Search Results: Titles starting with K from Lux Mentis, Booksellers

Harare, Zimbabwe: CBC Publishing, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No DJ, as Issued. First Edition. Hardcover. Arguably the scarcest of Carr's works, particularly in 'Fine' condition. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Brown cloth binding, gilt lettering, mounted color plate at front board, printed endpages. 8vo. 176pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Index.

Germany: TeBe, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Pencil notations, tight, bright, and unmarred. Brown faux leather, aeg, marbled endpages, printed in red and black ink. 48x35mm. 58pp.

1920. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good Portfolio. Hardcover. 4 cards demonstrating 18 positions. Quite simple yet elegant pen sketches. Touch of soiling, else bright; portfolio shows light shelf/edge wear, else clean. Brown suede leather portfolio with mounted paper flaps; yellow cardstock sheets. Small 8vo. np. Illus. (b/w plates).

Burma (Myanmar), nd [circa 19th cent.]. Very Good+. Kammavaca are among the most sacred of Burmese religious texts. Kammavaca (kammavaca in Pali) consist of nine Khandakas from the Pali Vinaya Pitaka, each of which relates to a specific ceremony associated with monks of the Theravada school of Buddhism. "Kammavaca are volumes of one, five, or nine extracts from the Theravadin Vinaya, each relating to specific ceremonies associated with monks. Noel F. Singer writes that the earliest kammavaca consisted of folios made of plain palm leaves, each of which had four lines of square-inked script on a gold or silver background." ("Kammavaca Texts: Their Covers and Binding Ribbons," Arts of Asia, 23, 1993) Each leaf holds six lines of Pali script written in square Burmese script in black magyi zi lacquer made from tamarind seed, between hatched (yazamat) borders. Each leaf is numbered in Burmese script. The leaves of this example have been fabricated from saffron-coloured textile - most probably the old… Read More

Jos. Hallworth, 1916. Very Good+. Presenting weird demonstrations of occult power, marvelous feats of the Orient and startling wonders of the spirit world. Copyright by Jos. Hallworth. Early specimen of exoticism in turn of the century theater. Occult ephemera. Some chipping, otherwise in very good condition. Newsprint brochure, doublesided with illustrations.

New York; New Haven, CT: Limited Editions Club, Yale University Press, Printing Office, 1937. Limted Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Limted Edition. Hardcover. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (1880) is a long English language poem written by "Haji Abdu El-Yezdi," a pseudonym of the true author, Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), a well-known British Arabist and explorer. In a note to the reader, Burton claims to be the translator of the poem, to which he gives the English title "Lay of the Higher Law." It is thus a pseudotranslation, pretending to have had an original Persian text, which never existed. The Kasidah is essentially a distillation of Sufi thought in the poetic idiom of that mystical tradition; Burton had hoped to bring Sufist ideas to the West. Minimally sunned and toned, mildly starting, discoloration to endpapers, else tight, bright, unmarred. Bound in full lavender calf with gilt lettering on the spine and elaborate embossing on both covers. Printed on double folded Japanese… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good DJ.. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, spine sunned, else bright and clean. Navy coated cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, red topstain. Small 8vo. 359pp.

New York: World Publishing, 1967. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good- DJ.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Reproductions of many of the author's classics. Complete texts and illustrations for several works (including The Pied Piper of Hamelin) and selections from many more (including Mother Goose). Overall, a handsome copy. Very minor shelf/edge wear, bookplate on front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light toning/rubbing at spine, two small moisture stain at spine, small closed tear with related creases at top, else bright and clean. Quarterbound, red cloth spine, gilt lettering and decorative elements, color pictorial endpages. Small 4to. 319pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Bibliography.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Later Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. Later Printing. Hardcover. Presentation copy: Inscribed on ffep: "This book is for Oliver Sacks with much admiration from a fan, Hilary Knight and a special message on the next page from Eliose (in red)." Second inscription with illustration on verso of ffep: for Oliver Sacks 4:30pm Feb.20th 1997-from Hilary Knight...Eloise discovers a "horrid" Encephalartos in the Plazas lobby." Illustration in red and black with Eloise with a red bow in her hair standing on a planter behind a plant with a dog looking on. Includes presentation card: From Hilary Knight signed to Oliver Sacks" laid in, verso with list of books illustrated by Hilary Knight from 1955-1991. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader… Read More

Waterville, ME: Colby College Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ.. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, hint of toning to gilt, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering. 8vo. 320pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index.

