Search Results: Titles starting with S from KnC Books

A professional engineer examines the case for rapid transit by rail along the Interstate 70 corridor from Denver into the Rocky Mountains, in plain language. Illustrated. Trade paperback.Bookpublishers Intercontinental, 2000. Paperback, Near Fine/ No Dust Jacket. First edition. Wrappers show minimal wear at edges, corners sharp. Pages tight; text clean, looks unread.

Ukrainian samizdat publication.Publisher not stated, 1964. Paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket. In Ukrainian. Staple bound, binding tight. Wrappers browning, with some edge & corner wear. Text clean, no creases or tears. Black and white photos.

Vintage Books #V-381, 1958. Paperback, Good/No Dust Jacket. Wrappers clean, light edge wear; slight crease on the front, and a small one at bottom corner. Text clean, pages tight, no writing or tears.

Sands Magazine, 1984. Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. No spine creases, light wear to wrappers; binding tight. Slight readers crease and small spot on back wrap. Text clean, slightly tanned, no creases or tears.

Take equal measures of "The Night Before Christmas' and "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and you get Dean Koontz's tongue in cheek holiday tale of Santa's evil twin.Harper Prism, 1996. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1st edition, 1st printing The dust jacket would grade Very Good if not for a large closed tear on front of dust jacket, visible in the scan as a white line from the 'I' in Twin down to the rabbit's nose. The DJ is now in a protective mylar cover with no other defects. A bookplate signed by author Dean Koontz is attached on the half title page. When it was placed it was still wet when the book was closed, resulting in a damp ripple at bottom corner of the later pages. The pages are tight, with no creases or tears.

Over 150 favorite school jokes, illustrated. Trumpet Club, 1991. Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Wrappers clean, no spine or cover creases, light shelf wear to edges and corners. Tight binding and pages. Text unmarked, no tears or creases.

Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1974. Paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket. In German. 1st thus, edge wear, no spine crease, binding tight. Cover art by Helmut Wenske. Text clean and tight.

A Rick Brant Electronic adventure.Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 1st edition. DJ with loss at edges, no repairs, price clipped, in protective Mylar cover. Red illustrated boards with wear at edges and corners; binding tight. Owner name on half title. Text clean, heavily tanned.Front flap has review of this title, price clipped. Rear flap has ad for The Rocket's Shadow (first in the series). Rear panel of DJ advertises Aviation Stories (Yankee Flier, Red Randall, and Lucky Terrell). No list of later books in the series.

A new edition of the 1932 original, with a new "Author's Memoir" dated West Cornwall, CT, 1950.Introduction by Dorothy Parker. [Bowden A3b] Harper & Brothers, 2nd edition, 1950. No printing indicated. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Dust jacket has moderate edge wear with some loss at edges; in protective Mylar cover; price-clipped. Quarter-bound boards have light wear, corners sharp. Binding tight, text clean, no creases or tears.

A Nero Wolfe mystery. Viking Press, 1949. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket. Book Club edition. Green boards with moderate edge & corner wear; binding tight. Endpapers browned, text tanned but clean, no creases or tears.

Foreword by Jamie Lee Curtis. Lyons Press, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), 2003. Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Wrappers clean, lightly rubbed. Crease on top corner of front cover; no spine creases, binding tight. Text clean, no writing, tears or creases.

Weekly Reader Book Club, stated 1st edition, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. Dust jacket has edge wear with small chips, small closed tear at spine. Illustrated boards, lightly bumped, some light smudges. Binding tight, text clean, pages tanning, no creases or tears.

Minstrel, 1990. Paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket. Paperback original (PBO), Minstrel Books, 1st printing. Wrappers have some shelf wear, slight creasing at edges and corners. Text clean and tight, tanning at edges, no creases or tears.

Saphrograph, 1973. Paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket. No spine or cover creases, strip of white paper adhered to front wrap; light wear to edges and corners. Text clean, no creases or tears. In Ukrainian.

Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. 3rd printing, 1984. Very good dustjacket with slight edge wear. Boards clean, lightly bumped, corners sharp. Binding tight; text clean, no creases or tears.

Gentle Living, 5th printing, 1967. Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Staple bound; cover and pages tight. Wrappers have light wear at edges and corners. Pages unmarked, no creases or tears.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st edition, 1st printing, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed on title page by the author. Near fine dust jacket in protective Brodart. Boards clean, corners sharp; binding tight. Pages clean, unmarked, no creases or tears

Edited by Joseph H. Summers. "Almost the entire canon of the poetry of George Herbert", along with a chronology of his life, footnotes, and an extensive bibliography. New American Library, 1967, first printing thus. Paperback, Good/No Dust Jacket. Signet Classic Poetry Series #CY366.Light wear to wrappers, with slight creasing on front cover. Binding tight. Previous owner markings inside front cover. Text has some occasional underlining and margin notes.

Edited by T.W. Craik. Contains a modern abridgment of Arcadia, as well as The Defense of Poesy, sonnets, and shorter poems. Introduction by the editor, with notes and a first line index.Capricorn Books. 1966. Paperback, Good/No Dust Jacket. Wrappers show moderate wear, corner creasing on front. Text is unmarked, binding tight.

The ground-breaking "Kinsey Report", based on surveys of female respondents made by the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University. Companion volume to the parallel study, Sexual Behavior In The Human Male.W.B. Saunders, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 1st edition, 1st printing. DJ rough, with some loss and tape repairs; in Brodart. Boards clean with light wear, corners sharp. Binding tight, text clean, tanned, no creases or tears.