Search Results: Authors starting with K from George S. MacManus Company

KAIN, C. Henry. The Military and Naval Operations on the Delaware in 1777. Phila., 1910. Illus. 23pp. Orig. wrappers.

KAIN, Robert C. In the Valley of the Little Big Horn. June 25-26, 1876. The 7th and the Sioux. North Hollywood, [1978]. Illus. xxi, 117pp. Fine in d/j.

KAINEN, Jacob. George Clymer and the Columbian Press. 12mo. Original decorated cloth. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1950. Limited to 350 copies by Taylor & Taylor for club members. A fine copy.

KAJENCKI, Col. Francis C. Star on Many a Battlefield. Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Karge in the American Civil War. Madison, [1980]. 1st ed. Illus. maps. 280pp. Fine in d/j.

1770. KALM, Peter. Travels into North America, containing It's Natural History, and A Circumstantial Account of Its Plantations and Agriculture in General...The Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country. Warrington. 1770-71. Three volumes. xvi,[8],400; 352; viii,310,[14]pp. plus folding map and six plates. A very handsome set bound in later full paneled and blind calf, with raised bands and red spine labels. HOWES K5, "b." STREETER SALE 823. SABIN 36989. Coats, THE PLANT HUNTERS, pp.277-79. LARSON 329. LANDE 482. TPL 214. MEISEL III, p.346. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 3493. The first English edition, translated by John Reinhold Forster, after the original Swedish edition published in Stockholm in 1753-61. Kalm was in America in 1748-49, using Philadelphia as his base of operations. Much of the first volume is devoted to his observations on the country around that city; much of the second volume relates to his sojourn in the Swedish settlements in southern New Jersey; and the remaining volume… Read More

1937. KALM, Peter. Travels Into North America. The English Version of 1770, Revised from the Original Swedish and Edited by Adolph B. Benson. N.Y., 1937. Two vols. Illus. maps. xviii, 797pp. Very good in orig. cloth.

1972. KALM, Peter. Travels Into North America. Translated Into English by John Reinhold Forster. Introduction by Ralph M. Sargent. Barre, Mass., 1972. Colored frontis., illus. (one folding) and folding map. xxiv, 514pp. Orig. cloth-backed boards. A fine copy in publisher's box. Limited to 1,950 copies.

2016. KAMENSKY, Jane. A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]. 1st ed. 526 pp. Portrait frontis., illus., portraits. Orig. boards, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. Study of the artist as reflected in his times. Though he painted many of the fathers of the Revolution, Copley was a loyalist who painted the American Revolution from Britain.

KAMMEN, Michael. A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 1st ed. xxi,384pp. Plates. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Small chip to d/j, a few marginal notes, else very good. Study of the effect of the Revolution as America's self-myth.

KAMMEN, Michael G. A Rope of Sand The Colonial Agents, British Politics, and the American Revolution. Ithaca, (1968). 1st ed. Illus. xii, 349pp. Fine in d/j.

1856. KANE, Elisha Kent. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, in 1853, '54, '55. Phila.: Childs & Jefferson, 1856. 1st ed. 2 vols. 464;467pp. Portrait frontises., illus., plates, maps. Orig. blind pictorial cloth. Light wear to corners and spine ends of Vol. Two, lacks folding map, else very good or better. $75.00 Hill 904: "Kane was the commander of the Advance on this expedition, also financed by Henry Grinnell. Although Franklin was not found, the explorers were able to gather much information about the people, geography, and natural science of the region.

KANE, Harriet T. Spies for the Blue & Gray. Garden City, [1954]. 1st ed. 311pp. Fine in d/j.

1850. KANE, Thomas L. The Mormons. A Discourse Delivered before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: March 26, 1850. Phila.: King & Baird, 1850. 2nd ed. 92pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly chipped, rear wrapper lacking, else a very good copy. HOWES K-8. Flake 4524. Wagner-Camp 185:2. Streeter 2289. Kane, approached by the Mormon leaders for aide, accompanied them on the trek west. Later he was sent by President Buchanan to persuade them to accept federal control over the Utah Territory. "Kane provided the most sympathetic appraisal of the Mormon migration. His account...is unusual well-written. It opens with a vivid account of his arrival in the recently abandoned city of Nauvoo. Repeatedly Kane contrasts the orderly beauty that the Mormons had created with the destruction perpetrated by the patriotic rabble who routed them from their homes. He depicts in particular the mysteriously beautiful temple which the mobe had 'as a matter of duty sedulously defiled and deface'"--Flake.

KANTOR, MacKinlay. The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Orig. cloth, dust jacket. N.Y.: McCann, [1937]. First edition. A fine copy.

(CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.). KAPLAN, Justin. Mark Twain and His World. Small 4to. Illus. Original cloth, dust jacket. N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, [1974]. First edition. Fine.

KAPLAN, Lawrence S., ed. The American Revolution and "A Candid World." Kent State University Press, [1977]. xiv, 169pp. Fine in orig. cloth, d/j. Diplomacy and foreign policy.

1859. (STEUBEN, WM. VON). KAPP, Friedrich. The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben, Major-General in the Revolutionary Army. Introduction by George Bancroft. N.Y., 1859. 1st ed.Portr. 735pp. Very good in orig. cloth.

1870. KAPP, Friedrich. The Life of John Kalb, Major-General in the Revolutionary War. New York: Privately Printed, 1870. 1st ed. in English. xii, 320pp. Portrait frontis. Orig. cloth, printed paper spine label. Wear to spine ends and corners, label sunned and chipped, outer front hinge starting, some light toning, else very good. Sabin 37096 lists only the German edition of 1862. Presentation inscription form the author on front endpaper: "To my friend Geo W Greene, I present this work on the eve of my departure for Europe with the assurances of my great return. Friedrich Kapp, NY, April 29m 1870."The historian George W. Greene based his 1876 work The German Element in the War of American Independence on Kapp's research. Kapp is perhaps better known for his more common biography of Von Steuben, published in 1859. Very scarce.

1903. KAPPLER, Charles J., ed. Indian Affairs. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903. 1st ed. 2 Vols. 4tos. viii,1162; 832pp. Orig. 3/4 black morocco and marbled boards, raised spine bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Spines sunned, some wear to spine ends and corners, a few minor scrapes to leather and boards, else a very good copy. Collection of statutes, executive orders, proclamations, statistics of tribes, and treaties.

1986. (NEW BRUSWICK). KARASIK, Gary. New Brunswick & Middlesex County. The Hub and the Wheel: An Illustrated History. [Northridge, CA, 1986]. 1st ed. 4to. Profusely illus. 223pp. Fine in d/j.