Search Results: Titles starting with K from Frogtown Books, Inc.

Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd, 1999. 232 pp. 4to. 12-1/4" x 9-1/4." Brick colored paper covered boards textured to look like cloth. As new book./Jacket also as new.. With 181 color illustrations and a map.. Kalighat Painting emerged from the changing world of nineteenth century Calcutta, with old and new images seemingly layered one upon another on a transparent plane. Traditionally inherited techniques, iconography, and artistic practices co-mingled with revivalistic Mughal court culture, Sanskrit drama, the proscenium stage, and swiftly churned out and circulated images from photo-studios and lithographic presses in the fast-growing urban centre, translating folk art forms into popular genres.

Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, 1986. 4to. 11-1/8" x 8-1/4". Pictorial paper covered boards. 216 pp. Fine.. Translated by Emma Harris. Many photo illustrations.. Karol Szymanowski: the greatest after Chopin". This is how he is referred to in his native Poland. And this description covers everything: his exceptional position in the history of music; the fact that like his great predecessor he lifted Polish music from a national backwater into the mainstream of contemporary Europe; the Polishness of his music, which while universalist was also based on the folklore of his native land; and finally, his ability, despite the original and inimitable nature of his music, to follow the splendid inspiration which Chopin represented for him. A beautiful hand lettered presentation inscription in Polish on the half-title page signed by dr. M. Sierocka and dr. A. Borchardt.

Rabdom House, 1971. First Edition. Hard Back. fine/very good - price clipped. Many Photos.

1st. Stiff paperback. fine.

New York: Double Day Doran, 1937. First Edition. Orange Cloth. fine. Photo Illustrated. former inscription the front end-paper.

New York: Heritage Press, 1963. Deluxe Heritage Press edition especially bound for the Illinois Gear and Machine Company to be given as gifts. The Heritage Press title page is preceded by a presentation title page with a blank line to be filled in with name of the receiver. That title page bears the date, 1963. Royal 8vo. Pebbled sky blue leather with gold tooling and a creamy green stamped geometric design. Gold tooled dentelles. Blue silk moiré endpapers. The book is also larger the the Heritage Press edition. Measuring 10.5 x 7.5 inches. Fine condition. Illustrations by Robin Jacques.

London: Orchard Books, 1996. First edition. 4to. 10-3/4" x 8-3/8". Full color pictorial paper covered boards. Dark blue endpapers with crest. 111 pp. Book in fine condition./Dust jacket fine also.. Watercolor illustrations by Peter Utton. Here is the story of the great hero King Arthur retold in a fresh, accessible style by a leading children's author and gifted storyteller. Beginning with the magical appearance of the mystical Merlin and the birth of Arthur, the story tells of that amazing moment when only Arthur could pull the sword out of the stone to become the High King of Britain. It tells of the formation of the Knights of the Round Table, of the marriage to Guinevere, of the loyalty of Sir Lancelot and of the treachery of black-hearted Morganna, ending with Arthur's last battle.

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1912. 8vo. Pictorial brown cloth covered boards stamped in orange, white and black.368 pp. plus 3 pp. publisher's ads. Clean, tight and beautiful fine condition.. With three pen and ink illustrations and cover design by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. Elliott Whitney was a group pseudonym used by Harry Lincoln Sayler. Fourth title in the Boys' Big Game Series.

London: C. W. Daniel Co. Third Edition. Blue Cloth. fine very good.

A.E. Davis & Co, 1885. First Edition. Brown Cloth. fine. Illustrated with Engravings.

London: Foulis, 1914. First edition. hardcover. Very good. Typed in Color Plates.

Hartford: Burr & Hyde, 1871. First Edition. Brick Red Cloth. Very good condition.

Boston: The Beacon Press, 1949. First edition. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4". Salmon cloth covered boards stamped in blue. 334 pp. including extensive index.

Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Hard Cover. very good.