Search Results: Authors starting with K from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

London: W. H. Allen, LTD, 1971. First British Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Ismail Kadare on the title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt; in unclipped dust jacket. Near Fine with light fading to spine ends Foxing to jacket, textblock edge, preliminary and terminal pages. Jacket spine is toned. One of the leading literary figures in Albania, this is Kadare's first novel.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1965. First Edition. Very Good. Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Signed by Pauline Kael on verso of front cover. 239 pp. Comb-bound wraps. Very Good, wraps worn and creased towards bottom edge, comb foot chipped, covers and contents toned. A rare advance format of the film reviewer's first book, covering 1954-1964, before she joined The New Yorker.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1985. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Pauline Kael on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owners. Additional small note signed by Kael laid in. 404 pp. Bound in publisher's purple boards with white cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in dust jacket, price-clipped else Fine. Writings on film by the famous New Yorker reviewer.

Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1916. Third Edition. Near Fine. Third edition, pre-May 1917 variant without stamp to title page. [Although only copyright date is 1913, text is re-set from 2nd edition. 11. Lame Duck Books Catalogue #32.] 47 pp. Original black wraps with blue label. Text in German. Near Fine with rubbing to title label, light shelf wear. A nice copy of the short story "The Stoker," a fragment of the uncompleted book Amerika.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's light grey cloth stamped in black. Very Good with light toning to spine and top edges, light foxing. Pages toned and lightly musty. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with light edge wear, toned at the spine and top edge. A lovely copy.

Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1915. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing with no stamps to title page, case-bound issue. Sans-serif variant of type to front cover and spine (no priority). 73, [1], (5, ads) pp. Publisher's printed blue paper-covered boards. In German. Very Good+ with typical sunning along top edge of front and back boards, rubbing along edges of head, boards bowed outwards a little, worn tips, spine slightly darkened. Internally bright. The first book appearance of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, issued simultaneously in wraps and boards, a landmark of 20th century literature.

London: The Parton Press, 1937. First English Edition. Very Good. First English language edition, first printing. Publisher's charcoal-colored paper covered boards over blue cloth spine, blue printed title label to upper board. Very Good with lean to spine, wear to corners and spine ends, nick to spine cloth at toward rear joint at center. Former owner name to front free endpaper. A lovely copy of Kafka's masterpiece, in the first English edition.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1946. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in brown. A fantastic copy, Near Fine with lean to binding with light rubbing to tips. Contents lightly toned and several hinges over opened. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial fading to the spine, minor wear to extremities including a short tear to the top edge of the front panel, light surface wear. Foxing to blindside and rear panel. A typographically pleasing production, with illustrations by Leslie Sherman.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1938. First English Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition in English, first printing. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, foxing to textblock edge and former owner gift inscription to front free end paper. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with toning, chipping to spine ends, light soiling and light foxing, a series of small indentations along the front spine joint, and short tear at the foot of the front panel near the spine repaired with tape from the blindside. An unfinished novel, published posthumously, which began as a short story written by Kafka between 1912 and 1914. A sharp copy.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1946. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in brown. A fantastic copy. Near Fine with slight edge wear, pages toned and printer's error to bottom margin of pages 30/31. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial fading to the spine, light wear at the spine ends; toning and several faint splashed streaks to the blindside. A typographically pleasing production, with illustrations by Leslie Sherman.

