Search Results: Authors starting with K from The Owl at the Bridge

London: Printed for Harmen Noorthouck, 1734. Hard Cover. [16], 64 pages, (Signatures: A-E8); 20 cm. Title continues: Particularly Those Most in Fashion:... Address'd to the Royal College of Physicians, London. By T - K - a Member of the same. Proposes a new method for "introducing quicksilver directly into the blood." "T - K - " is attributed to Thomas Knight; English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT 65,519. Includes a 1923 letter from H. E. Powell, Librarian of the Royal Society of Medicine, stating that he did not know the authorship and knew of no copies in British libraries. 1737 ownership marks of Samuel Hughes, who crossed out four others' notes from the title-page. Bound in full leather; good+. Stock#OB575.

North Point Press, SF, 1983. 'Second Printing'. Soft Cover. Signed. xiii, 200 p.; 23.5 cm. Introduction (Kabir's Life and Work; Rough Rhetoric; The Untellable Story; "Numskull, You've Missed the Point!"); Translations (Sabda, Ramaini, Sakhi); Appendices (Upside-down Language: The Tradition; The Cow Is Sucking at the Calf's Teat: Interpreting Kabir's Upside-down Songs); A Note on Meter and Rhyme; Versions and Editions of the Bijak and Errors in the Hindi Edition); Notes; Glossary; Select Bibliography (p. 199-200). ISBN 0865471142. Translator's ink inscription on flyleaf dated June 88. Purple paper covers, spine sun-faded; VG+. stock#46530.

North Point Press, SF, 1983. Soft Cover. xiii, 200 p.; 23.5 cm. Introduction (Kabir's Life and Work; Rough Rhetoric; The Untellable Story; "Numskull, You've Missed the Point!"); Translations (Sabda, Ramaini, Sakhi); Appendices (Upside-down Language: The Tradition; The Cow Is Sucking at the Calf's Teat: Interpreting Kabir's Upside-down Songs); A Note on Meter and Rhyme; Versions and Editions of the Bijak and Errors in the Hindi Edition); Notes; Glossary; Select Bibliography (p. 199-200). ISBN 0865471142. White paper covers, purple dj spine sun-faded; fine, gift quality. stock#46529.

A Seventies Press Book, Beacon Press, Boston [c1977]. BP 544. Soft Cover. 71 p., illus.; 20.5 cm. "This Book Has Three Groups of Poems: The Fish in the Sea Is Not Thirsty; The Bhakti Path; The Only Woman Awake Is the Woman Who Has Heard the Flute". ISBN 0807063797. Paper; slight fading of spine, two-line pencil note on flyleaf; VG+. stock#46526.

Moskva, Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1963. At head of title: Akademi nauk SSSR. Institut istorii. In Cyrillic Russian. Bibliographical footnotes. Hard Cover. 228, [3] pages, tables; 26.5 cm. Vg / no dj. Stock#43248 (Pollard).

Princeton UP, 1968. Hard Cover. xi, 289 p. illus. ( 2pp. of coins), 23 cm. Deals with Eastern interest and involvement with Italian affairs of the fifth century. Stock# 34,579. Vg/ dj vg.

N.Y., A. L. Burt, 1924. Hard Cover. 2 vols: xvi, 577, xiv, 457 p. illus., 25 cm. Airplanes, railroads, automobile, radio, telegraph, telephone, mining, textiles. Vol One is on: Transportation, Communications, Power; vol.2 is: Material Resources and Labor- savng machines. Stock #29,286. Vg, bright red cloth/ no dj.

Leipzig, Teubner, 1901 & 1909. Hard Cover. Two volumes: Erster Band: Die Grundlegung des Hellenismus, 433 p.; Zweiter Band, Erste Hälfte: Das Wesen des Hellenismus, 429 p. History of the Hellenistic Age in Greece and the Near East. This copy was in the library of numismatic scholar Edward T. Newell. Bound in 3/4 leather, leather replaced, rebound with original marbled-paper cover boards. Very good copy/ vg binding. Stock#34580.

