Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of Saint Agnes & Other Poems...with Engravings by Robert Gibbings
by Keats, John; [Golden Cockerel Press]
Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. First thus. Very Good. One of 500 copies, printed and illustrated by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerell Press. Bound in original quarter dark brown "sharkskin" over cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamp-signed). Tall quarto. 101, [1, colophon] pp. With engraved title-page and elaborate head- and tailpieces by Gibbings and initials in... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
Sonnets and Lyrical Poems
by [Kelmscott Press] Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. First thus. Very Good. One of 310 copies on paper (six copies on vellum were also produced). Original full limp vellum binding. Octavo. xii, 197 pp. Printed by William Morris in red and black with a large engraved double-page title and many elaborate initials throughout. Spine titled in gilt. Rubbing and some browning to... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
An Address Delivered by William Morris at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894
by [Kelmscott Press] Morris, William
London: Chiswick Press; Longmans & Co, 1898. First edition. Very Good. The first of four William Morris lectures published by the Chiswick Press after Morris' death. Publisher's blue paper boards with linen spine. Octavo. 25 pp., complete. Some toning to boards and cracking to cloth. Toning to flyleaves, otherwise fresh throughout. Printed card from the Chiswick Press mounted... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
With Kennedy (Signed first edition)
by [Kennedy, John F.]; Pierre Salinger
New York: Doubleday, 1966. First edition. Near Fine. A near fine copy signed on the half-title by Pierre Salinger. Octavo (9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 235 x 155 mm.). xvi, [1]-391, [1, blank] pp. Sixteen black & white illustrations. Publisher's cream over black cloth boards, spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt, tan endpapers. John... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
The Strategy of Peace (Presentation copy)
by Kennedy, Senator John F. (Allan Nevins, editor)
New York: Harper Brothers, 1960. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Jacket with some rubbing, chipping, and shelfwear to the spine ends, corners, and edges. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To James Corman with regards and best wishes, Jack Kennedy."... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
On the Road
by Kerouac, Jack
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. A Near Fine copy with a small spot to the closed foredge of the text block, internally clean and unmarked. In a Very Good+ unrestored first issue jacket. Spine a bit faded, small chips and tears at the spine ends and extremities, otherwise an attractive example.... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
On the Road
by Kerouac, Jack
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good. A Very Good+ copy with the spine titles a bit rubbed, but internal contents generally clean. In a Very Good first issue jacket. Jacket with several small tape repairs to the verso, minor edgewear and creasing to the extremities and a small stain to the lower... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
Typed Letter Signed on his return home from visiting William S. Burroughs in Mexico, reflecting on leaving New York
by Kerouac, Jack
Rocky Mount, NC, 1952. One page Typed Letter Signed "Jack" in pencil with an additional 4 lines added in his hand. On 8.5 x 11" onionskin paper, with original fold lines. Near Fine condition. Neither the letter or its recipient Rose Enoch Rotberg appear in Jack Kerouac: The Selected Letters or in Jack Kerouac: A Biography. The content places... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Kesey, Ken
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition. Fine/Very Good +. A Fine copy of the book in Very Good+ dust jacket. Book clean in bright green cloth with yellow stamping. Top-stain just a bit faded. Unclipped dust jacket with the spine gently faded and minor chips at the crown and slight wear at the extremities. Overall a... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
by [Fine Binding - Riviere] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
London: Macmillan, 1906. Fifth edition. Fine. Later issue. A Fine copy. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 /14 inches; 197 x 133 mm.). [iv], [1]-112 pp. Bound ca. 1906 by [Riviére] for Hatchards (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full purple morocco, covers paneled in gilt, front cover elaborately decorated in gilt in an 'art nouveau' style with fifty-six... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
The Water-Babies
by Kingsley, Charles
London & Cambridge: Macmillan, 1863. First edition, second state. Near Fine. Small square octavo (8 x 6 1/8 inches; 203 x 155 mm.). [viii], [3], 4-350, [1 advertisements], 1 blank, without the ‘L’Envoi’ leaf which was canceled early on by Kingsley, and inserted frontispiece and full-page illustration opposite p. 145, with eight large engraved initial chapter letters. Bound... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
Captains Courageous
by Kipling, Rudyard
New York: The Century Co, 1897. First edition. Near Fine. Preceding the first British edition. An attractive copy of Kipling's classic tale of the Grand Banks. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt, red, and black. Top edge gilt. A Nearly Fine copy of the book on account of a small spot to the front joint else a... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
A Song of the English
by Kipling, Rudyard. W. Heath Robinson (illustrator)
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. First trade edition. Original blue cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Large quarto (10 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 278 x 219 mm.). [64] leaves. Thirty color plates (including frontispiece), mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards, each with... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
