Search Results: Titles starting with K from Argosy Book Store

Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1973. First. hardcover. near fine/very good(+). BAHNIMPTEWA, Cliff. Foreword by Patrick T. Houlihan. Illustrated in color. xi, 262 pages. Oblong 4to, black and white cloth, d.w. (chipped at front, some discoloration). Flagstaff: Northland Press, (1973). First Edition. Lower edge slightly faded, otherwise fine. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>

New York: Summit, 1987. hardcover. very good(+)/near fine. 462 pages. 8vo, black cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Summit, (1987). Few pages folded, otherwise internally clean. Very good(+) in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>

New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1974. hardcover. very good/very good(-). Illustrated. 462 pages. Thick 8vo, black cloth, torn wrapper. New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1974. Endpapers a bit foxed, still very good in very good(-) dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>

Munich: Simplicissimus, 1914. hardcover. very good. 8 volumes. Numerous illustrations in color & in black & white. Printed on wood pulp paper. Interior is near fine but for slight browning at the edges. Slim folio, pictorial black cloth with a yellow soldier holding a sword, on a leaping horse, and a snarling red bull dog, silver lettering, some spines repaired. 19. Jahrgang Nr. 27 - 23. Jahrgang Nr. 26 August 1914-September 1918. Munich: Simplicissimus, 1914 - 1918.<br/><br/> Germany's most influential satire magazine. A graphic periodical of caricature mocking German political life and society from the beginning of the 20th century to the World War. The magazine was anti military, anti church and anti middle class. Artists include Thomas Heine, Olaf Gulbransson, Heinrich Kley, Rudolf WIlke and Karl Arnold.<br/><br/>

Philadelphia: Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, 1842. unbound. very good. J.T. Bowen. Portrait. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 20" x 14". A few small tears around edges and one larger repaired tear at top of page. Slight tape residue along top and bottom edges.<br/><br/> Beautiful portrait from the folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". As Superintendent of the Indian Trade Bureau, Thomas McKenney wanted to document the rapidly disappearing culture of the American natives. He activated the project, sponsored by the War Department, by commissioning writer James Hall and Charles Bird King, a renowned American portraitist. King painted the prominent Indians while they visited Washington D.C. as treaty delegates. Most of the original oil paintings were destroyed by fire in the Smithsonian Museum in 1865. These lithographs, published 1842-58, are all that remain and are still hailed as one of the… Read More

Hague: P. Blommers, 1853. D. Heyse. Map. Color lithograph. 13 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches. Folds as issued with small repair to left margin, otherwise in good condition.<br/> <br/> Charming 19th c map centered on the Caribbean circa 1500. The map is based on the first Western depiction of the new world by Juan de la Cosa. The Cosa map ended up in a junk shop in Paris and was identified as important by Alexander van Humboldt in 1832. From the rare Nieuwe hand atlas der aarde 25 kaarten, (New Hand Atlas of the Earth in 25 Maps).<br/> <br/>

New York: Reynal, 1941. hardcover. very good(-). Illustrated, some color. Thick 8vo, tan & blue cloth (spine sunned and with a small stain on top edge of some pages). New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1941). A very good(-) solid copy.<br/> <br/>

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1978. Reprint. hardcover. near fine/very good. Photographs by Chiaki Yoshida. Introduction by Donald Keene. Translation by John Bester. Profusely illustrated with 407 black & white gravures and 57 full color plates. 265 pages. Folio, green-stamped black cloth, d.w. (one tear on rear panel). Tokyo, New York & San Francisicp: Kodansha International, (1978). Fourth printing. Pages are just a bit toned at edges, still a near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

1988: Kodansha, 1988. Second. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Photographs by Chiaki Yoshida. 67 color plates and 303 in black & white. 223 pages. Short 4to, rose cloth, d.w. Tokyo: Kodansha International, (1988). Second Printing. Near fine.<br/><br/>

hardcover. Transl. by Fumi Takano. Frontis, illus. 163pp. 8vo, cloth torn dw. (slightly torn). Tokyo, (1956).<br/><br/>

Rutland: Tuttle, 1966. First. hardcover. near fine/very good(-). Color frontispiece, 110 color illustrations and many in black & white by Soma Akira and Ota Gako. 395 pages. Short thick 4to, tri-colored cloth, edgeworn d.w. Rutland VT and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, (1966). First edition. A near fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

Tokyo: Kyoto Hanga In Co., Ltd, 1954. IN, Kyotohanga. Portfolio. 6 color wood block prints, 12" x 9 1/2".<br/><br/> Set of 6 pictures with stories in vivid color. Included in nice striped color portfolio with large, color title block pasted to front. Spine reinforced.<br/><br/>

Tokyo: Japan Times. hardcover. Color & b/w photo illustrations. 143pp., 4to, cloth, dust wrapper; light eadgewear on d.w. (Tokyo); Japan Times, (1977). Near fine with a very good d.w<br/><br/>

New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. First. hardcover. very good/good. Frontispiece and other black-and-white photos. 296 pages, tall 8vo, black cloth, dust wrapper (worn and torn). New York: Oxford university Press, 1956. First edition. A very good copy in a good dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006. hardcover. very good/very good. 321pp. Short 8vo, cloth-backed boards, dust wrapper; some soiling to boards. New York: Metropolitan Books, (2006). A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

Tokyo: Kobunsha. paperback. very good. 16mo, color illustrations with colored pictorial front wrapper; sewn with silk. Tokyo: Kobunsha, no date. The front edge is chipped and one corner bent, but otherwise a near fine example of an ephemeral piece. Printed on paper (not crepe), which is considered the first issue.<br/> <br/> Japanese Fairy Tale Series number 5.<br/> <br/>

Spain: Fundacio Caixa de Girona, 1998. First. paperback. very good(+). Illustrated profusely in color with few in black and white. 220 pages. Small 4to, matte pictorial wrappers (rear cover wrinkled). Spain: Fundacio Caixa de Girona, (1998). Text in Portuguese. Internally clean and tight. A very good(+) copy of this scarce publication.<br/> <br/>

Munchen: Gina Kehayoff, 1998. Limited. hardcover. fine. Thick 4to, original gray boards, gray edges, with matching slipcase. Munchen: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ Gina Kehayoff Verlag, 1998. Limited Edition. Fine.<br/> <br/> Number 15 of 75 copies signed by Boltanski, with an original gelatin silver print pasted to the front end-paper. A monumental book by this conceptual artist, with over 1100 photos dealing with the theme of memories and forgotten lives.<br/> <br/>

New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1983. paperback. near fine. Kadinsky, Vasily. Many Illus., some in color. 4to, pictorial wrappers. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, (1983). Near Fine<br/><br/> Exhibition catalogue.<br/><br/>

Copenhagen: Thaning & Appels, 1958. paperback. very good. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 3 vols., slim 8vo, pictorial wrappers; Vol II text block loose in wrappers. Kobenhavn: Thaning & Appels, 1958-59. Very good.<br/><br/>