Moskva, Nauka, 1964. Hard Cover. 517, [3] p., port.; 20.5 cm. Title continues: nauchnoi i pedigogicheskoi deiatel'nosti B. B. Kafengauza. [Otvetstvennyi redaktor N. M. Druzhinin]. Notes: "Spisok trudov B. B. Kafengauza i retsenzii na nikh": p. 508-[518]. Local government in Russia during the 17th and 18th Centuries. In Cyrillic Russian. (Pollard). Stock# 43,332. Vg / no dj.

N.Y., Schocken, 1974. The three novels in three paperback volumes in a box. 'Amerika' and 'The Castle' are fine, but a reader of 'The Trial' has used a red pen extensively. Two volumes fine, one flawed/paperback. Stock#100773.

Berlin, S. Fischer/ N.Y., Schocken, 1964. The edition by Max Brod, 1884-1968, Kafka's friend, and preserver of his manuscripts. Contains much material-- plus variant readings-- not in the original (1926) edition. Hard Cover. 544 pages. Vg/dj tattered. Stock#100769.

Oxford University Press/ Franklin Mint, 1983. Hard Cover. 6 p.l., 308, [1] p. Kafka in a faux-limited edition with a faux-leather, poorly designed, off-center binding. Ironies abound. Yet it is a nicely printed book. 100771.

Insel-Bücherei No. 662 [1962]. Hard Cover. 73 pages. Vg, ink owner name; stiff boards, no dj. Stock#100767 (sag).

New York, G. Braziller, 1956.. Hard Cover. [x], 700 p. 21 cm. Educated in a number of disciplines in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Freiburg, Kahler came to the United States in 1938 and became a U.S. citizen in 1944. He lived most of hs years at Princeton. His wide circle of friends, dubbed the "Kahler-Kreis" by Charles Bell, included Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Hermann Broch. this book, first published in 1943, was Kahler's attempt to conceive of an understanding of the world that transcended the horrors of what his generation lived through. Stock# 38,798. Vg/ dj vg.

Berlin: Alfred Schall [1898]. After its 1866 defeat by Prussia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire rebuilt its military with tragic results in 1914. Hard Cover. xviii, 568 pages, illus.; 25 cm. Very good copy / no dj, gilt stamping. Stock#46970.

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1962.. Hard Cover. xii, 236 p., photos; 28.5 cm. Kahn spent over a year in the Soviet Union observing and photographing the great ballerina Galina Ulanova (1910-1998) who was still dancing as well as teaching. Stock# 34,297. Vg/ dj good+, chipped. Dance; biography.

Penguin Books [1988]. Soft Cover. 453 p., index. "A witty, literate, and marvelously entertaining memoir of New York's literati and their scene." "A veteran writer of 40 years at The New Yorker, E. J. Kahn has seen it all, from the days of Harold Ross to the gossip about William Shawn's successor. His witty stories and anecdotes about his years there present a memorable portrait of The New Yorker itself, that arcane institution on West 43rd Street, which continues to publish some of the best writing in America." Paper; ink owner name; VG. stock#24701/h.

NY, Harper [1947]. Hard Cover. xvii, 125 pages 16 plates, portraits; 19.5 cm. Biography of the young singer Frank Sinatra, "Most of the material ... appeared originally in the [Oct. 26, Nov. 2 and 9, 1946 issues of the] New Yorker.". Vg in good dj. Stock#OB256.

New York, Penguin, 1976. Soft Cover. xii, 337 p. : map ; index, 19.5 cm. "An inside account of officers who reported conscientiously and were hounded out of the Foreign Service because China's proceeded as they correctly foresaw it would." First appeared in The New Yorker, 1972. Bibliography: p. 324-327. NEU156. Good+, paper aging / soft cover.

New York : Viking, 1975.. Hard Cover. xii, 337 p. : map ; index, 25 cm. "An inside account of officers who reported conscientiously and were hounded out of the Foreign Service because China's proceeded as they correctly foresaw it would." First appeared in The New Yorker, 1972. Bibliography: p. 324-327. NEU003. Contains red ink underling and markings of scholar of Asian history, Charles Neu.