Search Results: Authors starting with K from Ravenroost Books

New York: Delacorte Press, 1998. 8vo. 528 pgs. Very Good in black paper wraps as issued (softcover). Very light edge wear. Advance reading copy from uncorrected proofs. Memoir of a West African woman, who upon her father's death faced a forced marriage and the ritual female mutilation customary to her people. Fleeing for to America, she recounts her imprisonments and efforts towards asylum. ISBN 0385318324. #829.. Review Copy.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bancroft-Parkman, 1998. adv. xxii. 1100pgs. Fine condition hardcover. Clean, tight, unmarked, prisitne condition. Red cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, endpapers depicting a book auction at Sotheby's circa 1800 by Thomas Rowlandson. Continues to be an essential reference tool for buying, selling and evaluating scarce books, serial publications, maps, autographs, prints based on hammer prices at 35 major auction houses. An introduction and table of abbreviations precedes lists of auction houses, named consignors and season's sales, followed by sections on autographs and manuscripts (Part I) and Books (Part II), the latter of which includes atlases, books, broadsides, maps and charts. #2467. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Fine. Illus. by Thomas Rowlandson. 8vo - 6.25x8.25x2inches.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Warner Books, Incorporated, 2002. 8vo. 390 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket, clean, crisp, unmarked first printing. A Rina Lazarus and Peter Decker novel. Set in New York, with an encore appearance of Peter's nemesis Christopher Donatti. ISBN 0446530387. #1394.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Tom Dougherty., 1996. 8vo. 320 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. First US edition, May 1996. Police drama and the supernatural cross paths in San Francisco. ISBN 0312861079. #580.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press., 1995. 8vo. 260 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Black boards and dust jacket. Shallow dog-eared bottom right corners of first 30 pgs., else clean, tight and unmarked. Tiny ding to jacket near left bottom edge. SIGNED by author on title page. Sequel to A Grave Talent. ISBN 0312119070. #355.. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker & Co, 2001. 391 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and Set in Europe following the English Civil War. From the jacket: "A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian, on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe, charged with the task of restoring a magnificent library destroyed by the war." Inchbold's life depends on recovering a missing manuscript, in the midst of underworld, spies, ciphers and forgeries. ISBN 0802733573. #1743.. Second Printing. Fine/Fine. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall.

Bloomington, Illinois: McNight & McNight, 1931. 8vo. 280 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, gilt Canadian maple leaf emblem on front board. Black and white photographs and illustrations of weather maps throughout. Contents: The non-atmospheric factors controlling the climate of Canada and Newfoundland; pressure, winds and storms; sunshine and temperature; moisture considerations; British Columbia and the Yukon territory; the continental interior; Eastern Canada and Newfoundland; the Arctic Prairies and Archipelago; bibliography; climate data. #858.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997. 321 pgs Fine hardcover in Fine Jacket. First Printing. Clean, pristine condition. A catastrophic inexplicable plane crash, with 330 casualties and no survivors-except one. ISBN 0679425268. #1764.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Chip Kidd. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall.

New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1993. 377pgs. Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean, tight, unmarked. Jacket has a trace of shelfwear along upper corners, no chips, tears or rubs. Detective Harry Lyon and his partner Connie Gulliver enter a nightmare of horror after killing in the line of duty. ISBN 0399137734. #2500. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York and Cleveland: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1994. 8vo. 481 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, jacket with tiny rub at upper right corner, shallow corner crease to one page. First trade edition 11/94. Black boards and cloth, clean and unmarked. ISBN 0679425241. #151.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York and Cleveland: Alfred A. Knopf, NY. 1994. First trade edition., 1994. 8vo. 481 pgs. Fine hardcover in near fine jacket, clean and unmarked. First trade edition. Dust jacket has very faint rubbing to paper edge at back top spine corner. Black boards and cloth, gold lettering on spine and front. ISBN 0679425241. #200.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. 8vo 119pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, idecorative boards and endpapers, color photographs throughout. An informative and visually appealing exploration of various lavender species in the garden as well as for crafting, aesthetics, aromatic oils and culinary uses. Sections: Introduction, The Botany of Lavender, Choosing a Lavender, Planting and Cultivating Lavenders, Lavender in Fragrances, Crafts and Cuisine. Lavender sources, Index, acknowledgments. ISBN 0811815706. Book#2624.. First Edition. Hard Cover, Decorated Boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo, 8.25 x 7 Inches.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., NY.1994., 1994. 8vo. 257 pgs. Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. First Edition. Blue boards and blue cloth spine, silver lettering. Decorated endpapers. Very slight rubbing to upper spine corner of dust jacket, else fine. Uncommon short stories of common lives. ISBN 0151820643. #408.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.