Search Results: Titles starting with K from Louise Aird

Key Monuments of the History of Art, a Visual Survey is a significant book written in 1959 by New York University Professor of Fine Arts H.W. Janson.
Including the index, it is 1068 pages and includes 258 illustrations.
It weighs 4.5 lbs.
Photos of the Table of Contents are attached--I've darkened them so you can read them.
The dust jacket has a few bruises, particularly to the spine. And the book needs a good brushing; it has dust on it.
Otherwise, it is absolutely pristine. It has not been read. There are no marks or damage of any kind on the cover or inside.Note: This book is sufficiently heavy that a second book cannot be included for the same shipping rate.

This is a signed first edition of Kialoa US-1, Dare to Win, the autobiography of American yachtsman Jim Kilroy (1922-2016) who pioneered maxi-yacht racing.
From the '50s to the '80s, Kilroy's ocean racing yachts, all name Kialoa, amassed a record of victories that remains unrivalled in the highest levels of Grand Prix racing.
This book is the behind the scenes story of commerce and competition; of what it takes to succeed; of adventure and glory on the high seas. There is also a motivational aspect to it.It is 447 pages, packed with photographs and maps.8 3/4" x 11 1/4" x 1/12. It weighs 4 1/2 lbs. Kilroy's signature panel is on the inside front cover.This book has not been read. Aside from a tiny bit of shelfwear to the dust jacket, it is in pristine condition.

This is a luxury edition of Kidnapped, the full title of which is Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: Written by Himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.
It was written by the great Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886. This is a replica of the 1911 edition, including the color illustrations by the American artist N.C. Wyeth.
This is a gorgeous book.
7 1/3" x 9 1/3", 272 pages. Unclipped dust jacket. Beautiful paper.
This copy has not been read. There is a child's inscription on the front endpaper. Very minor wear to the dust jacket. Otherwise mint condition.

This is a very nice copy of Kim, the classic tale by Rudyard Kipling, first published in 1901. It is set in the imperialistic world; a masculine world dominated by travel, trade and adventure, and strict divisions between white and non-white. It is about the relationship between Kim, a white man born in India, and an old ascetic priest, a lama. Kim is trying to live in both cultures, while the lama seeks redemption from the Wheel of Life. It is considered to be Kipling's masterpiece.
This copy was published by MacMillan London in 1951. The dust jacket states 'Library Edition', although this is not an ex-library book.
413 pages, including a map. Aside from natural darkening of the paper, it is in mint condition.
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This is a lovely copy of Kim, the famous novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1900.It takes place during the Great Game, or the British wars in India. Kim is an Irish orphan who becomes a spy.This book, a book club edition, is hunter green boards with a gold design on the cover and spine. It has a silk bookmark.384 pages. Heavily illustrated by the American illustrator Richard M Powers.It does not appear to have been read, or even opened.It is in mint condition.

This is a stated first printing (1988) of The King of the Fields, a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991), the Polish-American writer who is one of 13 American citizens to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Singer wrote in Yiddish and had his work translated, usually by Saul Bellow. It is a fictional exploration of primitive history, about an age of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. This book has not been read. The price is clipped off the dust jacket but it is otherwise in mint condition.

This is three books from the Allan Quatermain series written by the English author H Rider Haggard (1856-1925). Quatermain, who has been portrayed numerous times in film and television, is an English big game hunter and trader in southern Africa, who supports colonial efforts to 'spread civilization in the dark continent'.
Three of the best-known books of the series are in this book: King Solomon's Mines (1885), She (1921), and Allan Quatermain (1887).
This is a first edition of this set, published in Britain in 1979. It is 638 pages with several black and white illustrations.
The book is navy blue boards with brilliant gold lettering on the cover and spine. The cover is a bit faded and dusty but the interior is perfect.
The dust jacket is mainly red and yellow, with a color illustration on the cover, and another on the back. The dust jacket is unclipped and, aside from some fading on the spine, is in perfect condition.
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This is a first edition of Kingsblood Royal, by the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951). Lewis was the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and the first to decline a Pulitzer Prize (for Arrowsmith—he declined because he did not agree with contests where one book or author was praised over another). His works are known for their critical views of American capitalism and materialism, and for his strong characterizations of modern working women.
Neil Kingsblood is a white middle-class man who discovers that he is directly descended from an African. He tells his friends about his ancestry, the news spreads and people behave differently toward him. He loses his banking job and is run out of his whites-only community. He is forced tochoose between continuing what he has come to see as a hollow existence in the white community and taking on the oppressed minority status of the black community. This novel is known as being 'wickedly funny'.
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This is a reproduction of The Kitchen Maid, a still life done in the Hollandish style by the French master Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779). It was painted in 1738 and was one of the more popular pictures of its day. The subject is a young maid taking a break from her work. A scan of the original is attached; the colors in the print are purposely faded.
The print was created by the New York Graphic Society, with permission from the National Gallery of Art. It was purchased in New York in 1983 and framed the same year, in a distressed wood frame with gold interior trim. It is signed and dated by the framer.
There are a couple of tiny scratches on the front, which you can see in the photo. But there are lots of scratches in the print itself.
The total size of this piece is 17" x 21". No glass.

This is an First American edition (1964) of The Koka Shastra, Being the Ratirahasya of Kokkoka, and Other Medieval Indian Writings on Love, translated and introduced by the British scientist Alexander Comfort, who is best known as the author of The Joy of Sex.
The Koka Shastra is another name for The Ratirahasya, a medieval sex manual written in the 11th or 12th century by the Indian poet Kokkoka. It is similar to the Kama Sutra.
Because of the subject matter, these books were sold in plastic wrappers. This copy remains in its wrapper; it has never been opened.

Kristin Lavransdatter is a trilogy of historical novels written by the Danish/Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset. They were first published in 1920, 1921 and 1922; Undset won the Nobel prize in 1928.
This is a boxed, three-volume set published in 1946. The three novels are Kransen (The Wreath), Husfrue (The Wife), and Korset (The Cross). They tell the story of the life of a woman living in the Middle Ages and are lauded for their historical and ethnological accuracy.
Each book is about 280 pages, plus notes. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the covers and spine. The paper is fine, cream. There is no adornment, other than the red printing on the title page of each book.
There is a little bit of wear to the box. There is minor fading to the spine of the books. Inside, the three books are in mint condition. Pristine.

This is the chronicle of a train journey around the coast of Great Britain, taken in 1982 by the American travel writer Paul Theroux.
It was a best-seller; this is the tenth printing of the first edition.
Houghton Mifflin Boston, 1983.
Hardcover, 353 pages.
Pale yellow cloth cover with a navy blue design on the cover and a navy blue spine with brilliant gold lettering.
The dust jacket has minor wear; bumps and bruises.The book is pristine; it does not appear to have been read and there are no marks in it or on it.