Search Results: Authors starting with K from Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]

USA: Montomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, 1979. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. The book documents the history and growth of corporate collecting in the United States and presents ninety works by 30 companies. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. No flaws. 4to; 11.25 inches tall; 300 pages with 90 color plates.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Giftable, New. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. . This book examines the legacy of this world-changing weapon, from its creation as means of fighting the Nazis to its ubiquity today in every kind of conflict, from civil wars in Africa to gang wars in L.A.

New York: John Day Company, 1942. First American Edition. Illustrated by Janet Fitch Sewall.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Hardcover. New/No Dust Jacket As Issued. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. 9.25 inches tall; Unpaginated; color photography, an index of what the photos represent at the rear.. Before Tibor died, he and Maira traveled extensively and collected images of the insane, inspired, and beautiful clothing and other body ornament. Here are photographs with no text beyond section headings; captions and credits are appended. Among the sections body art, accessories, tribes, standard issue, optics, dressed to kill, facemasks, modesty, mobile home, headgear, holywear, and death.

Russia: Zolotoy lev, 2016. Soft cover. New/No Dust Jacket As Issued. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Text in English. Contains map.. The Peterhof Palace, is a series of palaces and gardens located in Petergof, Saint Petersburg, Russia, commissioned by Peter the Great as a direct response to the Palace of Versailles by Louis XIV of France.

New York: Atheneum, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Good/Very Good. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear three spots on the fore-edge of the textblock. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; 326 pages with an index.. A renowned mid-century cooking instructor explains quick methods for preparing delectable soups, sauces, and dishes and proposes dinner-menu suggestions for both everyday and special occasions

Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856. First Edition, First Printing. Publisher's Cloth Hardcovers, complete with maps and illustrations. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrations by J.M Butler; Van Ingen & Snyder. Elisha Kent Kane. Brown cloth covered boards. Stamped gilt spine titles. Boards blind-stamped front and rear with intricate nautical design. Illustrated with 300+ engravings from sketches by the author. Steel plates by J.M Butler and wood engravings by Van Ingen & Snyder. Four maps, two are large folding maps; Engraved frontispiece portrait in each volume, Vignette title-page in each volume, 18 engraved tissue-guarded steel engraved plates. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Minor scuffing on the crowns. Small ownership bookplates in each.  All plates/maps present with tissue guards. 8vo; 9 inches tall; Volume 1: 464 pages; Volume 2: 467 pages with nearly half given to appendixes. . As described by the title-pages,… Read More

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1956. Later Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. No Flaws or Blemishes but a minimal darkening spot on the lower spine corner of the Dust Jacket; Still Gift Quality.   Photo decorated endpages.. Martha Berry founded Berry College, Georgia...but the story actually begins with a log cabin in the woods where she taught poor mountain children math and reading.

New York: Henry Holt & Co, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Fine. SIGNED by Author on title page. No flaws or blemishes but for the unfortunate remainder mark on top edge. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve.. ". . . thoroughly captivating, a novel that brings to life the ambiguities at the heart of our country's moral legacy." -- NY Times Book Review.

Canada: Milkweed Edition, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. No flaws or blemishes but for a careful and gentle reading.. A stirring and vivid novel about a white boy raised among natives on the harsh Alaskan tundra, Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what most people have ever known. Dispelling all mythical visions of Alaska, this evocative novel leads readers down its true trails, to feel the icy pinch of cold, to hunker as blizzards moan overhead. And in the twilit spaces from which animals appear are the wolves, and Cutuk's father, living their lives out on the tundra, unobtrusive, unapologetic, uninvolved in the world beyond.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve and has edge rubbing and rear panel shows the age-toning. Limited Edition of 1250.. Happy Land is about Rusty Marsh, and the life he lived. It is about ordinary folks, and how they came to be brave. It is the record of a civilization which strengthens itself with Boy Scouts and bob-rides, with public high schools and neighborly kindnesses, with churches and drug stores and cornfields and Indian stories with the simple fare of Ameri-can life which once seemed dull and now holds bewitching beauty. This civilization must not perish from our land or from this earth. It will not perish while one Rusty Marsh is alive to fight for it. The basis for the 1943 film from the novel which appeared in serial form in the Saturday… Read More

