Search Results: Authors starting with K from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. octavo, 215 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $8.95 on front flap. Owner name and date on FFEP.

Konigsburg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1800. Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo. Second edition, 332pp. Bound in half calf over marbled boards, flat spine ruled in gilt, joints worn. A very good copy.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1960. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. Fine. Quarto. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 UNNUMBERED COPIES. ALSO SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY PHILIP KAPPEL ON FFEP. ALSO WITH TYPE WRITTEN LETTER SIGNED (TLS) BY PHILIP KAPPEL LAID IN. Includes signed and inscribed Christmas cards by Philip Kappel laid-in. First Printing. Jamaica Edition. A Documentary of the Island of Jamaica, West Indies. Fine copy in original glassine dust jacket and slipcase. Glassine torn in half, but complete. Slipcase in fine condition.

New York: Henry Holt, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY NATALIE HEVENER KAUFMAN ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. x, 354pp.

New York: Henry Holt, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY NATALIE HEVENER KAUFMAN AND CAROL McGINNIS KAY ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. x, 354pp.

London; nd (ca.1900): Edwin Dalton. Hard Cover. Fine. Quarto. TWO VOLUMES. 559, 552pp. Illustrated throughout, handsomely bound by John Dickens and Co. in half black morocco over blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges marbled. A fine set. An early history of the Medodist church with extensive research and the use of early photographs and drawings from churches in Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. The author dates the church's origin back to 1811.

New York: William Morrow, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. A near fine copy bound in black cloth with red lettering, top edge stained red. Owner bookplate front paste-down. 282 pp.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover With Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Near Fine. Octavo. A very good+ copy with previous owner name ffep, owner blindstamp title page, light staining fore-edge. In a near fine dust jacket with spine slight fading. 400 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good++. Octavo. Edited by Allan Nevins. Foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson. A fine copy in a very good++ price clipped dust jacket with minimal soil and light edge wear. 293 pp.

New York: William Morrow, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. A very good+ copy bound in black cloth with red lettering spine, top edge tinted red. Owner bookplate ffep, minimal toning pastedowns. This book was matched with a Grosset and Dunlap reprint dust jacket in very good condition with small loss at spine ends.. 280 pp.

New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good++. Octavo. 281pp. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Bound in beige cloth stamped in blue, top edge blue. A lovely copy, in equally nice dust jacket showing only light wear along the edges. No tears. Nice.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Small Octavo. Near fine copy with mild scattered foxing in a very good dust jacket with closed tear spine, minimal foxing and wear. 255 pp.

Cooperstown, NY: National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum, 1975. Offered is a card from the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum SIGNED BY RALPH KINER without personalization. The card is in a museum quality frame with engraved plate with name and date of induction in museum. Includes certificate of authenticity.

New York: The Hobart O., 1903. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, 306pp. illustrated by Frederic Remington and Edwin William Deming, bound in red cloth lettered and ruled in gilt and black with mounted color pictorial illustration, top edge gilt; a clean bright copy with neat owner's name on FEP. Very light wear at spine ends. Very nice.

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866. First Edition. Hard Cover. Quarto. 33pp., illustrated with 6 full page chromolithographs and several woodcuts, original green pictorial cloth depicting a gilt moose head on upper boards; spine gilt, early bookplate; a very handsome copy showing minor wear; internally clean and bright; front end papers lightly foxed. The chromolithographs are of excellent quality.

London: John W. Parker & Son, 1848. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. Author's first book. Preface by Professor Maurice. 269pp., 4pp. ads at rear. Bound in publisher's original cloth showing light fading; pale yellow endpapers; paper spine label with two tiny chips. A very good copy of this author's work who went on to publish The Water Babies and several other famous works during his lifetime.

New York: Harper & Row, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Author's Second Book. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 244 pp.

New York: ILR Press, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. An excellent book about the striking miners of Arizona. A time that will always be remembered, generation after generation. 213pp. Bound in beige cloth lettered in blue foil. A fine copy issued without dust jacket.

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1953. First Ediiton. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. Octavo, 842 pages; Original maroon cloth, with gilt letters on spine, in blue bands. Original yellow dust jacket, printed in black. SIGNED by Alfred C. Kinsey on front end paper; bookplate. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Now scarce on the market, in collectible condition; the first printing was priced at $8 and 250,000 copies were issued. According to an article in Life magazine (August 24, 1953), the "Long-awaited study shows they [women] are not very interested in sex." Interviews with 5,940 women were conducted.

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1953. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. First edition; octavo; a beautiful, fine copy in a very good dust jacket, with price of $8.00 on rear flap.