Search Results: Titles starting with K from Boojum and Snark Books

Fiction Collective Two; Boulder, Colorado, 1993 First edition/first printing. Softcover, 7 x 4 1/2 inches, 189 pp. Slight rubbing, covers; else fine. Unread, with no spine crease. (1722RO090). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine.

Grant Richards, London, 1924., 1924 Limited edition, #166 of 250, signed by Bramah. Very Good (moderate edgewear, mostly at corners, where the tan paper covering the boards is eroded, exposing the underlying board; corners also modestly bumped). 8 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches, 306 pp. Half gray cloth, gilt on spine label bright (small, 3/16 inch focus of erosion of the spine label at the posterior-superior border). Offsetting to endpapers. Clean and binding tight. This title was first published in 1922. An attractive copy of the signed limited edition. (3214048) (OG5050). Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Associated Engineering Societies of the University of Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas; 1917-1918. A rare engineering journal from the University of Kansas; only two OCLC library holdings. (3214013). F. Soft cover.

Butterworth Scientific, London, 1982 First edition. Glossy boards, 9 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches, 396 pp., index, figures. Near fine (modest sunning, spine, else fine). ISBN: 0407023526 (K082). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.

F. A. Davis, Philadelphia, 1943. First edition. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper ("May 1943 / To my dear friend Dr. Lester Miller --- A little token of appreciation for having stimulated and inspired an interest in surgery / Sincerely / Seymour W. Meyer, M.D.") Scarce, especially signed. Orange cloth-covered boards, 8 3/4 x 6 inches, 310 pp., bibliography, index, 540 illustrations. Very Good+ (mild soiling, covers; pages clean and binding tight). (3214010). Signed by Author(s). F. Hardcover.

Grune & Stratton, New York, 1959. First edition, first printing. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 10 1/4 x 7 inches, 456 pp., index, figures, tables. Very good minus (moderate spine slant; some old, clear tape on front board; a little dulling of spine gilt; otherwise, pages clean and binding sound). "This volume is the edited Proceedings of a Conference on Fundamental Problems and Technics for the Study of the Kinetics of Cellular Proliferation held in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 19-21, 1959. The Conference was sponsored by The Hematology Study Section, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health." (3214033). F. Hardcover.

Clymer Publications, Los Angeles, 1974 An excellent copy of the first edition/first printing: book fine and dustcover very good plus --- near fine. No additional printings indicated. Blue fabrikoid-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 10 1/4 x 7 inches, 215 pp. (1722RO088). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

Macmillan, New York, 1950 An excellent hardcover copy of the second printing, February 1950. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches, 296 pp. Book near fine (slight edge wear). Dustcover very good (very modest wear; small chips at upper spine end; front panel bright and attractive). (K074). Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Hayman, Christy & Lilly; London; 1917. Stapled wraps, front cover printed in red, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 14 pp. + [1], frontispiece b/w photo of "Hussain the First, King of Hedjaz, and Hereditary Custodian of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. Formerly known as the Grand Sherif of Mecca." Fold-out plate of the Proclamation. Very good (previous owner's name/address ink stamp, front cover; modest, focal sunning/browning, covers; mild edgewear; a little bending/ruffling, corners; 1/4 inch closed tear, bottom edge of frontispiece; pages clean and binding tight). Defects described in detail --- this is a nice, clean copy. (3214016). F. Soft cover.

Westernlore Press, Los Angeles, 1955 First edition in book form (original appearance was in Harper's Monthly Magazine of March, 1882). Limited edition, one of 350, of which 300 were for sale. Scarce. Red cloth-covered boards, blind stamped front board (covered wagon), gilt spine lettering, 8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches, 43 pp., bibliography, frontispiece engraving of James Jesse Strang (by Grimley, Harper's Monthly Magazine, March 1882), illustrated with an engraving of The Voree Plates (also by Grimley; "A facsimile of both sides of the three brazen plates alleged to have been miraculously discovered by James J. Strang on September 14, 1845."), high-quality printing and paper. Near fine (slight edge wear, else fine). Great West and Indian Series III. Foreword, Notes and Bibliography by Paul Bailey. From the Foreword: "The mid-nineteenth century was productive of many strange movements and personalities, but it is doubtful if those years of America's ferment ever brought forth any… Read More

Deutscher Bucherbund, Stuttgart, (no date). Black cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 1056 pp. Very good. No dustcover. (3214030). Hardcover.

Springer-Verlag; New York, 1983 First edition. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, 10 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches, 314 pp, index, "299 Figures in 462 Partially Coloured Seperate Illustrations". Slight warp, boards; previous owner's signature, front free endpaper. Minimal ex-library markings ("withdrawn" stamp, top edge of book block; never a circulating library book). Else very good. From the Foreword by Jack C. Hughston, M.D.: "This new treatise is the most outstanding piece of work on the knee and its associated ligaments currently available. Never before have I seen such an extensive study of the biomechanics of the knee with such a comprehensive review of the literature." (3214012). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Raven Press; New York, 1992 First edition. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering (bright), 11 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches, 190 pp., index, extensively illustrated. Minimal ex-library markings ("withdrawn" stamp in three places; never a circulating library book), else fine. A superb copy. (3214012). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.

Torch Press; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; 1930. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Scarce. 'Done by the Bookfellows at the Torch Press'. Blue cloth-covered boards, 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches, 27 pp. Silver lettering and decoration on front board (bright and attractive). No dustcover. Mild edgewear; offsetting to endpapers; modest browning to edges of book block; previous owner's name and address in neat script on the front free endpaper; the word 'Miss' in neat script at the edge of the front pastedown. 'This little book is affectionately dedicated to two eminent surgeons / my cousins Dr. William Mudd Jordan and Dr. Edmund Mortimer Prince.' On the last page there is a correction which appears to have been made by the author: 'The grey mists floated upward from the valley, and as he rested his cheek against his mother's silver hair, the young Knight's eyes lighted, and his gaze rested tenderly, caressingly (substited for 'carelessly') upon a white robed figure… Read More

Gulf Publishing; Houston, Texas; 1990. Third edition. Glossy printed/illustrated wraps, 8 7/8 x 6 inches, 170 pp., index. Very good plus. (3214031). Soft cover.

Julius Springer; Berlin; 1927. First German edition. Scarce. Yellow cloth-covered boards, 8 5/16 x 5 5/8 inches, 381 pp., index, tables, 33 figures. About good (soiling, spine and boards; short split in cloth, 1/2 inch, lower front hinge; a little soiling and foxing, edges of book block; previous owner's name in pencil, front free endpaper; preface to the German edition laid-in in front of the bound-in preface to the English edition --- no interruption to pagination to indicate that the preface to the German edition was originally bound in; pages clean and binding intact). The twelfth volume in Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiet der Physiologie der Pflanzen und der Tiere. Key words: Medicine, Endocrinology, Physiology, Carbohydrate Metabolism, Insulin, Pancreas, Islets Langerhans, Glycogen, Glucose, Hyperglycemia, Glycosuria, Blood Sugar, Diabetes Mellitus, Hypoglycemia, Pharmacology. (3214024). F. Hardcover.

Stichting Amikejo; Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1995 4 issues: No.7, 1995; No.8, 1995; No.9, 1996; No.10, 1996. Unpaginated. All as new.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New.

The Summit Publishing Group; Arlington, Texas, 1996 An excellent hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, with dustcover: book and dustcover fine. Tan paper-covered boards, off-white cloth-covered spine, gilt spine lettering, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, 198 pp., b/w photo illustrations. (K036). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.