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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hyperion, NY [c1997]. "First Edition". Hard Cover. 290 p., index, plates, 24 cm.; dj clipped; VG+ with author's ink signature on title-page. 35599.

Totowa, NJ, Rowman & Allanheld, 1985. Hard Cover. xv, 180 p., 24.5 cm. "Presents a comprehensive picture of the programs for older workers including phased retirement, company work-sharing plans, and partial retirement." Stock# 34,218.Vg/ dj vg.

Evanston, IL., Northwestern UP for the Renaissance English Text Society, 1965. Hard Cover. Edited by Stanley J. Kahrl; and, The History of Tom Thumbe [by] R.I., edited by Curt Buhler. The text of the Mad Men of Gotham is based on the Harvard College Library copy of the Colwell edition of ca. 1565. The work is often attributed to Andrew Boorde. The text of Tom Thumb, dubiously attributed to Richard Johnson, is based on the Pierpont Morgan Library copy of the edition printed at London in 1621. xxii, 20, xvii, 27 p., 1 leaf, Illus. (facsims); 23 cm. Fine / glassine dj good +. 100,953

Oxford, Malone Society, 1974. Hard Cover. xxxiii, 108 p., map; 22 cm. Contents include Addlethorpe Ingoldmells, Boston, Donington, Grimsby, Holbeach, Leverton, Lincoln, Long Sutton, Louth, Sleaford, Stamford, Sutterton, Thorpe St. Peter, Witham on the Hill; From the Regulations of the Lincoln Guild of the Cordwainers; Statutes of Lincoln Cathedral relating to dramatic or semi-dramatic actrivities; City of Lincoln Christmas Speeches, 1564-1565; List of Companies by Patrons and Places of Origin. Tan linen, no dj; fine, gift quality. Stock#25064.

NY, Simon & Schuster, ©1977. Hard Cover. 371 p.; 21 cm. Book Club Edition. Two foreign correspondents teamed to write a novel about an American Secretary of State who deals with challenges in the Middle East and a kidnapping. ISBN (10): 0671226568. Stock#47863. Good+, book club / only end flaps of dust jacket.