Sydney, Australia: Murray, 1963. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. [ca. 1963]. First edition, first printing. Signed by surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku in 1963 on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original pale blue cloth affect boards with gilt spine lettering. Very Good. Covers mottled, foxed at edges, slight musty odor to pages, light foxing to endsheets. In a Very Good dust jacket with several short edge-tears, one of which has been mended from the blindside, and creasing to the front flap. Kahanamoku, a five-time Olympic medalist in swimming, was a native Hawaiian who is credited with popularizing the sport of surfing, bringing the ancient Hawaiian pastime to a global audience. His 1914 surfing exhibition at Sydney, Australia's Freshwater Beach is widely regarded as a seminal event in the development of surfing in Australia.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1960. First edition. First edition. Signed by Herman Kahn on front free endpaper, inscribed "To Geri, If and when you read it please don't expose it-- i.e. [illegible] were estimated with great care (see note on page 626) [signed] Herman." xx, 651 pp. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt, ruled in black. Near Fine with a little foxing to edges, slight lean, in a Very Good dust jacket, spine panel toned, a few small stains and edge wear, chip to rear panel, unclipped ($10.00). One of the most influential academic works of the cold war, which made its author an instant celebrity. Kahn's recent biographer Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi said the book "hums with motifs of world cataclysm, resurrection, and miracle," likening its frank, varied, jocular expository style to that of an epic poem. It would be parodied in the classic Stanley Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1960. First edition. First edition. Signed by Herman Kahn on front free endpaper. xx, 651 pp. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt, ruled in black. Near Fine with light wear, bookplate remnants on front paste down, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. An attractive signed copy of an elegantly-designed book. One of the most influential academic works of the cold war, which made its author an instant celebrity. Kahn's recent biographer Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi said the book "hums with motifs of world cataclysm, resurrection, and miracle," likening its frank, varied, jocular expository style to that of an epic poem. It would be parodied in the classic Stanley Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove.

Detroit: Christopher Enterprises, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First edition. 8 oversize prints in tri-fold printed sleeve. Signed and numbered by artist. Bottom corners of prints slightly bumped, else Near Fine.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2006. Fine/Fine. Signed by Eric R. Kandel on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owners. Photo of the author signing this copy in 2009 at Oregon Health Sciences University laid in. xiv, 510 pp. Publisher's two-toned paper covered boards. Fifth printing of the first edition. Basically Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket; binder 's error with small tab of black paper hanging from foot. Kandel was co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons.

[np]: Stolen Paper Review Editions, 1966. Fine. First edition, very early issue with cover printed in brown (rather than black) ink with no blue overprinting, text printed sideways, publisher specified on verso of rear endpaper but partial with no address (first issue apparently has no publisher listed there). [10] pp. printed on rectos only. Illustrated wraps with pale green endpapers. Basically Fine with tiny corner crease to one page, hint of shelf wear. An attractive copy of an uncommon banned book. It was the author's first, which became a cause celebre in the Haight Ashbury scene when it was banned as obscene.

[no place]: [none], 1966. First Edition. Fine. [1966]. The correct first edition, self published by the poet. Bound in original printed wraps, not over-printed in blue and verso of the rear free endpaper is blank; this was printed later the same year by Stolen Paper Review Editions and went through various printings under that imprint. Fine, with minor browning to rear cover. An attractive copy of an uncommon banned book, it became a cause celebre in the Haight Ashbury scene when it was banned as obscene.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Signed by Younghill Kang on the front free endpaper in black ink. viii, 367 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth, stamped in dark green. Later printing of the first edition. Near Fine with a little foxing to fore edge, in a Good+ dust jacket , chipped at extremities (the largest chip being at the foot), small chip in spine interior, worn along edges, price-clipped with new price ($3.50) stamped on front flap. Rare signed. The first Korean American novel, a commercial and literary success praised by such authors as H.G. Wells and Rebecca West.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Signed by Younghill Kang on the front free endpaper in black ink, inscribed to poet Jean Starr Untermeyer, dated November 29, 1950. Both were residents at Yaddo artist's colony; perhaps that's where they met. viii, 367 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth, stamped in dark green. Later printing of the first edition. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket, spine worn at ends and a little darkened, front flap clipped with new price stamped ($3.50). Rare signed. The first Korean American novel, a commercial and literary success praised by such authors as H.G. Wells and Rebecca West.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Younghill Kang on front free endpaper in green ink, dated October 20, 1937. [vi], 401 pp. Possible presentation issue in a slightly taller format than the trade edition with yellow rather than buff cloth. Very Good with crease and toning to spine, cloth a little dust-soiled, edges stained and faintly foxed. Rare. A classic of Asian American literature, this novel tells the story of Chungpa Han, a penniless Korean refugee who makes his way through the US and Canada in the 1920s, trying to fit in and support his studies. The Korean American author's two books were published by Maxwell Perkins-- famous editor of Hemingway, Wolfe (a fan of Kang's work), and Fitzgerald-- to critical acclaim, but fell out of print and were neglected for many decades.