Search Results: Authors starting with K from Boyd Used & Rare Books

Seattle, Wash.: Beacon Press, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Signed by author on ffep. Gray cloth boards with black lettering. Light wear to boards. Spots of soiling in margins on a few pages. Some minor hand-written corrections throughout the text that appear to have been made by the author. One of the eight illustrations is missing. 438, [6] pp. 9 x 6 inches. Also, laid-in are a couple Beacon Press promotional slips for this publication. The first part, titled At the Terminals of the Divine Train, is the author's presentation of what he calls "Israelism," which he makes through the explanation of passages of scripture from the five books of the Torah as well as a few passages from the Psalms and the Book of Isaiah. Kahan's work is written in the form of conversation between two teacher figures, Tishbe and Deborah, who answer questions from a panoply of individuals about the meaning of these obscure passages in the Bible. These other figures, who must number in… Read More

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1977. Hardcover. Good/Good. Ex library book has glue & bookplate/pocket residue on rear fep and rear paste down as well as front paste down. Stamp on bottom and top edges of text block as well as title page. A little wear to spine corners as well as fore edge corners. Pages have no underlining but a little neatly written marginalia. Dust jacket has several diagonal creases on front. A little wear to top and bottom edges of dj. Not price clipped. No library marks or labels on dj. Second printing, 1977. 149 pp.

New York and London: Street & Smith, 1903. Hardcover. Fair. Green cloth boards pictorially stamped in ivory and orange with gold lettering; gilt lettering on spine. Boards a bit worn; soiled. Archivally rehinged. One leaf has heavy wear to its fore-edge. Some pages show soiling and/or corner creases. Frontispiece plus three illustrated plates. ii, [8]-294, plus [20] pp. ads. Four copies noted on OCLC (two published by Street & Smith and two by David McKay). Part of Street & Smith's Boys' Own Library series. Twenty page catalog of Street & Smith's books for young people at terminus.

Portland, OR: Kantourian Press, 1999. Hardcover. Fine. Dory Kanter. Signed by Author(s). Signed by both Stephen and Dory Kanter on title page. Clean and unmarked. Accordion binding in red boards. Front cover has a goldenrod-colored paper paste-on. Illustrations by Dory Kanter. 6 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Children's story about a bear who lives in a forest and loves to eat blackberries. So much so, that he's eaten millions of them. But now there are only three, two, no, only one berry left. The berry makes a deal with the bear, tricking him Brer Rabbit-style. Stephen Kanter is Emeritus Dean and Professor of Law at the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Dory Kanter was a graduate of Reed College ('71) and is an award winning Pacific Northwest artist. She has been conducting painting tours and workshops around the world since 1995.

Wilmington, DE, USA: Kappeler Institute Publishing, 1982. Hardcover. Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Max Kappeler on title page. Boards in blue leatherette with silver lettering on front cover. Previous owner's name on front pastedown and short quotation written on ffep. Pages show underlining and marginalia. [120] pages. 11.5 x 8 inches. Rare. No copies noted on OCLC. Max Kappeler's distillation of the first sixteen chapters of Mary Baker Eddy's 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.' Expanding upon the method of epitomization, first used by John W. Doorly, which shows in a simple, concise form the substance and logic of a text, providing a unique tool for understanding and teaching the Science of Christian Science. Includes Kappeler's 11-page introduction, followed 16 sections entitled ''Study material for class work on ''Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,'' which correspond to the first sixteen chapters: Prayer;… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good-. Stated First Edition, 1971. Blue cloth boards, sun faded along top edge. Very slightly spine cocked. Fore-edge has a tea-splash (which is also visible along the edge of the last 30 pages or so). Dj lightly worn and soiled, not price clipped (5.95), in an archival protective cover. 212 pp. This short novel, based on an incident in the Greek Civil War, deals with a small guerrilla group tracking Communists in a cleaning-up operation.

