A Pictorial Life of Jack London
by Kingman, Russ; Irving Stone (Foreword)
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1979. Hardcover. 288pp. Quarto [28 cm] 1/4 black cloth with brown paper covered boards, and a silver stamped title on the spine. Very good. The extremities are very gently bumped, rubbed and faded. The spine is a little rolled. There are several ripples in the rear pastedown. The longest ripple is 6 inches long.... Read More
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The Bean Trees
by Kingsolver, Barbara
New York: Harper Perrenial, 2013. New. 246 pp. Duodecimo. [20.5 cm]. Illustrated wraps. “ The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling. " - Los Angeles Times A bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched... Read More
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Another America / Otra America
by Kingsolver, Barbara
Seattle, WA: The Seal Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Near Fine. SIGNED. 103pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Bottom fore-edge corners of the covers are gently bumped. In an attractive dust jacket. Poems in English and Spanish. Spanish translation by Rebeca Cartes. Barbara Kingsolver earned degrees... Read More
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The Bean Trees
by Kingsolver, Barbara
New York: Harper & Row, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 232pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 beige cloth with brown paper covered boards, and a dark brown ink stamped title on the spine. Very good. The extremities are gently bumped. There is an indentation in the top edge of the front cover. In a very good dust jacket. The spine is... Read More
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Arid Lands Newsletter No. 16, May 1982
by [Kingsolver, Barbara] Office of Arid Lands Studies
Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona College of Agriculture, 1982. Paperback. Very Good. 32pp. Very thin quarto [27.5 cm] Pictorial wraps. With light soiling and shelfwear to the wraps. With a contribution by Barbara Kingsolver titled "The University of Arizona's Bioenergy Research Facility (BRF).
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The Bean Trees
by Kingsolver, Barbara
London: Virago Press Limited, 1989. First UK edition. Hardcover. 232pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Black paper covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Near fine. The edges of the spine and covers are very lightly bumped and rubbed. The dust jacket is in very good plus condition. The rear panel is ever so slightly soiled, and has... Read More
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Yeast: A Problem. Reprinted, with Corrections and Additions, From Fraser's Magazine
by [Kingsley, Charles]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First American edition. Hardcover. Good +. 292pp. Octavo [20 cm] Original cloth over boards, with heavy fading to the backstrip and board edges, chipping to the edges of the backstrip, and several minor stains on the front board. There is a bookseller's discreet stamp and a contemporary owner's name in pen on... Read More
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Carrie
by King, Stephen
New York: Anchor Books, 2011. First Anchor Books Mass-Market Edition: later printing. Paperback. New. 290pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind.... Read More
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The Shining
by King, Stephen
New York: Vintage Books, 2013. 40th printing. Paperback. New. 688pp. Duodecimo [20.3 cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his... Read More
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History of the Greater San Francisco Bay Region. Volume I and Volume II (2 of 3 volumes)
by Kinnard, Lawrence
New York and West Palm Beach: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 528; 800pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards. The hinges are weak. The front endpapers are lightly soiled, and the front pastedowns have a previous owner's name stamped in ink. With Illustrations of Historical Connotation Relating to the Region at the rear... Read More
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The Debater's Hand Book: A Chart and Digest of Parliamentary Law. With Rules, Principles, Forms, and Hints Relating to Literary Societies, Lodges, Etc. For Officers and Members of Deliberative Assemblies and for Teachers and Students of Parliamentary Law and Debating
by Kinnaman, A.J.
Chicago: T.S. Denison, 1920. Hardcover. 89pp. Sextodecimo [16.5 cm] Brown cloth with decorative blind stamped borders to front board. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. Very good plus. Small subtle discoloration to front board. Name and date in ink on the front free endsheet.
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Imperfect Thirst
by Kinnell, Galway
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Advance uncorrected proof. Paperback. Fine. 83pp. Slim octavo [23 cm] Yellow printed wraps. An uncorrected proof of Kinnell's twelfth book of poetry. Kinnell won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Selected Poems.
