Search Results: Authors starting with K from Bartlebys Books

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina, 1930. First edition. 8vo. xv, 219pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt stamped spine. Previous owner's signature on pastedown. Very good.

West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1992. First edition. Small 4to. 160 pp. Illustrated from color photographs, plates. 15 chapters on various sporting collectibles, from decoys to stamps, including books, ephemera, prints, etc. Signed by the authors and with an ANS from Vivian Karsnitz laid in. Fine. Color illustrated wrappers. (#7883).

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. 8vo; xix, 616 pp.; ix, 666 pp. Illustrated with maps and figures. Very good in dust jackets, spines sunned.

New York: Vantage Press, 1977. First edition. 8vo. (10), 132 pp. Collection of short hunting and fishing stories, trout fishing, elk hunting, bass fishing in Lake Erie, and nature gone wild in a science fiction tale set in the Dakotas, among others. Inscribed by the author to a family member in the year of publication. Very good. Green cloth, gilt spine title, illustrated dust jacket (portrait of the author on the rear panel, signed by him; price-clipped). (#6888).

Portland, OR: Western Fisherman's Press, 1994. First edition. 4to. 144 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, color plates. Fine. Gilt-stamped burgundy cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. (#6745).

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1939. First American edition. 8vo. (12), 331 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, line drawing vignettes as chapter head-pieces, large folding map at rear. "The full account of an eighteen months' search in South Eastern Tibet for the source of the Salween — the black river of Tibet." Owner's large pencil initials on endpaper, some foxing, else very good. Original rose cloth (old light tideline at base of spine), gilt spine title, 3-color illustrated dust jacket (price-clipped, rumpled around the edges). (#8446).

London: Printed by B.D. Cousins, 1857. Second edition, "revised from the edition published (by authority) in 1847, by the late Richard Cannon." 8vo. xvi, 288 pp. Illustrated with five plates, four of them hand-colored engravings. Includes extensive service in the Napoleonic Wars and Afghanistan in 1842. Somewhat later black morocco (rubbed), gilt, gilt title and ornaments between raised bands on spine, a.e.g. Corners bumped, front joint cracked at head of spine, title page pulled, but a good solid copy. (1160).

Little Rock, Arkansas: Issued by Land Department of the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern and Little Rock & Fort Smith Railways, 1904. Glossy white paperwraps (lightly soiled), stapled. 17 cm. (32) pp. Frontis. map, photo illustrations, and ads. Title and illustration of a steer printed in brown on front wrapper. Rubber stamp for a railroad ticket agent in St. Louis across the title and upper right corner of the front wrapper. Upper outer corner of front wrapper chipped away, short split to wrapper along spine, else a nice copy. OCLC lists AR State Archives, Univ. of AR- Mullins, Univ. of AR- Fayetteville, National Agr. Lib., SMU. [Library of Congress lists a copy with an estimated date of 1906]. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition was held in St. Louis in 1904.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. First edition. 8vo. 496 pp. Illustrated from old art work, plates, frontispiece portrait. Errata slip. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth, illustrated dust jacket (some tears and chips). Very good.

Baltimore: Printed by W. Pechin, for the compiler, 1797. 8vo in fours. (4), [9]-86, (2), [87]-94, [105]-272 pp. Somewhat later plain reverse calf binding (rubbed, extremities somewhat worn); note concerning provenance affixed to front pastedown, some light foxing, but a good solid copy. First edition. Evans 32330 (AAS). OCLC locates seven copies (Library of Congress [defective], Boston Athenaeum, Talbot County Public, Maryland, Duke, Baker & Taylor Technical Services, Washington).

London: Edward Moxon, 1854. First edition with the Milnes memoir and these illustrations. 8vo. xii, xl, 375 pp. Frontispiece portrait, in-text illustrations and vignettes, head and tail-pieces. Contemporary (publisher's?) green pebbled leather, boards framed with a wide ornamental rule between a pair of gilt double-rules and an inner small ornamental rule, spine richly gilt with ornaments and title between raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, all edge gilt. Some rubbing, but a very good copy.

(Lewiston, ID): Confluence Press, a James R. Hepworth Book, 1987. First edition. 8vo. 118 pp. Poems with themes related to Montana trout fishing and other western outdoor pursuits. Fine. Tan cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. (8792).

Nashville, TN: Published for the author by E. Stevenson & F.A. Owen, 1857. First edition. 12mo in sixes (16 cm.). 275, (8, publisher's catalogue) pp. Living with and without money, supporting the ministry and the needy, and other essays. Wood-engraved chapter tailpieces. Allen Tennessee Imprints 4361. A little foxing, private society book label, else very good. Original green cloth, gilt spine title (rubbed). (9450).

Philadelphia: David McKay, No. 23 South Ninth St, 1885. Reprint (first published in 1870). 8vo. 308 pp. Illustrated. The battle of the Washita and the campaign against the Southern Plains Indians. Howes K-31. Graff 2283. Luther High Spots 18. Rader 2151. Original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth.

Plantersville, SC: Thomas G. Samworth, Small-Arms Technical Publishing Co, 1943. Reprint. 12mo. (8), 161 pp. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings, plates. Riling 2199: "Seven chapters on rifles used in various types of hunting, including all-around and double-barelled rifles, iron sights, scopes and mounts, with a chapter of stocks." Still a good solid copy. Original gilt-stamped blue-green cloth, illustrated dust jacket (soiled, old tideline through upper third, spine ends worn). (7409).

Huntington, WV: Standard Publications, 1946. First edition. Tall 8vo. (12), 406 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portrait frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. Inscribed by the author on the half-title in 1950. Heller 185: "Rifle technology and its practical applications, including accounts of hunting mountain sheep and goat, elk, antelope, grizzly, and mule deer." Riling 2551: "On rifles, their sights, and ammunition, and on the large game for which they are designed, with accent on the arm." Biscotti, p. 234. Very good. Green and silver-stamped black cloth. (7344).

La Jolla, CA: Safari Publications, 1968. First edition. 4to. 166 pp. [printed double- column]. Illustrated from photographs, plates, some in color, maps. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Keith's experiences on two African safaris. Very good. Gilt-stamped green cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. (#908).

[Cranston, RI:]: Drawn by S. N. Keith" [in manuscript], 1874. Manuscript plat map of the Cranston, Rhode Island, development covering an area on both sides of Elmwood Avenue, running along the Pawtuxet River, the lots numbered 1-371 (with one block, lots 124 -127 and 193-196, crossed through), from First to Sixth Avenues, crossed by River, Elmwood, William, Heath, and Pearce Avenues. The town of Cranston was created in 1754 from a portion of Providence north of the Pawtuxet River, portions were whittled away over the years by other towns, and the remaining portions became the city of Cranston in 1910; this development is situated just across the river from Warwick's Belmont Park. Brown ink on glazed, thin paper; folded, very good.

Santa Fe, New Mecico: The Rydal Press, 1945. First edition. 8vo. ix, (5), (2), 3-317 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits, endpaper maps. HOWES K-37. ADAMS HERD 1262. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 1214: "Scholarly and dependable book which can be safely used for material on Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and other New Mexico gunmen." Original gilt-stamped blue cloth. Very good.

Portsmouth, VA: Printcraft Press, 1958. Second printing (first printed in 1931). 8vo. 235 pp. Illustrated from photographs. Very good. Gilt-stamped black cloth. (4424).