Search Results: Authors starting with K from Walkabout Books

Boston: Charles T. Branford Company, 1954. Hardcover. Near fine/good. Reprint. 456 pp, indexed, with 20 photographic illustratations. Minor wear to spine ends, else fine. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has creasing and tears to the lower front panel. Memoirs of an accomplished Alpine guide, edited and with additional chapters by Thorington.

Leipzig: Verlag von Heinrich Matthes, 1862. Hardcover. Very good. First German edition of Paul Kane's "Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America". 8.25" x 6", pp xii, [1]-225 + [2] ad pp, illustrated with 4 chromolithograph plates, additional illustrations in the text. Bound in roughly contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, with no lettering on spine. Binding sound, scattered foxing throughout. Recounts Kane's travels in the Red River settlement, Saskatchewan, across the Rockies, and down the Columbia River to Puget Sound and Vancouver Island.Howes K-7; Sabin 37008.

Mankato, KS: Western Advocate Printers, 1923. Illustrated broadside advertisement for a 1923 Kansas farm auction. 9" x 12" on tan newsprint; very good. Property of Ervin Tompkins to be sold by Ole Hanson, Auctioneer, at Hanson's farm, southwest of Mankato. Provides details on the specific animals to be sold and a list of additional goods that includes McCormick and Deering machinery, a harness and carriage, farm wagon, 15 stands of bees, and more.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1959. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First English edition, based on the second Indian edition. 191 pp. Fine copy in original blue cloth. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear with one slightly clipped flap. Account ot the rise and progress of Arab nationalism in the 1950s. "R.K. Karanjia, an Indian journalist and editor of the Indian news-magazine Blitz, writes as a sympathiser - indeed an ardent sympathizer - with the Arab cause. And he writes from first-hand knowledge of his subject, gained on the spot and in interviews with the nationalist leaders" (dust jacket). Includes chapters on the Arab struggle for unity, Baghdad, Bandung, Brioni, Great Western "Suezide", doctrine of gunboat diplomacy, and other topics.

Archon Books, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 283 pp, illustrated with photographs, map endpapers. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with light sunning to the spine.

Munchen: O.C. Recht, 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8 pp + 21 (illustrations). A fine copy in original plain paper dust jacket and slipcase. Slipcase has light wear. Number 304 of an edition of 440 copies. Text in German. A short introduction is followed by plates reproducing landscapes and figural drawings and watercolors by a number of artists, including Josef Anton Koch, J. Schnorr V. Carolsfeld, Joh. Martin von Rohden, Friedrich Presller, Joh. Adam Klein, and others. Some are sepia toned, some color, some black and white.

Harbor Springs, MI: Good Hart Publishing, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 306 pp, illustrated with line drawings. As new. Kasischke was a member of Rob Hall's ill-fated expedition during the 1996 Everest climbing season. According to the dust jacket, he offers "his perspective and analysis about what happened and what went wrong," and "his account differs markedly from what others have written."

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 237 pp, with olding facsimile newspaper. Original black cloth with red paper labels on spine and front board. Corners bumped, a few light scuff marks. Old repairs evident at hinges, but binding quite sound. Offsetting from facsimile, text otherwise clean. Dust jacket missing large chips near head and foot of spine. Original $2.00 price present. In mylar. An experimental, but successful satirical play that explores the tension between holding firm to one's artistic instincts and making compromises for commercial gain.

Freiburg: Herder, 1889. Hardcover. Good. Text in German (Fraktur). 301 pp, indexed, with color frontis, many engravings, a folding plan, and a folding map. Half leather over marbled boards. Ex-library, with the usual related markings. Boards edgeworn, page margins somewhat dust soiled. Binding solid, text unmarked.

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1981. Softcover. Very Good. 9 pp (A1-A9), with illustrations, tables, in original wrappers with stapled binding. Light creasing and handling wear; offsetting from label on front cover. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1170-A. "A petrologic and structural study of a large ultramafic body in the Yukon-Tanana Upland."

Burlington, IA: I.F. Segner, 1893. Hardcover. Good. New edition, revised and enlarged. 660 pp, indexed, in original maroon cloth binding decorated in gilt and black. Lettering rubbed off on spine, rubbing and fraying to corners and spine ends, repair to rear hinge, Some creasing to upper outer corners of pages, the result of a heavy bump to the text block. Binding sound, text clean. Covers sexual anatomy and marital relations and also has chapters on "nonchastity," "the solitary vice," "treatment of self-abuse," etc.

