Search Results: Authors starting with K from Whiting Books

New York: Random House [The Modern Library], 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Mild shelf wear. The dust jacket has some wear and rubbing at the spine ends and a crease on the front flap. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. Modern Library no. 283. [xxii] 328 pages followed by a list of Modern Library Giants titles. 385 series titles are also printed on the inside of the dust jacket..

Quanah, Texas: Nortex Press, 1977. Book. Illus. by Diane Begin. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. First Edition. Slight darkening to jacket spine. 90 pages of poetry from the Houston businessman and poet. Chairman of the Board for three corporations, the author resided in Houston since 1925 and began writing serious poetry about seven years before the publication of this book, his first. Inscribed and signed to a couple that previously owned the book..

Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc., 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A few bumped corners and slight wrinkling to top portion of the jacket's front panel. No tears or chips. A nice, clean copy profusely illustrated with black and white photos and color plates..

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1895. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Edition not stated, but assumed First Thus. Red cloth with gilt stamping. The spine and its gilt lettering are faded. Light edge and corner wear. The binding is straight and tight. 404 pages with Index, followed by several pages of publisher ads. Laid in at the front of the book is a leaflet announcing the release of The Talmud, by Emanuel Deutsch, ready June 1, 1895, by the Jewish Publication Society in Philadelphia..

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1993. Book. Illus. by Ellen Eagle. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. In 1855, twelve-year-old Gideon and his ne'er-do-well father work their way down the Mississippi in a second-rate vaudeville act about life in ancient Egypt accompanied by a mummy with a very special secret. 137 pages, with dust jacket art and vignette illustrations at the beginning of each chapter by Ellen Eagle..

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. While starring in a series of cliffhangers for Pathmark Studios during the summer of 1918, fifteen-year-old twins Fitz and Nelly Dalton uncover a German saboteur. 182 pages..

New York: Viking, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition.

Gerard Billaudot, 1979. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 9 X 12 Inches. Ex-library copy with Reference stamped on the front cover. No other markings or library indications. Stapled, printed folder with a 12-page score and loose sections laid in for each of the five instruments--flute, oboe (hautbois), clarinet (clarinette), horn (cor), and bassoon (basson). Library gift label adhered inside the front cover of the folder and assorted library documents are paper-clipped and laid in. The collection is directed by French clarinetist Guy Dangain..

Kathmandu, Nepal: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1979. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Front hinge cracked at half-title page, otherwise light wear. Jacket has light edge wear and rubbing and is protected in a new archival sleeve. Classic work of Tibetan travel. The Japanese Bhudist monk Kawaguchi traveled in disguise through Nepal, including Mustang and Dolop, large parts of Tibet and Sikkim. 719 pages, illustrated..

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Printing. 319 pages, black & white photos. Light bumping and edge wear. Jacket is price-clipped. Small corner crease to rear flap..

New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1949. Book. Illus. by Katherine Southwick Keeler. Good. Hardcover. Red cloth with white lettering on the spine and a white embossed image of the farmhouse on the front cover. Shelf wear and bumped corners. Gift inscription. Browning to endpapers. 40 pages. Illustrations by the author..

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 354 pages with Photographic Catalogue of Carl Van Vechten, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs..

College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. First Edition. Inscribed on title page to a previous owner of the book, signed and dated by Kelsey. 408 pages, with Notes, Index, and numerous illustrations..

New York: Forge Books, 2005. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Thus. Barely a trace of wear. Rear panel of the dust jacket has a small circular spot in the upper corner. Appears to be sticker shadow. A very nice copy signed to the previous owner with a birthday greeting by Elmer Kelton. Originally published in 1989 under Kelton's pseudonym, Tom Early..

New York: Forge, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. Couple of small bumps to the bottom edge, else fine.Appears unread. 301 pages. Jacket in a Mylar sleeve..

San Angelo, Texas: Fort Concho Museum Press, 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Printing. Edited and with an Introduction by Lawrence Clayton. 192 pages, including a Kelton Bibliography (compiled by Elmer Kelton). A fine, unread copy..

Austin, Texas: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1975. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Second Printing. Mild toning, rubbing. Clean copy. 115 pages, black and white photos..

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Mild wear to boards, faint spotting to the fore-edge of the page block. The dust jacket is chipped and rubbed. 244 pages. No index. Illustrated, including a frontispiece drawing of the author..

Tulsa, Oklahoma: The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1984. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Large (40 X 55 inches), folded, color geodynamic map from the Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources; Michel T. Halbouty, Chairman; John A. Reinemund, Executive Director. Map compilation coordinated by Warren O. Addicott. Cartography by Frank J. Sidlauskas and Audrey G. Schmidt. Kenneth J. Drummond was Chairman of the Northeast Quadrant Panel, which included the following panels: Free-Air Gravity Anomalies, State of Lithospheric Stress, Earthquake Focal Mechanisms, Historic Faulting, Holocene Volcanoes, and Crustal Thickness..

Tulsa, Oklahoma: The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1983. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Large (40 X 55 inches), folded, color geologic map from the Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources; Michel T. Halbouty, Chairman; John A. Reinemund, Executive Director. Map compilation coordinated by Warren O. Addicott. Cartography by Francis R. Mills. Kenneth J. Drummond was Chairman of the Northeast Quadrant Panel, which included the following panels: Land Geology, Offshore Geology, Seafloor Sediment, and Deep Sea Drilling Project Columnar Sections..