Search Results: Authors starting with K from Tom Davidson - Bookseller

The courtship and marriage of the retired baseball legend and the reigning queen of Hollywood, that blazed across the sky for 10 months before flaming out. While not a difficult title to find, this copy, fine in fine p/c dw, is uncommonly, briefly INSCRIBED by Kahn on the front end paper.

Kahn's reminiscences of his years as a journalist, including vignettes on Willie Mays, Leo Durocher, Jascha Heifetz, Robert Frost and John Lardner, sportswriter, WWII columnist, son of Ring Lardner, and Roger Kahn's friend. The book is warmly INSCRIBED to Ring Lardner, Jr. in remembrance of his brother John. Near fine in faded blue boards in a near fine dw with moderate tanning to the spine. Kahn is also the author of the classic The Boys of Summer, a tribute to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Great association copy!

A biography of the heavyweight champ of the Roaring Twenties, from his poverty-stricken childhood to his days as a restaurateur in New York City. Fine in fine dw, SIGNED by Kahn on the title page.

A very nearly fine copy in a near fine dw with slight evidence of handling to the spine and rear panel. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page.

1st US edition, review copy of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel, as new in dw and SIGNED by Kelman on the title page.

1st US edition, fine in fine dw and SIGNED by Kelman on the title page.

The author's literary debut. There is a small puncture mark near the bottom of the front board that stops this copy from being fine (duh!), and the otherwise fine dw has a closed but obvious tear across the top of the front flap, though no pieces are missing. That being said, the book presents well, and the dw is solid, showing none of the rubbing or loss of color that it is prone to. SIGNED by Kennedy on the title page.

First draft (revised) of Kennedy's screenplay adapted from his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. 89 single-sided typed pages, bound in white wraps with three concealed clasps. About fine with the edges of the wraps showing a bit of shelf wear. An uncommon item, briefly INSCRIBED by Kennedy on the title page.

The continuation of Kennedy's acclaimed Albany Cycle of novels, this one set in 1938. Fine in very nearly fine dw with a very small area of paper loss on the front panel, and a bit of wear to the base of the spine.

1st US edition of the 4th Captain Richard Bolitho novel, a historical naval series set in the last years of the eighteenth century. About fine in very nearly fine dw with a touch of wear to the edges of the spine.

A courageous account of the war in Vietnam, written from the perspective of a private first class. Fine in a fine, lightly toned dw, INSCRIBED by Ketwig on the front end paper.

The third novel by the author of Flowers for Algernon. Fine in very nearly fine p/c dw with very light scattered edge wear. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page to Charles (Strouse) 3-time Tony winner and the composer for the musical version of Flowers for Algernon.

1st edition of the second Kate Martinelli novel, and the sequel to her Edgar Award-winning first book A Grave Talent. As new in similar dw, SIGNED by King on the title page.

The author's first novel, introducing San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli. First edition, second state with the Hebrew inscription on the dedication page corrected. Faint spot on the top edge thus very nearly fine in fine dw, SIGNED by King on the title page. Winner of the Edgar Award for best first novel.

Kingsolver's second book, first collection of short fiction, fine in fine dw.

The esteemed poet's first – and only – novel, very nearly fine in similar, lightly rubbed dw.

Klay, a Marine Corps veteran, won the National Book Award for this first book, a collection of short stories about the war in Iraq. As new in similar dw, SIGNED by Klay on the title page.

The author's first book, a coming-of-age novel set in a New England boy's boarding school at the beginning of WWII. Very nearly fine in blue buckram boards in a very good second-state p/c dw (the first state dw was scrapped because the author felt it portrayed the book as too juvenile) with some minor damp stains to the edges of the spine that do not affect the book at all.

Kosinski's fourth novel, fine in fine dw. Warmly INSCRIBED on the half-title page "for Bob (Thom), idiosyncratically, and with affection, Jerzy - February 1974* (* the year of the Vomit-)." Robert Thom was an author of plays, screenplays, novels and poetry, and a Rhodes scholar.

Soft cover french wraps, 1st edition with unquantified limited distribution, originally intended as an appendix for the German-language edition. Very light toning to the glossy white wraps else about fine. INSCRIBED to writer Geoffrey Wolff on the front end paper, with Wolff's signature atop the page and his underlining and marginalia throughout the pamphlet.