Kim
by Kipling, Rudyard
London: Macmillan, 1901. First UK edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. A Near Fine example retaining its brightness and shape; internally with some foxing to title page and preliminaries. Kim stands as a separate character from the other books that had made Kipling's name --... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
Songs From Books
by Kipling, Rudyard
Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1912. First Edition. Fine/Very Good +. A Fine copy of the book that has been exquisitely preserved in its original dust jacket. Dust jacket is Very Good +, with a large chip at the base of the spine and price-clipped, but otherwise in excellent condition. A rare survivor. Kipling's compilation of... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
Letters to the Family
by Kipling, Rudyard
Toronto: Macmillan Company, 1908. First edition. Original printed wraps, measuring 170 x 117mm and complete in 72 pages. Chipping, wear, and staining to spine and wrap edges; splitting to both joints near the foot of spine. Light toning internally, else unmarked. A scarce piece. Housed in a custom slipcase with chemise, with mottling and wear to cloth. Written... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
Diatribe de prodigiosi Crucibus
by Kircher, Athanasius
Rome: Vitale Mascardi, 1661. First edition. Small octavo (6 1/2 x 4 1/16 inches; 164 x 103 mm). [viii], 103, [1, blank] pp., one fold-out plate. Roman and italic type. Woodcut initials, head- tailpieces. Late nineteenth century full vellum, spine lettered in manuscript. Slight burn mark affecting 1/4 x 1/2 inch of top blank margin of last three leaves... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
China Monumentis, qua Sacris quà Profanis, Nec non variis Naturae & Artis Spectaculis, Aliarumque rerum memorabilium Argumentis Illustrata
by Kircher, Athanasius
Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonium á Waesberge & Elizium Weyerstraet, 1667. First edition. Near Fine. Folio (9 x 243 mm). [*4], [**4], 1-237, [238-248, index] pp; [*4], [**4], A4 - Gg3, index Gg4 - Hh4; 8 ff. (incl. the engraved title). Finely engraved allegorical frontispiece title-page. Twenty-three engraved plates (one of which is folding), two double-page engraved maps, and fifty-nine... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
A Night in a Balloon. An Astronomer's Trip from Paris to the Sea in Observation of Leonids
by Klumpke, Dorothea
New York, 1900. First edition. Extracted from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (Volume LX, Number 2), pages 276-284. Disbound but complete; dampstaining to lower third of all pages. This first-hand account of aeronautical astronomical study by a key female scientist is scarce. "Dorothea Klumpke was the first woman to earn a PhD in astronomy -- a feat she... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
Cookery for English Households
by [Cookery] A French Lady
London: Macmillan, 1864. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and boards. Corners gently bumped; small split to cloth at top of rear joint. Blue coated endpapers. Hinges strengthened. Internally a tight, clean, copy without the typical spatter or signs of use associated with kitchen texts. Collates viii, 306, [6, adverts]: complete, including... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
Fables de la Fontaine
by La Fontaine, Jean de. J.J. Grandville (illustrator)
Paris: Garnier Freres, 1854. Early printing of this illustrated edition, first published in 1838-40. Large octavo (10 1/2 x 7 inches; 266 x 178 mm.). Publisher's quarter green morocco over green pebbled cloth over boards. Covers ruled in blind, spine with four raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, watered silk paper end-leaves, all edges gilt.... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
The Fables of La Fontaine (Extra-illustrated in 2 vols.)
by La Fontaine, Jean de
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. Edition de luxe. Fine. Number 206 of 250 numbered copies. Two large octavo volumes (10 7/16 x 7 1/4 inches; 265 x184 mm.). viii, 160; 161-304 pp. Title-page printed in red and black, with twenty-five full page etchings by Auguste Delierre (1829-1890). Complete with the small printed slip preceding the half-title, signed and numbered... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
Fables choisies, mises en vers par J. de la Fontaine
by La Fontaine, Jean de
Paris: Chez Desaint & Saillant [et] Durand, De l'Imprimerie de Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1759. First edition. A large paper copy with leaves measuring 465 x 330 mm (18 3/8 x 13 inches). Four volumes handsomely bound in contemporary French mottled calf. Red and green morocco spine labels with rich gilt detailing, marbled end-papers and all edges marbled. Discreet repairs to... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets
by [Fine Binding - Root & Son]; Charles Lamb
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. First edition. Fine. A fine copy. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 1/4 in; 181 x 108 mm). xii, 484 pp. Designed and bound c. 1920 by Root & Son (stamp-signed) in full brown crushed morocco with double fillet and a secondary gilt-rolled frame with gilt corner-pieces and inlaid dots in green.... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
Biblia sacra ad optima veteris
by [Bible in Latin]
Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1554. First edition. Octavo (6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 171 x 121 mm.) . [16], 1152, [76] pp, bound without the last two blank leaves as in most copies(e.g. Mortimer, OCLC). The penultimate leaf had only a fleuron at the foot of the page and the final leaf was blank. Arabesque title border and... Read More
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.