Search Results: Titles starting with K from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: Viking Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($15.95), faded at the spine, sticker at the bottom of the front flap. Quarter cream cloth with brown paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Westlake's novel of mercenaries in East Africa.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Archer on the title page. Second Printing. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped (£5.95), lightly rubbed at the edges, a crease at the back flap. Purple boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, blue top stain, handwritten dedication on the dedication page (seemingly in a different hand than Archer's). Archer's runaway best-selling novel about two men's pursuits for greatness.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price). Black buckram with silver gilt on the spine. Square and firmly bound, stickered at the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Deleuze's "concise, systematic key to Kant's thought[...]available in English for the first time.

Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Third Printing. Very Good in a Fair jacket, unclipped (U.S. Price $6.75), a large chip on the front flap extended to the front flap fold, generally rubbed, creased, and chipped. Grey cloth, toned at the edges, with white and black ink lettering and panels on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, stained at the edges, clean internally.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. Paperback. Very Good. Third Printing. Translated by Michael Roloff. Very Good. Wraps toned, a few small tidemarks, rubbed at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of three plays by the Nobel Prize-winning author, including Kaspar, often compared to Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

London: W. Kent and Co, 1858. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Good. Birket Foster. Good in the original publisher's binding, generally rubbed with some spots of discoloration, about a half-inch of tearing in the cloth at the head of the spine. Square and firmly bound though over-opened at page 48, gilt top edge, foxing on the endpapers and title page and sparsely throughout the text block. "Longfellow also used the novel to argue against the view, in the book propounded by a character based on Cornelius Mathews, that American literature must be entirely devoid of European influences and be exclusively national. Instead, Longfellow felt that American literature could and should be universalist, with its unique North American influences. He saw the use of European models not as imitation but as a "continuation" that Americans could be proud of" (ATQ qtd. in Wikipedia).

San Diego: Pompeii Press, 1970. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. PP 7061. About Very Good. Wraps generally rubbed and bumped, some dents on the surface, unevenly toned at the back. Square and firmly bound, a few small pinholes at the fore-edge, clean internally.

New York: The Arts Publishing Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 140 copies with an etching as the frontispiece. Near Fine. Quarter cream cloth with blue cloth on the boards, gilt lettering on the front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An essay and collection of reproductions of the early 20th century American artist.

New York: Perigee Books, 1981. Paperback. Good. Translated by Howard Hibbett. Second Printing. Good. Wraps lightly toned and soiled, curled at the fore-edge, a crease and price sticker on the front. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise.

Washington DC: Anderson House, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. About Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), toned and soiled, rubbed at the edges, a couple small chips and closed tears. Grey buckram with dark red lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a dark top stain, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Anderson's blank verse play about King McCloud, "an American who takes part in the Spanish Civil War, loses his faith along with his illusions, and struggles back to a faith in the end." Adapted, with significant changes, into the 1948 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Curtis to New American Library marketing executive Maryann Palumbo with an additional TLS from Curtis laid in. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($8.95), lightly toned and rubbed, a few small bumps and closed tears. Quarter black buckram, lightly rubbed, with yellow paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, Palumbo's bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. Curtis's "free-wheeling, uninhibited tale about two young men who share the same father without ever knowing it," one who climbs the Las Vegas underworld and the other who finds his way in Hollywood.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 250 copies signed by Kelly on the limitation page. Fine. Quarter red cloth with blue and grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: G.P Putnam's Sons, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($25.95). Quarter blue paper with lighter blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The 10th Jesse Stone novel, the first written by Brandman.

London: Penguin, 1966. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps generally toned, rubbed at the edges, pen writing on the front wrap, creased at the back. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, stamped on the first page.

New York: Random House, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Westlake on the front endpaper. Near Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.95), soiled and rubbed at the surface and edges. Quarter black paper with patterned paper on the boards, toned. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Westlake's second novel published under his own name, the story of a small town and the crime and violence that erupts when outsiders try to shake things up.

New York: Dutton, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Spillane on the front endpaper. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($17.95). Red cloth with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Spillane's inscription proves true with this being the penultimate novel featuring Mike Hammer.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Green buckram, rubbed at the gutters and edges. Square, front hinge starting but all else firm, gilt top edge, clean internally. Kipling's classic adventure novel with a frontispiece and nine full-page illustrations.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Drucker on the front endpaper. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($14.95). Quarter red cloth with beige paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Drucker's autobiography about her experiences in England as part of the kindertransport operation that got Jews out of Germany after Kristallnacht.

Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. Paperback. Fine. Later Printing. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound.

Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2008. Paperback. Fine. Edited by Roger Warren and Jay L. Halio. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.