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Iron Blast-Furnace Reactions - Department of Commerce Bureau of Mines Technical Paper 391
by Kinney, S. P.; P. H. Royster and T. L. Joseph
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1927. Original pamphlet. Paperback. 65pp. Thin octavo [23 cm] Stapled white and black printed wraps. From the Introduction- "Exact knowledge of the chemical and metallurgical reactions in the interior of the blast furnace is becoming increasingly important to furnace operators. With a view to providing basic data and thus aiding the iron and steel... Read More
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The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
by Kinsella, W. P.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 310pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 ivory white cloth with light green paper over boards and a blue ink stamped title on the backstrip. Red endpapers. Very good. The covers are just a tiny bit concave. The dust jacket is in very good plus condition, with very subtle edge wear.... Read More
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The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Indian Tales
by Kinsella, W. P.
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. NF/NF. Octavo. Bright red boards quarterbound in orange cloth spine. Very light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Tan endpapers. 186 pages. Dust Jacket - has just a trace of rubbing at the head of the spine and at the tips of the front corners. Beautiful... Read More
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The Alligator Report
by Kinsella, W. P.
Toronto: A Totem Book, 1985. Reprint. Paperback. 125pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good plus. Inscribed by the author on the first page. W. P. Kinsella is the author of Shoeless Joe.
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Scars: Stories by W. P. Kinsella
by Kinsella, W. P. [Bill Kinsella]
Canada: Oberon Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED. 154 pp. Octavo [22.5 cm]; dark red cloth with yellow stamped title on the backstrip. Minor edge and shelf wear. Signed by the author in blue ink on the title page. The author's second book. Stories take place on the Hobbema reserve near Edmonton.
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Pre-Code Classics: Nightmare
by Kinstler, Everett Raymond; Joe Kubert; Alex Toth; Murphy Anderson; et al.
Great Britain: PS Artbooks, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. New. Unpaginated. Quarto [26.5cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. No dust jacket, as issued. A compilation of scarce, horror-themed St. John comics from the early 1950s.
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She Needed Me
by Kirn, Walter
New York: Pocket Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. NF/NF. SIGNED BY AUTHOR - Tan boards in violet cloth spine. Very faint bump at tail of spine. Signed by the author on the title page in black pen. Dust Jacket. Author's first novel.
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Mission to America
by Kirn, Walter
New York: Doubleday, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 271pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/2 blue cloth over yellow boards. Fine/Fine. Signed by the author on the title page. 'Mission to America' is about a fictional quasi-religious cult looking for new members. Fourth work from the acclaimed writer and contributor.
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My Hard Bargain: Stories
by Kirn, Walter
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 145pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 gray cloth with light green paper covered boards. Very good. The edges of the covers are subtly sun faded. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Lightly soiled. Walter Kirn's fiction has appeared in Esquire, Story, and The Quarterly.
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Vietnamese Lessons by Edward Kissam, based on a U.S. Army Handbook of Vietnamese phrases
by Kissam, Edward
London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1970. First edition. Paperback. Very slim twenty-fourmo [16 cm] Folded leaflet printed in red and black. Near fine condition. A poem based on Department of the Army Pamphlet No. 20-611 Vietnamese Phrase Book, Headquarters of the Army, July 1962.
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Owning it All: Essays by William Kittredge
by Kittredge, William
Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1987. First printing. Paperback. SIGNED. 182pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good condition. The spine is sunned, and there is a gift inscription on the title page. A book of autobiographical essays, by an author whose stories and essays have appeared in various periodicals including Outside, Rocky Mountain Magazine, Triquarterly, Harper's and Rolling... Read More
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Ten reproductions in facsimile of paintings by Paul Klee (8 of 10 plates)
by Klee, Paul: Selected with an introductory essay by Georg Schmidt
Basle, Switzerland: Holbein Publishing Company, 1946. First English-language edition. Thin folio [39 cm] Nine pages of text with 8 of 10 tipped-in plates. Laid in to thin card boards with a plain dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is a bit stained, and there is a contemporary gift inscription on the title page, however the plates are in very clean... Read More
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Revealing Territory: Photographs of the Southwest by Mark Klett
by Klett, Mark; Patricia Nelson Limerick; Thomas W. Southall
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 170pp. Oblong quarto [23.5 x 30.5 cm] Red cloth over boards with title stamped in gilt on backstrip. Collection of Mark Klett's black and white photography featuring the American Southwest.
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