Augusta, ME: Sprague, Burleigh & Flynt, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued.. First Edition. Hardcover. "This work is devoted to the early history of the valley; also relating many incidents and adventures of the early settlers; ncluding a brief sketch of the Kennebec Indian." Light shelf/edge wear, minor fraying at head and tail, rfep missing, else tight, bright and unmarred. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering. Small 8vo. 122pp. Index.

Rockland, ME: Farnsworth Art Museum, 2002. First Printing. Original Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps. First Printing. Original Wraps. Exhibition catalogue by The Farnsworth of their Kenneth Noland (which also traveled to the Naples Museum of Art in Naples, Florida, March 1-June14, 2002). Includes text by Christopher B. Crosman, Terry Fenton, and Jamaica Kincaid. Touch of sunning at foredge, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Color wrappers. Small, oblong 4to. 71pp. Illus. (color plates).

Chicago, IL: Cloister Press, 1938. Original Edition. Cloth. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. Original Edition. Cloth. In edition of 125, with title page of Rhapsodies I and II. Includes poems of Norse mythology. Includes the essay, Appendix A: "On the Pagan Revival" and Appendix B: "Litany of all the Gods." Slightly bumped at extremities, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering, gold dj with black. Various paging.

Chicago, IL: Cloister Press, 1936. Original Edition. Cloth. Very Good+. Original Edition. Cloth. Written in the style of Anglo-Saxon, Norse mythos poetry. Bumped corner, evenly toned, otherwise tight, bright, and unmarred. 35pp, lacking dustjacket. In edition of 300.

Rockland, ME: Farnsworth Art Museum, 2002. First Printing. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. First Printing. Original Wraps. Exhibition catalogue by The Farnsworth of their Kenneth Noland (which also traveled to the Naples Museum of Art in Naples, Florida, March 1-June14, 2002). Includes text by Christopher B. Crosman, Terry Fenton, and Jamaica Kincaid. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Color wrappers. Small, oblong 4to. 71pp. Illus. (color plates).

Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1972. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. Second Edition. Hardcover. A richly illustrated history of Kentucky. Overall, a very presentable copy. Very minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, minor wear at head, heel and tips, else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, map endpages. 4to. 256pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates).

London: Hogarth Press, 1927. Third Edition/First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine in Fine Drop-Spine Archival Box. Third Edition/First Thus. Hardcover. Binding is housed in a clamshell box covered in sky blue buffalo skin and light blue Stonehenge paper. Leather spine embroidered with author's name in pale pink cotton floss. Trays covered in pale yellow handmade paper and lined with light grey Novasuede. Exquisitely bound in a manner and style reflecting Vanessa Bell's illustrations. First fully illustrated edition, hand-numbered by Virginia Woolf, this being number 48 of 500. This was a collaboration between author and artist which was deeply important to Woolf, who saw it as a means of "binding herself to her sister" (Willis, p31). "Bell's designs for this edition occur on every page of text, acting as borders, punctuation, bridges, or disruptions into the type-set text. In contrast, the first and second editions of 1919 only had a frontispiece and finispiece by Bell, and she was not satisfied with… Read More

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps. First Edition. Wraps. From the Collection of Jenny Lens, with photographs by Jenny Lens. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Matte color paper wrappers. 8vo, 177pp. illus (b/w).

Toronto: Rumour Publications, 1978. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. The imagery combines stencil text with photographic film 35mm negatives and 2x2" positive transparencies and other obvious paint brush manipulations. The various media form a collage resembling Dadaist and/or Kurt Schwitters constructivist collaged art works. Arguably, this loose assemblage of text and image mimics "artist magazine" concepts, but it also elicits "zine" like qualities because of the raw and grainy reproduced pages. The registration of the recto and verso stencil text is exceptional, in that, the text on the front lines up with the reversed text on the back without the use of contemporary registration. Littered throughout are self-portraits of Paul Robinson in negative and positive photographic forms composed with the text statements that dictate the action of the photograph, [example "Hang Me" text with an image of Robinson hanging from a noose.] The front page is… Read More

New York: David McKay, 1974. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Author's second novel and first success, the surprise winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis for the movie Gettysburg. Overall, a handsome copy of this emerging classic. Very minimal shelf wear, bur on ffep where small plate was removed, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, several small, closed tears, else bright and clean. Faux quarterbound (paper with blue/grey spine, green/grey boards), gilt lettering, frontispiece. 8vo. 374pp. Illus. (b/w plate). Maps.