Search Results: Titles starting with K from Aardvark Rare Books

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Octavo, 8.6 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 334. Illustrated by line drawings and color and black and white photographs. Red cloth boards over black paper boards with gilt iceaxe to front and gilt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities; sunning to top of spine. Small areas of tape damage to front and rear boards. Previous owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. Rubbing to edges of dustjacket. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. The true, "incredibly dramatic & heroic story of the Third American Karakoram Expedition that challenged the second highest mountain in the world, the dreaded K2, in the summer of 1953."

Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1922. Later printing. Hardcover. Good Plus. John R. Neill. Octavo, 9.25 in. x 7 in., pp. 297. Illustrated with twelve color platesand many black and white ink drawings. Illustration on p. [299] shows Kabumpo in Oz. Publisher's spine imprint shows "standard" ampersand. (Bienvenue 103; Hanff 88-89). Dark blue cloth boards with full color pastedown illustration of four Ozians on elephant's trunk. Black title and elephant with rider to spine. Publisher's yellow to edges. Rubbing to extremities; light soiling to boards. Quarter-inch tear to cloth at bottom of rear board. Black and white pictorial endpapers. Front hinge showing. Unmarked interior.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. Numbered Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Wilfred Jones. Octavo, with lovely patterned boards. Light rubbing to extremities. Typography by Elmer Adler. Number 1687 of 2040 copies.Printed by Pynson Printers. "...Delusion, Ignorance! Long ere Man drew upon Earth his earli'est breath The world was one contin'uous scene of anguish, torture preay and death;..." (p. 54).

London, England: G. Kearsley, 1803. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo, 4.75 x 7 in., Unpaginated: 2(Preface) + 1(Contents) + [1] + 30(Index) + 810 paginated double-columns (405 p.) + index (41 p.) + 1 (advertisiment). Illustrated with frontispiece foldout map, 15 x 13.5 in., entitled "Map of the Roads of England, Wales, and Part of Scotland" published by G. Kearsley, 1801. Contemporary speckled half-calf over marble boards. Spine has red panel with gilt title and seven gilt bands. Rubbing to extremities. Light brown staining to boards. Spine and hinges are tight. Half-inch closed tear to map's seam at bottom edge. From the Preface: The excellence of the Roads through every part of Great Britain has, within a few years, rendered the Traveller an easy task; and the publication of so many Tours has contributed to extend our local knowledge, not only by describing the situation of places, and their distances from each other, but by pointing out whatever is worthy of observation, either in… Read More

New York: The Curtainless Shower Co. Inc, 1916. First Edition. Staplebound Pamphlet. Very good. Slim octavo, 8 1/4" x 5." pp. 48. Dark green paper covers, moderately worn around edges with a few small tears. Very small chips to top and bottom of spine. Corners bumped, particularly upper right corner. Interior pages very clean and bright with black and orange lettering and in-text illustrations. Essentially a printed "info-mmercial" Booklet advertising the convenience of showers, particularly the Kenney Needle Shower, a "Quick and invigorating way to keep clean." The model consisted of four shower heads pointed horizontally. As the booklet declares, "overhead showers now out-of-date" (11). Keeping Well by Keeping Clean extols the benefits of their shower, as an affordable, but luxurious product, while catering to new sensibilities about cleanliness. The Curtainless Shower co was established in 1915 in New York.

Chicago, IL: Ken, Inc, 1938. First Edition. Staplebound Pamphlet. Very Good. Stapled magazine, 13.5 in. x 10.6 in., pp. 138. Illustrated with color and black and white drawings, photographs, and advertisements. Light rubbing to covers; light thumbing to bottom corners. Short stories and photo stories. Contributers include Earnest Hemingway ("The Time Now, The Place Spain"), Paul De Kruif ("Enlisted Women Against Shame" - regarding preventing venereal infection), Lawrence and Sylvia Martin ("Farming Is a Way of Death"), and many others.

Eugene, Oregon: Northwest Review, 1977. Second Edition. Paperback. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Staplebound. Constitutes Volume XVI, Numbers One and Two of the Northwest Review, simultaneously issued in hardcover and paperback. 200 pp. Card covers. Staplebound. A wee bit of smudging to front cover. Previous owner's name and date in marker to half-title page. Appears to have been little-read. VERY CLEAN. Book is about Ken Kesey the writer, and "brings together manuscript pages, working notes for the novels, drawings by Kesey, and slections from his other writing and poems..." None had been available before publication of this compendium. Malcolm Cowley and Kesey scholar and editor John Clark Pratt both wrote introductions.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good Plus Dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. Original orange and white striped boards, Tight corners. Just a wee bit of sunning to gutters - no wear to speak of, and a bit of sunning to dustjacket, which itself shows a little sunning, a wee bit of rubbing to spine caps, and a tiny white spot to dj spine. Original $1.50 price to dj flap.

Boulder, Colorado: Paladin Press, 1976. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Navy Blue cloth with title in gilt on cover. Octavo. Inscribed, signed and dated [October 1993] by the author on the front endpaper. xiii,421 pages, index. Profusely illustrated with text photos and drawings. Introduction by no less than Bill Jordan, author of "No Second Place Winner". Colonel Applegate was THE recognized authority on unarmed combat techniques. "This edition is being published at a time when the world is in a state of unrest. Race riots, intolerance, Communist-inspired mob violence, and nationalism emphasize the importance of mob control by the established forces of law and order. Three new chapters have been added on the techniques involved. in riot control..." (from Publisher's Foreword). "In 1941 Applegate was developing armed and unarmed close quarter combat courses for the US Army Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S), specifically to build and run what was called 'The School for Spies and Assassins',… Read More

London, England: Isbister and Company, Limited, 1887. No edition stated. Leather-bound. Very Good. Octavo. 6 3/4" x 4 3/4." pp. 224. With 70 b&w illustrations. Rebound in lovely red calf, gilt-leaf roll with Grove Park School, Wrexham emblem gilt-stamped to front cover. Moderate rubbing to extremities, corners peeping. 5 raised bands. Black leather spine label with letters in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers with gilt dentelles. Ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, dated Xmas 1902. Pages lightly toned, very clean. Plates, in-line illustrations, vignette headpieces and tailpieces throughout. Double ruled in gilt with decorative gilt motifs. A lovely little book perhaps to present to your arctic-based friends.