New York: The Typophiles, 1984. Softcover. Very Good. 13 pp, with illustrations, in original sewn wrappers. Light handling wear, including a bump to the head of the spine; text clean. An article that first appeared in 'Fine Print' Volume 10, Number Four. "Now published in its original version with more illustrations.". One of an edition of 480 copies printed at the press of A. Colish, designed by Jerry Kelly.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 9.25" x 7", xv, 275 pp, with 46 color plates and 16 sepia drawings (all by the author), folding map of China. Bound in original green cloth with lettering and decoration in gilt, top edge gilt. Spine is slightly slanted and spine cloth is lightly sunned, with tears at head and foot. Mild to moderate foxing on some pages, but generally clean and sound. Emily Georgiana Kemp (1860-1939) was a British adventurer, artist and writer who travelled in China, Korea, India, Central Asia and the Amazon. The focus of her books -- which included (among others) The Face of Manchuria, Korea and Russian Turkestan (1910), Wanderings in Chinese Turkestan (1914), and Chinese Mettle (1921) -- was the education and welfare of women.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. x, 314 pp, with illustrations (about half in color), bibliography, index. Name written and note on front pastedown, very light wear to boards including 2 inch surface scratch to front cover; else clean and sound. Dust jacket has a two-inch cut to the front panel; otherwise very light wear. "Kemp provides us with an introductory text on Italian Renaissance art that brings the period alive through extensive quotations from original sources. Giving us access to a range of traditional and more recent concerns in art history through the application of various approaches to specific sets of raw material, the book will be an important and illuminating contribution to current debates in cultural history" (dust jacket).

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1844. Hardcover. Good+. First edition in first state binding, with 1844 date at base of spine. Vol. I: 405 pp, with 2 lithograph plates and folding map (Texas and Part of Mexico and the United States showing the Route of the First Santa Fe Expedition); Vol. 2: 406 pp, with three lithograph plates. Chipping to head of spine on Volume I, both volumes with light foxing, mild spine lean, a few signatures spring, early ownership markings of W.C. and C.C. Bulkley; good or better. The Texan Santa Fe Expedition was a commercial and military expedition to secure the Republic of Texas's claims to parts of Northern New Mexico for Texas in 1841. According to Jenkins (Basic Texas Books, 116), "not only is this the best account of the Santa Fe Expedition, it is one of the best campaign narratives ever written. Rupert Richardson said Kendell's experiences 'represent practically every element of adventure and peril that could have befallen men on the southwestern frontier.'...George… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Very good. Early reprint (title page undated, copyright page states "Published, February 1913." 338 pp, indexed and illustrated (including double-page map), in original blue cloth binding. No dust jacket. Light shelfwear to boards; binding sound, text clean, with the exception of some foxing to the first few leaves. Previous owner's raised stamp on front free endpaper. As described in contemporary review in the Missionary Herald, "the earlier part of Miss Kendall's journey brings out vividly the life of such unfamiliar regions as French Tonking and the provinces of Yunnan and Szechuan in West China, and includes such unusual experiences as a peek into Lolo Land, a stop at Tachieniu--gateway to Tibet--and a remarkable sojourn at the monastery of Omei Shan, that ancient and mysterious mountain shrine of Buddhist China. The middle part of the journey follows the more usual highways, down the Yangtze and north to the Wall, but the route becomes… Read More

New York: Harcout, Brace and World, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 368 pp. A fine copy, inscribed on the verso of the half-title page "For Harry -- with affections, admiration, and gratitude, Ken. May, 1968." Dust jacket has a small chip at the head of the spine, else fine. A sociological study of young people who were deeply involved in the movement against the war in Vietnam. According to the jacket, "The focus of the book is on the psychological development of these young men and women and on the impact of their experiences in the New Left.

New York: Teachers College Press, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, 305 pp. Light soiling to top edge, light shelfwear to boards; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Kennedy's views on education categorized by periods of his life: his congressional years, the campaign, presidential years, and the creation of the Peace Corps.

London: R.H. Porter, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xvi, 269 + [2], ads, with illustrations, folding map. Original blue cloth. Edges of boards rubbed, mild scuffing to rear board. Contemporary ownership signature on title page, otherwise unmarked and sound. "In the following chapters I propose to give a sketch of South America from a naval officer's point of view, and of the sport to be obtained there whilst engaged in the duties of protecting British interests...I am firmly convinced that a happy combination of work and sport is...conducive to the best interests of the service and the health and temper of those in it" (Chapter 1). Includes a log of all game bagged by the officers of his ship (the HMS Ruby) during a three and a half year tour. Among their kills were a variety of game birds, more than 1000 ostriches, wild cattle, deer, and wild sheep, goats, and pigs.

Cincinnati: William Scott, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xii, 237 pp, in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Binding tight, previous owner's signature and ink stamp on front free endpaper, moderate foxing throughout, chipping to cloth at spine ends. Errata slip tipped in at title page. Includes a page of testimonials from other theologians, one of whom writes that Kerr "shows, by an exhaustive induction of the Scripture passages pertaining to the subject, that the law of the Ancient Church, as clearly exhibited both in the Hebrew Old Testament and the Septuagint Version, is clear and distinct, and that our translators, not having perceived the real significance of this law, have fallen into a confused rendering of the technical terms expressive of it, making it impossible for the English reader to attain anything correct or satisfactory concerning it.