New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1970. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrated by Emily A. McCully. Carefully handled; Clean and tight bindings. . Maxie, an older woman, feels depressed because she thinks nobody cares about her. Feeling lonely, she goes to bed and neglects her usual tasks. The neighbors wonder what has happened to her and all come calling. Assured that they care about her, she resumes her daily tasks with a positive outlook.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, the dust jacket has light handling. 8v0; 9.5 inches tall; 432 pages with illustrations, Bibliography and Index.. A detailed reconstruction of Whitman's life and times considers the poet's years of apprenticeship on New York newspapers, his experiences in the Civil War, and his lifetime devotion to the writing and reworking of Leaves of Grass

London & New York: David Charles & Hippocrene Books, 1974. Reprint of 8th revised ed. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling and a sun-fade on the spine; With all charts, maps, fold-outs complete. 6.5 inches tall; 495 pages with an index. Describes the history, climate, geography, animal life, and vegetation of Egypt, provides advice on accommodations, shopping, and dining, and looks at the ruins and points of interest in each region.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Edited, annotated and with an introductory essay by Simon Karlinsky. A quarter century of intimate and intellectual correspondence between Nabokov and critic Edmund Wilson, prior to their notorious feud. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo; 23.5 cm.; 9.25 inches tall; 346 pages with index..

New York: Viking, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality.. Here, too, are Karon's reminiscences of her own family's food traditions and-as dessert-four stories never before published in her books. Packed with more than 150 recipes from the Mitford novels and from the author's own recipe box, loaded with tips, hints, jokes, culinary quotes, and delightful side-dish sidebars guaranteed to start a stomach rumbling. From Miss Sadie's Apple Pie to Puny's Cornbread, from Emma's Pork Roast to Marge's Sweet Tea with Peppermint, beloved characters come alive through their own favorite recipes.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine, Unread and Unused.. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling and embossed ownership stamp on lower corner of the Second Page; Still Gift Quality. Appears Unread. Text is clean. 9.25 inches tall; 709 pages with Bibliography and Index. In-text Illustrations.. "This book does a real service in building a bridge between reductionist and holistic ways of thinking about systems. . .Kauffman writes with great intelligence and clarity and is able to bring together a large range of theory and experimental information without getting bogged down in detail." --Whole Earth Review Stuart Kauffman here presents a brilliant new paradigm for evolutionary biology, one that extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics. This book explores these themes. It shows how complex systems,… Read More

Canada: Hancock House Publishers Ltd, 1982. Stiff Wraps. Near Fine. Color photograph stiff coated wraps. 5.5 by 8.5 inches; 48 pages with an index. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling and modest age-toning.   Appears unused. . Are the red varieties toxic? Can puff balls be safely consumed? Our curiosity about mushrooms knows no bounds. This practical handbook provides answers. It covers their seasons, hues, dimensions, distinguishing features, and most importantly, their suitability for consumption, all presented concisely. Complemented by vibrant photographs aiding in identification, the guide also highlights mushrooms best admired through a lens rather than a fork, clearly indicated within the text. Furthermore, it showcases those culinary delights perfect for gourmet creations, accompanied by cooking tips and suggested herbs. Whether you're a dedicated mycologist or a passionate mycophagist, this comprehensive field guide is an indispensable companion.

Captain Cook. Hawai'i: Kawainui Press, 1999. A Fine Softcover. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.. Beautifuly illustrated history of the ancient Polynesian explorers found the Hawaiian Islands, the most remote in Earth's largest sea; how they navigated, how they viewed themselves and their universe, and the arts, crafts, and values by which they survived and prospered without metals or the fuels and inventions believed necessary for life today. Herb Kawainui Kane (pronounced KAH-ney) is an artist-historian of Hawaii. Clients include many private collectors, The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture & the Arts, The National Park Service, National Geographic Magazine and other major publishers. He has designed stamps for the U.S. Postal Service and foreign philatelic agencies. He served as designer and first captain of the voyaging canoe replica Hokulea, which has logged more than 60,000 miles, navigated without instruments. Named a Living Treasure of Hawaii, he… Read More

Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press, 1972. Soft cover. A Very Good Very Good Softcover/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. Softcover; 4to; 10 inches tall; 653 pages with bibliography. B/W photo illustrations. .