[Lyons, Oregon]: City of Lyons, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good+. Staple-bound in card covers. One photo of a couple old homes has some notation in pencil on it; some light pencil underlining. Photos. Map of Lyons (September 1982). 44 pages. 8.25 x 5.25 inches. A brief history of the city of Lyons in the Santiam Canyon area of Linn County, with biographical information (amount of detail varies) on a few old-timers and early residents, including Capt. James Lyons and the Lyons family, Floyd Boyington, Earl Allen, and the Vaughn, Bodeker, Hiatt, Johnston, and Kuiken families; local businesses; churches; the Mari-Linn school; the Santiam Valley Grange; mills and lumber companies; etc. One of the authors was Ginger Griffith, the City Recorder, who helped collect and organize this information at the request of Effie Anderson, the mayor from 1978-1982. Lyons suffered some loss of structures in the massive wildfires of 2020.

Vancouver, WA: The School Company, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by the author inside the front cover. Book has a faint crease at the front spine edge. Another single crease to spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. 1st Printing of 200 copies, 2002. 5.25 x 8.25 inches. 148 Pages. Autobiography of Patricia Wirth who went through a series of struggles and ultimately became the President of Yuba College (Yuba City, California) and then served as a seat on the American Association of Junior and Community Colleges Board.

Philadelphia, PA: Historical Publishing Company, 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. Book has a little wear and bumping to head and tail of spine as well as fore edge corners. A few soil spots on rear board near spine. Stain to upper fore edge corner of text block at first part of book. Light foxing to fore edge of text block. Title page has closed tear at bottom edge at spine. No marks. Binding is sound. Rare title. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 220 pages.

Strasbourg, France: Friedrich Bull, 1907. Hardcover. Good-. Book has a little wear along the edges of the boards. A little wear to surfaces. Faint warp to upper portion of book. Very neatly written small, hand-written title has been pasted onto spine. Names on second fep as well as title page. Pencil underlining and marginalia throughout. Binding is sound. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 358 Pages. "Funfte verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage von August Kayser's Theologie des Alten Testaments.

Los Angeles, CA, USA: Graduate Students' Association of UCLA, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. Saddle stitched booklet has a little light edge wear to wraps. One thin line of staining on back wrap. Pages are clean and binding is tight. 1. Shifting Paradigms and Modes of Consciousness: An Integrated View of the Storytelling Process (Susan Pierce Lamb), 2. Mwanoka, A Good Storyteller, 'Pours on the Oil' (Rachel Fretz-Yoder), 3. Accused of Sorcery (Mama Mwanoka; translated by Rachel Fretz-Yoder), 4. "I Mean It's Almost Unreal": Categorizing a Creative Folk Art Object in a Folk Aesthetic Network (J. Sanford Rikoon), 5. "The Spaces in Which We Live": The Role of Folkloristics in the Urban Design Process (Sara Selene Faulds), 6. Language and Ideology in Myth: Understanding the Epic of Nalin Sonko (Kandioura Drame), 7. Excerpts from "The Battle of Manda," The Epic of Nalin Sonko (Malan Kuyate, translated by Kandioura Drame). 76 pages. 13.5 x 21 cm.

San Francisco: Printed for the Author by Upton Bros., 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. George H. Baker. Brown, blind-ruled cloth boards with gilt lettering on the front cover. Light wear to spine ends. Marbled edges of text block. Sixteen plate illustrations. Includes Index, Index of Illustrations, and Errata. 64 pages. 6 x 4 inches. Written and published by Keep to provide a convenient and well-illustrated manual of the more common shells found on the coast of California. The first chapter treats the structure of Mollusks, the second gives directions for finding, studying, and preserving specimens; the remainder of the volume is taken up with descriptions of the several species. Most shells in this volume were collected at Monterey Bay. Josiah Keep (1849-1911) was a conchologist and Professor at Mills College. The illustrations were made by George H. Baker of San Francisco [presumed to be George Holbrook Baker (1827-1906), artist, art teacher and lithographer.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Stated First Edition. Teal cloth stamped in silver. Cloth shows light fading along spine edge of front cover, else fine throughout. Clean and unmarked. Dust jacket illustrated by Ilonka Karasz. Dust jacket not price clipped (3.95); in an archival mylar sleeve. Twenty-nine tales by William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. (1908-2000), American novelist, essayist, and the fiction editor for The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975.

Prague, Czechoslovakia: Vysehrad, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Jiri Blazek. Originally published in English as The Father Brown Stories. Prelozily Lida Hanzlikova a Alena Hartmanova. Obalku vazbu a grafickou upravu navrhl Jiri Blazek. Orange boards. Clean and square. Dj has minor edge and corner-wear, in archival grade protective covering. 177 pages. Czech language.

