest book", Big Sur follows Kerouac after the publication of his more well known novels, finding him traveling between epiphanies regarding alcoholism and fame in the Northern California town of Big Sur.
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On the Road
by Kerouac, Jack
Penguin, 1976. Later printing. Paperback. New. 207pp. Octavo [19.5cm]; illustrated wraps. Kerouac's groundbreaking novel that defined the beat generation.
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Poem of a Small Departure
by Kershisnik, Brian Thomas [Postcard]
Ash Creek Press. Ephemera. SIGNED. Postcard [11 cm x 15 cm]. Fine. The exhibition, "Brian Kershisnik, Smaller Than Life," was held at Froelick Gallery in Portland, Oregon, December 6-29, 2001. Brian Thomas Kershisnik has signed the back of the postcard. Brian T. Kershisnik focuses his talent on the universal experience of being human, painting people metaphorically and touchingly in... Read More
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André Kertész
by Kertész, André
Lausanne: The Manchester Collection, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. SIGNED. Quarto [31 cm] Blue cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Minor lean to the spine. In the dust jacket, with periodic faint indented scratches to the panel. May require extra postage due to weight. A catalogue printed in the form of a... Read More
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Kesey, Ken
New York: Berkley, 2016. Reprint. Paperback. New. 325pp. Duodecimo [19cm]. Illustrated wraps. "In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched.... Read More
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On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of the Counterculture (PRESS KIT)
by [Kesey, Ken] [Psychedelia] [Sixties] Perry, Paul; Ken Babbs, Hunter S. Thompson and Jerry Garcia
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1990. Very Good. Eight folded unbound signatures. Featuring photos by Ron "Hassler" Bevirt, Allen Ginsberg, Gene Anthony, Ted Streshinsky, and others. 195pp. With 2 folded sheets of photographic representations depicting the Love Pageant Rally held the day after LSD was criminalized, Neal Cassady in Wikieup (Arizona), "Further" being prepared for the Acid Test... Read More
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Collective Memory
by Keyes, Doug; Essay by Sheryl Conkelton
Seattle, WA: Decode Books, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. SIGNED. Quarto [28.5 cm] Pictorial paper over boards, with very minor shelfwear to the boards. From the artist's website- "As an artist with a background in graphic design, Doug Keyes is hyperaware of the ways in which information and images are conveyed to the public. He... Read More
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A Bibliography of William Blake
by Keynes, Geoffrey
New York: The Grolier Club of New York, 1921. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Very Good. 516pp. Thick quarto [28 cm] 1/2 black leather with blue cloth over boards and a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Top edge gilt. Title page printed in black and blue. The extremities are rubbed- a bit more pronounced along the joints. The... Read More
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
by Keynes, John Maynard; Foreword by Peter Frevert
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Near Fine. 403pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and gilt stamped decorative patterns on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets. Silk ribbon page-markers. Light wear to the extremities. One of the most influential economic books... Read More
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Hammersmith Poems
by Keys, John
London: Trigram Press, 1972. First edition, limited edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 45pp. Octavo [25 cm] 1/2 black cloth with green cloth over boards, and metallic green lettering on the spine. Orange endpapers. Very good. The covers are mildly warped, and there are faint moisture stains along the fore edges of the free endsheets. Else, the pages are very clean. Number... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Khayyam, Omar; Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Hardcover. Willy Pogany. Quarto [26 cm] Pale green cloth lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt (the gilt on the spine has faded). Publisher's red top stain. Good only. The extremities are mildly bumped, rubbed and darkened. The front cover has a prominent abraded area. There is a previous owner's name and notation on... Read More
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The Rubaiyat
by Khayyam, Omar
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1904. Roycrofters edition. Oblong sextodecimo [12.5 cm x 18 cm] Limp tan suede yapp binding with a gilt stamped brown leather label on the front panel. Top edge gilt. Very good. The spine and edges of the wraps are faded, and the front satin pastedown has mostly come away from the front wrap. Translated... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Willy Pogany
by Khayyam, Omar; Introduction by George Saintsbury
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1930. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Willy Pogany. 171pp. Small quarto [25.5 cm] Orange cloth over boards, decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine, and with an illustrated paper label and gilt stamped title on the front cover. Top edge gilt. Fore and bottom edges deckled. 12 tipped-in color plates. There are... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer Poet of Persia
by Khayyam, Omar; Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1886. Early printing with illustrations by Vedder. Hardcover. Good +. Elihu Vedder. Quarto [32 cm] Light gray cloth over boards with elaborate decorative stamping on the backstrip and front board. Top edge gilt. Beveled edges. The cloth at the edges of the spine and boards is a bit frayed. The front free endpaper... Read More
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Silversmiths of New York City 1648-1850
by Khrum, Paul von
New York City: Published by the Author, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 155pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth over boards with the title in silver on the backstrip. In the publisher's unopened shrinkwrap. One in an edition of unknown limitation.
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Silversmiths of New York City 1648-1850
by Khrum, Paul von
New York City: Published by the Author, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. SIGNED. 155pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth over boards with the title in silver on the backstrip. The front board is just a little stained. No 158 in an edition of unknown limitation. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To____, from Paul... Read More
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Floating on the Pacific Ocean (Early California Travels Series XXX)
by Ki, Hyoryu
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1955. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 89pp. Duodecimo [19 cm]. Printed yellow paper flecked with mica crystals. Endsheets are red, and also flecked with mica. Foot of front board is worn, and boards are exposed at foot of spine. Spine is lightly rolled. There is a faint 7cm smudge on the rear board.... Read More
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