Authors starting with K from Ravenroost Books

Cleveland: World Publishing Co., Cleveland. 1957. Stated First Edition, published simultaneously in Canada by Nelson, Foster & Scott., 1957. 8vo. 111 pgs. Very Good condition hardbound. Light brown cloth with illustration of Lobo on front board. Slight crimping of cloth at spine ends, else very little shelf wear. Black and white dog illustrations throughout by Irene Layne. #651.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Irene Lane. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. childrens, illustrated, fiction, dog stor... more information

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New York and Cleveland: Wiley-Interscience, Div. Of John Wiley & Sons, 1971. 8vo.ix. 308 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover, clean and unmarked. This Volume is Part III of the analytical chemistry of sulfur and its compounds, Vol. 29 in the Chemical Analysis series. Contents: Nuclear-Magnetic-Resonance Data of Sulfur Compounds by N.F. Chamberlain and J.J. Reed. Introduction, indices, NMR data table, symbols and conventions, line structural formula conventions, data table headings, functional group designati... more information

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New York: Delacorte Press, 1998. 8vo. 528 pgs. Very Good in black paper wraps as issued (softcover). Very light edge wear, else fine. Advance reading copy from uncorrected proofs. Memoir of a West African woman, who upon her father's death faced a forced marriage and the ritual female mutilation customary to her people. Fleeing for to America, she recounts her imprisonments and efforts towards asylum. ISBN 0385318324. #829.. ISBN: 0385318324. Review Copy.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N... more information

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Smithsonian Institution. Unpaginated (about 22pgs). Near Fine condition softcover, pamphlet. Heavy textured paper. Clean and sound. Not dated. Illustrated with line drawings by the author. This booklet was published to accompany the exhibition "Native Harvests: Plants in American Indian Life", a program organized and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) . Contents: Introduction, note [cautionary], American Ginseng, American Hellebore, Ash, Cattail, Cotton, Indian He... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Warner Books, Incorporated, 2002. 8vo. 390 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket, clean, crisp, unmarked first printing. A Rina Lazarus and Peter Decker novel. Set in New York, with an encore appearance of Peter's nemesis Christopher Donatti. ISBN 0446530387. #1394.. ISBN: 0446530387. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo. Faye Kellerman, Stone Kiss, First Printing, Mystery, FICTION DECKER PETER Chasidic JEWS LAZARUS RINA LOS ANGELES CALIF NEW JERSEY YORK N Y ... more information

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San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1910. 12mo. xvii. 145 pgs. Very Good condition clothbound hardcover with decorative front board. Light rubbing and fraying to cloth at spine ends and corners. Clean and unmarked. Generously illustrated throughout with 32 individually tipped in sepia half-tone photolitograph illustrations. A rich commentary of "historiettes" on various aspects of medieval history gleaned from the author's final travels. Content: Advertisement (statement of purpose with suggested itiner... more information

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Redmond, WA, U.S.A.: Microsoft Press, 2000. 8vo. xxiii. 371 pgs. Near Fine condition softcover, clean, unmarked, unread, with shallow bumo to bottom corner, else Fine. Some of the topics covered: focusing your e-commerce goals, setting up a budget, knowing the legal issues, creating online branding, providing customer service, building traffic and community, organizing your site's framework, working with web shops, developers or teams, understanding the back end and hosting, maintaining content, promoting t... more information

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New York and Cleveland: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1914. 12mo. 75 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover, clean and unmarked, with a few edge rubs and shallow bumps paper title pieces on spine and front board intact. This is a later state of the First Edition, with "Printed in the United States of America" appearing on the copyright page. Tan patterned boards. Light foxing on endpapers and blanks, occasionally near margins of text. the poems included are: The Twelve-Forty-Five, Pennies, Trees, Stars, Old Poet... more information

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New York: Tom Dougherty., 1996. 8vo. 320 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. First US edition, May 1996. Police drama and the supernatural cross paths in San Francisco. ISBN 0312861079. #580.. ISBN: 0312861079. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Garry Kilworth, Angel, fiction, mystery, modern first, first American Edition. ... more information

