Authors starting with K from Michael Sharpe Rare & Antiquarian Books

Cambrideg: Harvard Univeristy Press, 1914. First edition in English. One of 1000 copies. Two tall octavo volumes. [2], clxxv, [1], 288; [4], 289-658, [4, ads] pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering within gilt panels, top edges gilt, remainder uncut. A very clean, tight and bright copy.Volumes 18 & 19 of the Harvard Oriental Series. Complete in themselves. ... more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1863. First edition, first issue with "about" repeated on line 6, page 314. 337 [1] + 10 pages ads. Original embossed purple cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Yellow endpapers. Covers faded, particularly the spine, corners bumped a bit, mild foxing to terminal leaves, pencil drawing of a rose on rear blank, else very good copy. Howes K-70. ... more information

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Linz & Frankfurt: J. Plancus, 1618-1622. First Edition, second issue of part II (as is almost always the case). Three parts in one volume, comprising Books I-VII (complete). Continuous pagination. [28], 417, [1]; [2], 419-622, [2]; [12], 641-932, [16] pp. Illustrated with woodcuts, diagrams, spheres, etc.; folding table. Small octavo (6 x3 inches).Contemporary vellum with remains of ties. Old seminary rubber stamp to title, ink notation at top, a little edge wear; occasional minor foxing, le... more information

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Frankfurt: Claudius Marnius & heirs of Johannes Aubrius, 1604. First edition. Small quarto. [16], 449, [18], [1, blank] pp. One engraved plate, two folding letterpress tables (between pp. 424 and 425), and numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. With the leaf of explanation next to the plate. Woodcut printer's device on title. Contemporary green limp vellum. Some leaves browned, as usual, due to paper stock. Housed in a green cloth clamshell case with morocco gilt lettering label. An exce... more information

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Torrance]: Labyrinth Editions, 1980. First illustrated edition. One of 200 copies printed by Richard Bigus on Japanese Masa and Suzuki paper. Signed by Everson and Killion on the colophon. Folio (15 x 10 inches). 58 pp. (bound japanese style) with five Killion illustrations printed directly from the linocuts. Bound Japanese-style in quarter linen over marbled boards with thin leather ties, cover lettering in black. Original matching slipcase. Prospectus laid in. A very good copy. ... more information

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San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1939. First separate edition. Octavo. [24] pp. including seven full page photographic illustrations. Publisher's brown wrappers printed in red and black. A very good copy of this scarce item. ... more information

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New York: Hobart Company, 1903. First edition. Octavo. 328, [2, blank], [4, ads] pp. With eight full page plates after Remington and Deming. Publisher's vertically-ribbed red cloth with a laid down oval color illustration of an Indian girl on the front, gilt spine and cover lettering. Rear mull showing a bit and 1903 pencil presentation on front fly. A very good copy. ... more information

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London: MacMillan and Co., 1863. First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, [iv], 1-3] 4-350, [1, ads], pp. Second issue lacking 'L'Envoi' leaf after the dedication. Full page illustration opposite p. 145. Finely bound by Riviere in full dark green calf, triple gilt fillet borders, circular corner devices, spine compartments gilt decorated with floral gilt emblems within, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Original cloth covers bound in rear. Owner signature on front blank, covers with mild wear, els... more information

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Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company, 1912. Small quarto with all ten tipped-in illustrations. Publisher's mustard cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Previous owner's signature dated 1924 on front endpaper and minor crease to top of spine, else a very attractive copy. ... more information

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[Boston], c. 1895. Original pen and ink on pebble paper portrait of Rudyard Kipling. Image size of x x x and showing Kipling in his prime with mustache, Nehru-like coat and glasses. Artist's monogram at lower left. matted, framed and glazed. A very pleasing study of the author of 'The Jungle Book'.Alfred Howes was an American commercial illustrator active during the last decade of the 19th century, mainly for New England Magazine. ... more information

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Boston: Bates, Kimball and Guild , 1892. First edition. Large folio. Portfolio of title page and fifty loose black and white plates. Original wheat-colored cloth, string ties, titles in dark tan on front cover, decorative blind stamp emblem. Folding inner flaps. Covers soiled and worn, fraying, bottom string lacking, folds with wear and chipping. Fifty numbered plates very good, bright and attractive. With the bookplate and signature of famed Southern California architect Armand Monaco. Signature along top... more information

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Paris: Chez Nusier, 1775. First French edition. Two twelvemo volumes. Complete with both half-titles. Contemporary full brown sheep with red and green morocco gilt lettering labels. Headcaps abraded and some scuffing and discoloration to leather but overall a very clean copy in a very contemporary and sound binding. ... more information

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London: Charles Knight and Co., 1845. First Edition. Two volumes. 392pp, 386pp. Original publisher's green cloth decoratively stamped in gilt. Red endpapers. Edges stained red. Illustrated with full page color plates, engravings, and black and white intertextual drawings throughout. Some wear to cloth covers, scattered foxing, some splitting to joints, corners bumped. A very good set. ... more information

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Windsor: Knight and Dredge, 1821. First edition. Ten issues of this college magazine bound in two volumes (complete), No. 1 states second edition but it still bears the date of 1821. Title pages with a center engraving of the king of clubs. Contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, smooth spines with gilt rules and red morocco lettering labels. Some of the marbled paper has come off but a very clean and tight copy."W. M. Praed, while at Eton, edited the ten numbers of The Etonian;... more information

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London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, 1898. Tall octavo periodical. xvi ("The Nineteenth Century Advertiser"), 520 pp. Full red morocco, borders rolled in gilt, spines lettered and tooled in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, gilt board edges and turn-ins, silk end papers, all edges gilt. Slight spine wear, but overall a good copy. ... more information

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Offenbach: Klingspor, 1923. First edition. Twelvemo (180 x 165 mm.). [12] pp. with two hand-colored wood engravings by R. Koch after Willi Harwerth and a similiar hand-colored design on the front cover. Publisher's buff bards with some sunning but very tight and clean. ... more information

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Boston, New York, Philadelphia : George Barrie , (1886). First edition. Two volumes. Folio. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 100 photogravures and engravings. Publisher's deluxe full dark brown morocco bindings, stamped in gilt and decorated in blind, all edges gilt. Some scuffing to leather and shelfwear, though still an attractive set. ... more information

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New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1982. Nine large octavo volumes. Complete. Publisher's red cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering. As new. ... more information

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Dawson's Book Shop: Los Angeles, 1998. First edition. One of 500 copies printed at the Castle Press. Tall octavo. xi, [3], 75, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout and with a photographic frontispiece portrait of Norman Clyde in hiking regalia. Publisher's red cloth with spine lettering in black and map endpapers showing most of Clyde's first ascents. A flawless copy.Norman Clyde (April 8, 1885ÐDecember 23, 1972) was a famous mountaineer, nature photographer, and self trained naturalist... more information

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