Dornach: Verlag Walter Keller, 1973. Soft cover. Good+. Ex-library. Cranberry-colored stiff card wraps. Spine reinforced with clear binder's tape. Previous owner's name on inside of front cover; school rubber stamp on ffep; library pocket affixed to inside of rear cover. No other markings. 255 pp. 9.25" x 6.75". Five copies noted on OCLC.

Belmont, CA: Fearon Pitman Publishers, 1979. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good-. Rick Guidice. Illustrated by Rick Guidice. Book is crisp, with slight wear to front fore edge corners. One small scuff on front wrap near spine. Heavy scratch on back wrap. One small stain on back fore edge corner. Pages are clean and binding is tight with no creases to spine. First Edition, first printing with full number line, 1979. 59 pp. 5" x 7" Kelley has published stories in "The Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine" and "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

New York: Dial Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Kellogg with a drawing of a dog on the ffep. Stated first printing. Pictorial boards. Faint thumbing on a couple pages, else fine. Bottom corner of dust jacket's front flap is clipped, but publisher's price still present in upper corner. DJ in archival sleeve. 32 unnumbered pages. 10.75 x 8.8 inches. Pinkerton, a lovable Great Dane, and his feline sidekick, Rose, join their young owner on a trip to the woods. When they encounter Dr. Aleasha Kibble's Fox Hunting Academy results in a zany escalation of events, including a hair-raising balloon ride with Pinkerton aboard. Steven Castle Kellogg (b.1941) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. In 1989 he won the Regina Medal for his "continued, distinguished contribution to children's literature." He has also been the recipient of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the Irma Black Award for… Read More

New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Steven Kellogg. Signed by Illustrator(s). Signed by Kellogg with drawing of a seal on ffep. Stated First Edition, first printing with full number line. Illustrated boards. Very light bump to top fore-corner of rear board. Interior is clean and pages crisp. Bottom corner of front flap is clipped, but price ($12.95) present in upper corner. DJ in archival sleeve. 32 unnumbered pages. 10.5 x 8.75 inches. Jimmy brings his boa to his birthday party at SeaLand and everyone ends up in the big tank. Lots of splashing! Trinka Hakes Noble (b. 1944) is an author and illustrator of children's books. In 2002, she was awarded Outstanding Woman in Arts and Letters from the state of New Jersey for her life-time work in children's books. Steven Kellogg (b.1941) is an author and illustrator of children's books. In 1989 he won the Regina Medal for his "continued, distinguished contribution to… Read More

[Portland, Ore.]: [Irwin Hodson Co.], 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. Red leatherette boards with gilt lettering. Some foxing to front and end matter, else pages clean. Illustrated. Index. viii, 142 pp. Oblong, 6.25 x 9.25 inches. A history of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, located in northeast Portland in the Irvington neighborhood. It covers the church's preliminary developments and its founding, its early locations, the building of its permanent structures and their features, its social organizations, and current staff. Fifty-seven pages are devoted to the biographies of the eleven pastors that served the church between 1892 and 1979 (with photo portraits), the nine associate pastors that served between 1944 and 1979, and several biographies of persons important to the life of the church through the years.

Philadelphia: National Holiness Publishing House, 1893. Hardcover. Fair. No stated date (published around January 1893). Ex-library. Pale green cloth boards with gilt lettering. General wear and soiling to boards. Gift inscription on ffep. Church library rubber stamp on title page; library pocket at rear. Two facing pages show heavy crayon scribbling. Frontispiece portrait of Nettie with tissue guard. 89 pp. 6.75 x 4.75 inches. Seven copies noted on OCLC. Biographical sketch of the evangelist Nettie Van Name (1845-1892) and her ministry and work at camp meetings between 1885 and 1892. She was well remembered for her association with co-evangelist Lidie Kenney of Philadelphia. She passed away on August 26, 1892 at residence of her brother-in-law, Rev. George Hughes, Ocean Grove, NJ. Includes a 14-page chapter of memorial tributes, including those of many reverend ministers throughout the region between Indiana to New Jersey.