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New York: The MacMillan Co., 1927. viii.563pgs. Good to Very Good condition navy leatherette cloth hardcover. Edges and corners rubbed, gilt lettering on spine a bit faded. Binding sound, owner name on front endpaper, else unmarked. Illustrated throughout with black and white and three-toned drawings in the style used long before the advent of computer graphics, when medical professionals and illustrators combined their artistic skills and knowledge of medical dissection to contribute to the understanding ... more information

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Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.: Oregon State University Press, 2004. 8vo. vii.168 pgs. Fine, as new softcover pb, clean and unmarked. "In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer clearly and artfully explains the biology of mosses, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us". Interspersing... more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press., 1995. First Edition. 8vo. 260 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Black boards and dust jacket. Shallow dog-eared wrinkling of bottom right corners of first 30 pgs., else clean, tight and unmarked. Tiny ding to jacket near left bottom edge. SIGNED by author on title page. ISBN 0312119070. #355.. ISBN: 0312119070. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. fiction, first edition, modern firsts, Signed, Laurie King. ... more information

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Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.: Timber Press, 1998. 152pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Clean and unmarked with no discernable wear other than a shallow crease to corner of front dust jacket inner flap where price is located. Contents: Foreword by Beth Chatto; Preface; Introduction: True Grasses, Rushes, Sedges; Part 1: Versatile Grasses: Lawns, Meadows, Planting Styles, Ground Cover, Specimen Plants, Grasses to Associate with Buildings and Landscape Features, Creating Moods, Grasses in Association ... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker & Co, 2001. 391 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and Set in Europe following the English Civil War. From the jacket: "A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian, on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe, charged with the task of restoring a magnificent library destroyed by the war." Inchbold's life depends on recovering a missing manuscript, in the midst of underworld, spies, ciphers and forgeri... more information

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New York: Viking., 1995. 8vo. 420 pgs. Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Dustjacket has shallow ding near bottom of spine. Black cloth and boards, red metallic lettering and detail. Frontis illus. by Mark Geyer. Jacket photo. George Kerrigan. Author photo Tabitha King. ISBN 0670858692. #153.. ISBN: 0670858692. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Mark Geyer. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. first edition, fiction, horror, modern Firsts, Stephen King, Rose Madder, Spousal Abuse, S... more information

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Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 529 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and pristine. A haunted love story. ISBN 0684853507. #1744.. ISBN: 0684853507. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Stephen King, Bag of Bones, FICTION, Novel, Haunted, Love Story, HORROR MAINE NOONAN MIKE. ... more information

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Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.: Timber Press, 2004. 254 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Illustrated with color photos throughout. A description of the historical development and current techniques for planting on roofs and walls. Apart from inherent beauty, roof greening reaps the environmental benefits of reducing pollution and run-off, insulating against heat and cold and reducing maintenance needs. Both large sacale and small domestic examples are explored, introducing the practical techniques required inc... more information

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New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1918. vii.89pgs. Very Good condition hardcover, green cloth with black lettering to front and spine. Binding sound. Some general smudging and speckling to cloth, mostly on rear board. A short list of student supplies needed is lightly penciled on front endpaper. Ghost of paper clip on rear endpaper. Inner margins are lightly peppered throughout with occasional vintage rubber eraser crumbs of an industrious student. Text is clean and unmarked. An addendum or erratum page to pla... more information

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New York: Lane & Scott, for the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1849. 176pgs. Good condition hardcover, marbled boards, black spine and corners. Backing of spine is chipped away at top edge and partially along front side to reveal sewn page gathers underneath. Gathered pages remain tightly sewn, but upper thread is not connected to boards. Boards remain firmly affixed otherwise. Owner name on front endpaper in vintage fountain pen. Some smudging and light foxing to endpapers, blanks,... more information

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Bloomington, Illinois: McNight & McNight, 1931. 8vo. 280 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, gilt Canadian maple leaf emblem on front board. Black and white photographs and illustrations of weather maps throughout. Contents: The non-atmospheric factors controlling the climate of Canada and Newfoundland; pressure, winds and storms; sunshine and temperature; moisture considerations; British Columbia and the Yukon territory; the continental interior; Eastern Canada and Newfoundlan... more information

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