Search Results: Titles starting with K from Thorn Books

Philadelphia: Rice and Clark, 1842. First edition. Fine. Hand-colored lithograph from the first folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 14-1/8 by 20 inches, matted in an 18 x 24 inch mat. Trace of binding adhesive along one edge , else a fine copy with rich vibrant colors. This image is listed on the contents page of Volume I Katawabeda, 'a Chippeway Chief'. Caption reads: "Published by J. T. Bowen, Philada." and "Entered ... in the year 1841 by J. T. Bowen ..."

Kyoto: Hanga In, 1964. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. Portfolio is 9.5 x 12 in. in a striped paper cover, with a color woodblock print mounted on upper board, dark brown silk ties. The story booklet is (6] pp. in printed wraps with photo illustrations and sewn with white silk braid. There are also six woodblock prints in full vivid color, each w/ tissue guard. The woodblock prints are after Shinagawa ans printed by Hanga. First edition of this second installment of beautifully rendered Japanese woodblock prints illustrating actors and scenes from such Kabuki dramas as Ibaraki, about Yoritomo Minamoto's fight against a female demon, Meido no Hikyaku, Honcho Niju Shiko, and more. The portfolio is rubbed at edges with wear to the spine tips. The interior booklet and woodblock prints are in fine condition. .

n.p.: The Frank Waters Foundation, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Thin 4to. (10),99,(1)pp. Beige cloth printed in black on the spine and upper board and with an onlaid illustration Na'ngasohu kachina.The text is followed by photographs of thirty Kachina etchings by the author. A fine as new copy. According to the publisher, only about 20 copies were isued in hardcover. .

London: Printed for R. Chiswell in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1691. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The eighth edition, with many useful additions. 12mo. (xxii,175(xv)pp. Title page in red and black, and with an engraved frontispiece-title. Index. Errata page present in rear. Contemporary full sprinkled calf; spine in 5 compartments with raised bands, gilt, and gilt title. With a full page engraving at p. 157 illustrating the construction of a greenhouse. Light wear to edges, dampstain affecting the bottom of the endpapers, a few small marginal wormholes, two ownership names on preliminary blanks else a very good copy. ETSC R294. Wing #3498.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo. (6),311,(1);(6),333,(1)pp. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine titles. Cloth is bubbled and stained, especially on the rear panels; some foxing; but a very good copy of a rare book. Important occult title by one of the early Theosophists, an acquaintance of Madame Blavatsky, and onetime President of the London Lodge.

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Folding color map (two closed tears, neatly repaired). Blue cloth, gilt spine title First issue, with 'business' on p. 40, 'nine' on p. 64,'islands; on p. 101, and ads dated '5.G.4.86' and '5.B.4.86'. Wear to edges, head and tail of spine, and hinges else a very good copy. Contemporary writing on front pastedown covered by card on which the writer Robert Cameron Rogers has mounted his armorial bookplate. Prideaux 18. .

London: Faber and Faber, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Thin folio. Unpaginated. Pictorial boards and endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and shows the original price of 21s. This is a fine, bright, as new copy of the author's first book. You will not find a finer copy. Surprisingly scarce. .

London: St. James Park Press, 2020. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. Fine. 4to. Unpaginated (28pp.) Finely printed letterpress in red, black and blue. Illustrated with four wood-engravings by Jane Randfield. Bound in paper self-wraps with a large red cross on the upper cover. Contains short texts on the Sword in the Stone and The Lady in the Lake, each one accompanied by two illustrations. This is the fourth book from the Press, printed by James Freemantle on his Albion Press, hand-set in 14pt Dante, with titles in Saxon Black, Legende and Edina, on Zerkall Papers. Limited to 65 numbered copies. .

New York: Boar's Head Books, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 189pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine title. With Jarry's original illustrations. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not clipped; it is reinforced at the spine tip from within with what appears to be archival tape. It appears to be fine and is striking in black and yellow. A translation of Ubu Roi, which opened in Paris in 1896. This volume includes the entire Ubu cycle for the first time in English: King Turd; King Turd Enslaved; Turd Cuckolded/ The translation is by Beverley Keith and George Legman. Laid-in are two letters from Legman to bookseller M. J. Royer of Los Angeles, one of them attaching a carbon of the then proposed dustwrapper notice, and the other a proof sheet of page 43 with portions of 42 and 44, Also laid in is a letter from Royer to writer Theodore Reeves suggesting he meet Legman, whom e he describes as a character, 'but I think, brilliant and worth knowing." .

New York: James Pott & Company, 1901. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Frontispiece by WIllis Barderll. 64 pages. Nicely printed with wide margins. Bound in a full black leather, gilt title and vignette on upper board, molded in blind in a design featuring a pair of peacocks. Designed by Margaret Armstrong with her signature initials at the lower right. In fine condition. Fairly scarce. Six copies of this first edition noted in OCLC. Gullans & Espey's Margaret Armstrong and American trade bindings, 223. .

Parsonstown (Birr): King's County Chronicle, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 344 pp followed by 24pp of ads. Later red cloth, gilt spine, title from original binding onset onto upper board. Folding colored map of the county. A very good copy. The first King's County Directory. A short history, then extensive details on places and persons of interest in the County, including a three page discussion, with illustration, of the famed Rosse telescope in Parsonstown. .

New York: King's Handbooks, 1897. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. 96pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the Exchange, Wall Street, and prominent men of the era. Green ribbed cloth printed in black and gilt. First and last pages on brittle yellow paper. The tit is overprinted raising the number of portraits to 1961. Front hinge repaired, the brittle title page is rough along the edges, binding is also rubbed, else this is aivery good copy. .

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. Green T-grain cloth blocked in black, light green and gilt on the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with drawings printed in red, and the title page in red and black. Neat ink name of former owner on front free endpaper. Trace of edge wear else a fine copy. First state, with the inverted border. BAL 1938. .