Search Results: Authors starting with K from Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983. First edition. Paper wrappers. Edges foxed else a very good copy in a very good+ dust jacket.. xiii, 200 pp. 8vo. Shukdev Singh, trans.

New York: Viking Press, 1974. Second English Language edition. Cloth. About fine with faint yellowing to edges in a very good dust jacket with slight edgewear to the lamination.. 55 pp. + plates [232 pp.]. Illus. with 6 color and 370 b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Tubb, Brian, trans.

San Francisco: Cadence Books, 1994. First edition. Paper wrappers with illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy.. Illus. with color drawings. Trade format. Trans. by Glenn Glasow and Yoshiko Kakudo.

Washington, D.C.: The Embassy of India, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with minor wear on top edge.. 226 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Nice section on travellers: from Bayard Taylor to Allen Ginsberg.

Washington, D. C.: Dryad Press, 1985. First edition. Paper wrappers. Very good+.. 74 pp. Trade format. Signed by the author.

Kyoto: Kamo Harada / Nippon Shuji Educational Federation, 1984. First edition. White paper-covered boards decorated in silver. A very good+ copy, slight scuffing to front board, in a very good slipcase.. 97, [4] pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos + 1 folding calligraphic plate. 4to. A sequel to Calligraphy published in 1973.

Topeka: J.K. Hudson, State Printer, 1896. Reprinted by authority. Cloth. A very good copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown, shelf sticker on foot of backstrip.. 654 pp.; 294 pp. 8vo. Originally published in 1868, and "the only printed record of the soldiers of Kansas who were mustered in the service of the united States during the war of the rebellion," this is the official reprint of 1896, and although marked Volume I on title page, it also contains the contents of the original Volume II. Of the original 1500 copies, only 500 were for sale, and all but a handful of copies of Volume II (which also included the Official Military History) survived the warehouse fire shortly after its publication. Includes all of the Rosters and 'The Official Military History of Kansas Regiments during the Civil War and in Campaigns along the Platte and in Wyoming.' The history was prepared by J. B. McAfee from his… Read More

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new.. 352 pp. Illus. with 300 color and 117 b/w photos and reproductions. 4to. Prepared for the fist exhibit at the Wolfsonian, this collection of essays delves into the collection and examines the response to modernity as the struggle between the modern and anti-modern, the progressive and the reactionary, and the use of design by both the reformer and the propagandist.

Garden City: Anchor / Doubleday, 1979. First edition. Very good+ in good+ dj with wear to edges and tears on spine.. 311 pp. 8vo. By the author of The Three Pillars of Zen.

Calcutta: C.O. Book Agency, 1957. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Spine torn and soiled, else very good-.. 9 pp. + 12 lvs. Illus. with 25 b/w photos. Sm. 4to. The article on the Buddha is based on an illustrated talk delivered by the author at the Indian Museum in July, 1956.

Bombay: Karnatak Publishing House, 1938. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy.. [215-280] pp. Illus. with two b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Articles on Apabhramsa and Marathi metres, a New Persian Embassy to the Vijayanagara court, Kadamba Mayurasarman, illustrated manuscript of the Bhagavata-purana, Sidelights on Canakya the Great Chancellor, Austric Substratum in the Assamese Language, Kolison in Mohenjo Daro and more.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. 318 pp. 8vo. From the Jacket: "At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different: not sex, drugs, God, or even self, but birds. A report of a rare bird would send him hitching nonstop from Pacific to Atlantic and back again. When he was broke he would pick fruit or do odd jobs to earn the fifty dollars or so that would last him for weeks. His goal was to set a record - most North American species seen in a year - but along the way he began to realize that at this breakneck pace he was only looking, not seeing. What had been a game became a quest for a deeper understanding of the natural world. Kingbird Highway is a unique coming-of-age story, combining a… Read More

London: Bibliographical Society, 1960. Offprint. Paper wrappers. A very good copy.. [278-287] pp. Illus. with 1 b/w plate. Sm. 4to. Inscribed by the author. Reprinted by the University Press, Oxford, from the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, The Library, December 1960.

New York: Devin-Adair, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy in a good- worn dust jacket with a chip to the head of the spine.. 242 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. The story of the famous Irish theatre started by William Butler Yeats.

Lubbock: Texas Tech Univ. Press, 2007. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new.. xix, 341 pp. Illus. with color plates and photos. Sq. 4to. Jim Lincoln, photos; Marian Ann J. Montgomery, foreword. A showcase of 34 Texas quilts and their stories.

Taibei (Taiwan): Taiwan Kai ming shu dian, 1974. Tai 4 ban (4th edition). Cloth. Soiling along fore edge else a near fine copy in original cardboard slipcase.. 488 pp. 4to. "New History of the Yuan Dynasty."

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1970. First printing. Cloth. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.. 157 pp. Illus. with color photos and b/w drawings. 4to. Dan Guravich, photos.

Helsinki: n.p., 1969. Offprint. Paper wrappers. A very good copy.. 2 pp. [190-191 pp.]. 8vo. In German. A Review of 'Turkmensko-russkii slovar' by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Baskakov;  Baimukhamed Atalievich Karryev;  and M. A, Khamzaev (1968).

Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1859. First edition. Removed. Removed from a larger volume else very good.. 13 pp. 8vo. 35th Congress, 2d Session, Ex. Doc 75. Keenan helped the passengers of the ship "Monsoon" out of San Francisco when it was declared salvage; he also requested payment for a suit brough in the case of the American barque "Mermaid" wrecked on the Pratas Shoals.

Charlottesville: Univ. Virginia Press, 1961. First edition. Paper covered boards. A near fine copy.. 37 pp. Illus. with 4 b/w drawings. Sm. 8vo. One of 1,500 copies.