London, England: The Sunday School Union, 1900. Octavo. Deep blue cloth-covered boards with victorian illustration in front of woman in orange standing before an official behind his secretary (desk). Bookplate from Wesleyan Sunday School Blyth Bridge, Presented to George Harris in 1905. Five full-page illustrations, headcaps, elaborate and lovely initials. Age tanning throughout. Annie Gray wrote "On Rocky Soil", "Mary Mordaunt", "Denny, or From Haven to Haven". Five full-page illustrations. Elaborate and lovely initials.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Octavo, 7.8 in. x 5.3 in., pp. 132. First Edition ("B-B"). Dark blue half calf over light blue paper boards. Black title on beige panel affixed to spine. Top corners nudged. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Ink stamp mark to rear free endpaper. Light rubbing to edges of dustjacket. Price clipped. From the dustjacket: "The King's Henchmen is a lyric drama of Saxon England, a play of rare beauty dealing with a story of profound love..."

San Francisco, California: Scrimshaw Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine in Very Good Slipcase. Quartos, one pumpkin cloth the other mint-green. Housed in Orange slipcase with black leaf patterns to edges. Gorgeous collection of 206 duotone photographs, carefully selected "from the Kinsey's 4500 extant negatives by photographers Rodolfo Petschek and Dave Bohn is complemented by personal documents, newspaper accounts, and interviews with friends and family members...The story that emerges is that of a family business -- a husband consumed with the art and trade of photography, and a wife determined to support his hard work with her own contributions of fifty years in the darkroom" . Books are fine. Some shelf-rubbing and light spotting to slipcase only. 0912020350 and 0912020350369 Darius and Tabitha Kinsey spent most of a lifetime in photography. The surviving negatives - on glass plates and film -- number some 4,500 in eleven formats. These two initial volumes deal with the evolution… Read More

Chicago, IL: The Chicago Record Co, 1897. Hardcover. Good Plus. Octavo, 8.3 in.; x 5.5 in., pp. 413, [5] (advertising). Profusely illustrated. Gray cloth-covered boards with yellow, black and white stamped title and klondike scene to front and back. Black title and fleurons to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Front hinge showing. Unmarked interior. "The Klondike Gold Rush of 1898 began in earnest within 18 months of a major gold strike on Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River near Dawson City, Canada. Tens of thousands of prospectors from around the world streamed north to Alaska and the Yukon in a feverish search for fortune. Klondike: The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers was rushed into print by the Chicago Record, an important daily newspaper, in 1897, to assist those heading for the gold fields. The preface states that in the book "every known practical and contemplated route to all the gold fields in the north is fully, comprehensively, and minutely described, with maps and… Read More

London, England: T. Richards (for The Percy Society), 1842. Reprint. Paperback. Disbound. Disbound pamphlet with only vestiges of original stitching present. 100 pages (33 of which are detailed notes). A Knight's Conjuring was originallypublished as "News from Hell, Brought by the Divell's Carrier), its title later revised (by whom) perhaps only after Rimbqaediting and this 1842) republication The Percy Society, which convened between the years 1840 till its demise in 1852, was a British literary collective whose aim was to publish rare songs, ballads, and poems. In contradistinction to their inspirational namesakeThomas Percy, (apart from excising obscenities) the society maintained a strong commitment to publishing original texts.

Bellevue, Washington: Timeline Publishing Company, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Good Plus. Historical photos. Bibliography, index. Photo illustrated wrappers, octavo. Some general wear to wraps, thumbing to upper corner, but interior clean, binding tight. A thoroughly researched and lively history of the times.

New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Good. Conrad Buff. Large Octavo, 9.9 in. x 7.4 in., pp. 128. Richly illustrated with color plates and black and white drawings. Red-orange cloth boards with flower embossed in blind to front. Gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Previous owner's signature in pencil to verso of front free endpaper. Significant wear to edges of dustjacket, with several closed tears; large chip to base of dustjacket spine. Light sunning to dustjacket spine. Protected in mylar. "Conrad Buff was born January 15, 1886 in Speicher, Switzerland. He studied art in Switzerland and Germany and came to the United States in 1904. He married Mary Marsh, who was born April 10, 1890 in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1922. The Buffs collaborated on many children's books between 1937 and 1968. The Buffs were runners up for the Caldecott Medal for Dash and Dart, and runners up for the Newberry Award for Big Tree (1946) and The Apple and the Arrow (1951). Mary… Read More

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Charles Livingston Bull. Octavo, 8.2 in. x 5.7 in. pp. xx, [2], 166. Illustrated with frontispiece painting. Blue cloth boards with light blue and yellow wolf and human design stamped to front. Yellow title to front and spine. Yellow topstain. Light shelfwear to edges. Bottom front corner nudged. Rubbing to dustjacket edges; small chip to top of dustjacket spine. Light sunning to dustjacket spine. Protected in mylar. "The Kootenai INdans, or 'Flat-Bow people,' lived in the mountains, and fished and hunted for their livig. Their stories differ greatly from those of the plains Indians, and are full of the cleverness and guile of forest dwellers." (from the dustjacket).